2024-11-17, 05:26 AM
I've been using the Android TV client (v 0.15.12 at last check) for a while now and wondering what it would take to make some usability and efficiency changes in the way users interact with the client. Primarily about browsing content and the current method which is very click intensive. Examples:
Vertical browsing - Say for instance browsing movies by genre or letter, each genre is a horizontal line, you have to click through every title to reach the end of the list. It would be far more efficient if users could click on a genre icon and have full page vertical browsing. There have been various threads and feature requests for this but nobody's really commented on it in terms of effort or likelihood. Seems like a pretty big win, especially for those with larger libraries. It's just so incredibly inefficient and time consuming to browse now that once it drops off the Latest list on the home screen, it just falls off the radar completely.
More view state filters - If browsing genres or by letter as above, there is currently no option to filter out content you've watched, adding to the number of times you have to press a button to skip to content you haven't seen yet.
Right now the only way to get vertical browsing and filters seems to be when you select All Items, which makes me
Latest content - Allow the user to define what latest means, preferably time-based (30, 60, 90 days). I have latest Shows, Music and Movies on my home page and can't define what any of those look like.
More metadata or Views - When you go to Movies you have few View options, like Suggested, All Items, Genres. Would be good if movie landing pages or the Views options included things like movie studio, so we could see what companies were involved in a film and make them clickable. So when I select a movie like Inside Out, I can see Disney and Pixar on the screen along with the genre, release year and classification rating, and be able to click them to see all other films from those companies. I touched on this one here - https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-making-use-...the-client - There's so much rich metadata available and the client makes use of very little of it. Would love to be able to click on a classification rating, production studio, tag, or any other number of options available
Keen to hear others thoughts on this or other ways to improve the usability and efficiency of the client.
Vertical browsing - Say for instance browsing movies by genre or letter, each genre is a horizontal line, you have to click through every title to reach the end of the list. It would be far more efficient if users could click on a genre icon and have full page vertical browsing. There have been various threads and feature requests for this but nobody's really commented on it in terms of effort or likelihood. Seems like a pretty big win, especially for those with larger libraries. It's just so incredibly inefficient and time consuming to browse now that once it drops off the Latest list on the home screen, it just falls off the radar completely.
More view state filters - If browsing genres or by letter as above, there is currently no option to filter out content you've watched, adding to the number of times you have to press a button to skip to content you haven't seen yet.
Right now the only way to get vertical browsing and filters seems to be when you select All Items, which makes me
Latest content - Allow the user to define what latest means, preferably time-based (30, 60, 90 days). I have latest Shows, Music and Movies on my home page and can't define what any of those look like.
More metadata or Views - When you go to Movies you have few View options, like Suggested, All Items, Genres. Would be good if movie landing pages or the Views options included things like movie studio, so we could see what companies were involved in a film and make them clickable. So when I select a movie like Inside Out, I can see Disney and Pixar on the screen along with the genre, release year and classification rating, and be able to click them to see all other films from those companies. I touched on this one here - https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-making-use-...the-client - There's so much rich metadata available and the client makes use of very little of it. Would love to be able to click on a classification rating, production studio, tag, or any other number of options available
Keen to hear others thoughts on this or other ways to improve the usability and efficiency of the client.
Apologies for any responses that seem short/rude, on the spectrum and get frustrated very easily with technology. Do my best to keep it under wraps but doesn't always work when something isn't going as it should. 
