Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
After using iPeng on my iPhone for a long time I got myself Squeezepad for my iPad, was great (still is). But then I tried the iPeng party app on my iPad and that gave me a taste of what iPeng would be like, so I bought it. Absolutely great! just love the coverview and that I can finally use the iPad in portrait mode. The layout is very clear. For me the winner at the moment is - iPengHD. But it is good to have options and that there are two great apps competing on the iPad market. Squeezemenicely's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41812 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
iPeng 1.3.2 is now rolling out on the App Store and besides bug fixes and some smaller improvements (see here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?95167-Announce-iPeng-updates-1-5-2-1-3-2) it's does now feature even more retina features. All player icons and most main screen UI elements are now in full retina resolution, only some of the small B/W icons are still in standard resolution. 13365 +---+ |Filename: player.png | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=13365| +---+ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
OK, the first update of iPeng Party now adds the same retina-compatible resolution to that App. So if you want to have a free preview, iPeng Party is your chance. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, iPeng for iPad and *New: iPeng Party, the free party App*, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
Personally, I think the retina display's resolution is just unnecessary. But as things are people always want more no matter if they need it. Same as we are still seeing with meegapixels in digital cameras. Unfortunately lower res images will look much worse on iPad3 than they did on iPad 1/2. What resolution of cover art will you use in the future? 800*800 1600*1600? Probably cover art soon will rival flac files in size! -- michel michel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4393 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
michel;698290 Wrote: Personally, I think the retina display's resolution is just unnecessary. Have you actually seen it and used it? And especially: have you seen the old one? The original iPad's display probably was the lowest resolution display still around (except for TVs, which you view from a distance). It might not be the most important thing for images or music Apps but for reading long texts, the original iPad display was close to unacceptable and very tiring. Even the retina display still holds potential and is not as good as, say, the original Kindle. The iPad is thought to be used - among other things - for written media and actually there's a lot of use in that area and I believe to really be an alternative to printed media the new iPad's display is pretty much the minimum you need. We are still a factor of 2-3 away from print and even the iPhone (and other modern phones) have a higher resolution and you don't do as much reading on them. Same as we are still seeing with meegapixels in digital cameras. That's a very different story. These higher pixel densities are in areas where the sensor noise made actual improvements impossible even a few generations ago. High resolution camera sensors generate images that produce up to 20 times the number of pixels the iPad shows. What resolution of cover art will you use in the future? The same as in the past: the biggest one I can get hold of. Probably cover art soon will rival flac files in size! If you use a decent format, file size doesn't scale with resolution. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, iPeng for iPad and *New: iPeng Party, the free party App*, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
michel;698290 Wrote: Personally, I think the retina display's resolution is just unnecessary. But as things are people always want more no matter if they need it. Same as we are still seeing with meegapixels in digital cameras. Unfortunately lower res images will look much worse on iPad3 than they did on iPad 1/2. What resolution of cover art will you use in the future? 800*800 1600*1600? Probably cover art soon will rival flac files in size! Retina resolution is the most important part of the iPad. Try reading a magazine or book on the old fuzzy screen, it's horrible. Sorry, but all images look better on the new retina screen, doesn't matter if they are low res or not. -- Jeff Flowerday Jeff Flowerday's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
My wife has just purchased an iPad. I was reading this thread to help decide which app to purchase and my decision has been made easy by pippin's antics. I would not purchase anything from someone who would stoop to such petty tactics. SqueezePad looks fine to me and it's author appears honourable. -- Mushroom_3 Mushroom_3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13434 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
mherger;697986 Wrote: Well, as I said: just tell me when it's out or provide a screen sho and I change it. FWIW: the controller app didn't need an update for full resolution Now Playing screen images, did it? No comparison there. I wonder why... C'mon pippin, your app is great. No need play this sort of silly games. -- Michael It's called competition and marketing - something Logitech could do with learning a little about. iPeng has been a lifeline to Squeeze stuff in the early days, well before ALL the other apps, so cut the guy some slack. -- DaveWr DaveWr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
