tenfoot
 
You know, it seems to me that all of our issues could be solved with just 1 change. Why not make it that the playlist only loads one active song when 'wait for keypress' is enabled? At the end of that song, it closes the current song, loads the next and then displays the start next song dialogue. No gllitching and dodgy screen redraws. No scroll bar window focus issues. No project windows left open. The only cost would be a very slightly longer delay whilst the song loads - a total non issue with 'wait for keypress' anyway.
 
I say we start a revolution and demand a little love for the playlist. Come on - there's four of us now. Thats almost 5. We are legion. 

^^^^^ This!

JCody
Tenfoot,
There are times when I need immediate playback, like in using the "N" key to immediately start the next song. It used to work perfectly. Then they changed something in the order of when the next song gets loaded that somehow causes loss of focus on the currently playing song. Actually it works if you load one of sonar's own templates. But as soon as you change something in it, then the wonky behavior re-immerges. My dream would be a playlist that could play songs on top of each other. I use it for live theater. Let's say you have a scene that takes place in the rain and you have to have a thunderclap happen on cue. You would want the rain effect to continue when you hit the spacebar for the thunder. Anyway . . . one can dream.

Yes -  can see why instant playback is important  to you. It would be great to have the option to preload if you are working with simpler projects, or to have single project mode for more complex ones that cause concurrent loading/playing problems. As you say - we can dream:)
 
The thing that perplexes me is that when the playlist is set to 'wait for keypress', a project will play, then the 'start next song' dialogue pops up, and the system sits idle with the previously played song still backloaded and the new 'current song' ready to go. Only after you strike any key to start playback does the system close the last song and begin loading. Why on earth doesn't it do that while the system is idle and the dialogue is displayed? This alone would be a massive improvement.
 
The playlist is such a good feature. It's a shame that these few quirks put a lot of people off using it. It seems many small issues have snuck in over time and been ignored:( 

tenfoot
 
You know, it seems to me that all of our issues could be solved with just 1 change. Why not make it that the playlist only loads one active song when 'wait for keypress' is enabled? At the end of that song, it closes the current song, loads the next and then displays the start next song dialogue. No gllitching and dodgy screen redraws. No scroll bar window focus issues. No project windows left open. The only cost would be a very slightly longer delay whilst the song loads - a total non issue with 'wait for keypress' anyway.
 
I say we start a revolution and demand a little love for the playlist. Come on - there's four of us now. Thats almost 5. We are legion. 

I`m In .
Peace

Posted a feature request FWIW. Give it some stars and tell your friends:)
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com...-m3397571.aspx#3397571

tenfoot

scook
Maybe the Windows magnifier could be the solution to make things bigger temporarily.

Scook you are a freakin' wonder! That works brilliantly. Activate the 'keep focus on playlist' button, then set the magnifier to follow keyboard focus and position its window down one side of the screen and you have an instant giant playlist. 




Thanks scook and tenfoot  this worked perfect for me.
Peace