PM123's General Behavior Settings

Behavior

Start playing on file load

Automatically starts playing when you load a file or playlist.

Retain playing position

You may keep the current playing position when you exit PM123 while playing and/or when you press the stop button. The two options cause PM123 to continue playing at exactly the location where it stopped.
Note: If you click "Retain playing position on stop", the only way to start over from the beginning is to drag the slider to the start or to change the current song.

Discard shuffle sequence when shuffle is disabled

If you enable this option, the disabling shuffle mode and enabling shuffle mode again changes the shuffle sequence and in general also the remaining playlist time.

Navigation

Turn around with Previous/Next Button

This options let the buttons for previous/next song to turn around at the end of the playlist.

Alternate slider function

Alternate navigation is available in playlist mode to navigate directly through the entire playlist. It is activated by pressing the Alt key while the main window has the focus. You can choose between three types of behavior:

• Song only
  This allows you to use the slider to jump to the beginning of an arbitrary song within a playlist.
• Song & time
  This option will map all songs in the playlist to equidistant slices of the slider. Within this blocks you can navigate to an relative location within the song item (if it has finite length).
• Time only
  This will navigate within the currently loaded playlist at a linear time scale as if it were one very long song. If the total playing time of the playlist is unknown (e.g. because a radio stream is part of the it) alternate navigation will fall back to "Song & time".

Alternate slider button

You might change the meta button that activates alternate navigation. This is mainly intended for virtual machines or remote connections that do not pass the Alt key as expected.