Well I had my first play with an iPod Touch yesterday just for a
laugh, thought I'd try this. Shock, horror - it doesn't work.
Logs into MySB.com but can't see the local server. Can only see a
player once connected to MySB.com no option to escape from that
screen. Really, why do you bother?
rbz5416;655561 Wrote:
Well I had my first play with an iPod Touch yesterday just for a
laugh, thought I'd try this. Shock, horror - it doesn't work.
Logs into MySB.com but can't see the local server. Can only see a
player once connected to MySB.com no option to escape from that
screen.
garym;655594 Wrote:
with the logitech app, one can't switch player back and forth between
mysb.com and sbs. You can with iPeng app, which is better in many other
ways to.Not a case of switching because, as I said, the app doesn't see SBS at
all. So the only thing it can do it control a player
rbz5416;655599 Wrote:
Not a case of switching because, as I said, the app doesn't see SBS at
all. So the only thing it can do it control a player once it's been
connected to MySB.com elsewhere.
just to clarify, So if you switch your player to SbS (on the player
itself), and can play music
rbz5416;655599 Wrote:
Not a case of switching because, as I said, the app doesn't see SBS at
all. So the only thing it can do it control a player once it's been
connected to MySB.com elsewhere.
Hmm. I don't use MySB.com but somehow it sees my local server.
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dborod;655604 Wrote:
Hmm. I don't use MySB.com but somehow it sees my local server.
I think it sees whatever the player is ALREADY connected to (either
mysb.com or your local sbs). Your player is connected to SbS, so the
app sees that (which is what should be happening for the other poster).
garym;655603 Wrote:
just to clarify, So if you switch your player to SbS (on the player
itself), and can play music your sbs, the logitech app doesn't see the
player?Correct. Initially all players were connected to SBS so it just
reported
that no players were found. From that screen there
rbz5416;655606 Wrote:
Correct. Initially all players were connected to SBS so it just reported
that no players were found. From that screen there is nothing more you
can do other than continually refresh where it continually fails to
find any players, presumably because it can't see SBS.
garym;655614 Wrote:
have you rebooted your iphone? Can't hurt. I can't play with this now,
because I deleted the app shortly after installing it. iPeng is the best
$10 I've spent on my squeezebox ecosystem.Yep, rebooted, re-installed,
downloaded again, all to no avail.
Certainly not going
Logs into MySB.com but can't see the local server. Can only see a
player once connected to MySB.com no option to escape from that
screen. Really, why do you bother?
Make sure your iPod is on the same network as your server.
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mherger;655626 Wrote:
Logs into MySB.com but can't see the local server. Can only see a
player once connected to MySB.com no option to escape from that
screen. Really, why do you bother?
Make sure your iPod is on the same network as your server.
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Ah. Good point.
mherger;655626 Wrote:
Make sure your iPod is on the same network as your server.
Michael
Is this restriction ever going to be removed? I'd love to be able to
manually enter the IP address of my SBS server; it is on a different
net than my wireless LAN that drives my IPad and other
mherger;655626 Wrote:
Logs into MySB.com but can't see the local server. Can only see a
player once connected to MySB.com no option to escape from that
screen. Really, why do you bother?
Make sure your iPod is on the same network as your server.
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i finally tested this app.
No, use SqueezePad or iPeng if you have an iSomething.
scrolling is to juddery to be used .
graphically it looks homemade, does not make use of the iPad screen at
all.
this UI may be somewhat ok on the Touch or tiny controller or radio
screens.
it's slow . it also
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17308
(It got assigned to Ben automatically, I suppose you may want to change
bugzilla configuration so it assigns it to someone what works for
Logitech)
Thanks, did so.
Let me know if you want one for the Biography plugin also, I just
assumed
erland;627118 Wrote:
Would be a lot better to just show a list of SBS instances and ask me to
select which one I like to use and then get the mysqueezebox account
information from the selected SBS.
