Announce: Material Skin

[cpd73]

this version of Material is fine. Search-->Album-->Tracklist works like it used to do.

Thanks for the confirmation. I'll release an update soon.

[allwi]

Hi cpd73,

many thanks for version 2.10.4. I can confirm that the 'all songs' menu of an artist now only shows the songs from the selected virtual library

However, setting a rating (yes ratings again ) via the MORE information (in the side bar) is not working anymore. In the pervious version, 2.10.3, I can select a song from the queue, select MORE and then set the rating.

This is quite handy when I was not quick enough (or couldn't decide on the rating) when the song was playing.
Can you please enable this again in a future version?

[SamY]

Thanks for the confirmation. I'll release an update soon.

I've been away from this thread for a few days but can verify that this problem is recreatable for me with v2.10.4 also. I will update to the test version and verify the fix. I still think that my LMS change was a better way to take care of the 'browseonlineartist' issue. Hopefully the workaround in Material won't manifest any further problems.

[SamY]

I've been away from this thread for a few days but can verify that this problem is recreatable for me with v2.10.4 also. I will update to the test version and verify the fix. I still think that my LMS change was a better way to take care of the 'browseonlineartist' issue. Hopefully the workaround in Material won't manifest any further problems.

Problem no longer happens with the latest 'master' version.

[SamY]

Transfer Queue

Possibly my favorite Material feature is "Transfer queue". It's great for bringing the music with me to another room with just a click. However, I am having one problem with it and, of course, it only happens when playing content from Qobuz. (Sorry, Craig...) When I transfer the queue (in this case, a Qobuz album) to a new player, the music immediately starts right where where it left off. But when the current song ends, it repeats. And repeats. And repeats, as though "repeat track" is selected (it isn't) or it has the hiccups. I have to manually go the queue and slap it on the back by hitting the next song button. From then on, it proceeds through the queue as expected. I know you don't have a streaming service to test with but the problem is easily recreatable for me as it occurs every time. Let me know what sort of debug info would be helpful. Thanks.

[cpd73]

Possibly my favorite Material feature is "Transfer queue". It's great for bringing the music with me to another room with just a click. However, I am having one problem with it and, of course, it only happens when playing content from Qobuz. (Sorry, Craig...) When I transfer the queue (in this case, a Qobuz album) to a new player, the music immediately starts right where where it left off. But when the current song ends, it repeats. And repeats. And repeats, as though "repeat track" is selected (it isn't) or it has the hiccups. I have to manually go the queue and slap it on the back by hitting the next song button. From then on, it proceeds through the queue as expected. I know you don't have a streaming service to test with but the problem is easily recreatable for me as it occurs every time. Let me know what sort of debug info would be helpful. Thanks.

Are you moving, copying, or swapping? If its moving or copying can you please try the 'Music Walk With Me' plugin. Does that have the same issue? As Material's code for this is based upon that. Either way if it works for local files, but streaming has an issue, then sounds like this might be an issue with the streaming plugin.

[cpd73]

However, setting a rating (yes ratings again ) via the MORE information (in the side bar) is not working anymore.

Yea, this is caused by the same change that broke the Qobuz search, etc. Will be fixed in 2.10.5 which I will release soon.

[d6jg]

Possibly my favorite Material feature is "Transfer queue". It's great for bringing the music with me to another room with just a click. However, I am having one problem with it and, of course, it only happens when playing content from Qobuz. (Sorry, Craig...) When I transfer the queue (in this case, a Qobuz album) to a new player, the music immediately starts right where where it left off. But when the current song ends, it repeats. And repeats. And repeats, as though "repeat track" is selected (it isn't) or it has the hiccups. I have to manually go the queue and slap it on the back by hitting the next song button. From then on, it proceeds through the queue as expected. I know you don't have a streaming service to test with but the problem is easily recreatable for me as it occurs every time. Let me know what sort of debug info would be helpful. Thanks.

This also sometimes happens when you pause a Quboz playlist and return to it later. The track you are playing repeats over and over. Not a Material issue though.

[jophill]

Possibly my favorite Material feature is "Transfer queue". It's great for bringing the music with me to another room with just a click. However, I am having one problem with it and, of course, it only happens when playing content from Qobuz. (Sorry, Craig...) When I transfer the queue (in this case, a Qobuz album) to a new player, the music immediately starts right where where it left off. But when the current song ends, it repeats. And repeats. And repeats, as though "repeat track" is selected (it isn't) or it has the hiccups. I have to manually go the queue and slap it on the back by hitting the next song button. From then on, it proceeds through the queue as expected. I know you don't have a streaming service to test with but the problem is easily recreatable for me as it occurs every time. Let me know what sort of debug info would be helpful. ...

This happens to me reproducibly in specific circumstances using the default skin, so it's probably not related to the Material skin.

Do you by any chance have LMS > Settings > Advanced > Network > Streaming mode ... set to "Persistent ..."? I can reproduce the effect consistently when I use that setting (to get rid of occasional Qobuz track skips); but so far it does not happen when this is set to "Cache ..." (which also gets rid of the track skips).

[cpd73]

2.10.5 Release

Bug fix release, changes:

1. When saving SlimBrowse parameters, for future list calls, only save those whose key ends with "_id"

[allwi]

Yea, this is caused by the same change that broke the Qobuz search, etc. Will be fixed in 2.10.5 which I will release soon.

Awesome!! v2.10.5 is working beautifully
Many thanks

[SamY]

Do you by any chance have LMS > Settings > Advanced > Network > Streaming mode ... set to "Persistent ..."? I can reproduce the effect consistently when I use that setting (to get rid of occasional Qobuz track skips); but so far it does not happen when this is set to "Cache ..." (which also gets rid of the track skips).

Bingo!!! Thanks for the tip, @jophill. I had set Streaming Mode to 'Persistent' awhile back, which fixed a problem I was having with podcasts dropping connection after 25 minutes. Switching it to 'Cached' took care of this issue with the transfer queue. I will now go back and make sure it doesn't reintroduce the podcast problem, which I don't think it will. Thanks for your help, and my apologies to Craig for not researching the issue sufficiently before posting here.

[Mikydep]

Hi friends, I don't know if this is the right place to comment it...but is it possible to add in the "Expand Now Playing" view of Material Skin, the artist logo plugin from Fanart.tv site?

I've seen it in Emby web player and it's very elegant.

Thanks

[unworthypapalazaru]

Hi folks.

I have recently hoped to re-purposed an old iPad Mini 1 running iOS 9.3.5 - I wanted to use it as a screen for displaying album art/track details for music I listen to through my raspberry pi/LMS using Material Skin. I had planned on using either the safari or chrome browser to navigate to the IP:9000.

Unfortunately when I got set up I could see that material skin could not load on either browser. Both browsers are pretty old and IÂ’m unable to update them. I checked this along side my more up to date iPad Pro, and all was working as expected, so it was a browser issue on the old mini.

In an attempt to find a workaround I did a jailbreak on the iPad mini, hoping I could find a way to get it working, but no luck so far.

Finally, I decided to run the default skin to see if that worked the old mini, andÂ… it did. So that was successfully, but itÂ’s no where near as good as Material skin visually.

Can anyone here suggest a workaround or a tweak that would get Material skin loading on an old browser??

Thanks for any help.

[Paul Webster]

Perhaps try this alternative "Ultralight" skin

https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?115659-Ultralight-LMS-skin-v0-5-0-released