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I've recently upgraded from 8.0.2 to 8.2 (due to performance issues with 8.1+ versions) and have noticed that iTunes is no longer showing an icon next to the currently playing track.
From the "View" menu I can select "Show Current Song" however that just highlights it in the list of tracks.
This is probably a simple setting that I must have overlooked but can't figure out how to turn this indicator back on so that the list of tracks shows the current playing track with an icon.
Any ideas?

The speaker icon will only show where that song was selected to play.
If you select a playlist and select the song then play, it will not show the speaker next to the song in Music or any other playlist.
Also, if you select the song in Music and play it, it will not show the speaker in any playlists.

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DigitalElemental wrote:
> Ok I am trying to get the sound off of the time line...
i have a feeling the
> way this other guy did it is going to put me in a world
of pain...
>
> I put this code at the begingin:
>
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> slide002.attachSound("slide002");
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> slide007.attachSound("slide007");
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>
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frame I need it with:
>
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>
> I can't get the sound to play though... can someone tell
me what I am doing
> wrong here? I have set the linkage for all the sound
files...
>
> Thanks
>
Manno Bult
http://www.aloft.nl

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