"Play in MediaMonkey" Plays Only Folders Containing Music Files

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KevinSB1
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"Play in MediaMonkey" Plays Only Folders Containing Music Files

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Hello, I'm using latest beta, 5.04.2659 (Gold).

If I choose "Play in MediaMonkey" from the Windows context menu it will not load and play any files unless the files are contained directly in that folder. For example:

\Beatles
\Abbey Road
1. Come Together.mp3
2. Something.mp3
\Sgt. Pepper
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. With a Little Help from My Friends

If I right click on the Beatles folder and choose "Play in MediaMonkey" so I can listen to all my Beatles songs nothing will load and play. If I right click on the Abbey Road folder and choose "Play in MediaMonkey" the songs in the Abbey Road folder will load and play.

I know that when the the latest official release of MM came out, the Play in MM from the context menu function did not work at all. That was fixed in a later beta build, but still does not behave totally as it should.
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Re: "Play in MediaMonkey" Plays Only Folders Containing Music Files

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Hi,
Subfolders are not loaded, it never were (at least on my PC MM4 installs). Only tracks directly in the folder are played.
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Re: "Play in MediaMonkey" Plays Only Folders Containing Music Files

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Peke wrote: Sun Aug 14, 2022 10:15 pm Hi,
Subfolders are not loaded, it never were (at least on my PC MM4 installs). Only tracks directly in the folder are played.
Thanks, Peke. I wonder if there's a reason for that. Back when I was using Winamp I would choose "Play in Winamp" from the context menu and all the music files in that folder and any subfolders would load and play. That was quite convenient. I know you guys have your hands full with other things, but perhaps this option could be added at some point?
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Re: "Play in MediaMonkey" Plays Only Folders Containing Music Files

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KevinSB1 wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 6:41 am I wonder if there's a reason for that.
Yes there is as for example Right click on my G: drive Multimedia Folder would initiate adding 70k+ tracks in now playing and if shuffle is enabled it would took 30 Min to on my Samsung 980 Pro to load now playing and play one tracks shuffled out of 70k+.
KevinSB1 wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 6:41 am Back when I was using Winamp
Back when I used Winamp I had <1k tracks total ;)
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Re: "Play in MediaMonkey" Plays Only Folders Containing Music Files

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Makes sense, Peke. Thanks.
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Re: "Play in MediaMonkey" Plays Only Folders Containing Music Files

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Hi,
My pleasure, I searched and it was one of the complains back in 2006 that Right click on Folder freeze MM for long time.
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