Do you store different configurations of iPeng's icon row depending on
the server one is connected to?  If not, then the user's choice should
be reflected as soon as the app loads - it looks strange having the
icons suddenly change.

Also, when we dismiss the tips/help one time, will they now stop coming
back?  With the previous/current releases I can't remember how many
different times I have to cancel/dismiss the tips/help.

Here's my situation for the volume control:  When I'm using iPeng as a
player, I never use the slider for volume.  Either the iPhone is locked
and one doesn't have access to the screen anyway, so the hardware
buttons are used.  If I wake the display, I continue to use the hardware
buttons because that's what I was already using.  If the phone is
docked, then the docks I use already have more easily reached volume
controls that work whether the screen is on or off - or the iPhone is
being remotely controlled with the dock's remote or another instance of
iPeng.

If the phone is being used as a remote it means I'm primarily
controlling my hifi system and I keep Squeezebox output fixed at 100% -
why would I use the volume control on a source component when that's the
job of the pre-amp?   The volume is controlled only via the pre-amp
and/or a universal controller.

I suggested it as an OPTION so if someone wants to continue to use the
on-screen slider they can feel free to do so.  I do realize that Apple's
own music app also features an on-screen volume slider, but that App is
so poorly designed I don't know where to start. For regular music
playback I tend to use CarTunes already, which while not perfect, is a
lot better than the stock player app.  What bugs me the most about the
standard playback app/infrastructure is the complete lack of a
now-playing playlist which can be modified on the fly.  It's full albums
or nothing right now.  Which I believe is one of the reasons you're
seeing some people asking for playback of local music.  You really
should consider taking your UI and refining it into another app for
local playback.  It will be quite a bit of additional work, but I think
there's a good market for alternative music players.  Most of the
third-party ones are very (very) bad.

For someone else, there is no "new user" that doesn't know about the
hardware volume buttons on the phone.  That's frankly a little
preposterous, since the hardware buttons are the primary way, the
de-facto way, to adjust volume on the iPhone.


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