Just a note that I'm moving discussion of 1.3.0 over to a new thread. I
hope there aren't any big surprises!
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Hi db122 -
Just to give you a heads-up, I submitted a log captured when trying to
play an album from Rhapsody. Orange Squeeze will let me navigate my
library and hit play. On the screen it appears like it is starting to
play, but nothing happens on the squeezebox. No errors are reported by
Hi there,
revisiting my old message #148, this is my updated improvements list:
* Now playing:
- show album date, f.e. Album Title (2013)
- show track number in album, f.e. Song title (12)
- show rating, f.e ***··
* Album list:
- show album date, f.e. Album Title (2013)
- sort albums by date
pippin wrote:
That's interesting. But my Nexus shows it as the #1 battery consumer
after not using it for 24h or so.
This is Android 4.2
Actually I hadn't used it at all but set OrangeSqueeze to start it and I
do use an OrangeSqueeze lock screen widget. That widget wasn't set to
control
maggior wrote:
Hi db122 -
Just to give you a heads-up, I submitted a log captured when trying to
play an album from Rhapsody. Orange Squeeze will let me navigate my
library and hit play. On the screen it appears like it is starting to
play, but nothing happens on the squeezebox. No
pippin wrote:
You are aware that you can use MySqueezebox.com for remote scaling? They
cache the result so as long as you are consistent with the size this
will get you very, very good performance. With iPeng and all it's users
my impression is that at least as long as I stick to the main
db122 wrote:
I was aware that this was possible, but have avoided adding a dependency
on mysb.com for this. It should probably be an option -- at least until
the service is killed off.
Um. If MySB gets killed off most services won't work anymore anyway, I'm
sure you will have to make more
pippin wrote:
Um. If MySB gets killed off most services won't work anymore anyway, I'm
sure you will have to make more changes then. I don't know about your
App but in iPeng this is like 5 lines of code or so.
It's really two separate issues, but yes I understand your perspective.
db122 wrote:
It's possible that Orange Squeeze could be keeping it alive. Let me
check that out.
I don't *think* that Orange Squeeze was keeping SqueezePlayer awake
here. I audited the code and ran some tests and SqueezePlayer keepalives
are sent when OrangeSqueeze is connected to the server.
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Worked fine for me on my system storage -- are you downloading to a
FAT32-formatted SD card? I'm guessing so we'll sanitize the
filenames a bit more under the assumption that the destination filename
was invalid on the mounted FS. Thanks!
Yep, FAT32 format drive.
Battery drain got much better with the current preview but it's still
nowhere near where it was before (I'm now at 2 days with a battery load,
still much worse than my iPad while it was batter before given that I
don't use the Nexus a lot).
This time, the problem seems to be SqueezePlayer, which
SqueezePlayer shuts down after 15min automatically when not kept alive
via intents.
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That's indesign. But my Nexus shows it as the #1 battery consumer after
not using it for 24h or so.
This is Android 4.2
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Check out the Tasker app (or various clones), which lets you do all
sorts of fancy things, scripted on an Android device. You want to be
able to send an Intent to an Android service with the appropriate
parameters at the appropriate time.
You are my hero!!! Installed tasker
db122 wrote:
For thumbnails, we use URL's like this whenever possible:
http://192.168.0.2:9000/music/6df5a901/cover_128xX_p.jpg
that should be .../cover_128x128_p. You can leave out the .jpg, as
you says, it will be ignored anyway.
But the album artwork is OK, radio and especially App
Ah, ok, I almost never do games on iPad.
But in a game it's especially bad if you accidentally pop out if the
App.
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I also like confirmation to 'exit' in SqueezeCommander regardless
whether it is Android thing or not..
After all I believe systems should work as users expect not how
developers think is best.. it might be just me O_o,
Just from other topic...
As my radio alarm driving me sometimes crazy (with
As an iPhone 3gs and Nexus 7 user I find myself between two OSs, but
increasingly I get frustrated with the limitation of iOs, mostly to do
with the lack of back button (ie. difficulty of navigation/continuity
between apps). I do wish however that the implementation of back-button
functionality
bluegaspode wrote:
Could you share a link to the back button discussion?
There are a lot, but here's the most recent.
http://goo.gl/77Jrh
From a usability standpoint I'd say what happens when you press a button
must be predictable for the user without studying Android user guides.
