bmilner wrote:I can't recreate your screenshot because I can't get the player to be the entire width of the app.
See here: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3165/455 ... 5f2a14.jpg

See how album art is to the LEFT of the player instead? I can't get the player to be the full width with the album art above the player like you have. What you have I could *swear* is different than how I had my player laid out, but I would gladly take as being fine compared to my current issue.

How did you do it?

Just drag the player to the bottom and left of the screen.

I can't recreate your screenshot because I can't get the player to be the entire width of the app.
See here: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3165/455 ... 5f2a14.jpg

See how album art is to the LEFT of the player instead? I can't get the player to be the full width with the album art above the player like you have. What you have I could *swear* is different than how I had my player laid out, but I would gladly take as being fine compared to my current issue.

How did you do it?

It's not impossible to dock now playing above the player. see:

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/1219/docke.png

What isn't possible is having the player and now playing both in the middle (between left and right docking areas) and on top of one another.

I found hacking the INI recovered, but sorry I did not record the hack detail.

OK, so here is what happened to me today in V1294:

Now Playing WAS docked above the player. Other posters in this thread have said this was impossible. Not so. I *swear* that's how it was this morning... it's been my preferred layout for years. I undocked the Now Playing window (I was just just curious and I unchecked "Dock to window" on it once) but then I couldn't get it to go back into position. I was able to:
* Float it undocked over the UI
* Dock it above, to the right, or to the left of the track list
* Co-dock it next to the player (each being 1/2 width)

Like the original poster, I want my Now PLaying window docked back above the player, the same width as the track list. I know it can do it... it was there this morning!!

SCREENSHOTS:

1) Now playing floating where I want it docked instead: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3165/455 ... 5f2a14.jpg
2) Now PLaying co-docked at the bottom next to player... not where I want it: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/455 ... 115fbb.jpg
3) I'm able to drag the Now Playing title bar left overlapping the player? (useless!) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3045/455 ... 526f8d.jpg

I tried the previous posters suggestion about opening the INI file and changing the player to sticky and visible and the Now Playing to docked, and I ended up with the situation in screenshot 2 (not what I want). Help!!!

I can't get this to work for me either...
It was working earlier todazy but I just undocked Now playing ONCE to try something and now it won't go back into it's position above the player at the bottom of the track list.

P.S. I know this thread is very old, but still, i was looking for solution through google and first result was this thread, so i decided to write my solution for it.

I had the same issue. I fixed it this way:

Find mediamonkey settings file (mediamonkey.ini). In Vista/Se7en it's located in "C:\Users\%USER%\AppData\Local\MediaMonkey"

Open it with notpad and find this strings:

PlayerVisible=
PlayerSticky=
NowPlayingDockable=

and change there value to 1.

Hope this helps.

thats okay nohitter151 90% of the stuff i get done on my systems people don't believe can be done or was done.
you just joined them thats all.

but what i said i did i have done. now knowing that i had my systems tweaked to the hilt and back at one point it is no wonder i might have got things done that was not thought possible. even now with the new jukebox it is the first time i have got 80% of the errors the newbies have been posting for the last year.

this computer and the other two never showed them. i believe that is cause of the tweaking of these computers and the overinstalling of mediamonkey's old versions with the new versions. i think he is keeping some code from the older versions that is the only thing that makes sense as to why he does not show the errors common to the clean installs done for the first time on computers.

of which i am now getting on the jukebox computer since i did not tweak that one and did not over install it on that new system.
so not thinking i really did something that others can not do is normal for the people that learned computing from books or have some sort of formal trainning in them for scripting or just learned programming in their spare time from books.

but call me a liar again and i'll get really upset.

> I don't believe this is true.

OK, noted - thanks.

chrisjj wrote:> i too remember the time we could put windows side by side in the right area and i one time did
> put it top and bottom in the same horizontal area, also. but some time in the mm 3 beta's for one
> of the versions it changed

Aha, thanks. (An update for you, nohitter http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 49#p238649)

> i believe it was changed to try and stop the windows from sliding under each other which was
> going on awhile ago, or to fix some errors that were showing up.

Sad.

Forgive me, but I don't believe this is true.

> i too remember the time we could put windows side by side in the right area and i one time did
> put it top and bottom in the same horizontal area, also. but some time in the mm 3 beta's for one
> of the versions it changed

Aha, thanks. (An update for you, nohitter http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 49#p238649)

> i believe it was changed to try and stop the windows from sliding under each other which was
> going on awhile ago, or to fix some errors that were showing up.

Sad.

glad you see what i been saying.

sorry it is not what you wanted. but its the only way to get the look of what you want.

top and bottom are horizontal placement of windows only.
left and right are vertical placement of windows only.

i too remember the time we could put windows side by side in the right area and i one time did put it top and bottom in the same horizontal area, also. but some time in the mm 3 beta's for one of the versions it changed to the way i just said above.

i believe it was changed to try and stop the windows from sliding under each other which was going on awhile ago, or to fix some errors that were showing up. but its been like a year or two since it was changed.

> would you get that dangblasted docking out of your mind.



> in order to get what you want using the bottom area you must combine it with the side area of your choice.
> putting the player in the bottom area and the now playing window in the side area.

Well, I know how to do that thanks, but that's not what I asked for.

I take it what I asked for is impossible. Thanks for your help.

would you get that dangblasted docking out of your mind.

its messing with you.

what you want to do is not possible in the bottom dock area.
it is not possible in the top dock area.

but what is possible is to use those two areas which you can place things in, with another area.

left and right dock area can hold both windows. top and bottom area only holds both side by side.

in order to get what you want using the bottom area you must combine it with the side area of your choice.

putting the player in the bottom area and the now playing window in the side area.

now to get that on the top of the screen you need to put the now playing window in the top area.
and the player on top of another window in the side area of you choice, so you will get your look but the player or the now playing window which ever you put in the side area will be to the left or right of the screen.

all the windows except the listview area and the menu header area, are moveable.

you ever do one of those puzzels that are in a case with several panels in it that the picture is printed over all the panels but when you buy it the panels are not in the proper order to see the picture, you have to move them around to line up the picture and see it.??

mediamonkey's skin works just like that. only you get the center panel shown to you proper so it never moves
only the ones around it.