iPeng support thread

[aeo12]

Are you using SBS 7.6? That's a 7.6 bug.

Yes, I recently moved to 7.6, so that must be my problem. I really like 7.6 so far, so I'll just have to live with the bug for now. Thanks

[pippin]

Yes, I recently moved to 7.6, so that must be my problem. I really like 7.6 so far, so I'll just have to live with the bug for now. Thanks

Looks like it might eventually get fixed
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16620

[Sinergie]

That's because now iPeng starts with using the menu text from it's own translations. But then the server delivers it's own title and iPeng starts to use that.
I don't really have a fix for that that would not break a lot of other stuff.

Thanks for clearing that up. Is it possible to change it at the server side? I've searched in the "strings.txt" file, but couldn't find the corresponding titles there..

[2eleven]

I have completely rewritten that stay-alive code now and hope issues are fixed. It's currently testing.

I hate to say it, but the battery drain problem still exists in 1.3.1. I've downgraded again to 1.2.7, but I'm starting to lose hope.

iOS 4.2.1, no jailbreak.

John

[Metazargo]

So often I listen to a track and want to correct mainly genres, edit in this very moment, when else? Rarely I take a paper or write an email to myself.

iPeng on iPhone is always at hand.

But of course it would need an edit mode of the SBS itself. On the other hand it might be simpler to let iPeng edit the tags of the tracks directly, by adding the real share and a login...

Just ideas, will such ever come? Other ideas?

[pippin]

Thanks for clearing that up. Is it possible to change it at the server side? I've searched in the "strings.txt" file, but couldn't find the corresponding titles there..

Not sure. Could be it comes from MySB.

I hate to say it, but the battery drain problem still exists in 1.3.1. I've downgraded again to 1.2.7, but I'm starting to lose hope.

Don't lost hope, I believe I've finally found it.
I was mislead by all the reports of the App staying active and was looking for an issue with background execution or with server communication.

Turned out it had nothing to do with that, iOS Apps _always_ keep running behind the screen saver and communication is indeed being shut off.
The problem is a background thread locking up and consuming all CPU power which seems to keep the iPhone from throttling the App (apart from also causing power drain while active).
Will be fixed in the next release and this time it really looks promising.

So often I listen to a track and want to correct mainly genres, edit in this very moment, when else? Rarely I take a paper or write an email to myself.

iPeng on iPhone is always at hand.

But of course it would need an edit mode of the SBS itself.

Indeed.

On the other hand it might be simpler to let iPeng edit the tags of the tracks directly, by adding the real share and a login...

Just ideas, will such ever come?

I don't think so. Apart from being horrendously complex it's also dangerous (can break your files)

Other ideas?

Someone could write a plugin.

[Sinergie]

Not sure. Could be it comes from MySB.

I've set English as language in MySB. It would be weird if then Dutch strings are used in iPeng, wouldn't it?

[Mnyb]

Does iPeng for iPad sometimes crash ? It just dissapears for me sometimes and when I choose iPeng again I see the little penguin collection and it populates the album list over again ?
I switch between apps regurarly on my pad, mostly iRule iPeng & Safari

[zimmer62]

Is there any chance you could look into supporting a custom URL Scheme for iPeng? It would allow other apps, or webpages to launch iPeng and possibly perform actions that you approve of such as starting or stopping music.

I'd really like to be able to launch iPeng from a webpage or other apps that support that sort of thing. I'm hoping to do it from HSTouch, it's a home automation package.

You could have it load to a certain screen for example volume or favorites. You could start playing playlists, or radio stations. Right now I seem to be trying to duplicate all the efforts by building in squeezebox controls into hstouch using a plugin, and there just is no way I could come close to being as complete as ipeng.

[pippin]

I've set English as language in MySB. It would be weird if then Dutch strings are used in iPeng, wouldn't it?

No. The client decides on the language delivered by the server. iPeng always choses the language set on the iThingy.

Does iPeng for iPad sometimes crash ? It just dissapears for me sometimes and when I choose iPeng again I see the little penguin collection and it populates the album list over again ?
I switch between apps regurarly on my pad, mostly iRule iPeng & Safari

I don't know, I haven't got any crash reports yet but I suspect there might be a memory leak in the playback.

Is there any chance you could look into supporting a custom URL Scheme for iPeng? It would allow other apps, or webpages to launch iPeng and possibly perform actions that you approve of such as starting or stopping music.

Yes, that's in the works. Will be in 1.4.