I have a feeling that the music queue (in the “Up Next” menu) should be able to scroll. however, it seems to kinda just randomly truncate, and when items are added it kicks things off the list?
Ah, forgot to mention, this is on the Plex Web Client.
Ok, actually I played around a bit more with queue, and it doesn’t seem like it truncates, just that it’s missing the ability to scroll.
Edit: One other odd thing I noticed, is that if you hit the “Play” icon on an album, and then you “add to queue” on another album, it will kick the entire first album off the queue. This is what I was referring to with the first comment.
A usability oddness is that it’s kinda easy to accidentally click on a “popular track” while inside the “album view”, which then kicks off your entire play queue. Maybe make these occur through a play button instead of being a huge clickable line to prevent accidents?
The issue is that Plex is designed to only show 20 or so entries on the queue, even though there may be hundreds. This is done to save on memory usage, I believe. It’s kind of annoying, but if I remember correctly, it caused some problems in the past on systems with limited memory.
As the queue progresses, the list will update to show items farther down the list. When you add a new album to an existing queue, it inserts the new album right after the currently playing track. So the first album wasn’t kicked off, it was just moved down the list.
This area certainly could do with some design changes.
Hmm, well I supposed that might be the case with the queue length, but I don’t want the other 2 points to be missed, the one regarding the “play” and “add to queue” interaction seems like a bug.
@nlsun said:
Hmm, well I supposed that might be the case with the queue length, but I don’t want the other 2 points to be missed, the one regarding the “play” and “add to queue” interaction seems like a bug.
My second paragraph was intended to address that.
Ah. I understand it now. It is a bug, just not the way that I imagined it to be at first.
If you hit “play” on Music1 it will clear the queue and add it. However, if you then “add to queue” Music2, then Music2 will be placed at the top of the queue instead of the bottom. However, if I “add to queue” Music3 then it will properly add to the bottom of the queue, and so on for new adds. So the final ordering of the queue is Music2, Music3, Music4, …Music-N, Music1.
However, if I “add to queue” from the start instead of using the “play” (which resembles a clear and add operation) then I will get the expected Music1, Music2, …Music-N
Also, is this the appropriate place for feedback?
