OK, the main task for now - preparing a playback for iPeng - is done and waiting Apple's approval so I want to follow bluegaspode's example and ask users for opinions on a few new developments for iPeng.
This will not be exclusive - I have a few other things I really find cool and that are to a large part already developed and that will definitely come, but I don't want to talk about these. But for some other aspects I would like to understand the priorities of my users. I'll also deliberately mix iPhone and iPad developments here since both require effort and if 10 people want something done on iPad it may be more important than 5 people wanting something on iPhone. So here it is, I will cluster things a bit: USER INTERFACE ON IPHONE There are a few items (for now, suggestions welcome) in this area, both centering around "making iPeng more simple". Generally, making things more simple usually comes at the price of making it less efficient to use or by dropping functionality so this would certainly be an option - but probably the default one. * New "Non-Swipe" User Interface for the "NowPlaying" screen on iPhone. Some people are confused with having to swipe to access the different "subpages" on the NowPlaying screen. The price for this will probably be to add new/other buttons (other ideas welcome) to the NowPlaying screen to bring up the player selection and the current playlist. CP would probably work like on SqueezePlay, player selection instead of the trash can. * New "SqueezePlay like" menu operation. This would drop the iPeng specifics in that tapping artwork would no longer play the album and there would no longer be "playback modes" but only SP's default action would be used. Oh, and "play shuffled" would fall away. Main drawback would be that without "Party Mode" there will be more actions doing "destructive play" by default and it will be harder to build playlists. * Main player controls permanently accessible. Even from the content menus. Sonos does this and sonos users seem to love it yet so far I thought this is a bad idea because it will inevitably take away space. Sonos drops the quick access "Tab Bar" items for it so you always have to go through the main menu and actually I believe this is probably the only way to really find enough space so my suggestion would include this, too. * Smaller and lower resolution (on Iphone 4) artwork. The bigger artwork used by iPeng comes at an initial performance penalty when you use slow servers. This goes away once the artwork has been loaded once and also it will probably go away with SBS 7.6 but right now it's there. Is this important to you? NEW MAIN SCREEN UI FOR IPAD OK, this will happen anyway since I was never happy with the overall look of that screen in iPeng for iPad but I would like to understand how to prioritize it. Will not give details other than that it's exciting and will look different between portrait and landscape modes :) SYNCHRONIZATION This is another one of the things I probably will do anyway, just want to understand how important it is to people. The idea is to have synchronization "scenes" that you can save and re-activate. This will make synchronization setup more effort (if dig into it you'll find there's quite a few decisions to take her) but after you've done that, selecting synchronization may be a bit more straightforward. It's not actually faster but it's easier to understand. @other developers: If you are reading this and if you are going to implement something like this, too, please let's talk. What I'm planning to do will work with several devices without requiring a plugin (but probably not on MySB; not that syncing makes much sense on MySB) and it would make so little sense to have different solutions for this, so that you will have to define your sync groups twice. My current plan is to just implement it and then to document how it works in a bug on bugs.slimdevices.com. ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONALITY If you are happy with iPeng looks like now and would prefer additional features instead, here's your chance to tell me what that would be. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85135 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