I don't think there's a way in the api for controllers to retrieve the
mysb account info, but
mherger;639961 Wrote:
Is the Flickr app supposed to work in the Logitech iOS app ?
Supposed to, yes :-/. I can confirm it's not working.
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I briefly played with the Logitech app and I think Show Artwork doesn't
work either. The app probably doesn't have an image browser
wt0;640194 Wrote:
I briefly played with the Logitech app and I think Show Artwork doesn't
work either. The app probably doesn't have an image browser built-in.
Show Artwork kind of works for me (on iPad) besides the fact that half
of the large artwork is displayed behind the artwork of
EnochLight;626979 Wrote:
Umm... I'm guessing you'r being sarcastic? iPeng is a rock solid app
that still feels better than the official Logitech offering IMHO.
Ipeng for Ipad is leagues ahead of the official app, which is TERRIBLE
on the iPad.
Ipeng on the Ipad is the best controller I
mherger;640359 Wrote:
Show Artwork kind of works for me (on iPad) besides the fact that
half
of the large artwork is displayed behind the artwork of currently
playing track. But the Biography third party plugin does not seem to
be
able to show large pictures, I only get the default
Is the Flickr app supposed to work in the Logitech iOS app ?
Supposed to, yes :-/. I can confirm it's not working.
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I just get empty menus while they do work when I view them through the
Squeezebox Touch display, for example the My Apps/Flickr/Interesting
Photos menu.
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mdconnelly;639576 Wrote:
Interesting observations I have been an iPeng user (and fan) for a
long time, but most of my family including my wife and her new iPad,
don't like it.
This is why I started to write SqueezePad nearly a year ago and why
every household has a need for both
Interesting observations I have been an iPeng user (and fan) for a
long time, but most of my family including my wife and her new iPad,
don't like it. They just don't think it's very intuitive -
particularly when it comes to switching between players (I've got 3) or
adding albums to a
bluegaspode;639579 Wrote:
This is why I started to write SqueezePad nearly a year ago and why
every household has a need for both iPeng and SqueezePad :)
And why i have both squeeze pad, ipeng, and controller.
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Didn't read all the post but I just discovered this.
Tested it on an Ipod 8GB 3rd gen. I've been using iPeng for some time
on it.
First thing is that I was surprised I had to provide mysqueezbox.com
credential. I have very little interest in the service... been running
running a server and
OK, so I *think* I know what was happening in my case. I'm not
absolutely certain on the following, maybe Michael can confirm?
When you first run the app it asks for login and username for
mysqueezebox.com. This is fine and easily keyed-in. My problem (and the
problem of others) was that the app
cool APP, but can you show us how this APP work?
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Another half-baked effort from Logitech. I've installed the app on my
iPad2. It asks for my log-in to mysqueezebox.com (why??). When I enter
the log-in details, it then takes me to the mysqueezebox.com site. From
here, its not possible to access my music library.
I tried deleting the app,
Interesting. My experience with the Logitech app on an iPod touch is
completely the opposite. Connected fine right away to my local server.
It's a fair bit simpler (ie, less full-featured) than iPeng, but I've
found it reliable and easy to use. It's a nice step up from the SB
Controller. I don't
Is it anything to do with Homegroups on W7 (I don't use them but I just
wondered whether I should?
I've seen the same report in the App Store. If it was you - thanks a lot!
We need to investigate this. If not: you're not alone :-).
I've opened a bug report to track this issue:
The problem with 7.3 from my perspective is how much code I still have
to maintain specifically for it.
From an Squeezeplay-API point of view, 7.3 was a horrid mess, it never
worked as the documentation said and was generally pretty
inconsistent.
This has much improved since (well, after 7.4
I have found that if I play something, then go and do something else.
When I come back to play an album the app needs killing then
re-starting or I just get the spinning wheel constantly after starting
play, very annoying.
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2x Boom
1x SB3
pippin;627961 Wrote:
@Erland:
Well, some things fall away in one browser, e.g. a lot of the skins.
