------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85135 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------
erland;606052 Wrote: > Two individual "scenes" should be able to play music separately as long > as they don't have overlapping players, although I'm not sure how > common this is going to be unless you live in a mansion. > Maybe I was a bit vague on that one: You will be able to have more than one scene active at a time but one _stored_ scene will only contain players of one group. If it's more than that it will be just too confusing with what to play in which group and the actual action of selecting a scene would become more complex than it's today. > > At the moment we have full flexibility to do exactly what we want, the > problem with the current solution is that it's too flexible so it gets > more or less unusable. > Sorry, but I switch syncing all the time and is it really unusable? I mean: all you have to do now is mark all players you want to sync and press a button. Then you select what you want to play on these players. This is not really complex, isn't it? For "sync all" and "unsync all" there is even a single-button shortcut. Frankly: whatever we do with scenes will _NOT_ be more simple than that. You will not have to decide into the player but on the other hand you will have to remember or look up what's in a "scene"... Some problems just don't get any simpler if you turn them around. > > - It doesn't matter if it gets complex to configure it, because that's > what you do once > I disagree. If it get's too complex people won't use it and it's of no help. > > - It have to be really easy to use. I don't think you need a lot of > choices during usage, possibly with the exception of the people that > live in a mansion and have the area to really play music in a lot of > zones simultaneously. > Even with two players you have to decide which of your stored scenes you want to use and which music you want to play. > > - It doesn't matter if it disturbs music when I change scene but it's > more important that it doesn't loose the playlist I want to continue > playing. > Maybe I'm a bit too sensitive about this issue because of some lengthy discussions with some company that's even evaluating whether SB is even feasible for their use due to this very issue... > > This is another thing that's never worked good for me when I have a mix > of players where some players (Radio/Boom) have built-in speakers (where > I definitely don't want to have the volume at 100%) and other players > (Classic/Touch) are connected to an external amplifier (where I always > want the player volume to be 100% since it's controlled by the > amplifier). > > I guess the solution might be to start controlling the Classic/Touch > through the player volume instead of the amplifier volume control. > > I'm not sure exactly how to solve it but you want to avoid at all costs > that a Radio/Boom starts playing at 100% just because you move into the > same scene as a Touch. > Ummm. That should not be an issue with iPeng. iPeng doesn't do an _absolute_ sync of volume but just a relative one and also it ignores all players that are fixed to 100%. > > As long as the volume level is remembered per player, I'm not sure > there even needs to be an option, can't it always store the volume > level/setting per player for a specific scene ? > That's the idea. Think "romantic evening" setup that powers down all but two Squeezeboxes, sets them to low volume... Thinking of it I should add an option to play a predefined Playlist, too.... epoch1970;606066 Wrote: > A pony: have iPeng make available/broadcast/store in the SBS its current > status: > - in the foreground/background > - screensaver/in the library > I think the ability to discover information for a TCP/IP client could > help w/ power management features. > For example my servers refrain from going down to sleep when idle if a > player is in pause, but it could do the same when players are off but > someone is building a playlist on iPeng... The server should already know all this. Whenever iPeng is in the background (unless it's playing music) the connection to the server will be down and whenever it's in the foreground there is a standing connection. JonWill;606079 Wrote: > I have not responded to the poll as I am very happy with the UI in its > current form - more functionality will be welcomed, but I am happy with > all you've done to date! > > Not a very helpful post I know, but just thought I'd speak up for the > silent majority who are very happy, but clueless as to how to make what > is already good better! Oh, yes, it's indeed a _very_ helpful post. You know, the problem with all these things is that people who do _not_ like something tend to be much more vocal than people who _do_ like things. I stepped into this trap once for the player icons in iPeng for iPhone. I got a lot of complaints about the old player-image versions and when I needed new ones and also my graphics guy told me "hey, they really break the UI style" I decided to switch to the stylized ones just to find out that a big majority of users actually did _not_ think the old ones were that bad... Judging from the poll I might just be about to avoid a similar mistake on the simplified iPhone UI, no votes for changing the main menu behavior yet and not too many for getting rid of swiping. And this even though around 50% of the comments I get otherwise sound like "iPeng is nice if just that swiping wouldn't be".... JayLaFunk;606080 Wrote: > Have i read this correctly that you intend to take away "play shuffled > and the ability to make playlists", please NO, making playlists on > iPeng is fantastic and the ability to play in shuffled mode, I have > even raised a ticket for having total playing time show as you do for > albums on the playlist menu which I was hoping to see in the next > update... > > Playlist is working good so leave it there... > No, you have misread that. In no case will I take away anything, there might just be an option for an alternative "simplified" UI. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85135 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
