naim control app and showExtras property

[simoncn]

(06-03-2016 16:01)tarnkappe Wrote:  Hi Simon,

I think you should add another note for the naim control app in your manual:
http://minimserver.com/ug-browsing.html#...l%20points

The issues I have found are:

1)
In the album index when entering an album I do not see the '>> Tag View' if "showExtras" is turned to "true". Or is this a normal behaviour? (But everything else seems to work; especially regarding the issues of 2).

To see '>> Tag View', you need to select a folder in folder view. You won't see this if you select an album from the "# albums" list.

Quote:2) more important:
In the folder view if the "showExtras" property is set to "true", the naim app does not offer one important menu item (in german "Ab diesem Titel abspielen", it must be translated to something like...) "Play right from this track" (So the touched track is played and it, as well as all following are put into the playlist).

Also an album in the folder view is presented in another way if the property is turned to true. Usually you see the album cover as a bigger image at the top. Below this the tracks are listed without having the cover thumbnail each. With the property turned on, the naim app seems not to "understand" the directory as one album and lists the tracks as if they are mixed from different albums. The bigger cover image is missing, but instead each track has its own cover thumbnail. (That is consuming much space on a small phone display, because the naim app cuts off longer titles instead of wrapping them.)

Greetings
Gert

I have confirmed both these issues. It seems the Naim app uses an album view for a folder container that contains all the tracks of a single album and nothing else. If showExtras is set to true, there is a '>> Tag View' selection in the folder container and the Naim app doesn't use an album view for the folder contents.

I have added a note about this in the Control points section.