Bugzilla – Bug 1996
Enable MusicMagic seeding directly from the "now playing" list.
Last modified: 2008-12-15 13:07:00 UTC
Allow songs and albums to trigger mixes directly from the "Now Playing" list. Currently, an MMM user must hunt through the track's info/album link/ and eventually find the song listed in order to seed. Cutting out all of these additional steps would be a huge MMM usability improvement. See the thead at: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=48827#post48827
seems possible to do in web interface. cannot be done from player UI, as play_hold function is already taken for "save playlist" from the now playing section. possible option might be to enable mixes from trackInfo (which means one extra push right from a track)
Enabling mixes from trackInfo would definetely work for me! TrackInfo is a click away from both albums and songs, right? That would be =lovely=. The important bit for me (more than just the # of "clicks away"), is that the "now playing" song (and the other songs in the current playlist) are essentially "remembered" for me to seed from... which is =much more= intuitive/friendly than making the user remember which track he/she was just listening to, then dig down into the albums browse view to find it several clicks away. y.
Created attachment 745 [details] web interface, mixer links in current playlist fishbone, en, and default skins. other skins are easy. requires some tweaks to the mixer plugin html templates that I've not included (to specify target frames) of course, other option (if clutter in teh now playing isn't desired) is to simply use the album link to get the song list on the left. Not hard to remember with the track still sitting on the right. player UI doesn't look easy. two ways to go that I can see. TITLE: can provide a link to mix on the track, etc. This needs a mapping in IR. Other option is to simply scroll to album, press right to get track list. Support would have to be added to enter the album at the currently selected track from the playlist. Might take a bit of doing, but at least its relying on the existing browsedb modes.
Created attachment 746 [details] trackinfo patch this patch sends trackinfo through to album/artist/genre with the track pre-selected. You can then press-and-hold play from there. Given the simplicity of this one, my personal slant is to go wtih this patch, and do nothing with the web interface. The links through to the browser are provided and the browser (web and playerUI) can do all of the mixer functions. If there is still a difficulty in navigating this way for web UI, please feel free to explain the specifics of the issue
My goodness, That was fast! I have no usability issues with the Web UI as is... only with the Player UI, which your patch goes a long way towards resolving. Thanks KDF! Q: Do I apply the patch directly myself, or will it be included an upcoming nightly?
If you are using slimserver.pl, then you can apply using "patch -p0 < patchfile.diff", or manually. If you use slim.exe then you have to wait until it is built into a nightly. Having a patch here is only the first step into a nightly. It will be up to Dean as to when or which UI changes should be added.
Trackinfo change committed to 6.2 at change 4026. If that is all that is wanted for this bug, let me know and it can be closed off.
You can close it as far as I'm concerned. Great work KDF!
Done deal, then :)
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