jkish;366575 Wrote:
Reinstall didn't help, but I have the server.log file.
After looking at the log file myself, I figured out that the problem
was that my virus scanner was interfering with the album lookup.
Disabled scanning for non-program files and it works!
Thanks for the help.
Is it possible to make the progress bar on the now playing screen
larger/longer? That way it will be easier to move the slider. Like the
way it is in the iTouch apple music app (mp3 player)- where the two
symbols (repeat and crossfade?) is placer under the playing time and
remaining time.
BTW:
panos_k75;365770 Wrote:
a background image could be used where the user is browsing
artists/genres or even albums. this could make the interface a little
more personal..just like the SBC. have sent u a pm about the playlist
implementation.
Don't think I'll do this in the browse menus. The
Is it just me or is the volume slider really really hard to move? It
takes me a while to get it to change at all.
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.
Apart from that I'm loving
mattybain;365858 Wrote:
Is it just me or is the volume slider really really hard to move? It
takes me a while to get it to change at all.
Agree on this - I almost never manage to successfully move the slider,
and when I do it never lands with any degree of accuracy.
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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
mattybain;365858 Wrote:
Is it just me or is the volume slider really really hard to move? It
takes me a while to get it to change at all.
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
RE: the volume slider, I've just noticed something. If you double-tap
the current position and then drag it nearly always works. The same in
the Apple Remote app. Not sure if this is by design??
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twynne;365886 Wrote:
RE: the volume slider, I've just noticed something. If you double-tap
the current position and then drag it nearly always works. The same in
the Apple Remote app. Not sure if this is by design??
That can well be. My impression is, that elements that have been
selected
tjm000;363973 Wrote:
Would it be possible to have an option to sort the album view by artist
name?
IMO, that's the only way an album list should work, since listing
absolutely all albums in one's collection alphabetically and not
grouped by artist is rather pointless. Or rather the point
Hey, thanks for all the comments :-)
MelonMonkey;366017 Wrote:
I will go one step further since I haven't seen it mentioned yet (I'm
only in the middle of this thread so far). I'd like albums listed BY
YEAR under an artist, not alphabetically.
Actually this is exactly what it is
pippin;365884 Wrote:
Formally, Apple doesn't allow it, but when 1.0.3 is out I will do a
dedicated 1.0.4 release with just that single feature to try out
Apple's response to that, then we'll know...
I would advise against making this the only change for a release. You
are better off
MelonMonkey;366057 Wrote:
I would advise against making this the only change for a release. You
are better off tossing that feature SILENTLY into another release in
hopes that Apple doesn't see it. Do not advertise the fact you are
using or going to use the hard buttons.
Hm.. That was
pippin;366060 Wrote:
It got rejected once for indefinitely showing a spinner instead of an
error message when in Airline mode...
But that's almost a bug rather than a stylistic choice. To some people
it might look like the application is stuck/hung. Software needs a a
proper failure mode
pippin;366053 Wrote:
Hey, thanks for all the comments :-)
No problem. It's very rare that I take this time and effort with
providing feedback on a product, but like Slim Center and Squeezebox,
it's something I think I will really value long-term so I want it to
perform and look as best as it
One big issue: I select Albums on the bottom row of icons and I get a
screen that says Loading... for a while and then I get a blank screen.
Selecting via Artists seems to work fine.
I've tried clearing the cache, but that didn't seem to help.
Any ideas on what I might try next?
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I apologize if this has been answered, but is there any way to use iPeng
to control playback on the server running SqueezeCenter? Meaning, I
have that server hooked up to my home theater and would like to control
playing songs on the home theater?
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jkish;366075 Wrote:
One big issue: I select Albums on the bottom row of icons and I get a
screen that says Loading... for a while and then I get a blank screen.
Selecting via Artists seems to work fine.
I've tried clearing the cache, but that didn't seem to help.
Any ideas on what I
pippin;366098 Wrote:
What OS is the server on?