Which is
Jaca wrote:
I also like confirmation to 'exit' in SqueezeCommander regardless
whether it is Android thing or not..
After all I believe systems should work as users expect not how
developers think is best.. it might be just me O_o,
For the record, I am both user #1 and developer #1 for
pippin wrote:
Why would that be the alternative? I like the back button, I just hate
that it takes me out of Apps all the times, there is zero reason for
that since there _is_ already a button for that. It could still be a
back button within the App.
If apps never worked together then you
Oh, one more thing I just noticed about the preview: it drains a lot of
battery while in the background on my Nexus 7, you might want to have a
look at that.
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pippin wrote:
Oh, one more thing I noticed about the preview: it drains a lot of
battery while in the background on my Nexus 7, you might want to have a
look at that.
Yes, I expect it does. The service that feeds the widgets preserves the
connection for a configurable amount of time. If
Actually I hadn't even noticed there are widgets. The market version
doesn't have them, right?
But even if I use widgets, there should be some way to stop that
behavior. It's draining my Nexus in a day or so while usually I charge
it once a week.
Oh, and now that I know about them I will _of course_ use the widgets,
widgets are one of the few things I love on Android and miss on iOS.
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Actually I hadn't even noticed there are widgets. The market version
doesn't have them, right?
But even if I use widgets, there should be some way to stop that
behavior. It's draining my Nexus in a day or so while usually I charge
it once a week, I don't think that amount of
Ah. I have been meaning to mention that my widget does not update. I
have three users set up on my Nexus 7 and the Orange Squeeze widget on
my own lock screen. Inevitably when I come to wake my device the widget
has lost its connection and does not display the state of the
appropriate player. It
ModelCitizen wrote:
Ah. I have been meaning to mention that my widget does not update. I
have three users set up on my Nexus 7 and the Orange Squeeze widget on
my own lock screen. Inevitably when I come to wake my device the widget
has lost its connection and does not display the state of
db122 wrote:
For the record, I am both user #1 and developer #1 for Orange Squeeze.
The buck stops with me...
I'm not trying to be funny, sorry :)
The built-in alarm functionality (conveniently hidden from within Orange
Squeeze) should work for you. It's part of my plan to get everyone
Jaca wrote:
Do you mean such alarm already does exists within OS?
The devices themselves have alarm capability, provided by the server
(Logitech Media Server, SqueezeCenter, whatever). You can access it from
the web interface or, depending on your player, from the player itself.
That's
db122 wrote:
The devices themselves have alarm capability, provided by the server
(Logitech Media Server, SqueezeCenter, whatever). You can access it from
the web interface or, depending on your player, from the player itself.
Sorry looks I wasn't very clear.. English is not my native tong..
pippin wrote:
Oh, one more thing I just noticed about the preview: it drains a lot of
battery while in the background on my Nexus 7, you might want to have a
look at that.
Had a look, I believe it should be *much* better now.
Jaca wrote:
ohh looks like you give me no choice but try to get into it :) lol ..
damn can't believe how lazy I'm ;)
If you're looking at rewiring an alarm using your android device,
squeezeboxes and some scripting apps, I think that nobody would call you
*lazy*.
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Had a look, I believe it should be *much* better now.
Great! Will give it a try.
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Just updated the preview build. We're getting very close. Was hoping to
get the final release out before December, since that month doesn't
exist for Android 4.2 users, but that's looking less likely.
enhancements
- Experimental (truly, we have no hardware to test this on) support
for
I've encountered an issue with the download to device function. I
tried to download an album with a : (colon) in the album title. The
artist folder was created, but not the album folder within (nor any of
the tracks). No error message of any sort, just a silent fail.
That was quick. The new version with the headers in search really looks
much better!!
Power consumption also looks good so far.
One thing: do you always read the full artwork? You are aware that the
server can resize it for you? The thumbnails don't render very well on
my Nexus 7 right now.
bwaldron wrote:
I've encountered an issue with the download to device function. I
tried to download an album with a : (colon) in the album title. The
artist folder was created, but not the album folder within (nor any of
the tracks). No error message of any sort, just a silent fail.
Worked
One thing: do you always read the full artwork? You are aware that the
server can resize it for you? The thumbnails don't render very well on
my Nexus 7 right now.
