Here's what I wrote to Luke about my initial impressions of iSqueeze: Install went fine
It has frozen up on me a few times, most recently while trying to edit the current random playlist. Bug: loads fine into artist view, playlists view shows ok, album view hangs on loading causing squeezecenter to freeze playback. On getting out of iSqueeze back to Springboard, squeezecenter resumes playback. I have a lot of albums: 3,200. I have 2,273 artists. This I've reproduced a few times, never successfully loaded the album list. Another bug? When I was on a phone call, I went into iSqueeze. There was the green bar at the top by which one can return to the call screen, and that worked, but after the call was over, the green bar persisted and continued to count off call time, and did not go away. Making a new call caused the green bar counter to reset, but it still didn't go away at the end of the call or on quitting iSqueeze until I reset the iPhone. Overall seems snappier than iPeng, as I had hoped. I like the now playing screen, and the playlist editing. Using the standard iPhone editing interface, plus the quick delete swipe seems better than iPeng. Button for exiting the edit screen should say "done" rather than "edit". I need some access to search for this to be a very useful interface. And access to random play, ideally Erland's Dynamic Playlists. iPeng is better in terms of accessing song and album info. Lyrics plugin works on iPeng too. I especially like to get info on songs coming up in the playlist. Here is a very common scenario for me: Random songs playlist, looking ahead to delete songs I'm not in the mood for, occasionally reordering if it seems to improve the flow. Sometimes I see in the playsist a track that segues into another, say in a live show, and I want to add the track that would be segued into. So I want to be able to pull up the album of an upcoming track to add another track from that album to the current playlist. Can't do this easily in iPeng either. Being able to get info on upcoming songs would help also because the iSqueeze playlist is not as verbose as the Browser UI of course. I like swiping the playlist item to quick delete. How about swipe right to bring up delete button and swipe left to bring up a "get info" button? I don't know if it would be possible to have an info link button when one is in the edit playlist view. Perhaps tapping the track info in the Now Playing screen could bring up all the song info. Progress bar looks good, is there a plan to add FF and Rew functionality to the progress bar? The button that brings up play album/track or add to playlist: Can this or the activation area for this be made bigger? Too easy to clear the playlist and play the track when I was actually trying to add it to the current playlist. So, great so far. Looking forward to stability and feature improvements. Happy to be helping with the beta testing. My iPhone is a jailbroken 2.1. 3G. -- bephillips More than 40,529 songs on 3,188 albums by 2,270 artists. Mostly flac, some mp3 and aac. SqueezeCenter Version: 7.1 - 22170 @ Mon Jul 28 13:32:51 PDT 2008 Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S165) - EN - utf8 Perl Version: 5.8.6 darwin-thread-multi-2level MySQL Version: 5.0.22-standard Platform Architecture: ppc On a 1.2GHz G4 Mac iBook with 768MB RAM http://db.etree.org/bephillips ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bephillips's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51849 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
