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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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Since I got the iPad I rarely use iPeng for iPhone so this relates to
iPeng for iPad.
I must say I am really happy with the way iPeng works right now, and I
am glad that you have no plans to reduce functionality. But also a good
thing could get even better. And here we go (some, if not most, ideas
have been put forward before).
The things that bugs me the most in everyday use (apart from not being
able to use Dynamic Playlists, which is supposed to be fixed in an
upcoming version):
1. When listing songs (in NP, playlists and album screen, where the
songs of one album are listed. search results, all songs) all track
artists should be shown! If you are afraid of long loading
times/stressing SBS, introduce a limit for extremely large
lists/albums/playlists. It is frustrating when only an obscure guest
artist is shown as the artist on the NP screen, for example.
2. Show track numbers (at least in the album screen, where the songs of
one album are listed)! Do this at least where iPeng shows only a subset
of the songs of an album. This is essential for albums representing
charted songs, i.e. Billboard Hot 100, Rolling Stone Magazine's Top
Songs, The 25 Exquisitely Sad Songs in the Whole World etc. The VA
albums of charted songs show up in the list of albums for an artist,
but if you then go to that album screen you cannot tell how well that
artist charted. (I would even prefer to have the iPeng sequential
numbering of songs in one album removed since it is only confusing and
superfluous since the total number of tracks displayed for one album is
shown anyway.)
3. The inconsistent behaviour of the NP screens. No touch and hold, no
editing in the playlist screen, touching the playlist or the lyrics
does not bring up the player controls/song info (you must touch outside
these areas). (I know you said that the NP screens are special and I do
not want you to remove the ones you have managed!)
4. In the main screen, when you touch and hold the NP song and select
something it is shown in the main area but there is no "back" button to
take you back to the menu previously shown in that main area. There
should be such a back button.
5. The Artists => Various Artists screen is useless when it lists the
VA albums in year order (which order is logic for all other "artists").
Have that screen always display the albums in album name order instead.
As it is now I have to use a separate CustomBrowse menu to display my
VA albums.
Some other possible enhancements:
1. iPeng provides the best way to sync players I have tried. Sync
sets/scenes would be welcome, and for me the ability to remember the
volume of each player would be essential. I basically use a daytime
setup and a night time setup with fewer players and lower volume. I
find it hard to set the volume as low as I want to when wanting to go
to sleep so doing it once and having a preset to switch to with the
press of one button would make life, or at least sleeping, easier.
2. Easy to access presets for alarms ("7 AM Alarm" and "8 AM Alarm" in
the left hand pane of the main screen, for example).
3. I really liked the play whole album (in track number order) when
touching the album art approach in iPeng on iPhone and hope to see this
(at least as an option) also in iPeng for iPad. (Touch and hold the
album art - or swiping, see below - should then bring up the album info
popup.)
4. Much better options to get online content from AMG, Wkipedia,
Discogs etc. and showing it "inside" iPeng with the ability to follow
further links. If there are copyright issues, let the links in iPeng
lead to the Safari browser (or, more preferably, institute even better
co-operation with Erland and Michael and other non-profit developers of
plugins). I would be happy to pay more, or subscribe annually, for easy
access in iPeng to AMG/Rovi data, for example.
5. In the main screen, I would like to be able to swipe one track to
have the details of that track shown in the main area (like in the
track info popup). That would be intuitive to me, since swiping is a
way of living with the iPad. If this is introduced, swiping an album
should work in a similar way, showing the information in the album info
popup in the main area.
Thanks for your good work! (And have a second look at my initial
statement that I am really happy with the way iPeng on the iPad already
works...)
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vagskal
2 x SB3 (wired), Receiver (wired), Boom (wireless), Controller, iPeng on
iPhone 4 & iPad, muso on remote computer running Win 7 | 7.5.3 on Win XP
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