mherger;697986 Wrote: Well, as I said: just tell me when it's out or provide a screen sho and I change it. FWIW: the controller app didn't need an update for full resolution Now Playing screen images, did it? No comparison there. I wonder why... C'mon pippin, your app is great. No need play this sort of silly games. OK, maybe this has obviously come through as a resolution-only thing which is not what the intention was.In the very first place, there is a very considerable size difference. And: will you change the resolution and size? Ever? On the big ones i't also quite simple: for most cases it will simply be the same for quite a while since most people don't have any artwork that will show in retina resolution on the big cover display. In all Apps. But most people have artwork that can look good as a thumbnail. bluegaspode;697992 Wrote: Hi virgiliomi, ... I guess I'll need about two weeks to be really pleased with the next even more Retina improved version of SqueezePad (then add one or two weeks for Apples review queue). OK, abut that didn't keep you from pointing out in posts in the forum and in the App Store, that SqueezePad is now Retina Ready and how gorgeous is looks like on the retina display and so on. I'm actually not the first one doing that here. virgiliomi obviously caught that spin and thought he had a retina App already. And actually myself, I also did not even imagine that you consider your App to be inferior and not ready for retina, yet, you do sound different yourself. And also, the point is not only resolution, it's also size, which simply just matters more now that the big cover thumbs also look good in high resolutions. This has been a difference between the Apps ever since they came out. I actually spent month optimizing the views so that they perform well with biug artwork. Not now but already before iPeng for iPad came out. bluegaspode, you yourself have never shied away from bold comparisons. You are quick to point out differences if they are in your favor, for example that SqueezePad would load artwork faster because it uses the small scales (which is not even true, with most servers it's even slower than iPeng even with the small artwork, no idea why) and you never had an issue with posting threads that stick around for years and that did hold even clearly false claims, what was with §6UWG when you claimed that SqueezePad brings Playback to the iPad? Playback is built into the iPad and even if it comes to Squeezebox streaming to the iPad your App was the 4th that worked on iPad and even the second one of the dedicated iPad Apps (Squeezey was first). That thread also sticks around for years. Stop whining about things you do yourself. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, iPeng for iPad and *New: iPeng Party, the free party App*, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
OK, since obviously Michael and bluegaspode felt offended by the full resolution comparison, I have now scaled down the screen shots in the first post, if you want to see full-resolution shots of iPeng, you can download them from http://penguinlovesmusic.com -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, iPeng for iPad and *New: iPeng Party, the free party App*, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
bluegaspode;697992 Wrote: Hi virgiliomi, when the new iPad arrived it turned out that SqueezePad had an option set, which made the previous version look really bad on iPad3. Not even the fonts did scale automatically, this is what has been fixed in version 1.9.4 of SqueezePad, which gives a huge boost for SqueezePad on Retina display already. Yet there is a lot of work and areas left, which I'm working at in this very moment, for instance all icons need special treatment (they also haven't been updated in iPeng yet) and in iPeng pippin now was just faster with album art handling than me. But this is only a temporary effect and this is why I am not really amused about the type of advertisement pippin started right now. As a developer you don't get the devices faster than any normal customer (and due to problems I even only got the iPad on Wednesday last week). One just needs to have a real device to see, how e.g. different types of album art scaling really work out with the new possibilities of the iPad. I guess I'll need about two weeks to be really pleased with the next even more Retina improved version of SqueezePad (then add one or two weeks for Apples review queue). I'm only working on SqueezePad my free time, and actually we are moving right now, so my wife rather wants me to get some paint on the wall, which makes Apples release date of the new iPad a bit complicated for me ;) I told you well over a year ago that the art in squeeze pad looked like crap in comparison to iPengHD, but now that pippen announces retina art it first you are crying foul. Come on. -- Jeff Flowerday Jeff Flowerday's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
