Hi, I have been using a Squeezebox Boom for 5 days now with Squeezebox Server 7.4.1 and iPeng.
Today I realized that apps from the App Gallery on Mysqueezebox.com and plugins in Squeezebox Server are not the same thing. What makes it confusing is that iPeng can install apps and put them in the My Apps menu, and then I can see these Apps in the Squeezebox Server under the My Apps menu. However, when I try to uninstall the apps from iPeng, the behavior is very inconsistent. Even though iPeng says it uninstalled them, they show up randomly in Squeezebox server. I was especially having a problem with the podcasts app. I installed Podcast Player from iPeng, but I could not see how to add my own podcasts so that Podcast Player would see them. iPeng doesn't seem to have the feature to add podcasts, and when I tried adding them in Squeezebox server in Squeezebox server settings on the Podcasts tab, I could not find a menu in iPeng from which I could see and play the added podcasts. I figured out the the Podcast feature in Squeezebox server is added by the Podcasts plugin (not to be confused with the Podcast Player app) that is located in Squeezebox settings on the Plugins tab. So, it appeared that iPeng could have the Podcast Player app that could not see the custom podcasts I was trying to add, and the Squeezebox server had the place to add custom podcasts in Squeezebox server settings on the Podcast tab, but iPeng did not have the menu that would access that information. Finally, I decided to switch my Squeezebox Boom from using the Squeezebox server to using Mysqueezebox.com. Suddenly, I realized that the apps that iPeng saw were the same apps available on Mysqueezebox.com When I tried to delete the Podcast Player add, it was gone from iPeng. When I added the Podcast Player add in iPeng it appeared in Mysqueezebox.com. So far so good! Then I clicked on the Podcast Player add and saw a place where I could add a custom podcast. It was similar to the Podcast plugin in Squeezebox server. So, I added a custom podcast in Podcast Player add on Mysqueezebox.com, and I was able to see this custom podcast in iPeng under Podcast Player. So, my conclusion is that the integration with Mysqueezebox.com works quite a bit better than with Squeezebox server, at least when it comes to controlling a Squeezebox device using iPeng and especially when trying to play custom podcasts while controlling the Squeezebox device from iPeng. Lastly, I switched my Squeezebox Boom back to Squeezebox server, but this time I went to Squeezebox server settings and under the "mysqueezebox.com" tab enabled the integration between the Squeezebox server and Mysqueezebox.com. In this configuration, I was still able to add podcasts in Podcast Player on Mysqueezebox.com and see them using Podcast Player in iPeng. Then, I proceeded to remove the Podcast plugin from the list of plugins in Squeezebox server, and I was still able to use the Podcast Player app on iPeng. Therefore, I came to the conclusion that the plugins available in Squeezebox server and the apps available in Mysqueezebox.com are not the same thing. However, I am still a little confused. I see that there are a lot of Squeezebox player settings that can be set both in Squeezebox server and in Mysqueezebox.com. Even though the integration between the Squeezebox server and Mysqueezebox.com is enabled, the player settings configured in Mysqueezebox.com have absolutely no effect on the way the Squeezebox Boom behaves as long as it is connected to the Squeezebox server. The player settings in Squeezebox server take an immediate effect on the Squeezebox Boom. So, what exactly does the "integration" between the Squeezebox server and Mysqueezbox.com affect? I know that the applications can be installed and configured in Mysqueezebox.com while it is integrated with Squeezebox server and the Squeezebox device associated with the Squeezebox server. What other settings are affected by this integration? Can someone explain the difference between the Squeezebox server plugins and the apps available in iPeng and in Mysqueezebox.com? Sorry for this long post, but I am going crazy trying to understand how it all works together. -- sirozha ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sirozha's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2986 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71343 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
