Queue page as a startup screen for Google Play Music is not useful

[Matthew Gabeler-Lee]

Issue
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Users that use the queue page a lot might end up with it as a start-up page. However, this page is always empty and not useful at all, so Nuvola Player should load Listen now page instead.

For example, Matthew's report:

Using Nuvola Player 2.3.2 and Google Play Music service integration version 4.9 (and every other version I've ever used), the startup screen for the Google Music interface is always the queue ... which is always empty.

It would be more usefl to start on the Listen Now screen, if that is possible.

PS: Thanks for all your hard work, esp. on the memory issue!

[Jiří Janoušek (fenryxo)]

Thanks for taking the time to report your issue. Nuvola Player remembers the last visited page on quit and loads that page at start-up. It seems you always end up with the queue page as the last visited page, so this page is loaded at start-up (but empty, because the queue is not saved between sessions). Therefore, Nuvola Player should be modified not to remember the queue page and load Listen now page instead.

Just to be sure there isn't another hidden issue, could you proceed following test?

1) Open Nuvola Player.
2) Navigate to the Listen now page.
3) Quit Nuvola Player.
4) Open Nuvola Player.

a) What page is loaded at start-up?
b) What's the output of following commands?

grep service.googleplay.last_uri ~/.config/nuvolaplayer/ui_state.conf
grep service.googleplay.last_uri ~/.config/nuvolaplayer_unstable/ui_state.conf

[Matthew Gabeler-Lee (fastcat)]

Your assessment is entirely correct. NuvolaPlayer remembers the last screen I was on, and my usage pattern is to queue up some music and leave Nuvola on the queue screen. If I return to the Listen Now page (or any other page) before exiting Nuvola, it correctly remembers that on the next startup.

The grep commands show the proper URL, e.g. "https://play.google.com/music/listen#/now" if I exit on the listen now screen or "https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ap/queue" if I exit on the queue screen.

[Jiří Janoušek (fenryxo)]

Fixed at the master branch of tiliado/nuvola-app-google-play. Will be released with Nuvola Player 3.

https://github.com/tiliado/nuvola-app-google-play/commit/fc5d8121e6c232583ca71985a0266c9328de3f5e

[Jiří Janoušek (fenryxo)]

Issue is fixed in Nuvola Player 3 Beta. http://tiliado.github.io/nuvolaplayer/documentation/3.0.html