pippin wrote: 
> They don't and can't. This is what's probably happening:
> What happens is that the dock doesn't support volume control through the
> standard interface, that's why it doesn't work in iPeng (iPeng should
> grey that thing out, will have to check why it doesn't) and why Apple's
> App hides the slider.
> 
> Then they have their own App which will communicate with the dock
> through some proprietary Sony-specific communication protocol. As a
> kludge they also let you browse the library to play music.
> 
> It's just a bad design by Sony, hate to say it, they should follow the
> standards.
> That said... I have no idea how complicated that is. There must be a
> reason why it took more than a year after the introduction of the
> Lightning connector before the first docks fully supporting it appeared
> on the market.

Sorry for the delay since your reply, the iPod 5 I'd got on eBay was
faulty so I had to return it & get another one. I'm still using iPeng
Classic both on an iPod 5 with the lightning connector in the Sony dock
and also on an iPhone 5 as the remote controller, I noticed another odd
thing. The volume slider on the iPod still has no effect on speaker
volume, but if I adjust the volume using the slider on the remote device
then the volume does change (up/down within the max of the current
setting on the player), but then after a few seconds it jumps back to
original setting. Odd.

I came across this first while playing with Orange Squeeze running under
BlueStacks, which does the same thing, changes the volume, but the
volume resets when the volume control disappears. I got Orange Squeeze
'cos I wanted something better on my PC than the Logitech app and
figured trying the various Squeeze apps under BlueStacks might be the
way to go. Works great though. I tried Squeeze Commander first but for
some reason it wouldn't connect to my LMS so I returned it.

Out of interest, do you know what's happening with Squeeze Commander?
You (or another guy called Pippin) seem to be handling support for it
but it looks like the app has become defunct. You can still buy it but
the Developer seems to have walked away.


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