Re: [slim] Softsqueeze as application on iPhone

2008-07-21 Thread pippin
mherger;321475 Wrote: But hey, Pippin will soon have a solution, he promised ;-) Well, I didn't promise streaming but playback. And yes, it took me two days instead of one. But here it is: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=321704#post321704 It's somewhat experimental and far

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze as application on iPhone

2008-07-21 Thread andynormancx
mherger;321475 Wrote: didn't apple open the iPhone api library up so people could write apps to it? sounds like a cool idea. They did. But Softsqueeze is implemented in Java - no option on the iPhone. And SqueezePlay uses LUA as a scripting engine for most of the UI. But Apple

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze as application on iPhone

2008-07-20 Thread Michael Herger
didn't apple open the iPhone api library up so people could write apps to it? sounds like a cool idea. They did. But Softsqueeze is implemented in Java - no option on the iPhone. And SqueezePlay uses LUA as a scripting engine for most of the UI. But Apple does not allow using scripting

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze as application on iPhone

2008-07-19 Thread pippin
Pooh. That was quick now. Now I've promised something. Will see what I can put together tonight. There goes my iPeng schedule ;-) But I want this... -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile:

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze as application on iPhone

2008-07-19 Thread pippin
And a new enhancement request ;-) http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8803 It's for a stub player that allows you to construct a playlist without a player attached. -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze as application on iPhone

2008-07-19 Thread raaurora
mortslim;321034 Wrote: How about Slim Devices making a version of Softsqueeze that runs native as an application on the iPhone. Why? As a promotional and marketing tool for the Squeezebox. Say it is a pared down version of Softsqueeze that only streams shoutcast stations. Then a

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze as application on iPhone

2008-07-19 Thread raaurora
pippin;321220 Wrote: And a new enhancement request ;-) http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8803 It's for a stub player that allows you to construct a playlist without a player attached. you can use something like WMP to create the play list. Just make sure you save it in whatever

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze as application on iPhone

2008-07-19 Thread pippin
raaurora;321234 Wrote: you can use something like WMP to create the play list. Just make sure you save it in whatever folder SC looks for playlists and also save it in a format SC can read (.m3u). I know. But that's not what this request is about ;-) -- pippin --- see iPeng at

[slim] Softsqueeze as application on iPhone

2008-07-18 Thread mortslim
How about Slim Devices making a version of Softsqueeze that runs native as an application on the iPhone. Why? As a promotional and marketing tool for the Squeezebox. Say it is a pared down version of Softsqueeze that only streams shoutcast stations. Then a little message saying if you want

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze as application on iPhone

2008-07-18 Thread mortslim
And if Slim Devices can't get Apple to approve this proposed application for their App Store, then as an alternative, set up softsqueeze as a Web Application for the iPhone, similar to Stitcher and FlyTunes. -- mortslim

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze as application on iPhone

2008-07-18 Thread pippin
mortslim;321089 Wrote: And if Slim Devices can't get Apple to approve this proposed application for their App Store, then as an alternative, set up softsqueeze as a Web Application for the iPhone, similar to Stitcher and FlyTunes. Let'em just fix bug 6266 and I'll do that within a day in

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze as application on iPhone

2008-07-18 Thread andyg
What's needed to fix bug 6266? Is this related to the Tuner issue? -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49991

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze as application on iPhone

2008-07-18 Thread pippin
andyg;321113 Wrote: What's needed to fix bug 6266? Is this related to the Tuner issue? No. This is to be able to load media FILES (not streams) with iPhone. So the links to the .mp3 files (for mp3 files) that are already in the songinfo page could be used to play a file. You can use that to

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze as application on iPhone

2008-07-18 Thread andyg
Oh OK, just have the server support Range requests, that's trivial. I assume this is only an issue if you try to seek in a file? This solution won't handle non-mp3/aac/alac files though, as there is no transcoding built in to the download feature. -- andyg

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze as application on iPhone

2008-07-18 Thread pippin
andyg;321120 Wrote: Oh OK, just have the server support Range requests, that's trivial. I assume this is only an issue if you try to seek in a file? This solution won't handle non-mp3/aac/alac files though, as there is no transcoding built in to the download feature. I think iPhone ALWAYS

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze as application on iPhone

2008-07-18 Thread andyg
Well I got it working. Looks like Mobile Safari tries lots of different ranges to see what works best, maybe some sort of bandwidth detection. On my wifi network it ends up doing a ton of requests for only 63 bytes at a time. Quite inefficient and puts quite a load on the server but at least

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze as application on iPhone

2008-07-18 Thread andyg
Oops I think that was just a bug in the response header causing it to send all those extra requests. It actually buffers the whole file very fast. :) -- andyg andyg's Profile:

Re: [slim] Softsqueeze as application on iPhone

2008-07-18 Thread andyg
OK, it's checked in. Sorry for not doing that sooner. -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49991