ianto39 wrote: 
> 
> Pressing Pause pauses playback but after approx 120 seconds Pause comes
> off and the music resumes playing. This happens when playing music files
> off the server and when streaming radio stations. It does the same
> whether Pause is activated at the remote control iDevice or at the one
> that's doing the streaming. I don't think this used to happen with
> earlier releases, it's a relatively recent phenomenon. Is there a
> timeout setting somewhere for this, in iPeng or LMS?
> 

Is this reproducible?
I know I have seen this once recently when experimenting with the
"Preserve Connection" setting but then I had two copies of iPeng running
at the same time and it was definitely in the background.

Is iPeng running in the foreground when this happens for you?

> 
> My other question is: have there been requests before for Volume + & -
> buttons on the Now Playing screen, like in the Logitech Squeezebox
> Controller? I would love to have these, having volume tied to the
> buttons on the side of the device is handy now and then but there are
> plenty of times, like with the iPhone on a table or desk when +/-
> buttons would be much more useful than having to pick the phone up, or
> mess with the slider. I would like these buttons to be big! The law with
> media players seems to be that displaying  the artwork is all important
> so it gets most of the screen, I could care less most of the time about
> having a big image of the album cover, but having big buttons to press
> never gets old. On a similar subject, it would be nice to have a setting
> for how many volume steps a single button press causes, rather than the
> standard 5. 
> 

Well, that's as usual: you can't make it right for everyone.
You are pretty alone with not wanting to see artwork to removing that is
not an option.
So adding buttons would mean making the volume slider smaller which
would in turn make it harder and less accurate to use. So adding buttons
would make the slider worse, it's difficult.

Regarding the steps for the keys: I thought about accelerating them when
used longer but the logic by which I have to determine the steps taken
from the system volume change makes this very awkward. Maybe iOS 7.1
with the car interface will help here.

Regarding options: Options are not an option. They sound like a great
idea to not have to make decisions and then we all hate to take
decisions, don't we? Because they always mean that you hurt someone.
But the problem with options is that the options hurt EVERYONE because
they make the whole App more complex. iPeng already has way too many of
them right now and since the start of iPeng 7 I got no less than 14
different requests (15, with your one) to add new options to iPeng: show
years with albums, do not show artist roles, do automatically switch
dark/light skin (I am considering that one), do not show power buttons
and so on and so on. If I included all options that I get asked for
iPeng would have a 100-item list of configuration settings by now.

So I have a simple rule: You want a new option? Unless I _really_ want
that one myself, it either needs to be something that can be done
directly in the UI (like setting the artwork scale or the window size in
iPeng 7) or you have to tell me which other settings options I can get
rid of instead so that they don't get more.
Unfortunately, most of the current options in settings are for stuff
that otherwise doesn't work at all for some people.... I'm always
tempted to do away with the option to turn off group control and to turn
off the "real PlayNext" but beyond that it's getting difficult.



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