# Comments on v2.73
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comments-on-v2-73/17575
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [January 20, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comments-on-v2-73/17575 "2016-01-20T13:34:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comments-on-v2-73/17575/1 "2016-01-20T13:34:03Z")
> [@Mp3tag v2.73 released](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-v2-73-released/17475/1):
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> [...]
> **Automatically Select Files**
> In the past, many users have wished for an option to automatically select files that have been added to Mp3tag's file list. With this version, I've added a new configuration option to 'Options \> General' that allows for automatically selecting files. When this option is enabled, files that are loaded when Mp3tag started or are added via drag'n'drop or are added via the right-click option in Windows Explorer are selected automatically.
If the already loaded files are arranged on the list by let say FILENAME in descending alphabetical order and I add a new one, then it pops out always at the bottom [even if its named "AAA"]. And so I have to click two times FILENAME column, to arrange them the same way they were before [to see old files plus the new one in the same order that was before the addition of this new file]
> [@Mp3tag v2.73 released](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-v2-73-released/17475/1):
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> **Selecting All Files via Toolbar**
> Some users prefer working via keyboard shortcuts, others are effectively using the mouse. To select all files, the most efficient way was to use the Ctrl+A keyboard shortcut. This might change now, especially for the mouse users amongst you, because the current version now features a new toolbar button for selecting all files in Mp3tag's file list.
If I could only rearrange those icons and remove the ones I do not use...
> [@Mp3tag v2.73 released](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-v2-73-released/17475/1):
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> **File Selection when Filtering Files**
> Till now, the file selection was not preserved when switching from a filter result to the complete file list via F3 or 'View \> Filter...'. This had the significant drawback, that files which were identified using the filter and selected in the filtered file list, were not seen in context of the complete file list anymore once the filter has been reset. With this version, the file selection is preserved when disabling the filter.
> [...]
If I could only select the color of that highlight...
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comments-on-v2-73/17575/2 "2016-01-23T20:57:40Z")
> [@zerow](#):
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> If the already loaded files are arranged on the list by let say FILENAME in descending alphabetical order and I add a new one, then it pops out always at the bottom [even if its named "AAA"]. And so I have to click two times FILENAME column, to arrange them the same way they were before [to see old files plus the new one in the same order that was before the addition of this new file]
Like this, you create a playlist, in fact.
The playlist has its own order which is not destroyed with the exeception that no duplicates are loaded. So what you observe works as designed.
> [@](#):
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> If I could only select the color of that highlight...
The hightlighting is set by windows.
So alter you colur scheme and you are done.
If windows does not offer this feature - ask Microsoft to alter the system behaviour.
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2016, 11:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comments-on-v2-73/17575/3 "2016-01-25T11:48:33Z")
> [@zerow](#):
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> If the already loaded files are arranged on the list by let say FILENAME in descending alphabetical order and I add a new one, then it pops out always at the bottom [even if its named "AAA"]. And so I have to click two times FILENAME column, to arrange them the same way they were before [to see old files plus the new one in the same order that was before the addition of this new file]
> [...]
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> Like this, you create a playlist, in fact.
> The playlist has its own order which is not destroyed with the exeception that no duplicates are loaded. So what you observe works as designed.
But there could be an option to re-load [rearrange] the files
So you would have in
File \> Options \> General
not only
"Select files automatically"
but also
"Select files automatically and reload the list"
> [@zerow](#):
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> If I could only select the color of that highlight...
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> The hightlighting is set by windows.
> So alter you colur scheme and you are done.
I've tried various default schemes in my Windows 7 x64. And that particular element [item] were not changed
I've also tried manually changing colors of individual items [in "Windsow Color and Appearance". And I haven't found an item responsible for the color of the line in Mp3tag [and other programs]
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> If windows does not offer this feature - ask Microsoft to alter the system behaviour.
Unfortunately, they do not return my calls. Probably because of the stuff that I wrote on messageboards about Bill Gates, when I was a youngster
To show how inconvenient Mp3tag is now for me I've took three screenshots:
A] One file selected in Mp3tag- I can clearly see what is choosen
B] One file selected in Mp3tag- I can almost not see what is choosen; beacause I have clicked somewhere else [for example: I needed to correct something in the YEAR tag field in the tag panel]
C] A list of e-mails in Thunderbirds for comparison. [Thunderbid does not have a state, when my selection goes almost invisible]
So it can by either fixed by allowing the user to choose the color of selection [which apparently I can not do in my OS] or by making the selecton in Mp3tag more permanent / visible [like in Thunderbird]
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2016, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comments-on-v2-73/17575/4 "2016-01-25T12:08:49Z")
> [@zerow](#):
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> ... manually changing colors of individual items ...
You could play around with the option in
File\>Options\>General\>Show lines
THis is a three-state-button with different effects on the lines, also in relation to the colour scheme.
Perhaps you find a combination that suits your needs.
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2016, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/comments-on-v2-73/17575/5 "2016-01-25T12:21:17Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> You could play around with the option in
> File\>Options\>General\>Show lines
>
> THis is a three-state-button with different effects on the lines, also in relation to the colour scheme.
> Perhaps you find a combination that suits your needs.
Yes
Turning off the "Display the lines at file view" make the selection more visible, but still only to some extent. The tradeoff is of course less visibility [difference between the lines] when not selecting anything
Than you for this solution
But I still think that selection should somehow be made more visible