Personally, I believe one browser is a good thing but I also see how
many people still use 7.3.x instead of 7.5.x and that is something I
also don't understand, so there are obviously
Squeezed_Rotel;629847 Wrote:
Hi pippin,
I stayed with 7.3.4 because it operates flawlessly, and also because I
have no Touch or Radio that would require 7.5.x.
+1
I also have a lot of CLI stuff I wrote around the 7.1/7.3 days. I
remotely maintain the music system in 3 households besides mine.
I managed to get this working - by loading SBS onto a Vista Laptop.
I'm busy troubleshooting, but I think that the app couldn't connect to
a Network made of W7 pcs in a Homegroup configuration (even though none
of them used passwords to access).
As soon as I loaded it to a Vista laptop it
Really unusual problem for me - when i load the app it asks for my
mysqueezebox username and password, which I key in. It then asks for
the username and password for my squeezebox server for my music
library. I cannot for the life of me see why it needs this (there isn't
one).
Things I have
Really unusual problem for me - when i load the app it asks for my
mysqueezebox username and password, which I key in. It then asks for
the username and password for my squeezebox server for my music
library. I cannot for the life of me see why it needs this (there isn't
one).
Could you
Hi Michael iOS 4, latest SBS 7.4.1 r32171.
I think (see official Logi threads too) that I'm not the only one. Odd
thing is that nothing else (including my two duets) asks for this
password/username. If I ignore it, then I get a mySB connection only
(and I have to unload the iPhone app and
Hi Michael iOS 4,
Which revision?
latest SBS 7.4.1 r32171.
Latest is 7.5.4...
On what kind of system are you running this?
Is SBS web UI listening on a different port than 9000?
I think (see official Logi threads too) that I'm not the only one. Odd
Where's that thread?
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Hi Michael
Running on Windows 7 SP1
Same issue happens with firewall running AND firewall completely
disabled
Listening on the standard port (nothing changed from default)
I think this is the same issue:
Been using iPeng for almost 2 years now, bought Squeezepad too, both of
which have become evolved into fine apps. Out of curiosity I installed
the Logitech app yesterday, but got fed-up when I had to enter my
online-account. Why would they need that for a controller? Deleted it.
Even still, the
My bad, Michael - I meant 7.5.4 (the rest of my post above is correct!)
I did also find another post somewhere else specifically about the
squeezebox server (not mysb) password username issue!
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I've noticed a couple of annoyances in the Logitech app. I don't recall
if anybody else has noticed them:
1) When browsing albums from new music, you cannot touch-and-hold and
get a menu with options to add the album to the playlist. You get this
behavior when browsing albums with other
1) When browsing albums from new music, you cannot touch-and-hold and
get a menu with options to add the album to the playlist. You get this
behavior when browsing albums with other methods.
This should be fixed in the next release.
2) When scrolling albums, the artwork does not update
Unfortunately, those of us with original iPhones can't use the app since it's
iOS 4.0 only. Is there a reason it could not have been made to work with iOS 3
as well?
- Ken
On 4/22/2011 8:28 AM, flattermann wrote:
I did not find a thread about this great piece of software, therefore
I'll
kjg;629256 Wrote:
Unfortunately, those of us with original iPhones can't use the app since
it's iOS 4.0 only. Is there a reason it could not have been made to work
with iOS 3 as well?
Perhaps they wanted to support iPeng (e.g.) and make it even more
attractive? :D
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I get the album covers in the Spotify browse menus (I'm using Triodes
plugin), but the big album cover for currently playing track still
doesn't work for Spotify tracks.
I'm sorry for this. Handling of non-absolute file paths was broken. And
only Triode's plugin seems to have exposed this
I use iPeng on the touch and iphone. I like iPeng and find it easy to
use. However, I do have to say that the Logitech app is the winner in
my wife's eyes. She always had issues with selecting players and some
navigating. With the logitech app, she has no issues doing what she
likes to do.
I am now back to 7.5.4 and the Squeezebox application works..