You could try SqueezeSlave, that's what I do (search the forum on it).It's
Windows XP Home Edition. I'll look into SqeezeSlave, Thanks
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davidjames;366102 Wrote:
It's Windows XP Home Edition. I'll look into SqeezeSlave, Thanks
OK, there you could also use SoftSqueeze or SqueezePlay.
SoftSqueeze comes with SqueezeCenter, there's an installer in the Web
UI and SqueezePlay is available under the Beta Downloads.
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MelonMonkey;366065 Wrote:
Replying in this post right now in EDIT mode Don't reply or quote
this post yet.
You could mail me if this gets too long:
coolio att penguinlovesmusic.com
Here's very interested in what you have to say :-)
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pippin;366097 Wrote:
How big is your library (albums)?
Have you tried to restart (not reinstall, just restart) iPeng?
Is the screen completely blank (except for some horizontal lines and
the menu stuff?
Not big - 300 albums
Yes, screen is completely blank in the middle with the word
pippin;366115 Wrote:
??? You press that round button on the bottom of your iPhone and then
click on the penguin.
Or do you use any Jailbreak-Background-Mode-Stuff??
Do you see any error messages?
Ahh One more thing:
Could it be your server is (re)scanning the library?
Oh, ok, yes I
jkish;366117 Wrote:
Oh, ok, yes I have restarted many times - I thought there was something
more you were talking about.
No Jailbreak etc, no error messages that I can see.
Don't think the server is rescanning.
Strange thing is that all artists show up and the associated albums if
I
My message was over 2x too long for vBulletin. Ugh. I have to make a
third continuation...
pippen Wrote:
I'd like to see track numbers displayed when viewing the contents of
specific albums. I'd also like to see the total number of tracks listed
next to the album name above the
pippin;366118 Wrote:
Now that's really weired. Does SC's web interface show all albums? Which
server Version are you on?
Does everything else work?
Do you get a full list of albums through Artists-All Albums?
Yes, the SC web interface shows all of the albums.
I'm on 7.2.1.
No albums show
jkish;366139 Wrote:
Yes, the SC web interface shows all of the albums.
I'm on 7.2.1.
No albums show if I go through Artists-All Albums. If I choose and
artist with multiple albums, I see those albums when I click on the
artist.
The behavior you describe means iPeng reads a list of data
Puh, that'S a lot of questions out here. On Features, see the comments
at the end of the post.
wiped;365280 Wrote:
Being able to get that option for new music would also be awesome, to
play all new albums vi a single press.
All 200? I'll see...
jazztime;365317 Wrote:
Slimdevices must
jazztime;365509 Wrote:
I'm glad that you'll look into all those requests. But I completely
agree with you - perfomance speed (and stability) is the most important
thing. I prefer speed over more information. A details page is a very
good idea.
I totally agree too. You are never going to be
jazztime;365507 Wrote:
Sorry for my ignorance, but can you please explain what LUA means
(that is, what kind of plugins will not be supported) and what
NowPlaying centric means.
Ah.. OK.
LUA is a scripting language that the controller uses to implement -
well, actually everything. You can
That's actually a SqueezeCenter issue.
You wanted to say: I'm waiting for an enhancement in SC to improve my feature
set? ;-)
So it will take at least until
7.3.1 and another iPeng update to fix this
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10180
Please give the attached patch a try.
pippin;365497 Wrote:
Regarding requests to show additional information in the existing menus.
I will check this, but this is always about balancing different aspects:
How cluttered do I want my UI? How fast do I want the app to be?
Especially importing additional artists can have a huge
Thanks for your effort - I really do enjoy iPeng!!
pippin;365497 Wrote:
- iPeng in the future will support all plugins that are supported on
the Controller and do NOT requite LUA (which would violate Apple's TC)
plus likely some others, most notably it will also have the NowPlaying
I purchased/downloaded last night an played with it a bit this morning.
