Announce: Material Skin

[Zombie]

Dunno if anyone else has noticed, but sorting of Artist is a bit off rail. Albums are also strange. I press B and get albums on C, although there are lots of albums beginning with B. Default skin seems ok.

[slartibartfast]

Dunno if anyone else has noticed, but sorting of Artist is a bit off rail. Albums are also strange. I press B and get albums on C, although there are lots of albums beginning with B. Default skin seems ok.

Doesn't help you but mine doesn't do that.

[Zombie]

The order is correct it seems, but Material drops some letters to the left depending on the screen fit. Default skin has all the letters above, left-right which provides more space and only drops letters which have no artist/album to them.
And of course anglocentric A-Z alphabet with the letters ÅÄÖ shown as AAO
Please borrow mine: Å Ä Ö Õ Ü

[slartibartfast]

The Radio Now Playing plugin doesn't update via the "Update plugins" button. The button changes colour while being clocked but nothing happens. The update works normally via
settings/server/plugins.
Nothing appears in the Web Console in debug mode.

[cpd73]

The Radio Now Playing plugin doesn't update via the "Update plugins" button. The button changes colour while being clocked but nothing happens. The update works normally via settings/server/plugins.

Hmmm... I wonder if this is due to text in the description field, as (I think) this RNP release mentions the "|" separator. Anyhow, for 3.2.0 I've updated the code to only send name, url and sha to the server for updates - currently it sends all info (which would include update description).

[cpd73]

- put tabs for items on the previous menu (if you press on <-) right of the <- button

You mean to show the history? i.e. as in steps to navigate back? If so, just click on the text - it pops up a menu with this.

- make left window cover the full Material window and move the items above the playing track to the area between track played and track info at the bottom

What? Make current layout horizontal? As in (top to bottom) browse / queue / now-playing? No way.

[cpd73]

No history, but TABS with the items on the previous menu. If I press Favourites on the main menu, I'd see a row with tabs for the items on the main menu, like My music, Random tracks/albums, Apps, Tidal, Extras etc.

Not really sure I see the benefit of this to be honest. Why does having a popup of the previous list have advantage over just navigating back? Don't really want to add another button (as there is already back, and potentially home) - so not sure where this activation would go. (Long-press on back is already set to 'go home').

[Edit] Plus, the previous list could have a lot of items (e.g. the complete artist list) which would not make sense for a menu. If which case I'd then have ot add special cases to say when this button/functionality would be added and when not. Just don't see the use case, or justification.

Material has two main windows, left and right. I suggested expanding the left window with for instance Artists or Albums and perhaps move the items above the right window to the space between track played to the left and track info on the right. There might be a button for restoring the right window to default to check the queue. Luxury would be a popup that shows the queue.

I'm not going to make the queue a floating window/pane - but there is already a button to toggle its display.

[cpd73]

You are mixing my suggestions up. I suggested tabs with the items on the previous menu to the right of the <-.

Tabs? No, sorry that means duplicating the view. Again, what's the benefit to this? Not sure what you mean by "to the right of the <-" I'm probably just being thick, and not getting what you mean by this. to the right of "<-" is the current item title. as in "(<-) SomeArtistName". What would be in the "tab" ? Just the previous title? So its sort of a like a reverse breadcrumb? Perhaps a screenshot would help.

The popup was for the second suggestion, making the left window cover all, showing more albums, artists or whatever

And I've already dismissed the idea of the queue being a popup, I don't like that.

[cpd73]

Did a primitive drawing, one tab might be Home or Start and return to the first page

Thanks for the screenshot. So, your basically saying when clicking on an item that a tab for every other item in the list should be open. Sorry, but sounds awful.

[Zombie]

Sorry, I give up. I will delete my suggestions.

[Howard Passman]

Anyone try using Material Skin when using the WAP Mode (piCorePlayer) on the server? I can't seem to connect to the server with my server using WAP mode. Not a big deal. More curious than anything.

Howard

[Auke]

Is there a possibility to make a shortcut to a section? I toggle the on switch in C-3PO Transcoding Helper plugin a lot. To get there, there's need for a lot of clicks. Thanks

[cpd73]

Is there a possibility to make a shortcut to a section? I toggle the on switch in C-3PO Transcoding Helper plugin a lot. To get there, there's need for a lot of clicks. Thanks

No, sorry this is not possible.

[mherger]

Is there a possibility to make a shortcut to a section? I toggle the on switch in C-3PO Transcoding Helper plugin a lot. To get there, there's need for a lot of clicks. Thanks

Open two tabs in your browser with the relevant pages?…

[Redrum]

Hi Craig;

I wonder if it is possible to add a selection "add to favorites" to the queue now playing menu?


Here's my use case - I often will go into an internet radio service - Live 365, Tune In, etc and try out a few stations, trying to discover some that I like. If I do, I have to choose more (on above menu)->this takes me to left pane->add to favorites, then confirm. The problem is, the left pane list that I have been working through resets to the top, I basically lose my place in the list. With these services, even dialed down to genres, there are hundreds of entries.

So ideally, I could select "add to favorites" from the drop down, then maybe a confirmation dialog pop up (or no confirmation at all). That way, the left pane is untouched and I don't lose my place.

As an option, if the left pane could remain in place after the more" action is complete (not reset to the top).

Low priority, just an idea...

Jim