No wonder it was always difficult to find the tracks >_<
I can see why removal of the playing track from the tracklist would have seemed logical, avoiding replay perhaps, but I do think it defeats more than helps.
The dragging from track label idea is great for adding a track to a crate, but will only be helpful in dragging to a playlist if the playlist is open at the time and you can drag to the specific place order in the playlist that you want. The dragging idea wouldn't work for deleting a track after play, but, upon reflection, neither would having it highlighted and centered, since after play the highlight would probably jump to the next currently playing track and you'd have to go digging for the previous track then anyway. Dragging from track label would also not assist in retrieving deeper metadata.
So unless a centered highlight could be exclusive to the AutoDJ window/pane, and not be active for other windows/panes (which I think should be intuitive to the DJ since AutoDJ is the only activated play feature at that moment), it sounds like dragging from track label could be a fine way to add to crates, and possibly playlists.
As for exploration of currently playing metadata, I would suggest a mouseover type display when hovering over the track label, but I'm guessing that might either be dependent on the toggle of tool tips, or, if it was wanted to always be available, conflict with the toggle of tool tips (unless there was a separate option in preferences for a hover+get metadata toggle, but that might be too messy).
No wonder it was always difficult to find the tracks >_<
I can see why removal of the playing track from the tracklist would have seemed logical, avoiding replay perhaps, but I do think it defeats more than helps.
The dragging from track label idea is great for adding a track to a crate, but will only be helpful in dragging to a playlist if the playlist is open at the time and you can drag to the specific place order in the playlist that you want. The dragging idea wouldn't work for deleting a track after play, but, upon reflection, neither would having it highlighted and centered, since after play the highlight would probably jump to the next currently playing track and you'd have to go digging for the previous track then anyway. Dragging from track label would also not assist in retrieving deeper metadata.
So unless a centered highlight could be exclusive to the AutoDJ window/pane, and not be active for other windows/panes (which I think should be intuitive to the DJ since AutoDJ is the only activated play feature at that moment), it sounds like dragging from track label could be a fine way to add to crates, and possibly playlists.
As for exploration of currently playing metadata, I would suggest a mouseover type display when hovering over the track label, but I'm guessing that might either be dependent on the toggle of tool tips, or, if it was wanted to always be available, conflict with the toggle of tool tips (unless there was a separate option in preferences for a hover+get metadata toggle, but that might be too messy).