Announce: Material Skin

[Ron F.]

Main Changes:

1. Listen for 'click' and not 'touchend' to make media controls show.
2. Click on 'No playing' tab whilst already on 'Now playing' will toggle song info.
3. Use smaller apps, etc, avatars in pinned list, main radio and apps lists.
4. Work-around CustomBrowse 999 item limit, by asking for list of items in chunks.
5. Darken mobile bottom-nav area, to give buttons more contrast.
6. Set Firefox scrollbar colours.

Thank you Craig ... I will spend time banging on it today, on my laptop and my phone, but it looks great!

[SlimChances]

Thanks Craig
Custom Browse is working again!

[d6jg]

I am getting much better and more consistent results with Lyrics and other MAI intergration.

Thanks both

[netchord]

Tune in URL

Hi- in the default skin, under the radio tab, there's an option to tune to (tune in, not "TuneIn") a URL, and from there save it as a favorite. in material, one can add a URL to the queue via the "+" button, but saving it adds the queue as a playlist, not as a favorite. is there a way to restore this function in Material?

also, the background image in my instance of material always displays the Avett Brothers. while i like them, i can't remember the last time i listened to them. what behavior governs the display of this image?

[slartibartfast]

Hi- in the default skin, under the radio tab, there's an option to tune to (tune in, not "TuneIn") a URL, and from there save it as a favorite. in material, one can add a URL to the queue via the "+" button, but saving it adds the queue as a playlist, not as a favorite. is there a way to restore this function in Material?

also, the background image in my instance of material always displays the Avett Brothers. while i like them, i can't remember the last time i listened to them. what behavior governs the display of this image?

I asked the same question a while ago.

https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=942061

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[netchord]

Thank you

In Favorites at the upper right you should see a heart-with-plus-sign icon. Click that and you should see "Add Favorite" should pop up.

took me a while to figure this out.

[SlimChances]

Would it be possible to include "add as favorite" to the drop down menu when you click on a song in in the web interface?

[cpd73]

Would it be possible to include "add as favorite" to the drop down menu when you click on a song in in the web interface?

Curently the "Save as favourite" and "Remove favourite" options are excluded from the list of entries when showing "More" For 0.9.4 I'm going to remove this exclusion. So, (with 0.9.4) to add a stream that's in the queue to favourites; click entry in queue, select "More" from context menu, then select "Save as favourite" from the resultant list. Not quite as fast, but good enough. The problems with adding it to the queue menu are; a) I'd have to check its not already a favourite (not a massive issue, do this for browse items), and b) the URL in the queue might not be the best URL to use. For example, with TuneIn station's it's better to favourite the TuneIn URL, but the URL the queue sees can change to be the current sreaming URL. I'm not sure if the "More" menu fixes this, but it has a better chance...

[radish112]

Can't start pinned radio station

Good morning.

I have been using and admiring the Material skin for a couple of months. I like the convenience of being able to pin Apps and invoke them with a tap. My understanding is that Radio items should work the same way but for me they don't.

From within the "Radio" item I click on a station and am presented with the option to "pin to main page." I tap this option, and when I return to the Main (Browse) page the station is indeed pinned there, but when I click on the station nothing happens. This is true for both the desktop and mobile versions of the Material skin.

I believe there was a time when clicking my pinned station did invoke the station and begin playing, but it's been a while since I tried that feature so I may be mistaken about this.

In any event great work on the skin, Craig. I can live without the ability to start radio stations from a pinned status, but it is a nice feature. If someone can provide a tip concerning what I may be doing wrong I'd appreciate it.

Cheers,

Steve

[cpd73]

From within the "Radio" item I click on a station and am presented with the option to "pin to main page." I tap this option, and when I return to the Main (Browse) page the station is indeed pinned there, but when I click on the station nothing happens. This is true for both the desktop and mobile versions of the Material skin.

Sounds like a bug. I'll investigate later.

[slartibartfast]

Good morning.

I have been using and admiring the Material skin for a couple of months. I like the convenience of being able to pin Apps and invoke them with a tap. My understanding is that Radio items should work the same way but for me they don't.

From within the "Radio" item I click on a station and am presented with the option to "pin to main page." I tap this option, and when I return to the Main (Browse) page the station is indeed pinned there, but when I click on the station nothing happens. This is true for both the desktop and mobile versions of the Material skin.

I believe there was a time when clicking my pinned station did invoke the station and begin playing, but it's been a while since I tried that feature so I may be mistaken about this.

In any event great work on the skin, Craig. I can live without the ability to start radio stations from a pinned status, but it is a nice feature. If someone can provide a tip concerning what I may be doing wrong I'd appreciate it.

