Announce: Material Skin

[cpd73]

Hi Craig, would it be possible to remove the icons when using the custom browse plugin?

Done for next release

[Blackfiction]

Hi Craig, would it be possible to remove the icons when using the custom browse plugin?

[roymcd]

Sorry, no Material is not designed for such as small screen. The current customisation code does not easily support changing layouts. It can load custom Javascript, so anything is possible - but it would be quite fragile and prone to breaking. I have no such device, so have not even considered making changes for this.

Would this just be for current track display and controls? Showing the queue? Browsing? As I'd imagine browsing would be quite difficult on such as small screen.

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm trying to weigh up how to get an LMS controller interface for my watch. Your feedback is much appreciated because it saves me wasting effort on the customisation option.
Current track display and control, volume control would be the minimum to be useful. I could start LMS playback from my phone and then switch to using the watch for simple track playback options.
These simple controls are actually available automatically on the watch for android apps that register as media players, via the Media Control app on the watch. Could the LMS android app be modified to register as a media player and make the default media controls available? The Squeezer and Squeeze Ctrl android aps claim to have Wear compatibility. I've tried Squeezer and the Media Control interface on the watch does appear when I'm using it but the playback controls are ghosted and not usable. I don't have the Squeeze Ctrl app, but I've asked questions on the Squeeze Ctrl forum re its compatibility with Wear OS 3 and I haven't managed to get a definitive answer on whether it does work with the Media Controller on the watch. Regardless, I really like the Material Skin browser interface and the LMS app and I was hoping that a related interface on the watch might be an option.

[cpd73]

I would love to have a minimal Material Skin interface that works on my Galaxy Watch 5. Would a layout customised for a watch via the method at https://github.com/CDrummond/lms-mat...-Customisation be a workable solution using one of the Wear OS browsers? Even better, could the Android LMS app be modified to work under Wear OS?

Sorry, no Material is not designed for such as small screen. The current customisation code does not easily support changing layouts. It can load custom Javascript, so anything is possible - but it would be quite fragile and prone to breaking. I have no such device, so have not even considered making changes for this.

Would this just be for current track display and controls? Showing the queue? Browsing? As I'd imagine browsing would be quite difficult on such as small screen.

[roymcd]

I would love to have a minimal Material Skin interface that works on my Galaxy Watch 5. Would a layout customised for a watch via the method at https://github.com/CDrummond/lms-mat...-Customisation be a workable solution using one of the Wear OS browsers? Even better, could the Android LMS app be modified to work under Wear OS?

[cpd73]

You're quite right. Is this something that needs to be added to material, or Custom Skip 3?

Material has been updated since 3.2.0 to look for CustomSkip3 - just tested and 'Zap' appears in menu for me.

[awoz]

Not sure why you need to change the viewport. The above is Material @ 800x480 - same layout as your screenshot.

Thanks for looking. The only difference between my screenshots is that first one is rendered in Firefox @ 800x480 while the other is Chromium on RPi with 4.3in 800x480 LCD. I will try your Material debug tip to better understand my issue.

[bossanova808]

Foro 'Zap' you need to have (the original) 'Custom Skip' installed. However, I'm guessing you have 'Custom Skip 3'? Just checked and the code does not handle that case.

You're quite right. Is this something that needs to be added to material, or Custom Skip 3?

[cpd73]

cpd73 - just checking that you saw this bug - https://forums.slimdevices.com/forum...06#post1634306

Yes, and fixed in git for 3.2.3

[d6jg]

cpd73 - just checking that you saw this bug - https://forums.slimdevices.com/forum...06#post1634306

[cpd73]

Hi, would it be possible to add a tag in the section that shows the artist, year, genre and source (below the songtext info)? For example, I would like to add a version tag (scanned via custom tag) to show the version info of an album

The issue would be in how the tag's value is sent to the skin. The JSONRPC commands only send a limited sub-set of tags. So, AFAIK, there is no way to get this extra information in order to display.

another thing I would like to add there, is a link to the files (similar to the functionality to open and view files that are in the same folder).

The JSONRPC protocol does have a command to list a set of folders in an album's directory. So, in theory it would be possible to get this list of files and then add into that display.

[Blackfiction]

Hi, would it be possible to add a tag in the section that shows the artist, year, genre and source (below the songtext info)? For example, I would like to add a version tag (scanned via custom tag) to show the version info of an album, like:
DCC ・gzs-1100 ・CD (US, 1993)

another thing I would like to add there, is a link to the files (similar to the functionality to open and view files that are in the same folder).

I get that this probably isn’t for everyone, so I am fine to make the changes on my LMS only. As I am not a very good coder, I would appreciate any sample code and some directions in which plugin/file I need to make the edit. If someone can help, would be great!

[Apesbrain]

However in git/master I've added a 'npRatio' URL query parameter that allows you to adjust when Material thinks the now-playing should be landscape or portrait. This is 1.3333 by default, you probably want about 1.45 - e.g. http :// SERVER:9000/material/?npRatio=1.45

Thanks! I tested git-master and that works. Would it be easier to have a parameter that forces the layout, i.e. npFormat=portrait? Takes the ratio calculation out of the picture.

[cpd73]

When I use 3.2.2, I get the "side by side" layout below:

The viewport - i.e. the part of the window that the page sees - is not 1258 x 962, but about 1258x884. Anyhow, this (I think) is a case of not being able to please everyone. I think the current solution works best. However in git/master I've added a 'npRatio' URL query parameter that allows you to adjust when Material thinks the now-playing should be landscape or portrait. This is 1.3333 by default, you probably want about 1.45 - e.g. http :// SERVER:9000/material/?npRatio=1.45

[d6jg]

Another little bug, this time in the skin, not the app: When there are no players connected to the current server, "Manage Players" just says "No player" so it is not possible to connect players connected to other servers.

confirm I see this also on iPhone