What should be in the next version of SqueezePad ?

[erland]

How about agreeing on a way to customize the home menu structure through the server and have a plugin for that? The motivation for me would be to have then same menu structure for all players and all client devices which I think is otherwise a pain in the ass to design.

Since Logitech have decided to do it on the client side it's not going to be enough to have a server side plugin, we will also need an applet that can modify the menus on the client and report to the server side plugin which menus that are available. In SqueezePlay it's important to remember that some menus might be created by applets which the server side isn't even aware of.

There isn't any way to replace/reorder menus on the server side, there was support for this earlier but the functionality disappeared in a 7.x release (don't remember exactly which one). Some support for it might come back in 7.6 if the onebrowser functionality is included but that only involves menus under My Music.

We would need somebody to write the plugin, though, I'm not gonna touch Perl....

Let's wait and see what Logitech will do first.

[bluegaspode]

Hi guys,

thanks for participating in this poll !

The Top3 is clear now:
- Better playlist management
- Albums/artist lists caching
- MySqueezebox.com integration

I just finished MySqueezebox.com integration because it was the easiest to do. This version was submitted to Apple this week so should be available some day next week.
The next thing for me to do will be better playlist management followed by albums/artist lists caching.

I'm going to implement playlist management in two steps:
- first the basics (a window that moves in from the right where you can see the playlist, reorder tracks by drag and drop, save/clear the playlist)
- second the icing: drag and drop from left to right

After the first step I'll provide an update to the AppStore so that you can use it as fast as possible.

Just one final question came up this weekend: should we change the looks of SqueezePad first ?
Again its all about priorities and choices, see this thread for further discussion: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81403

[amcluesent]

I did this small demo of Squeezepad with CustomBrowse plug-in augmenting the features.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSk6ghgX_q4

There does seem to be some issues with too many entries in the top-level menu, maybe because I've replaced Squeezebox menus with CustomBrowse ones of the same name. However the Controller isn't affected by this...

[bluegaspode]

I did this small demo of Squeezepad with CustomBrowse plug-in augmenting the features.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSk6ghgX_q4

There does seem to be some issues with too many entries in the top-level menu, maybe because I've replaced Squeezebox menus with CustomBrowse ones of the same name. However the Controller isn't affected by this...

Yeah - the first SqueezePad YouTube video (cannot be found by searching for SqueezePad though) !

Is the effect with the CustomBrowse-Menu visible on the video ? Write me a mail to bluegaspode at gmail dot com so that we can investigate your issue !

[JayLaFunk]

Would it be possible to add resume playback from last position for audiobooks and podcasts in MP3 format?...

[jimzak]

You probably already saw my post in the other thread, but I would certainly appreciate the option to use SqueezePad in portrait view mode.

[bluegaspode]

I put both request on the backlog so that they can be part of the next poll.

I think resuming is difficult (or at least not stable) if thats not implemented on the server side.
SqueezePad doesn't have any chance to know the position where you stopped the stream when its off. So it might work when you control everything exclusive with SqueezePad, but would instantly fail when you use some other remote.
This might get annoying.

[jwaka11]

Small request if I may, can you also assign numerical value to the volume slider bar? Thx

[bluegaspode]

Do you want to enter a value manually ?
Or do you want to just see the value, that is assigned ?

In both cases - what is your reasoning ?

[satmarshall]

I love the app!

I use all of my squeezeboxes (5) with fixed audio output. I think it sounds better and I can play surround sound files to one of my avr receivers. Is there any way/added feature to have the volume control "punch through" and control the receiver volume instead of the SBs? Not sure if the IRBlaster plugin could help. Integration with a global cache IR system would be fantastic.

Keep up the great work!