I'm running SC on a Thecus N5200 and have this version of SC installed
according to the status screen:
SqueezeCenter Version: 7.0 - 17793 - Linux - EN - iso-8859-1
I'm waiting for 7.3 to become a release version before
The artwork issue is a known bug that will go away with 1.0.3
You are probably using .bmp artwork, which is not really supported by
SC, so the server doesn't scale correctly.
You will not need the plugin, however, some strings will appear better
in English or German with iPeng installed (since
Can I patch any 7.3 beta with this?
Yes, should be fine.
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mherger;365562 Wrote:
That's actually a SqueezeCenter issue.
You wanted to say: I'm waiting for an enhancement in SC to improve my
feature set? ;-)
Didn't I do that?
But you have to admit, the list I receive is NOT sorted according to
the sort parameter, so you could argue this is
pippin;365497 Wrote:
That's not really a large library. Have you restarted iPeng? (NOT
re-INSTALLING, just quit and restart after the import).
I should have posted back last night. I realised after I wrote this
that artwork wasn't showing my library since the last 7.2.x upgrade. A
full
would someone upload a video of iPeng in action to youtube.com ?
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Well, I know this is one more request/suggestion for more information
(and possible more cluttered UI?). But I do think it is relevant:
When browsing an album it would be very nice to have the different
tracks numbered (tracknumber) - just like it is when you look at the
iPeng playlist, on the
Can we have the option of a background image?
Also are you planning to re-organise the current playlist view? If yes,
why don't you implement it just like the ipod? i.e. press a button, the
cover rotates and displays the current list of tracks? Much nicer in my
eyes and removes the clutter.
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panos_k75;365757 Wrote:
Can we have the option of a background image?
Where?
Also are you planning to re-organise the current playlist view? If yes,
why don't you implement it just like the ipod? i.e. press a button, the
cover rotates and displays the current list of tracks? Much nicer
a background image could be used where the user is browsing
artists/genres or even albums. this could make the interface a little
more personal..just like the SBC. have sent u a pm about the playlist
implementation.
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Hi Pippin,
Thanks for the great application. I love it and I am using more and
more. ButIn my day to day usage it has one small feature that I
have got used to on the duet remote that I do not see in Ipeng. On my
duet controller when I tap on Albums I have the Albums sorted by Artist
name
Jac;365210 Wrote:
Hi Pippin,
Thanks for the great application. I love it and I am using more and
more. ButIn my day to day usage it has one small feature that I
have got used to on the duet remote that I do not see in Ipeng. On my
duet controller when I tap on Albums I have the
Regarding years.
Sorting the albumlist by years would be nice for browsing (new to
old)...
But what i use is to play a year, e.g. select 2008, get the list of
albums alphabetically and then be able to play all albums or add from
there.
With the solution to sort by year i would not be able to
Hi pippin,
I bought an iPod touch a couple of days ago - exclusively for using it
with the iPeng. Browsing and searching my music collection has never
been more easy and fun. Thanks a lot!! Slimdevices must have problems
selling their Controller now. I have never tried the Controller, but I
can
pippin;365215 Wrote:
It is there!
Artists-All Albums
will give you exactly what you want.
Aahhh. I had missed out on that... Ah but wait a minutenow that I
tried it I am noticing that it is not sorting my compilations the same
way as it is on my duet controller. On the Duet if I have
This might have been requested/suggested, but it would be nice if there
were a progress bar somewhere (an 'Info' screen maybe) that shows the
current status of the library download. You could optionally add a
'show detail' section that tells what is currently downloading, etc.
Another app that
I just have been using native ipeng on my ipod touch for a day now and I
am impressed. I have two questions about the last.fm integration in
ipeng.
Firstly, I do not seem to be able to choose a new station but can only
choose from the list of existing stations (no input possible?).
Secondly, I
wiped;365280 Wrote:
With the solution to sort by year i would not be able to easily play a
year.
Perhaps it's just me who likes to shuffle a bunch of albums..
Nope. I use browse by year via the web interface all the time. Be
really good if it could be added under More to iPeng.
