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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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Philip Meyer;606008 Wrote:
>
> Can't think of much else at the moment, except I miss not seeing
> ghosted scrollbar when scrolling long lists. I get it on some lists,
> but not others. eg. scrollbar shows progress when scrolling through
> Favorites, but not when scrolling through Browse New Music.
>
Agree. I should probably clean that up.
As it is now I follow Apple's interface guidelines (HIG) which say
"don't show the scroll bar whenever there's an index bar.
I'm missing it, too, though so time to deviate from the
recommendations...
Philip Meyer;606010 Wrote:
> >One enhancement I'd like to see is making it possible to see small
> >thumbnails of the ablum artwork when looking at the tracks in a
> >playlist. This would be useful when examining a playlist of shuffled
> >tracks. If not artwork, perhaps the album title/artist could be
> >included in the track listing.
> I'd like that too. Maybe then touch song artwork could play song (or
> if configured, play album starting at this song), and touch song title
> to bring up Song Info (i.e. shortcut to long-touch for More action) [or
> the other way round].
Hm. Here I do have conflicting requests.
Some people want more text (for longer titles), some want images.
I'll see, the image-thingy would be kind of a no-brainer since I did
already do one for iPad. Now on iPad there's much more space,
though...
Philip Meyer;606011 Wrote:
> >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.
> Thinking about this again - how would it work? When I sync players, I
> often add other players to a sync group so that it continues to play
> the current song, but on additional players.
>
> If there are sync "scenes", what music would be kept in the playlist
> for the scene?
I want to counter one notion that is quite ubiquitous here, and that is
that sync scenes would make anything _simpler_. They will not.
Sync scenes are kind of simple to understand and to communicate things
("sync all group", "everything on first floor"). But they come at a
price:
1. You have to set them up. And here you need to make a lot of
decisions, too: Do I want to store volume settings, too? Do I want to
drop players that are not part of the group?
2. OK, now you've got them set up now you want to use them. Simple, ey?
Just select the group, right? But what do you actually expect to happen
then? Erland's suggestion was to use this as a "new target". That won't
work with the SB architecture, SBS can only target a player so you will
have to establish the sync setting or at least choose a player _before_
playing. If you do it before and we talk about 5 players you are in for
four 1s playback interruptions while the other players join...
OK, so you just use it as a sync setting, selecting a scene will
configure the sync settings of the players involved. Now what do you
play on them? What happens to the others? Do you have a definite master
(hard in the SB environment).
No, Sync Scenes might be cool (and looking at the poll they will
probably the first thing I do from the list) but they will _not_ make
life easier compared to iPeng's current solution.
Here's what I plan to do, though:
1. Setup: You will be able to save a currently active sync setting. You
will also be able to only use some of the current players and to exclude
others.
You will also be able to say whether you want to also store volume
settings.
You can only store _ONE_ group at a time (under one name). This is
important for the actual use.
2. Use: You can select a stored group. This will sync all the contained
players, unsync others if that was selected and set volume if that was
selected. Also, iPeng will ask which of the playlists involved you want
to use. Now you are in for your x playback interruptions...
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