0019310: MMA integration into Driving mode issues (Artwork / Home screen) - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0019310	MMA	Android Auto	public	2022-08-18 17:43	2023-06-06 14:17

Reporter	rusty	Assigned To
Priority	urgent	Severity	major	Reproducibility	always
Status	assigned	Resolution	reopened
Product Version	2.0.0
Target Version	2.0.1	Fixed in Version	2.0.0

Summary	0019310: MMA integration into Driving mode issues (Artwork / Home screen)
Description	This is probably to changes made by Google, but when the user enters driving mode, and chooses MediaMonkey, there are numerous problems that make it unusable ATM: 1) Clicking 'MediaMonkey' --> all thumbnails are missing artwork, and clicking any of these thumbnails has no effect! 2) Clicking 'Media' --> numerous thumbnails from MMA (and other media apps) display, but the MediaMonkey thumbnails are all missing artwork, and as above, clicking the MediaMonkey thumbnails has no effect! 3) Click, MediaMonkey > All to get to MediaMonkey content and then: a) > Playlists > PlaylistName --> 'Looks like there isn't anything to play' b) > Artists > Letter > ArtistName --> 'Looks like there isn't anything to play' in most cases c) > Genres > GenreName --> 'Looks like there isn't anything to play' in most cases d) > Albums --> 'Looks like there isn't anything to play' Note: there's no obvious reason why occasionally content appears for cases b/c. It doesn't seem to be related to the number of tracks in the list, the file types, the album art format, etc. However, although setting 'List size for external apps' to 200 or unlimited had no effect, setting it to 0, at least allowed tracks within to play. i.e. although none of nodes displayed the tracks they contained, it was possible to play the contents of the node since the Play and Shuffle buttons always displayed. 4) Playing queue appears as 'Playing queue(BT)' it should just be 'Playing queue'
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Attached Files	Screenshot_20220818-133528.png (140,730 bytes) Screenshot_20220818-133528.png (140,730 bytes) Screenshot_20220818-133239.png (122,375 bytes) Screenshot_20220818-133239.png (122,375 bytes)

Fixed in build	1057

rusty 2022-12-21 06:52 administrator ~0070678	Note: VLC didn't experience nealy as many issues: - it displays artwork for thumbnails, and the thumbnails play - Playlists can be played by tapping on them (they don't open to reveal contents--they just play) - Artists and Albums lists were truncated (only a couple of each were accessible) - Genres>GenreName would have a Play all button and a list of albums each of which could be played individually. I mention this in case the strategy described above is somehow partially responsible for preventing driving mode from loading content. e..g perhaps MM loads Artists while VLC only loads a partial list because MM divides them up by letter. But that's defiintely only part of the story as it doesn't explain why MM won't load a single track in many cases.

rusty 2022-12-21 15:03 administrator ~0070686 Last edited: 2022-12-21 15:05	Note: setting MMA's 'Limit list size for external apps' to 0, 'fixes' items 3a,b,c (but not D). i.e. it at least results in the Play & Play shuffled options appearing for most subnodes. So, instead of completely fixing this, we may want to just make this kind of work (temporarily) by: A) reducing the default list size B) and changing Album browsing so that it first prompts for a letter of the Alphabet (like Artists does) in order to shrink the list size. This isn't a great solution, but at least it becomes somewhat usable while driving. BTW, we may want to try alternate list sizes as well (e.g. would 50 work vs 200?)

rusty 2022-12-26 22:44 administrator ~0070754 Last edited: 2022-12-27 16:56	5) Based on a user's comments at ticket 5256, it appears that variations of issue 3) occur on Android Auto: According to the user, "since update build 1055 when connected to Android Auto, my playlists won't load. Instead I get an endless yellow circle of death. Right now my work around us to set the list size for external apps to 0 so I can just choose to start the playlist..." Debug log ID VCZ9PCL4JC

martin 2022-12-28 14:49 developer ~0070760	Fixed in build 2.0.0.1057

rusty 2022-12-29 05:28 administrator ~0070763 Last edited: 2022-12-29 05:29	Tested driving mode on 1057, and although issues 3 and 4 are fixed, issues 1 & 2 are not and artwork for all cases of issue 3) is missing. So basically, driving mode is now usable except that the UI is problematic since artwork is missing for all tracks and all representations of tracks (as illustrated in the inital set of images in this bug). Note: I haven't yet tested with Android Auto.

rusty 2023-01-22 01:39 administrator ~0070958	6) Another usability issue is that in Driving mode, the MediaMonkey home screen always displays the same 12 tracks. It would be preferable if it displayed e.g. Shuffle (all) Play Random Album Playlist1 Playlist2 Playlist3 ....