MOG web interface - some small bugs

[JJZolx]

Song Info page:

- Needs to always be displayed as text, otherwise when the interface option is set to large artwork, the page is a mess. Small artwork is a little better, but not by a lot.


In the current playlist:

(I use 'TRACKNUM. TITLE (DURATION)' for the server titleformat.)

- Song duration is shown in seconds, not formatted m:ss.

- I think this bug may exist with local music as well even since 7.6.0:

When artwork is hidden, with the above titleformat there is no artist or album information displayed in the current playlist. It should be added. When artwork is shown, the format appears to be hard-coded and title, album and artist are all displayed, but the titleformat string is ignored.

[mherger]

Are these issues MOG only or applicable to other services too?

Am 27.11.2011, 05:01 Uhr, schrieb JJZolx
<JJZolx.53uexb1322366522 (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com>:

>
> Song Info page:
>
> - Needs to always be displayed as text, otherwise when the interface
> option is set to large artwork, the page is a mess. Small artwork is a
> little better, but not by a lot.
>
>
> In the current playlist:
>
> (I use 'TRACKNUM. TITLE (DURATION)' for the server titleformat.)
>
> - Song duration is shown in seconds, not formatted m:ss.
>
> - I think this bug may exist with local music as well even since
> 7.6.0:
>
> When artwork is hidden, with the above titleformat there is no artist
> or album information displayed in the current playlist. It should be
> added. When artwork is shown, the format appears to be hard-coded and
> title, album and artist are all displayed, but the titleformat string
> is ignored.
>
>


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Michael

[JJZolx]

Are these issues MOG only or applicable to other services too?

I don't currently use any other services, so couldn't say.

[JJZolx]

Also, the album info (track list) page should ideally be treated the same as local music instead of using large/small artwork. I can understand how you may not know that you're looking at an album (vs a list of tracks that may be from different albums), so I suppose it depends on the API that you're working with.

[mherger]

> Also, the album info (track list) page should ideally be treated the
> same as local music instead of using large/small artwork. I can
> understand how you may not know that you're looking at an album (vs a
> list of tracks that may be from different albums), so I suppose it
> depends on the API that you're working with.

Yeah, all these "issues" are shared across the various music services when
accessed through the LMS web UI.

We might extend the protocol to be more content aware in the future, but
for now that's not easily fixed.

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Michael

[mherger]

> In the current playlist:
>
> (I use 'TRACKNUM. TITLE (DURATION)' for the server titleformat.)
>
> - Song duration is shown in seconds, not formatted m:ss.
>
> - I think this bug may exist with local music as well even since
> 7.6.0:

It seems this code has been untouched for 20 months...

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Michael

[JJZolx]

> In the current playlist:
>
> (I use 'TRACKNUM. TITLE (DURATION)' for the server titleformat.)
>
> - Song duration is shown in seconds, not formatted m:ss.
>
> - I think this bug may exist with local music as well even since
> 7.6.0:

It seems this code has been untouched for 20 months...

Why I still use 7.5 mostly. Many onebrowser regressions in the web UI were never fixed.

[JJZolx]

Can the formatting of duration be fixed at least?

[JJZolx]

Also, the album info (track list) page should ideally be treated the same as local music instead of using large/small artwork.

Can't even play the entire album from the track list page, because there are no album controls.

All of the services are like this?

[MeSue]

Can't even play the entire album from the track list page, because there are no album controls.

All of the services are like this?

No, Rhapsody isn't like that. And, yes, it's annoying on MOG because you have to back up to the list level to play an album. It's especially annoying because MOG does not distinguish singles and EPs from full-length albums, so you have to drill into the album track list to see if it is a real album, then go back up a level to get play controls.