Using iPod touch to control Slimserver

[Andrew B.]

I'm having trouble controlling Slimserver with my iPod touch. I connect fine and can control everything well EXCEPT that the skin doesn't allow me to scroll when I'm looking at a long list of albums or artists - so I can only select the ones that I can see (more in portrait mode than in landscape but still nowhere near the whole list). This is the case using the /touch skin. If I use the /n800 skin then it does scroll properly but there are other shortcomings in the interface (eg album cover view).

Any wisdom from the forum members?

Thanks

Andrew

[erland]

I can just confirm that I'm seeing the exact same things as you are. I think we need a skin customized for the iPhone/iPod touch to make the device usable as a SlimServer controller. I've tried it with the latest 7.0 beta and it doesn't look any better than with the official 6.5.4 release. The Nokia770/Touch skins doesn't work and the rest of the skins has to small text/icons to be usable.

A custommized Nokia770 skin would probably work, but to make it work really good I think we need either a iPhone/iPodTouch skin or even better a native application that executes directly on the iPod Touch.

I'm sure there will be a solution that works really good with the iPod Touch eventually, you will just have to wait a bit.

[Andrew B.]

Thanks Erland, I was afraid that that would be the answer. The /remote skin can be zoomed in on to give selectable size lists - I think that's the best there is so far. It's a shame since the Ipod Touch is such a gorgeous device.

Andrew

[davidcotton]

I'm having trouble controlling Slimserver with my iPod touch. I connect fine and can control everything well EXCEPT that the skin doesn't allow me to scroll when I'm looking at a long list of albums or artists - so I can only select the ones that I can see (more in portrait mode than in landscape but still nowhere near the whole list). This is the case using the /touch skin. If I use the /n800 skin then it does scroll properly but there are other shortcomings in the interface (eg album cover view).

Any wisdom from the forum members?

Thanks

Andrew

Was just wondering what the problems with the album cover view were as I'd been thinking about getting a touch for the same purpose!

[Andrew B.]

Was just wondering what the problems with the album cover view were as I'd been thinking about getting a touch for the same purpose!

You can only see as many covers as fit on the screen and can't scroll down to see the rest of the covers for that letter of the alphabet.

It is a lovely device in all other respects: a geek work of art.

Andrew

[pippin]

2 solutions:

1: use "two-finger scroll", that is just what it sounds: just touch the screen with two fingers while scrolling. Lame, though.

2: Wait another week until I finish my iPhone/iTouch skin (already looking quite cool, (screenshots later today...) ;-)

[chrysalis]

2 solutions:

1: use "two-finger scroll", that is just what it sounds: just touch the screen with two fingers while scrolling. Lame, though.

2: Wait another week until I finish my iPhone/iTouch skin (already looking quite cool, (screenshots later today...) ;-)

Cool! Thanks in advance.

[nolan]

2 solutions:

1: use "two-finger scroll", that is just what it sounds: just touch the screen with two fingers while scrolling. Lame, though.

2: Wait another week until I finish my iPhone/iTouch skin (already looking quite cool, (screenshots later today...) ;-)

Sounds great, look forward to seeing it.

[pippin]

OK, to start with: here are the screen shots I promised.
I just realize that the language setting on the screens is German, however, currently the skin works best with English since there are some new phrases I did not translate yet...