EnochLight;363740 Wrote:
Greetings Pippin!
I bought iPeng last night for my 1G iPhone. I like it so far, but I
seem to be having an issue with the play mode and Rhapsody. I can't
seem to play Rhapsody playlists or songs - it just seems to add them
onto my existing playlist.
Not sure
Great app! I'm really impressed that you've got it working so perfectly
right out of the gate!
Can you add player sleep functionality?
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panos_k75;363717 Wrote:
1. Browsing Genres[genre]All Albums makes iPeng complain that it
can't connect to my server.
Yep it happens all the time. Not sure why is that, as everything else
works fine.
2. It would be nice if text was scrolling to display
Don't know if it's been pointed out but there is a spelling error in
settings/inhibit pushout. You missed an e in element. Just so you
know for next time. I love the app and it's working well with my 1700
albums. Thanks again Pippen.
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There is a by design oddity in Windows OS. After a WOL event, and no
further keyboard/mouse input, the OS will go back to sleep after
(default) two minute system idle timer counts down. Disk or CPU
activity will not reset the timer.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system.../awaymode.mspx
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Hopefuly i will have an iPhone or touch in the new year. By then i hope
it will do wake on lan, can't use it without WOL.
Well done though mate.
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also, i am curious if you think the behavior of home artists is
inconsistent?
No, I think the content displayed is perfect as it is.
The only thing I don't like is navigating to artists from other places, which
is inconsistent. eg. If you see an Album Artist:, Band:, Composer:,
Conductor:
What kind of milage are you getting out of your controller? Mine dies
after a day or two of medium use (mostly evenings) and the battery
meter is unreliable, to say the least...
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pippin;363683 Wrote:
OK, those artwork issues will be fixed on the first upgrade release.
I don't fully understand what's happening, though. I DO request 75x75
images from the server and, yes, after that I assume I got that format
(in album view). I've never seen the server returning
Hi Good job,been using your skin since May last year which i really
liked other than the slowness issue but by going native that has
certainly fixed it.Good thing I read through the posts last night as I
was having the same issue as Itlan(really bad lagging problem)I have a
collection of 6700 cds
There are lots of factors - look at the following to see if you are
getting similar
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SqueezeOS_Internals#Battery_Measurements
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The Controller is superior to iPeng and Squidgy IMHO.
Usability, speed and customisation need for classical collections are
superior at the moment. Not to say that the apps can't/won't improve.
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AndyWright;363835 Wrote:
I think I may have found a small problem - I'm using the Prevent Sleep
Mode to keep the display alive all the time, however after a few
minutes (maybe 15 or 20), the iPhone or iPod (I've tried both) drop
their wireless connection. In the case of the iPhone it reverts
Having used the skin a little in the past, I am very excited about how
quick and smooth this app works.
Is it possible to save the current playlist? My memory says that was
possible with the skin, but I can't seem to figure out how with the
app.
Thanks - Byron
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steveeedster;363723 Wrote:
I have just thought of a solution ( well, a good workaround anyhow)!
For compilation albums, in the 'artist' field, instead of naming the
artist 'Duran Duran' (same as on their individual album) you could name
them 'Duran Duran*' (an extra * on the end, meaning
socistep;363742 Wrote:
Good point, I think it shows the potential of Slim Devices putting out
an official iPhone/iTouch app, it would increase awareness of their
products to the wider growing iP/iT market - I'm sure this will also
start with iPeng, Squidgy etc.
It also has the potential to
Lesu;363843 Wrote:
I have been finding exactly the same thing. I choose a Genre, say Blues,
the Blues list is displayed with 'All Albums' at the top of the list.
Select 'All Albums' ( is the symbol displayed at the top right) and
it always comes back with the message 'Cannot connect to
amcluesent;363853 Wrote:
The Controller is superior to iPeng and Squidgy IMHO.
Usability, speed and customisation need for classical collections are
superior at the moment. Not to say that the apps can't/won't improve.
Can you elaborate?
Especially on usability and speed?
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Currently I'm not so impressed by iPeng.
1) It didn't find my server automatically as other has reported.
Entering the IP address of my server (192.168.1.120:9000) helped.
2) A minute or two after it found my server it crashed and I was
returned to springboard.
3) Restarting iPeng and it
It seems to me that a lot of people are disliking the fact that comps
appear under the artist view by design. If you have many comp albums
the artist view becomes cluttered.
No, that's not right. The list of Artists in Browse Artists, will not include
artists that are only Track Artists.
What
i didn't think an asterix would be good, but what was the issue with
it?
