I'm a long-time Squeezebox Controller user, but since my daughter has an iPod Touch, I asked her to install iPeng out of curiosity. She did the download/install, so I can't comment on how easy it was, but suffice to say that within about 5 mins of me asking her to get it, iPeng was ready to use.
The first thing to say about iPeng is that it pops up numerous tutorials when you first start using it. This is a good sign - clearly there is a lot of assistance available right inside the app. But being male, of course I simply dismissed these tutorials after a very cursory scan and started playing. Reading instructions is the last resort for us blokes. Within a few minutes I was controlling the three Squeezeboxes around the house, grouping/ungrouping them, synchronising, etc. The interface on iPeng really is very good. On the basis of playing with iPeng for a few minutes, I'd say that it's a much better interface than the Controller. There are two downsides to iPeng... Firstly, I found the location accuracy of touches on icons to be a bit hit-and-miss. My overall feeling was that there are too many small icons close together, and it's easy to get the wrong one. Temper that observation with the fact that I'm a novice iTouch user - perhaps with more experience using the device my touches would be better controlled. (And in any case, a similar criticism can be made of the Controller with regard to "wheel overshoot"). Secondly (and this is a predicted downside rather than an observed one), keeping the Controller battery charged is convenient. When not in use, you just drop it in the cradle and it's always charged and ready for use. With an iTouch you'd need to remember to hook it up to a charger at appropriate times. I get the feeling that it would be easy to forget and find that when you come to use iPeng the iTouch is out of juice. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79960 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
