Ronald;506222 Wrote: 
> what does flushing the cache do and when exactly do you use it?
It clears internally stored lists of albums, artists and genres as well
as the album art thumbnails.
You use it, when that information gets out of sync with the server.
The only case where this can happen is usually if you do a "Clear and
Rescan" on the server without changing anything WRT your library so the
numbers stay the same and you then restart the server before starting
iPeng the first time.
There are users who do this on a daily basis.
> 
> Using ipeng lately has been irregular and many times I would have to
> exit ipeng and re-connect to get the proper indications of the players
> status.
This has nothing to do with the cache. It sounds more like you are
having trouble with the connection to the server breaking down. I know
of a few scenarios where this can happen:

1. First and most common: There seems to be an issue with certain
routers ans WiFi connections to iPhone. I have a number of users
reporting similar things where these did go away when they changed the
router. This seems to be more common on iPhone and I suspect is has to
do with the iPhone trying to use the 3G network instead of WiFi.
2. You simply have an unstable connection to the router. I have trouble
like that with one of my devices although Safari seems to be more
affected. It's easy to identify since iPhone/iPod doesn't show a "Wifi
enabled" icon in the status bar.
3. iPeng's NowPlaying screen seems to sometimes lose the connection to
the underlying player object when you switch between different music
sources and the player is visible in both configurations (this can
happen if all servers are on the same network where players on other
servers are shown, too). I'm investigating this one.
4. iPod/iPhone can sometimes be slow to reconnect to the WiFi network
after a wakeup from sleep mode.

In the cases of 1. and 4. it can help to use the "keep connection"
option in the iPeng settings. This will keep iPeng running in the
background and iPeng will keep the connection. On iPod touch 3G (and
only on that one) I still see occasional WiFi shutdowns even though the
App itself is still running, which should not be the case.

Hope this helps a bit.


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