Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store
pippin;407620 Wrote: No, it wasn't really supported before. If you really wanted to make use of streaming you had to download the stream yourself, cache it and then play from memory. This might help a bit, indeed. Add to that they will *hopefully* integrate the streaming sufficiently so that it can run in the background, controlled by the music app. At the moment I think something similar is possible, where one of the music sites streams via Safari on the iPhone/iPod, and you can 'minimise' Safari but the stream keeps running. Al -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store
pippin;407686 Wrote: No, you can't stream via Safari. Safari can issue file playback with QuickTime (no streaming!) and then goes into the background (against QuickTime) but you can't do anything else while playback is running. Oh I see. Probably just wishful thinking that the streaming will be integrated into the music app, although that would make sense - you can surf and check mail while listening to local music, so why not an internet radio station over wifi... Al -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store
pippin;385157 Wrote: Seriously: I want to understand what the best sort oder is for most people. It's not a big deal to change. Going to Artist, Year, Album (which is what you want for a view with just one artist) is just a case of removing a single line of code. I will happily vote for Artist,Year,Album across the board. If nothing else it means the albums appear in the same order in both 'All Albums' and 'Artist' views. I have a lot of Prince albums, and I prefer them to be in chronological order. Al -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store
pippin;384874 Wrote: 2. Yep, I have IR Blaster doing the volume thing to the amp. My point is once this is set up, the vol control on iPeng is fixed at 100% and you can't control the volume via iPeng, so I need to keep the squeezebox or amp remote around. Would be nice if iPeng could cope with this, but probably hard to implement in a really 'neat' way. But super handy if you could as a lot of audio people (ie iPeng users, gadget fiends etc!) much prefer not to use the digital volume I don't quite understand how that work, then? How does IRblaster change the volume if it's fixed in SC? Is there a special plugin menu? Does it only work with the IR remote? Anything where I can step in to do something? IR Blaster allows you to input the correct IR codes so that an IR transmitter (often called a 'bug') connected to the headphone socket on a Squeezebox will send these codes to control another device. You can set it up so that when you press Volume-Up or Volume-Down on the SB3 remote, it doesn't alter the SB3 volume, but instead sends a volume IR command to your amp. Because you don't have 'traditional' Volume-Up or Volume-Down buttons in the iPeng app, this functionality is lost. An alternative would be to have an option to use such buttons instead of the volume slider, but that doesn't fit with your design model particularly. Also, I don't know what CLI commands would need to be sent by iPeng to mimic the V.Up and V.Down actions, and whether they would automatically trigger the IRRemote actions. If someone uses an SBC with IRRemote: Is there a Volume Up/Down button on the Controller, and does it trigger the IRRemote actions? Al -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store
pippin;374151 Wrote: Well. iPeng uses 320x320 on NowPlaying, so having at least that would be fine. SqueezeCenter will resample the artwork into the different sizes, so anything better will work, albeit maybe a bit less crisp. iTunes' 600x600 generally look nice :-) Aagh! I've just spent hours scanning 132 covers at 300x300 to go with the 243 I already had at that resolution. I wondered why some of them (only a few) look really fuzzy in iPeng/cover flow ... hopefully rescans of just those files will help, as I think they are ones I downloaded. Still, at least I have no gaps in iPeng or cover flow now. Al -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store
pippin;368180 Wrote: hunta;368177 Wrote: I've noticed a few people pressing pippin about the implementation of this but he seems (understandably!) reticent! No, I'm not! I said it would come. I just don't want to make promises on dates. As you can see, unexpected things can happen, and right now I'm still a bit busy coping with some other issues. But one way or the other, it will come. Having tried for some time to use stream.mp3 from my SC to the iPod touch over the local wi-fi network, I have had no significant success, mainly because the data rate of the stream pushed out by SC is unrestricted (see bug/enhancement http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249 for more info). The upshot of this is that: (a) The SC web interface gets way ahead of the actual music being played - I played a 10-track 45 minute album, and the SC web interface said the whole album had finished