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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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vagskal;606221 Wrote:
>
> 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):
>
Yep
>
> 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.
>
Not before 7.6
Limits are not really an option. How would this work: after 30min I ask
whether you want to start again without them?
I do already get too many bad comments for performance from NAS or SB
touch users, anything that costs performance currently is definitely
not an option, sorry.
>
> 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!)
>
Also not an option. This would mean a completely redundant rewrite of
the NowPlaying screen structure that would also run counter to what I
want to provide in the future with these screens (more info).
>
> 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.
>
Yes, I should really add that.
>
> 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.
>
I would need that to be identified by SBS which I don't think is going
to happen, sorry. It's simply too hard to reliably identify that menu
other wise.
I thought I'd filed a bug for that but can't find it right now.
>
> 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).
>
Could you elaborate how that should look like?
>
> 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.)
>
Sorry, but I will not do ambiguous controls, especially not if they
destroy the current playlist. See some comments above in this thread.
And in iPeng for iPad you simply have to tap artwork to open a menu in
a lot of places.
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