Previously only METADATA_KEY_ALBUM_ART_URI/ART_URI were set, leaving notification/lock-screen/Android Auto consumers to resolve the cover art themselves. Likely due to internal scaling, a lower quality bitmap was loaded.
This commit adds a shared resolveUriAsBitmap() helper (extracted from AbMediaDescriptionAdapter.kt) and uses it to:
- Resolve and cache a bitmap on PlaybackSession once per
session (synchronously for local covers, asynchronously for server covers), then set it on METADATA_KEY_ALBUM_ART/ART once available, falling back to the URI keys until it resolves.
- Reuse the same helper in AbMediaDescriptionAdapter so the notification icon is resolved consistently.
PlayerNotificationService tracks the resolution Job and cancels/replaces it on each new playback session, invalidating the media session metadata once the bitmap is ready.
The POST /api/items/<id>/play/<episodeId> response inlines every episode
of a podcast with an audioTrack per episode. Server-side, audioTrack.mimeType
is derived from audioFile.mimeType, which is null when the row was created
without a successful audio probe (direct DB inserts, import scripts,
partial probe failures).
The Jackson deserializer hits one null mimeType among the inlined
episodes, throws MissingKotlinParameterException, and the entire
play-session response fails to deserialize. ExoPlayer is never called,
the UI silently stalls.
Make mimeType nullable on the data class to tolerate this. ExoPlayer's
MediaItem.Builder.setMimeType already accepts nullable. Defensively
coerce null to empty string for Cast's MediaInfo.Builder.setContentType,
whose Java signature is non-null.
Fixes#1905
The search API call had a hardcoded limit=5 parameter which restricted
search results to only 5 items regardless of how many matches exist.
Removing this limit allows the server's default pagination to apply,
showing all relevant search results to the user.
Fixes#1872
Rotating your phone to landscape mode and opening the player, the view
wasn't using the available space very efficiently. Especially the cover
image is not very helpful being pushed to a minimal size.
This patch redesigned the view in landscape mode, pushing the cover
image to the left half of the screen while the controls are moved to the
right half of the screen.
advplyr