Announce: Material Skin

[whitman]

Is there a way to omit cover art (or the cover art placeholder) in the Expanded Now Playing view? What I want is just the track-info text, bigger, ideally filling the space available.

[cpd73]

Is there a way to omit cover art (or the cover art placeholder) in the Expanded Now Playing view? What I want is just the track-info text, bigger, ideally filling the space available.

No, not without writing some css

[whitman]

OK, cpd. I guess "css" is some sort of coding, and so I assume it's not going to happen if only one user wants it!

[tfec]

What I want is just the track-info text, bigger, ideally filling the space available.

OK, cpd. I guess "css" is some sort of coding, and so I assume it's not going to happen if only one user wants it!

For which end device should the change be?
Do you have access to the "prefs/plugin" folder in the LMS install location?
Are you using portrait- or landscape-mode?

[whitman]

For which end device should the change be?
Do you have access to the "prefs/plugin" folder in the LMS install location?
Are you using portrait- or landscape-mode?

The end device is an iPad, I have access to the LMS install location, though I'm not sure what you mean by the 'prefs/plugin' folder, and I would be using the iPad in landscape mode.

[tfec]

The end device is an iPad, I have access to the LMS install location, though I'm not sure what you mean by the 'prefs/plugin' folder, and I would be using the iPad in landscape mode.

OK. cpd73 has made a way to inject personal CSS into his Material Skin:

What I propose is to allow reading of custom CSS files from within the "prefs/plugin" folder in the LMS install location. e.g. "prefs/plugin/material-skin.desktop.css", "prefs/plugin/material-skin.mini.css", "prefs/plugin/material-skin.mobile.css", and "prefs/plugin/material-skin.now-playing.css" - this allows separate modifications for all 4 main HTML files. These should persist across Material updates.

Please find or make the file prefs/plugin/material-skin.now-playing.css and put the following lines at the end of that file:

img[lazy='loaded'].np-image-desktop, img[lazy='loaded'].np-image-landscape, img[lazy='loaded'].np-image {display: none;}
.np-details-landscape {width: 100vw;}
.np-controls-wide {width: calc(100vw - 16px);}
.np-portrait-song-info {height: auto; top: (var(--main-toolbar-height));}

If this doesn't work, try it with the file prefs/plugin/material-skin.desktop.css or one of the other files mentioned by cpd73

[castalla]

I have a query about the now playing display.

Most Audiobook / podcast players show specialised rewind/advance buttons (30 secs.).

Would it be possible to use this convention on the now playing screen? Maybe detecting that an mp3 file is an Audiobook from the genre tag?

Just a suggestion....
Thanks.

[whitman]

OK. cpd73 has made a way to inject personal CSS into his Material Skin:

Please find or make the file prefs/plugin/material-skin.now-playing.css and put the following lines at the end of that file:

img[lazy='loaded'].np-image-desktop, img[lazy='loaded'].np-image-landscape, img[lazy='loaded'].np-image {display: none;}
.np-details-landscape {width: 100vw;}
.np-controls-wide {width: calc(100vw - 16px);}
.np-portrait-song-info {height: auto; top: (var(--main-toolbar-height));}

If this doesn't work, try it with the file prefs/plugin/material-skin.desktop.css or one of the other files mentioned by cpd73

Tfec, I've looked in all the obvious Squeezebox cache, prefs, and plugin folders on my host Mac, and I can't see any Material Skin .css files. In fact the only MS file I can see in those folders is one called material-skin.prefs, which is a text file beginning "_ts_artistFirst: 1612439599 ... ".

[Shozzer]

You can configure the back and forward buttons for all audio using hard press. You need to go to Interface Settings and scroll down to the Now Playing section. You can select either 5, 10, 15 or 30 seconds intervals.

Steve

I have a query about the now playing display.

Most Audiobook / podcast players show specialised rewind/advance buttons (30 secs.).

Would it be possible to use this convention on the now playing screen? Maybe detecting that an mp3 file is an Audiobook from the genre tag?

Just a suggestion....
Thanks.

[castalla]

You can configure the back and forward buttons for all audio using hard press. You need to go to Interface Settings and scroll down to the Now Playing section. You can select either 5, 10, 15 or 30 seconds intervals.

Steve

Thanks.

[d6jg]

Although I don’t have any real use for it I thought I’d give the new Download feature a try on my iPhone.

It works in part.

I can download a single track but the screen is then stuck on a page that shows the download. I have to close and reopen Material to clear it.

I can’t download a whole album though. I get prompted asking whether I want to download X tracks but only one downloads and again Material gets stuck on screen that shows the one successful download.

I downloaded to a Foobar2000 folder and the tracks do appear and play within Foobar2000.

I’m just reporting this for others sake. I’m not bothered at all.

[cpd73]

I can download a single track but the screen is then stuck on a page that shows the download.

What page is that? AFAIK, the browser should prompt the user to confirm if they want to download, but Material's view should not change.

Anyhow, I should probably just disable this for iOS.

[d6jg]

What page is that? AFAIK, the browser should prompt the user to confirm if they want to download, but Material's view should not change.

Anyhow, I should probably just disable this for iOS.

I’ll post a screenshot tomorrow.

[d6jg]

Here is the screenshot

This is after Yes to downloading all tracks from album.

As you can see it refers to "FLAC Player" but after uninstalling that it refers to VLC instead so seems it just picks up a compatible player app on iPhone.

I click More and then navigate to Foobar 2000 folder. It downloads the ONE track but stays on this screen.

Material must be closed and reopened to free it up.




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[cpd73]

As you can see it refers to "FLAC Player" but after uninstalling that it refers to VLC instead so seems it just picks up a compatible player app on iPhone.

I click More and then navigate to Foobar 2000 folder. It downloads the ONE track but stays on this screen.

Material must be closed and reopened to free it up.

Wow, that's pretty bad. However, I've disabled download on ios for next release.