There are new updates for iPeng and iPeng for iPad on the App store.
Changes are mostly details for the iPad App but iPeng for iPhone is now
no longer compatible with iOS 3.
IPENG FOR IPAD
* No winter hat icon anymore.
* Some stability improvements
IPENG FOR IPHONE
The App is now again on
Hi pippin,
I just had a play with sharing what I was listening to Facebook. It
doesn't seem to be working, If I share a track I am playing from my
local library I get no text putted into the Facebook window, just a
sent from iPeng footer. I tried share by email and this is as I would
expect with
Chunkywizard;682330 Wrote:
I just had a play with sharing what I was listening to Facebook. It
doesn't seem to be working, If I share a track I am playing from my
local library I get no text inputted into the Facebook window, just a
sent from iPeng footer. I tried share by email and this
I did the same as it says in the instructions but it took a long time
before the restore previous purchase worked on the iPhone, it works now
though. Thanks.
I like that I now can do almost everything in the iPeng app, it's my
main music controller in this house :)
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pippin Wrote:
Browser
* There is now an (internet) browser under Extras that you can use to
browse and play music from web sites on your Squeezebox. I love that I
can no read music blogs like Stereogum and listen to the stuff they
link right away
* Each page driven by a browser (including
New iPeng updates are now available in the App Store.
One thing is that it fixes an annoying crash on startup that some
people experienced after upgrading to Squeezebox Server 7.6.0. There
was a simple workaround but hey, let's better fix it...
To not make it just a boring bugfix, there are
I like the new social features and it was something I missed before, I
share music on FB several times a week. I will certainly use the other
social features too :)
I bought the playback option but have only got it to work on the iPad,
do I have to sync both the iPad and the iPhone to iTunes for
Umm. What exactly did you do?
You've got both Ipegn for iPad and iPeng for iPhone, I read. Have you
read the instructions in the Enable Playback menu on how you get the
discounted playback?
The playback in the iPad App generally is a different product from
the one in the iPhone App by App Store
Just a comment from my side.
iPeng is still my reference SB control from a functionality
perspective.
I don't think it has to fear any competition, neither from Squeezepad
nor from Logitech. Those are just copying that IMO basic feature set,
which is all but user-friendly, especially if your
soundcheck;641551 Wrote:
Just a comment from my side.
Thanks :)
If you'd ask me. I'd say. No I wouldn't need those social media
functions.
Probably I'm not in that addressed target group though.
Lot's of programming effort and money goes into those from my
perspective rather
No need to defend anything. ;)
I guess I spreaded my message. I don't see any arguments from your side
which would change my mind.
Good to see that you're working on a GUI redesign.
On an iPad you don't want to see a boring blue-white PC like surface.
You want to see a cool shiny control
soundcheck;641592 Wrote:
On an iPad you don't want to see a boring blue-white PC like surface.
You want to see a cool shiny control panel. A mix of squeezepad and
ipeng plus a little more coolness or call it innovative control
functions.
Ah. OK. Wasn't aware that you were referring to
Following update the artists no longer appear on the artists tab.h I
have to search via albums only! Also I cant one touch press for a song
to play anymore. I have to press and hold it. Then choose what I want
to do. If I do one touch the music stops and the playlist clears now -
I dont like
05mattjax;641594 Wrote:
Following update the artists no longer appear on the artists tab.h I
have to search via albums only! Also I cant one touch press for a song
to play anymore. I have to press and hold it. Then choose what I want
to do. If I do one touch the music stops and the playlist
pippin;641602 Wrote:
There's nothing really changed WRT that UNLESS you use an old build of
Squeezebox Server 7.6 beta.In this case, please update your server SW.
Otherwise, please try Settings-iPeng Settings-Flush Cache and
please restart iPeng after force-quitting it through the task
05mattjax;641606 Wrote:
Thanks. I updated SBS at the sametime as iPeng, to the latest version
from the logitech website, on my Netgear ReadyNas Duo. It's 7.5.5.
Will try the reset you suggest and report back. I have definitely
flushed it since but not force quit it.
Also, please check
pippin;641611 Wrote:
Also, please check whether everything works as expected through the web
interface, sounds like some people are having issues here with 7.5.5.