mherger;697986 Wrote: Well, as I said: just tell me when it's out or provide a screen sho and I change it. FWIW: the controller app didn't need an update for full resolution Now Playing screen images, did it? No comparison there. I wonder why... C'mon pippin, your app is great. No need play this sort of silly games. -- Michael There must be at least a few of the 100s of LMS bug reports that have to be a higher priority than the worrying about comments on the rudimentary Logitech iOS app? -- Jeff Flowerday Jeff Flowerday's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
DaveWr;698021 Wrote: It's called competition and marketing - something Logitech could do with learning a little about. iPeng has been a lifeline to Squeeze stuff in the early days, well before ALL the other apps, so cut the guy some slack. I have no problem with him highlighting his product - there's no need to criticise someone else's product. Especially a fellow forum member. -- Mushroom_3 Mushroom_3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13434 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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Mushroom_3;698039 Wrote: I have no problem with him highlighting his product - there's no need to criticise someone else's product. Especially a fellow forum member. Please show me where I did that. I just pointed out that iPeng uses bigger graphics and that they are retina quality. I did not criticize anybody. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, iPeng for iPad and *New: iPeng Party, the free party App*, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
pippin;698030 Wrote: OK, since obviously Michael and bluegaspode felt offended by the full resolution comparison, I have now scaled down the screen shots in the first post, if you want to see full-resolution shots of iPeng, you can download them from http://penguinlovesmusic.com So now you imply that half a Penguin is better than a full of the other apps ? Decidedly. You're going too far ;) -- epoch1970 Daily dose delivered by: 3 SB Classic, 1 SB Boom iPeng (iPhone + iPad) Squeezebox Server 7.6 (Debian 5.0) with plugins: MusicIP Server Power Control by Gordon Harris WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld IRBlaster by Gwendesign (Felix) Find cover art by bpa BBC iPlayer, SwitchPlayer by Triode PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple Song Info, Song Lyrics by Erland Isaksson SaverSwitcher, ContextMenu by Peter Watkins Just Covers by Tom Kalmijn. epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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epoch1970;698053 Wrote: So now you imply that half a Penguin is better than a full of the other apps ? Decidedly. You're going too far ;) No, half a penguin is better than half of the other Apps ;) I scaled them all -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, iPeng for iPad and *New: iPeng Party, the free party App*, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
My 2 cents: I stopped using iPeng a few months ago. I didn't even install it on my new iPad 3. Why? Because in my personal opinion it gets more and more extra's I don't want/need/use. I only want a program to control my players. This was iPeng's functionality on it's original release. For my taste it is getting pretty close to the edge of bloatware. But as it's creator Pippin has the right to change his app as he sees fit. I much prefer the simplicity of Squeezepad and that is the app I recommend to friends when they ask me for my opinion. -- Hofstede Hofstede's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29832 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
Apple's review queue is really hard this time so I'm giving up and releasing the normal iPeng without the Party App...: Here comes iPeng 1.3 with artwork display in retina quality! Finally make really use of that cover art you so carefully collected while browsing your music. And if you are unsure about what you get, soon you can check out the quality by trying it out in the free iPeng Party App which uses the same artwork quality. Just a little comparison of what you get (sorry, could not resist): IPENG FOR IPAD 1.3 Grid View [image: http://penguinlovesmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ipeng_grid.png] List View [image: http://penguinlovesmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ipeng_rows.png] LOGITECH SQUEEZEBOX CONTROLLER APP [image: http://penguinlovesmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Logitech.png] SQUEEZEPAD (LATEST VERSION) [image: http://penguinlovesmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/SqueezePad.png] And if you want to know what else is new in iPeng and what iPeng Party is, you can read on here: -- 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=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
What kind of resolution is needed on the album art files for it to look
a lot better ?
I think most of mine are less than 500x500 pixels, will they still look
significantly better on the retina display ? Or do I need to start
getting album covers with higher resolution to get any real benefits ?
Does the retina display improve it also in the big album cover when
opening up the full screen Now Playing screen with 500x500 pixel album
artwork ? Some kind of smart anti aliasing or similar ?
