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Question: Which of these iPeng enhancements would be most important for
you?
- Non-Swipe Now-Playing UI for iPhone
- "SqueezePlay-like" menu operation
- Main Player controls permanently available instead of shortcut bar
- Smaller and lower resolution artwork
- New Main Screen UI for iPad
- Advanced Synchronization
- Additional Functionality (please elaborate)
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pippin;605825 Wrote:
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> USER INTERFACE ON IPHONE
> There are a few items (for now, suggestions welcome) in this area, both
> centering around "making iPeng more simple". Generally, making things
> more simple usually comes at the price of making it less efficient to
> use or by dropping functionality so this would certainly be an option -
> but probably the default one.
>
I don't want simple, I want effective and full of features.
pippin;605825 Wrote:
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> SYNCHRONIZATION
> This is another one of the things I probably will do anyway, just want
> to understand how important it is to people. The idea is to have
> synchronization "scenes" that you can save and re-activate. This will
> make synchronization setup more effort (if dig into it you'll find
> there's quite a few decisions to take her) but after you've done that,
> selecting synchronization may be a bit more straightforward. It's not
> actually faster but it's easier to understand.
>
> @other developers: If you are reading this and if you are going to
> implement something like this, too, please let's talk. What I'm
> planning to do will work with several devices without requiring a
> plugin (but probably not on MySB; not that syncing makes much sense on
> MySB) and it would make so little sense to have different solutions for
> this, so that you will have to define your sync groups twice.
> My current plan is to just implement it and then to document how it
> works in a bug on bugs.slimdevices.com.
>
It would be great with a solution where I could define sync
groups/scenes once and then use them in all interfaces. It doesn't have
to work in all interfaces from the start, but it would be great with a
solution which stored the sync groups/scenes centrally where also other
plugins/applets can access them.
I basically just want to:
1. Select where to play stuff
2. Select what to play
Should be two simple operations. I don't need to be able to sync
individual players, I want to define the sync groups I use in advance
and then just select a sync group and start playing music on it. I
realize it can get complicated when you allow a player to be part of
two sync groups but I think most people only need to:
- Select to play something on an individual player
- Select to play something in a predefined group of players
When I select to play something on a group of players, I basically want
all overlapping groups to stop playing music and instead start playing
music in the group I've selected. Individual players outside the
selected group that played music should of course continue to play the
previous music as long as they weren't part of the selected sync group.
If I select an individual player in a group and select to play something
else, it stops the music in the group and only plays the new stuff on
the individual player.
I think most people will have a fairly small set of groups. For
example:
- Whole house
- Bottom floor
- Upper floor
The issue I have with synchronization is that it really only gets
simple if you have players with built-in speakers. For players like the
Classic or Touch I still need to use a separate IR remote to turn on the
amplifier so it's never going to be as simple as I want. The only
solution to make it good with players without built-in speakers would
be if iPeng implemented some kind of multi room IR blaster
functionality. However, I suspect this is a bit outside the current
scope.
Still, I can't really say that synchronization is an important feature
for me personally.
pippin;605825 Wrote:
>
> ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONALITY
> If you are happy with iPeng looks like now and would prefer additional
> features instead, here's your chance to tell me what that would be.
>
I want artist images, both in the menus and especially in the now
playing screen, can be automatically retrieved from LastFM web services
or similar online sites.
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