[music app] Playlists should be able to have a customized icon

[Pablo Marlasca]

Hi, the playlists should let the users customize their icon with some pic from the gallery, since when you have several playlists it's too confusing to see so many cover-grids and they don't actually tell you anything about the playlist itself. If you have, for example, one playlist for a music festival and another one for running, it would be better to see the festival logo and a runner than two cover-grids. Thanks! great work :)

[Victor Thompson (vthompson)]

This is a neat idea. I'm not sure how the UI would work to actually pull up the content-hub picker for the Gallery app. We'd need input from the Design team in order to flush this out.

[Pablo Marlasca (pamarsan1993)]

Here's an example of how it makes playlists more recognizable.
I guess the best option would be to add an way to change the icon in the same dialog where you can edit the playlist's name.

[Jouni Helminen (jounihelminen)]

I think thats a nice idea. I think there are two ways of achieving this in the UI

1) quick fix - add another dialog after the naming dialog, asking the user if they want custom or generated art for the playlist. If they choose custom, take them to the Content Hub. Replicate the same for playlist editing mode after rename dialog.

2) slightly better UX - instead of dialog for creating/editing the playlist, we could use have an editable playlist detail view layout. The layout would be the same as the normal playlist view, except the title becomes a textfield where user can change the title by simply tapping on it, and tapping on the cover art takes the user to Content Hub (probably need a pen icon on the cover art in edit mode to indicate that it can be changed).

The editable playlist would be invoked when creating a new playlist, or when editing an existing one

[Pablo Marlasca (pamarsan1993)]

Hi! Thanks for looking into it, I think anyone of those options would be
nice :)

El miércoles, 5 de agosto de 2015, Jouni Helminen <
<email address hidden>> escribió:
> I think thats a nice idea. I think there are two ways of achieving this
> in the UI
>
> 1) quick fix - add another dialog after the naming dialog, asking the
> user if they want custom or generated art for the playlist. If they
> choose custom, take them to the Content Hub. Replicate the same for
> playlist editing mode after rename dialog.
>
> 2) slightly better UX - instead of dialog for creating/editing the
> playlist, we could use have an editable playlist detail view layout. The
> layout would be the same as the normal playlist view, except the title
> becomes a textfield where user can change the title by simply tapping on
> it, and tapping on the cover art takes the user to Content Hub (probably
> need a pen icon on the cover art in edit mode to indicate that it can be
> changed).
>
> The editable playlist would be invoked when creating a new playlist, or
> when editing an existing one
>
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu-ux
> Status: Triaged => Fix Committed
>
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> Title:
> [music app] Playlists should be able to have a customized icon
>
> Status in Ubuntu Music App:
> New
> Status in Ubuntu UX:
> Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> Hi, the playlists should let the users customize their icon with some
> pic from the gallery, since when you have several playlists it's too
> confusing to see so many cover-grids and they don't actually tell you
> anything about the playlist itself. If you have, for example, one
> playlist for a music festival and another one for running, it would be
> better to see the festival logo and a runner than two cover-grids.
> Thanks! great work :)
>
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