How Playing Now Works

Is there a way to have the song that's playing now show in the library (other programs do this and I like it)?

Sort of, I'll show you. MC does work a bit differently than iTunes. It maintains a distinct "Playing Now" list which contains the currently playing track, and all of the files that will play (in the order in which they will play). Everything that gets played, gets "sent" to this special list.

When you switch to Playing Now (which, for you, currently crashes MC because of a problem with G-Force) there are actually 2 panes on the Right hand side of the program. The topmost pane (probably the only one you currently see) is the Video or Visualization window. The bottom pane is the "Playing Now" list.

Assuming you can solve your G-Force problem following my instructions in the other email (or just uninstalling it and leaving it off for now if reinstalling it doesn't work), then switch to Playing Now. Look down at the bottom of the visualization/video window. See the Bar with the two arrows pointing up? Click on one of the arrows. The list that appears is the "Playing Now list".

You can manually resize the "division" between these two panes by click-dragging on the little "handle" between the two arrows. Also, see how when you clicked on one of the "up" arrows before to reveal the list, the one on the right turned into a Down arrow? You can click on it now to make the list go away completely again. Or, you can click on the still upturned arrow (the left one) to hide the Visualization/video window and see only the list.

Thanks to Glynor. http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;topic=35030.1