I understand your position on trailers. Some people who have waited more than a year for this feature will be ecstatic while others could consider it bloat. Maybe a fix would be an option to hide such features plex doesn’t currently support, for the minimalist like yourself.
I do however, not agree the recent addition of MyPlex adds to plexConnect being “stretched out of shape”. MyPlex is part of modern clients because it’s a main component of the plex ecosystem.
Can we please not make Plexconnect too bloated in order to make it do superfluous things. It's once attractive minimalist interface is already being stretched out of shape to add MyPlex. Further, adding awkward hacks just to mimic decorative functionality from other clients just seems inelegant to me.Regards,(The design police strikes again)
I actually don’t mind the trailers implementation. Salbahra did a great job on it. I was referring to the possible addition of TV theme music via Youtube sources, which seems like an inelegant hack for not much payoff to me.
And while I also agree that MyPlex is key functionality (and not superfluous), I think it has obviously reshaped Plexconnect visually. And, as it currently stands, not in a positive way. Search is no longer in the Navigation Bar but in the Library Section list and we have a new MyPlex tab/page that appears as a big empty space for those not using MyPlex. To get from Channels to Settings you are forced to see that empty page.
Theme music is unlikely to happen due to the nature of the PlexConnect architecture; you tube searches will find a trailer relatively easy but for theme music I cannot imagine it will be reliable and not horribly hackish.
The interface is a little fluid at the moment as MyPlex support is a lot more complex than people think, feel free to provide mock ups to the debate
I actually don't mind the trailers implementation. Salbahra did a great job on it. I was referring to the possible addition of TV theme music via Youtube sources, which seems like an inelegant hack for not much payoff to me.
I agree. I never liked theme music, but others do. I'm wondering how easy/possible it is to add toggles. Toggles usually makes 99% of people happy.
And while I also agree that MyPlex is key functionality (and not superfluous), I think it has obviously reshaped Plexconnect visually. And, as it currently stands, not in a positive way. Search is no longer in the Navigation Bar but in the Library Section list and we have a new MyPlex tab/page that appears as a big empty space for those not using MyPlex. To get from Channels to Settings you are forced to see that empty page.
That makes sense. It sounds like there may be some cleanup to do. Sometimes new additions have some drawbacks that need to be brought to attention to possibly fix.
Theme music is unlikely to happen due to the nature of the PlexConnect architecture; you tube searches will find a trailer relatively easy but for theme music I cannot imagine it will be reliable and not horribly hackish.
The interface is a little fluid at the moment as MyPlex support is a lot more complex than people think, feel free to provide mock ups to the debate ;)
Theme music is already part of the PMS api. If a show has valid theme music, it will show up in the xml result from the PMS api.
If there was a way to embed the theme music that pms already serves to clients into plexconnect that would be sweet! Its one of the only things I miss from the client based plex on the atv. Its not needed for functionality but would be great if its easily implemented like trailers was. Any way it could be implemented if possible would be great for that matter (toggle option sounds great btw). Either way it goes thanks again for looking into this guys, much appreciated! This should be a walk in the park compared to myplex, still cant get over how you were able to integrate that feature!
I assume Plex has some information on preferred language and therefore plan on checking there first. If it is available, I will then check if YouTube/TMDB have information about additional languages. If both those exist, then I will try to code some language detection and automatic selection of the correct trailer.
Otherwise, I don't know if Baa or roidy would want to add even more options in the settings page. From my understanding, their goal is to keep PlexConnect a client and not a feature providing app. Also, Plex Media Server does intend to handle trailers at some point. This would result in removal of my code/options to support the native trailer method. With all of that said, I would hate to add options and then be forced to decide between removing them or supporting them in some fashion when the trailer lookup moves from PlexConnect to PMS.
It is possible to pull the language set in the ATV settings, this is how the PlexConnect localisations decide on language selection. This does mean that only certain languages would be supported.
