[Announce] iPeng 1.2.5 now on the App Store

[hvb83]

Nice update Pippin, thank you for your hard work! Looking forward to the iPad-version already!

Also, please let me know if you would like to add a Dutch language pack. In that case I could provide the translation.

[Daverz]

Didn't know these are Custom Browse.

It's the default "Artist" menu that comes with Custom Browse. You should be able to test this out yourself if you have Custom Browse installed.

Have you set the playlist menu type to "Album" (don't ask me how)?

Do you mean the "Playlists" menu? No, I don't think so.

Do you get a Track menu (with iPeng's "Play Shuffled/Play All" items?

Yes, and tapping the first item plays all tracks, but it just doesn't switch to the NowPlaying menu.

[gellie]

I must add the album art resolution is a bit underwhelming on the iPad in 2x. Way to much distortion.

[Jeff Flowerday]

I must add the album art resolution is a bit underwhelming on the iPad in 2x. Way to much distortion.

iPeng isn't an iPad app. iPad is getting it's own application.

[pippin]

I must add the album art resolution is a bit underwhelming on the iPad in 2x. Way to much distortion.

Are you talking thumbs? That's a bug and will be fixed in the update I'm going to submit, well, in a few minutes,

Or are you talking about the big cover on NowPlaying? THIS is purely a lack on the side of your artwork, iPeng displays that with full resolution on iPad. So if your artwork is 300x300, sorry, but there's nothing iPeng can do about that

@Jeff: iPeng is not an iPad app but images are shown with full resolution on iPad if you use them correctly in an iPhone app. While this is not always applicable it should work for cover art in iPeng but I handled it the wrong way for the thumbs (which works on iPhone 4 but not on iPad).

[pippin]

Filed as Ticket #243.

It turns out that this actually INTENTIONAL behavior of CustomBrowse.
This is a plugin-generated menu and it doesn't specify a switch to NowPlaying. I remember Erland did this on purpose for some reason back in those days...
Maybe it can be changed in the menu definition?

[Rodrigo]

Crashing at specific artwork

It´s a strange behavior, but ipeng is crashing as soon as it shows a specific artwork. I still haven´t found another one that has the same result.
Anyway, this is my first post. Great app!

Thanks,
Rodrigo.

PS: Yet another question. I´ve changed some tags and rescanned my music library, still ipeng shows the old ones along with the updated. How can I delet the old ones?

[pippin]

Could you send me that artwork?
Is it BMP? BMP is not supported by Squeezebox Server and can lead to all kings of strange results.

Are the tags you see in iPeng different from the ones you see in the Web interface? Have you flushed the cache (Settings->iPeng Settings-> Flush Cache)?

[Rodrigo]

The file is a jpg image. The original has more than 1 mb. Can this be the problem?
Anyway, it´s attached.
The other one I solved changing some settings in web interface, like autor by band, etc.

Thanks for the fast response,
Rodrigo.

[Daverz]

It turns out that this actually INTENTIONAL behavior of CustomBrowse.
This is a plugin-generated menu and it doesn't specify a switch to NowPlaying. I remember Erland did this on purpose for some reason back in those days...
Maybe it can be changed in the menu definition?

Really? So the Custom Browse generated playlist generated in a different way from any other playlist? Odd way of doing things.

I don't see any setting for NowPlaying, but then some parts of Custom Browse seem somewhat opaque to me. I guess I'll take this up with Erland.

[Aesculus]

New Version of DenonAvpControl Supports iPeng 1.2.5

There is a new version of the DenonAvpControl 1.6 that supports iPeng 1.2.5. The big feature is that you can once again set the player volume at 100% for digital passthrough and use iPeng and the DenonAvpControl plugin to completly keep everything in the digital domain.

For those with networked Denon amplifiers:

http://code.google.com/p/denonavpcontrol/

[pippin]

Really? So the Custom Browse generated playlist generated in a different way from any other playlist? Odd way of doing things.

I don't see any setting for NowPlaying, but then some parts of Custom Browse seem somewhat opaque to me. I guess I'll take this up with Erland.

It doesn't generate a playlist but a menu. This menu has action for the entries and in this case they don't include the parameter to switch to NowPlaying. It's the same on Controller.

[erland]

Really? So the Custom Browse generated playlist generated in a different way from any other playlist? Odd way of doing things.

I don't see any setting for NowPlaying, but then some parts of Custom Browse seem somewhat opaque to me. I guess I'll take this up with Erland.

If this is about that Custom Browse show track details when you click a track instead of start playing it. The issue is just that Custom Browse still have the old behavior and I haven't had the time to change it to the new touch=play behavior that 7.4 and later releases uses.

What I've said is that some people may not want to have the touch=play behavior so I'd like to make this configurable in Custom Browse but I haven't had the time to implement that change yet so currently Custom Browse always shows track details.

[Daverz]

If this is about that Custom Browse show track details when you click a track instead of start playing it.

It starts play, it just doesn't switch to NowPlaying. I have the last level of my menu set to tag type "Playlist". So it when I choose something on the last level, I get the same playlist screen you'd get if you chose an album or a saved playlist. Clicking on the first entry in the playlist starts play, but does not switch to NowPlaying. Menu structure attached.

[pippin]

If this is about that Custom Browse show track details when you click a track instead of start playing it. The issue is just that Custom Browse still have the old behavior and I haven't had the time to change it to the new touch=play behavior that 7.4 and later releases uses.

What I've said is that some people may not want to have the touch=play behavior so I'd like to make this configurable in Custom Browse but I haven't had the time to implement that change yet so currently Custom Browse always shows track details.

No, it's about not having a "nextWindow => NowPlaying" parameter in the play/go command.
I seem to remember some discussion a year ago or so where you said it's on purpose because it's also old behavior or many people prefer it that way or something.