Phil,
u don't think its somewhat inconsistent for comps to show up under an
artist when group comps together is selected? also, isn't it weird
that home artists uses ALBUMARTIST except for only the case when a
track
pippin;363863 Wrote:
Can you elaborate?
Especially on usability and speed?
First NOTE: I do not have a controller so can not compare usability or
speed.
However I have iPeng and can not see how the controller could be any
faster, even if it was not sure that would really matter because iPeng
I'll test this.
Maybe iPhone has it's own timer to shut down the connection after a
while.
iPeng DOES continuously communicate, though so it SHOULD stay on.
But the fact that it doesn't happen when docked points to it, too,
since there are a few power saving features that are disabled when
3) Restarting iPeng and it seemed to work, switching to Album view and
the album arts starts to download. But the artwork is in odd sizes and
is overlapped each other. iPeng froze and I had to a hard reset.
Please enable debugging for artwork (in SC: Settings/Advanced/Logging) and
upload a
Husted;363866 Wrote:
3) Restarting iPeng and it seemed to work, switching to Album view and
the album arts starts to download. But the artwork is in odd sizes and
is overlapped each other. iPeng froze and I had to a hard reset.
Are you using .bmp album art? That seems to be not fully
MrSinatra;363867 Wrote:
i didn't think an asterix would be good, but what was the issue with it?
For some reason it ignored the asterix for artists who had another
album, it even took away the asterix from the end of the artists name,
except for artists who didnt have an individual album and
autopilot;362727 Wrote:
Hi, im running Visa 64 and was wondering how to suppress the DOS box
also.
Google -srvany-.
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Lesu;363819 Wrote:
I have done some more research into the album art display fault. It
narrows down to embedded art which is .bmp.
Squeezecenter also exhibits a problem with this artwork, but slightly
differently. When I go into album list for the offending track, I
notice that,
autopilot;363804 Wrote:
Hopefuly i will have an iPhone or touch in the new year. By then i hope
it will do wake on lan, can't use it without WOL.
Currently testing this.
Will be easier as soon as I can debug on the device again, the $$$ 2.2
SDK update screwed that (I can RUN stuff on the
Thanks!
Doesn't look too far from what I'm getting out of mine...
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MillmoorRon;363844 Wrote:
Yes, I have experienced this too!
Need to restart iPeng to fix it.
Glad I'm not the only one :)
Pippin - just a thought, would it be possible to have a timer to blank
the screen (to save battery) and use the iPhone's motion sensor to wake
the screen?
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pippin;363576 Wrote:
Ah, sorry, misunderstood that.
I might have misunderstood that the OP was referring to the general use
of iTouch, rather than to the use of native applications on it. In which
case sorry for the confusion.
k
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I think I may have found a small problem - I'm using the Prevent Sleep
Mode to keep the display alive all the time, however after a few
minutes (maybe 15 or 20), the iPhone or iPod (I've tried both) drop
their wireless connection. In the case of the iPhone it reverts to the
gprs or Edge symbol,
Lesu;363843 Wrote:
I have been finding exactly the same thing. I choose a Genre, say Blues,
the Blues list is displayed with 'All Albums' at the top of the list.
Select 'All Albums' ( is the symbol displayed at the top right) and
it always comes back with the message 'Cannot connect to
Hi, just a quick note to autopilot and anyone else interested, if you
don't want to wait for Wake on Lan to be part of Ipeng (or squidgy for
that matter), then there is a wake on lan app in the Itunes store.
Its called IWOL, and in the UK its £1.98. Works well for me, I can turn
on the
mherger;363872 Wrote:
3) Restarting iPeng and it seemed to work, switching to Album view
and
the album arts starts to download. But the artwork is in odd sizes
and
is overlapped each other. iPeng froze and I had to a hard reset.
Please enable debugging for artwork (in SC:
Yes, I think that (WOL 2 minute timeout) is definitely the cause of the
problems I am experiencing.
I have that plug-in checked on the plug-in page of SqueezeCenter. Do I
have to do something else to actually activate it?
Thanks!
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panos_k75;363717 Wrote:
my comments:
Very good first attempt. It needs to be polished a little though:
1. Browsing Genres[genre]All Albums makes iPeng complain that it
can't connect to my server.
P.
I have been finding exactly the same thing. I choose a Genre, say
Blues, the Blues
Competing for your interest on Black Friday: Netgear has a rebate for
Powerline gear
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I've never used 'em (house is wired) but this might help someone
here...
