More or customizable library icons

[aVe2000 13]

Hello,

i'd like to suggest a way to have a greater variability on library icons, especially for libraries on the left menu side. For instance the symbols for music and audiobooks are the same. Also the symbols for "Series" and "recorded series" are the same. So, my suggestion is to use a greater variability, for instance keeping the "Headphones" for audiobooks and change to "Music Note" for music. The symbols for series could be kept but for recorded series use "radio button checked" as it looks like a record symbol.

One other way would be to make it customizable at all.

Of course one can use css, but this only would change the symbols in the web app and not in the windows or android app.

Kind regards

[Luke 42077]

Hi, I guess the question is should the symbols be different just for the sake of being different? I personally think the headphones icon is the best look, even if that means having the same one for music and audiobooks.

[aVe2000 13]

Hi Luke,

the current Icons are nice and beautyful. It's only for seeing the difference between the libs at first sight.

Thank you you for replying. 

Regards

[Luke 42077]

6 minutes ago, aVe2000 said:

Hi Luke,

the current Icons are nice and beautyful. It's only for seeing the difference between the libs at first sight.

Thank you you for replying. 

Regards

Yea I agree with the idea that they all should be different. There just aren't enough good ones in the set that we're using in order to do that, in my opinion.

[aVe2000 13]

Hi Luke,

This is then a discussion about "form follows function" or not. I'd prefer distinctiveness. But this is of course a personal preference.

Thank you and kind regards again.

[Jen25 34]

6 hours ago, Luke said:

Yea I agree with the idea that they all should be different. There just aren't enough good ones in the set that we're using in order to do that, in my opinion.

I'm sure there are plenty of photoshop gurus out there that would happily add a book to the headphones image and a red dot to the series image to be able to have a different appearance.

[aVe2000 13]

3 hours ago, dnicks said:

I'm sure there are plenty of photoshop gurus out there that would happily add a book to the headphones image and a red dot to the series image to be able to have a different appearance.

Right now emby uses an icon set delivered by Google (material Icons and symbols).

It's very easy to change an icon within this icon set. But to open it to all kinds of icons leads to more work for the developers, I am afraid. 

[user24 313]

On 10/21/2024 at 8:11 PM, aVe2000 said:

So, my suggestion is to use a greater variability, for instance keeping the "Headphones" for audiobooks and change to "Music Note" for music.

This is a good idea. I always tend to think of headphones relating to mobile music listening, rather than applying generally to all music listening.

10 hours ago, Luke said:

Yea I agree with the idea that they all should be different. There just aren't enough good ones in the set that we're using in order to do that, in my opinion.

So, just thinking (IMHO)... there may be plenty of suitable "Music Note" icons to choose from in the standard set that Emby already uses, without needing photoshop? ♪♪ I think Emby get their icons from Google's Material Symbols and Icons here: https://fonts.google.com/icons

If this is correct, then there are many music note icons and other audio icons to choose from, Here are a few with notes that I found:

This is just a small selection. There are many more to also chose from.

While I personally like "Music Library" and have already used in custom graphics elsewhere, perhaps "Music Cast" would be more distinctive because it isn't a 'square' icon. This may better differentiate Music from Audiobooks and also relate quite well to general music use with Emby?

What does everyone else think? Cheers!

[aVe2000 13]

26 minutes ago, user24 said:

This is a good idea. I always tend to think of headphones relating to mobile music listening, rather than applying generally to all music listening.

So, just thinking (IMHO)... there may be plenty of suitable "Music Note" icons to choose from in the standard set that Emby already uses, without needing photoshop? ♪♪ I think Emby get their icons from Google's Material Symbols and Icons here: https://fonts.google.com/icons

If this is correct, then there are many music note icons and other audio icons to choose from, Here are a few with notes that I found:

This is just a small selection. There are many more to also chose from.

While I personally like "Music Library" and have already used in custom graphics elsewhere, perhaps "Music Cast" would be more distinctive because it isn't a 'square' icon. This may better differentiate Music from Audiobooks and also relate quite well to general music use with Emby?

What does everyone else think? Cheers!

I for myself use the simple music note icon via css. But, as mentioned, hacking css only works for the Web app for now.