Installed the Player Again..Now I see Why I trashed it Before

[silvertone]

As a longtime winamp fan, I am not enamoured of dppoweramp player...because I seem too stupid to use the playlist properly...or else this is a failure of the player itself.......but can someone tell me how to get tracks to load into the playlist and play, and stop the previously loaded files from starting up all the time. I can't seem to switch to a new song file even when I put it in the playlist and hit play.....it just reverts to the same old previously added tracks. I am sure I don't understand the lingo of the playlist que and enque or something. :( Someone pls. tell me just how to add tracks and delete tracks properly.

[LtData]

Re: Installed the Player Again..Now I see Why I trashed it Before

Are you using the latest beta release of dAP? The link is below if you are not. Version numbers are found on the side of the menu that comes when you right-click a blank part of any skin

[Craze]

Re: Installed the Player Again..Now I see Why I trashed it Before

Lets get rid of the previous files first by right clicking in the lower area of MMC which shows whatever may be enqueued and waiting to be played next. Select Clear All Enqueued items.

You can keep track of what you are doing with your Playlist by monitoring the lower area of MMC. The Playlist loads into MMC anytime you click either Play or Enqueue from the Playlist menu.

Sounds like clearing All Equeued Items will get you on track.
Hope this is helpful.

[xoas]

Re: Installed the Player Again..Now I see Why I trashed it Before

To clarify one of your questions:
dAP uses the term "Queue" to refer to those tracks that are waiting to be played by the player. The only way to view the Queue is to open up My Music Collection (unless you use the QueMaster application). The verb En-Queue refers to the act of adding tracks to the Queue. In dAP the term Playlist is reserved for Windows Media Player or mp3 playlist files (such as .m3u) which are basically instructions to play a designated group of files in a designated order.

I believe that WinAmp uses the term Playlist to refer both to those files that are loaded and awaiting playing in the player as well as to refer to .m3u and similar playlist files. This practice seems to be used by some other players as well. For those raised in that tradition, then dAP's somewhat different terminology can be confusing just as I find WinAmp's terminology and interface confusing (in large part because I seldom use it).

Apparently WinAmp uses somewhat different conventions in handling its Queue (or, in their word, Playlist) than does dAP. dAP does not automatically clear the Queue when it is shut down. Items are retained in the queue until they are played. Reportedly, with WinAmp a user can select a group of files, right-click and select Play in WinAmp (or some such) and this will clear the current Playlist/Queue and add and start playing the selected files one at a time from the new Playlist/Queue of selected files. With dAP, you can right-click a file and select Play in dAP. This will bump the currently selected file and start the new file playing. It will not clear the Queue/Playlist of any other tracks. You cannot select mulitiple files to play at once with dAP. You can right click any number of tracks, right-click and select En-Queue in dAP and the selected files will be added to the Queue/Playlist at the end of the existing tracks in the Queue/Playlist. This convention does have some advantages and some disadvantages compared to WinAmp's conventions. I suspect the most frustrating thing for native WinAmp users is that it handles things differently than does WinAmp (even as for me the most frustrating areas of WinAmp are where it does not perform like dAP).

You can, within dAP manually clear all items from the Queue/Playlist, as Craze as pointed out. You can also randomly re-order items in the Queu/Playlist. There is a separate application that functions as a sort of add-on for dAP known as QueMaster that offers much more power in terms of adding or deleting specific tracks in the Queue or placing them in a specific order. You can find QueMaster available here:

http://www.quemaster.com/quemaster/index.html

Hope this helps.

Best wishes,
Bill

[LtData]

Re: Installed the Player Again..Now I see Why I trashed it Before

Moved to dAP Support. Please try to put posts in the correct forum