For thumbnails, we use URL's like this whenever possible:
http://192.168.0.2:9000/music/6df5a901/cover_128xX_p.jpg
In my
db122 wrote:
I just pulled players from 7.5.5 to my 7.7.2 server. Can't pull them
back to 7.5.5 though. Go figure.
Just had quick try before setting off to work and it behaves same way
over here.
I was able to pull it from LMS Lite (Touch USB not sure version) to LMS
7.7.2 (on Synology NAS)
OK, finally need to give a bit of feedback on OrangeSqueeze as well
since I've been using the preview a bit, too, recently.
I actually really like it, I have to admit that I start to prefer it to
SqueezeCommander (SqueezeCommander keeps confusing me in places where it
looks like iPeng used to
Some apps (including squeeze Commander) flash a press back again to
exit on the final press, handy for stopping that being a problem.
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I would regularly come upon that message with squeezecommander. When I
first started using orangesqueeze, I found myself exiting it a lot by
accident. I must have gotten used to it now because I don't exit out
accidentally any more. It did take me quite a while to get used to it
though. Part
maggior wrote:
I would regularly come upon that message with squeezecommander. When I
first started using orangesqueeze, I found myself exiting it a lot by
accident. I must have gotten used to it now because I don't exit out
accidentally any more. It did take me quite a while to get used
pippin wrote:
OK, finally need to give a bit of feedback on OrangeSqueeze as well
since I've been using the preview a bit, too, recently.
Pippin, thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely take it to heart. I did
take a stab at a couple of the polish-related issues you raised, so
check out the
... someone is using the most current Orange Squeeze preview (from last
night), has a Samsung GT-I9000 (International Galaxy S, I believe)
running Android 4.1.2.
You've had a bunch of crash submissions when the app launches, I
believe. The error is actually an I/O error, indicating you might
db122 wrote:
As to your issues with the Android back button -- well, you're not
alone, but in my opinion, the alternative (the lack of a back button) is
far worse.
Why would that be the alternative? I like the back button, I just hate
that it takes me out of Apps all the times, there is
Could you share a link to the back button discussion?
From a usability standpoint I'd say what happens when you press a button
must be predictable for the user without studying Android user guides.
With simple Apps it is no problem to realize if you are at the root of
the activity stack. I
bluegaspode wrote:
With simple Apps it is no problem to realize if you are at the root of
the activity stack. I never have a problem with Tapatalk for instance as
it just has three levels of navigation and not individual hierarchies.
Tapatalk has different numbers of hierarchies
Show me one game that adheres to Apples UI guidelines. And games is what
I do 90% of my time on iPad :-)
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Hi;
when I used Orange Squeeze, I had the problem that in the pop-up
windows, no text was visible.
(When I tapped on the area of the non-visible Text, the related funktion
was activated. So it is really only the text that is missing...)
What do I mean by pop-up w?
For example in the Player
slimhase wrote:
Hi;
when I used Orange Squeeze, I had the problem that in the pop-up
windows, no text was visible.
(When I tapped on the area of the non-visible Text, the related funktion
was activated. So it is really only the text that is missing...)
What do I mean by pop-up w?
For
Ahem! Any comment about a Server tab?
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A bit late to the party, but could we have a Servers tab alongside
the Search - Browse - Players items? The l dropdown is really fiddly to
use and often I miss the correct item!
What server dropdown? There is an action bar menu that exposes a switch
server screen, and
db122 wrote:
What server dropdown? There is an action bar menu that exposes a switch
server screen, and there is an option to move players between servers
too, also from a popup on the players screen. I'm not sure I understand
what you're asking.
But you're right that it's too late for
castalla wrote:
It's that action bar thing - the small I at the top right which appears
on some menus - it's so fiddly to use. I often get Search instead of
switch servers! On the main Browse screen there are tabs at the top to
switch players, search, etc. I just thought a Servers tab
db122 wrote:
It would seem you might have problems with a lot of more modern Android
apps, because that three-dot thing and the resulting menu is a standard
Android construct, not a fabrication in Orange Squeeze.
Keep your eye on the preview builds once 1.3.1 or 1.3.2 are out I
hope
db122 wrote:
You probably are one of the very few running the app on a black and
white device. Surely there is a way to fix it, but it may be a bit of
guessing how to work around the issue because I have no way to test how
the colors and device default themes interact. I suspect the root
Love this app, been an iPeng user for 3+ years on iPhone but just
treated myself to a google nexus 7 and bought orange squeeze. Great UI,
great app, great work.
