Qobuz.com streaming plugin

[mherger]

I don't know in which order the importers of the plugins involved are executed during a scan.
I can only say the following:
1.) Qobuz delivers exactly one genre tag per album, in my example it is "Klassik".
2.) At the end after a scan each track of the album contains exactly two genre tags "Klassik" and "Classical".

Ok, that makes sense and confirms what I read in the code earlier today.

Irrespective of this, MAI should have recognized that the Qobuz album had already been given a genre tag.

There is always a genre tag. If the service doesn't provide that information, the plugins would put the service's name in there. I/MAI should only replace genres matching that pattern. That's probably the simplest logic I can apply.

[SamY]

Sorting sounds good to me. I'm not sure about the year, though. I think that's something the UI should handle. In the Default skin there's a global setting to display the year or not. The plugin should try to follow that setting. For Material I'm not sure.

Thanks for the feedback, Michael. After some research, It seems that the Default skin is the only client that offers a user option for displaying the release year in the library view. The others either display it (Material Skin, Squeeze Ctrl) or they don't (Squeezer, Orange Squeeze). I think the option is actually much more useful when browsing albums in Qobuz, where users are less likely to be familiar with them than they are with those in their library, regardless of what client they are using. My "plan B" choice, which I don't like nearly as much, would be to not have this option in the plugin but instead always display the release year when the option to sort artist albums by release date has been selected. I really believe they should be separate options however. I am also planning to make the choice to sort by release date either ascending (oldest first) or descending (newest first). In any case, I will wait for your response before proceeding further to avoid making any changes that are doomed for rejection.

[mherger]

If the year is added to the albums list while browsing an artist in the Qobuz menus, I believe that should be ok. But please don't add it to the title when importing the data, or in the "getMetaDataFor()" or similar call. Whatever you do, it should not alter the title, but only change what is shown on screen for that particular menu.

[d6jg]

I’ve noticed that when playing Qobuz in Material sometimes years are shown in the queue and sometimes not. Is this Material or LMS generally?

screenshots below
queue extract - the Al-Qasar is a Qobuz album but not in library at this point and shows year. Next tracks also Qobuz dont but year is present

[mherger]

I’ve noticed that when playing Qobuz in Material sometimes years are shown in the queue and sometimes not. Is this Material or LMS generally?

I don't know (haven't looked at the code yet). But you can easily check by accessing the Default skin and/or Squeezeplay/JiveLite.

[SamY]

I’ve noticed that when playing Qobuz in Material sometimes years are shown in the queue and sometimes not. Is this Material or LMS generally?

screenshots below
queue extract - the Al-Qasar is a Qobuz album but not in library at this point and shows year. Next tracks also Qobuz dont but year is present

After doing a little experimenting with this, it seems that only tracks added to the queue from the LMS library have the year displayed. Tracks added from the Qobuz plugin do not show the year, even if they also exist in the library. This looks like something that Craig might be able to explain or advise on.

[Kuja]

...The first gives the option to sort albums in descending order by release date (most recent first) when browsing albums by artist, instead of sorting by album name.
....The second adds the option to display the release year when browsing albums in any context

YESSSS!!!!! THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!!!
I was waiting for this for a long time!

mherger I hope this will find its place in the next plugin release, ...please?

[Kuja]

Sorting sounds good to me. I'm not sure about the year, though. I think that's something the UI should handle. In the Default skin there's a global setting to display the year or not. The plugin should try to follow that setting.

This setting, "Show Year with Albums"?





Unfortunately, when enabled, it is doing nothing for me - there are no years displayed in Qobuz Artist's Albums view:

[Kuja]

I think the option is actually much more useful when browsing albums in Qobuz, where users are less likely to be familiar with them than they are with those in their library ....

That was exactly my point in some of my previous posts. Big thumbs up!

[SamY]

That was exactly my point in some of my previous posts. Big thumbs up!

Patience, grasshopper! The changes are on the way, once I master (or at least become comfortable with) the intricacies of Github.

[Kuja]

Patience, grasshopper! The changes are on the way, once I master (or at least become comfortable with) the intricacies of Github.

[SamY]

Unfortunately, when enabled, it is doing nothing for me - there are no years displayed in Qobuz Artist's Albums view.

I just noticed you are using the LMS Default skin, at least in your example. The upcoming Qobuz option to show the album release year is not going to be in effect for the Default skin as the display is limited to one line per album and it is already pretty full. The year will be shown for all other client apps though, including Material Skin, Squeezer, Squeeze Ctrl, Orange Squeeze, etc.

EDIT: Upon further reflection, it should be possible to put the release year on a second line for the Default and Classic skins. Looking into it.

EDIT2: Done!

[d6jg]

After doing a little experimenting with this, it seems that only tracks added to the queue from the LMS library have the year displayed. Tracks added from the Qobuz plugin do not show the year, even if they also exist in the library. This looks like something that Craig might be able to explain or advise on.

In my screenshot the Al-Qasar album had been "favourited" at Qobuz but at that point in time had not been scanned into my Library.

[SamY]

In my screenshot the Al-Qasar album had been "favourited" at Qobuz but at that point in time had not been scanned into my Library.

Interesting. My results are different than yours and consistent. I would suggest doing some more testing and maybe posting a question for Craig on the Material Skin thread.

[sveninndh]

Just a question, would it be possible to select the sorting of the favorites (albums, artists, tracks) not in the plugin settings, but directly on the respective display page?
Roughly the way it's already implemented in the album list in the music library.
By the way, this is also the case in the Qobuz Web Player. Depending on your taste or current desire, you can then switch the sorting without first having to switch to the settings.