[Audio section] UI Improvements
Dear all,
I would like to propose a few small UI improvements for the Audio-section in VLC for iOS (iPhone).
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When showing albums, show # of tracks next to it (in tab "Albums" and under "Artist"/"Albums") Example: A album "Moonshot" by "Jack Richards" would show like this: Moonshot Jack Richards (5 Titles)
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To gain more screen space, remove the bottom navigation bar ("Video", "Audio", "Playlists", and "Network"). Instead, move these controls into a context menu that can be opened via hamburger icon, that is displayed on top right (when user is not in a sub-menu, see mockup 2)
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In the sorting settings for albums, add the sort option "Artist/Album", rename "Alphanumeric" to "Album. Change the default from "Album" to "Artist/Album"
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In the sorting settings for songs, add the sort option "Artist/Title", rename "Alphanumeric" to "Title", and rename "Album" to "Album/Title". Change the default from "Title" to "Artist/Title"
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When listing songs, when swiping right on a song title, suggest to remove the "delete" button (delete would still remain accessible via the context menu). Instead, swiping should drag the displayed information left and right, so that one can see the full name of the title.
Particularly when music titles are long (e.g. typical for classical music), that would be a great enrichment. As can be seen on the screenshot below, they currently are truncated.Currently it reads:
"Concerto A 6 D-Moll RV129 'M..."
as opposed to:
"Concerto A 6 D-Moll RV129 'Madrigalesco' - II. Adagio - III. Allegro Di Molto"
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In the top navigation menu, add next to the "..." icon the "shuffle" and "play" buttons (on all audio tabs, ie albums, artists, songs, genres). Clicking play should play all currently displayed items. As example, when having filtered the songs, this play button should play all search results (eg, all songs that have the word "Allegro" inside, as on the mockup below, which relates to tracks from different artists and albums)
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German version: Change tab name "Lieder" to "Titel"
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When swiping left on the mini player (displayed on mockup 2), stop playing and hide mini player
Mockup for proposal 6):
In this example, "Shuffle" is active, and play would randomly play all song that are currently filtered.
Mockup for proposal 2):