All audio related requests

[mostynL 8]

My personal top requests which are all about audio. In any order.

1. When listening to an song and staring at the app or web browser app, I want to be able to click and zoom into the album art. Some of my album images are HD and they are really cool. Right now clicking on the art does nothing, it's too small to appreciate.

2. An easier and more consistent way to hop from a song to that song's artist, album, year, etc. .

3. A little more info about the song while it's playing --- especially the year it came out. Music meta data is important.

4. The ability to rename a playlist in emby (instead of add playlist to another new playlist, then delete the first)

5. Better bluetooth support in apps and how it reacts to a bluetooth device going offline and then later comes back on. A consistent problem in my cars & bt headphones.

6. The play queue is too ephemeral in apps, it can vanish pretty easily. Where does it go?

7. And finally an old favorite: The ability to export a playlist (with audio files) to a portable format.

 

[Luke 42078]

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2. An easier and more consistent way to hop from a song to that song's artist, album, year, etc. .

Hi, have you tried the existing ways?

[mostynL 8]

On 07/04/2023 at 20:58, Luke said:

Hi, have you tried the existing ways?

To be more specific, the view that feels like a dead end is the play queue viewer.

Go to music, songs, hit random. A random song starts to play and a play queue is generated. Tap on play queue. This is basically the view I'm on while on a mobile or tablet. 

 

From this view if I click on a song, it starts the song, even if the song is already playing. It doesn't "feel" like I can look at a song details from the play queue. If I could at least easily look at the song from here, that would probably solve my problem.

 

 

 

[Luke 42078]

We can probably add a context menu option for that.

[MagicDoubleM 121]

On 4/7/2023 at 9:44 PM, mostynL said:

My personal top requests which are all about audio. In any order.

 

If you are on Android you need to try https://www.symfonium.app/

Well worth it's money, I bet it will tik a few boxes for you. 

[mostynL 8]

On 15/04/2023 at 14:43, Luke said:

We can probably add a context menu option for that.

For whatever it's worth I would much prefer having the default "tap" on a song from play queue go to the song details only if the display is a simple portrait mode list

I use the tap-and-hold for adding a song to a playlist and would use those controls for playing 'next' or 'now' as well.

This way, from a random play queue, I could click a song by default and see the song details including the artist link, the album link and the year and the clickable art.

 

[Luke 42078]

On 4/16/2023 at 11:45 PM, mostynL said:

For whatever it's worth I would much prefer having the default "tap" on a song from play queue go to the song details only if the display is a simple portrait mode list

I use the tap-and-hold for adding a song to a playlist and would use those controls for playing 'next' or 'now' as well.

This way, from a random play queue, I could click a song by default and see the song details including the artist link, the album link and the year and the clickable art.

 

For the play queue that’s just not typical behavior for a music app though, so I’m not sure I see that happening.

[Cheesegeezer 3104]

On 07/04/2023 at 20:44, mostynL said:

My personal top requests which are all about audio. In any order.

1. When listening to an song and staring at the app or web browser app, I want to be able to click and zoom into the album art. Some of my album images are HD and they are really cool. Right now clicking on the art does nothing, it's too small to appreciate.

2. An easier and more consistent way to hop from a song to that song's artist, album, year, etc. .

3. A little more info about the song while it's playing --- especially the year it came out. Music meta data is important.

4. The ability to rename a playlist in emby (instead of add playlist to another new playlist, then delete the first)

5. Better bluetooth support in apps and how it reacts to a bluetooth device going offline and then later comes back on. A consistent problem in my cars & bt headphones.

6. The play queue is too ephemeral in apps, it can vanish pretty easily. Where does it go?

7. And finally an old favorite: The ability to export a playlist (with audio files) to a portable format.

 

I'm currently working on a Standalone app... feel free to add comments and suggestions to me here. I will certainly take them onboard 

[mostynL 8]

3 hours ago, Luke said:

For the play queue that’s just not typical behavior for a music app though, so I’m not sure I see that happening.

 

I'm not sure what music apps you are comparing to but I get it.

 

However I feel like I need to be more pushy and make my case..

I hope you are not comparing Emby with Spotify or YouTube Music, which literally hate free choice. The great thing about Emby and other private servers is that it does not lead you to penny tracks via trash algorithm. 

But personally I only use Emby and Logitec Media Server ... and below is what LMS looks like when I click on the song in a queue.

 

 

And I can look at other songs without interrupting the music. Come on that is awesome. I can also click onthe album genre, year, and even the image.

 

 

There are also controls on the play queue song item "play, remove from queue, and M is for more, the default.. which shows the song file details.

 

The (I guess) more popular skin "material" in LMS has the default of showing this submenu as a default. 

 

 

Anyway, I'm not sure what kind of person takes the time to have a home music server but I would assume they are a little bit like me, and not a casual music listener.

 

Edited April 18, 2023 by mostynL