gorman wrote: 
> With Miniplayer, clicking on artist or album invokes the web browser
> version of the interface, instead of restoring Squeezelite-X to normal
> view. Don't know if it's intended behaviour but I find it somewhat
> illogical.
> 
> Edit: I guess some more explanation could be useful. When I'm front of
> my PC I'm not necessarily using the browser. I might be writing
> something, I might be working on a spreadsheet or in Photoshop. To
> launch or bring to front the browser is annoying. It also asks me for
> user and password, something that is not needed with Squeezelite-X,
> since those are stored in its settings. So instead of immediately going
> to browse an artist's list of albums I need to input user and password,
> in addition to having a window open that I might not need/want.

It is illogical.  It is a function of the minibrowser itself, that is
the LMS code driving it.  I see if you are in the full browser
interface, it will open the artist/album info in the left-side pane. 
But in the minibrowser, the is no left-side pane so it (if you still
have the main browser open that was used to invoke the minibrowser), it
will update the left hand pane or (if not) it opens a new browser.  What
you would like then is to open the SLX main browser and update the left
hand pane.  At the time I was implementing the MiniBrowser, which is
intended to be a more usable version than what a regular browser would
give you, I remember thinking about your issue, but deferring it since
it was going to be hard to do.

So as a work-around, you can click the caption arrow to quickly get back
to the main browser and click on the artist there and get what you want.
(so an extra click, I know).  Another work around might to create a
tray menu link that also does what you want.  For example you could
create the following tray menu link:

Artist Discography | https://www.discogs.com/search?q=%Artist%

Which would bring up the currently playing artist on discogs.org.

Lately I have been working on making SLX work with the Material Skin
recently developed by Craig Drummond.  In the process, I may be closer
to having some techniques that might be applicable to solving your
issue, so I will give it a second look after I get the Material skin
working.  Frankly, though, once the new SLX version is available and you
start using it, you might not use the default LMS skin much after that. 
Since it is small and good.

Thanks for reminding me about this issue.  I'm adding it to my queue.

R Greg Dawson



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