Hi Stefan My name is Fred, and I live in Toronto Canada, Im a lurker and rarely post, but have a few issues and suggestions regarding the current design of Squeezepad 1.3.0
To begin with, let me say, I LOVE this Application. Once all the Album Art was updated with large/quality images, and tagged correctly, this App truly shines. Truthfully, I am using the IPAD more and more in Portrait mode, while in a docking station beside my Stereo, and use the standard remote to select my Music. This configuration reminds me of days gone by, when I would put the current album playing on the turntable, on display, beside my Stereo. Anyways, below are a few issues and design suggestions, I would very much like you to consider for a future release. ISSUES I more or less always have my Squeezebox playing Random Songs from my collection. If I dont like a song, I simply skip to the next one. Often, I find the Squeezepad application automatically exiting itself (after approx 50 songs or so). Not sure why this happens and my only solution is to restart the Application, until it does it again. (needless to say this is very frustrating and I am surprise no one else is experiencing this) Next, even though both Biography and Album Review plug-ins work under iPeng, Ive yet to make it work under Squeezepad. (it does search but always comes back with a "not found" message) Not sure what Im doing wrong, but would very much like to take advantage of these plug-ins. Perhaps you can give me some suggestions on making it work DESIGN SUGGESTIONS Again, since I use Squeezepad in Portrait mode, more and more, it would be very nice if I had the ability to select the next song easily, from the IPAD, without having to exit from Portrait to Landscape, select the next song, and then put the IPAD back in its docking station and back in Portrait mode. Perhaps, for starters, a simple forward and back arrow symbol could be added at the bottom of the portrait screen to facilitate. With this design, to return to landscape mode, one would have to touch the top half/Album art specifically, not anywhere else on the screen. Is there a way that the users can select his/her own background colors, borders, fonts to change the color scheme of Squeezebox to suit each individuals taste. The default landscape layout colors, although nice, really doesnt do anything for me. I would LOVE to see the ability to select black or glass backgrounds/borders to make the Squeezebox truly sexy. This is more so important for me when in portrait mode. I would love if the ability existed to select the background/border/font colors or potentially emboss or create effects, such as light, on the Album cover and background itself. Perhaps this is a tall order and not easily done, but perhaps something like plug-ins can be designed to allow users of Squeezepad to select there preferred appearance/layout. I may be a minority, but as you can see by my above suggestions, I am less concerned about the Squeezepads ability to do things (it currently does more or less everything I require) and more concerned about appearances and configurability. Again thanx for taking the time to make this wonderful Application, and perhaps you can consider a few of the above design suggestions. Cheers, Fred in Toronto, Canada -- Fredly ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fredly's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1392 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80553
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