Please capture this in a debug log (step 4b) and attach the log to a Support Ticket: https://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=86643

This will help a developer analyze why this happens on your setup.

That has since been fixed, which means it no longer works the way you intend to use it.

There is no method to queue the next file without playing it. So you need to do this when you're ready to play the file.

Play Next is a play command, so you can only execute this when you intent to start playback.

So the installer has this issue, no issues in MediaMonkey itself, nor with how files are displayed?

Is this an issue in the interface of MediaMonkey or with the media file information displayed in MediaMonkey?

You can do this with a Support Ticket, not here on the forum.

Are you sure that the files have that Genre? Please provide a screenshot showing both the Criteria you set and showing files (with Genre column) that shouldn't be there.

It works just fine here. Exclusions with doesn't contain will not have the files with that value. Do make sure you set Match correctly, likely you'll need All as value.

This is possible in MediaMonkey. AutoPlaylists can be set to only include certain Genres or to exclude Genres.

You can do the same in Collections.

Step 4: https://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=86643 It looks like a lot, but it isn't really.

Please define where you're double clicking to play? Is this in File Explorer or MediaMonkey?

If you disabled the Playing list you can re-enable it in Layout. It also could be that you disabled the Right panel itself which can be re-enabled in the same place.

Send To requires the phone to be connected by USB and be set to MTP mode ( or equivalent}.

Type is determined on first scan and not auto-changed afterwards, furthermore the Music Collection has included Classical Music by default for many versions.

You can modify the Music Collection if you initially started on an older version of MefiaMonkey to include Type = Classical Music.

Which Build (Help > About) of MediaMonkey are you using and did you enable Auto-Orgsnize?