Announce: Material Skin

[RobbH]

I think the Network Error occurs before clicking on anything in the dropdown menu. It appears as soon as the menu opens. Does that make any difference?

Sorry, that was incorrect. I just checked. The first Network Error does not occur until a menu item is clicked on.

[hopkins]

Hi,

I have what seems to be a small bug to report.
When adding the parameter $HOST to a weblink in the action.json file, the target link is added to the current location. For example:

{
"album":[
{
"title":"Album details",
"weblink":"$HOST:5000/LMSalbum#$ALBUMID#$ID"
}
],
"track":[
{
"title":"Album details",
"weblink":"$HOST:5000/LMSalbum#$ALBUMID#$ID"
}
],
"system":[
{
"title":"Player",
"weblink":"$HOST:5000/LMSplaylist#$NAME#$ID"
}
]
}

The first two actions work, but the last one results in this adress (concatanation of the material adress + target): "http://192.168.1.177:9001/material/192.168.1.177:5000/LMSplaylist"

Problem solved. I had left a comma after the last square bracket.

[cpd73]

Thanks for creating such a great interface. I do have a suggestion that I hope you can consider. I often put useful/interesting information in the "Comment" tag of a track (e.g., liner notes, concert info, etc.), but the Comment tag isn't shown in the track information screen. E.g., the following shows the Artist, Year, Genre, and Source but not the comment

Implemented for a future 2.10.0 release.

Likewise, this information screen mentions the comment but doesn't show its value like it does for Artist, Genre, Year, and Rating.

These menus are generated by LMS. If you click on the "Comment" line it will display the comment itself.

[cpd73]

APK 0.2.1 Release

Been almost a year since the last release, and only minor changes:

1. Don't use WebView's app cache - deprecated.
2. Disable webview scrollbars.
3. Tell MaterialSkin to not embed PDF files, and use intent to open these with phone's PDF viewer. Requires skin version 2.10.0, or later.

The PDF fix also requires a change in the skin, which will be in its next release. You download the APK from GitHub, or wait for it to be updated on f-droid (which is the recommended route).

[mr-b]

Great, tx for the update.

It triggered my Android Avast mobile security app though with this:



I wish these security providers would replace cryptic error messages with something that most folks could understand.
Also a search reveals that it's likely because the APK has not been published on Google Play store i.e. a type of whitelist function, rather than it being "reported as a suspicious file" which has rather a different (blacklist) connotation!

Either way, I think I can breathe easy. ;-)

E2A: I checked with other vendors and it's fine:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/7f5ba5755d137ef5f144a6b866ae6229bb463ceba9cda2114bcca8d34791a39c?nocache=1

I also submitted it as a false positive.

[bwaldron]

Implemented for a future 2.10.0 release.

Thanks for this. I've installed 2.10 from github and have set "Show comment in info view" to Yes in settings -- but I am not seeing Comment being displayed (for tracks where the tag exists).

[cpd73]

Thanks for this. I've installed 2.10 from github and have set "Show comment in info view" to Yes in settings -- but I am not seeing Comment being displayed (for tracks where the tag exists).

Should be resolved now.

[bwaldron]

Should be resolved now.

It certainly is. Thanks again!

[Shozzer]

Bookmarks

Hi Craig

I have come across an issue whilst using the Bookmarks plugin. Having selected a bookmark to play Material no longer offers a Back button to come entirely out of the plugin. The only option is to type some spurious txt in the search bar at the top and then exit from that. The following picture hopefully shows what I mean.

Thanks

Steve

[cpd73]

Hi Craig

I have come across an issue whilst using the Bookmarks plugin. Having selected a bookmark to play Material no longer offers a Back button to come entirely out of the plugin. The only option is to type some spurious txt in the search bar at the top and then exit from that. The following picture hopefully shows what I mean.

Thanks

Steve

Confirmed, fixed for next release.

[slartibartfast]

Been almost a year since the last release, and only minor changes:

1. Don't use WebView's app cache - deprecated.
2. Disable webview scrollbars.
3. Tell MaterialSkin to not embed PDF files, and use intent to open these with phone's PDF viewer. Requires skin version 2.10.0, or later.

The PDF fix also requires a change in the skin, which will be in its next release. You download the APK from GitHub, or wait for it to be updated on f-droid (which is the recommended route).

How long does it normally take f-droid to offer the update?

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[cpd73]

How long does it normally take f-droid to offer the update?

No idea, a week or two? AFAIK they have a script that monitors repos for release tags, and then create a build from that.

[mps]

Implemented for a future 2.10.0 release.

Thank you. Much appreciated!

These menus are generated by LMS. If you click on the "Comment" line it will display the comment itself.

I'm not sure I understand this because the web interface does what I am looking for (displaying the comment without needing to click anything) but Material Skin does not. Would it be possible for Material skin to behave like the web interface does in this respect?


Thanks for your consideration,
Mike

[cpd73]

I'm not sure I understand this because the web interface does what I am looking for (displaying the comment without needing to click anything) but Material Skin does not.

MaterialSkin != DefaultSkin. A different API is used. All Material can do is show the info supplied by LMS. Try Squeezer, SqueezeCtrl, or iPeng, and you should see the same,

[justjason]

I am not sure where the correct place to ask this question is, so please let me know if I should ask this elsewhere.
I would like to use the IR Blaster plugin with my SB Touch. After installing it , I was greeted with a blank plugin page. Only after I changed from Material Skin to Default Skin was the plugin page visible. Is this something on the Material skin side or on the plugin side, and can that be resolved ?
I am running:
LMS Version: 8.3.0 - 1655802730
Material Skin 2.9.8
IR-Blaster 6.2.2