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[bobertuk]

Is this with LMS 8.2? I've (today) been updating Material to better handle the new podcast search from this. I can add the ability favourite a search result, but not favourite a podcast from the main listing. Search results return the URL required to add a favourite, but when just listing subscribed podcasts no URL is returned. Not sure why this is, or how the default skin can do this - but it uses (I think) a different API.

I'm using the latest LMS 8.2 nightly - just seen that you've been updating Material so have installed the dev version. If I understand you correctly I mean favourite the main listing; i.e. from the first result returned by the search. In the example I gave, 'The Life Scientific', the first result back is effectively a container for all the episodes of 'The Life Scientific'. Material can already favourite an individual podcast - play a podcast and select 'Track/More' and in the left pane there's an option 'Save to Favourites'.

Looking at favourites.opml the container URL is...

https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/b015sqc7.rss

As a test I put that URL into the Podcast plugin search field in Material and it came back with the container so it looks like the Default Skin is somehow finding the URL of the rss feed and allowing it to be set as a favourite.

[cpd73]

I'm using the latest LMS 8.2 nightly - just seen that you've been updating Material so have installed the dev version. If I understand you correctly I mean favourite the main listing; i.e. from the first result returned by the search. In the example I gave, 'The Life Scientific', the first result back is effectively a container for all the episodes of 'The Life Scientific'. Material can already favourite an individual podcast - play a podcast and select 'Track/More' and in the left pane there's an option 'Save to Favourites'.

To favorite an item from the main podcast listing Material needs to know its URL - this is not supplied in the JSONRPC response from LMS. I'm not sure how the default skin gets this, so I will investigate more. Material can already favourite from search results, and subscribe (via the plugin) from there. But the default skin can also favourite from the subscribed list.

[d6jg]

My wife bought an Amazon Fire HD Tablet on Monday (Prime Day). It’s the one “with Ads”. I got to play with it today and of course I popped the Material apk onto it from F-Droid.
Worked first time and I was really pleased to see that if you press the home button while Material is open when you press it again to wake up the tablet Material defeats the Ads. Big Bonus.

[d6jg]

Very very minor display issue when track is multi tagged. Appears in 2 places as Artist1,Artist2 with no spacing.





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[cpd73]

Very very minor display issue when track is multi tagged. Appears in 2 places as Artist1,Artist2 with no spacing.

Works OK for me. The issue, I think, is that you are using an iPhone/iPad - and Apple's WebKit does not support the regex function (from 2018!) that is used to split this up - and installing another browser will not help as they are all forced to use WebKit.

Mind you I only 1 artist in the Track/Details view - so that needs fixing.

[d6jg]

Works OK for me. The issue, I think, is that you are using an iPhone/iPad - and Apple's WebKit does not support the regex function (from 2018!) that is used to split this up - and installing another browser will not help as they are all forced to use WebKit.

Mind you I only 1 artist in the Track/Details view - so that needs fixing.

Ah

[dolodobendan]

I don't know if this is a podcast or a material thing, but the "Search feeds" input field isn't on top of the list but in the list:



Is it supposed to be there?

[kidstypike]

I don't know if this is a podcast or a material thing, but the "Search feeds" input field isn't on top of the list but in the list:

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Is it supposed to be there?

It's in alphabetical order?

[cpd73]

I don't know if this is a podcast or a material thing, but the "Search feeds" input field isn't on top of the list but in the list:

Already reported, by philippe44, and fixed for the next release. You are using LMS8.2 which now has extra podcast features. Pre-LSM8.2 the podcast app only listed podcasts, so Material added A-Z sorting. I've now fixed this so that the actions remain at the top, but the podcasts are still sorted.

Material has its own podcast search, but this will be hidden for LMS8.2 - and I'm thinking of just removing the code.

[dolodobendan]

It's in alphabetical order?

That's exactly what I said when we binge-watched Star Wars the other day and some of the guys started complaining because we started with "Attack of the Clones"...

Already reported, by philippe44, and fixed for the next release. You are using LMS8.2 which now has extra podcast features. Pre-LSM8.2 the podcast app only listed podcasts, so Material added A-Z sorting. I've now fixed this so that the actions remain at the top, but the podcasts are still sorted.

Material has its own podcast search, but this will be hidden for LMS8.2 - and I'm thinking of just removing the code.

Thank you for the explanation. I guess I'm late for the party here, too, but in case I'm not: The "Search feeds" entry also has the "Edit" and "Remove" options (in this three vertical dots menu), which aren't really needed.

As always, thank you, guys.

[slartibartfast]

Already reported, by philippe44, and fixed for the next release. You are using LMS8.2 which now has extra podcast features. Pre-LSM8.2 the podcast app only listed podcasts, so Material added A-Z sorting. I've now fixed this so that the actions remain at the top, but the podcasts are still sorted.

Material has its own podcast search, but this will be hidden for LMS8.2 - and I'm thinking of just removing the code.

This might be something you have already fixed but I can't see a way to subscribe to a podcast found from the new "Search feeds". In the default skin there is an option to subscribe to the feed.

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[cpd73]

This might be something you have already fixed but I can't see a way to subscribe to a podcast found from the new "Search feeds". In the default skin there is an option to subscribe to the feed.

Yes, the next release of Material will allow subscribing, and unsubscribing, from search results as per the default skin - via the 'More' menu.

[cpd73]

2.5.0 Release

Feature release, main changes:

1. Fix text colour of album and track listings in now-playing if using a light theme with coloured toolbars.
2. Disable ripple effects on subtoolbar buttons only.
3. Show menu button, in 'Manage players' dialog, for fixed volume players where volume control is hidden.
4. Minor tweaks for more Material Design 2 appearance.
5. Better support for LM 8.2 podcasts plugin.
6. Try not to show server/player settings page status messages in a toast if these have already been shown in an alert.
7. Fix showing multiple artists, etc, in track details.
8. Remove Material's podcast search facility, as podcast plugin in LMS 8.2 has its own.

[Redrum]

Feature release, main changes:

[*] Remove Material's podcast search facility, as podcast plugin in LMS 8.2 has its own.[/list]

One of my favorite and most used aspects of Material, I found it missing this morning and hence went looking in the forums for a hint as to why...

I'm curious, why remove it so quickly? Sometimes redundancies are good, they allow you to see what you prefer and allow issues with the "new way" to be resolved.

Now, all of us that are pre LMS 8.2 (I'm 8.1.1) have lost this feature and without any indication (like a splash screen the first time a new version of the skin is launched).

Please don't read this as a complaint, I am indebted and appreciative to all on the forum that spend so much time developing for, and supporting this great ecosystem, sincerely. I am just curious, and honest, this isn't "old guy who resists change". I try to avoid that way of thinking

Off to find 8.2.....

Jim

[cpd73]

One of my favorite and most used aspects of Material, I found it missing this morning and hence went looking in the forums for a hint as to why...

Yeah, guess it was a bit premature. Its not a feature I use, and was unaware of its use by others. I guess I could re-add this and remove when 8.2 is actually released.