Announce: Material Skin

[cpd73]

I have a question regarding "What Was That Tune?" Frequently, I lose the option to select the grid view for it's display, and I don't know why that is - the icon is just not there on the RHS of the panel. It does not seem to matter whether I am playing my own music or streaming. Occasionally, I do have the Grid-View option, but more often than not, it disappears.

Grid should be disabled for "What was that tune?" - mainly because grid does not show as much info, as there is less space per item, and (for me at least) this info is more important when needing track details. Plus "what was that tune" lists tracks, and tracks are shown as a list elsewhere. Not sure how you've ever seen the grid icon for this.

[cpd73]

Material seems to have lost a bit of functionality with my setup, specifically Erland's multilibrary and custom browse. When I select Albums or New Albums from Custom Browse I get no results. The wheel spins briefly and then disappears. I am able to select from all the other categories (genre, year, artist etc).

I've seen this occasionally too. The issue, I think, is that when asking for a list of items, Material asks for up to 25k of items. CustomBrowse does not like this, and if you look at your LMS log you will see it throws errors due to the way it is querying LMS's DB. To be honest, Material is doing nothing wrong here - the API spec allows asking for this large a number of items. So, the issue is with CustomBrowse.

[cpd73]

Material seems to have lost a bit of functionality with my setup, specifically Erland's multilibrary and custom browse. When I select Albums or New Albums from Custom Browse I get no results. The wheel spins briefly and then disappears. I am able to select from all the other categories (genre, year, artist etc).

Odd that you state you have issues with "New Albums", as Material gets the size of this list from LMS's settings - so in this instance it should not ask for 25k, but (e.g.) 300. If you enable Material's debug (detailed previously in this thread multiple times) you can see the message Material sends. For me, when asking for "New Albums" I see:

[21:41:05] JSON REQ: ["02:00:70:ad:ca:5e",["custombrowse","browsejive",0,300,"hierarchy:newalbums65"]]

As you can see, only 300 items are asked for. However, just noticed this is from the "New Albums" in the top level - when called from within the "Custom Browse" entry, it asks for 25k. Just tried changing this to only ask for 300 - but Custom Browse returns all albums! Even checked in default web-UI, "Custom Browse" / "New Albums" -> lists all albums!

[Ron F.]

Grid should be disabled for "What was that tune?" - mainly because grid does not show as much info, as there is less space per item, and (for me at least) this info is more important when needing track details. Plus "what was that tune" lists tracks, and tracks are shown as a list elsewhere. Not sure how you've ever seen the grid icon for this.

I see. My eyes being what they are however, I like the grid view option with the larger artwork in "What Was That Tune!" If I click on an album cover, I get more information.

I have been listening to the Radio Paradise Main Mix FLAC Interactive stream for the past hour, and the Grid View option for "What Was That Tune" has mysteriously returned to Material.

When I refresh "What Was That Tune" now, the JSON request looks like:
[2:41:32 PM] JSON REQ: ["00:04:20:23:c4:ce",["playhistory","items",0,25000,"menulayhistory"]]

The response was huge - but it worked.

Best,
Ron

[cpd73]

When I refresh "What Was That Tune" now, the JSON request looks like:
[2:41:32 PM] JSON REQ: ["00:04:20:23:c4:ce",["playhistory","items",0,25000,"menulayhistory"]]

The response was huge - but it worked.

You can configure, in LMS's settings, a limit for "What was that tune"

[cpd73]

I see. My eyes being what they are however, I like the grid view option with the larger artwork in "What Was That Tune!" If I click on an album cover, I get more information.

Changed the code for 0.9.1 to allow grid here - and in more other places.

[Ron F.]

Changed the code for 0.9.1 to allow grid here - and in more other places.

That is great! Thank you.

Something I have noticed when attempting to use the "What Was That Tune" plugin, and I don't know if this is an issue with Material or LMS, is that when I select this plugin, sometimes I get a list of connected devices to choose from, and sometimes I don't. If I am asked to first choose a device to show the play history for, then I get the list view with no option for the grid view. Sometimes however I am not asked, and we jump directly to the device I am currently controlling, and in that case I would get the grid view. I am not sure what is causing the periodic change in behavior, but it might be caused by adding a new device or shutting down devices that LMS knows about.

[Ron F.]

That is great! Thank you.

Something I have noticed when attempting to use the "What Was That Tune" plugin, and I don't know if this is an issue with Material or LMS, is that when I select this plugin, sometimes I get a list of connected devices to choose from, and sometimes I don't. If I am asked to first choose a device to show the play history for, then I get the list view with no option for the grid view. Sometimes however I am not asked, and we jump directly to the device I am currently controlling, and in that case I would get the grid view. I am not sure what is causing the periodic change in behavior, but it might be caused by adding a new device or shutting down devices that LMS knows about.

It appears to me now that the somewhat unpredictable behavior I am seeing, is originating with the "What Was That Tune" plugin itself. Possibly Michael can take a look at it, at some point.

[mherger]

Announce: Material Skin

> It appears to me now that the somewhat unpredictable behavior I am
> seeing, is originating with the "What Was That Tune" plugin itself.
> Possibly Michael can take a look at it, at some point.

You would see this if all tracks logged would have come from only one
player. In this case WWTT would skip the player selection menu.

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Michael

[Ron F.]

> It appears to me now that the somewhat unpredictable behavior I am
> seeing, is originating with the "What Was That Tune" plugin itself.
> Possibly Michael can take a look at it, at some point.

You would see this if all tracks logged would have come from only one
player. In this case WWTT would skip the player selection menu.

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Michael

I see. I have my track limit set to 50, so if the last 50 tracks played come from one player, essentially the device playing now, and the other players are paused, then we skip the player selection menu. OK - that makes sense. Thank you.

[d6jg]

@craig

There is a bit of a clamour elsewhere for a "Now Playing" screen - nothing to do with Material - but could you add one in similar way to mini-player which I have fathomed can be called by http://LMSIP:9000/Material/mini-player

Could you create - http://LMSIP:9000/Material/now-playing ? No navigation just image / titles etc - I imagine it would be best received in landscape mode ?

[cpd73]

@craig

There is a bit of a clamour elsewhere for a "Now Playing" screen - nothing to do with Material - but could you add one in similar way to mini-player which I have fathomed can be called by http://LMSIP:9000/Material/mini-player

Could you create - http://LMSIP:9000/Material/now-playing ? No navigation just image / titles etc - I imagine it would be best received in landscape mode ?

What about just the current desktop expanded now-playing view? Would adding a URL parameter to auto-start in that view be enough? e.g. http://LMSIP:9000/Material/desktop?initial=now-playing Or would you also want the 'i', expand/collapse, and menu buttons to be hidden? Player selection is required, as if a player vanishes material will auto-switch to the next - so some indication is required.

[d6jg]

What about just the current desktop expanded now-playing view? Would adding a URL parameter to auto-start in that view be enough? e.g. http://LMSIP:9000/Material/desktop?initial=now-playing Or would you also want the 'i', expand/collapse, and menu buttons to be hidden? Player selection is required, as if a player vanishes material will auto-switch to the next - so some indication is required.

I think that would work if it could be inside a Chrome app - which I guess it could

[cpd73]

I think that would work if it could be inside a Chrome app - which I guess it could

WIP for 0.9.1:

[edwin2006]

Like the idea A lot! Could use a cheap android tablet to create a nice display on top of my transporter.
Just need album art and artist info. No controls or menu.