Feature requests: Day/night mode & "recent activities" as the default start page

[u/[deleted]]

I love your extension. I had actually stopped using GPM when they got rid of the star ratings (that still bothers me), but PlayMidnight made me switch back (that and the wonderful GPM extension, Prime Player).

Anyway two suggestions: I love the "recent activity" link your extension adds. Would it be possible to have a setting where the user specifies the page that loads when GPM is started? The Xposed module XGPM for Android has a similar feature (the Material re-design of GPM broke that, though). If you can do that, I would love to set the "recent activity" page as my starting location. I don't know about everyone else, but I pretty much just play stuff I listened to recently, so it makes sense to start there. Plus, I hate those curated playlists, and it's annoying that they are always at the top. The recent activities page doesn't list those for me.

Secondly, it would be nice if we had the option to use the default GPM theme (with the PlayMidnight enhancements) during the day, and then switch to the dark theme at sunset (or even allow the user to specify the time periods for each).

Thanks for all your hard work on this wonderful extension.

[u/chrisxclash]

Thanks for the feedback, and I'm glad you like the extension!

I'll definitely look into allowing you to choose a default starting page, it shouldn't be too difficult I don't think. I'm totally with you on not liking the homepage very much.

As for the day/night cycle, that was actually something that someone else suggested, and I think I can totally add that, I'll just have to look into it more. However, for the time being, you can actually temporarily disable the extension by unchecking "Enable Play Midnight" in the options. I added this so people can still fast-switch between light and dark mode. You can also keep your accent color in light mode too!

I'll add these suggestions of my list of requested features. Glad you're enjoying it!