Announce: Material Skin

[Greg Erskine]

By the way, Greg, you are probably aware that the Music Folder view lets you open the cue file, just like a folder, and select individual tracks. But I wanted to be sure others reading this know that, which is my reason for mentioning it here.

Thanks, I didn't know that!

[humax99]

If your music folder organization is good, Mp3tag can use the existing directory and folder structure and names to populate the metadata for you:

https://docs.mp3tag.de/converters/import-tags-from-filenames/

You can select an entire directory and populate the metadata in one pass.

Thank you. I have been using mp3tag. It certainly makes it easier. I always ensure my new additions are correctly tagged but I need to go back through the 200+ albums I have and make it consistent. The worst culprits are the compilation albums!

This discussion had prompted me to start the process!!!

[audiomuze]

Why is Material Skin's search capability not universally available?

Having recently returned to LMS I installed Material Skin and I have to say it gives LMS much needed UI lift and I generally find that LMS with Material Skin does a great job at providing a ubiquitous front-end to my listening experience. However, the one thing I find really jarring is that as soon as I've done a little exploring and then want to access search I have to go looking for it. This happens as soon as you've entered any of the following views or deeper.

Is is just me that finds this to be a strange (and annoying) choice, given the urge to search for something can strike at any time irrespective of where you are in the UI? Would it not be better placed just to the right of the volume controls (if not by default can it be a configurable option)?

Perhaps I've missed something, there a quick/easy way to access search without first having to navigate back to My Music or the submenu behind it?

[Shozzer]

Actually you are only one click away from search no matter how deep you have searched. Just long press the Browse button.

Steve

Having recently returned to LMS I installed Material Skin and I have to say it gives LMS much needed UI lift and I generally find that LMS with Material Skin does a great job at providing a ubiquitous front-end to my listening experience. However, the one thing I find really jarring is that as soon as I've done a little exploring and then want to access search I have to go looking for it. This happens as soon as you've entered any of the following views or deeper.

Is is just me that finds this to be a strange (and annoying) choice, given the urge to search for something can strike at any time irrespective of where you are in the UI? Would it not be better placed just to the right of the volume controls (if not by default can it be a configurable option)?

Perhaps I've missed something, there a quick/easy way to access search without first having to navigate back to My Music or the submenu behind it?

[audiomuze]

Actually you are only one click away from search no matter how deep you have searched. Just long press the Browse button.

Steve

Thanks, which is the Browse button, it the <-- button?

[Shozzer]

Thanks, which is the Browse button, it the <-- button?

[audiomuze]

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That's a mobile/tablet instance. Ona PC the button I pointed to does the same. Thanks, good to know (and definitely useful), but still doesn't explain why the search icon isn't better placed next to the volume slider.

[w3wilkes]

Thanks, which is the Browse button, it the <-- button?

Yes, the back button to My Music. Just long press it, either mouse click on a PC or long press on your touch device.

[DavidBulluss]

Yes, the back button to My Music. Just long press it, either mouse click on a PC or long press on your touch device.

I must be doing something wrong, on my android phone a long press on BROWSE just brings up a browser menu to Download the image etc. What have I missed?

Cheers, David

[slartibartfast]

I must be doing something wrong, on my android phone a long press on BROWSE just brings up a browser menu to Download the image etc. What have I missed?

Cheers, David

You could be long pressing slightly above the browse icon and long pressing an album or artist instead. Try lower or use the "back" icon instead.

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[DavidBulluss]

You could be long pressing slightly above the browse icon and long pressing an album or artist instead. Try lower or use the "back" icon instead.

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Nup, I have tried and tried so carefully but all I get is the browser download menu, a shorter press in the same exact location of course takes me to the menus/folders/c as it should. Will eventually try a different browser and see if that works. I am using Duck Duck Go browser.

Cheers, David

[slartibartfast]

Nup, I have tried and tried so carefully but all I get is the browser download menu, a shorter press in the same exact location of course takes me to the menus/folders/c as it should. Will eventually try a different browser and see if that works. I am using Duck Duck Go browser.

Cheers, David

I was using the Material APK but I just tried using Chrome and it works. Can you show a screenshot of what you see?

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[DavidBulluss]

I was using the Material APK but I just tried using Chrome and it works. Can you show a screenshot of what you see?

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I just tried using Samsung internet app and I had same result, only a different looking browser menu for downloads etc. The Duck Duck Go menu that pops up is below (screencap from mobile phone).



Cheers, David

[slartibartfast]

I just tried using Samsung internet app and I had same result, only a different looking browser menu for downloads etc. The Duck Duck Go menu that pops up is below (screencap from mobile phone).

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Cheers, David

Weird. It is letting you download or open the browse icon.

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[DavidBulluss]

Weird. It is letting you download or open the browse icon.

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The download commenced but was reported as "failed". Opening in a browser window revealed a blank page, screencap below



Cheers, David