Bugzilla – Bug 6784
Add Jive 'play all' item when audio items with duration in a list
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:16:13 UTC
Another for ben?
Can you give me an example of where this happens as well?
Sorry, sure. Pandora station list, Rhapsody album list, etc.
the play icon is only used in the jive UI when the center button plays music. I do not see that being the case for Rhapsody album lists or Pandora station lists. In both cases, you must hit play for the item to be played see Dean's comment in this bug https://bugs-archive.lyrion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6220#c16 am I correct in thinking this is invalid?
OK I think the confusion is that we want it to work like the player UI, where if you see a music note you know you can press play to play something. There is no such visual cue on Jive to know where you can press play. Center button should never play music but that's just MHO. ;)
Passing this to Dean.
That's right, the play icon should only be shown when pressing go triggers playback. (And I agree, Andy, this should be used sparingly.) The first item in song/station info should be play, the second one should be add (if it's addable).
I really wish the menus were consistent across all UIs, but I guess we can't have everything. One problem is we don't have generic "info" pages for most of these services, so there is no way to add play/add items to those menus without affecting all UIs.
That's not really true from the Player UI. Go to Music Library->Artists->Some Artist or Music Library->Albums->Some Album or Music Library->Genres->Some Genre you can hit play and it plays. there's no music note for any of these. Discussion aside, is this a bug with Jive? I see it behaving the same way that the rest of the Jive UI does, as specified by Dean in bug #6220.
OK I was thinking of just XMLBrowser things. I guess we can close this one if it doesn't need to be changed.
Under Recently Played -> Station Name, the "Play Station" choice should have a play icon on it. Also, saw the same thing when descending on an artist, "Play Artist Station" does not have a play icon on it either.
fixed in SC change 17118
fixing bug#7060 re-breaks this. I need a clear understanding of the logic needed to determine whether hitting 'GO' on an XML browse item. I had been looking at the item 'type', and if it was 'audio', then styling with the filled play icon. Clearly that's not correct. assigning to Andy for comment.
previous comment should have read: I need a clear understanding of the logic needed to determine whether hitting 'GO' on an XML browse item should cause music to play.
Well as I've said before I really disagree with the fact that pressing go ever plays anything because it differs from the player UI. There is a difference between something that is playable and something you want to play when you press Go. Take for example drilling into a Rhapsody album, this is a playable item (the album) but you don't want it to play when you drill into it if you are just looking at the album details. Even a Rhapsody track has a detailed sub-menu and you would not always want to have this auto-play.
Dean notes that the communication between SC and Jive needs to be expressive enough for Jive to determine that it's appropriate to display a play icon next to the menu item or not.
Fixed in change 17433. To test, try an MP3tunes album or Rhapsody album.
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