iPeng support thread

[Owen Smith]

I use iPengHD on an iPad 3. Frequently when I come home from work (iPad at home all day), iPeng won't play anything. I navigate up and down the directory tree until iPeng crashes and quits. Then I can restart it and everything works fine. It's been like this ever since I got my iPad 3, which was one of the first pre-order ones. I only play by Folder structure since about half of my music either isn't tagged at all or is incorrectly tagged. Is this a known problem? I'm up to date on iPengHD updates, and I'm running LMS 7.7.2 - r33893.

[pippin]

Would it be possible to store the playlists locally on the iPad/iPhone? This way if you refresh the server you wouldnt loose a playlist?

It's planned. Not as easy as in Android, though, since you can't just add stuff to the device's internal library.

I use iPengHD on an iPad 3. Frequently when I come home from work (iPad at home all day), iPeng won't play anything. I navigate up and down the directory tree until iPeng crashes and quits. Then I can restart it and everything works fine. It's been like this ever since I got my iPad 3, which was one of the first pre-order ones. I only play by Folder structure since about half of my music either isn't tagged at all or is incorrectly tagged. Is this a known problem? I'm up to date on iPengHD updates, and I'm running LMS 7.7.2 - r33893.

But you _can_ browse the library up and down (both directions) and it shows correctly?
Are you playing in iPeng (using the Playback) or on a Squeezebox?
Is the player shown in the player/server list (when you tap the player name at the top right)?

What happens when you try to play something?

[Owen Smith]

But you _can_ browse the library up and down (both directions) and it shows correctly?
Are you playing in iPeng (using the Playback) or on a Squeezebox?
Is the player shown in the player/server list (when you tap the player name at the top right)?

What happens when you try to play something?

Yes I can browse the folder structure up and down and it shows correctly.
I'm playing to either a Duet receiver or a Boom or both sync'd, I don't have local playback on iPeng. Same thing happens regardless of which SqueezeBox(s) are selected.
The players are shown in the player/server list.

When I try to play something by tapping on a track, absolutely nothing happens. It's as if I hadn't tapped on it.

Generally I try twice, if both fail then I navigate up and down the folder tree until iPengHD crashes (since there's no means of quitting it) and then I can run it again and it works fine.

[pippin]

That sounds really weird.
Could you try whether that's only when browsing folders? Can you issue commands on the Player controls?

[Owen Smith]

That sounds really weird.
Could you try whether that's only when browsing folders? Can you issue commands on the Player controls?

I'm not sure what you mean. What player controls can I access from iPeng? I've noticed the volume of the Boom can be controlled but not much else. I can't stop, start or pause since nothing is playing. Or did you have some other controls I haven't used in mind?

iPengHD appears to be creating dump files when it crashes. I had assumed they're sent automatically to the developers and was just waiting for a fix to appear. Then I spotted this forum by accident when looking for something else.

[Owen Smith]

That sounds really weird.
Could you try whether that's only when browsing folders? Can you issue commands on the Player controls?

Just now I couldn't play from a file in the Folder view again. So I went to Artists and selected a random Queen album and that played fine. Once I'd done that I could go back to the Folder view and play files from there without any trouble. What that tells you I don't know.

[pallfreeman]

You say that you usually just select from folders and that your tags are a mess. Does LMS complete a full wipe & rescan OK?

Have you tried clearing iPeng's cache?

[pippin]

Yep. Whether the scan is complete is something I would have asked, too. Clearing the cache doesn't help since iPeng doesn't cache folders (you can't, tey get re-scanned every time you browse into them).

I really wonder whether the problem might be that the whole folder tree gets invalidated while iPeng is asleep (due to rescanning). In this case it would help to re-start from the root of the browse tree.
The crashing might be related, when iPeng needs to reload all it's data it crashes more often. I actually might just have fixed one reason for that, not sure.

All of this points a bit towards a server that is perpetually scanning.

[Owen Smith]

You say that you usually just select from folders and that your tags are a mess. Does LMS complete a full wipe & rescan OK?

Have you tried clearing iPeng's cache?

LMS completes a scan fine according to scanner.log. I have it set to do a full rescan daily at 6AM.

What iPeng cache? It didn't even know it had one, and now I don't know have to clear it.

[Owen Smith]

Yep. Whether the scan is complete is something I would have asked, too. Clearing the cache doesn't help since iPeng doesn't cache folders (you can't, tey get re-scanned every time you browse into them).

I really wonder whether the problem might be that the whole folder tree gets invalidated while iPeng is asleep (due to rescanning). In this case it would help to re-start from the root of the browse tree.
The crashing might be related, when iPeng needs to reload all it's data it crashes more often. I actually might just have fixed one reason for that, not sure.

All of this points a bit towards a server that is perpetually scanning.

It is not perpetually scanning. scanner.log attached: scanner.log