It would be nice if Plexamp’s menu had an option to open the Plex web UI for easier visual browsing of a music library. When viewing an artist/album a right click option to open the Plex web UI to that artist/album would also be handy.
Browsing a large library visually seems to be the main limit in Plexamp, and that’s okayish because it’s supposed to be “tiny”, a shortcut to the web UI can make it more okay.
Oh and we could also use a WinAmp like keybinding that immediately focuses on the Search field. That way we can do: keyboard shortcut to search > type some part of artist/album/track name > enter for playback. I really miss being able to quickly jump from track to track with a search shortcut.
Checked your gist, cool, thanks. I didn’t see “activate” mentioned in the Plexamp FAQ—perhaps it needs updating?
So now that I’ve updated ~/Library/Application\ Support/Plexamp/config.json with:
"keys": {
"activate": "Shift+Control+Command+P"
}
I’ve tested it out and it’s almost but not quite there. To achieve WinAmp feature parity we’d need to be able to switch tracks without taking our hands off the keyboard. The “activate” shortcut brings Plexamp to top and pressing it again focuses the Discovery field to search.
However, to select any of the results I have to move the mouse to my second display and click on the track. Not quite A11Y friendly. It would be better if we could use the arrow keys to move up and down in the search results and press enter to begin playback.
To better demonstrate the significant difference in usability I made a screen recording. My hands don’t leave the keyboard. At the end, you can see Plexamp jump back and forth in the Discovery field as I press up and down expecting to be able to select and press enter from the results.
