pippin wrote:
It does not because you can get that same view (also fully cached) under
Artists-gt;All Albums so there are always both alternatives
Thanks Pippin. Yes, but for me, at least, that makes browsing through
albums by artist quite tedious - having to go back to the artist menu
again
Why do you have to go back to the artist menu again and again? Other
than the Squeezebox, iPeng keeps your menu level, you just have to go
back.
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pippin wrote:
Why do you have to go back to the artist menu again and again? Other
than the Squeezebox, iPeng keeps your menu level, you just have to go
back.
Go back to the list of artists which is what I meant by the artist menu.
nonnoroger wrote:
Go back to the list of artists which is what I meant by the artist menu.
Yes, but why do you have to do that? If you select Artists-All
Albums once, then that's what's on that tab, so you can have both. It's
still fewer steps than on the SB where you have to go through My
nonnoroger wrote:
Sorry if I am missing the obvious, but ...
Does iPeng (for iPad) support sorting by Artist in the Album view?
If it does, how do I enable it?
If it does not, then why not?
I miss this compared to my Touches and Radio which have sort order
options in the Advanced
pippin wrote:
Yes, but why do you have to do that? If you select Artists-All
Albums once, then that's what's on that tab, so you can have both. It's
still fewer steps than on the SB where you have to go through My Music
first.
Aaaah! Brilliant. Very sorry to have missed that. I guess a had
CharlieG wrote:
When you tap Artists in iPeng you should end up with a list of all
artists. At the top of this list you should see All Albums. If you tap
All Albums I think this will give you what you want.
Yes it certainly does. I did say I may be missing something and I was.
Many thanks
pippin wrote:
In all Apps you can now chose to always use English as the user
interface language, independent of the one selected on your device.
While this is a bit against Apple#8217;s UI guidelines a lot of users
requested it to be able to match an English language setting on the
Sorry if I am missing the obvious, but ...
Does iPeng (for iPad) support sorting by Artist in the Album view?
If it does, how do I enable it?
If it does not, then why not?
I miss this compared to my Touches and Radio which have sort order
options in the Advanced menus.
It does not because you can get that same view (also fully cached) under
Artists-gt;All Albums so there are always both alternatives
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OK, I still owe an announcement of the latest updates...
A late Happy New Year to all of you!
And to start the new year, iPeng for iPhone, iPad and iPeng UE got some
polish through a minor update.
HERES WHATS CHANGED:
- Probably the first thing youll notice is that the
2.0.7 on my iPhone 5 is showing up as an app that isn't made for the 5
now. I saw in the changes it is supposed to fix the problem that was
introduced? Just wanted to let you know it is still happening. I tried
to delete app completely and reinstall from the app store as well.
Yep. :(
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?51929-iPeng-support-threadp=729765viewfull=1#post729765
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Yep. :(
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?51929-iPeng-support-threadp=729765viewfull=1#post729765
Whoops! Sorry I should have looked in that thread.
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Hi everyone. I don't know if the issue has been reported or not, but I
have had a strange problems for a few days. My iPad runs on iOS 6 and my
iPhone on iOS 5. Both connect to my home wifi without a problem.
However, ipeng detects my squeezeserver on the iPhone but not on the
iPad. I have a
Are you absolutely sure the iPad is connected to the same network? Does
your WiFi maybe have a guest mode network that only let's you access the
Internet and not the local network?
Could you send me diagnostics mails from both devices (using the mail
link under Help)?
CharlieG wrote:
Is it only suppose to work at upper level album view?
If I select AlbumsI get the scalable option.
If I select New MusicI get the scalable option.
If I select ArtistThe Avett Brothers(or any artist, or All Albums)the
album art is not scalable.
pippin wrote:
Oh wow, you
Ok, I bought iPeng. It didn't detect the server; I had to add it as a
remote library for it to work. Once I did that, it worked perfectly.
This is way better than the Squeezebox Controller, which I just received
in the mail today. I guess I'm putting it and the Receiver back onto
eBay. Sigh.
Any chance you can auto-dim the screen after X minutes? I have sleep
disabled, but I'd like it to auto dim after a few minutes so it's not as
intrusive as a full-time remote. It'd also be great if the app could go
full screen so as to disable the notification pull-down. I often end
up pulling
thinker wrote:
Any chance you can auto-dim the screen after X minutes? I have sleep
disabled, but I'd like it to auto dim after a few minutes so it's not as
intrusive as a full-time remote.