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Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
erland;697896 Wrote: What kind of resolution is needed on the album art files for it to look a lot better ? I think most of mine are less than 500x500 pixels, will they still look significantly better on the retina display ? Or do I need to start getting album covers with higher resolution to get any real benefits ? Yes and Yes :) Yes, you'll profit from it. The thumbnails are 300x300 so they fit well into your range (by comparison: Logitech's are 64x64) and this means as long as you don't scale up the grid view from the default size all artwork thumbnails can use the full retina resolution. This includes the NowPlaying playlist screen saver. NowPlaying of course is a different story, here you'd need 1536x1536 in full scale, here you will probably see blocks. In iPeng you can scale the NowPlaying artwork as you probably know but right now the lowest scale size is 1.0 so you can't get small artwork in retina, yet, this will come with the next update, I've got a bit of a queue waiting here due to the almost three weeks of delays with this release. But my experience is that it matters less for the big images since you tend to look at them from a bit farther away. MOG has cover art in 768x768 and this looks quite good in full-screen, Spotify's 320x320, however, are a joke. so.. Does the retina display improve it also in the big album cover when opening up the full screen Now Playing screen with 500x500 pixel album artwork ? No. Some kind of smart anti aliasing or similar ? No, actually, my experience with anti-aliasing when upscaling isn't really good, it tends to blur things a LOT. The iPad does this (it's the default behavior) so you will not get uneven Lego bricks but it will be blurry. Look at the SqueezePlay screen shot, I believe that's a 64x64 image scaled up to something else. Time to find good artwork somewhere -- 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=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
OK, tried it a bit again, 500x500 is not _too_ bad. Anything below somewhere around 400x400 will not really look good in foll screen but then that wasn't really different on iPad 1/2. I'd recommend to use one of the lower scaling factors, e.g. the even scale thing. iPeng for iPad has three (in the future: four) different artwork sizes for the NowPlaying screen that you can select through zooming: * Full screen (biggest) * Even scale. This scales to the biggest size you can use by upscaling by an even factor. If the original artwork is bigger than the screen size this equals full screen. * 1x (smallest) which on retina display already translates into 2x right now since it uses the iPad's native scale * HS. This is coming with the next update and will use full retina resolution. With most of my artwork this really results in small covers, though -- 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=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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Art looks wicked in album art mode, it always looked good in list mode. Nice! -- Jeff Flowerday Jeff Flowerday's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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Wow. With the right cover quality, I dare say the screensaver looks much better than having a physical CD in hand. The screen is larger than a CD, you can't see the pixels, and colors are vivid. Thanks a lot for this update! -- epoch1970 Daily dose delivered by: 3 SB Classic, 1 SB Boom iPeng (iPhone + iPad) Squeezebox Server 7.6 (Debian 5.0) with plugins: MusicIP Server Power Control by Gordon Harris WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld IRBlaster by Gwendesign (Felix) Find cover art by bpa BBC iPlayer, SwitchPlayer by Triode PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple Song Info, Song Lyrics by Erland Isaksson SaverSwitcher, ContextMenu by Peter Watkins Just Covers by Tom Kalmijn. epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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Just for the record the development version of SqueezePad contains high resolution artwork already as well. And while posting pictures here in twice the resolution might make a point, it should be noted, that it looks much less drastic on real iPad even on Retina display. Please also care for §6 UWG, once the new version has been released. I'm not really amused about you posting pictures of SqueezePad, that won't be up to date then anymore. -- bluegaspode Did you know: *'SqueezePlayer' (www.squeezeplayer.com)* will stream all your music to your Android device. Take your music everywhere! Remote Control + Streaming to your iPad? *'Squeezebox + iPad = SqueezePad ' (www.squeezepad.com)* Want to see a Weather Forecast on your Radio/Touch/Controller ? = why not try my 'Weather Forecast Applet' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73827) Want to use the Headphones with your Controller ? = why not try my 'Headphone Switcher Applet' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67139) bluegaspode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
bluegaspode;697920 Wrote: Just for the record the development version of SqueezePad contains high resolution artwork already as well. And while posting pictures here in twice the resolution might make a point, it should be noted, that it looks much less drastic on real iPad even on Retina display. Please also care for §6 UWG, once the new version has been released. I'm not really amused about you posting pictures of SqueezePad, that won't be up to date then anymore. Posting wrong DPIs here already now is very very grey area in my opinion in this regard. Sorry, if there's anything wrong please correct me. These are not twice resolution but actual, unaltered screen shots I did this afternoon with the current release version of all three Apps. If I'm stating something wrong, please let me know and I'm going to change it. -- 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=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