playing before the player was half-way through the second track. This isn't due to buffering either, because buffering results in a fairly constant 'time lag' which you can cope with. (b) Most of the iPod Touch players can't cope with the metadata being pushed through at the unrestricted rate, and choke. CastCatcher (from return7.com) turns off metadata requests for http://*:9000/stream.mp3; URLs which helps, but then you can't look at the iPod to see which track is playing because it is out of sync, and it crashes after the playlist finishes playing anyway. A side issue about the stream players is that they may not run in the background because Apple will not allow it. This is why iPeng will be the best solution - one app to control *and* listen to the stream. Slim Devices say that it is the stream player which should restrict the data rate to what it needs to play the stream, and most other stream players (e.g. WMP) do this, but the guy who wrote CastCatcher says that he can't restrict the incoming data rate without making the interface with the network more complicated (dropping down to socket level). I am guessing that all the other App Store stream players currently suffer from the same issue. Notably they all play ShoutCast etc. streams with no problem, which indicates that the SC implementation of stream.mp3 is non-standard. Roll on iPeng stream playback! Al -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store
When I drill down through: Artists Tori Amos All Songs, it puts all the Tori Amos tracks on compilations at the end, which is good, but the other tracks are *all* listed under a heading which is the title of *one* of her albums. This doesn't make any sense - either album's tracks should appear under their own album title, or they should all appear with just an All Songs header, or no header at all. I don't have a preference, but at the moment it looks messed up. (I tried flushing the cache and restarting) Al -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store
pippin;367563 Wrote: Are you sure you are on 1.0.3 and not on 1.0? This was a bug in 1.0 but should be fixed in 1.0.3. Oops ... my bad. I downloaded with iTunes rather than the on-device AppStore as suggested, but then forgot to sync it with my iPod! Syncing now. I am assuming it will be fine! Al -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store
bat400;367579 Wrote: Oops ... my bad. I downloaded with iTunes rather than the on-device AppStore as suggested, but then forgot to sync it with my iPod! Syncing now. I am assuming it will be fine! Al Definitely on 1.03 now (it says it in the help file), and yet I seem to still be having the problem. Q. When I click on Flush Cache, how long do I have to wait? I have done a full server rescan, and then clicked Flush Cache, then waited a few minutes, then restarted iPeng, but I still get the same behaviour. Al Edited to add: Just uninstalled and re-installed and I still get the same behaviour. Do I need SC7.3? I am on 7.21. -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store
pippin;367596 Wrote: No, nothing to do with the server version. I go check. It's the album name that has the [SINGLE] tag in it, isn't it? Yes, but it is also still happening with the two albums by artist Baby Einstein with album titles Baby Bach and Baby Mozart. Al -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store
pippin;367603 Wrote: OK, confirmed. It's fixed for sorting but not for indexing. Oh well, I'm glad I'm not going mad. Sorry to have caused you more work, but it's worth saying that I would have bought an iPod Touch for iPeng alone. Keep it up! Al -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store
jkish;366295 Wrote: Ok, now this is very strange... I tried New Music and got the Loading... screen for a while and then an error that said it could not contact the server. I switched over to the Albums view and now they are all there - I've had the app for several days and have never had that work. I don't know what to make of it. New Music still shows the empty list - how do I make it refresh that view? After the error it doesn't seem to be trying to update anymore, I just immediately get the blank screen there. Another thing, in the Albums list there is no cover art, just the default music note artwork. My cover art shows up in the SC web interface. I would try (and I'm not saying it will work): 1. Uninstall iPeng 2. Get SC to do a *full* rescan 3. Reinstall and start iPeng 4. Wait for a bit while it loads the database and see what happens... Al -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store
mattybain;365858 Wrote: Is there any reason why the hardware volume buttons don't change the volume? it works on the LastFM app so see no reason why it couldn't on iPeng as well. The LastFM app is local playback isn't it? I imagine when iPeng gets local playback then it will adjust the local volume. Al -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Slow re-scan on Leopard 10.5.5 with external USB2 FAT32 hdd drive?
