Bugzilla – Bug 2190
Change first Now Playing detail displayed ( right click in Player UI) from Title to Album
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:39:24 UTC
I'd like to suggest a small change to the order of the Now Playing details displayed. Instead of re-displaying the song Title on first right click, how about showing the Album? Title could be found by either pressing up or down from there. My reasoning has to do with interface flow and redundancy. Most (if not all) users will have the song Title already displayed in the Now Playing view. Clicking on the right button should in my opinion bring them directly to Album then Artist, etc. Currently, bringing up the Title immediately interupts the intuitive flow of simply clicking to the right to drill back up from the Song Title. Not a big issue, but a minor inconvinience...
good suggestion!
or why not make it a pref, in case what people really want is to have the 'add to favourites' item first?
A pref works for me... how about this: the default behavior could be "now playing > album > artist >", the pref "Now Playing: On right click show []Artist []Favorites []etc. " could live soewhere in player settings.
For now, could the default flow be changed to "now playing > album > artist > etc."? Maybe the favorites issue could be addressed as a seperate bug?
I just noticed tht in my previous post I had the order wrong.... I meant to say: now playing > artist > album > song If I understand correctly, a new remote is being produced with a built in "favorites" button (BTW: how do I get one of those?)... making the "favorites on right click" less of a priority... however here's an idea! ...what if favorites where added at the end of the above flow e.g. now playing > artist > album > song > add to favorite. Is this possible..? Would it make sense to apply this flow universally (not just from now playing)... or am I missing something?
Just a quick note In the following suggested flow: "now playing > artist > album > song > add to favorite." song = what was initially displayed as "now playing".... just as tands now after Kdf's last update (thanks again BTW!) y.
We'll need to tackle this post 6.2.
Dean and Kdf, I've been giving this issue more thought, and have started a thread on this and other player UI flow ideas... making this current "bug" a bit redundant and outdated. The thread lives here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17235 and the scope has grown from "Now Playing", to an alternative way of presenting Plugins contextually. Please feel free to retire this enhancement request, as I will be putting together a new "updated" request addressing this and other related issues once I've gathered more feedback from the community. Thanks.
I'm going to close this in anticipation of other enhancement requests.