BTW, this came as an email from Netgear (I must be on some
In ipeng, when I select an artist and it shows me all the albums, with
small artwork, I noticed I also get in this listing an album that does
not contain this artist (but the artist IS in the composer field as the
composer of the song. This seems like an odd result. This is a FLAC
file. p.s. In
I've never run mine down, but that's because I generally drop it in the
cradle when I go to bed at night. The times I've forgotten to do so, it
was still charged up and rarin' to go when I got home from work the next
day. So I've let it go for maybe two days, but that was not with
continual use;
I don't have a web servlet running or a disk in my Popcorn hour so I'm
unable to try this just yet but it sounds great!
Would I be able to just use this as a 'now playing' screen for one of
my players? If so what would it display - I had a look though the
screen shots but didn't find anything
desperation posting
what do you have to do to get support?
i'vw posted 5 times and emailed 3 times - plenty of auto-responses, no
real person responses
i realise this is what generally passes for support nowadays, but
expected better from logitech
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mortslim;363598 Wrote:
How about $150. for the Controller and $225. for the Receiver? Once you
get the price of the Controller down, the perceived value added from the
lower price (from the consumer's point of view) will hopefully produce
higher profits through a higher volume of sales, not
pippin;363859 Wrote:
Actually, to me that looks like a bug in the server
How do you mean?
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Pipping, did some more testing and it appears to be a cache issue.
Taking advice I saw earlier in this thread that once artwork is loaded
you know the cacheing is done I saw the following:
When I just browse into a genre, say Genre - reggae ... it joins gets
cached and as long as I stay in that
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lesu View Post
I have been finding exactly the same thing. I choose a Genre, say
Blues, the Blues list is displayed with 'All Albums' at the top of the
list. Select 'All Albums' ( is the symbol displayed at the top right)
and it always comes back with the message
Not everyone on the planet gets a hardon over iPhones and the apps that
can be shoehorned into them. It makes more sense for Logitech to keep
their SlimDevices team focused on SD products. I have trouble buying
the notion that millions of people are going to go through a mental
process along the
pippin,
will the iphone/ipod be able to act as a player the way the SBC is
going to?
i for one think that if Slim is cool with your development, they should
start development of DLNA for PS3 and other DLNA hardware.
seems to me people want flexibility... i think most people would want
SOME
panos_k75;363910 Wrote:
How do you mean?
I mean that I think I use the currect query, as it is in the
documentation, but if I DON'T specify an artist, I get an error message
from the server.
I belive that's a server bug.
Itlan;363912 Wrote:
Now that I have played with surfgin across all
Dogberry2;363923 Wrote:
Not everyone on the planet gets a hardon over iPhones and the apps that
can be shoehorned into them.
Yes!
I personally will never get an iPhone or an iPod (or any Apple product,
actually) because I just don't agree with their very closed,
pay-premium-for-everything
I have been trying to set up the squeezecentre and musicip. I am a
relative PC novice, but have tried following instructions on the
MusicIP wiki (though don't really understand what it all means) - I
have also tried following SpiceFly's instructions on setting up
headless MiP in windows XP. (I
I wonder if someone could help me make my Squeezebox slightly more
wife-friendly...
I use the excellent AlienBBC plugin in order to stream BBC Radio 4, but
I wondered whether there is a way to make this stream far more
accessible with fewer keypresses. I've already added this station as a
Yes, true. There is a setting that would pull in composer, conductor,
band/orchestra under all artist's listing. But in SC I've not selected
this option (and SC is behaving as expected, i.e., not doing this). It
seems that iPeng is NOT following the SC setting. Not a big deal, but
thought I'd
In many cases the full URL will change with each program.
One way is to create a predefined search with the name of the program.
To try it - edit the URL one of the existing predefined searches and
add the name of your program and then test it.
When it works move the menu entry to the main
garym;363946 Wrote:
Yes, true. There is a setting that would pull in composer, conductor,
band/orchestra under all artist's listing. But in SC I've not selected
this option (and SC is behaving as expected, i.e., not doing this).
Hm, but iPeng has no influence on this. It queries the albums
bpa;363947 Wrote:
One way is to create a predefined search with the name of the program.
Predefined search? What's that, then, and how?!
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Oops - the example predefined search menu seem to have been omitted from
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I'll find the example opml file and post it later.
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Would like to be able to set a playlist and use Musicip to make the mix
from only the songs in the playlist. This would be something like rock
as the playlist containing all songs with genre rock. Select one song
to play from the list and Musicip/Spicefly use that one song as seed
for the next
The problem with the old system is that it just didn't work. I had a
squeezebox, a friend had two and we both had problems with the fast
forward. I prefer to scan forward and hear the music at 2x, 4x, etc.