Cheers,

Steve

I didn't even know you could pin Radio stations. Just tried it to test your issue and it works for me on Android. It also works in desktop mode with Firefox.

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[radish112]

I didn't even know you could pin Radio stations. Just tried it to test your issue and it works for me on Android. It also works in desktop mode with Firefox.

slartibartfast

Thanks for having a look. Your response makes me believe that a pinned radio station did in fact work for me earlier. If that's the case the obvious question for me is: What changed?

Here are the only things I remember changing.
1. I upgraded to the latest version of the Material skin (i.e., 0.9.3)
2. Because I wanted to (a) pin a couple of new stations to add to the existing (and working) station and (b) change the order in which the newly-pinned stations were presented, I deleted the working station and begin to pin several stations including the previously working station. At this point I encountered the problem: All the stations were pinned, but none of them would play.

The only other thing I can think of that might be a problem is that I'm running LMS Version: 7.9.1 - 0.7.20180404git1522249619 @ Mon May 14 10:51:59 EDT 2018.

I run LMS on a Vortexbox appliance. My updates to LMS are handled via updates to the Vortexbox software, but obviously updates have not been offered in quite some time. I'm guessing I could figure out how to update LMS outside the Vortexbox update process, but I'm loathe to do this since everything aside from the Material skin pin problem is working fine. It's a case of "If it ain't broke don't fix it." This runs afoul of earlier behavior of my part: "If it ain't broke, break it."

P.S. I tried the Material skin on Firefox (I currently use Chrome), but that didn't solve the pin problem.

Thanks,

Steve

[slartibartfast]

slartibartfast

Thanks for having a look. Your response makes me believe that a pinned radio station did in fact work for me earlier. If that's the case the obvious question for me is: What changed?

Here are the only things I remember changing.
1. I upgraded to the latest version of the Material skin (i.e., 0.9.3)
2. Because I wanted to (a) pin a couple of new stations to add to the existing (and working) station and (b) change the order in which the newly-pinned stations were presented, I deleted the working station and begin to pin several stations including the previously working station. At this point I encountered the problem: All the stations were pinned, but none of them would play.

The only other thing I can think of that might be a problem is that I'm running LMS Version: 7.9.1 - 0.7.20180404git1522249619 @ Mon May 14 10:51:59 EDT 2018.

I run LMS on a Vortexbox appliance. My updates to LMS are handled via updates to the Vortexbox software, but obviously updates have not been offered in quite some time. I'm guessing I could figure out how to update LMS outside the Vortexbox update process, but I'm loathe to do this since everything aside from the Material skin pin problem is working fine. It's a case of "If it ain't broke don't fix it." This runs afoul of earlier behavior of my part: "If it ain't broke, break it."

P.S. I tried the Material skin on Firefox (I currently use Chrome), but that didn't solve the pin problem.

Thanks,

Steve

Do pinned apps still work?

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[radish112]

Do pinned apps still work?

Yep, work like a charm.

[alfista]

I tried to browse "Music Folder" and by happenstance noticed one album was missing. Given that it's shown in the Standard skin it would suggest it's a problem with Material, but I'm not ready to place the blame just yet.

It's clearly been scanned, and I don't see anything odd in the logs, but I sniffed the traffic and saw something odd in the jsonrpc reply.

{"method":"slim.request","result":{"count":6,"fsitems_loop":[{"path":"/storage/music/flac/Motörhead/Ace of Spades (compilation)","name":"Ace of Spades (compilation)","isfolder":"1"},{"path":"/storage/music/flac/Motörhead/Aftershock","name":"Aftershock","isfolder":"1"},{"path":"/storage/music/flac/Motörhead/Bad Magic","name":"Bad Magic","isfolder":"1"},{"path":"/storage/music/flac/Motörhead/Take No Prisoners [1]","name":"Take No Prisoners [1]","isfolder":"1"},{"path":"/storage/music/flac/Motörhead/Take No Prisoners [2]","name":"Take No Prisoners [2]","isfolder":"1"},{"path":"/storage/music/flac/Motörhead/The Wörld Is Yours","name":"The Wörld Is Yours","isfolder":null}]},"params":["00:04:20:12:70:04",["readdirectory","0",25000,"folder:/storage/music/flac/Motörhead"]],"id":1}

The last album is the missing one, and that entry looks odd. The "ö" in the directory name is garbled, while it's correct for the parent directory, and "isfolder" is set to null. I can't see anything odd in the filenames when logging in to the server, and looking in the database the names seem to have been picked up correctly.

Server is a Vortexbox (Fedora) running LMS 7.9.1 and Material 0.9.3