Announce: Material Skin

[w3wilkes]

Dumb question... I thought I used to get a jump list down the left side of Album Artists like I get when I select Albums?

[cpd73]

There is a little issue that I am seeing in the Album list view on my Samsung Mobile phone. Using the alphabetical jump list to navigate through albums, things seem out of sync. For example, pressing H takes me to part way through the Gs. Clicking M takes me part way through the Ls.

All I can think is that you are not 'touching' the correct letter. Works fine on my Samsung phone, and as you said works elsewhere (non-touch).

[slartibartfast]

IMHO By and From don"t work well with radio stations.

[slartibartfast]

Craig

Apologies with jumping in with an additional query so soon after the first. With regard to the new display which appends By and From before the track and album titles. Would the display better if the By and From appeared on a separate line? Subjunctive, I know.

Also, when playing Classic FM the album line reads From %1. Other stations I have tried don't seem to have a problem with this so maybe it is just Classic FM's metadata?

Thanks again for all your work. I can only assume it is a labour of love given all the hassle we provide you with!

Steve

It isn't just Classic FM. All the Global Player stations are affected.

[Shozzer]

Craig

Apologies with jumping in with an additional query so soon after the first. With regard to the new display which appends By and From before the track and album titles. Would the display better if the By and From appeared on a separate line? Subjunctive, I know.

Also, when playing Classic FM the album line reads From %1. Other stations I have tried don't seem to have a problem with this so maybe it is just Classic FM's metadata?

Thanks again for all your work. I can only assume it is a labour of love given all the hassle we provide you with!

Steve

[Shozzer]

Hi Craig

There is a little issue that I am seeing in the Album list view on my Samsung Mobile phone. Using the alphabetical jump list to navigate through albums, things seem out of sync. For example, pressing H takes me to part way through the Gs. Clicking M takes me part way through the Ls. You get the picture. Any suggestions how to resolve this? It doesn't seem to be an issue when using the default skin, nor whilst using Material via Squeezelite-X on a PC. This behaviour is apparent when using the List view. If I view using Album view then albums with the selected letter appear somewhere in the top line, if not the very first item, which is fine.

Hope this makes sense!

Thanks.

Steve

[barnyruble]

Gotcha, I overlooked that. Should pay more attention. Thanks and fantastic job on MS. It's been a game changer for me.

[cpd73]

Hello, Ok this might be trivial to a lot of people, but I'm asking anyway. After I do a Rescan Media Library, is it possible to have it tell you the scan is complete? Back when I used the original skin it use too. I mean, it's no biggie, but just wondering.

Material shows a blinking round arrow / clock symbol in its toolbar when a scan is active. When that's not there scan has finished.

[barnyruble]

Hello, Ok this might be trivial to a lot of people, but I'm asking anyway. After I do a Rescan Media Library, is it possible to have it tell you the scan is complete? Back when I used the original skin it use too. I mean, it's no biggie, but just wondering.

[cpd73]

I've been having playlist issues, and they were fixed, but after the most recent Material update, I'm back to square one. Was there anything in the latest Material Skin update that would have blown up my playlists again?

Prior to 3.5.0 Material used the default skin's "Items per page" setting to configure the batch size for reading playlists. For 3.5.0 I added a Material specific config item instead. Perhaps you need to change this setting? You can find it in Material's server side settings.

I should have mentioned this in the change log, but it appears I forgot.

[Fahzz]

Craig:

I've been having playlist issues, and they were fixed, but after the most recent Material update, I'm back to square one. Was there anything in the latest Material Skin update that would have blown up my playlists again? See my posts in:

Slow playlist loading

Started by slartibartfast, 2023-09-02, 07:13 in Logitech Media Server

Thanks.

[cpd73]

The Now Playing screen is inconsistent with how the other pages deal with rounding the album art.

The now-playing is not clipping the cover-art, whereas the queue is - i.e. the queue is making it square. I'll change the queue to behave as per now-playing. i.e. square area, default background, and add image into it.

Would you consider an option to turn off the drop shadow?

No. Too many config items as is, and I will not make every last bit configurable.

[artatgray]

The Now Playing screen is inconsistent with how the other pages deal with rounding the album art. My preference would how the Album screen displays it.




How other pages are displaying it:





Would you consider an option to turn off the drop shadow? It doesn't adhere to contemporary design standards which display the album art flat against the background.
An example of a contemporary Now Playing display:




Regards,
Bill

[SamY]

By the way, a RG value of 0 is valid and should be displayed (e g. 0dB), unlike the bit rate and sampling info.

I need to clarify the above statement. In the Browse view, if the Replay Gain tag exists for a song, the value should be displayed even if it is 0dB. However, in the Now playing view, there is currently no way to distinguish between a value of 0 due to Replay Gain being turned off or an actual tag value of 0 for the song. In that case, a value of 0 should be suppressed in the display for the sake of readability. In the future, it might be helpful to add a special value to be returned in the status query to indicate that Replay Gain is turned off so that a RG value of 0dB can be properly displayed.

[IanHaynes]

I'm sorry, not thinking clearly. I was using browser 'view source' rather than dev tools.