Plexamp control inconsistency

Plex Labs
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Hey! Firstofall, BIG thanks for plexamp - it is really great, and for me - reason to be PlexPass member.
But i’ve mentioned one annoying thing - on Andriod as well as MacOS and Win - “Play this item” action.
When you are on Home screen (e.g. win\mac) you have a lot of blocks with different types of media: Albums, Artists, Stations, Tracks, Playlists.
And every kind of media has it’s own action binded for click() (play, or get context menu)
Some of them has hover() action. Some of them have hover() on the album cover (play this album).
When you are on Album, for play - you have to click onto the track, context menu pops- and then ‘Play’
When you on Artrists list - you can in one click play whole artist, as well as on Albums list.
When you are on Player screen, scroll down to Up Next, you can click on track, and it will be played. and you don’t even have context menu button (if you wat to go to album, eg).

Sooo.
Can i propouse to use THE ONE workflow. Best (from my perspective) - is mostly like on albums list:

  1. Thumbnails should be everywhere. When you hover on thumbnail - it changes to play icon. You click it - it plays. whatever it is. (and there is should be a setting for “default play order”: shuffle/one-by-one, which must be overridable in context menu: shuffle-and-play/play-as-list)
    1.1. If this is unplayable item (like years stations) - you can animate it somehow. and okay, this is the exception.
  2. When this is collection item (Artist, Album, Playlist, Folder, Style, Mood etc.) - Hover on name - rigth arrow (>) appears on right side of the item (left from three-dot). You click it - drops into this item.
    2.1. When this is playable item (Track, Station) - hover on anywhere (except three dot) - play icon appears instead of thumbnail. Click - it plays.
  3. Add “Three dot” to the rigth side of ALL items on all screens (even on back-to/up-next or library - come up with some ideas what for). And this is should be the only way to get context menu.

That’s my insigths for this feature.
Sorry guys, if you are listening for this kind of complains everyday, i’ve tried to find dups for this topic, but can’t.
I have some ideas on different topics, but i’ll post them some time later, may be =)
Thanks for your job! You are great!

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