Subsonic webclient - play an album - quick!

[slimeee]

Hi - after using SUbsonic for a year - I'm still missing one thing:

* When I list my albums - I want to play it directly instead of waiting for the album to load a tracklist a tracklist at the bottom of the window.

How about adding a "play" button somwhere - on top of the coverart - ot before / after the ARTIST + ALBUM NAME?

Here'sa quick mockup in paintbrush:

[ytechie]

Interesting. I will think about how to add a link to the coverart in home.jsp. Thanks for the idea!

[BKKKPewsey]

It is a pity its not easy to implement right click options eg right click album cover select play now.
Hmm! perhaps there is a jquery right click option

[ytechie]

Good idea. I'll look into that too!

[osh]

A play icon right before the album name would work awesome for me too...

[ytechie]

This is how to add a play icon to the left of the album names in home.jsp:

We are going to edit home.jsp. Here is the part we are going to edit:

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<c:choose>
   <c:when test="${empty album.artist and empty album.albumTitle}">
      <div class="detail"><fmt:message key="common.unknown"/></div>
   </c:when>
   <c:otherwise>
      <div class="detail"><em><str:truncateNicely lower="15" upper="15">${album.artist}</str:truncateNicely></em></div>
      <div class="detail">
      
      :)
      
      <str:truncateNicely lower="15" upper="15">${album.albumTitle}</str:truncateNicely></div>
   </c:otherwise>
</c:choose>

I put a smiley at the line that we are going to insert this code:

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<c:import url="playAddDownload.jsp">
   <c:param name="path" value="${album.path}"/>
   <c:param name="video" value="false"/>
   <c:param name="playEnabled" value="true"/>
   <c:param name="addEnabled" value="false"/>
   <c:param name="downloadEnabled" value="false}"/>
   <c:param name="asTable" value="false"/>
</c:import>

Note: When trying to play a video, it will stop the currently playing song, and clear your playlist. I wasn't able to tell it to detect if the child files are videos.

Hope this helps!

[osh]

Awesome!!! ytechie - that patch worked for me, you rock!!! I'm getting closer to that point where Jinzora goes away, Subsonic becomes my replacement media manager, and will donate to the cause.

[ytechie]

[slimeee]

Absolutely awesome - works super. So fast... now I don't have to wait for the album to load.

Thanks a bunch!

[osh]

Bump - I recently upgraded to 4.8 (and may upgrade to 4.9 if recommended after this conversation) and reimplemented this "feature". I may have done it incorrectly, but I get the play icon where it was before, but that no longer does anything for me.

Do I need to add / change something else for this to work?

edit note: when I hover over the icon, the text reads play. The link at the bottom of my browser reads javascript:noop()...