Speaking of Android TV, I've been using MO 4Media on my Android/Google TV boxes more lately and come across three things, and I have a nice QoL idea too.
1) I think there should be an option to have/swap Play All as the first/default option instead of Play Single. More times than often I rather playback an entire album (starting with the track I'm trying to listen to) and this would eliminate 2 extra remote button presses. Encountering this is kinda jarring and kinda breaks the flow for me when trying to play a song. Maybe a default action toggle or something?
2) This is probably the biggest longshot here as I know this kind of thing has been asked before (but for phones mainly), but I think on Artist and Album (or whatever else) views, there should be a vertical alphabet on the left side (e.g. like apps like Emby have), which can be used to quickly jump to/navigate to the first entry of that letter.
Yes, yes I know. I'm well aware you can simply type in the first letter into search to jump to the letter you want but honestly this won't be intuitive to most users, especially those using only remotes for navigation on Android/Google TV. If I'm being honest, I feel the type in the first letter into search to jump to the letter method really works best on touchscreen devices like phones and tablets where it's quicker to perform this action. On a TV interface using a remote control for navigation, this actually slows things downs and makes it a bit more cumbersome. So I feel it makes sense on a TV interface, not the phone/tablet touch interface.
This would come in handy for those users and users coming from Kodi/Emby/Plex who are used to having that sort of alphabet on the side navigation option. Plus it could come in handy for very large libraries, especially large video libraries.
3) Okay, maybe another longshot, but adding a list view in addition to the default thumbnail view? On my Android phones and tablets, there's indeed a list view but on Android/Google TV there's only a thumbnail view. I'm not a fan of thumbnail views at all, and this is probably as big of a jarring, flow breaking experience as the Play Single/Play All thing. In my mind, thumbnail views work best for things like movies and television shows, and not really for music. I have a lot of different editions/masterings of the same album in my library, and some of them have pretty long album names which when using a thumbnail view can be cut off and hard to read. If there was a list view, it could display longer song title/artist/album/etc. names.
The QoL idea? Okay, how about this...
4) On now playing view, have it where with a remote you can press up to view the cover art on screen without any overlays. Right now the default view the track info/progress bar overlay covers up the bottom part of any cover art. Pressing up on now playing currently doesn't do anything so this could fit in very well there and it'd fit nicely with with the action of pressing down to see the queue. So on now playing pressing up on a remote would be cover art only view and pressing down on the remote would be the queue.
Thoughts?