Done as you suggested and the artists appear for about a second then
all disappear, strange. Done it a few times now. More
05mattjax;641629 Wrote:
Done as you suggested and the artists appear for about a second then all
disappear, strange. Done it a few times now. More concerned about the
playback feature. Hopefully its not just me. I will check web
interface.
Web interface not working correctly either. same
I love the Wikipedia integration - it works really well! I use Wikipedia
a lot to look up discographies and stuff - now I don't have to go out to
te web browser to do it! Nicely done!
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I have to admit I didn't read this entire thread.
I have the latest version of iPeng for iPad and I can't find any of the
new social features and your post and website provide no clues.
I'm sure this stuff is obvious but...please help.
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jimzak;641509 Wrote:
I have the latest version of iPeng for iPad and I can't find any of the
new social features and your post and website provide no clues.
Um..
E-Mail sharing will work immediately but you can also use Twitter or
Facebook. To do that, iPeng adds a new category to the
pippin;641138 Wrote:
So it went back to iPeng automatically (that's what's needed for the
authorization to actually work). Which iOS is this? I need to look into
it, but I believe the change I applied here should fix that, too (it
will not switch to Safari but present a login popup instead).
MeSue;641019 Wrote:
Pippin,
I can't get the Share on Facebook option working on my iPod touch. I
authorized both Fb and Twitter on my iPad first with iPeng HD, and then
I did so on my iPod with iPeng. For Facebook, it just takes me to a
message that says iPeng has already been authorized,
Flashbee;641017 Wrote:
iPeng now shows an AirPlay control for the iPeng Player if there is an
AirPlay device on the network, so you don#146;t have to use the task
bar four audio routing
I have Apple TV (latest version) which doesn't appear to be showing on
ipeng as described in the
Hi Pippin,
Thanks for the great update...good job as usual;)
I am running iPeng on all my apple devices and I must admit that iPeng
on my iPad is simply amazing!I couldn't live without it anymore ;)
Would you please explain me how to stream youtube songs through iPeng?
I have just installed the
Well, then there will be a YouTube search option in the Global Search
and a browse feature under Radios (SBS 7.6) or My Apps (SBS 7.6).
If you have a specific YouTube link you can paste it either into the
plugin or into the Tune In URL.
If somebody sends you a link through Facebook or Twitter,
Hi Pippin,
thanks gor getting back to me.
I am sure I am doing something wrong as:
1)I can't find the YouTube search option in the Global Search. Where is
it?;)
2)How can I paste a YouTube link into the plugin?
3)I pasted a YouTube link into the Tune In URL but it didn't work.
I would
Hi Pippin,
Thanks a restart did the trick!;)
Cheers
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When I share a Rhapsody track on Facebook, shouldn't it also be posting
the link to that track? It's not. It's just a plain text post. I'm I
misunderstanding how this is supposed to work, or is something not
working properly?
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pippin;641053 Wrote:
Did you press the Ok link at the bottom of that message?
You don't happen to have a current beta on that device (I remember they
dont work for you anymore?)
What's the state it shows in the App Gallery setting?
I did something wrong which means it still takes you to
ajkidle;641112 Wrote:
When I share a Rhapsody track on Facebook, shouldn't it also be posting
the link to that track? It's not. It's just a plain text post. I'm I
misunderstanding how this is supposed to work, or is something not
working properly?
I'll have to look that up. Rhapsody
MeSue;641115 Wrote:
It says Facebook disabled, and I click the authorize button and it shows
the message about already authorized, I press okay, and go back to iPeng
and it still shows disabled. I can go round and round doing that and it
never changes.
It's not a beta, and it authorized
iPeng now shows an AirPlay control for the iPeng Player if there is an
AirPlay device on the network, so you dont have to use the task bar
four audio routing
I have Apple TV (latest version) which doesn't appear to be showing on
ipeng as described in the update. Has anyone else got this to
Pippin,
I can't get the Share on Facebook option working on my iPod touch. I
authorized both Fb and Twitter on my iPad first with iPeng HD, and then
I did so on my iPod with iPeng. For Facebook, it just takes me to a
message that says iPeng has already been authorized, but then it does
not show
Ahhh... It's always good to have your sanity confirmed. Even if it is in
a limited area...