Apps can't influence that, but I believe there's a setting somewhere in
the iPhone settings (don't
pippin wrote:
Apps can't influence that, but I believe there's a setting somewhere in
the iPhone settings (don't ask me, where, probably under Screen or
so).
I could only find a screen off after X time setting, no dim after X,
screen off after X. I'll keep looking. I'll chalk this up to my
That's interesting and good to know. Actually if that's true I'd have to
make iPeng a full screen App that removes the status bar.
The downside is that I'd still like to show the status bar (there's
quite a bit if info up there I can't replicate, like the WiFi status)
but if it helps with
pippin wrote:
That's interesting and good to know. Actually if that's true I'd have to
make iPeng a full screen App that removes the status bar.
The downside is that I'd still like to show the status bar (there's
quite a bit if info up there I can't replicate, like the WiFi status)
but if
Yea, I've thought about that, too, but then found it too complicated,
iPeng does already have too many options.
Actually, the existing preserve connection feature does already take
the power state into account. It works like this (when enabled):
- As long as the device is on external
Okay, iPhone 4 acquired; I'll give this another try tonight. Thanks for
the tip about the 3G's pending doom.
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Update: I'm using a wiped-clean iPhone 4 and it also can't see my
server, even though my Squeezeboxes can. It's on the same Wi-Fi
network. Can I somehow specify the IP or hostname in iPeng Party?
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No, not in iPeng Party. Well, you can, but then you'd need the full
iPeng to do so.
I am pretty sure it's not the iPhone but has something to do with your
network. Either your server doesn't accept UDP broadcasts or doesn't
reply to them properly. Something like that. My personal guess is that
pippin wrote:
No, not in iPeng Party. Well, you can, but then you'd need the full
iPeng to do so.
I am pretty sure it's not the iPhone but has something to do with your
network. Either your server doesn't accept UDP broadcasts or doesn't
reply to them properly. Something like that. My
thinker wrote:
I setup the network -- there's no NAT or anything on the inside. The
gateway is the same as my Linux box because they're the same physical
machine.
Yes. But if the gateway is the same as the server then for a client
sending a UDP broadcast, the return answer looks like
pippin wrote:
Yes. But if the gateway is the same as the server then for a client
sending a UDP broadcast, the return answer looks like it's coming from
the router and will also not really be distinguishable from the
broadcast itself so I'm not sure that this will not confuse the
discovery.
pippin wrote:
Then why doesn't it work? You said you can open the server's web
interface in Safari on port 9000 on the iPhone?
I have no idea why server discovery would not work if that is the case
and if the gateway address is not the problem.
No idea why it's not working. It'd be nice if
Then why doesn't it work? You said you can open the server's web
interface in Safari on port 9000 on the iPhone?
I have no idea why server discovery would not work if that is the case
and if the gateway address is not the problem.
Why don't you just buy?
When it doesn't work, use the 'report a problem' button in the order
confirmation or in the iTunes purchase history and typically Apple
refunds within days.
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bluegaspode wrote:
Why don't you just buy?
When it doesn't work, use the 'report a problem' button in the order
confirmation or in the iTunes purchase history and typically Apple
refunds within days.
I've never bought anything from the Appstore before and everything on
there says that
thinker wrote:
I've never bought anything from the Appstore before and everything on
there says that there are no refunds. How does that work?
Well, they say that, but then they are not allowed to do it that way. So
they hide it a bit.
It works as bluegaspode writes: there's a report a
Okay, I'm considering giving iPeng a try. I installed iPeng Party, but
it says it can't find my player. I'm running the latest squeezeserver
on the same Wifi network that my iPhone is connected to. I'm somewhat
hesitant to pay $6 for the full iPeng if iPeng Party isn't even working.
Any idea
Is your Squeezebox also connected to the server or maybe to
MySqueezebox.com?
You can't enter your account for MySqueezebox.com in iPeng Party since
that would be against the philosophy of iPeng Party (giving away the
credentials would give you permanent, full access) so you can only
remotely
pippin wrote:
Is your Squeezebox also connected to the server or maybe to
MySqueezebox.com?
You can't enter your account for MySqueezebox.com in iPeng Party since
that would be against the philosophy of iPeng Party (giving away the
credentials would give you permanent, full access) so you
My iPhone is Wi-Fi only, so it's definitely on the right network. I can
access the Squeeze center via Safari, so reachability isn't an issue.
It also shows all of my players. Can I specify the IP of the Squeeze
center?
thinker wrote:
My iPhone is Wi-Fi only, so it's definitely on the right network. I can
access the Squeeze center via Safari, so reachability isn't an issue.