I just wanted to point out that I expect you to change the pictures, once a new version of SqueezePad has been released. Comparative advertisement is a tricky area, but there are clear rules for it. -- bluegaspode Did you know: *'SqueezePlayer' (www.squeezeplayer.com)* will stream all your music to your Android device. Take your music everywhere! Remote Control + Streaming to your iPad? *'Squeezebox + iPad = SqueezePad ' (www.squeezepad.com)* Want to see a Weather Forecast on your Radio/Touch/Controller ? = why not try my 'Weather Forecast Applet' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73827) Want to use the Headphones with your Controller ? = why not try my 'Headphone Switcher Applet' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67139) bluegaspode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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Gosh, doesn't everyone have both apps. If not, they should! -- garym *Location 1:* VB Appliance 6TB (1.10) LMS 7.7.1 Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Location 2:* VB Appliance 3TB (2.0) LMS 7.7.1 Touch Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) LMS 7.7.1 SqueezePlay Retired: SB3, Duet Receiver Controllers: iPhone (iPeng), iPad (iPengHD SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.7 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Additional Tagging - mp3tag garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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bluegaspode;697931 Wrote: I just wanted to point out that I expect you to change the pictures, once a new version of SqueezePad has been released. Comparative advertisement is a tricky area, but there are clear rules for it. Well, as I said: just tell me when it's out or provide a screen sho and I change it. As I said: I don't want to dis your App, there are enough differences. But one is: iPeng uses high-res artwork forever and SqueezePad does not. Period. So far it's been part of the philosophy, even stated by you (that you want to use it as the server provides it by default), you always stated you wanted to stay close to Logitech's implementation, I actually wasn't aware that you considered the fact an offense. Actually the one thing that came as a surprise to me (only this afternoon) was that your artwork actually was differently sized from Logitech's, I hadn't realized that before. iPeng on the contrary does a lot of effort to do things differently, e.g. by using own containers, different artwork sizes, making things scalable and so on. I have any right to point that out as much as you have all right to point out that by not doing things like that you can spend a lot of space for a permanently visible big cover or playlist and by staying closer to what people know. It's how the two Apps differ. But OK, If you want it, I'll remove your screen shot, just let me know. -- 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=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
Thanks, updated tonight. I've been gathering high res artwork 1000x1000 or greater where I can in anticipation of the newiPad display and it does surpass the actual CD cover as a thing to look at while it's playing. -- nolan nolan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7440 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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So here's one to make bluegaspode happy: iPeng Party obviously went to the App Store with a non-retina build, so for reference, here's how that looks like now: [image: http://penguinlovesmusic.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ipeng_party_old.png] -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, iPeng for iPad and *New: iPeng Party, the free party App*, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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I believe Squeezepad has been updated... at least here in the States, it's showing version 1.9.4 with retina display support, updated yesterday 3/26/12. And I'll add, now that I've also purchased iPeng (I bought SqueezePad over a year ago), that to me at least, iPeng's visual quality in list view whoops even the new version of SqueezePad. Grid view looks nothing short of spectacular. And now I definitely see that I need to update some of my album artwork, as some of it just isn't up to par for either app's full-screen view. But the smaller thumbnails look just awesome in iPeng. The only thing I don't like about BOTH apps is that I can't customize that Home menu. Some notes about iPeng on my new iPad... - Lyrics don't seem to load. It just sits at Searching for Lyrics... even after changing songs - The up/down arrow buttons on the MultiPlayer control (to expand/reduce the music source category) are considerably lower resolution than the right-arrow buttons. Both minor things in the grand scheme of things... if I find anything else, I'll be sure to let you know. -- virgiliomi squeezebox devices: boom, duet, and radio dlna devices: sony bravia tv, wmp11 on win7 lms 7.7.2 beta running on a readynas ultra 2 plus virgiliomi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33715 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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virgiliomi;697974 Wrote: Some notes about iPeng on my new iPad... - Lyrics don't seem to load. It just sits at Searching for Lyrics... even after changing songs iPeng has no built-in Lyrics loader (long story, the short version is: the cheapest service to use that does NOT get you thrown out of the App Store starts at 30.000$ a year...) So you either have to have Lyrics embedded into the music OR (better) you need to install the SongInfo/SongLyrics plugins (both, they are free) in Squeezebox Server. - The up/down arrow buttons on the MultiPlayer control (to expand/reduce the music source category) are considerably lower resolution than the right-arrow buttons. - The globe button to the right of the search box on the main screen also looks to be lower resolution Good find. Yes, there is more. App Artwork itself is not yet fully retina ready, especially the player artwork looks bad. All minor things in the grand scheme of things... if I find anything else, I'll be sure to let you know. A good place is https://trac.penguinlovesmusic.de/trac/ipengnat/ -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, iPeng for iPad and *New: iPeng Party, the free party App*, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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The iPeng Party issue is a nasty one, btw. I fell prey to an error in Apple's development tool that forced me to use an old version (of the tool) to submit the App and that obviously kills retina support :( I'm afraid this means I'll have to find a workaround (there's a known one, but it may mean a lot of work) :( -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, iPeng for iPad and *New: iPeng Party, the free party App*, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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Well, as I said: just tell me when it's out or provide a screen sho and I change it. FWIW: the controller app didn't need an update for full resolution Now Playing screen images, did it? No comparison there. I wonder why... C'mon pippin, your app is great. No need play this sort of silly games. -- Michael ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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garym;697932 Wrote:
Gosh, doesn't everyone have both apps. If not, they should!
