Hi, I've just run into your module for MM4, which has finally allowed me to visualize my collection exactly how I want. Well... almost!
This may very well be a bug of Media Monkey, but it only appears while browsing nodes in Magic Nodes. Basically, the main display that I prefer is "Art Browser with Details," as I like to see all the details of my tracks and be able to browse by cover art at the same time (and I'm not a fan at all of the columns browser, hate it!). In the default MM nodes, when I click on ANY parent node, the cover-flow-ish browser shows me the art for ALL of the child nodes. No problem here.
Moving to Magic Nodes, things get a little weird. What happens to me is that when I click on a parent node, the art browser stays blank, yet I see all of the details for all child node tracks just fine. I've verified that it does this with your built-in masks and custom ones that I've made. Here's how I can make it show the art:
1) By manually selecting a different view mode (any of them) and then re-selecting "art browser with details" = all child node art shows up, however as soon as I click on another node the same thing happens (even clicking back on the one that I manually re-selected doesn't work, the art browser is blank again). Basically while in a node, switching to "art browser with details" makes it work just fine, once.
2) By activating "All" in the query and
selecting it, at any node level =
WORKS! This is very strange to me, as I would have assumed that the default behaviour of the parent node would be the same as "All." In fact, selecting the "All" child node seems to be the
only node that will display anything in the art browser by default in Magic Nodes while in "art browser with details."
I'm hoping this is just a temporary bug, or something that I missed in the settings... The strange thing is that all the other view modes by default work as expected, i.e. the same as with the standard MM nodes. I have only been using MM4 for about a month, so I don't know what happens with MM3...
Any ideas? Or any way to make the default behavior of clicking on a parent node the same as the "All" child node? (Or maybe you could explain the difference?) I don't really care about not seeing the art when I select a single album node in the tree, but when selecting an album artist, or genre... it's a bit tedious to have to expand it and then select "All" to see the art.
Any ideas or help would be appreciated, and I thank you in advance - you are definitely on top of all of us picky users asking you all kinds of stuff...
Thanks!!
PS I did search ALOT for an answer before asking, so I hope I haven't missed one somewhere, if so please point me in the right direction!