It also shows all of my players. Can I specify the IP of the Squeeze
center?
you can in regular iPeng. Not sure about ipeng party.
garym wrote:
you can in regular iPeng. Not sure about ipeng party. But should pick
up automatically, so not sure why you're iphone is not seeing it.
also, what iOS is your iphone running? Given that it is wifi only I
guess it is jailbroken or old iphone with old iOS???
garym wrote:
also, what iOS is your iphone running? Given that it is wifi only I
guess it is jailbroken or old iphone with old iOS???
It's an iPhone 3G running 4.2.1. It's not currently jailbroken, but if
I'm going to run iPeng fulltime, it will be to disable the lock screen.
thinker wrote:
It's an iPhone 3G running 4.2.1. It's not currently jailbroken, but if
I'm going to run iPeng fulltime, it will be to disable the lock screen.
hmmm, pippin needs to chime in on this. I know that the current version
of ipeng doesn't work on some older models of iphone. I'm
First: you say SqueezeCenter. Which version do you use? IPeng does NOT
work with Slimserver 6.x... SqueezeCenter should mean 7.x, though.
You can indeed configure your IP address manually in iPeng (not in iPeng
Party) but you really shouldn't have to unless you've got an exotic
network
Oh, that's true. iPhone 3G indeed is no longer supported. I'm sorry, not
really our choice, Apple has removed all support for 1st and 2nd
generation devices from their developer tools, we can't build versions
for these devices anymore.
You need at least an iPhone 3GS
The existing iPeng Party
pippin wrote:
First: you say SqueezeCenter. Which version do you use? IPeng does NOT
work with Slimserver 6.x... SqueezeCenter should mean 7.x, though.
You can indeed configure your IP address manually in iPeng (not in iPeng
Party) but you really shouldn't have to unless you've got an
Could it be that 172.30.30.1 is also the address of your router?
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Oh. Hm. I installed whatever the Appstore gave me. Is that wrong?
No, that's OK. Just iPeng Party is an old build, it doesn't support
iPhone 5, yet.
I'm going to change that, soon, and then iPeng Party should no longer be
available for old devices, either (so make a backup
pippin wrote:
Could it be that 172.30.30.1 is also the address of your router?
My router is a Linux box, which is also my Squeezeserver.
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Pippin - on my 3GS the albumcovers (in the new view- mode) appears quite
pixelated, especially when zoomed into. are you aware of this?
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Pippin - on my 3GS the albumcovers (in the new view- mode) appears quite
pixelated, especially when zoomed into. are you aware of this?
Ah. Actually no... Well, say I forgot about non-retina devices, sorry,
will fix that in the next update.
I originally developed this for
thinker wrote:
My router is a Linux box, which is also my Squeezeserver.
Hm, I wonder whether this has an effect.
Did server-autodiscovery work for your Squeezeboxes or did you have to
configure them manually?
thinker wrote:
Er, is backup an option in the app? I'm an Android user and
Pippin,
Have you ever considered doing a PC player? Squeezeplay is fine, but it
has its limitations (doesn't do 24/96) and is beta software.
Seems to me, with your knowlage and coding experience, you could make
the ultiamate PC playback app - especially now that the hardware is no
longer
ipeng 2.0 is really good stuff. still use it on ipad and old iphones
for a controller, but this app really needs to be available for android.
its great.
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Sorry to interject. This for info only.
Hi Pippin.
Hopefully you got my crash report but yesterday iPeng on iPhone 3GS
crashed again. The problem with changing the volume on a player seems to
have returned (if it ever truly left).
Don't know whether it was yours but I did get some truly helpful crash
reports. bluegaspode was right, HockeyApp's crash reporting is really so
much better than Apple's and also TestFlight's (which has the added
issue of being unacceptable from a privacy policy standpoint except for
beta testing
Yes, that's kind of what I had in mind, too.
Would have to be something like wikipedia or a publicly available site,
though, a lot of the commercial ones don't allow you to use their data
for commercial Apps.
I'd settle for an search on Allmusic.com -- even just opening the page in
Safari
Ahh. I used the have the volume skipping issue. The error report that
the app sent to you yesterday (or may have been the day before) was when
it crashed.
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What were you doing when it crashed?
Also, you mentioned a volume issue that's supposedly still there, what
volume issue did you mean?
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I was not really paying attention I'm afraid but adjusting the volume
caused the music to drop out and then it crashed, but I might have
started another action when it crashed. I'll pay more attention next
time I use it. Sorry.
