Mezzmo App wish list

[TeHaX]

Hello,
first i would like to say that Mezzmo is a great app.
But for further improvement i miss some features as follows:

- app should save last icon size when reloaded
- modern and coloured icons
- better optimisation for tablets
- jump direct to details view by clicking video file or other media types instead of long press and then to click more details
- when start playing a music title the app should go direct to now playing
- option to use app over Internet
- option to load backdrops (over mezzmo server) from music artists and from movies (from internet or from mymovies)
- option to change colour of the theme like light for example

So these points are my wishes after using the app since some weeks.
Thanks in advance
Christian

[Paul]

Hi Christian,

Thanks for the suggestions for our Mezzmo Android app. We'll add them to our development task list.

- jump direct to details view by clicking video file or other media types instead of long press and then to click more details

If you touch the file's artwork/icon, then it will go directly to DETAILS mode. If you touch the file's text it will play it.

- option to load backdrops (over mezzmo server) from music artists and from movies (from internet or from mymovies)

Mezzmo v4.x automatically collects backdrops for your music, movies and TV shows, so should see them in Mezzmo Android when you go to DETAILS mode. To check this, go to Mezzmo Windows and right-click on a file and click Properties. Scroll down to the bottom of the Properties dialog to check if you see backdrops. If no, then try running Maintain Library with the "Update artwork" checkbox selected and this will try to get backdrop artwork from the web for your files.

[TeHaX]

Hello Paul,
thanks for your answer. Mezzmo generate backdrops from music cover or from the artwork by movies. I mean mezzmo should load backrops from web like www.htbackdrops.org for music artists or should use the fanart.jpg from the program mymovies which is in the same folder as the mymovies.xml file.

[Paul]

Thanks for the feedback. We'll look into www.htbackdrops.org and fanart.jpg for a future version.

[TeHaX]

Ok, great. May you have also a closer look at www.thetvdb.com for TV series.

[Paul]

Ok, great. May you have also a closer look at www.thetvdb.com for TV series.

FYI - we currently get movie information and artwork from www.themoviedb.org and TV show information and artwork from www.thetvdb.com .

[Gripweed]

With regards to the Mezzmo app I currently have two thoughts.

1) There should be a new forum here just for app questions and comments. It is a separate product (meaning that it could be used with other servers besides the Mezzmo Server) and so it deserves its own discussion area.

2) Compared with the Skifta and BubbleUPNP apps the Mezzmo app is dog slow in finding and displaying the Library file lists. It possibly has something to do with displaying the thumbnails for each file. Let me just throw in that I use Mezzmo and the Android app for primarily TV and Movie files and so I haven't tested if this is a problem with photos or music. I turned off the folder artwork setting in the Mezzmo Server for my two Android devices (Nexus 7 <2012> and ASUS TF300T tablet) but the file-specific thumbnails still continue to appear (slowly) rather than the default plain Video and Movie thumbnails I thought should appear. It is a matter of waiting for them to complete appearing before I can scroll down the file list. Why are the individual thumbnails still loading instead of the default ones? If I want the individual thumbnails, why aren't they cached from prior use rather than pulling everything new from the server each time? All this file list waiting comes after usually a wait for the app to find the devices available and then to find the servers available. With Skifta and Bubble after I click on the app on my tablet it is literally just scroll and click and I'm watching my show. With the Mezzmo app it is usually a 2-3 minute ordeal until I get to watch my video. On the assumption that the Mezzmo app should work best with the Mezzmo server I'd like continue to use the Mezzmo app but it is very aggravating to do so compared to the other two apps.

[Paul]

Thanks for the feedback.

1) Agree and we'll create that forum soon.

2) We've actually found the opposite. Mezzmo Android is consistently faster than BubbleUPnP and other DMC apps when listing files from media servers. Are you listing files from media servers on your home network or from the local media server built into Mezzmo Android (i.e. listing files stored on your tablet/smartphone)?

[Gripweed]

2) We've actually found the opposite. Mezzmo Android is consistently faster than BubbleUPnP and other DMC apps when listing files from media servers. Are you listing files from media servers on your home network or from the local media server built into Mezzmo Android (i.e. listing files stored on your tablet/smartphone)?

I'm extremely surprised to hear that.
As best as I can determine the file listing is coming from the Mezzmo server on my Windows computer. The only storage used on my Android devices is a for a Mezzmo log file. The Mezzmo (Windows) server gets its Library entries from Video, Photo, and Music folders on one of my Synology NASes. The NAS in this case does not act as a server to the network directly. Mezzmo (Windows) is the server using the files on the NAS.

Reading between the lines are you saying that I should enable the Local Mezzmo Android Server? I have it disabled. It doesn't make any sense to me to have a server feeding itself after pulling the files from the Windows Mezzmo server. I thought the local Android server is only for if I have files on my Android device that I want to send out on the network to another device. My Skifta and Bubble local servers are disabled as well and I don't see any slowness at all with them.
Please explain because I am lost.