Announce: Material Skin

[grimmace92]

I'd imagine Material is a bit 'heavy' for a watch. I think a much simpler interface would be required, but I have no such device.

Yes would need to be much simpler. The default LMS interface pulls up properly but everything is so small. The zoom feature on the watch doesn't work well with it so it's unusable. I thought the ios protocols would be similar to the phone but sounds like maybe its not.

[Shozzer]

Yes would need to be much simpler. The default LMS interface pulls up properly but everything is so small. The zoom feature on the watch doesn't work well with it so it's unusable. I thought the ios protocols would be similar to the phone but sounds like maybe its not.

I can control LMS quite acceptably from Samsung Galaxy watch using Material. It's not my first choice for control but ok.

[vinnielo]

If LMS indicates a player has no digital volume control then Material will show the "Fixed volume" label.

I've just had a further look and it seems that this affects LMS 7.9.0.
Even my official Squeezebox Receiver is shown as "Fixed Volume".

My newer LMS sitting on my NAS doesn't have this problem.

Is there a compatibility issue with 7.9.0?

[Philip Meyer]

I noticed sometime recently that I am not seeing song ratings in the material skin any more (I'm sure I used to be able to see this and set ratings on the currently playing track).

I'm on LMS 7.9.4.

Has something happened to break this (maybe LMS 7.9.4, or a plugin update)?

Phil

[Philip Meyer]

>I noticed sometime recently that I am not seeing song ratings in the material skin any more (I'm sure I used to be able to see this and set ratings on the currently playing track).
>
>I'm on LMS 7.9.4.
>
>Has something happened to break this (maybe LMS 7.9.4, or a plugin update)?
>
Nevermind - it seems that somehow the setting "Show rating" had been disabled. I seem to have to enable this on each device that I use the material skin on (I've never disabled it, always had ratings shown, so I don't know what caused it to drop the setting from all devices).

Phil

[SlimChances]

>I noticed sometime recently that I am not seeing song ratings in the material skin any more (I'm sure I used to be able to see this and set ratings on the currently playing track).
>
>I'm on LMS 7.9.4.
>
>Has something happened to break this (maybe LMS 7.9.4, or a plugin update)?
>
Nevermind - it seems that somehow the setting "Show rating" had been disabled. I seem to have to enable this on each device that I use the material skin on (I've never disabled it, always had ratings shown, so I don't know what caused it to drop the setting from all devices).

Phil

I have the same experience with Trackstat ratings disappearing. Where is the setting "Show ratings" can't seem to find it?
Thanks


EDIT: Found it under Settings

[cpd73]

Nevermind - it seems that somehow the setting "Show rating" had been disabled. I seem to have to enable this on each device that I use the material skin on (I've never disabled it, always had ratings shown, so I don't know what caused it to drop the setting from all devices).

Two config items (show ratings in queue, show ratings in browse) were merged into one - and the config item renamed. Any previous settings will have been with the old items.

[MDE]

This is a really super skin - very sophisticated and excellent as a mobile app. There's one thing I'm puzzled about - I've done a pretty thorough search of this thread and I can't understand what is supposed to display in the now playing (expanded) view. I thought, if it was a classical genre, I would get conductor as well as composer/artist etc. However, it never seems to appear, even though the genre is defined under "conductor" and the tags (under more...) show that it's there.
More generally, is there any way to customise the display text for "Now playing" - e.g. COMPOSER:TITLE, ARTIST, BAND (CONDUCTOR) - or some such?

[bz31]

Settings, My Music, Settings

[MDE]

Settings, My Music, Settings

That just affects browsing, not Now Playing as far as I can see.