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[BUG/UX]: Replace "Change Video Formats" with "Change Media Formats"

Open SethFalco opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Guidelines

  • [X] I have encountered this bug in the latest release of FreeTube.
  • [X] I have searched the issue tracker for a bug report that matches the one I want to file, without success.
  • [X] I have searched the documentation for information that matches the description of the bug I want to file, without success.

Describe the bug

  1. Navigate to a video
  2. Go to the Change Video Formats button (a camera inside of a page)
  3. Observe that this can be used to serve non-video formats.

Expected Behavior

The button icon and name should be agnostic to video and audio if it can be used to select audio formats.

Users (namely myself) may struggle to find how to play in audio only mode, as it's not expected to find such a thing behind a button named for video formats.

I did actually hover over it, see "Change Video Formats" and continued looking elsewhere because it didn't seem to be what I needed.

Issue Labels

usability issue

FreeTube Version

0.17.0 Beta

Operating System Version

Debian 11

Installation Method

Flathub

Primary API used

Local API

Last Known Working FreeTube Version (If Any)

No response

Additional Information

An alternative solution to this could be to pull the Use Audio Formats item from under Change Video Formats button, and instead make it a separate button with a headphones icon.

In my opinion, what Invidious does isn't perfect either as the audio-mode button can be mistaken for an emoji suffixed to the end of the video title. Just wanted to share how they handle it, though. That pair of headphones is a button… it's just not very apparent until you explicitly hover over it.

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SethFalco avatar Aug 07 '22 22:08 SethFalco

What about changing the label to Change Video / Audio Formats?

That works for me too, though I personally prefer the term "Media".

However, that's entirely subjective. Using "Video / Audio" would still resolve the confusion described in the issue, so if you'd prefer that, I'll go with it!

SethFalco avatar Aug 10 '22 21:08 SethFalco