Exactly, they all have their own benefits, so it's really worth to skip
a few burger meals and instead use the money on buying all the apps. I
also feel that it's important to purchase them all, because competition
will make all the apps better, and you never know which one that's going
to release a new exciting feature next. Having the ability to use all
apps also makes it easier for you to get ideas of possible improvements
to suggest for the app you use most of the time.
I'm just happy because I know that all the apps is soon going to look a
lot better on the new retina screen, I just wish Apple would prioritize
to deliver my new iPad so I could see for myself...screenshots are
really not the same as the real thing.
To all app developers, please try to avoid these kind of comparisons
between each other apps in the future. At least let each app developer
post their own screenshots if they feel it's relevant instead of
posting it for them, because I really don't trust screenshots posted by
a competitor, even if the competitor says the screenshots have been done
the same way. There are just too many ways you can focus the screenshots
on the areas where your own app looks a lot better than the competing
app even if it's not the overall experience when using the real thing.
I'm not saying it's the case in this thread, I'm just saying that
people should be aware that it's the overall experience that matters,
not a screenshot.
Personally, I'm a happy owner of both iPeng, SqueezePad, Orange Squeeze
and some of the other apps and would miss them all if some would
disappear. All are worth a lot more to me than a few burger meals which
I've usually forgot after a day or two.
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Re: [slim] Want Retina Artwork on iPad? Check out iPeng for iPad 1.3!
virgiliomi;697974 Wrote: I believe Squeezepad has been updated... at least here in the States, it's showing version 1.9.4 with retina display support, updated yesterday 3/26/12. And I'll add, now that I've also purchased iPeng (I bought SqueezePad over a year ago), that to me at least, iPeng's visual quality in list view whoops even the new version of SqueezePad. Hi virgiliomi, when the new iPad arrived it turned out that SqueezePad had an option set, which made the previous version look really bad on iPad3. Not even the fonts did scale automatically, this is what has been fixed in version 1.9.4 of SqueezePad, which gives a huge boost for SqueezePad on Retina display already. Yet there is a lot of work and areas left, which I'm working at in this very moment, for instance all icons need special treatment (they also haven't been updated in iPeng yet) and in iPeng pippin now was just faster with album art handling than me. But this is only a temporary effect and this is why I am not really amused about the type of advertisement pippin started right now. As a developer you don't get the devices faster than any normal customer (and due to problems I even only got the iPad on Wednesday last week). One just needs to have a real device to see, how e.g. different types of album art scaling really work out with the new possibilities of the iPad. I guess I'll need about two weeks to be really pleased with the next even more Retina improved version of SqueezePad (which then also handles the album art much better as said), then add one or two weeks for Apples review queue. -- bluegaspode Did you know: *'SqueezePlayer' (www.squeezeplayer.com)* will stream all your music to your Android device. Take your music everywhere! Remote Control + Streaming to your iPad? *'Squeezebox + iPad = SqueezePad ' (www.squeezepad.com)* Want to see a Weather Forecast on your Radio/Touch/Controller ? = why not try my 'Weather Forecast Applet' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73827) Want to use the Headphones with your Controller ? = why not try my 'Headphone Switcher Applet' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67139) bluegaspode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94318 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