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Somewhere something incredible is waiting to
Was iPeng's player somehow involved?
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last.fm/user/ModelCitizen
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You should have another crash report from me tonight Pippin. Some time
between 21 and 22hrs GMT. It happened when I hit the home button (top
left) from a player screen. The player was a Boom, server 7.7.2
ModelCitizen's
Love the new album view on my iPhone 4.
Thanks!
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Is it only suppose to work at upper level album view?
If I select AlbumsI get the scalable option.
If I select New MusicI get the scalable option.
If I select ArtistThe Avett Brothers(or any artist, or All Albums)the
album art is not scalable.
I've got a critical mass of Squeezeboxes in my house now and I'm
contemplating either getting a Squeezebox Controller or an iPod + iPeng.
Any thoughts about one or the other? This would be something that
lives in the living room full-time; I wouldn't be using the iPod as an
iPod outside or
thinker wrote:
I've got a critical mass of Squeezeboxes in my house now and I'm
contemplating either getting a Squeezebox Controller or an iPod + iPeng.
Any thoughts about one or the other? This would be something that
lives in the living room full-time; I wouldn't be using the iPod as an
The 2.04 update is really cool - thanks!
iPeng vs. Controllere. iPeng - no doubt if its going to be a dedicated
device.
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1) It's quite slow/sluggish
2) Abysmal battery life. You have to replace the battery on these things
every year or two, and you pretty much have to leave the Controller in
the charger at all times; if you want to carry it around for a few hours
you'll probably exhaust the
iPeng no contest. Controller is/was a complete waste of money.
With an iPod / iPeng controller you can sit and listen while surfing the
web for important forum posts etc, check your email, play a game (if you
must), chat to your friends on Twitter or Facebook.
With a Controller you can put it
CharlieG wrote:
Is it only suppose to work at upper level album view?
If I select AlbumsI get the scalable option.
If I select New MusicI get the scalable option.
If I select ArtistThe Avett Brothers(or any artist, or All Albums)the
album art is not scalable.
Oh wow, you are right. Looks
pippin wrote:
Oh wow, you are right. Looks like I forgot to enable it from the Artists
view. Sorry for that, will get fixed in the next update.
Thanks,
I thought it may have been just me :-)
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Hi Pippin,
You asked for a suggestion for what could go onto the third page for
iPeng users who didn't want to show song lyrics.
The n-Stream iPhone app for Naim has a very nice looking album
information page including a review which would be a terrific addition
to iPeng. You get there by
Yes, that's kind of what I had in mind, too.
Would have to be something like wikipedia or a publicly available site,
though, a lot of the commercial ones don't allow you to use their data
for commercial Apps.
Wikipedia has a white background, which is why I didn't just go for it
:)
On 12/5/2012 8:11 PM, pippin wrote:
Just in time for Christmas, iPeng got it’s winter look again and Coolio
also brought a little gift with iPeng 2.0.4: The tile view for Albums on
iPhone and iPod touch.
Just arrived in New York! Thanks, Pippin.
--
Bill
Pippin, I definitely support the idea that iPeng is worth the price you
ask for it. Even with new Euro prices. The amount of work you put into
it so far is staggering.
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pippin wrote:
As garym stated: you can pinch to zoom the artwork but on pre-iPhone-5
devices it will them be overlaid by the text.
If you look at the screen closely you will notice that making the text
smaller won't help, the only option that allows to show the artwork in
full width without
05mattjax wrote:
Can we toggle between prior ipeng releases? If I can I might just instal
latest old release to see if I miss it!
If you have a backup of the old version, you can delete the new one,
drag the old one back into iTunes and sync it to the device.
That's the only way.
I thought
Will there be any settings for customising the now playing screen in the
future? Like making artwork bigger and narrative smaller etc/disabling
swipe to lyrics screen etc. I prefer bigger artwork - I believe it was
bigger on old ipeng.
05mattjax wrote:
Will there be any settings for customising the now playing screen in the
future? Like making artwork bigger and narrative smaller etc/disabling
swipe to lyrics screen etc. I prefer bigger artwork - I believe it was
bigger on old ipeng.
Pinch and expand to make ipeng art
pippin wrote:
Wow. Sounds like I need a faster server. Although... trying this here I
also found it to be much faster than I remembered it to be so LMS
probably got much faster here than earlier server incarnations. With SBS
7.5 this could have easily taken 5 minutes for me and I even use
05mattjax wrote:
Will there be any settings for customising the now playing screen in the
future? Like making artwork bigger and narrative smaller etc/disabling
swipe to lyrics screen etc. I prefer bigger artwork - I believe it was
bigger on old ipeng.