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SB Radio
SB Server 7.5.1 (SSODS4)
Got the iPhone update this morning in the dutch appstore.
Thnx again pippin Coolio!
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The big thing is being able to play content from a link and to detect
links in web sites...
Okay, this has me stumped... how do we play content from links through
iPeng? Where do we go to copy and paste the URLs?
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)p(;640701 Wrote:
I think currently you can only do this from the embedded wiki browser.
From there search for google, click the google.com link and from there
you can explore links all over the web ;) If you find a valid link
click on it and ipeng will produce a popup that gives you the
MeSue;640703 Wrote:
Okay, thanks. Some of the comments in this thread made it sound like
there was an URL field I should be able to find somewhere.
There is. It's the one in Radios. It has all the functionality the
link system offers, you can paste a link there.
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)p(;640701 Wrote:
I think currently you can only do this from the embedded wiki browser.
From there search for google, click the google.com link and from there
you can explore links all over the web ;) If you find a valid link
click on it and ipeng will produce a popup that gives you the
The open.spotify link will work in Tune In, too, it's not the same tune
in as in the web interface (anymore).
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Pippin, since iPeng seems to have an embedded browser now, why not
include an address field so we can browse to wherever we want without
leaving iPeng? Wouldn't that then be a way to use playlist sharing
sites, etc?
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Yea, I plan to do that (could you file a ticket anyway?). It's just UI
again which means lots of work and I did not want to delay the release.
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MeSue;640768 Wrote:
Pippin, since iPeng seems to have an embedded browser now, why not
include an address field so we can browse to wherever we want without
leaving iPeng? Wouldn't that then be a way to use playlist sharing
sites, etc? (at least in the iPad version.)
If we get this, it
No, the Spotify URL entry field is a menu created by the plugin that has
some Logic behind it. In this case I'd need a way to tell the plugin to
play an album or I need to retrieve the album content. If the plugin
can't do it I'll eventually do it anyway :)
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Am I the only one who doesn't see any use for all that Facebook and
Twitter functionality?
I bought the program as a remote control for the Squeezeboxes I own.
All these extra functions only make the program more complicated and
more difficult to use.
It would be nice to have a system setting to
pippin;640383 Wrote:
No, the Spotify URL entry field is a menu created by the plugin that has
some Logic behind it. In this case I'd need a way to tell the plugin to
play an album or I need to retrieve the album content. If the plugin
can't do it I'll eventually do it anyway :)
I suspect
pippin;640130 Wrote:
iPeng now has a new Context Menu item for the current track and the
tracks in the current playlist.
Is there a reason you don't offer the Share this... item in context
menus for tracks in the browse menus ?
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hofstede;640392 Wrote:
am i the only one who doesn't see any use for all that facebook and
twitter functionality?
I bought the program as a remote control for the squeezeboxes i own.
All these extra functions only make the program more complicated and
more difficult to use.
It would be
Personally I removed all things Facebook / Twitter from my Squeezebox
system long ago. I just don't like things I am not using at all
cluttering up my system.
If I want to use Facebook or Twitter there are a lot of options that
work better than the Squeezebox eco-system. Now iPeng forces this
pippin;640130 Wrote:
By default it will send the title, artist and album (you can of course
edit that) and most importantly whenever a link is available that
can be played (as is the case for services like Spotify, Rhapsody,
YouTube or radio stations) that link will be sent, too. So
kidstypike;640397
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Hofstede;640404 Wrote:
Guess for me it means I will use SqueezePad more often than iPeng. I
hope Bluegaspode will not get the idea he needs to integrate this
functionality in his program too
Well - I'm known to not just copy iPeng :)
Though I have to admit that one feature pippin
Hofstede;640404 Wrote:
Personally I removed all things Facebook / Twitter from my Squeezebox
system long ago. I just don't like things I am not using at all
cluttering up my system.
If I want to use Facebook or Twitter there are a lot of options that
work better than the Squeezebox
local.bin;640407
And that's 3 hits for the +1 button ;)
Actually I am sure I will find the share by email feature useful on
occasion. I feel the FB option less useful, more involved, and I plan
on dropping my little presence on FB down to 0 some time in the
future.
