Hi SqueezePad Early Adopters :D I'm very enthusiastic that you seem to like the App and didn't find any severe issues yet. Thanks a lot for all your valueable input that I'll comment on in this posting.
In the meantime I set up a bug-tracking system (www.stagessound.de/squeezepad) where you can see progress on different parts and have a preview on fixed issues of the next version. The following issues are fixed in version v1.2.0 already submitted to Apple for review. This typically takes about 10 days currently. > > - There seems to be some issues with the Custom Browse menus regarding > album art that isn't perfect yet, have to investigate a bit more what > differs compared to SqueezePlay and iPeng. I really happy they are > working as good as they are though. The problem I saw was that I got > album cover icons on track level but it showed the default album cover > and not the real one. The standard browse menu track menus doesn't > contain any album cover. > - Is there some way to show current playlist ? > - I cant find the current playlist > - In long alphabetized lists it would be handy to be able to jump to a > given letter, as you can in the iPhone's iPod app. > - an Index as scrolling bar, for fast jumping to letters (like iPhone > adressbook, a..b..c..d..) > I added a playlist menu item in the 'my music' menu. Its the menu you know from the Squeezebox Touch. Also in album and artists menu (and all other that provide index information) you'll get section headers and a ribbon for fast navigation to any place you like. Along with this there will be support for context menu (i.e. for basic playlist management). The context menus also give access to many of the features from erlands plugins. I'll try to address the following issues in a v1.2.1 release. > > - Would be great to have a "back" button on the navigation menu, will > make it more similar to other apps. I realized pretty fast that I have > to be able to slide back but making the title as a back button can't > hurt. I also think it would be a bit user friendly as sliding back > sometimes misses, especially in lists which can be scrolled > vertically. > - I agree about providing an arrow for moving back on menus, as > suggested before. The backwards swipe is not so obvious because the > menu window doesn't move horizontally as you're starting to swipe. I > like the behavior of the article window in Reeder, for example, where > the window starts to move as you swipe back, but there's also a back > arrow if you don't want to swipe at all. > - Prevent display sleep when playing. > - The volume slider can be adjusted on a player where the digital > output is fixed at 100% (but the slider of course has no effect). > - If you hit search but don't enter anything and then press the button > to hide the keyboard, I think the menu should go back instead of > forward. > - Spotify plugin browsing is OK, but will not play on any of them. > - Did I mention you can't change the alarm volume? > I plan to finish this v1.2.1 release first week of august (so in two weeks). Add again 10 days for apples review and if everything works out it will come out around 19th of august. You can watch the progress of this release here: http://www.stagessound.de/squeezepad/roadmap_page.php?version_id=1 Some comments though to the Back Button: I don't want to spoil the interface with too many buttons here and there (yet). I'll implement that tapping the menu-title will go one level up. Along with the swiping (which can be done on the title as well if one gets in trouble with the table scrolling) this should give enough options for easy navigation. The following issues I put in the backlog for later evaluation so that I won't forget these things. All backlog items are tracked here: http://www.stagessound.de/squeezepad/roadmap_page.php?version_id=2 > > - Not too fond of using different font sizes in lists - kind of > disturbs the clean user interface. > - I'd love to have a portrait mode that showed big album cover and a > bit larger text so it's visible from the couch 2-3 meters away. > - Darker background (perhaps with a texture). > - Oh - and please lose that gradient background for something solid or > greyish (or make it user configurable)... > - can i Change the Background in the Future? I would like black (like > iPhoto) > - I think it would be nice if the control buttons mirrored those of > SqueezePlay. Whether or not you do this, it could behave like > SqueezePlay and provide buttons for Shuffle and Repeat, except when > using Pandora where these buttons are Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down, or > when using Slacker where these buttons are Add Favorite and Remove > Favorite. SqueezePlay also dims the Next and Shuffle buttons when > there's only a single song in the playlist. The little "i" could go in > the bar across the top to make room. > Just one further comment: Shuffle + Repeat options are available in the settings-menu already. But having extra icons of course would be a nice to add. > For some reasons most Albums on Napster have no content. Some do. > This is with SBS 7.5 Does SqueezePlay show the album art ? If yes and SqueezePad lacks the album art, can you get my the cometd-log of the respective menu ? Tracked with this issue: http://www.stagessound.de/squeezepad/view.php?id=4 > And speaking of SqueezePlay again, it has icons for the top-level menu > items that perhaps you could use. Currently (unfortunately) that's not possible. The images are copyrighted by logitech (and cannot be downloaded 'on the fly' from the server). Licensing of SqueezePlay currently demands to ask for written permission by logitech I might try that some time. 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