Announce: Material Skin

[cpd73]

Hmmm... I definitely have 3.3.2 installed, but now I cannot toggle the alarms anymore

Try clicking on the text, not the checkbox. Why they are behaving differently I do not know - from my code wise they are the same! Will fix for next release though.

[slartibartfast]

Try clicking on the text, not the checkbox. Why they are behaving differently I do not know - from my code wise they are the same! Will fix for next release though.

Am missing something? Clicking anywhere on the line between the text and the checkbox (including both) works for me.

[slartibartfast]

Try clicking on the text, not the checkbox. Why they are behaving differently I do not know - from my code wise they are the same! Will fix for next release though.

Hmm when I said toggling alarms worked for me it doesn't. It looks like it does but when I re-enter player settings I see the enabled alarm change back to disabled before my eyes. My alarm also failed to go off this morning.

Edit. OK clicking the text does indeed work even though everything looks exactly the same.

[rlem]

Try clicking on the text, not the checkbox. Why they are behaving differently I do not know - from my code wise they are the same! Will fix for next release though.

How strange indeed, but thanks so much for the workaround!

[maurizio53]

Is it possible to not use the material skin screensaver and use an external one like SuperDateTime screensaver?
If yes, how? Actually i have the SDT screensaver installed and active, but enabling the material skin one, it works, disabling it i have NO screensaver active...

[cpd73]

Is it possible to not use the material skin screensaver and use an external one like SuperDateTime screensaver?
If yes, how? Actually i have the SDT screensaver installed and active, but enabling the material skin one, it works, disabling it i have NO screensaver active...

Sorry, but these are completely separate. Material's screensaver is just some Javascript that blanks out the webpage. SDT is, AFAIK, for a hardware/Squeezeplay device.

[maurizio53]

Sorry, but these are completely separate. Material's screensaver is just some Javascript that blanks out the webpage. SDT is, AFAIK, for a hardware/Squeezeplay device.

So it means i can use SDT on a raspberry touchscreen?

[cpd73]

So it means i can use SDT on a raspberry touchscreen?

No idea. But that has nothing to do with material skin. You should ask in a more appropriate thread.

[Ron F.]

Question about Material Interface Color Selection

Craig, this is something you may have already considered, but I was wondering if in addition to the 18 colors in the Color palette, an option to use the average color of the album artwork being displayed could be used?

I attached a sample of the mobile layout as a rough idea; however, this uploaded screenshot doesn't look quite as good as it did on my phone!

[artatgray]

Question about Material Interface Color Selection

Craig, this is something you may have already considered, but I was wondering if in addition to the 18 colors in the Color palette, an option to use the average color of the album artwork being displayed could be used?

What you're requesting is refered to as "Dynamic colour" in UI design. Another music player application that I happen to use, Symfonium to be exact, supports it on its Now Playing display. I'll post several examples below:





I could set the background colour as Dynamic as well, but I find it to be visually overpowering.

Below are the selections that Symfonium presents for the Background colour of its Now Playing display:



All the best... 😎

[cpd73]

Question about Material Interface Color Selectionif in addition to the 18 colors in the Color palette, an option to use the average color of the album artwork being displayed could be used?

Initial implementation in the 3.4 branch Was much easier than I thought this would be - as I found a library to calculate the colour to use. To enable this option select the gradient coloured option in Material's colour chooser.

[Ron F.]

Initial implementation in the 3.4 branch Was much easier than I thought this would be - as I found a library to calculate the colour to use. To enable this option select the gradient coloured option in Material's colour chooser.

Thank you Craig! I pulled branch 3.4. Material Skin in Firefox on my laptop running Ubuntu Linux, I have a nice pink color that has no relation to the artwork. Actually, oddly enough, I do like this color(!), but it is not correct. I am getting similarly strange results on my Pixel 6a using the APK.

[cpd73]

Thank you Craig! I pulled branch 3.4. Material Skin in Firefox on my laptop running Ubuntu Linux, I have a nice pink color that has no relation to the artwork. Actually, oddly enough, I do like this color(!), but it is not correct. I am getting similarly strange results on my Pixel 6a using the APK.

Please send me a copy of the artwork, as it does work for me.

[Edit] Also, is this local or remote artwork?

[Ron F.]

Please send me a copy of the artwork, as it does work for me.

[Edit] Also, is this local or remote artwork?

I pulled and am now running the latest commit to branch 3.4, #b7b809. You were right to ask about local or remote artwork. The color is updated for local artwork, but not for streaming such as Radio Paradise. When I initially load Radio Paradise and begin playing, the color is set for the first track, but then never changes after that. Also, the color is not updated when changing between players in the APK, or Firefox. Maybe this is not so easy a feature to implement.

[Ron F.]

Gradient coloured option enabled: attached is a screenshot of the Now Playing display taken on my laptop using the Brave browser, streaming Radio Paradise. Colour is not updating.