Google-play-music-desktop-player-unofficial-: Back button missing in 4.6.0

[shadowboy813]

The app really needs forward/back navigation buttons.

How to navigate (specific example)
1: Select an artist
2: Go to albums (or library)
3: Choose an album
4: No go back to the albums (or library)

In order to achieve step #4 it takes multiple steps (you have to go back to step 1, whereas a back navigation button would directly take you back to step 2).

It makes navigating cumbersome to have to manually click links to cycle back to where you just were a second ago.

Secondary suggestion: Add an option to select to use either Google Play Music or YouTube Music (since GPM will eventually be dissolved).

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[MarshallOfSound]

There is a back button but it's broken on the latest release.

[shadowboy813]

Ok, I knew there was one before, but I guessed it was intentionally removed for some reason. Thanks for the reply!

[TurbinoZ100000]

Alt + left arrow used to work as well in previous version, doesn't anymore.

[stumpnugget]

Will the back button return?

[baseigneurie]

I just updated to 4.6.0 this morning (6/26) and I an now missing the back button (previously found in the search bar) too.

1. Select Podcasts
2. Select "Your Podcasts"
3. Select podcast I want to listen to.
4. Play the episode.
5. If I want to go back to all of my podcasts, I have to start over from step 1.

Current OS: Windows 10 - Version 10.0.15063 Build 15063

[jostrander]

Yes. The back button will return. It was an oversight caused by a different bug. It will be fixed in the next patch release.

[altonius]

thanks @jostrander , looking forward to this being fixed too

[pieter-biesemans]

This issue is bigger than just the missing Back button, I'm guessing it's just a symptom. Before I could navigate forward and backward just like in any browser (i.e. back button, custom mouse buttons, backspace, alt+left, alt+right), but now none of these work. Hopefully full navigation possibilities will be restored in the next update.

[jostrander]

Yes, it's all related. None of the code for that was loaded in due to an exception that wasn't handled.

[Sven62]

Any idea when the fix will be released? I am not using it like it is. Is there a way to go back to the previous version?

[BatmanAoD]

I am also finding the app much less usable without the back button. Any chance of just releasing a quick patch release with the code in master? Or even some kind of one-off "nightly" binary?

[jostrander]

The patch is pushed to master, just waiting for @MarshallOfSound to release.

[BatmanAoD]

@jostrander I know, hence my "release with the code in master" question. Looking at the release history, it appears that even patch releases are pretty few and far between.

[MarshallOfSound]

@BatmanAoD Releasing is Hard(tm). Every update I push out I have to test locally on 3 platforms and 2 arches for each platform to be 100% that it doesn't put you into a bricked state. This takes time and I have a lot of things on my plate right now, unfortunately this is not at the top of the list. But it will get there.

There's a massive weight on your shoulders when your release goes out to a quarter of a million people 🤔

[BatmanAoD]

Okay, fair enough. I'll try just building the master on my own and see how that goes.