What’s New in dkvBrowser
The user can customize the perspective for DKVBrowser by drag/drop techniques, tear-off, minimize, maximize, deleting a view or combinations as he wishes. The views that are available are selected from the Window menu under the Show view menu option. When the user quits the DKVBrowser program in a normal manner, his latest perspective will be the perspective that appears on the display when he reopens DKVBrowser. The user also has the option to save and open saved and default perspectives under the Window menu. Performing customization through dragging and dropping may take some practice for Mac users.
The new Details view allows the user to enter titles and comments for songs/albums with ease, as well as provides detailed info on ratings, date, filename, play count, length of song and song/album number. Song options for the song currently playing or loaded can be changed: L/R channel, volumes, velocity, pitch, skip and guide.
Cut, copy and paste has been replaced by a much easier interface of dragging and dropping of songs to playlists, albums, sources or in reordering within an album or playlist. User can also drag and drop songs and albums from their desktop to the PC tab and from PC tab to desktop or to other source tabs (for example pianosoft, user libraries.)
Contextual menus accessed by right clicking (PC version) or control clicking (Mac version) allows the user to access such options as: load/play/delete song or album or playlist or playlist song, expand/collapse ALL albums or playlists, find song info in the source tab, create playlist or albums.
A playlist can be easily made from the search results with a single click from the contextual menu that allows 'Grab search results' to add songs to a newly created playlist or existing playlist.
Most of the searching, editing and operations can be peformed while the piano is playing a song, DKVBrowser will auto-pause the song and then resume as the operations are completed.
DKVBrowser now automatically connects with the Disklavier Mark IV upon launch of the application.
A new Tray Icon (On PC) or Status Icon (Mac) appears in the upper right menu bar. Often a user likes to minimize DKVBrowser and ignore it from then on. But occasionally when a song comes on that the user might want to skip, instead of expanding DKVBrowser to use it to skip that song and then minimize it again, the tray or status icon, can be accessed as a contextual menu using cntrl click (Mac) or right click (PC) which allows the user to play, stop, move to the next song, or quit DKVBrowser. The tray icon or status icon also displays the current song and album and source titles via a balloon when a new song loads. If the user clicks on the status or tray icon it will display the current song that is loaded and/or playing.