Announce: Material Skin

[chicks]

Run Material Skin on Google Nest Hub

I've long known that you could cast a non-interactive screen from your PC to the Hub, but just discovered you can also cast a fully-interactive web page, including the Material Skin. Works nicely! With Fuschia being rolled out, you'll soon be able to type in the URL directly on the Hub, as well. Unfortunately, it times out and returns to its home screen after a few minutes, unless you interact with it via touch.

https://demille.github.io/url-cast-receiver/

[cpd73]

Artist Bio. If artist or AlbumArtist is multi-tagged the lookup fails with “Fetching..”

Should be fixed now in git/master for 2.4.6

[cpd73]

2.4.6 Release

Bug fix release, changes:

1. Don't add sort field when adding an album to queue after navigating to album list via artist.
2. Fix navigating back to now-playing if click on browse link in now-playing info using mobile layout.
3. Fix browse incorrectly navigating back if main menu is closed with 'esc' event.
4. Fix show artist biography for tracks with multiple artists.

[dpotts]

Bug fix release, changes:

1. Don't add sort field when adding an album to queue after navigating to album list via artist.
2. Fix navigating back to now-playing if click on browse link in now-playing info using mobile layout.
3. Fix browse incorrectly navigating back if main menu is closed with 'esc' event.
4. Fix show artist biography for tracks with multiple artists.

As expected, removing the sort: field fixed the track order problem for multi-disc albums. Thank you!

[cpd73]

As expected, removing the sort: field fixed the track order problem for multi-disc albums. Thank you!

Thanks for the confirmation.

[d6jg]

Bug fix release, changes:

1. Don't add sort field when adding an album to queue after navigating to album list via artist.
2. Fix navigating back to now-playing if click on browse link in now-playing info using mobile layout.
3. Fix browse incorrectly navigating back if main menu is closed with 'esc' event.
4. Fix show artist biography for tracks with multiple artists.

7.4.6
Confirming item 4. now working as expected.

[Shozzer]

Display of Music and Artist Information

Hi Craig

I tend to cycle through dark/light displays as the mood takes me. I am currently in 'light display' mode which works fine for me with the exception of the way that information is displayed under Album in 'Show current track information' - see attached. Can the text be darkened for light setting please?

TIA.

Steve

[cpd73]

Hi Craig

I tend to cycle through dark/light displays as the mood takes me. I am currently in 'light display' mode which works fine for me with the exception of the way that information is displayed under Album in 'Show current track information' - see attached. Can the text be darkened for light setting please?

Ah! Was about to say "works for me" - but then recreated the issue. Only appears if also using coloured toolbars. Will fix, sorry.

[Edit] ...and only on desktop layout...

[Shozzer]

Thanks Craig. I guess you make a rod for your own back when the plugin is feature-rich - so many variables...

Steve

Ah! Was about to say "works for me" - but then recreated the issue. Only appears if also using coloured toolbars. Will fix, sorry.

[Edit] ...and only on desktop layout...

[edwardthern]

Redundant Controls

Any idea why the redundant controls in the Favorites menu?

Clicking on the three dots gives


Clicking on the icon gives


Perhaps clean up the icon by removing the Append to Queue and Play now buttons and move the Play now action to clicking the icon instead. This gives a much larger area to click for phone, tablet users and reduces redundancy.

[d6jg]

Any idea why the redundant controls in the Favorites menu?

Clicking on the three dots gives
[ATTACH]35021[/ATTACH]

Clicking on the icon gives
[ATTACH]35022[/ATTACH]

Perhaps clean up the icon by removing the Append to Queue and Play now buttons and move the Play now action to clicking the icon instead. This gives a much larger area to click for phone, tablet users and reduces redundancy.

Which control do you consider redundant? All are relevant to me

[edwardthern]

Small Consistancy

Small thing, but would increase consistency overall

If clicking it takes you to the "Home" screen, then it should be a "Home" icon....

[philippe_44]

Sorted lists

One thing I was wondering about material: it seems to always sort items, and sometimes in my plugins I'd like the list to stay as it is, for example when "recently played" or "search" is at the beginning. There is a "sorted" attribute in the $feed, I'm not 100% sure it's the right use, but would that make sense for material to not do anything if this attribute is set?

[cpd73]

One thing I was wondering about material: it seems to always sort items, and sometimes in my plugins I'd like the list to stay as it is, for example when "recently played" or "search" is at the beginning. There is a "sorted" attribute in the $feed, I'm not 100% sure it's the right use, but would that make sense for material to not do anything if this attribute is set?

Can you give a specific example? I've tried the YouTube plugin, and see no "sort" parameter being passed in any queries.

[philippe_44]

Can you give a specific example? I've tried the YouTube plugin, and see no "sort" parameter being passed in any queries.

If I’ve not set in yet in YT, I was trying that for my changes in the podcast plugin because when adding a few menu items in addition to the feeds themselves, they are sorted in material but not in the classic, so the result in material looks funny.

I think most of the time this attribute is not set, but it exists and is checked against in the XMLxxx code. Again, I’m not yet 100% sure of the signification or expected behavior when set.