Bryan Jan;629576 Wrote: > but the cache will be gone once the iPad is disconnected from the wifi > network and I cannot continue browsing my library. how to keep that > cache data? > Well, right now only the main lists are being cached. And they are being kept. > > regarding the validity of data maybe you can add an option to let the > user decide whether it should be updated from the server or continue > using the stored cache data, after all, the user should know it better > than letting the iPeng decide:) No. Be assured, most users will NOT know it better, especially on all the server versions with autorescan. Also, most users don't want to be bothered with it. They don't want to eventually find out that they now can't play something they have found but have to restart browsing because they forgot to clear the cache, this would be a usability horror.
I understand that it's interesting to browse the library when offline but it's clearly a secondary use case over browsing stuff while online and must not get in the way of the latter. As I said: some of this _might_ work in one of the next releases but I'm not yet sure, I have to see how I create a usage model about the extended cache and what I plan to do with it. Mnyb;629602 Wrote: > when iPeng does this background refresh it has other usability problems, > if iPeng has been in the background you can not imidietly switch to > iPeng and press pause for example, you have to wait a long time. > This has absolutely nothing to do with the background refresh but only with the time it takes the iThingy to connect to the network, which is usually a function of the router you use. As soon as a network connection is establish, commands like pause work, they don't even require the server connection to be up although that latter one usually only takes a few ms. > > further if you are on the now playing screen ? It migth never update, > you sometimes have to switch to the main view to trigger iPeng to > update and then be usable. > The NowPlaying screen has increasing timeouts for retrying the update if there is no connection to the server so if it initially took very long to re-connect to the WiFi it may take a while until the update finally comes in. It will eventually update. I cant hammer the device with requests permanently or it will dramatically drain your battery once your network is off. > > it would be better if iPeng could send pause and skip orders and > similar even if it's unsure of playlist status etc. It does that. -- 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=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
