iPeng support thread

[Mnyb]

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


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

This is not during playback on iPeng, Jjust normal multitasking

[Gazjam]

thanks for the reply Pippin.

I'm not sure the stuttering performance is an issue any more actually.
(you'll be happy to hear )

On your Blog page, someone had posted that having FLAC decoded natively (as opposed to being Disabled and streaming PCM to Ipeng) fixed some stuttering issues he had?

I'm happy to say that that did the trick for me too.
I'd put that one down as a definate solution to performance/stuttering issues.

Also...
I had been using a custom-convert.config file to upsample my FLACS using SOX to 24/96, which maybe didn't help?
I lost that and the performance on my 2G Ipod improved again.
Wierdly enough though, transcoding to MP3 didn't make a difference. I guess the biggest bottleneck on the perhaps borderline resources on the 2G was the PCM stream hitting Ipeng?

So till something else comes along, when listening in the bedroom I'll switch off PCM streaming and the upsampling.
That'll work.

Still curious to know how other 1G/2G users are finding the playback feature?

[Mnyb]

To get iPeng on iPad to lok better I opted for really big cover art on my latest albums, the big art looks awesome but i get no small pic's in iPeng for thoose albums ?

[pippin]

@Gazjam
I'm actually surprised this worked at all, iPeng currently doesn't support PCM at all (it made a few things easier and the server is supposed to encode everything as FLAC anyway).
The next version will support it but I'd still recommend against using PCM.

To get iPeng on iPad to lok better I opted for really big cover art on my latest albums, the big art looks awesome but i get no small pic's in iPeng for thoose albums ?

Please try to flush the cache in these cases. The server sometimes scans artwork late and if iPeng gets the wrong (or no) image once it keeps this as ling as the cache is valid.

[MrSinatra]

can ipeng setup a SBR from scratch? if not, any point in filing a req to ask that it could?

[pippin]

can ipeng setup a SBR from scratch? if not, any point in filing a req to ask that it could?

No and no
I have planned to do a separate, free app for that for a while but never found the time for it, it's still on the to-do list.
A few thoughts:
- in any case you would have to connect the Receiver on wired Ethernet to set it up, wireless setup won't work because (App Store) Apps can't change the WiFi network.
- From what I hear I believe the process is unreliable and I don't want something like that in iPeng, especially given the amount of support effort it will require
- Technically it would be just UI, I have all the UDAP stuff, I did that when I implemented the feature to connect "lost" players.

So let's hope I find some free time for a setup App.

[MrSinatra]

does the SBC change the wifi network somehow, to be able to connect the SBR wirelessly? i've wondered how that worked...

in any case, i understand what you're saying. in the net-udap thread, the udap writer, Robin i think, said he was going to make his code a SBS plugin, (but alas in the years since, hasn't). this is i think the best solution, a friendly GUI as 3rd party plugin for SBS, that makes a SBR useable to that SBS, without the need of any other hardware. i've wasted a good day of time on these annoying issues. why logitech does this is beyond me.

[pippin]

does the SBC change the wifi network somehow, to be able to connect the SBR wirelessly? i've wondered how that worked...

The Receiver sets up it's own WiFi network which the Controller connects to.

why logitech does this is beyond me.

It _IS_ complex. How else would you connect a device to a password protected WiFI network without entering a password on the device.

WPS works fine but is only supported by newer routers and also wasn't around when the Receiver was developed.

The good solution would probably have been a USB port and a config file on a memory stick.

[MrSinatra]

sorry, i was unclear... what i meant is why does logiech force you to have a SBC to set a SBR up, as opposed to a SBS plugin or leaving the ability in SP, (as it used to be/do).

an ad-hoc SBR created wifi, pretty smart. too bad they blow it otherwise.

[pippin]

There is no universal way to do the wifi connection on any platform, on the Controller, they have the HW under control.

I believe they also don't want to support any more complex solution.

Why they don't support it on the Touch/Radio I have no idea.