iPeng support thread

[maggior]

Other features include (finally!) full support for gapless playback and synchronization.

Very cool!!! I very much look forward to this.

[apostle]

I have iPeng and iPeng Playback installed as an app on my iPad. Everything looks fine when I want to play tracks from my library on my iPad. All the tracks that exist on an external drive attached to my iMac are seen, and will start to play.
However, some tracks will occasionally stop and start again from the beginning, others will apparently stop near the end (a few seconds early) and go onto the next track, while others will play and then go to the next track as expected.
I use the iTunes library function on SS which is set to play other tracks on the album as default, while iPeng is set to play single track (I thought there might be a conflict when I also had iPeng set to play other tracks on the album).
Anybody got any ideas what might be causing this?

[pippin]

What file format are you playing and on what hardware is your server running?

Are you syncing iPeng with another player?

This sounds a bit like the server needs to transcode to me.

I use the iTunes library function on SS which is set to play other tracks on the album as default, while iPeng is set to play single track (I thought there might be a conflict when I also had iPeng set to play other tracks on the album).

Which iPeng version do you use? The "Play single tracks" option is no longer present in iPeng and even if it was, it would have no effect if your server is set to play whole albums. "Play single tracks" was only there because by default iPeng was always playing the whole album, no matter what your server was set to (playing single tracks was the default with old server versions) and this option was needed to make sure you can still play single tracks in case you really want to.
Since now for quite a while the default in Logitech's server has been to play whole albums, too, I assume everybody who's set the server to play single tracks probably really wants it that way so iPeng now just uses the server setting.

[apostle]

I'm using standard mp3 @ 128 for all files

I sync with my iPad and with my receiver (I have a Squeezebox Duet)

The Squeezebox Server is running on my iMac i5 using Lion

Thanks for your reply!

[pippin]

I sync with my iPad and with my receiver (I have a Squeezebox Duet)

That's probably the issue. Sync is not yet supported.

The next update will have it.

[March]

On what system is LMS running?
This usually means there's something wrong with the LMS setup, usually it means LMS is still scanning the library.
Or did you maybe increase the maximum number of tracks in the playlist beyond 500?

Reinstalling iPeng almost NEVER fixes anything, the only exception being iPeng crashes on startup.

In "overloading" cases, actually re-installing iPeng will make things worse because then iPeng has to re-request all cached data.


Settings->Enable Playback->Restore Playback (the green button in the bottom of the screen).
If you don't have an "Settings->Enable Playback" menu, playback is already enabled, if you don't see the player you are probably connected to MySqueezebox.com, not your LMS.

Hi Pippin ,
Ok, I got the iPhone player back again.
But even when playing on WiFi it give a "Not connected to any server" after 20 to 30 seconds, and after a minute or so, it sometimes starts playing. When I skip to the next song it takes minutes again.
The same on 3G, but then the iPhone player doesn't come back anymore.
LMS is not scanning, I'm on Windows 7 with LMS 7.7.2, playlist is on 500 in the Performance settings.

[pippin]

But even when playing on WiFi it give a "Not connected to any server" after 20 to 30 seconds, and after a minute or so, it sometimes starts playing. When I skip to the next song it takes minutes again.
...
The same on 3G, but then the iPhone player doesn't come back anymore.

So it needs more than 30s to connect to the server at all?
You are talking about 3G... Did you configure your server for remote access?
Did you open port 3483 and also forward port 9000 to the same port externally?
It could be that iPeng just switches servers (from external to internal) once when you enter your home network but the skipping really sounds too long.

LMS 7.7.2

Which build is this? Did you try the 7.7.1 release version for comparison or update to the latest nightly?

This definitely doesn't sound right.

[apostle]

That's probably the issue. Sync is not yet supported.

The next update will have it.

I had both the receiver and the iPad in the same group. I took the receiver out played a whole CD with no problems - no reverting to start of track and no dropping end of track (so fingers crossed that's cured my problem).
Thanks for the help.

[March]

So it needs more than 30s to connect to the server at all?
You are talking about 3G... Did you configure your server for remote access?
Did you open port 3483 and also forward port 9000 to the same port externally?
It could be that iPeng just switches servers (from external to internal) once when you enter your home network but the skipping really sounds too long.


Which build is this? Did you try the 7.7.1 release version for comparison or update to the latest nightly?

This definitely doesn't sound right.

Strange.. It's the build the Control Panel asked me up update to yesterday. 7.7.2. R33869. I do not update anything else other then when the Control Panel asks me to. That way I can be sure it's an official version and make sure I don't have an unstable version, but reading from your reaction it isn't. (?)

The ports you mentioned are all opened and forwarded to the music server.
And iPeng does find the server at first, because the Squeezebox player is always there, also on 3G. But after iPeng is accessing the LMS to access an album, playlist, etc, LMS hangs and keeps spinning and also my Squeezebox is disconnected. (also at home the actual Squeezebox hardware player is disconnected)
I have to restart the server to get it back again after this.
Does it have to do with caching? I only recently solved a problem i had for many months with the server getting stuck, while scanning album art...

[pippin]

Strange.. It's the build the Control Panel asked me up update to yesterday. 7.7.2. R33869. I do not update anything else other then when the Control Panel asks me to. That way I can be sure it's an official version and make sure I don't have an unstable version, but reading from your reaction it isn't. (?)

That's because 7.7.2 is a beta, it will have daily updates.
But at least you've got the most recent one...

I have to restart the server to get it back again after this.
Does it have to do with caching? I only recently solved a problem i had for many months with the server getting stuck, while scanning album art...

Actually yes, artwork in general it one of the most likely causes.
When iPeng loads it's thumbnails for the first time, the server sends to create them because iPeng uses bigger images than the one the server creates by default (fear iPad 3: here a full-screen image has a size that makes iPad 1 crash if you just tried to display it. And the thumbs on iPad 3 will probably get a similar size as the full-screen artwork on old iPhones! This is a HELL lot of data being used there...)

Until you do a "Clear & Rescan" of the library, the server will cache the artwork so load gets down when you request the same thing a second time, even when iPeng clears it's caches (iPeng caches, too).

What concerns me a bit is that iPeng doesn't read a lot of artwork in advance anymore. Do you see the issues starting when you scroll through albums?

But on a Win7 system I would rule out a load issue, it could be something with a broken image the server hangs up on.
Or a plugin. Do you use CustomBrowse? I have had issues, for example, with the "Random Albums" menu from CustomBrowse which crashed my server when it got loaded.