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Hi everyone,
I'm new here and just installed Orange Squeeze. Thanks for great app! It
seems to be faster to use and more intuitive then squeeze commander
which I've been using for a while.
However there is one important feature I can't find in Orange:
How do I switch/change player to different
Jaca wrote:
How do I switch/change player to different server/ library?
I can change servers but can't find how to move client/player from one
server to another.. I'm sure i'm missing smth obvious somewhere O_o...
You probably aren't missing anything obvious. Some of this was added in
Thank you for extra quick replay! awesome! :)
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Explain why you're doing this on a regular basis, and I might consider
spending time on implementing that (priorities, right?) but I think most
people alternate between SN and their local server exclusively.
Basically I use:
1.
So, I have to edit my own reply. I was a bit mistaken, and some things
do work better in Orange Squeeze Preview than I had remembered. Heck, if
I can't keep it straight :-)
If you are on a server, you can pull visible players (servers on the
same subnet communicate this) to your current
Won't work for one of the two use cases for different servers I can
think up: it will only work if both servers are of the same version,
otherwise, the other server's players won't be shown.
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pippin wrote:
Won't work for one of the two use cases for different servers I can
think up: it will only work if both servers are of the same version,
otherwise, the other server's players won't be shown.
I just pulled players from 7.5.5 to my 7.7.2 server. Can't pull them
back to 7.5.5
Setting up crossfading in the LMS is perfect (I didn't thought of it
initially). Thanks a lot!
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A bit late to the party, but could we have a Servers tab alongside
the Search - Browse - Players items? The l dropdown is really fiddly to
use and often I miss the correct item!
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I just have a quick question: So far great App, much better than the
Logtech App ;-) Only thing I'm missing at the moment is crossfading of
the songs. Where is it? Any help here?
TIA
J.
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BigJens wrote:
I just have a quick question: So far great App, much better than the
Logtech App ;-) Only thing I'm missing at the moment is crossfading of
the songs. Where is it? Any help here?
TIA
J.
Crossfading is in LMS:
BigJens wrote:
I just have a quick question: So far great App, much better than the
Logtech App ;-) Only thing I'm missing at the moment is crossfading of
the songs. Where is it? Any help here?
Sorry, Orange Squeeze itself doesn't expose all of the player audio
settings that you might want
Hi I have the same problem as Castalla. The newest version worked fine a
few times (I really don't remember if it only worked one time).
But now it wont connect to the server, it seems to be connected, there
is no wheel turning and if I look at the switch server setting it says
it is connected.
The latest version seems to have given up working on my setup - sits
there just attempting to connect to last server used.
Original version connects without any problems.
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castalla wrote:
The latest version seems to have given up working on my setup - sits
there just attempting to connect to last server used.
Original version connects without any problems.
If you are using Android 4.1 or higher, can you enable verbose logging
in advanced preferences and then
db122 wrote:
If you are using Android 4.1 or higher, can you enable verbose logging
in advanced preferences and then use the available button to send logs
to us?
If you are using Android 4.0 or earlier, enable verbose logging and use
an app like CatLog to do the same thing.
Catlog looks
castalla wrote:
Catlog looks way too complicated for me! Sorry.
It's working again at the moment. I'll monitor it over the weekend, and
if it fails again then I'll try catlog.
Where do I send the log?
supp...@orangebikelabs.com. CatLog is pretty simple -- just launch it
and then
db122 wrote:
supp...@orangebikelabs.com. CatLog is pretty simple -- just launch it
and then choose the option to email the log. It's totally up to you --
you can do nothing at all and I'm sure someone else will have a similar
problem, or I will uncover it myself.
Should I send the log even
castalla wrote:
Should I send the log even if OSq works?
No, I likely will need to see the logs when it fails only.
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I'd like to see the icons BUT I can't - since updating the preview it
has stopped working almost totally. It won't connect to my server, nor
mysqueezebox.com. More often it just seems to lock up.
I uninstalled, reinstalled but same issues
Original Orange still
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Issue confusion ? Different versions ?
