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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:

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

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

Good idea. I'll look into that too!

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

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!

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.

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

Thanks a bunch!

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()...