I take the point that iPeng already displays all the data that SBS can deliver, of course, and that iTunes data are not accessible to it. However, I absolutely was not writing about iTunes data, or expecting iPeng to access them.
There is nothing about these PDFs that makes them in themselves "iTunes data", any more than are the music files themselves, or the artwork and tags attached to them. It is true that the PDFs have a tag that attaches them to the music file which iTunes can read; that they are catalogued in the iTunes "library" (incidentally, it always strikes me as ludicrous that Apple insists on calling it the "iTunes library" when it is no more a library than is the chest of index cards in a real library's search room: it's merely a catalogue); and that they reside in the folders created by iTunes for the album. So, however, do and are the .aiff files on my music disk, and the tags and artwork associated with them. Yet none of these, as you know, are exclusively iTunes data. They are just as accessible to any other program or process that runs on the same machine, or on the same LAN, as they are to iTunes, be those applications Max or Amadeus Pro or Audacity or Logic or Sibelius or Coversc out or CDPedia or - because it can either directly read the tags, or the iTunes catalogue/library files - Squeezebox Server. In just the same way, these are merely ordinary PDFs readable in or by any application that is capable of rendering them (including Preview or Adobe Reader, for instance). In fact, these PDFs are not "iTunes data" even in the sense that the music files and other tags might be - absolutely not because iTunes is of itself quite incapable of rendering them. It can only understand the tag that says "get something else to read me please". However, what is or is not iTunes data is beside my point, (or the topic of the thread, for that matter), which was merely to suggest another answer to the question: "how should iPeng on iPad look?" and to suggest that this is one "look" which it would be extremely advantageous to both systems - that is, both iPeng and SBS - to be able to deliver, by whatever means, on the iPad. If a plug-in is what is necessary to make PDFs accessible to SBS as well (as Preview and Adobe Reader, that is), and therefore to iPeng - and you will know a lot better than I if it is - then I entirely concur with your last sentence, and you've got a vote for your suggestion! On 15 Mar 2010, at 12:34, pippin wrote: > > Well, this is not about iTunes data, but Squeezebox Server. iPeng > doesn't have access to iTunes on another device so iPeng has to get all > the data from SBS or an online service. > > iPeng does already today display all the information that SBS delivers, > if you attach more with iTunes and SBS doesn't process it, I have no > access to it. > > This is what I meant about somebody should consider to write plugins > for this. > > > -- > pippin > > --- > see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74581 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
