The main Window

The main plug-in window looks the following way:

The functions of the elements:

1. ‘Clear’ button — removes all songs from the Winamp playlist. The plug-in does not ask for any additional confirmations, so please be careful. Instead of the ‘Clear’ button you can also use the Delete key.
2. ‘Add songs from the album’ button — adds songs from the selected album (folder) to the Winamp playlist. If the album contains any subfolders, songs are not added from them.
3. ‘Add albums’ button — adds songs from the selected album and its subfolders. There are four possible adding modes:
   • Add in the normal order — the plug-in will add files from the folders in the order they are displayed on the screen
   • Add in the reverse order — files from the folders will be added in the normal order, while the folders will be added in the reverse order. For example, if the files are displayed on the screen in the chronological order from the earlier albums to the later ones, they will be added in the reverse order in this mode — from the later albums to the earlier ones.
   • Add albums in the random order — when added, the albums will be shuffled, while the songs in them will be added in the normal order.
   • Add all in the random order — the songs of the seleced album will be shuffled.
   You can choose the necessary mode using the button with a triangle on it to the right of the ‘Add albums’ button.
4. ‘Add a random album’ button — randomly selects one album out of all found albums and adds songs from it to the playlist. The songs are added in the normal order.
5. ‘Add a random song’ button — one song out of all found songs is randomly selected and added to the playlist.
6. ‘Play!’ button — begins playing the first song added with the help of the plug-in. If no songs have been added using the plug-in and the option ‘The ‘Play!’ button adds the current album if nothing has been added’ is on, the plug-in will add the selected album first and then start playing. Instead of the ‘Play!’ button you can use the spacebar.
7. ‘Cancel’ button — stops adding songs to the playlist. It is active only in the process of adding songs to the playlist.
8. ‘Help’ button — opens the Help system.
9. ‘Toggle the popularity highlight’ button — if the button is pressed, the plug-in will highlight the popular artists. If you unpress the button, all the lines will look similar.
10. ‘Settings’ button — opens the window with the program settings.
11. ‘Set the size and position to defaults’ button — pressing the button positions the main window of the plug-in in the right-hand part of the DeskTop.
12. ‘Entire list’ tab — the plug-in displays all the found audiofiles on this tab. Details...
13. ‘Search’ tab — you can find the necessary song by its title here. Details...
14. ‘Statistics’ tab — the plug-in will display all the information about the music you or other users have played. Details...

More details about the main window of the plug-in

In the main window the plug-in displays the list of all the found audiofiles in the hierarchical order: the folders where these files are located are displayed first and then the files themselves. The CD icon to the left of the line indicates an album, while the note indicates a song.

When the ‘Toggle the popularity highlight’ option is on, the plug-in will highlight the popular artists with a dark blue background color. The artists that are less popular will have a lighter or completely white background color of the item. The plug-in determines the popularity of a song by the number of times it has been played. The song that has been played the largest number of times will have the popularity of 100%, while the songs that have never been played will have the popularity of 0%. The popularity of a folder or an album will be estimated as a an average popularity of its elements. Suppose a folder contains two songs with the popularity of 80% and 0%, the popularity of the folder will equal (80+0)/2 = 40%.

You can easily manage the list using the mouse:

Adding albums and folders to the playlist using the right mouse button is the same as pressing the ‘Add albums’ button on the toolbar.

Using the left mouse button, you can forbid adding those songs that you do not like, or that are somehow corrupted, but you do not want to or cannot delete them. If the song is forbidden, its name is crossed out. When adding the album, the plug-in will skip such a song and it will not get into the playlist. To allow the plug-in to add this song again, you should left-click it once again.

The keys used in the main window

Arrows up/down, PageUp/PageDown — moving through the list.

Enter — moving one level down (show the contents of the album).

Backspace — moving one level up.

Insert — add the album/song.

Delete — clear the playlist.

F1 — help.

Esc — close the plug-in window.