So an iPeng preference
bluegaspode;640410 Wrote:
So if you don't want to see this in SqueezePad some time in the future
think about how to promote your favourite product by other means ;)
You know, even my local grocery store have a Like us on Facebook sign
outside their store (no I'm not kidding). Maybe a Like
Hofstede;640392 Wrote:
Am I the only one who doesn't see any use for all that Facebook and
Twitter functionality?
I bought the program as a remote control for the Squeezeboxes I own.
All these extra functions only make the program more complicated and
more difficult to use.
It would be
Pippin,
At the time I bought iPeng the Logitech app was not available yet. And
your program beats the functionality of the Logitech app by miles.
Don't get me wrong, I really like it.
The term force is a bit strong I know but I could not find a better
word for it. I just don't like the way every
Hofstede;640446 Wrote:
The only thing I ask for is an easy way to hide all references to
Facebook and Twitter functionality. I am a programmer and I know it
maybe problematic to do so but asking never hurts anyone.
By default, there is only a single place where Facebook and Twitter
I think that is the big difference between us. You want a tool to share
music with friends and easily find music on the web, I only want a
program to control my music system. I am not interested in what music
my friends play. I know they all have a bad taste in music anyway ;)
As long as the
I do share music from time to time with my friends. Most of them have
good music taste and thats probably why we got friends anyway. ;)
I also had the difficulties from time to time with sharing spotify
links etc. I have no facebook or twitter account but I really like
these new sharing features!
I'd love to join this debate, but iPeng 1.3.4 does not appear in my
AppStore for upgrade... Has anyone else in the UK had this update? Or
am I alone in missing it...
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It wasn't out, yet, only the iPad version was. Some hiccup with old iOS
versions and then some misunderstanding about the term Squeezebox
Server 7.6 beta in the review process.
All resolved now so it should be or become available shortly.
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pippin;640448 Wrote:
Note to self: maybe I should add a play from clipboard menu
Thanks for these features! I have not used them yet, but I know I will.
Play from clipboard would be awesome.
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danull;640144 Wrote:
Somebody is bound to ask so might as well be me... Any plans to bring
this to Google+ ?
Well, certainly. The update was already waiting at Apple's when Google+
came around so no chance to look into it for this but it's certainly a
logical step.
I'll have to see whether
)p(;640151 Wrote:
I had my iPad set to Dutch. When looking up artist info on Wikipedia it
used the Dutch version and not the English one. So it won't find most.
Setting the iPad to English made it using the English one. Maybe you
can make an option to select the database to use independent
I think I'll just do an use English Wiki option which is probably what
99% of the people would be looking for in a configuration option.
On the Spotify albums: yes, I plan to add that but it essentially means
I have to re-implement the whole Spotify client because the
Squeezeboxes' can't play
thnx bigtime pippin!
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Some interesting, and excellent features. Many thanks!
Just one thing though, I can't figure out how to browse Wikipedia with
the new update. I'm probably doing something stupid, or missing the
obvious, but could someone run through how I do this?
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Can you let us modify the default message that gets posted to facebook
and twitter. I think the following would make more sense.
Artist: blah blah. blah blah from album blah blah
I was just listening to Black Country Communion, so it wanted to post
the following to my wall:
Black Country
pippin;640130 Wrote:
*iPeng now shows an AirPlay control for the iPeng Player if there
is an AirPlay device on the network, so you dont have to use the task
bar four audio routing.
This is a very convenient feature. Thanks for the update!
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)p(;640174 Wrote:
I think that is a good compromise for most users for the wiki.
Maybe take a look at triodes spotify plugin does it. It lets you paste
track, playlist, album and artist url's into ipeng.
Does it? In that case it should work to play an album because iPeng
will just pass
Jeff Flowerday;640218 Wrote:
Can you let us modify the default message that gets posted to facebook
and twitter. I think the following would make more sense.
