Mouse Horizontal Scroll Wheel is in reverse

General Discussion
1

Hi!

I have seen some of the other posts about the Horizontal Scroll and I must say it is a very useful feature.
In fact, MP3Tag is, all-in-all, one of the best tools I have come across; great work!
Back to the Mouse Horizontal Scroll Wheel; I have to say that it works, but it is in reverse.
I use it all the time in several other applications (my mouse has horizontal scroll wheel), since Excel to Notepad++, but when I come to MP3Tag I keep scrolling in the opposite direction to the one I intended, and that is extremely annoying.

Please, correct it and make MP3Tag even better.

Thank you!

Paulo Martins

2

I am not sure if this is a feature and therefore problem of the mouse driver.
I had an exchange with the developer about the horizontal scrolling which only works reliably with my "mouse" if I press the Shift and turn the mouse wheel.
The special feature of my "mouse" (which is a Logitech track ball) of a tiltable mouse wheel for horizontal scrolling works only once per session - which IMHO is too seldom for a versatile feature.
So I use the normal mouse wheel without tilting it and press the Shift key for horizontal scrolling.
Perhaps this is a feasible way for you too.

Also, I fear that this will not be changed as the behaviour was changed with version 3.33.1:

[2026-03-27]  NEW: added support for horizontal scrolling via Shift + mouse wheel where applicable.
                   (#70731)
[2026-01-27]  CHG: flipped directions when scrolling horizontally in File List via Shift + mouse
                   wheel.
[2026-01-09]  NEW: added support for horizontal scrolling in File List via Shift + mouse wheel.
3

Mine is a Logitech too.
It's the MX Master 3S.
It works properly with other programs.

4

Just to get this clear: horizontal scrolling works.
You can even see in the changelog that the feature has been adapted according to other user's preferences.
And with that in the background I cannot imagine that the behaviour will be revoked permanently.
If there could be a new feature to toggle the horizontal scroll direction is beyond my influence.

5

Off-topic for mp3tag, but in the Logi+ software from Logitech, there are options for app-specific settings. Perhaps this can be used to reverse the horizontal scroll direction when focused on mp3tag.

6

Same mouse. Works exactly as expected in Mp3tag.