Originally Posted By: catcrazy
to me, it made perfect sense doing what it always did for me. double click on the biab file that i kept on my desktop and it loaded and played. simple.



I just tried that in both BIAB 2015 and BIAB 2016 and indeed you are correct. Opening songs by double-clicking them causes them to play automatically in BIAB 2015 and not in 2016.

It's still something that should be a preference set by the user. No matter which of the 3 (or more) ways are used to open a BIAB file, the song should either auto-play or load itself (and generate it's audio) so that it is ready to PLAY according to how the user has set their preferences.

I could understand how some users might not want auto-play. Maybe they want to load a song while they answer a phone call or go to the restroom. But I'm sure that most of us would probably prefer auto-play since that gets things going as quickly as possible. I still find myself waiting for auto-play when I load up a new style.

Originally Posted By: catcrazy
as a matter of fact, i can't really think of any other program on the mac that DOESN'T work that way. think about it.
If you have, for the sake of this conversation, a Microsoft Word document called "MYResume" on your desktop and double click on it to open it, it doesn't just open Microsoft word, it opens the Microsoft Word AND "MYResume".....


BIAB 2016 does still load the song if you open it that way. It just doesn't play it.

Using your analogy, for Microsoft Word to behave the same way as BIAB the words of your resume wouldn't actually appear on the page until you pressed the "SEE" or "READ" button. That would indeed be a silly and unnecessary extra step.

BIAB 2023 Audiophile, MacPro (Mid-2010) OSX 10.12.6
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