Now Rob,
How on earth did you find it! That makes it all much easier. I see the drop-down to Advanced Search is there to. Thanks again.

Thanks Rob_S, You pointed me to the solution. The only difference for me is that the search icon (magnifier) is there (top right) in my set-up. In my library I use "Type" to identify Classical Music. I selected Home which cleared the Main window, selected Classical Music from the tree. This ...

My database is structured around media/music types eg, Classical Music is in a Windows Folder "Classical Music". I am trying to find a way to use search to only search a specific data group such as "Classical Music". Is that possible?

I can confirm that it is thus far working across the new Collections I added. After setting up the Collection I open it up, select the List View and set up the Columns. All the sub-nodes then display the columns selected for that Collection. This makes such a big difference - Well Done Ludeck! I ...

Thank You Lowlander, the file was installed.
And a BIG Thank You to Ludeck! It works across the collections using the List view.

I will try it across the other collections and playlists and give feedback

I do not know from where I should try to open this file. Tried in just about all folders within MM Portable folder that make sense even tried the Skins folder (from where I open mmip skins and it works) but all I get is Windows wanting to go to the store to look for an App to open the file. Please ...

I stumbled on a thread dating back to 2022 where Ludeck posted a fix for this issue, at least in the playlist view. It is a mmip file and can be downloaded but I do not know how/where to install it. This is the Dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/drw57fd27zc4y ... .mmip?dl=0 This is the thread ...

Let me give an example. A sub-node in the Collection "Classical Music" is "Composers". I select "Composers" and I set as columns the 8 columns (The 8 that I want to use for all Classical Music). From "Composers" I select say "Beethoven". The display once again is the MM default. I again select "List ...

My collection of 25k tracks consists largely (82%)of Classical music. I have over many months tried every option to try and achieve something that seems quite simple. I would like to set a default setting per collection that will apply to every sub-node in that collection. I see in the Forum that ...

I had this issue too. A fresh install of the program solved the issue for me. I still have no idea what the cause was.

Hi Rob,
Thanks for the suggestion, I tried it and it opens up many possibilities!

Hi Barry, My library is now compltely set but there are some quirks that one will need to live with. I have set up all 15 of my collections and their sub-nodes for the "List" view using my custom column preferences. It works well but if I for some reason want to see say the Jazz Collection in the ...

Hi Barry, I decided that I wanted to have a clean start with MM5 and uninstalled, downloaded and started from scratch.That was last night. I am now setting up my collections and sub-nodes and I am using the custom view as you suggested. Thank You very much for your help. It cuts the setiing up time ...

Thanks all for your input. And yes Lowlander, every sub-node can have it's own settings but that is just my point. Imagine having to set the columns for every sub-node and then, when you switch the view window (list, list-album) it is back to the MM5 default and it needs to be redone. Point is that ...

Hi Lowlander, What I am looking for is a setting where I set the default columns to display for all views (list, list by album etc) and all Collections and groups within Collections and the sub-nodes. I use a the tree with Collections and sub-nodes. When I open Collection "Classical Music" and ...