iPeng support thread

[abelincoln]

Is there an explanation anywhere on how to get Album Review on the Itouch Ipeng?

[pippin]

If you have the plugin installed you get it from the context menu on Tracks or Albums.
You get the context menu by holding an item for 1s.
Also works on the NowPlaying Cover Art and the current playlist.

[havoc1]

Ipeng rules....two requests:

1. In the album view, we get the alphabet on the right side of the screen to let us quickly jump to the relevant letter. But this isn't there on the Artists view. Can you give us quick jump letters on that screen too?

2. Is there any chance of an incremental search on Napster, so that as you start to type the name of a band the matches come back immediately, rather than having to type the whole thing? I noticed this on the Sonos iphone app demo and thought it would be really useful.

Cheers

[MeSue]

(Reposting into iPeng support thread...)

I just bought the iPeng remote control app and it is *great*. This is the way things should work!

I can't figure out how to use the playlist manager though. I want a way to add arbitrary tracks to arbitrary playlists. When I press-and-hold on a track I get the context menu, and at the bottom is the 'Playlist Manager' item, but when I select it I get to a screen that has 'Playlist Manager' at the top as a title, and 'Empty' as the only item in the list.

I thought I might need to create the playlists elsewhere (i.e. through the web interface) so I did that, but I still see only 'Empty' in this list.

How is this supposed to work?

Thanks,
Mike.

(SlimServer 7.4.0 - r28672, iPeng 1.2 on iPod Touch)

Oh, I can answer this... Playlist Manager only works with the "classic" interface (IR Remote and Boom front panel). It doesn't work with SqueezePlay powered devices, and iPeng is using SqueezePlay menus in some places. The developer of Playlist Manager was trying to get it working for SqueezePlay (which is why you see it in the menus) but was never able to make it work .

[greigmg]

First, this is by far the most used app on my iPhone. Well done.

I don't see the thumbs up/down anymore after upgrading to the latest version of iPeng. When using Pandora and looking at the "now playing" screen with the album art, the overlay menu just shows the track time and progress bar.

Am I missing something obvious? Thanks again.

[Bert0123]

Feat.Request:

- Shuffle and Repeat buttons below the time slider
If I tap on the album in "Now Playing" I get the timebar with Repeat and Shuffle buttons on the sides.
I rather would see the timebar using the whole width of the screen and the shuffle buttons beneath the time bar. It is possible then to position more accurate, and the risk of accidently tapping the shuffle or repeat is less.
B.t.w. Wouldn't it be more logical to display the large time indicator above the timeslider? As it works now my finger covers the digits while using the timeseek control

- Information about an album in the list.
Is this already possible? When browsing the list I'd like to see i.e. what the bitrate is from an album or song.

Also I encountered several times that the Squeezecenter (7.4) Service stopped when using the time slider. The only way to get it up then is by starting the service manually with the Windows Service Manager (or by computer restart).

[pippin]

It's taken me a long, long time but I've finally "got" the iPeng modes. Once understood they work very well indded but pure nirvahna is negated by one seemingly insurmountable problem: It is far too easy to destroy/replace a carefully built up playlist by touching the album art by mistake when meaning to touch the title of an album. Touching the album art replaces the current playlist with the whole album whereas touching the album name takes you to the track listing.

Directly playing an album by touching the cover is a very often requested feature. There was a time during beta when it didn't work, you should have seen the comments :-)

If you are right handed and hold the iDevice in the right hand whilst using the finger of your left hand to make selections it is extremely easy to touch the album art by mistake.

Now this is an interesting observation.
I am right-handed myself but I always hold my iPhone with the LEFT hand, even when using it single-handed.
Will try to consider this in the future.

I tried out iPeng on a group of friends last night. All were right handed and at some point all suffered from this problem (on the bright side they, they all "got" the modes once I'd explained it to them).

Good :-)

So, at least for users that choose to play single tracks only my vote is for a touch on the album art to do the same as touching the album title.

No way (as said above).
Maybe as an option....

Also from last night, the ability to drag and drop songs within a playlist just ceased to work at some point. Is this a known bug? I can't find any reference to it anywhere.

No, didn't hear about that one. Can you give more details? What did you see then?

I'm not not sure I understand what you mean. InfoBrowser (and its plugins already works (and well) on the Touch/Radio. You can find it under Extras. How does it need adapting?

Ah... OK, then it uses LUA.
This will make it VERY hard to adapt it to iPeng.

1. In the album view, we get the alphabet on the right side of the screen to let us quickly jump to the relevant letter. But this isn't there on the Artists view. Can you give us quick jump letters on that screen too?

Do you have less than 100 artists?
If not it _should_ be there.

2. Is there any chance of an incremental search on Napster, so that as you start to type the name of a band the matches come back immediately, rather than having to type the whole thing? I noticed this on the Sonos iphone app demo and thought it would be really useful.

Not really. I can't directly search Napster, the Search is a feature of the Napster plugin and that would have to provide this.

Oh, I can answer this... Playlist Manager only works with the "classic" interface (IR Remote and Boom front panel). It doesn't work with SqueezePlay powered devices, and iPeng is using SqueezePlay menus in some places. The developer of Playlist Manager was trying to get it working for SqueezePlay (which is why you see it in the menus) but was never able to make it work .

Thanks! YOu just saved me some time testing!

I don't see the thumbs up/down anymore after upgrading to the latest version of iPeng. When using Pandora and looking at the "now playing" screen with the album art, the overlay menu just shows the track time and progress bar.

Am I missing something obvious? Thanks again.

Hm. I've heard this before. Will have to do a bit of investigating. I can't test Pandora myself (not available in Europe) so this is a bit hard...

- Shuffle and Repeat buttons below the time slider
If I tap on the album in "Now Playing" I get the timebar with Repeat and Shuffle buttons on the sides.
I rather would see the timebar using the whole width of the screen and the shuffle buttons beneath the time bar. It is possible then to position more accurate, and the risk of accidently tapping the shuffle or repeat is less.
B.t.w. Wouldn't it be more logical to display the large time indicator above the timeslider? As it works now my finger covers the digits while using the timeseek control

I believe there's a ticket for this...

- Information about an album in the list.
Is this already possible? When browsing the list I'd like to see i.e. what the bitrate is from an album or song.

https://trac.penguinlovesmusic.de/tr...nat/ticket/121

Also I encountered several times that the Squeezecenter (7.4) Service stopped when using the time slider. The only way to get it up then is by starting the service manually with the Windows Service Manager (or by computer restart).

Hm. That sounds like a server issue. In no way should it do that, you should probably file a bug on bugs.slimdevices.com

[Squeezed_Rotel]

My question may seem a bit odd but, if I purchased an IPhone that would be a dedicated music controller using IPeng for SqueezeBoxes, would I have to activate a two year ATT caller plan? You see, I already have cell phones for myself and my wife.

TIA
John

[Howard Passman]

My question may seem a bit odd but, if I purchased an IPhone that would be a dedicated music controller using IPeng for SqueezeBoxes, would I have to activate a two year ATT caller plan? You see, I already have cell phones for myself and my wife.

TIA
John

Couldn't you just buy the iTouch iPod? Does the same thing without the phone part and is pretty cool device in it's own right.

BTW, I don't know about AT&T, but Verizon won't sell you a Balckberry without the digital plan... no matter what.

Howard

[Squeezed_Rotel]

Thanks Howard, I will look at the ITouch.