Highlight tracks in decks in the library?

[Milkii Brewster]

If the tracks that were loaded into the decks were highlighted in the library, it would be easy to find them again.

[ronso0 (ronso0)]

Can you elaborate a bit on the use case?

If it is for editing of metadata, BPM, rating or cover art you can do all that from within decks by clicking the track text labels:
* double-click to open the Track Properties dialog
* right-click to open the track context menu

If you want to see the loaded track back in the tracks table there's lp:1863932

Btw we have a few track 'highlights' already: track color, track selection highlight and also focus border of focused table cells. Any additional 'loaded' highlight should be a separate column IMO, a bit like the 'Played' column just it shows the deck number.

[ronso0 (ronso0)]

lp:1789456 is pretty much the same and mentions a Loaded column in Traktor and VDJ
image: https://mixxx.org/forums/download/file.php?id=2103

[Milkii Brewster (mxmilkiib)]

Thanks, 1789456 is kind of it, I wasn't thinking a column, just like making the colour of the track(s) lighter by some percentage or such of a visual hint, my first initial thought about a column is that it would probably be pretty obvious which deck it was loaded on already, and I've got too little space for columns already.

I guess my thought would overlap in style with the ability to manually set the colour for the whole row of a track already anyway.

Though the track-deck indication could be something like the bar gently glowing or such like..

(I would however have no qualms about giving up space for a mini-waveform in the row, which would also help give extra indication what deck a track was on)

New thought: maybe just bold the font of tracks in the library that are currently loaded in a deck?

[Milkii Brewster (mxmilkiib)]

Thanks, while lp:1789456 is kind of it, I wasn't thinking a column, just like making the colour of the track(s) lighter by some percentage or such of a visual hint, my first initial thought about a column is that it would probably be pretty obvious which deck it was loaded on already, and I've got too little space for columns already.

I guess my thought would overlap in style with the ability to manually set the colour for the whole row of a track already anyway.

Though the track-deck indication could be something like the bar gently glowing or such like..

(I would however have no qualms about giving up space for a mini-waveform in the row, which would also help give extra indication what deck a track was on)

New thought: maybe just bold the font of tracks in the library that are currently loaded in a deck?

I was actually going to look for/request lp:1863932 next though.

[ronso0 (ronso0)]

I don't think any sort of border or row coloring is good for this as it would interfere with the current styles and make the library appearance more complex IMO.
Font manipulation isn't going to work reliably as users may choose a custom font (incl. style and font weight).

I'd really go with a narrow column for this. It just needs to be as wide as 'm' to host the deck number (and some padding).

Or maybe we can add some extra hint to the 'Played' column or just the checkbox, like painting the background when a track is currently loaded to any deck (incl. preview deck, excl. samplers)?

[Swiftb0y (swiftb0y)]

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/10234