But it just didn't work well. It would skip forward and then when you
stopped it to
I've been reading this forum for some years now, but after downloading
your ipod app, I had to register just to say thanks. I've encounterd a
few snags with the app and will report them when I can reproduce them,
but all in all I just wanted to say thanks. This app is what I have
been waiting for
lemmy999;363955 Wrote:
The problem with the old system is that it just didn't work.
It worked absolutely fine for me. Perhaps the distance between remote
and SB makes a difference with the detection of keypresses and
especially long hold key events. Maybe if the infra-red signal is
You need to set up a filter in MusicIP (you have to do this in the GUI),
then set that as your filter to use for MIP mixes in Squeezecenter MIP
settings and Spicefly settings. In Spicefly, you have to choose the
filter for each hour of the day.
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Sue
http://www.last.fm/user/MeSue
If you are in U.S or similar time zone you can Call.
http://www.slimdevices.com/su_tech.html#phone
Phone Call works much better in real life, as in all support get a name
and number and mail to the person handling your case.
My experience of mail support is good, could take 24-48hrs to respond.
I'm looking to rearrange my storage situation by moving several SATA drives
to enclosure connected over a multilane (aka multichannel?) cable -
preferably 4+ bays. Any recommended enclosures, stay_away or alternative
options anyone can offer are appreciated.
I was never more than 3-4 feet away when doing this. It tried different
SlimServer builds and Squeezebox firmwares. I complained on here and
some said they had the same problem, others like you said it worked
fine.
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Hi there,
Ive been using my Squeezebox on my home wireless network for about a
year with no issues.
Today I tried to move it to a new location, where I dont have a
wireless signal, so I used an Ethernet connection, plugged into a ZyXEL
PLA-401 Powerline Homeplug, however it then cannot
It's the most I've paid for any app from the store, but also the most
valuable app (MVA).
Quick comment:
I prefer to use the album view to scan through my music database (which
is paltry compared to others) because I like to see the small album
graphics. But I don't like the fact that the
gregh;363969 Wrote:
Hi there,
Ive been using my Squeezebox on my home wireless network for about a
year with no issues.
Today I tried to move it to a new location, where I dont have a
wireless signal, so I used an Ethernet connection, plugged into a ZyXEL
PLA-401 Powerline Homeplug,
I've been working with iPeng for the last day, and here's a tip for
those with Jailbroken iPhones/iPods.
If you get Backgrounder from the Cydia repository, send iPeng into the
background, and when you go to it every time, it won't have the
startup delay that you have when you run iPeng - no
Thanks Sue. Might work but not as user friendly as I had hoped.
Was really hoping that things could be changed via the controller.
From what you say it would stay in effect until I return to the
computer and change the settings or hourly change.
Shame it doesn't just show the filters on the
How is this achieved?
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tjm000;363973 Wrote:
It's the most I've paid for any app from the store, but also the most
valuable app (MVA).
Quick comment:
I prefer to use the album view to scan through my music database (which
is paltry compared to others) because I like to see the small album
graphics. But I
here
gregh wrote:
Hi there,
I’ve been using my Squeezebox on my home wireless network for about a
year with no issues.
Today I tried to move it to a new location, where I don’t have a
wireless signal, so I used an Ethernet connection, plugged into a ZyXEL
PLA-401 Powerline Homeplug, however it
I had many of the same problems and struggled for days.
One of the things I had to do to get it to work was to leave the Music
Folder in squeezecenter settings blank and rescan.
Your settings seem to be correct so try the rescan.
You may also find that the mm is not there but by hovering over
Mark Lanctot wrote:
DeVerm;362391 Wrote:
The only reason I can think of would be so that the SB uses less time on
the air, leaving more bandwidth for other users of the router.
OK, that's a good one, but a lot of people want 'n' just because it's
the latest and greatest.
I
plympton;363975 Wrote:
If you get Backgrounder from the Cydia repository, send iPeng into the
background, and when you go to it every time, it won't have the
startup delay that you have when you run iPeng - no re-caching,
syncing, etc.
I'm looking for a double-tap replacement. Best I
peter;363991 Wrote:
I want N because my laptop is N and now connected at 130 Mbit.
This is great for a laptop, but what would an audio player do with all
that bandwidth?
Also my upstairs controller seems to have a slightly better connection.
Good, but this isn't due to the controller's
Mark Lanctot wrote:
peter;363991 Wrote:
I want N because my laptop is N and now connected at 130 Mbit.
