Coming soon... The iPeng teaser thread

[Jeff Flowerday]

Larger art on the right isn't as sharp as the new iPengHD.

Will there be an option to reorder the playlist, or am I missing something?

[pippin]

Larger art on the right isn't as sharp as the new iPengHD.

Seriously? I have to get an App Store copy (it didn't yet arrive in the German store) but it's actually supposed to be exactly the same.

Will there be an option to reorder the playlist, or am I missing something?

Err... no! That's the whole point, isn't it? The only thing you can do is add a track to the end of the playlist. And watch it.
http://ipengparty.penguinlovesmusic.de

The one thing I've been thinking about is to introduce some kind of voting, so that e.g. several people can agree that the current track sucks and needs to be skipped and so be it....

And Erland pointed out that it would be nice to have a way to see what your own additions are (although this can be really hard with LMS).

I think some additions along these lines will come, but I plan to first collect some feedback.

[Jeff Flowerday]

Seriously? I have to get an App Store copy (it didn't yet arrive in the German store) but it's actually supposed to be exactly the same.

Err... no! That's the whole point, isn't it?
http://ipengparty.penguinlovesmusic.de

The one thing I've been thinking about is to introduce some kind of voting, so that e.g. several people can agree that the current track sucks and needs to be skipped and so be it....

And Erland pointed out that it would be nice to have a way to see what your own additions are (although this can be really hard with LMS).

I think some additions along these lines will come, but I plan to first collect some feedback.

I've never been to a party where we didn't want to move a song up in the order or move over a song accidentally added. Just my feedback.

That said, the interface is dead simple, and perfect for the guests, which was your goal.

[Jeff Flowerday]

It might be that the art is slightly larger in the new app?

[pippin]

I've never been to a party where we didn't want to move a song up in the order or move over a song accidentally added. Just my feedback.

Well, of course, but then the host is free to use the full iPeng....

But yes, as I said: there's room for improvement, it's a 1.0.

Voting actually was another idea Erland brought forward, that can actually even be used to take it to extremes: vote up the whole playlist.

[pippin]

It might be that the art is slightly larger in the new app?

Have you maybe scaled it in one of them? You know that two-finger-zoom works in iPeng for iPad (and iPeng Party), don't you

[Jeff Flowerday]

No I didn't know that. Lol awesome!

[Jeff Flowerday]

Even when sized the same ipeng party's art isn't as sharp.

[pippin]

But you are right! The App Store version is an old build, it's not the retina version.
Also the text in the headers is crippled.

I'm not sure, I might not have updated the build because I did not want even more delays when I updated iPeng for iPad, this has been going back and forth for weeks.

Time to submit the first update to the store...

[pippin]

Larger art on the right isn't as sharp as the new iPengHD.

Turns out I really got screwed by Apple's tools here...

iPeng Party contains a help screen that is a web site made with Dashcode (an Apple tool to create web sites).
Now it turns out that Apple's latest revision of their iOS development toolkit (XCode) has a bug that doesn't let it produce Apps for App Store release if they include code generated by Dashcode, so I used the previous version of XCode for this release and thought that would be fine since iPeng Party doesn't use any APIs that are specific to iOS 5.1.
Turns out that this kills retina support to a certain degree on iPad, the function supposed to tell you whether it's a retina display (and which works fine on iPhone and iPod touch) doesn't work on iPad, yet.

Update is now on the way, ETA is 1 week from now.