V2.1.0 Release Feedback

[RadicalMuffinMan]

Hey everyone! v2.1.0 just came out with plenty of big and small changes all throughout and I'd love some feedback from the community. Things you liked, things you didn't, performance, etc. If it's a legitimate issue, then please submit an issue instead and I'll happily look into it this week.

[MrSimmo]

Just some early feedback! - You guys have really smashed it with this release - its awesome, thanks!

One minor UI piece, when the UI is configured to have a left menu; if there is an image (say cover art) behind it, the text is sometimes hard to read on the menu. Not sure if its possible to increase the opacity purely for that menu? (The general opacity slider doesn't seem to affect it)

Cheers again!

[RadicalMuffinMan]

You should be able to, go into settings and look for featured media bar and increase opacity

[MrSimmo]

Cheers, will check it out 👍

[MrSimmo]

Had a quick look - I've got features media bar disabled in the settings; think its just the left menu

[999romain]

Early feedback: navigation feels much slower. The backdrop takes about 5 times longer to change than before, which might be the cause of the lag?

[999romain]

Updated how the RT icons are handled when the plugin is disabled. Also shoot me an email if you're interested in trying the new android mobile app.

I am sadly an IOS user

[RadicalMuffinMan]

iOS is coming later in the week along with MacOS desktop client and apple tv. I can send you the apple tv desktop client if you wanted to try that as well.

here is a new one with hopefully faster settings
Moonfin-v2.2.0.zip

[999romain]

I am interested to try the iOS one, I'll check the new one tomorrow!!

[ilbarone87]

Same here if you need beta testers for iOS/iPadOS

[Tunu-de]

same hear to test IOS/IpadOS

[ilbarone87]

What's the right procedure to upgrade the version? Just upload again the version?

[RadicalMuffinMan]

Yes

[MrSimmo]

Had a chance to have a good go through it this morning before work. Looking great, I'm not seeing any UI delays/slow-downs like others - this is Tizen 5 (Q90r/2019) so could be that?

Few other areas, I think it would be great to look into (please let me know if you would prefer these raised as feature requests):

• We've disabled the clock (horay!). During media playback, it still displays "Ends at HH:MM" in the bottom right just about the progress bar. Could we disable this if the option to disable the clock has been set?

• If you start playing music, then press back to hide the progress bar. This works fine but when the song changes, the progress bar re-appears and you have to press back again to hide it. Would be good to retain the state from before so it stays hidden.

• Could we move the music playback controls (back/pause/forward) from the left to the centre of the screen? Was thinking something like moving the controls down slightly and move the song info (title/artwork etc) up to accommodate when the progress bar is displayed. With a short push animation.

• Would be great to have the option to move the media title from the top left of the screen to under the cover art image in the media selection screens.

• When nothing is selected, the UI has a black background. Could we add an option to select a gradient fill instead? For example Plex has a lighter->darker grey fill and jellyfin has the blue gradient fill option (not sure what its called).

• Old school and not sure if people will want this, but the option of timed visualisations to music such as Milkdrop or spectrograms etc could be a nice addition.

Cheers 👍

[Tunu-de]

I installed the new version with SmartHub integration on my Samsung TV. Overall everything works. Navigation feels a bit sluggish at times.

One thing I noticed right away: the client identifies itself to Jellyfin as an LG Smart TV instead of a Samsung TV.

[RadicalMuffinMan]

Ah crap thank you. Forgot to make that per-platform. I'll be putting out a new update today to speed up navigation!

[Tunu-de]

Thanks

[ilbarone87]

Hi @RadicalMuffinMan thanks for your hardwork and for this great client. Just a small feedback about something can I suggest please to normalise the releases and use a develop branch?
For example I have a WebOs TV and was affected by both the seek player issue and the direct play one and found out you have built some versions with the fix for these issues and post it straight to the issue but with the same latest version tag.
A GHA that manages all of this should be easy to implement.
E.G merge all the PR branches to develop to test for us and then promote to a new release for main using semver tagging.
If releases with patches keep the same tag as main release this could lead to confusion between versions and issues (aka risk of duplicate GH issues)

[mohamadlezzeik-bit]

I installed the latest version and everything so far looks great. However one gripe I have is the UI font is too small on my TV and I could not find any options to increase it in the menus, only for subtitles.

[RadicalMuffinMan]

I'll add it for next release, sorry about that