Announce: Material Skin

[Neil Hunt]

On Material's server-side settings (accessed from Settings -> Server -> Material Skin) you can set a password which will then cause Material to hide the server settings, alarms, and other settings,

[stupid question removed]

[manx]

start playlist at track x

Would it be possible to implement a 'Play playlist starting at track' option similar to the 'Play album starting at track' option available for tracks within albums? I was thinking, fancifully perhaps and without any real knowledge of what's involved, that it could apply to playlists as it does to albums 😬

[cpd73]

Would it be possible to implement a 'Play playlist starting at track' option similar to the 'Play album starting at track' option available for tracks within albums? I was thinking, fancifully perhaps and without any real knowledge of what's involved, that it could apply to playlists as it does to albums 😬

...makes sense, implemented for next release.

[manx]

...makes sense, implemented for next release.

Wow, you're too good. Thank you

[cpd73]

3.0.0 Release

Feature release, main changes:

1. Re-designed bottom now-playing bar for desktop layout.
2. Hide desktop bottom now-playing bar when no track.
3. Add 'Party' mode where certain actions are hidden. Activate via "?party" URL query parameter, or set default skin to "Material Skin (Party)"
4. When listing Spotty albums attempt to extract year from "favorites_title"
5. Remove options; menu icons, always show track menu, launch player.
6. Place 'Cancel', etc., buttons on the right for Windows, or if 'altBtnLayout' (or 'altBtnLayout=true') is passed as a URL parameter.
7. Add 'Descending' to album sorts.
8. Show icons in navigation menu.
9. Default to 'Breeze-dark' if 'desktop=KDE' is passed as URL query parameter.
10. Add 'Play starting at track' action for playlists.
11. Add 'Show image' action to browse and queue context menus.

[Apesbrain]

^ Thanks!

"Re-designed bottom now-playing bar for desktop layout."

Can you describe what changes were made?

[kidstypike]

Feature release, main changes:

1. Re-designed bottom now-playing bar for desktop layout.
2. Hide desktop bottom now-playing bar when no track.
3. Add 'Party' mode where certain actions are hidden. Activate via "?party" URL query parameter, or set default skin to "Material Skin (Party)"
4. When listing Spotty albums attempt to extract year from "favorites_title"
5. Remove options; menu icons, always show track menu, launch player.
6. Place 'Cancel', etc., buttons on the right for Windows, or if 'altBtnLayout' (or 'altBtnLayout=true') is passed as a URL parameter.
7. Add 'Descending' to album sorts.
8. Show icons in navigation menu.
9. Default to 'Breeze-dark' if 'desktop=KDE' is passed as URL query parameter.
10. Add 'Play starting at track' action for playlists.
11. Add 'Show image' action to browse and queue context menus.

Thanks Craig

Shuffle appears to be broken using a Windows browser and also using Squeezelite-X.

[cpd73]

Shuffle appears to be broken using a Windows browser and also using Squeezelite-X.

Oops! Yeah, broken - but only in queue page, should work in now playing. Will fix.

[cpd73]

APK 0.3.0 Release

Changes:

1. When adding a URL via Android's share system, show a dialog asking which player to share to and add buttons for play, add, or insert.
2. Add option to auto-discover servers when connection is lost (enabled by default).

[slartibartfast]

Feature release, main changes:

1. Re-designed bottom now-playing bar for desktop layout.
2. Hide desktop bottom now-playing bar when no track.
3. Add 'Party' mode where certain actions are hidden. Activate via "?party" URL query parameter, or set default skin to "Material Skin (Party)"
4. When listing Spotty albums attempt to extract year from "favorites_title"
5. Remove options; menu icons, always show track menu, launch player.
6. Place 'Cancel', etc., buttons on the right for Windows, or if 'altBtnLayout' (or 'altBtnLayout=true') is passed as a URL parameter.
7. Add 'Descending' to album sorts.
8. Show icons in navigation menu.
9. Default to 'Breeze-dark' if 'desktop=KDE' is passed as URL query parameter.
10. Add 'Play starting at track' action for playlists.
11. Add 'Show image' action to browse and queue context menus.

Is there a way to access "Party" mode using the APK?

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[cpd73]

Is there a way to access "Party" mode using the APK?

No. The APK is hard-coded to access "SERVER:9000/material/" - so that Material does not need to be the default skin. To use party mode you need to either a) set "Material Party" as the default skin, or access via "SERVER:9000/materialparty" The whole idea of party mode is that you would set "Material Party" as the default skin, and then your guests would just need to access "SERVER:9000" on their browser without needing to install an app.