This is great for a laptop, but what would an audio player do with all
that bandwidth?
One, not much. But several at the same time...
Or an audio player sharing its bandwidth
I always browse my music by Genre and then all albums and never had
any problems with the SBC.
I also noticed that browsing the playlists looks very nice with
artwork, artist and album information...wouldn't it possible to make
the player queue look the same? or at least give us the option? I
lanierb;363983 Wrote:
Here's also some from Pandora. (Pandora's album art seems to be
slightly lower res.)
Cool! Thanks!
Could you mail me the full scale shots? Coolio att
penguinlovesmusic.com
One more thing: for Pandora, does that rename station feature work?
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see iPeng
Re: Pandora album art... most of Pandora's album art is really high res
now (they did this for their own iPhone app). You probably just got a
bad one. Rhapsody is the lowest-res of all the music services, at
170x170.
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Did you try calling?
What are your support ticket numbers?
Are you in the US?
Mike
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pippin;363984 Wrote:
Artists-All Albums
pippin,
I have artistsort tags in my collection so that 'David Bowie' appears
under 'B' not 'D' in my Artists Library. iPeng doesn't seem to pick
this up?
The native app is great... Thanks much!!
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Hi Pippin,
Great app! A major step forward compared to the plugin version!
So far there is only issue I found, and it is the same one as the one I
reported here:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=321691#post321691. When
I use my soundbridge tuned to slimserver, the skip function
Agree with current positive reviews - great stuff.
Comments:
1) so far while playing with it I have accidentally nuked a
painstakingly assembled playlist because I forgot to hit the toggle
switch which changes it to 'add to playlist mode'. Can that toggle be
made to stick between usage
Agree with Adhir's experiences almost completely - so very exciting,
intricate and feature rich user experience. After twenty or so minutes
I felt like I had figured most of the important stuff out That's a tall
order for many people, but I think we agree the target isn't
/completely/ the
This app is fantastic so far, although there are plenty of things I'm
hoping for in future versions. I have installed in on my iPhone and
iPod Touch.
Pippin, I don't know if this is possible, but let's say I am using
iPeng on my iPhone. Could there possibly be a setting to have the
current
Steve - thanks for that advice. I tried clearing the music folder in
squeezecentre blank and then cleared the library and rescanned
everything. It then showed MusicIP Import in the scan progress window,
which appeared to import all the files as before, but with the v
exciting development that the
Opinion is going to be completely split on this, with those
iPhone/iTouch owners likely to push the debate more then others.
I think there are two types of impact
1) Existing SB owners who may reconsider purchasing a controller in
future
2) Potential new SB owners through the Apple route
IMO
I got into SB through Pandora, I started listening to Pandora and
followed the links from the site...I don't see why the same concept
can't occur for iPhone but who knows on what level that would be
Dogberry2;363923 Wrote:
Not everyone on the planet gets a hardon over iPhones and the apps
Sorry your tickets got lost in our ticketing system some how.
I have replied to one of your incidents.
Can you please tell me how you were submitting the tickets?
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Mark Lanctot;363940 Wrote:
But even if I did, the iPhone is really unattractive here in Canada.
You can only get it from one cell provider and it's saddled with an
expensive long-term (3 year) cell phone contract, $60-$75/month. You
can't get it without a contract.
The SBC is cheap
atlslim;364012 Wrote:
pippin,
I have artistsort tags in my collection so that 'David Bowie' appears
under 'B' not 'D' in my Artists Library. iPeng doesn't seem to pick
this up?
The native app is great... Thanks much!!
No. SqueezeCenter doesn't return it.
This has been a big issue
cakes;364013 Wrote:
Hi Pippin,
So far there is only issue I found, and it is the same one as the one I
reported here: [url]http://forums.slimdevices.com
I will have to dig into this. I asked the question on how to handle
this on the forum a few times but never really got a good answer.
Turns out that my router hadn't stored the port forwarding values into
flash, Do'h! All corrected and running fine again. Thanks for all the
responses.
Cheers
Hyde
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Sorry! Don't know anything about Transporter. I struggle daily trying
to learn about SC and all of the extras it is capable of.
Does everything work using Squeezecenter? Can you play music through
your squeezecenter? Can you play using musicip? If so I would check
configuration between
amcluesent;363853 Wrote:
Usability, speed and customisation need for classical collections are
superior at the moment. Not to say that the apps can't/won't improve.
I think he might be thinking along the same lines as I am in what I
posted on the other thread about Classical collections.
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