iPeng support thread

[Bryan Jan]

I may be missing something, I don't know starting from when I can find the player & server information (eg. ip address, firmware # etc) from the iPeng. I remember it was there before.

Can someone point me where it is?

Touch firmware 9904
Squeeze Centre 7.5.4
Vortexbox

[pippin]

Settings->Advanced->Squeezebox Information...
It's exact position may change depending on the actual server version, it's a server provided menu.
If you are just after the server IP,that's also being shown if you press the blue ">" on the server in the MultiPlayer screen.

[Rob Stone]

I just upgraded from 7.4.2 to 7.5.4. Listening to an album, after the first track, the album art is replaced with what I will describe a silver disc (CD). This has always been the case with Slimserver and has been a long standing documented bug. However, this has never happened in iPeng. To be clear, while using iPeng, listening to any track, you would always see the album art. Needless to say, this is a big step backward. Album art is important as it goes to the user experience and functionality of the program (iPeng). So, why did this happen with 7.5.4? Any thoughts? Is there a fix? I will also say I am frustrated with Logitech given that this bug has been outstanding for years.

Thanks for a beautifully conceived and supported application.

Rob

[pippin]

I'd say: disable iTunes integration.

[pippin]

Hm, can't edit my post...

I believe the reason for this is that iTunes only adds artwork to one track in an album but embeds it into that.
iTunes is even able to fool itself that way: change the type of an album full of tracks to "audiobook" and it will also only show the artwork on that single track.

[Rob Stone]

OK. I'm not at the server, so when you say disable iTunes integration, that is in settings in the server? And if I do that, then what is the consequence of disabling iTunes integration? While I understand (I think your explanation of the problem), why is there now a problem with 7.5.4, where there wasn't a problem with 7.4.2 ?

Rob

[pippin]

Oh my...
The problem is that every second version on SBS handles this different, depending which party last complained:
Detailed-Party: "I have carefully tagged a lot of my files to show individual artwork and now SBS always shows only the album cover"
Lazy-Party: "I only have artwork on some of my files and I want all of the files in an album to show that artwork"

In the end it comes down to conflicting interests.

I believe the "real" solution (it works for me, at least) is to have a "folder.jpg" file for each album in the album's folder.

Regarding settings: you can set that in the web interface under Settings->iTunes integration.
That said: before you turn it off, I would first make sure to configure a Music Folder ("Settings->General"), that's what you have to do anyway, and then do a "Clear and Rescan" of the library. Maybe this does already solve it without changing iTunes integration.

[Bryan Jan]

Settings->Advanced->Squeezebox Information...
It's exact position may change depending on the actual server version, it's a server provided menu.
If you are just after the server IP,that's also being shown if you press the blue ">" on the server in the MultiPlayer screen.

Thanks Pippin, yes this is where it used to be. However, now under the Settings-->Advance there is no Squeezebox Information. no Squeezecentre Information.

Is it some settings I screwed up in the server side?

[vagskal]

When switching between cover wall and list album view each view will independently remember where it was in the album list. I was just about to ask you for a change in this behaviour since I find myself constantly switching from cover wall to list view and back trying to see all three lines of text displayed in the list view (which is not working because the list view shows another set of albums than the cover wall). I then remembered that I actually had found it convenient to be able to browse my very long all album list from two places at once by switching view (if you understand what I mean).

In hope that you might find these arguments reasonable I dare repeat my request to have all three text lines shown also in cover wall view. Maybe it is possible to show three lines only when you consider the cover art to be big enough to carry the extra info for each album. (Since you are able to scale multiple images at once like magic I hope the text can be "scaled" as well.) In some of my Custom Browse menus the omitted third line shows the album artist and I do miss the ability to see the artist name when using the cover wall view.

[verypsb]

Playback on my iPad doesn't work. It plays the first 2 seconds in an endless loop. Is this a known problem?

Update: Looks like it works after an update to the latest iOS version.