Yet, the interface is so unintuitive, specifically Search/Playlist
Why that album art shall take half of the usable iPad screen?
I am still sticking to Chrome on my X201 laptop
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Please fix
)p(;627112 Wrote:
The only issues I have seen so far are that no album covers are shown
for spotify.
I get the album covers in the Spotify browse menus (I'm using Triodes
plugin), but the big album cover for currently playing track still
doesn't work for Spotify tracks. I'm using an iPad
erland;628302 Wrote:
I get the album covers in the Spotify browse menus (I'm using Triodes
plugin), but the big album cover for currently playing track still
doesn't work for Spotify tracks. I'm using an iPad and the big album
cover do work in SqueezePad so I think it's related to the
Afraid I can't verify this - I can't get it to find my server as its on
a different subnet :(
Enhancement request #1 (more than removing the mysb.com nag screen...).
Tried to install your plugin to see why it wouldn't work with the large
artwork. Unfortunately my Premium status has expired
To be a bit more specific, do you have any ideas of what kind of extra
functionality you (or other users) would need in a third party app to
be willing to spend $10 instead of using the free Logitech app ?
Erland,
Personally, I have never felt a need for anything more than the
infra-red
Erland,
you used to be able to configure a SBR from scratch with SP on the
computer. not long after i informed slim of this, they seemingly
removed that ability, forcing a user to need a SBC to do so.
absolutely evil and stupid thing of them to do.
so one thing that would be nice, would be to
This app is good and compares favourably with Squeezepad. Logitech have
readily available repeat/shuffle buttons, Squeezepad looks better and
has WOL.
The lack of WOL in the Logitech app is a major omission, and a show
stopper for me.
Keith
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erland;627796 Wrote:
To be a bit more specific, do you have any ideas of what kind of extra
functionality you (or other users) would need in a third party app to
be willing to spend $10 instead of using the free Logitech app ?
I think it's time to integrate smartphone/tablet features into
Hi,
Most seems to agree that there needs to be a Mobile UI offering.
But some think Logitech should just reuse the existing 3'rd party apps.
And others think they should have created new real apps from the
ground up.
I can think of a few good reasons for Logitech's decisions:
1. Consistant
Letten;627833 Wrote:
1. Consistant User experience across SB devices
- moving from controller, Radio, Touch, Boom, Android, Ios should not
give fundamentally different experience and control. Most users like it
when UI's are consistant.
That's not an argument. You could have easily done
see what happens when 7.6 comes out: Will you have to update the App to
use it then (right now a lot of things don't work with onebrowser)? And
What does not work with onebrowser? The latter is what I am running on my
home-server. And it's been fine so far.
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Out of my head:
No album context menus.
No volume control
Had at least one server crash when using the App.
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No album context menus.
For music services? Did you file a bug? I just saw another one, might be a
dupe actually (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17185). Is this
limited to onebrowser?
No volume control
How this? Works fine here.
Had at least one server crash when using the
mherger;627852 Wrote:
No volume control[/color]
How this? Works fine here.
Can't reproduce right now. When I tried it this morning, volume would
neither be updated nor could it be changed.
Volume changes always lag a lot behind, but that's probably not
onebrowser specific.
Do you
pippin;627870 Wrote:
Famous last words...
Code:
Slim::Utils::Timers::__ANON__ (260) Error: Timer
Slim::Web::Cometd::sendResponse failed: illegal file descriptor or filehandle
(either no attached file descriptor or illegal value): at
Ooops, overlooked that one:
mherger;627852 Wrote:
No album context menus.
For music services?
No, for Albums.
Is this limited to onebrowser?
No idea.
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No album context menus.
For music services?
No, for Albums.
Oh, thanks for the heads up: I had only tested it with services.
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pippin;627839 Wrote:
In the past, Logitech's strategy has been to match firmware with the
server software. You can't do that anymore here. Will be interesting to
see what happens when 7.6 comes out: Will you have to update the App to
use it then (right now a lot of things don't work with
Of course they can do that. You can see how happy people are about this
today.
