The new media detail screens on ios beta 7.1 (20740)

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I’ve been trying out the new media detail screens on my iPhone (7 Plus), and there are some nice improvements, however I have noticed a few things.

Movies:

  • Director and writers are missing (should probably be above Studio)
  • “Cast” should probably come before “Extras”
  • Collections caps at only 6 items – please show more (preferably all)
  • Swiping left and right for next or previous movie no longer works
  • IMDB ratings are missing
  • Also, can we please get an option to hide the reviews from Rotten Tomatoes?

TV:

  • Episode count is missing on the season detail screen
  • Runtime for episodes are missing on the season detail screen
  • Display options for episodes are missing (Grid view / Summary view / List view)
  • There’s no need to show the poster on the episode preplay screen
  • Swiping left and right for next or previous series/season/episode no longer works

Music:

  • Album years are missing
  • Music video icons are missing on tracks that have a local music video
  • After expanding biography or album review, it should be possible to minimize it again (they can be quite long)
  • Swiping left and right for next or previous artist/album no longer works

I’m also missing the swipe-down-from-top effect to view background images without dimming/gradient (like before). I kinda liked that.

Also, is it just me or is scrolling up and down not as smooth as it used to be?

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+1 for all the suggestions above.

rotten tomatoes is pretty awful. please don’t use the real estate for that.

very few care about studio. almost everyone cares about director.

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+1
Director and writers are missing
IMDB ratings are missing WHY?!

absolutely meaningless and I cannot imagine what was the reason…? why was these feature eliminated?
In my opinion an upgrade should be contain improvements rather than setbacks.

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Please fix it!!!

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I agree with all of this, the iPad version has been a bit frustrating, particularly for TV.
I appreciate the uniformity of movies and TV screens, however they still require specialisation for the different formats. Notably, the right empty space that is not populated with IMDB info is ripe for filling with missing features. I miss the single column TV but appreciate you’d like to move to more uniformity. So, this could include:

  • Reinstate navigate left/right for episodes and seasons. I often navigate through seasons finding an episode I like, and same with episodes. The top banner image was perfect for this in the older versions, but left/right buttons placed at the top of the in the empty right hand column space could suffice.

  • I miss the large image and play button. A top header for image/season swiping with large naviation buttons immediately below, and the two columns reduced to 50% of the screen might assist this.

Episode selection happens on the right, without a quickplay button on the thumbnail, and then a new page opens requiring moving to the left to push play. A few steps could be eliminated here:

  • Add quickplay buttons to thumbnails, or to the right of episode descriptions
  • Move the play buttons to the top of the 2nd column universally, so that they appear in line with cover image and episode statistics.

Overall the TV component needs customising for TV, reducing tap numbers and screens to browse and get to media faster. Looking forward to seeing what comes next

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Director is back (ios beta 7.2), but now music albums also has a director field? It’s not affecting all albums though, only recently added albums (I think).

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I’m not seeing that myself. Can you share a screenshot, and some logs, please? :plexheart:

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Screenshot:
album_director

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Logs:
PlexDebugInfo-tsundf-7.2-20987 (2020-06-23 01.20.29 +0200).zip (2.3 MB)
Plex Media Server Logs_2020-06-23_01-22-29.zip (5.8 MB)

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