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eve:

--- Quote from: Gedeon on January 24, 2024, 10:45:16 am ---Create a new web remote interface beyond cpanel. With the mid-term goal to replicate through it most media management and audio playing available features in the standard interface.
- Selecting, sorting and creating lists
- Editing metadata,
- Control Zones,
- Edit DSP chain,
- Allow skin change,

Just take a look at Emby, Gerbera, Plex, Jellyfin.. HEOS mobile interface... Not everything must be available the first iteration. Just plan the development in several stages.

Most media servers/players in the market have left aside the native interfaces, and have developed web management interfaces. Even qBittorrent and eMule have pretty functional web interface years ago.

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Bit of a can of worms though. New web-ui based movie / video media item navigation? Absolutely. They did Spotlight, it's not out of the question to do a limited UI for this stuff.
You want to deal with like music, editing tags.... man that's a pretty complex interface to implement when we're talking about what JRiver offers already. It's FAR more in depth than most media library software. I think if any web interface was sufficiently comprehensive that you'd be stuck with a lot of users with questions that end up with an answer of 'oh that's only available in the desktop application'. It's going to weirdly fragment things.

There are absolutely things I'd like to see get a web UI or at least MCWS calls for like DSP studio settings and JRVR's full config but I'm not holding my breath.

mattkhan:
Extending panel to incorporate significantly enhanced playback controls, such as dsp, makes loads of sense

The current UI for this is really weak (eg no preview of the response) and quite obtuse so this would be a significant improvement imv

However management UI beyond something basic? Metadata etc, does it have an audience? That sounds like a major overhaul for people who already buy MC and use standard UI (grudgingly perhaps but still use it)

mattkhan:
To be clear, I am biased as I wrote my own UI for dsp etc but that's still a desktop app because doing that in html and doing it nicely is really a load of work and means loads of compromises (yes I can build.web UI myself also but chose not to in this case).

eve:

--- Quote from: mattkhan on January 24, 2024, 01:02:48 pm ---To be clear, I am biased as I wrote my own UI for dsp etc but that's still a desktop app because doing that in html and doing it nicely is really a load of work and means loads of compromises (yes I can build.web UI myself also but chose not to in this case).

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Yeah a full DSP interface with elegant user interaction with a web-ui is a relatively difficult task.
Honestly even implementing something like JRiver's pane based navigation with infinite scrolling and sorting isn't exactly a walk in the park (It can be done with AG-Grid or Tanstack Table though).

mattkhan:

--- Quote from: eve on January 24, 2024, 03:21:12 pm ---Yeah a full DSP interface with elegant user interaction with a web-ui is a relatively difficult task.
Honestly even implementing something like JRiver's pane based navigation with infinite scrolling and sorting isn't exactly a walk in the park (It can be done with AG-Grid or Tanstack Table though).

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Panel is/was a good start. In my experience, it works well for the features it has and performance is solid. It should be a good base to build on if that's the direction they want to go (but for sure would take some effort)

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