@cpd73
I've just started using the Podcast plugin and it made me notice a couple of things that Material doesn't appear able to do. Podcasts ===== When the Podcast plugin is used to carry out a search there seems to be no way of making a favourite other than playing the track/podcast and using the 'track/more' (three dots), then selecting 'Save to Favourites'. That in itself is useful for saving a single podcast but operates in a different way to the default skin. The default skin only allows saving a favourite direct from the initial search not from playing an individual podcast. It may be clearer if I give an example of what I'm trying to do... 1. Using Material go into 'Apps/Podcasts' and search for 'The Life Scientific' - it probably returns 3 items but I'll only refer to BBC Radio 4 'The Life Scientific' - this is at the top level and is similar to finding a music album. With Material the only option is to select 'The Life Scientific' - a number of podcasts are returned. Playing one of the podcasts and using 'track/more' allows the podcast to be saved to favourites - the default skin doesn't allow this so it's a useful addition to Material. 2. Using the Default Skin again go into 'Apps/Podcasts', search for 'The Life Scientific'. In this case each of the returned items (top level) can have a favourite created. This effectively means that the original search is saved, something that can't be done with Material. Folders ==== Next, creating and using folders in 'Home/Favourites'. I want to keep the favourites menu manageable so I created a new folder 'Podcasts'. With Material there appears to be no way of moving an existing favourite track/podcast into the new folder. It can only be done in a roundabout way by using the default skin via 'Home/Favourites/Edit' and then dragging the track/podcast into the new folder. As far as I can see this isn't possible with Material. I hope that all makes some kind of sense! I have no idea if it's possible to get Material to 'Favourite' the initial Podcast search or to move saved favourites into a folder or if it's worth the effort. Maybe it's a limitation of the Classic Skin that Material is based on. It can all be done using a combination of Material and the Default Skin but it would be nice to be able to do it all in one place - Material. What do you thing Craig? 2 x Touch 2 x Radio 2 x Boom 1 x Intel-NUC server/squeezelite running LMS 8.20 (from nightlies) on Windows 10 1 X Odroid-XU4 server/squeezelite running LMS 7.91 on Ubuntu 16.04 1 x iMac server running macOS Big Sur WaveIO USB into Lavry DA-10 DAC Starfish Pre-amp : Based on NAIM NAC 72 Heavily modified NAIM NAP 250 Power-amp Focal Electra 1027 Be II Speakers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bobertuk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30376 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109624 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
