[Music scope] No message for empty song collection

Bug #1539359 reported by Michi Henning
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu UX
Triaged
Low
Paty Davila
unity-scope-mediascanner (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

See here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-scope-mediascanner/+bug/1539068/comments/2

We don't display a message in the scope when the music collection is empty. Maybe a link/hint to the music app would be appropriate? Similar to what we do in the scope if there are no photos/videos?

This also begs the question: how is a user with, say, a Nexus 4 going to get their song collection onto the device, seeing that it does not have a flash card slot?

Changed in unity-scope-mediascanner (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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James Henstridge (jamesh) wrote :

Copying music to the phone isn't a problem: when they plug it into a computer via USB it should be visible in the file manager, letting them copy music via MTP.

The equivalent problem doesn't exist for Videos: the My Videos scope pushes a result to the aggregator that shows a link to the camera app when there are no videos. We can't copy that exactly though, since there are no preinstalled apps for creating music on the phone (and that isn't the kind of thing many users would do anyway).

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Michi Henning (michihenning) wrote :

Hmmm... To a naive user, such as myself, it may not be obvious how to get music files onto the phone.

It might be nice to say something about how to do this in whatever card we eventually end up in when no music has been copied yet.

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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

Fiar point Michi, in fact, this reveals another issue: Currently, the "get started" message displayed in My Music suggests copying music files onto an SD card which, looking at our supported devices, is not applicable to the BQ and Meizu. We need to fix this to better describe the process James explained.

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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

Sorry, that should be: It is applicable to the BQ but not the Meizu.

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Michi Henning (michihenning) wrote :

And, as you pointed out on IRC, people using Mac will have to install additional software.

John Lea (johnlea)
summary: - No message for empty song collection
+ [Music scope] No message for empty song collection
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
assignee: nobody → Paty Davila (dizzypaty)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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