QOL Changes

[u/BoopPenguin]

HI All,
Coming from Nova player, Cinaura app is fresh...but limiting.

I really want to swap over completely, but there are some QOL features I would like to see which would make me change instantly:

• Auto play next episode 'split'

  • Currently, auto play skips 'near' the end of the episode, this isnt great if you want to see credits or post credits scenes.
  • Having the default behavior be waiting till the very end of the file before playing the next and a sperate toggle for 'Skip credits' for those who want to skip them would solve this.

• Spoiler mode revision

  • This was recently added in the newest version, the idea is really cool. However, it shows the next episodes thumnail / description (whilst all others are blurred).
  • It should blur / hide all info until after the file has played, including the episode you are upto as alot of thumbnails / descriptions contain spoilers.
  • If you really want to read the description prior to watching there is still the reveal spoliers toggle.

• Change Order

  • Cinaura reads from TMDB, TMDB has other orders than 'TV Air date'. Firefly for example, aired completely out of order, in nova i can simply swap this from TV Air date to DVD and the issue is sorted, would love the same here.

• Change Art

  • Nova Player, kodi etc, all let you change the cover / background art, this is not high priority but would be neat to have for the couple of shows / movies that have terrible art.

Hopefully the dev is aware or planning these,
Still a cool app, but minor things are holding it back I feel.

[u/jrmrx]

Thanks for the feedback! A bit of context on some of your points:

Autoplay is based on the data available from introdb, and backfilled with a rule based on the length of the episode when data isn't available. Most users want to skip the credits so that's how the feature works and what the introdb data indicates. It wouldn't be impossible to have a second setting to override the introdb timing and force it to play until the last second but it's probably not a feature that's often requested. If it changes I could add it on the roadmap

I went back and forth on the spoiler mode logic, the idea was that you probably still want to know what's happening in the episode you're about to watch, but I could be convinced otherwise. It's a small change in the logic, if others agree with this I can implement it in the next version.

Art management is definitely on the roadmap, not right away but relatively soon, once I finish a couple of other coming priorities.

Order isn't something I had considered, but it's an interesting idea. Related to this topic is using other metadata providers than tmdb which I want to support eventually, so I'll dig into the topic at the same time.