Expect people to be even more happy when it's about onebrowser, which
does bring quite a few changes a few people might not want.
Plus there is some more to it: will new App versions always support old
devices? Or
pippin;627896 Wrote:
Of course they can do that. You can see how happy people are about this
today.
I'm not saying it's a good idea but neither is the current solution
which forces people to upgrade SBS just because Logitech decides to
upgrade their central MySB server. Their current choices
pippin;627896 Wrote:
Of course they can do that. You can see how happy people are about this
today.
I'm happy with any decision that will make people realize that bying a
third party App will make their life easier :).
So I have no problem at all with trying to force users to upgrade their
@Erland:
Well, some things fall away in one browser, e.g. a lot of the skins.
Personally, I believe one browser is a good thing but I also see how
many people still use 7.3.x instead of 7.5.x and that is something I
also don't understand, so there are obviously different opinions
around.
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I feel a lot of people seem a bit negative about the app. I have iPeng,
but downloaded the Logitech app as well out of curiosity. And I must
say, it works really well! It is fast and very easy to use. However,
there aren't as many functionalities as iPeng, like being able to
sync/unsync other
Long time lurker, seldom poster.
I've been a Squeezebox user since '07, but followed it's development
since it was just Slim Devices, limited availability, Squeezebox 3 era.
Having seen the takeover by Logitech, I'm glad they haven't killed it
off or run it into the ground.
IMHO the development
tktran;627788 Wrote:
A third party app will need to deliver a superior experience and/or
features to stay viable.
To be a bit more specific, do you have any ideas of what kind of extra
functionality you (or other users) would need in a third party app to
be willing to spend $10 instead of
gharris999;627158 Wrote:
As far as I can tell, the Logitech app has no ability to WOL the local
SBS server. That's a deal breaker for me. I guess you get what you
pay for.
I don't see this is a real problem. Just use squeezepad to wake up all
your devices and then swap to the logitech app
I am an happy customer of iPeng (much prefer the iPhone interface to the
iPad one, I have to say) but frankly I wonder what the developers of
iPeng and Squeezepad were thinking it was going to happen.
Did you think for a moment that Logitech would have left Sonos with the
free app by itself?
Well,
I now have all 3 apps - the iPeng for iPhone, Squeezepad and now the
Logitech app.
For many users out there the free app will be exactly what they need.
I am glad I spent money on the 3rd party apps and they work perfectly
for me.
It somehow has to be made clear that the Logitech app is
Installed and using this morning, seems as quick and as responsive as
iPeng if not more so, not trashing my battery either.
Loaded iPeng to have a qucik compare only to be confronted by the all
too often 'synchronising cache' progress bar that seems to take an age
to complete, this coupled with
I'll definitely point out to the existence of iPeng and Squeezepad in my
review of the Logitech app. I think all satisfied customers of both app
ought to do the same, to keep the market healthy and competitive.
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I find the reviewers who give the Logitech app just 1 star, really
unfair.
This will not help promoting the 3rd party apps, there is nothing wrong
with the Logitech app - it actually works rather nicely.
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Squeezebox Receiver
Did you think for a moment that Logitech would have left Sonos with the
free app by itself?
Yep, it's a 'tick box' item now for any supplier of streamers. Logitech
had to have this.
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I have both iPeng and SqueezePad. IMHO, this new free app is a swing
and a miss. The iPeng and SqueezePad apps have far more real value, I
mean really, $10 for quality product vs freefree of value is more
like it.
My home screen is empty save for internet radio and settings. Nothing
from my
@gorman
Which resentment?
Actually Logitech's move is totally understandable and at least for me,
I have to expected it for a very long time and even knew about it for
months.
