Playing non-library Files [#17907]

[Peter S]

I use MM as my default media player. In MM4 I could select files in Windows Explorer, right click & select the 'Play in MM' option. This then runs MM4 & loads the selected files into the Now Playing section& plays them.
I have MM5 as my default player & this tries to run an instance of itself for each file i.e. it loads only the 1st file & then tries to run MM5 again to load in the 2nd file & so on.
I think that this related to the issue I raised when trying to use the Squeezebox as a player as the files are sent individually to the Squeezebox. This works but is not ideal.
Thanks for your help.

[Lowlander]

Do you have the option to only allow one instance enabled under Tools > Options > General? Is MediaMonkey 5 installed as a regular or portable install?

[Peter S]

It is a regular install. I can't see the settings option. Please can you let me know which sub-menu it is in.
Thanks
Peter

[Lowlander]

It's in Tools > Options > General in the Main Menu.

[drakinite]

It's in the very top panel (General). https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHel ... eneral/5.0

[Barry4679]

The responses to this issue all seem to be missing the point to me.

1. If I selected a group of tracks with File Explorer, and took option Play In MediaMonkey", I would expect that a single instance of MM would play those tracks, in succession .. and I would expect that, regardless of the "Allow Just One Instance of MediaMonkey" option... ie. the reported behaviour would never be the desired result.
2. I do have the "Allow Just One Instance of MediaMonkey" option checked ... I tested the above procedure ==> MM5 opened and started playing the previous queue; the selected tracks were not queued
3. I cleared the queue, closed MM5, and then rerun the test ===> MM5 opened, it played nothing and the queue was empty
4. Tested with version 2405 of MM5. A non-portable install.

Peter S, there is a workaround to play non-library files with MM5.
You can browse non-library files in the Folders node in the MM5 Media Tree. You can play albums or tracks selections from there.

[Peter S]

Thanks for the responses. I hadn't realised that there were options within the menu headings. I have the 'only one instance' selected.
I agree with Barry4679 that it should work as MM4 does.
Barry - Thanks for the workaround. This does work although when I try & play the tracks through my Squeezebox it says that MM cannot decode the files.

[Lowlander]

I can't reproduce the multiple instances, for me it fails to load the other files in the selection. Added as: https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=17907

If you can, please capture what happens on your setup in a debug log (step 4b) and attach it to a Support Ticket: https://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewt ... 30&t=86643 This may help a developer to get to the bottom of what happens in your setup.