OK, sorted it. I scraped together every bit of space on my 3 computers so I could copy the 200GB of data from the external USB2 drive to various internal drives, the reformatted the USB2 drive with the GUID partition structure and HFS+ format (Mac OS Extended (Journalled)). I'm back to 5 minute scans again, and I can use MacDrive if I need to read the data on a PC. Al -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55628 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] iPeng Application 1.0 now on the App Store
Just brilliant. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Well done pippin! The only thing left is playing locally via stream.mp3, so I don't have to switch to a different streaming app, and I know that's on your list. Al -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Slow re-scan on Leopard 10.5.5 with external USB2 FAT32 hdd drive?
Hi, I just upgraded my Mac Mini from Tiger 10.4.11 to Leopard 10.5.5. I run my music library off a 400GB freecom external USB2 HDD, and on Tiger it would scan the ~6000 FLAC tracks in about 5 minutes. Now it takes an hour. At first I thought it was the USB2/USB1 problems that some people have reported in Leopard, but I tried simply transferring some files from the external to the Mini hdd and 20GB transferred in 15 mins which is about right. I tried changing the music library to those files on the Mini hdd and they scanned at the speed I would expect. This makes me think that Leopard is the problem, but only when scanning my music library on the external USB2 drive. Anyone else had similar symptoms? Would changing FAT32 to HFS+ help? Would a firewire drive definitely be quicker? Thanks in advance, Al -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55628 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Performance on iPhone iPod Touch
bat400;361099 Wrote: OK, I tried 'fstream' (free on App Store). It lets you enter your own stream, but on my setup it starts coming through then drops after thirty seconds. During this time the sound was perfect however. I used to have these same symptoms with Windows Media Player, but I can't remember what fixed it... FlyCast apparently plays in the background but lacks the opportunity to add your own stations. Anyone tried CastCatcher? Apparently you can add your own streams but Apple blocked the 1.3 version in the App Store. When I get home I'll check if 1.2 is still available... Al OK, tried CastCatcher 1.3 which is advertised as compatible with SlimServer/SqueezeCenter. Started perfectly, allowed me to enter my own stream, but then crashed after a couple of tracks (small section of sound repeating over and over). Posted a support request on their forum, and to their credit they are already working on a fix. Apparently part of the problem is that the data is sent through at a much faster rate than the bitrate of the song (which allows for quick buffering), but there is also much more than the usual amount of metadata being pushed through and this overloads the software (I think). Have a look at this thread on their support site: http://forums.return7.com/index.php?topic=33 Out of the ones I had tried it was the most promising, so hopefully they'll get the crashing sorted out. Al -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49922 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Performance on iPhone iPod Touch
OK, I tried 'fstream' (free on App Store). It lets you enter your own stream, but on my setup it starts coming through then drops after thirty seconds. During this time the sound was perfect however. I used to have these same symptoms with Windows Media Player, but I can't remember what fixed it... FlyCast apparently plays in the background but lacks the opportunity to add your own stations. Anyone tried CastCatcher? Apparently you can add your own streams but Apple blocked the 1.3 version in the App Store. When I get home I'll check if 1.2 is still available... Al -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49922 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Performance on iPhone iPod Touch
andyg;321066 Wrote: I don't really know what to tell you. Since the app is apparently pulled from the App Store it's a moot point now. Maybe someone will release a better one or they'll put out a fixed version. It's back on the App Store as Nullriver Tuner Internet Radio. It works with other MP3 streams, but I get crackles or popping sounds when listening to a stream from the SqueezeCenter. It would be great if this worked as I love iPeng and want the whole thing to work in just my iPod Touch. There is a jailbreak application (just called ituner I think), but I don't want to jailbreak my ipod. Al -- bat400 bat400's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49922 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
