Announce: Material Skin

[cpd73]

Craig,

could you add a 'More' item to year (song details page/context menu). That way I could access DynamicPlaylist menu items registered for year ('Rated tracks from this year', 'Random tracks from year'...) like I can on pCP. Thank you.

Added to playlists and years for 2.5.1

[Peter Galbavy]

The one thing I keep the no-longer-maintained Orange Squeeze on my phone for is downloads.

Any chance of adding/exposing "download" links for tracks or whole albums (multiple links - not sure how this would even work)? For a single track I would guess this is just changing the metadata for the response, amateur that I am, but not sure if multiple downloads are possible from a web page?

My use case is that all my music goes via my server and LMS is the easiest way of selecting what I want "offline" on my phone.

[cpd73]

The one thing I keep the no-longer-maintained Orange Squeeze on my phone for is downloads.

I had thought about, and did start implementing, downloads support in the Material APK. But it was turning out to be more hassle than it was worth. Perhaps I'll look into this again.

As to download links in the browser - I guess I could make each track downloadable, the issue then is what filename to use. A browser download cannot create folders, so tracks could possibly overwrite each other (e.g. if you have "01. Track.mp3" for 2 different albums). For downloading albums, I'd imagine the best way would be for Material's Perl plugin side to create a ZIP on the fly.

But these would then be downloaded to your 'Downloads' folder - which means you'd have to unzip and then move to your phone's Music folder. Pretty messy. Perhaps something like "AirDroid" would be easier?

[slartibartfast]

I had thought about, and did start implementing, downloads support in the Material APK. But it was turning out to be more hassle than it was worth. Perhaps I'll look into this again.

As to download links in the browser - I guess I could make each track downloadable, the issue then is what filename to use. A browser download cannot create folders, so tracks could possibly overwrite each other (e.g. if you have "01. Track.mp3" for 2 different albums). For downloading albums, I'd imagine the best way would be for Material's Perl plugin side to create a ZIP on the fly.

But these would then be downloaded to your 'Downloads' folder - which means you'd have to unzip and then move to your phone's Music folder. Pretty messy. Perhaps something like "AirDroid" would be easier?

Orange Squeeze also allows transcoding to MP3 when downloading.

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[Peter Galbavy]

It could get complicated and messy, I agree. This is one of those caveat emptor things - my thought, given a lack of directoryt management, would be just to use the underlying track filename.

For multiple files a ZIP may work, but would put extra load on the server I guess. I have never tried this in my own code, but the second answer in this article seems to suggest multiple downloads could work: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...-single-action

I guess for ordinary users there is a hassle to moving things in and out of Downloads but for me anything is better than nothing.

I assume - and this is not important for me - transcoding could be done using the normal streaming system, but how you then correctly name the resulting file... no idea.

[Paul Webster]

Without protection of that downloaded content (eg only allowing playback via a special player and not allowing subsequent unprotected copying) could result in complaints from some content providers.

[slartibartfast]

Without protection of that downloaded content (eg only allowing playback via a special player and not allowing subsequent unprotected copying) could result in complaints from some content providers.

I assumed this was local tracks which anyone could copy to a phone anyway.

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[Peter Galbavy]

I assumed this was local tracks which anyone could copy to a phone anyway.

Correct. This is already content I can transfer via cables from PC, but for easy of use would prefer point-and-drool tools

[SpiderJon]

Playing a specific track in album access via My Music > New Artists adds entire album

Scenario:

Go to My Music > New Artists > [Specific Artist] > [Specific Album]

Click on 'Play Now' icon (or select 'Play Now' from dots menu) for a specific track.

Expected behaviour:

The specific track gets sent to the Playlist and is the only item there.

Actual Behaviour:

The whole album gets sent to the Playlist, with the specific track playing.

[kidstypike]

Scenario:

Go to My Music > New Artists > [Specific Artist] > [Specific Album]

Click on 'Play Now' icon (or select 'Play Now' from dots menu) for a specific track.

Expected behaviour:

The specific track gets sent to the Playlist and is the only item there.

Actual Behaviour:

The whole album gets sent to the Playlist, with the specific track playing.

I don't see a My Music > New Artists, do you mean New Music?

[slartibartfast]

I don't see a My Music > New Artists, do you mean New Music?

I assume he means Artists rather than New Artists. I don't see the same issue. "Play now" plays a single track.

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[kidstypike]

I assume he means Artists rather than New Artists. I don't see the same issue. "Play now" plays a single track.

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Maybe.

Mine's the opposite, it will only play a single track regardless of the setting at Settings > Player > playername > Extra Settings - Play only selected song or Play other songs in album or directory.

[cpd73]

Correct. This is already content I can transfer via cables from PC, but for easy of use would prefer point-and-drool tools

I have an initial implementation, for a future 2.6.0 It downloads tracks as "Album Artist - Album - TrackNo TrackTitle.Ext" Only issue is that with Firefox you have to OK each track! Chrome asks the user to confirm that the site wants to download multiple files.

I'd like to integrate this with the APK, which would create an album folder in Android's Music folder, and also download cover-art. But its a start.

[slartibartfast]

Maybe.

Mine's the opposite, it will only play a single track regardless of the setting at Settings > Player > playername > Extra Settings - Play only selected song or Play other songs in album or directory.

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I have a feeling Material Skin ignores that setting. You can select "Play album starting at track".

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[cpd73]

Mine's the opposite, it will only play a single track regardless of the setting at Settings > Player > playername > Extra Settings - Play only selected song or Play other songs in album or directory.

Material ignores that setting, and always has.