I personally don't believe doing a web app was a good idea although it
A) is good for web app standards. I've seen much
erland;627166 Wrote:
I think anyone who feel that $10 for an app is problematic should start
thinking about what their iOS hardware, Squeezebox hardware and
receiver/amplifier/speakers costs. An extra $10 to make it possible to
take full advantage of the Squeezebox in comparison to what most
andyman99;627232 Wrote:
One of of my concerns has been that the enthusiast developers of the
existing apps might at some point lose interest / move on to other
things for one reason or another.
I really don't like to say this but to be honest I think people should
be a lot more worried
Kyle;627263 Wrote:
Unfortunately for the third-party developers, $10 is a pretty
significant price point in the app world, and I fear there are many who
will balk at it when there is a free, albeit vastly inferior,
alternative.
Yea, the app world pricing doesn't really work for niche
erland;627265 Wrote:
I really hope Logitech at least plans to maintain and improve its iOS
app so this isn't just a marketing trick to have a free app and they
now focus on something else when it has been released. It would be a
pity if maintenance of the Logitech app slowed down to the
$10 for having had the opportunity and pleasure of using iPeng for a
long time now was well worth that investment. But, that aside, there
are still two very good reasons to use iPeng:
-- playback
-- remote access
I didn't think either of those were that big a deal until I realized
just how
mdconnelly;627277 Wrote:
$10 for having had the opportunity and pleasure of using iPeng for a
long time now was well worth that investment. But, that aside, there
are still two very good reasons to use iPeng:
-- playback
-- remote access
I didn't think either of those were that big a
I'm going to choose to look on the bright side...at least Logitech is
showing some interest in maintaining this product line by introducing
an iOS App.
Otherwise, wake me up when they decide to support Party Mode. Oh,
wait, that isn't necessary anymore...iPeng already does that!
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This app crashes when displaying the album list (I have a large
library)
How many albums?
The artist list stops showing artist names after a while. The list
keeps scrolling but nothing is displayed.
How many artists?
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mherger;627318 Wrote:
This app crashes when displaying the album list (I have a large
library)
How many albums?
The artist list stops showing artist names after a while. The list
keeps scrolling but nothing is displayed.
How many artists?
/QUOTE]
There are about 5700 artists
WTF is logitech's obsession with mysqueezebox.com. I don't see WTF
using a wireless remote app has to do with having to connect to
mysqueezebox.com. This behaviour and insisting that you have to see
that f'ing stupid myapps sh1t in your browser is really irritating. As
much as I'm happy with
I downloaded the iPad app and it seems better than the android version.
However, it won't stop me from using iPeng/SqueezePad. I can see where
newer users might skip spending a few dollars for the third party apps
though... shame.
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)p(;627112 Wrote:
Playing with it some more..its pretty good for a v1 release. I think
most people will be pretty satisfied with it and wont be looking for
something else.
I've only tried it briefly yet but I tend to agree, normal users will
get the free Logitech app and think that's how
kakklank;627082 Wrote:
WTF is logitech's obsession with mysqueezebox.com. I don't see WTF
using a wireless remote app has to do with having to connect to
mysqueezebox.com. This behaviour and insisting that you have to see
that f'ing stupid myapps sh1t in your browser is really irritating.
erland;627116 Wrote:
Unfortunately I'm not sure this is enough for normal users. It's
clearly worth a lot more than $10 for those of us that know which
difference it makes, but most normal users will probably not realize
this.
This is, where AppStore comments and ratings come into play.
epoch1970;626983 Wrote:
I'm not sure why Logi wouldn't have tried to strike a deal with the 1/3
app developers out here (or did they?)
Probably because they think they can do it cheaper and/or better
themselves, which we if course know they can't, at least not better.
I really wish we would
bluegaspode;627119 Wrote:
(of which is 70% explaining how Squeezeboxes work).
Guess why I never added Receiver setup to iPeng. I even have users that
DON'T use iPeng and are telling me Logitech sent them to me about setup
issues!!!
To be fair: you have to add at least another 10 for
Nothing to stop 3rd party developers offering a feature-limited free
version on the app store, but leave the in-app purchase option for
playback.
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