[Announce] iPeng 1.2.5 now on the App Store

[bluegaspode]

The option 'Bild in voller Höhe' doesn't have any effect anymore.

[JonWill]

Thanks for the update. Generally great, as is iPeng... however the changing player when you pop in and out of iPeng makes using it difficult- I keep on making the Radio in the bedroom play inappropriate music... any idea on when a fix will be ready?

Jon

[Jeff Flowerday]

So does caching happen on a need by need basis now? When I first visit an artist all the art for that artist will then get cached and resused?

Before did it cache all art prior, as it used to bring up a pop up saying it was syncronizing the cache?

[plympton]

Quick question: Any reason you go rid of the fancy player icons and now have fairly generic ones? Wondering if it's a copyright thing, or design choice. (I like the old better :-))

-Dan

[Daverz]

"NowPlaying on Play" still doesn't work for my playlists.

[pippin]

The option 'Bild in voller Höhe' doesn't have any effect anymore.

Oh yes it has. But only in Landscape mode. Which of course leaves it named inappropriately but since I have translations in five languages for "Bild in voller Höhe" I'll leave it, after all it's still full height even if you can't see it
Did you use that? I thought I was the only one....

Thanks for the update. Generally great, as is iPeng... however the changing player when you pop in and out of iPeng makes using it difficult- I keep on making the Radio in the bedroom play inappropriate music... any idea on when a fix will be ready?

I do have a fix and will send it to Apple as of end of business tomorrow.

So does caching happen on a need by need basis now? When I first visit an artist all the art for that artist will then get cached and resused?
Before did it cache all art prior, as it used to bring up a pop up saying it was syncronizing the cache?

No. The artwork caching is the same as before; It will cache the first 450 artwork thumbs automatically and all others as they are requested the first time.

Quick question: Any reason you go rid of the fancy player icons and now have fairly generic ones? Wondering if it's a copyright thing, or design choice. (I like the old better :-))

Actually I got a lot of complaints about the old ones being ugly so since I had to have new ones created anyway for the high resolution on iPhone 4 I got them changed.

"NowPlaying on Play" still doesn't work for my playlists.

Did you file a ticket on this?

[plympton]

Actually I got a lot of complaints about the old ones being ugly so since I had to have new ones created anyway for the high resolution on iPhone 4 I got them changed.

Guess you can't please everyone.. or anyone! :-)

[therealrocket]

WOL problem

Hi,

When I close and reopen iPeng the MAC address of my machine becomes XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX and WOL doesn't work. Is there a way to make iPeng remember the MAC address?

[pippin]

Hi,

When I close and reopen iPeng the MAC address of my machine becomes XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX and WOL doesn't work. Is there a way to make iPeng remember the MAC address?

I've heard this before.
It's hard to reproduce, meaning trying it several times seems to do the trick.

I suspect that it has to do with selecting the default MAC, that would clearly be a bug and in this case you could work around it by:
0. Write down your server's MAC address
1. Shut down your server
2. Add your server's IP address manually under "Settings->iPeng settings->Add Server"
3. Set the MAC for this server.

I'll test this and include it in the update to be provided tomorrow.

[Daverz]

Did you file a ticket on this?

Filed as Ticket #243.

[Jeff Flowerday]

Would it be too much to add an option in the configuration to clear and repopulate the entire cache? I have a 7000 plus album library and would like the art completely cached for when I'm in 3G land.

I use iPeng for reference when shopping and the uncached art is a little too slow loading via 3G. The library is too large to scroll through slowly on wifi to get the art to cache.

Thanks!

[pippin]

Filed as Ticket #243.

Didn't know these are Custom Browse.
Have you set the playlist menu type to "Album" (don't ask me how)?
Do you get a Track menu (with iPeng's "Play Shuffled/Play All" items? Or do you have to play the tracks through the context menu?

Would it be too much to add an option in the configuration to clear and repopulate the entire cache? I have a 7000 plus album library and would like the art completely cached for when I'm in 3G land.

I use iPeng for reference when shopping and the uncached art is a little too slow loading via 3G. The library is too large to scroll through slowly on wifi to get the art to cache.

Puh. I'll have to see. There's an open ticket for that, I believe.
Generally that's a tradeoff. I believe one of my most important issues is still people with slow servers having lots of trouble to provide the artwork in time.

Also, the artwork is not _that_ much data, I use it over 3G a lot.

[Jeff Flowerday]

Puh. I'll have to see. There's an open ticket for that, I believe.
Generally that's a tradeoff. I believe one of my most important issues is still people with slow servers having lots of trouble to provide the artwork in time.

Also, the artwork is not _that_ much data, I use it over 3G a lot.

It's liveable over 3G but it would be nice if it was already cached. I have a need for speed. My server definately isn't an issue, I'm runnin a Core 2 Quad @ 3.25 GHZ/4GB Ram/4 1 TB Blacks in a Raid 10, 64 bit Windows Server 2008 R2. Actual FLAC files are on an external Raid 0 enclosure. All the server does is host a couple very low traffic websites and squeeze center.

[therealrocket]

I've heard this before.
It's hard to reproduce, meaning trying it several times seems to do the trick.

I suspect that it has to do with selecting the default MAC, that would clearly be a bug and in this case you could work around it by:
0. Write down your server's MAC address
1. Shut down your server
2. Add your server's IP address manually under "Settings->iPeng settings->Add Server"
3. Set the MAC for this server.

I'll test this and include it in the update to be provided tomorrow.

Hi pippin,

Amazingly quick response! Thanks!

I'm pretty sure I caused it. Here's what I did:
1. Opened iPeng and played around with squeezebox server
2. Shut down the squeezebox server PC, while leaving iPeng open.
3. Tried to use iPeng after the server was shut down; WOL worked. (good thing )
4. Closed and reopened iPeng; observed the server disappeared from iPeng. This might be a bug: I was expecting it to remember.
5. Added the server's IP manually under "Settings->iPeng settings->Add Server" (but did not populate the MAC address - I should have done this, that's my mistake!)
6. Observed that WOL would not work with the manually added IP - even after switching the server PC on and off again, it didn't save the MAC address into the manual entry.

So it seems that:
* Automatically detected servers aren't preserved between closing and opening iPeng
* Manually added servers don't get their MAC addresses updated.

This is iPhone OS 3.1.2 (I have a 3g )

I haven't tested yet, but I'm pretty certain manually adding the server will work around the problem. I'll let you know.

[bluegaspode]

Did you use that? I thought I was the only one....

Um - it was the default for iPeng, I left it that way and now wondered, why cover art looks different on the main screen.

As I'm not using iPeng much I don't care, just wanted to let you know.