Serato Software Feature Suggestions

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Smart Playlist Columns in Scratch Live won't stay as set

matt play 7:00 PM - 17 May, 2009
I have several smart playlists that I developed in iTunes that sync with Serato. Using these playlists is my main form of browsing when DJing. I like to design my columns so that all of my most valuable info is visible without scrolling side to side.

If I go through the painstaking process of setting up each playlist how I want... They just get changed by the software later. I think it automatically resizes the column width to the width of the longest entry. Well, for song title, lots of times this is pretty long due to listing several remixers. I would like to be able to set the column where if it cuts off some text, no problem, it will stay put. I usually only need the first few words to know what I am looking at. The current way shows tons of unused space most of the time just so it can display a handful of long titles. Sure I could go shorten these titles... That is a workaround, but what about importing new tracks later? This could develop to be a major PITA if you forget to cut a title short before importing. I think Serato should handle this much more intuitively.

I think each playlist should be able to be "locked" to the way you set it or "unlocked" to have fields/columns automatically resize. Also, I think we could really use the ability to copy and paste field/column settings from playlist to playlist. So if I decide I want to change my setting, I don't have to manually change it in all 30 or so smart playlists.

Currently when DJing I have to constantly resize fields when browsing my playlists to pull fields back into view.

I am using a MBP with OSX 10.5.7 and Scratch Live 1.9.0.

Please let me know if all this is possible in a way I haven't discovered!
C. William 8:04 PM - 17 May, 2009
God...please +1

I spent a good hour manually adjusting all of my playlist columns by adding "........" at varying lengths to get all my itunes smart playlist columns to be consistent.

The columns should just be set to the width the user chooses
deepdjdanny 10:08 AM - 18 May, 2009
+infinity
matt play 2:12 AM - 20 May, 2009
This needs a bump because this really needs to be handled in the next update. This seems to be a feature Serato tried to add with 1.9. I read that now, supposedly, if you have custom crates unchecked in setup, you can design your columns in the "all" crate and then uncheck/re-check read iTunes in the setup, and this should set all iTunes playlists correctly. However this doesn't work with smart playlists :(

This is a HUGE workflow cramp for me. I am a recent crossover from Traktor and never imagined a simple thing like this not being implemented. Don't get me wrong though, I love evrything else about Serato... Just praying this comes in a quick update! Hopefully it is simple enough.
matt play 4:54 AM - 11 June, 2009
+1
ELKTRNX 11:41 AM - 16 April, 2010
+infinity x2
al83 8:11 PM - 5 September, 2010
still experiencing this in 2.1, please fix!!!
matt play 2:07 AM - 16 September, 2010
I tried to convert to serato smart playlists to workaround this, but they still are not as intuitive as iTunes.
dj_soo 1:00 AM - 18 December, 2011
+1000
DJ1MX 9:09 PM - 13 February, 2012
+ Pie.
illan 4:54 PM - 21 March, 2012
+1 .....was this ever fixed, its very annoying!