Look here: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=61544#61544

Just another thing on this topic.
In the tree there is the web option (i'm sure you all know that) and i just wanted to know if you could add sites to that at all?

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It's bloatware because as soon as it got fully integrated with a toolbar, then people would want tabbed browsing, then they'd want easy access to their bookmarks and history, and various extensions, and this means added multiple toolbars, menus, etc - all of which is nothing to do with music mangement, and is therefore bloating MM.

A script however is a good way to create a toolbar with forward, backward and go buttons, with a popup to enter the address. The current address could be displayed in a progress bar.

[i]Personally I'd have the maximum value of the progress bar always set to the number of history items, and then if you hit the back button, the value would decrease so you could see how far away from the last page you are.[/i]

I don't see how its possible for integrated browing to be 'bloatware' at all when MM already includes the building blocks for browser integration already.

I fully support an integrated browser for MM.

Good idea to move it to the script bit...

If this is a request for a script, then it should be in the Scripts&Component section (so I've moved it here).

This has been discussed before with pretty much the same negative response.

[quote="rovingcowboy"]not me

how ever this is something for the scripters to consider.

they can add a button on the menu to switch the list view to the override option of monkey and open your ie or other broswer in the list view area and make it fit that list view area.

this would be no extra code in monkey and the script would not be that large and the browser code is another program so monkey does not get bloated and the users that want this option could download the script and leave us that don't want the option alone and have our slim monkey program.

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EXACTLY!

not me

how ever this is something for the scripters to consider.

they can add a button on the menu to switch the list view to the override option of monkey and open your ie or other broswer in the list view area and make it fit that list view area.

this would be no extra code in monkey and the script would not be that large and the browser code is another program so monkey does not get bloated and the users that want this option could download the script and leave us that don't want the option alone and have our slim monkey program.

8)

I don't see how an internet browser could make it bloatware because it already has one that you can access. :-? .

I voted no because I think the current implementation of the internal browser is already OK.
Nevertheless, I think that web pages (local or on the internet) can improve things. They're beautiful (at least they can be), fast, easy to use/make/change.

E.g. a "Welcome back, blakeloth1" startpage in MM (for those who want it) with the favourites, last listened songs, proposed listening, ... . For people who don't want this, it wouldn't take any more resources (because the page isn't loaded = no resources are loaded).
E.g. a "Get Help" start point, where users can easily go to the faq's, forum, ... (because the menu "Help" or the www.mediamonkey.com is still a high step to take, for a lot of users). And a list of the most common issues + links to faq/forum/scripts.
E.g. a start(favourite)page for all Online music stream sites (that you want), links to music news, links to Wiki/AllMusic/Amazon/... for the current playing song, ...
? A new feature like in Songbird: detect streams on websites, list them and save/play them easily.

These are all things (except the last) that [i]are easy to do with the current MediaMonkey program[/i], by normal scripters/webbuilders (just script + html).

Definitely bloatware! This is a music manager, not a browser!

You know how when you go into net radio and MM goes onto the internet. Well, I think that you should be able to use MM as a browserso you can go into other websites than the net radio and be able to easily swith between browsing and your library. If that was possible it would be good to still be able to see the tree, the player and now playing (I have now playing hidden) so you can easily switch playlists using the tree. That would be pretty cool 8).