feat: Navigate to artist page when clicking on artist name in player UI

[starry-shivam]

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[theovilardo]

Hi! could you explain on which cases it didn't work? cause i tried to replicate it on the latest build and i couldn't

[starry-shivam]

Hi! could you explain on which cases it didn't work? cause i tried to replicate it on the latest build and i couldn't

It won't work in cases where it can't resolve artistId , it can happen you are playing a song that hasn't been fully synced into the local library (e.g., a "remote-only" search result from Navidrome/Jellyfin that isn't in your "Songs" list yet), the app won't find a corresponding Artist ID. Since the ArtistDetail screen requires a database ID to load, so the navigation will be aborted. I have added a logger call in such cases

Log.d("ArtistDebug", "triggerArtistNavigationFromPlayer: could not resolve artistId for name=${currentSong?.artist}")

So you can check the logs to verify if that's the issue. I had tested it with both local music and after syncing songs from my navidrome server, it worked fine in both cases.

[starry-shivam]

Btw, I think we should keep albums on the artist page closed by default. Currently, all of them are shown in the expanded state, which imo doesn’t look very nice and wastes space. What do you think? I can push a commit to this PR to change it if you’re okay with that.

[theovilardo]

Btw, I think we should keep albums on the artist page closed by default. Currently, all of them are shown in the expanded state, which imo doesn’t look very nice and wastes space. What do you think? I can push a commit to this PR to change it if you’re okay with that.

I thought the same but that also adds an extra step for the user to have to open the album to play a song, most of them prefer to have the songs already available to play.

[starry-shivam]

I thought the same but that also adds an extra step for the user to have to open the album to play a song, most of them prefer to have the songs already available to play.

Okay, makes sense :)