MelonMonkey wrote: 
> Can you share any more details about any changes to Landscape view? 
> It's been needing updating for a long time and it will be very welcome
> when you can do everything in this orientation.
> 
Oh... Landscape mode. How I regret to ever have introduced this... It's
such a nuisance...

But yes. Most things work in landscape mode now. You can bring down the
player control, you can select players...
NowPlaying screen is still a screen saver but there are gestures for
next/previous skipping (swipe left/right)
> 
> How about an option to remove the volume slider at the bottom?  That
> will remove a totally useless UI element and make more room on the
> screen.  
> 
I actually thought about it for iPhone 4. It's still not enough room for
the whole title, though (only half of what's required).
Also, you are very wrong about it being useless:
> 
> hardware volume buttons
> 
Except for iPeng as a player, these can go away any moment! It's a
feature completely forbidden by Apple. It works because I bind it to the
volume of the device itself which is not actually redefining the
functionality but Apple might still change their mind on it at any time!
So better not to talk about it too much, especially not advertise it...

That aside: it's not nearly exact enough. It only changes volume in
steps of +/- 5 (if used with iPeng Playback it's even +/- 10 because
that's what iOS does). At low volumes that's definitely not fine enough,
at least with good headphones, here I frequently even use the "1" volume
level.

The same is true for a lot of docks or external amps connected to the
Squeezeboxes that have a non-linear scale and need very fine volume
tuning.

Actually I found that for some reason most people don't use the volume
buttons at all.
> 
> volume buttons on headphones
> 
Not on all headphones, same problem
> 
> volume buttons on speaker dock
> volume knob/buttons on amplifier
> 
Sorry, iPeng is a REMOTE CONTROL. Walking up to a device to change the
volume is a most definite no-go.
> 
> I'd also love to see the YEAR of the album displayed.
> 
Hm. Might think about that one. Did anybody ever file a ticket for this?
It was asked for for the album display (the content of an album) and
it's showing there now.
> 
> Does this new version of iPeng preserve one's customized menu along the
> bottom?  Even when iPeng doesn't connect to the server right away?

It always did. It just changes while you are not connected (it can't
show empty tabs) and changes back to what you configured when you
reconnect to the server unless you make manual changes in which case
iPeng can't know you didn't mean it.
I always use iPeng with 3 or 4 different servers and it always comes
back to my manually configured setup that's only available on my main
server when I connect, this actually works very well. I know that
because I have a menu on there (Audiobooks) that's a CustomBrowse menu
and only available on that server.


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