2017-12-30, 19:29
First things first... the default Estuary skin is great, I love it, but it seems lacking in music functionality and data to me.
So I'd like to change that!
What skin changes would people like to see that specifically relate to music?
Personally I can think of a few changes:
- More data on Album info page such as Theme, Mood, Style, Tempo, Sales figure
- Album review data
- More data on Artist info page such as Style, Mood, Current Record Label, Active dates, Country, Birthplace
- Album CoverFlow view
- Album Back cover
- Album Spine Cover browser view
- Album Large cover Shift/showcase view like this
- Album year visible on Artist >> Album browsing page
- A-Z nodes for All Artists, All Album and All Track view
- A-Z images on IconWall view or a smaller IconWall view similar to how the year shows
- Artist ClearArt on artist/album info page
- Artist Logo browse view
- Artist Banner browse view
- Artist and Album comments (probably need Marcel to add this to helper Add-on and me to actually write an API method to access it)
I've been working on a new music orientated version of the default skin, so any ideas would be appreciated I'm also happy to PR any changes that are wanted to the default skin.
Current Estuary Views that can be "upgraded"
Artist info
NOTES: Dump the album icons from here and replace with more artist data perhaps?
Album Shift
NOTES: As you can see this view is poor when there are less than 6 albums with them all scrunched up to the left.
Album Info
NOTES: I don't personally see the reason to list tracks on this page as they are already accessible from the track list view.
Track List
NOTES: I've already added star ratings to this view for each track, but I would also like to see more data on the left hand panel. Does anyone know if its possible to use track cover images yet? I know there was talk at some point about it.
So I'd like to change that!
What skin changes would people like to see that specifically relate to music?
Personally I can think of a few changes:
- More data on Album info page such as Theme, Mood, Style, Tempo, Sales figure
- Album review data
- More data on Artist info page such as Style, Mood, Current Record Label, Active dates, Country, Birthplace
- Album CoverFlow view
- Album Back cover
- Album Spine Cover browser view
- Album Large cover Shift/showcase view like this
- Album year visible on Artist >> Album browsing page
- A-Z nodes for All Artists, All Album and All Track view
- A-Z images on IconWall view or a smaller IconWall view similar to how the year shows
- Artist ClearArt on artist/album info page
- Artist Logo browse view
- Artist Banner browse view
- Artist and Album comments (probably need Marcel to add this to helper Add-on and me to actually write an API method to access it)
I've been working on a new music orientated version of the default skin, so any ideas would be appreciated I'm also happy to PR any changes that are wanted to the default skin.
Current Estuary Views that can be "upgraded"
Artist info
NOTES: Dump the album icons from here and replace with more artist data perhaps?
Album Shift
NOTES: As you can see this view is poor when there are less than 6 albums with them all scrunched up to the left.
Album Info
NOTES: I don't personally see the reason to list tracks on this page as they are already accessible from the track list view.
Track List
NOTES: I've already added star ratings to this view for each track, but I would also like to see more data on the left hand panel. Does anyone know if its possible to use track cover images yet? I know there was talk at some point about it.