Hi,
Understand it's an initial effort, so no worries on lack of polish. Some
comments:
1. Grid mode relies solely on album cover. If there is no album cover you
use a default icon - but no text. Thus in grid mode there is no visual data
about the album, neither in the grid view nor with a cursor-over popup. For
folks who have a lot of live recordings (bootlegs, etc) that may have no
album cover, this is not useful.
2. There needs to be a visual prompt for the icon-size adjustment slider,
otherwise it looks like screen candy and not a control that does something.
3. When using composer/artist view mode, you're using a loop to
iterate through the data, but you include the text "Albums" inside the loop
so it shows up for every album. That wastes a fair bit of both screen real
estate and processing.
4. Same issue for composer/artist view as for grid view -- reliance on
cover without showing album title reduces usefulness.
5. Just lock the playbar in position. It takes up little space; locking it
removes need for the upper-right icon and the code for hiding/showing it.
Will comment more later - off to feed friend's dogs.
Guy
--
âHappiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of
human existence.â
â Aristotle
On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 2:02 PM nbeversl <
nbeversl.9ncr9b (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com> wrote:
>
> I've written a new frontend for Logitech Media Server and am interested
> in some testers/users. It runs in the browser like the existing web
> interface but browses the library in a single page app using React and
> MaterialUI. The goal was to get to any track/album in as few clicks/taps
> as possible, and without multiple page loads. It uses Howl.js to stream
> directly to the browser/device if it is not set up as a playback zone.
>
> Unfortunately this is my first post on the forum, so I cannot yet post
> the link. If interested, reply to this post, or search for "Boulez
> Logitech" on Github and you'll find it.
>
> This is a free and open-source project under active development. If
> people take a liking to it, I will do feature requests. It is bundled
> and built as a theme so you can install it with a single drag and drop
> operation.
>
>
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Understand it's an initial effort, so no worries on lack of polish. Some
comments:
1. Grid mode relies solely on album cover. If there is no album cover you
use a default icon - but no text. Thus in grid mode there is no visual data
about the album, neither in the grid view nor with a cursor-over popup. For
folks who have a lot of live recordings (bootlegs, etc) that may have no
album cover, this is not useful.
2. There needs to be a visual prompt for the icon-size adjustment slider,
otherwise it looks like screen candy and not a control that does something.
3. When using composer/artist view mode, you're using a loop to
iterate through the data, but you include the text "Albums" inside the loop
so it shows up for every album. That wastes a fair bit of both screen real
estate and processing.
4. Same issue for composer/artist view as for grid view -- reliance on
cover without showing album title reduces usefulness.
5. Just lock the playbar in position. It takes up little space; locking it
removes need for the upper-right icon and the code for hiding/showing it.
Will comment more later - off to feed friend's dogs.
Guy
--
âHappiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of
human existence.â
â Aristotle
On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 2:02 PM nbeversl <
nbeversl.9ncr9b (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com> wrote:
>
> I've written a new frontend for Logitech Media Server and am interested
> in some testers/users. It runs in the browser like the existing web
> interface but browses the library in a single page app using React and
> MaterialUI. The goal was to get to any track/album in as few clicks/taps
> as possible, and without multiple page loads. It uses Howl.js to stream
> directly to the browser/device if it is not set up as a playback zone.
>
> Unfortunately this is my first post on the forum, so I cannot yet post
> the link. If interested, reply to this post, or search for "Boulez
> Logitech" on Github and you'll find it.
>
> This is a free and open-source project under active development. If
> people take a liking to it, I will do feature requests. It is bundled
> and built as a theme so you can install it with a single drag and drop
> operation.
>
>
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> View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112734
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