As garym stated: you can pinch to zoom
Is this compromise on iPhone 5 as well?
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Is this compromise on iPhone 5 as well?
No, that's why I wrote per-iPhone-5-devices. iPhone 5 (and iPod touch
5G) will always show full-sized artwork, there's enough space due to the
added hight.
As difficult as it can be because the height of the new devices can be a
bit
A note on iPeng pricing for Euro-Area users:
If you are an iOS user in the Euro area you might have noticed that
Apple recently changed the pricing levels for Apps. This means, that
iPeng also now has a higher price in the Euro area.
Please note that we can not set individual prices for
pippin wrote:
Yes, I can reproduce it. It's related to the swipe problem. Will be
fixed in the next update.
Great! :)
pippin wrote:
Is it always the second track? Do you maybe have the shuffle mode on?
This is not a CustomBrowse menu or anything right (not that I think it
would make a
hvb83 wrote:
I have found the way to reproduce it however: if the players that I want
to start playing are switched off and I start them by selecting an album
(by clicking the cover art), the entire playlist will be loaded and the
2nd track will start playing.
OK, I will give this a try,
pippin wrote:
OK, I will give this a try, this is interesting, I do see a way how that
could be although I still don't know where the change between 1.6.1 and
2 should be. Are all settings under iPeng Settings the same?
I'm quite sure they are, but will check tonight when I get home.
pippin
hvb83 wrote:
It used to be, but the SqueezeSlave (the iPhone player integrated in
iPeng), is now independent and was not used in the test I did this
morning. During the test it was connected to the server, but not playing
or even powered on (on the server, the iPhone and iPeng were of
pippin wrote:
iPeng is not SqueezeSlave, also not SqueezePlay, it's a completely
independent implementation of the player protocol.
Sorry, I didn't mean just a software player but SqueezeSlave in
particular since I recently had a discussion with a user who had an
issue where SqueezeSlave
pippin wrote:
Do you have a good template or something or did you write one from
scratch?
I'm am using the same, that did already work great at times when such
reports were sent directly to Apple.
In addition the user is asked, if he wants to send a report directly
after a crash.
bluegaspode wrote:
I'm am using the same, that did already work great at times when such
reports were sent directly to Apple.
aka none :) Same as myself. Apple asks users for permission, though.
In addition the user is asked, if he wants to send a report directly
after a crash.
Ah,
The iPeng 2.0.1 update is now in the App Store.
It fixes a number of smaller issues with 2.0 and brings some smaller
improvements:
Improvements:
* new: trash icon back on the current playlist screen
* new: select different sleep intervals for the sleep shortcut when
holding the pause-button.
pippin wrote:
...the player list did get an even more prominent position (where it's
directly accessible not only from NowPlaying but also from the library).
It seems I am on my own island of one person who thinks the new layout
is better :-)
Maybe because I like the lyrics plugin and have
CharlieG wrote:
It seems I am on my own island of one person who thinks the new layout
is better :-)
Maybe because I like the lyrics plugin and have been using iPeng HD on
my iPad (which already had this 3 screen layout) for some time now.
Charlie, you're not alone. I like the layout
The lyrics page never bothered me with ipengHD on my ipad. Just ignored
it. On the new iPeng it caused me to actually figure out how to use it.
I'll never be a big lyrics user, but I thought it was kinda cool when I
installed the plugins and could see the lyrics. More for impressing
visitors
Just to be clear:
1. I have no plans to remove the Lyrics page.
2. I can not remove pages because I need at least three or the UI has to
switch to something that only ever supports two (NowPlaying and
Playlist)
3. I need something for iPeng UE, because there you can't have Lyrics,
so either I
Regarding option 3.
If you want a set of configurable options on what to show more info
and view tags could be options even if it duplicates what you already
have .
Or put together some stats of the current playlist name etc if it is a
saved playlist .
Or some server stats .
On UE it could
Loving the new layout, though I do find some bugs. Please take this as
constructive help and not to criticize your hard work, but I've found
that users often don't report bugs and just hope that someone else
will...
- the hud for volume will sometimes not disappear after the volume has
been
hvb83 wrote:
Loving the new layout, though I do find some bugs. Please take this as
constructive help and not to criticize your hard work, but I've found
that users often don't report bugs and just hope that someone else
will...
Seriously: I _love_ bug reports. How else should you know
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