Allow for a default Player to be selected #2328
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If I understand what you are wanting, I think I have a better implementation idea. If you use the built in UI for MA, then this wont really work. |
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Sounds like a no-brainer to me too (at least the OP's request). |
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Its actually pretty funny - we actually had this in the code, we simply remembered the last selected player. So its a whole lot more nuanced then people may think. We are slowly working our way to make the experience more consistent so when you first click an item or play button we will ask once for the player and then remember it. |
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Dare I say that with the current behaviour there's a lot of annoyance because people don't understand why they have to keep on choosing the speaker ? |
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I would appreciate such a "default" as well since I only have one speaker (also in the kitchen ;-) ). |
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My 2 cents - if you have one player, then it should be selected by default. In other cases, a default player will not work well. Unless I disable some that are different interfaces (Airplay + Chromecast + DLNA) to the same physical device, I have over 40 players showing up. It can take time to select the intended one, especially on a mobile device with a small screen. In an ideal world, there could be automatic player selection based on smartphone/tablet location, with bluetooth beacons peppered around the house or backyard that the device could infer location from. I intend to explore this possibility with HA first now that there are conditional dashboards. If this works well enough, maybe a similar approach could be used for automatic player selection, optionally of course. Sometimes, one still wants to start playback in a different zone, or a group, in which case manual selection remains possible. Note that I'm not saying any of this should be implemented right now, just throwing ideas out there. |
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I'm not sure what's happened in the latest updates, but now when I open the app it seems to remember the last speaker I had selected. This is great! I can just hit the music I want to listen to now and it plays where I'm hoping it'll play. I haven't seen any notification/activity on this ticket, but it seems something has changed recently because now it's a much easier flow to get music playing. I really appreciate that. Thank you. |
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Every time I open up Music Assistant I have to select the player I want. For me personally, 99% of the time this is the same player for me, the kitchen speaker.
I'd love an option I can tick in Players that's "Make this Player the default selection" or similar, and if ticked, by default when Music Assistant is opened and would, at present say "No Player Selected" the Player with "Make this Player the default selection" ticked would be automatically selected.
I understand that having a default player selected was an option previously but that this then meant a number of users ended up having music playing on a device they didn't mean to. Thus the default out-of-the-box experience should be as it is today, no default is selected. My feature request only suggests providing the ability to select (And it should also be possible to untick the default, reverting to the current behaviour)
Thank you very much for considering (or not!) this request.
Tim
Here is my search for a similar feature request.
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