Artist: blah blah. blah blah from album blah blah
I was just listening to Black Country Communion, so it wanted to post
the
pippin;640170 Wrote:
On the Spotify albums: yes, I plan to add that but it essentially means
I have to re-implement the whole Spotify client because the
Squeezeboxes' can't play albums.
Even worse for Napster. I also have some plans for sharing your own
library (Ping or Amazon).
Just to
erland;640242 Wrote:
Just to better understand this, to make it work with MySB I guess you
would have to implement it in iPeng, but if we would be satisfied if it
worked with SBS it would be enough if there was a plugin on the server
that could interpret spotify:album:xxx and
I see you've repaired the switch player feature, thanks a lot.
I don't use twitter and I'm not too happy with the state of FB (I think
you've done fine, though), I guess I'll see how all this fares under
Google+.
Isn't possible to post a full album, rather than a single song ?
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)p(;640307 Wrote:
It does only work when you paste the url in the spotify uri field in
triode's plugin. From your links only the track version works.
Ok, sounds like I need to talk to Triode again.
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In order to use Facebook with iPeng do I need to configure anything?
If I press the current playing track it displays a menu with Share
This. If I select Share This it just says Share This... And nothing
else?
In App Gallery under Social Network, if I select Facebook it says
Facebook is already
)p(;640314 Wrote:
I think the plugin cant handle those urls correctly when they are passed
to it directly. When I use the link for an album from an email. It does
show the artwork. But it looks like it thinks that the album is just
one track because there is only one item in the playlist. So
You need to enable it in the App Gallery under iPeng Apps
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Many thanks for the features in this new update, very useful (imo).
One minor problem with the Wikipedia look-up though, if the search
'string' contains an ampersand (''), it cannot read it, or past it.
For example, I searched the song 'For Me My Gal', and only got
results for 'For Me'.
And
Oops (). Thanks. Will need to encode the query.
On the Composer: I plan to make this more flexible but starting with
just the composer might indeed be a good idea.
Could you file tickets for these? Sorry, can't post link right now.
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pippin;640319 Wrote:
You need to enable it in the App Gallery under iPeng Apps
Thanks for your speedy reply.
I've done this and I'm logged onto Facebook. But how do I share music?
Is it done by selecting Share This on the context menu? I have done
this several times while music is playing
Umm... It doesn't even bring up share by mail? Then it's nothing to do
with the service... Actually it's really strange. What are you listening
to?
Sounds like the title information parsing returns something illegal or
so. It should at least allow you to share Title, Artist and Album via
Mail, if
posting to facebook doesn't work well in portrait ...
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bluegaspode;640327 Wrote:
posting to facebook doesn't work well in portrait ...
Why not? Can you send me a screen shot?
Sometimes the Facebook web dialog gets scrabbled if it doesn't like the
meta information for the link or can't find any (as for napster links),
no idea why that is, it's
pippin;640330 Wrote:
Why not? Can you send me a screen shot?
sorry - i meant landscape.
it switches to portrait while posting.
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bluegaspode;640327 Wrote:
posting to facebook doesn't work well in portrait ...
Argh. Did you mean to say landscape, not portrait?
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pippin;640328 Wrote:
Umm... It doesn't even bring up share by mail? Then it's nothing to do
with the service... Actually it's really strange. What are you listening
to?
Sounds like the title information parsing returns something illegal or
so. It should at least allow you to share Title,
bluegaspode;640331 Wrote:
sorry - i meant landscape.
it switches to portrait while posting.
Ah. I see. Looks like I have to dig deeper into facebook's code (I did
already change stuff for the pending iPhone release)...
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norderney;640333 Wrote:
I'm listening to various Jazz tracks from albums I have ripped onto you
HDD in FLAC, so basically I am just playing back normal FLAC music
files.
When I select Share This it brings up a rectangular box with the track
name at the top and then Share This below it, and
pippin;640335 Wrote:
Yes, that box is an empty menu.
Could you send me one of the files (a short one, please) that causes
trouble?
Any ampersands in there, too? Wait, they should not mean any issue
here...
How is the best way to send one of my files to you? By e-mail? I don't
seem to be
E-mail. Coolio att penguinlovesmusic dott com
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Somebody is bound to ask so might as well be me... Any plans to bring
this to Google+ ?
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