Announce: Material Skin

[cpd73]

> issues getting LMS running on my new dev laptop with Fedora 36 (missing
> perl libraries)

Are you running 32 bit? What Perl version is it using?

Don't think Fedora supports 32-bit anymore. Don't have the laptop with me at the momeent, pretty sure its perl 34. Tried to install the RPM and it failed stating perl was not installed - which is odd becase it was. I usually just use the tarball, as I install and use locally. Not a mssive issue, as it seems to fail with each Fedora release - I just need to spend time either rebuilding slimserver-vendor (?) or finding the relevant perl packages...

[sveninndh]

Album View - Genre disappears

I'll report when I know more.

I wrote that I found something to fix the display problem for me.
Unfortunately, it is more of a workaround that could probably cause problems elsewhere with other clients.

I have now once again constructed a reproducible case that shows that there must still be a problem somewhere.

I downloaded and installed the latest versions of Material Skin and the Qobuz Plugin from github this morning.
All fixes of the last few days are already included.

After restarting the LMS and deleting the browser cache, the process is as follows:

1.) Qobuz Search - Blue Train
2.) Select albums



3.) Select album 'Blue Train'
4.) all data lines are displayed correctly, including the line 'Genre: Jazz'



5.) Now select the description, it will be displayed correctly.



6.) Select 'Go Back', now suddenly the line 'Genre: Jazz' is disappeared.
This remains so even after display of e.g. copyright or others details.



If you look at the whole thing in the browser console, you will notice that after 'Go back' nothing happens in the console.
The view must therefore have come from a cache, unfortunately not completely.

Here is the log with /?debug=json of the above steps:

Blue train - Album View - Genre disappears.log

HTH

[cpd73]

Unfortunately, it is more of a workaround that could probably cause problems elsewhere with other clients.

I don't think you should make any changes to the Qobuz plugin, this is clearly a Material issue.

If you look at the whole thing in the browser console, you will notice that after 'Go back' nothing happens in the console.
The view must therefore have come from a cache, unfortunately not completely.

When you 'go back' Material should (unless LMS's response indicates the 'parent' needs a refresh) just reload the display from the previous list (which is held in memory).

[RobbH]

....6.) Select 'Go Back', now suddenly the line 'Genre: Jazz' is disappeared.

Confirmed.

[gitasse]

Search fields validation issue in Youtube Plugin

Hello Everybody,

I experienced a strange behaviour of the LMS+Youtube Plugin last days, everything works well before: In fact, on an Android devices - tested on my phone and pad- I cannot validate anyone of the search lines in the plugin by pressing the "enter button" of the virtual keypad. If I validate the search with this button, the cursor goes to the next lines but not launch the search.
Only the last search field can be validated and launch the Youtube request , only if it contains something.

So at the end, the plugin becomes unable to use,

I use LMS 8.2.0 / Youtube Plugin v0.144.1 through the Material skin interface (v2.9.4); all is installed on a RPi4.

I feel that it is not coming from the Youtube plugin itself but from the interface, because if I go back in the "Default" or "Classic" interface, the plugin works as expected on Android devices, all fields can be validated individually. I tried also with SqueezeliteX on a PC and that works perfectly if I fill a field and hit "Enter" on the keyboard

So, anyone has experienced also that issue?
Do you have an idea where come from this issue and how I can solve it?

Thanks,

(Sorry for my poor level in English... I'm French! )

[cpd73]

on an Android devices - tested on my phone and pad- I cannot validate anyone of the search lines in the plugin by pressing the "enter button" of the virtual keypad. If I validate the search with this button, the cursor goes to the next lines but not launch the search.

Yeah, I noticed your post in the YouTube thread last night. I'm guessing a change has been made to the Chrome engine (which even the APK uses via WebView) so that if a page has multiple text fields all bar the last show a "tab" button and not an "enter" button. Material waits for a "key up" event on the enter button before it starts a search. I tried also looking for "key up" on "tab", but this did not seem to work. I'll investigate more later, and have raised an issue on Material's github page so this is not forgotten - https://github.com/CDrummond/lms-material/issues/590

It might be that I add a button to the right of the search field to start the search - not as nice but would at least work.

(Sorry for my poor level in English... I'm French! )

Please, no need to appologise. Your English is 10000000000 times better than my French!

[slartibartfast]

Yeah, I noticed your post in the YouTube thread last night. I'm guessing a change has been made to the Chrome engine (which even the APK uses via WebView) so that if a page has multiple text fields all bar the last show a "tab" button and not an "enter" button. Material waits for a "key up" event on the enter button before it starts a search. I tried also looking for "key up" on "tab", but this did not seem to work. I'll investigate more later, and have raised an issue on Material's github page so this is not forgotten - https://github.com/CDrummond/lms-material/issues/590

It might be that I add a button to the right of the search field to start the search - not as nice but would at least work.



Please, no need to appologise. Your English is 10000000000 times better than my French!

FYI, same issue with TIDAL.

Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

[cpd73]

In fact, on an Android devices - tested on my phone and pad- I cannot validate anyone of the search lines in the plugin by pressing the "enter button" of the virtual keypad. If I validate the search with this button, the cursor goes to the next lines but not launch the search.

As stated, this is an Android/WebView change. When multiple text fields are shown the Android virtual keyboard has a "next entry" button and not an "enter" button. Unfortunately this button does not emit any events for Javscript to catch, so cannot tell it has been pressed!

For the next release Material will:

1. Half a second after the last entry into a search field will cause the search to be auto-started. This is similar to how the seatrch in "My Music" works
2. If there is only 1 entry field, then the virtual keyboard will show the "enter" button and this will work as before

This should work-around the issue.

[cpd73]

I have now once again constructed a reproducible case that shows that there must still be a problem somewhere.

I very much doubt this is fixed, but I've made some slight adjustments to how these text items are shown - can you update your git checkout, clear browser case, and check if issue still persists. It probably does, but would just like confirmation. Thanks.

[sveninndh]

I very much doubt this is fixed, but I've made some slight adjustments to how these text items are shown - can you update your git checkout, clear browser case, and check if issue still persists. It probably does, but would just like confirmation. Thanks.

As you suspected, no noticeable changes.

[w3wilkes]

Enhancement Request

Would it be possible to get a little more granularity in the Interface settings. As it is now if I turn off "Show Artwork" it shuts off for both the left and right columns. Would it be possible to just shut off artwork for the right column (Outlined in red) in this display (I believe it's the Queue display) and leave the artwork displayed in the left column when in list view?

[sveninndh]

Restart Server Comand?

Material has the handy function of restarting the LMS. However, you need a lot of mouse clicks and mouse movements until you can finally start the restart.

Is there perhaps a command that can be given when calling up the material page and material then first restarts without asking before the material skin is then displayed?

for example:

http://SERVER:9000/material/?command=restartserver

If not, is it possible to easily implement this?

[cpd73]

Would it be possible to get a little more granularity in the Interface settings. As it is now if I turn off "Show Artwork" it shuts off for both the left and right columns. Would it be possible to just shut off artwork for the right column (Outlined in red) in this display (I believe it's the Queue display) and leave the artwork displayed in the left column when in list view?

To be honest, I'm not 100% sure I really see the use case for this - but I'll give it some thought. Not for the next release though.

[cpd73]

Material has the handy function of restarting the LMS. However, you need a lot of mouse clicks and mouse movements until you can finally start the restart.

This is not something I think belongs in the skin, just make a JSONRPC call.

[sveninndh]

This is not something I think belongs in the skin, just make a JSONRPC call.

Can you please tell me the JSONRPC call? Unfortunately I'm not familiar with it.
Thank you very much.