Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !
A couple of things I've noticed: 1: Sometimes, the menus will come up empty, the same way they always do after installing a new version. This can be usually worked around by pressing the 'play' button, then selecting 'turn off xxx', then exiting squeeze pad, then restarting squeeze pad, but it's a bit annoying. 2: When 'remove this song from the playlist' is tapped, Squeezepad puts up a dialog that says that the menu item isn't supported, but it actually does remove the song from the playlist, but it doesn't update the display to show the updated playlist unless you exit out of the playlist and then go back to it. Still, a great controller for the squeezebox...keep up the fantastic work! -- ccdalla ccdalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14737 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80553 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !
So, since upgrading to the latest version of Squeezepad, the menus are
pretty much empty- I can navigate to my player ("Living room"), but
from there, there are no options for accessing my music library,
searching, looking at the current playllist, and so on.
Anyone else having this problem?
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Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !
Just got 1.2.0...you're right, the index makes browsing so much better, it's almost like a completely different app. One thing I've noticed is that when there's a playlist active, SqueezePad makes an entry for accessing it on the main menu...but if the playlist is one that you've just made on the fly (and therefore has no name), the main menu item for it is just a blank box with an arrow at the right-hand side. Perhaps that menu item should be a two-line thing with the top line saying "Current playlist:" and the second line either being the name of the playlist (if it has a name) or "(unnamed playlist)" if it doesn't have a name. Again, fantastic work. -c -- ccdalla ccdalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14737 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80553 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !
Chalk up another happy user- was having some beers with a buddy (whom I turned on to the Squeezebox about a year ago, and who also has an iPad) a few days ago, and we were both musing about what a great controller the iPad would make...decided, on a whim, to do a search yesterday, and bam, there you were. I'm also gratified to see that all the things I can see as shortcomings have already been addressed by others (so I know I'm not just a whiner), but I'll enumerate them here just so you'll see them as votes for the individual issues- and apologies if some of this stuff is already in: I didn't have a lot of time to play with it yesterday. -Cached artist/album info. For me, music is about instant gratification. This was the feature that got my vote for "next big feature". -Playlist management. If I weren't as big on instant gratification as I am, this would've gotten my vote. Something nice would be "+" and "+ next" buttons on each individual track and album displayed (without having to bring up a context menu) to quickly add to the end of the playlist or force them to play next. Also, having an option to force a context menu to come up if a song is already playing when a track/album is just tapped would be great: I don't know how many times I've killed off a song I was playing because I absentmindedly just clicked the center button on the controller. Another thing that would be huge would be a small window in one corner that shows a view into the next maybe 3 or 5 tracks on the playlist as well as the total number of tracks. -"alphabet slider" for scrolling through artist/album list- as others have already pointed out, swiping through to "S" in a big collection can be tiresome at best. I find the one that's used on the "TouchTunes" jukeboxes commonly found in bars here in the U.S. to be very good. For that matter, their entire UI (including their search mechanism) is pretty good, since it's engineered to allow drunk people to find the music they want- if you don't know how their UI works, but would like to, shoot me an email at ccdalla at technologist dot com and I'll see what I can do. -Cover flow. As UIs go, I'd found that the notion of cover flow is more polarizing than most others- some people just deal with it intuitively, but others just hate it. Me, I think it's got its time and its place, so it should be something that can be brought up on demand. Again, well done- as this application evolves, I can see it being something that induces me to buying another iPad to dedicate to this function. -c -- ccdalla ccdalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14737 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80553 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
