jtf plugin, what's it do?

[djpete]

Yes I have read quite a bit on the JTF plugin and tried to get me head around how it works but for the life of me I have never really used it in the real world day to day.

Can someone please explain in an easy to understand way how you would use this plugin in a practicle sense day to day.
Maybe what options you have set and use?
English please!

It must be useful if it is shipped with winamp so I might be able to learn another new shortcut/tip....
Thanks,

[BugMaster]

As I understand by JTF you mean Jump To File Extra.
It's useful features are:
- finding needed song in a very big playlist (Key: J);
- making queue of songs without making changes in playlist (Key: Q)

[djpete]

but i can use the media library and esque feature for that...so...

[Nunzio390]

Read much more about what JTFE can do here.

It's an invaluable plugin... a "must have" for any serious Winamp user.

[djpete]

thanks Nunzio but I still can't see how everyone raves about this one.
If I want to enque track after the one currently playing I can do that with my keyboard shortcut ctrl n (enque next).
Its a shortcut already there in winamp. Only works in the playlist though.
I can highlight say 10 tracks and then do ctrl n and they will all go under the currently playing song.
And I just drag n drop the files to rearrange the playlist order if needed.
Maybe you just can't show ignorant people like me the benefits...lol

[Sawg]

For some people their playlist are idols to be worshiped, changing the order is a sin or something.

[djpete]

we all have our wierd ways with Winamp I reckon Sawg.
Could be another thread...!

[DrO]

primarily it's for doing a temp playlist within a playlist like keeping a main playlist in order as sawg points out (and which i personally prefer since that's how i managed my files in a pre-ml setup and stil do nowadays since i only need artist+title +time and the ml interface for that just isn't designed.

other than that, the plugin generally was developed further to provide extra features that the dev team (or the non-existant one) just didn't have the time to do or were extensions on the code base in use.

for some people it's an important plugin, for others it's not though there's often a fair chance that people are using features related to it and they don't realise.

-daz

[djpete]

Thanks Dr O, that helps a lot,
I don't use it and would like to maybe uninstall it as I do with anything to keep winamp fast as poss but the missing files highlight I believe is connected to this plugin and that...I can't live without.