Announce: Material Skin

[kidstypike]

How do I play a radio URL with Material? With the default skin, I have 'Tune In URL' in the radio menu. With material, I can't see this.
Simon.

Go to Favourites > click the heart icon.

[simoh]

Thanks @kidstypike

[cpd73]

How do I play a radio URL with Material? With the default skin, I have 'Tune In URL' in the radio menu. With material, I can't see this.
Simon.

If you mean to directly add to the queue, there is an "Add URL" entry in the main menu - visible when showing queue in mobile layout, always there for desktop

[d6jg]

If you mean to directly add to the queue, there is an "Add URL" entry in the main menu - visible when showing queue in mobile layout, always there for desktop

Nice avatar. I’ve seen that somewhere before.

[slartibartfast]

A couple of times recently I have noticed that Material skin has stopped updating the current track progress. If I start playing a track I see the artwork but the track progress indicator stays at zero. If I select a different player and then return to the original player I see the artwork for the previously selected different player. If I either clear the cache or quit Material skin and reopen it then it works correctly. Very strange. This is using the APK.

[cpd73]

A couple of times recently I have noticed that Material skin has stopped updating the current track progress. If I start playing a track I see the artwork but the track progress indicator stays at zero. If I select a different player and then return to the original player I see the artwork for the previously selected different player. If I either clear the cache or quit Material skin and reopen it then it works correctly. Very strange. This is using the APK.

Next time this happens open Material on another machine, e.g. a PC, and see if that too is affected. When a track is playing Material has an internal 'tick' mechanism to move the progress counter, but this only happens if Material thinks the track is playing. What did the play/pause button show?

When you saif it stopped updating the progress, was it showing progress >0 and a pause icon?

[slartibartfast]

Next time this happens open Material on another machine, e.g. a PC, and see if that too is affected. When a track is playing Material has an internal 'tick' mechanism to move the progress counter, but this only happens if Material thinks the track is playing. What did the play/pause button show?

When you saif it stopped updating the progress, was it showing progress >0 and a pause icon?

Hmm it may still have been showing the play button but not sure. That seems more likely but the player was definitely playing though.

[cpd73]

Hmm it may still have been showing the play button but not sure. That seems more likely but the player was definitely playing though.

I have no doubt the player was playing, but was checking the state Material was in.

When you have noticed the update stop, is that after the app was not used for a while? Do you have the APK's notification item enabled? The notification item stops Android from completly killing the APK. If it is not used, the APK is in the backgorund, and you do not interact with it for a while, them Android will close the APK. Now, the code should still handle this, but I suspect what I might need to do is have the APK do a status refresh whenever its screen is shown.

[slartibartfast]

I have no doubt the player was playing, but was checking the state Material was in.

When you have noticed the update stop, is that after the app was not used for a while? Do you have the APK's notification item enabled? The notification item stops Android from completly killing the APK. If it is not used, the APK is in the backgorund, and you do not interact with it for a while, them Android will close the APK. Now, the code should still handle this, but I suspect what I might need to do is have the APK do a status refresh whenever its screen is shown.

I had just installed a plugin update and also started playback on another player so it wasn't idle. If it it happens again I'll check on my laptop. Maybe I should run two instances on my phone, one APK and one in a browser.

[ptou]

I would like to report a probable bug on visualization of the rating of a song (the empty/full "five stars").

When the song naturally changes, the cover art and all data are updated, but the rating stars do not change and remain the ones of the previous song.
This happens both when current song is shown minimized on the bottom bar, or it is maximized with full cover art.

However when skipping song back or forth with the arrow buttons, the ratings are correctly updated.
The problem seems to occur only when the song naturally finishes and the next song is played from the queue.

I have Material Skin 3.0.3 and Trackstat 3.3.602 installed on LMS 8.1.1

[cpd73]

I would like to report a probable bug on visualization of the rating of a song (the empty/full "five stars").

When the song naturally changes, the cover art and all data are updated, but the rating stars do not change and remain the ones of the previous song.
This happens both when current song is shown minimized on the bottom bar, or it is maximized with full cover art.

However when skipping song back or forth with the arrow buttons, the ratings are correctly updated.
The problem seems to occur only when the song naturally finishes and the next song is played from the queue.

I have Material Skin 3.0.3 and Trackstat 3.3.602 installed on LMS 8.1.1

Hmmm.... Well I can't even see any ratings. I can set ratings with TrackStat, and they are correctly updated - as I can see them if I use 'More' to show track information. With RatingsLight I can't even set a rating. (this also fails for RatingsLight from the More menu, in Material and Squeezer)

The following should return a track's rating in its response but for some reason does not:

curl 'http://localhost:9000/jsonrpc.js' --data-raw '{"id":0,"method":"slim.request","params":["01:02:03:04:05:06",["status","-",1,"tags:cdegiloqrstuyAABIKNSTR"]]}'

I have a queue with 1 track in it that has been rated - but this call is not returning any rating info.
To be honest, I'm tempted to just remove the ratings related code. If the above is not returning a rating value, then I'm not sure what to do - LMS is responsible for that.

I realise in your case you are seeing ratings, just not changing when they should. However, I can't fix an issue if I can't recreate it. Plus, I don't use ratings. Hence being tempted to just remove this from Material.

[SlimChances]

Hmmm.... Well I can't even see any ratings. I can set ratings with TrackStat, and they are correctly updated - as I can see them if I use 'More' to show track information. With RatingsLight I can't even set a rating. (this also fails for RatingsLight from the More menu, in Material and Squeezer)

The following should return a track's rating in its response but for some reason does not:

curl 'http://localhost:9000/jsonrpc.js' --data-raw '{"id":0,"method":"slim.request","params":["01:02:03:04:05:06",["status","-",1,"tags:cdegiloqrstuyAABIKNSTR"]]}'

I have a queue with 1 track in it that has been rated - but this call is not returning any rating info.
To be honest, I'm tempted to just remove the ratings related code. If the above is not returning a rating value, then I'm not sure what to do - LMS is responsible for that.

I realise in your case you are seeing ratings, just not changing when they should. However, I can't fix an issue if I can't recreate it. Plus, I don't use ratings. Hence being tempted to just remove this from Material.

Ratings seem to update for me when the song finishes and both the Now Playing Screen and the playlist show ratings. I use trakstat

[cpd73]

Ratings seem to update for me when the song finishes and both the Now Playing Screen and the playlist show ratings

Not sure why they are no longer showing for me. Did you use TrackStat or RatingsLight? Is there any setting I need to tweek? I've done a complete re-install of LMS8.4 nightly, with new plugins, etc.

If the code works, then I'm happy to leave. Its just not a piece of functionality I use.

[SlimChances]

I use trakstat. I hope the code remains in place. I will have a look in my settins and see if I have adjusted anything

[SlimChances]

I think I modified settings under Classic Interface. The settings do not seem to be availabble in Material but effect the outcome in Material. So under Classical Interface i inserted and selected this option (screen shot does not show the entire selection

TRACKNUM - TITLE from ALBUM by ARTIST GENRE in  YEAR  RL_RATING_STARS_APPENDED

. Interestingly this only works out in Material in Classic interface I don't get ratings shown