cpd73 wrote:
> I'm developing this purely for fun, however, seeing as I have been asked
> about this before, I have added donate button to Material's github page:
> https://github.com/CDrummond/lms-material
Thanks - I too felt compelled to donate after trying your skin for the
first time about two hours ago. I cannot overstate how impressed I am.
It is simple, beautiful, intuitive, elegant, very well thought trough
into the details, and it has features I had given up hoping for even in
a full blown app - and you managed to pull them off in "just" a skin.
Amazing. Of course, this is also a showcase about how far web technology
has come, and about what a great architectural design the
Slimserver/Squeezebox people came up with so many years ago, which makes
it even possible to still extend it in such a modern and elegant
manner.
Oh, and please stop advertising your skin as "suitable for mobile use" -
I'm using it on a 65 inch TV and it feels like a whole new experience.
I'm afraid a lot of users might be missing out because they read "for
mobile use" in the plugin description and decide that's not what they
are looking for.
The two features I am especially excited about are:
- The easily accessible rating widget.
I am still using the Squeeze Commander app on Android to the day,
although it didn't see any updates for almost a decade, because every
other app ever since only allowed rating via sub menus and most don't
even show the rating on their now playing screens. The ratings are an
essential feature to me, and I never quite understood why this feature
receives so little love in music players, while everybody seems to be
obsessed with ratings when it comes to movies.
- The elegant "now playing" display for the big screen.
Especially for the PC, this was sorely missing. Only erland had made
an effort in this direction many years ago, but it was a little
cumbersome to use as it wasn't integrated in a control app, and
visually it didn't quite appeal to me.
A few small suggestions for nice to have improvements:
- is there a reason why you don't use the "Title Format" defined in
the "Interface" settings for the track list? I would love to see my
ratings as a number in parentheses after each title name in the list.
- I think it would be nice to switch to "now playing" mode when
clicking on the album cover in the controls bar at the bottom of the
tracklist mode.
- I would love to have an option to display a clock on the now
playing screen; maybe only for desktop mode, as it would fit nicely in
the middle of the title bar there. On a mobile, the OS's clock is
always only a swipe away anyway.
And one more idea: did you think about packaging this in a way so that
you can publish it in the apple and google app stores? It would be much
more likely to be found by users looking for a mobile lms controller.
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