FrostByte 5049 Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 (edited) Request the enhanced area automatically rotate the randomly selected item when focusing on My Media libraries in vertical layout. Make the randomly highlighted episode/movie/song somehow playable from the enhanced home page Have the ability to add the highlighted media to Watch List This is sort of like it already does in horizontal layout where it rotates a random movie/episode, etc at about 20 secs and is clickable if the album/movie/episode, etc it picks catches your interest. Right now, you have to scroll around in order to force a refresh and there is no way to play the highlighted album/episode/movie, etc from the Home Page. This would apply to all ET based clients like Android, Samsung, Xbox, etc that use the new enhanced area for media libraries. Could use hard press or double tap in Android to bring up a menu Edited November 5, 2022 by FrostByte added ability to play randomly selected media from Home 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusher11 851 Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Rotate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostByte 5049 Posted September 22, 2022 Author Share Posted September 22, 2022 9 hours ago, crusher11 said: Rotate? I edited the description because I guess I left out what needs rotating. However, what I meant was when you focus on a library it randomly selects something to display in the enhanced area. But it just sits there static. For instance, in my pic it randomly chose Loki which will remain shown unless you manually refresh the focused item. It would be nice if it rotated the randomly selected item (Loki in my pic) from all the available items in that library. If you've ever used horizontal mode, you can see it already randomly selects an item to highlight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrbee99 1560 Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 And it should be clickable and/or playable (as no doubt mentioned somewhere else...) 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neik 837 Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 1 hour ago, arrbee99 said: And it should be clickable and/or playable (as no doubt mentioned somewhere else...) Agree to the request and also to arrbee's statement. IMO there should be some sort of shortcut to the item that is being shown in the enhanced area. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostByte 5049 Posted September 22, 2022 Author Share Posted September 22, 2022 (edited) Added making the randomly chosen media file playable to the original request. I also added a comment that maybe clicking PLAY would start the file Edited September 22, 2022 by FrostByte 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14913 Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 18 hours ago, arrbee99 said: And it should be clickable and/or playable (as no doubt mentioned somewhere else...) That would present a problem with navigation on a TV. There would be no way to get to it. That is not a row on the home screen. It is a static display area. If you try to go "up" to it, you will, instead, move to another row. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostByte 5049 Posted September 23, 2022 Author Share Posted September 23, 2022 27 minutes ago, ebr said: That would present a problem with navigation on a TV. There would be no way to get to it. That is not a row on the home screen. It is a static display area. If you try to go "up" to it, you will, instead, move to another row. I don't think you should have to navigate anywhere though. All you should have to do is click the Play button while the focus is on that library, and it plays the show which is shown. Right now, I just tested it, and it actually plays something already from that library when clicking Play. So its kind of working now. I'm just not sure how it picks what it's going to play. It's not show which is shown in the enhanced area. It always wants to play the Daredevil series for some reason. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostByte 5049 Posted September 23, 2022 Author Share Posted September 23, 2022 That kind of sounds like a bug. Even if it doesn't auto rotate, why is it always playing Daredevil for me when clicking Play. That's not the first item in my library alphabetically and I haven't watched Daredevil in a couple years now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neik 837 Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 19 minutes ago, FrostByte said: All you should have to do is click the Play button while the focus is on that library, and it plays the show which is shown. +1 At least for those remotes that have a play button, e.g. Shield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostByte 5049 Posted September 23, 2022 Author Share Posted September 23, 2022 1 minute ago, neik said: +1 At least for those remotes that have a play button, e.g. Shield. Hopefully most remotes have a Play button. My Samsung and Xbox multimedia remotes have one. My game controller doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostByte 5049 Posted September 23, 2022 Author Share Posted September 23, 2022 I see right now it does choose what to play based alphabetically Movies library by title of movie alphabetically For TV shows library it plays the first episode by title alphabetically Music library it plays the first song alphabetically So, request is that this be changed and that it instead plays the item shown in the enhanced area when clicking the Play button Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrbee99 1560 Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 6 hours ago, ebr said: That would present a problem with navigation on a TV. There would be no way to get to it. That is not a row on the home screen. It is a static display area. If you try to go "up" to it, you will, instead, move to another row. It would, I think, I presume, be nice if it could effectively become a proper (but optional) row, random items from the item selected in My Media - random row of 8(?) clickable items from Movies, random 8 items from TV Series, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostByte 5049 Posted September 23, 2022 Author Share Posted September 23, 2022 1 minute ago, arrbee99 said: It would, I think, I presume, be nice if it could effectively become a proper (but optional) row, random items from the item selected in My Media - random row of 8(?) clickable items from Movies, random 8 items from TV Series, etc. It doesn't really need to be a row though. You can already click Play now. It just doesn't start the movie which is being highlighted. Seems like an easy fix to me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrbee99 1560 Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 1 minute ago, FrostByte said: It doesn't really need to be a row though. You can already click Play now. It just doesn't start the movie which is being highlighted. Seems like an easy fix to me I live in hope 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14913 Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 21 hours ago, FrostByte said: All you should have to do is click the Play button while the focus is on that library, and it plays the show which is shown. Clicking play on a library behaves just like it does on any other container item. It plays the contents of that item. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostByte 5049 Posted September 24, 2022 Author Share Posted September 24, 2022 14 minutes ago, ebr said: Clicking play on a library behaves just like it does on any other container item. It plays the contents of that item. Yes, I know it starts playing the container from the same movie, song, or episode alphabetically every time. The question is can that behavior be changed. If you can randomly shuffle a Playlist container, surely you could if you wanted to start playing the movie which you've already randomly picked to display while in enhanced mode. I like the movie 300, but I can only watch it so many times. If Play doesn't work, then maybe some other button or method. I'll change the request to leave out the how though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K1ng_Lear 185 Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 (edited) Hi, in the current under development Android ET App my wife likes the horizontal view very much. Why is this so? Our start library is our movie library and in horizontal view there is always a random suggest from the library wich rotates frequently. My wife really loves this feature. No my request. Would it be possible to implement such random suggest in the vertical view, too. I could imagine to give the user the option if he want the advanced vies for the dashboard or a random suggest from one library he can select. (Of course should there be an option to deactivate this advance view, too) Thanks for considering. Edit: I recently opened a new topic without recognising that there is still this thread. So I think, it almost matches my request perfect. So I support FrostByte's request 100%. Edited September 29, 2022 by K1ng_Lear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusher11 851 Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanade3 19 Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 I have recently noticed some changes in the emby web app. In the TV mode, It allows you to choose between vertical and horizontal scrollable pages and i wish this feature returns in the android tv app and as a bonus i wish it features add to watchlist option for randomly displaying titles on the home screen.... Here are some images to illustrate my ideas 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostByte 5049 Posted November 5, 2022 Author Share Posted November 5, 2022 (edited) I've got a similar one to add Play and Add to Watch List for the enhanced area of the new Android app which already has the horizontal view. Maybe they can be added to both views at the same time. Edited November 5, 2022 by FrostByte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37065 Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 Hi, nice job on those. They look nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14913 Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 Hi. Marking as duplicate to the above request (for the additional buttons in that view). The first request is satisfied by the standard Android app which will be available in the TV store in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanade3 19 Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 Also one thing I noticed and liked on plex is that, it has add to watchlist button while you watch trailers before the main movie. Emby doesn't have this feature. you know if you watch a trailer from your local library it would be nice if you have the option to add to watchlist while watching the trailer. ( sorry I couldn't show what's been shown on my screen.... Android tv policy I guess.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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