Maybe should. Seems like most products have a single thread though. Also
seems like almost all of the discussion is about the preview release now
-- I think it's safe to say most of the people on this board are at
least casually
db122 wrote:
I would like to get some details about your setup (device, os rev,
server rev), just so I have somewhere to start. When you have time, post
here, PM me or contact me via email at supp...@orangebikelabs.com.
Thanks!
Emailed you.
To summarise:
Installed the older version
Ability to download tracks from many browse hierarchies to your
device (Android 2.3/Gingerbread devices and higher).
Big thanks for this! It was the last reason I kept Squeeze Commander
around.
Would it be possible to allow the user to configure the download root
path? I prefer to save music
bwaldron wrote:
Ability to download tracks from many browse hierarchies to your
device (Android 2.3/Gingerbread devices and higher).
Big thanks for this! It was the last reason I kept Squeeze Commander
around.
Would it be possible to allow the user to configure the download root
Got the latest preview last night. I like the new icons for the
controls - they look very professional now.
Thanks so much for your continued work on this app - great stuff!!
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Hi just tried the new version, still the same problem, that Orange does
not restart wifi, if the smartphone was been idle for some time.
It is a Samsung galaxy I9100 with Android 4.0.4. what happens is that
the wifi symbol disapears from top ribbon on the Android - you know the
place where you
sbp wrote:
Hi just tried the new version, still the same problem, that Orange does
not restart wifi, if the smartphone was been idle for some time.
It is a Samsung galaxy I9100 with Android 4.0.4. what happens is that
the wifi symbol disapears from top ribbon on the Android - you know the
maggior wrote:
Got the latest preview last night. I like the new icons for the
controls - they look very professional now.
Thanks, and great! I will let my designer know this
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Thanks, and great! I will let my designer know this
I'd like to see the icons BUT I can't - since updating the preview it
has stopped working almost totally. It won't connect to my server, nor
mysqueezebox.com. More often it just seems to lock up.
I uninstalled, reinstalled
Icons do look lovely.
All seems to work fine here.
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castalla wrote:
I'd like to see the icons BUT I can't - since updating the preview it
has stopped working almost totally. It won't connect to my server, nor
mysqueezebox.com. More often it just seems to lock up.
I uninstalled, reinstalled but same issues
Original Orange still
db122 wrote:
Hmm, obviously I don't see them here -- I wouldn't release it otherwise.
Unfortunately, it's a holiday weekend here and I won't be able to help
much, so here is a link to the old version from 3 November:
Issue confusion ? Different versions ?
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I will say that if the wifi icon is not 100% enabled (i.e. not in the
top bar) then there may be a bug in the phone operating system rather
than Orange Squeeze.
This may be related. My son, an Orange Squeeze user, has a new Samsung
phone and says there are problems with their
castalla wrote:
I'd like to see the icons BUT I can't - since updating the preview it
has stopped working almost totally. It won't connect to my server, nor
mysqueezebox.com. More often it just seems to lock up.
Original Orange still works.
First time I tried the new preview it locked
db122 wrote:
Thanks for the report!
Do you happen to recall if you noticed this problem in 1.2.9 as well, or
if it was introduced in the preview releases?
I have the same (or very similar) issue with 1.2.9. I can get it to
start working again by either switching WiFi off and on manually or
db122 wrote:
Thanks for the report!
Do you happen to recall if you noticed this problem in 1.2.9 as well, or
if it was introduced in the preview releases?
Yes, I just tried version 1.2.9 and I have the same problem.
sbp wrote:
Yes, I just tried version 1.2.9 and I have the same problem.
OK, thanks. I will take a look at this.
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Released a new preview build, lots of stuff:
- Ability to download tracks from many browse hierarchies to your
device (Android 2.3/Gingerbread devices and higher). Supports
downloading by folder, artist, album, year (including most custom
browse variations).
- Visual styling updates
Hi I'm using the latest 1.30 version, and I really like it.
BUT I have one problem, if my android has gone sleeping while I'm using
Orange to control my Duet (I don't use my android as a player) then it
often can't start the Wifi up. I continues showing the round circle. I
need to turn off wifi
sbp wrote:
BUT I have one problem, if my android has gone sleeping while I'm using
Orange to control my Duet (I don't use my android as a player) then it
often can't start the Wifi up. I continues showing the round circle. I
need to turn off wifi and the turn it on again before Orange can
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