Provide option to rearrange the items in my music

[Blackfiction]

Would it be a possibility to have some option in Lyrion to rearrange the menu items in the my music menu? Please see this post; https://forums.slimdevices.com/forum/user-forums/3rd-party-software/106269-announce-material-skin?p=1744214#post1744214

What determines the menu item order in the my music menu? For example, when I select my music, using material skin, I get the following order;
Artists
Bands
Artists (ex Classical) - this is an additional browse menu
Releases
etc...

Would't it be nice if the user can reorganize the menu items?

[michaelherger]

Isn't this a Material skin setting? I'm not saying it was possible in Default, but if it's Material then you'd rather stick with that thread, or head over to the Material skin repository (https://github.com/CDrummond/lms-material).

[CDrummond]

The problem with implementing it in Material is that I don't store this list of items (unlike 'Home' screen), the contents come straight from LMS. So, if the user enables or disables items via LMS's settings then the correct list is shown.

LMS already assigns a weight to each item, which is used to define the order. If it was possible for a UI to alter the weight for an item then that could be used to implement this.

I must admit the current order, especially with user-defined roles, seems a bit random. Perhaps if user-defined roles were sorted alphabetically this would help? IMHO, a better order for this list would be a nicer solution than user-defined sort (and simpler to implement (well for me at least :) ). Perhaps:

• Album Artists
• All Artists
• Artists
• any other 'artist' based browse mode, sorted alphabetically
• Albums
• Random Albums
• Compilations
• New Music
• Recently Updated Albums
• any other 'albums' based browse mode, sorted alphabetically
• Works
• any other 'works' based browse mode, sorted alphabetically
• Genres
• Years
• any other browse modes, sorted alphabetically

Then at least all 'artist' views are grouped together, and likewise for 'albums' based views. I could probably implement this all in Material, if this is not something you would like LMS to implement

[michaelherger]

Thanks for the clarification @CDrummond. Right, that's not the main screen - I got that confused.

I like your suggestion about grouping by content type. I'd have to look how this could be implemented, as the current weight is numerical only, not content aware.

[Blackfiction]

And would it be a possibility to let the user decide on the ordering in LMS settings? Default ordering could be as is or by content type.

[CDrummond]

I'd go for it not being configurable. How is a new user supposed to choose between sorted (new order) and what the older order is - which they would never have seen. Not every little thing should be configurable, leads to a confusing mess.

[Blackfiction]

I think the user can already choose his/her order when they have a SB Boom. So why not use that same screen/menu for the other players as well? When you go to LMS backend and select the Player there is a menu called Menu. which lets the user see all the menu items and there are arrows to move them up or down. Not sure why this menu is only available for SB Boom and not for SB Touch, SB Radio or squeelite devices?

[edegl]

I'm also interested in the sorting option. What came of that?