Hofstede;640392 Wrote: > Am I the only one who doesn't see any use for all that Facebook and > Twitter functionality? > I bought the program as a remote control for the Squeezeboxes I own. > All these extra functions only make the program more complicated and > more difficult to use. > It would be nice to have a system setting to hide all those "social" > functions.
You don't need to do anything. All but the "Share..." link are disabled by default. Hofstede;640404 Wrote: > Personally I removed all things Facebook / Twitter from my Squeezebox > system long ago. I just don't like things I am not using at all > cluttering up my system. > If I want to use Facebook or Twitter there are a lot of options that > work better than the Squeezebox eco-system. Now iPeng "forces" this > functionality back into my music system. > > Guess for me it means I will use SqueezePad more often than iPeng. I > hope Bluegaspode will not get the idea he needs to integrate this > functionality in his program too.... How does it force you to use it? Also, this is not about using iPeng as a general facebook or twitter client, there is no sense in that. But here are two thoughts from my side: 1. Please be honest: if you want just bare-to-the-bones Squeezebox Remote capabilities with no additional bells ans whistles, especially on iPhone, you would not buy iPeng anymore, you would use the free Logitech App. While it can be a nuisance on some Android devices and doesn't make good use of the iPad screen it works fine on an iPhone 4. The fact that the iPad version of this iPeng release came first has nothing to do with iPad/iPhone but only with the fact that after submitting I found a bug that made it crash on pre-3.2 versions of iOS which doesn't affect the iPad. 2. I felt a personal need for this functionality because I found I'm having two music collections again: one consisting of links of stuff friends recommended to me and then the old stuff in my library. I found that the former made a significant portion of my listening and there was _NO WAY_ I could listen to this stuff on my Squeezebox. This problem had a number of aspects: * YouTube, SoundCloud and rd.io links didn't work. Fortunately Triode fixed this for YouTube. This aspect maybe made like 50% of the problem. * But the other 50% of the problem were just as bad: There was absolutely no way to play recommendation links from others on a Squeezebox (with the exception of internal Spotify links which nobody uses). Even if you use Spotify on your SB, if somebody sends you one of these links e.g. Spotify creates (open.spotify.com), you can't play it on a Squeezebox. You can't go and paste it into the Web Interface, it doesn't work. What you have to do is this: you have to play the link on a Computer or phone and find out what it is, then you SEARCH for this again using one of your remotes and then you play it. I don't know about you, but this dis-qualifies it for me and what this meant is that, like my CD player, my Squeezebox started to be a system for "legacy music". This essentially would mean that sooner or later I would have removed it from my home and replaced it with something that DOES play my new music, too, with other words an iWhatever or AirWhatever thingy. I wasn't prepared to let that happen without even trying to fight it. Now, with iPeng, even if you don't use Twitter or Facebook or iPeng's mail links, you can at least copy&paste a link into iPeng's "URL:..." menu item and play it. So if you don't want to use it, hey, that's absolutely OK. I fully understand if getting links from others or browsing web sites containing links to learn about new music isn't among the ways how you discover new music or you are happy with your existing music, this probably has no use for you. But please accept that it might do so for others. I know that the functionality at it's current state is not perfect, there are a lot of things I'd like to add: more flexible browsing, so that you can use e.g. music blogs as well, more flexible sharing to allow for sharing from a browse menu or for Albums/Playlists. Maybe even having a sharing service (not for the music, just for the links) and to include ways to share stuff from your own library (again: I'm not talking about illegal/not illegal music sharing, just making it accessible). But features like that have to evolve, it's to complex to get it right the first time so I wanted to get it out and collect feedback, it was hard enough to get the stuff behind the scenes going for what is there now. -- 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=88724 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
