Shortkey to jump to the current playing song

[Twinkelbell]

I use MM 3.1.0.1256.
Installed the script but nothing. Changed letter P to Q because P is used for other shortcut.
Is it only me having trouble..try restarting MM..nada.

[nohitter151]

You can just set a hotkey for this in Options -> Hotkeys, no?

[Muttenhed]

NOHITTER151 YOU ROCK!!

How simple could it be lol

Tools >> Options >> General >> Hotkeys then go to the edit hotkey drop down.

On the list is a choice that is called General: Focus tracklist on currently playing item.

I chose Ctrl+space as the hotkey and it doesn't route you through the Now Playing node either.

-Muttenhed

[toki]

NOHITTER151 YOU ROCK!!

How simple could it be lol

Tools >> Options >> General >> Hotkeys then go to the edit hotkey drop down.

On the list is a choice that is called General: Focus tracklist on currently playing item.

I chose Ctrl+space as the hotkey and it doesn't route you through the Now Playing node either.

No its not that simple, because "we" are talking about the library-list: http://www.abload.de/img/library_listingnubo.jpg

As Eyal said, the mentioned script is again a different function though: jumping just to the "Current Playing"-entry in the Music Explorer Tree showing only the playing song.



Unfortunately I am not a coder, but here is my advice:

Great would be a script which does the following steps as long as it is activated (=installed) and the next song is starting to play:

http://www.abload.de/img/scriptcy03.jpg

1. Showing all items within a location you can choose in the Music Explorer Tree in the library-window (userfriendly, because it'd be possible to choose "Genre" as well for instance) [red]
2. Opening up the path of the folder/location of the current playing item [= clicking on +], but not marking the folder as the library would only show the content of the folder then (and closing other location at the same time [= clicking on -], to keep it tidy during listening) [yellow]
3. Jumping to the actual song playing and highlight...
   (1)... this item at the top in the library-window (in the "Show Album Art with details"-Mode); [darkblue]
   (2)... in the middle of the library (in the "Show Details"-Mode);
   (3)... just the cover (in the "Show Album Art"-Mode).

As an advantage for users I reckon it would be a bit easyier to handle big libraries (going slightly closer to the functionality of a library in iTunes). The clou: if you start searching, the results will be shown as normal in the library-window, but as soon as the next song starts playing you see the whole library again (with the higlighted item of course).

[nohitter151]

No its not that simple, because "we" are talking about the library-list: http://www.abload.de/img/library_listingnubo.jpg

Huh? Works fine in the library list.

[toki]

Hm no its just the single "current playing" song, which doesn't really help !?

[nohitter151]

Hm no its just the single "current playing" song, which doesn't really help !?

Huh? The topic title is "...jumpt to the current playing song", and the hotkey does exactly that. I must be missing something.

[Guest]

Sure hope this becomes a standard option in MM4. It shouldn't be this hard to browse to the currently playing song. I for one would like to have a small button to press (developers, please mimic the functionality that itunes provides with their now playing button) as opposed to a hotkey for this functionality.

[nohitter151]

Sure hope this becomes a standard option in MM4. It shouldn't be this hard to browse to the currently playing song. I for one would like to have a small button to press (developers, please mimic the functionality that itunes provides with their now playing button) as opposed to a hotkey for this functionality.

I already entered this into the MM feature tracker: http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=5329

[Guest]

Hm no its just the single "current playing" song, which doesn't really help !?

Huh? The topic title is "...jumpt to the current playing song", and the hotkey does exactly that. I must be missing something.

Hm yea, because I am not talking about the Playlist (your link) and not about the script which just shows the single current playing song:

I mean what is this good for? I (or you) know which song is playing atm and you can jump anyway to this song in the playlist (-> Hotkey Setup -> "General: Focus tracklist on currently playing item). So there is no use to show it again in the library - single?!

Therefore I thought of the quiet complex way to let MM browse indirectly to the actual path, where the item/song is playing from WITHOUT "touching" the folder (which mean you can still browse up and down through your whole library):
http://www.abload.de/img/scriptcy03.jpg

This is why I said:

As an advantage for users I reckon it would be a bit easyier to handle big libraries (going slightly closer to the functionality of a library in iTunes). The clou: if you start searching, the results will be shown as normal in the library-window, but as soon as the next song starts playing you see the whole library again (with the higlighted item of course).

[ZvezdanD]

If you want to get automatically displayed folder with the currently playing track whenever the playing track is changed, you could try the Find Currently Playing Track add-on.