[slartibartfast]

In Party mode the Radio and Favourites menus are removed but Apps remain. Radio Paradise is removed from apps but TuneIn Radio remains. Is that an oversight?

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[The Groundsman]

Thanks

Changes:

1. When adding a URL via Android's share system, show a dialog asking which player to share to and add buttons for play, add, or insert.
2. Add option to auto-discover servers when connection is lost (enabled by default).

Thank you for all the new stuff.

[Redrum]

Multiple Players and power toggle

Hi Craig;

I noticed an irregularity with regard to multiple players and power on/off states/indicators. I can do some more testing to try to create the exact steps to duplicate, but thought I would post what I am seeing and where I think material (LMS?) gets mixed up (or maybe it's me/my setup).

This is on a pc, I have not tried the android apk, but will.

Basically, with multiple players and the power on/off icons (both in current player and pull down), I am able to get a mismatch of the power state between the icons (both @ player and pulldown), the icon hover text, and the player itself. I should note that I never saw this until I enabled the option to replace the player icon with the power icon next to the player name. Late edit - I just tried with power icon at player turned off, issue still exists.

consider this picture:



1) I start with both the touch and boom on - everything is correct.
2) If I have the boom as the active player, I am able to toggle the power both at the top level, and, through the icon on the pull down. The hovers remain correct, the player states change correctly.
3) If I then choose the touch as the active player, but pull down (with touch highlighted/active as shown), but toggle the boom power icon (in the pull down), it does power off the boom itself, but the icon remains illuminated, and the hover still suggests to "turn off"
4) If I then continue (by clicking on the selected touch), then pull down again (touch is active player), the icon and hover are correct (off, and suggest to turn on)
5) While pulled down with touch as active player (again), and click the power icon on the boom on the pull down, the boom does turn on, but the icon remains dim.
6) Select the boom from the menu, and the icon next to the player is correct.

I have done alot more playing around (not documented) where the icon and the hover can mismatch (icon indicates "on", hover says "turn on"). Also, note that with radio and boom, I may have used the physical button on the player itself.

I also should note that "now playing" is affected. It seems like now playing follows the icon state, not the player. That is, the player can be on and playing, but if the icon is wrong (off) now playing is not active/incorrect.

I guess to summarize, using the power icon in the pull down in material for player B, when another player A is active, seems to work, but not display the result properly. Now Playing is also wrong. If B were active and you change B, everything is fine.

Its also no big deal because it seems like it can be corrected just by selecting player B as active. I am not trying to create work for you, just something i noticed.

Jim

[slartibartfast]

Hi Craig;

I noticed an irregularity with regard to multiple players and power on/off states/indicators. I can do some more testing to try to create the exact steps to duplicate, but thought I would post what I am seeing and where I think material (LMS?) gets mixed up (or maybe it's me/my setup).

This is on a pc, I have not tried the android apk, but will.

Basically, with multiple players and the power on/off icons (both in current player and pull down), I am able to get a mismatch of the power state between the icons (both @ player and pulldown), the icon hover text, and the player itself. I should note that I never saw this until I enabled the option to replace the player icon with the power icon next to the player name. Late edit - I just tried with power icon at player turned off, issue still exists.

consider this picture:

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1) I start with both the touch and boom on - everything is correct.
2) If I have the boom as the active player, I am able to toggle the power both at the top level, and, through the icon on the pull down. The hovers remain correct, the player states change correctly.
3) If I then choose the touch as the active player, but pull down (with touch highlighted/active as shown), but toggle the boom power icon (in the pull down), it does power off the boom itself, but the icon remains illuminated, and the hover still suggests to "turn off"
4) If I then continue (by clicking on the selected touch), then pull down again (touch is active player), the icon and hover are correct (off, and suggest to turn on)
5) While pulled down with touch as active player (again), and click the power icon on the boom on the pull down, the boom does turn on, but the icon remains dim.
6) Select the boom from the menu, and the icon next to the player is correct.

I have done alot more playing around (not documented) where the icon and the hover can mismatch (icon indicates "on", hover says "turn on"). Also, note that with radio and boom, I may have used the physical button on the player itself.

I also should note that "now playing" is affected. It seems like now playing follows the icon state, not the player. That is, the player can be on and playing, but if the icon is wrong (off) now playing is not active/incorrect.

I guess to summarize, using the power icon in the pull down in material for player B, when another player A is active, seems to work, but not display the result properly. Now Playing is also wrong. If B were active and you change B, everything is fine.

Its also no big deal because it seems like it can be corrected just by selecting player B as active. I am not trying to create work for you, just something i noticed.

Jim

I just did a quick check using the APK on Android and don't appear to see this behaviour. The power button toggles on and off with the player regardless of which player is selected.

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