Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-20 Thread gethip1
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Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-19 Thread erland
pippin;626394 Wrote: > > Theoretically, yes. But then it would make more sense to write a real > search plugin. > > I don't think Erland's SQL plugin is currently made for it > It's definitely not designed for searching, even though you can make SQL Playlist playlists that takes a parameter it

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-19 Thread pippin
bobkoure;626380 Wrote: > Can you communicate with a plugin on the server? > Yes, if the plugin provides a CLI interface, which most of the newer ones do since they need it if they want to provide a UI on a Squeezeplay based box. > > If you can, something like Erland's SQL plugin might be useful

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-19 Thread bobkoure
Can you communicate with a plugin on the server? If you can, something like Erland's SQL plugin might be useful (just do whatever you need to convert the user's input into a single query, then pass the query via CLI You're certainly right about server query performance being suboptimal. There's t

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-18 Thread pippin
JJZolx;626299 Wrote: > No idea. Don't you typically have to request a CLI feature like that? What do you mean by "request"? That you have to ask for them? The problem with the CLI is that it only has two search modes: 1. the "search" command, which allows you to get artists, albums and tracks f

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-18 Thread JJZolx
pippin;626297 Wrote: > Ah. Interesting. > Does this mean that there will also be a CLI interface for that in > onebrowser? Now THAT could be quite interesting! No idea. Don't you typically have to request a CLI feature like that? -- JJZolx -

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-18 Thread pippin
Ah. Interesting. Does this mean that there will also be a CLI interface for that in onebrowser? Now THAT could be quite interesting! -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com --

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-18 Thread JJZolx
pippin;626247 Wrote: > Sure? I admit I currently do directly use the onebrowser svn branch but > that doesn't have it. At least it didn't when I posted this tonight. Yes, but I think I see what you may be seeing. If you hit 'Search' on the Home page the subsequent page has no link to Advanced Se

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-18 Thread pippin
Sure? I admit I currently do directly use the onebrowser svn branch but that doesn't have it. At least it didn't when I posted this tonight. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com --

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-18 Thread JJZolx
Advanced Search is in the current 7.6 beta and works like it always did. I think it was briefly missing when the switch to onebrowser was made, but that was quickly fixed. -- JJZolx JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevi

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-18 Thread pippin
howie.stone;626193 Wrote: > Thanks for the warning. > > If I couldn't keep the advanced search option I would switch to another > product, if another product is available with it. > > I have well over 30 000 tracks! I need all the help searching that I > can get! The discussion is on on whethe

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-18 Thread howie.stone
pippin;626190 Wrote: > ...as are the newer Squeezeboxes themselves. > This really isn't an iPeng limitation but one of the server. > Plus, as I said: Expect advanced search to completely go away with > Squeezebox Server 7.6. If you don't believe it, download the beta and > see for yourself, there

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-18 Thread pippin
howie.stone;626186 Wrote: > So it sounds like ipeng at least is seriously limited, and probably all > the other apps for SB control too. > > Not really worth having except for playback -- and that's only as good > as your wifi. ...as are the newer Squeezeboxes themselves. This really isn't an

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-18 Thread howie.stone
So it sounds like ipeng at least is seriously limited, and probably all the other apps for SB control too. Not really worth having except for playback -- and that's only as good as your wifi. -- howie.stone howie.stone'

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-17 Thread andynormancx
I see what you mean, for some reason the usual two fingered scroll is broken in the search results pane. -- andynormancx Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ? I SAID ALL OF THEM ! andynormancx's

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-17 Thread pippin
I believe no non-Web Interface will do this and it may even be that in 7.6 it will also be removed from the web-UI. The problem is that the CLI (the interface used by iPeng, all other apps and the SqueezePlay based players use) doesn't allow to send more than one search expression in a query. You

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-17 Thread Mnyb
Is there any skin for the web-UI that works ok on the iPad , default does not ,no scrolling so everything gets truncated ? -- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 Meridi

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-17 Thread howie.stone
pippin;625948 Wrote: > What do you mean with track, artist and album at the same time? > Do you mean you want all tracks, artists and albums that match a > phrase? That's the default behavior in iPeng, so this would confuse > me. > > If you want to enter all three, that's not possible in iPeng r

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-17 Thread pippin
What do you mean with track, artist and album at the same time? Do you mean you want all tracks, artists and albums that match a phrase? That's the default behavior in iPeng, so this would confuse me. If you want to enter all three, that's not possible in iPeng right now. -- pippin --- see iP

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-17 Thread JJZolx
howie.stone;625931 Wrote: > Any advice? Start by posting your question here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 -- JJZolx JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this t

Re: [slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-17 Thread andynormancx
One option is just simply to use the web ui on the iPod Touch. -- andynormancx Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ? I SAID ALL OF THEM ! andynormancx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/me

[slim] Can I use something like SB Server Advanced Search with my ipod touch?

2011-04-17 Thread howie.stone
I really want to use my ipod to get at my music. So far I've only tried iping. But there's a problem. I can't search for track, artist and album at the same time, like I can on the advanced search screen of the Squeezebox server. At least -- I haven't seen a way to do this yet with iping. This is