Ta.
h.
jazztime;365317 Wrote:
- show more than one artist. I have several albums with more than one
artist separated with ; (Paul Bley;Gary Peacock) and SqueezeCenter
shows both names - but iPeng only shows the first name. Is it possible
to make iPeng show the same information as SqueezeCenter?
Oh
Picked up iPeng native the on the weekend. It is much faster than the
web version and seems to work pretty well right out of the box. Thanks
for putting the hard work into this, Pippin.
Just wondering however; am I the only one who misses the 'classic'
interface?
I find this 'apple-ized'
amcluesent;364946 Wrote:
Album Art in iPeng 1.0 has packed in :(
Comes back if I re-install the app. on the iPhone. Then goes after I've
rescanned with SqueezeCentre. Flushing the Cache on iPeng doesn't fix.
Described the same problem a few days ago
Album Art in iPeng 1.0 has packed in :(
Comes back if I re-install the app. on the iPhone. Then goes after I've
rescanned with SqueezeCentre. Flushing the Cache on iPeng doesn't fix.
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amcluesent;364946 Wrote:
Album Art in iPeng 1.0 has packed in :(
Comes back if I re-install the app. on the iPhone. Then goes after I've
rescanned with SqueezeCentre. Flushing the Cache on iPeng doesn't fix.
can you give me a bit more detail?
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Err... One thing. Are you both sure the server had actually FINISHED
rescanning the database?
I might have to add a notice on this in iPeng. But if you do a full
rescan, the server will only start to deliver artwork when it's fully
done and the data itself comes in earlier. On my systems a rescan
pippin;364960 Wrote:
Err... One thing. Are you both sure the server had actually FINISHED
rescanning the database?
I might have to add a notice on this in iPeng. But if you do a full
rescan, the server will only start to deliver artwork when it's fully
done and the data itself comes in
can you give me a bit more detail?
So, when there's no artwork the UI goes unresponsive. Pauses for 10-15
seconds on pretty much all UI interactions.
It feels like co-operative multi-tasking where one of the threads is
blocking for 10-15 seconds on a time-out before releasing.
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amcluesent;365043 Wrote:
can you give me a bit more detail?
So, when there's no artwork the UI goes unresponsive. Pauses for 10-15
seconds on pretty much all UI interactions.
It feels like co-operative multi-tasking where one of the threads is
blocking for 10-15 seconds on a time-out
ds2021;364754 Wrote:
Have you tried the Edit button? I have Favorites in my icon bar.
Never test late at late .. nevermind ;-)
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Hi Pippin, nice work on the app!!
As you know i have been using ipeng web from the start almost, and also
made my own modifications (some of them might be what i reefer to here).
Anyway, have been playing around with the app the last hour or so and a
few suggestions, issues so far (might be me
Hey, thanks for the detailed comments.
Some replies...
wiped;365105 Wrote:
- Trackstat is not existing and it would be awesome to have that
integrated in the app somehow.
As I keep saying more and more often: Patience, young Jedi, patience
you must have...
-- Even tough it takes a
Quote:
Personally i would prefer having to wait a few seconds to have the page
load but get all artworks in the list populated so i directly can scroll
with everything in place.
OK, but 90% of the other people voted the other way around... Sorry...
I even got quite a few requests to do away with
wiped;365121 Wrote:
For the new music i'm stuck at 75 no matter how long i wait...
What's your server setting on this?
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pippin;365123 Wrote:
What's your server setting on this?
EDIT: Ok, looks like a bug here... But you should still get 100?
Did you have a previous server setting of 75? Looks a bit like iPeng
saves that value forever...
Hmm that might be something, i have changed it recently i think, but
wiped;365127 Wrote:
Hmm that might be something, i have changed it recently i think, but not
sure from what..
Anyways, if i have 200 or 150 etc, and i get 100 or 75, how do i get
the other 100 75? Is that a future feature, to get to the next page?
No, sorry, I edited my reply.
It should
wiped;365137 Wrote:
aha, my bad then..
So next release you will get the total number you have specified in the
settings?
Well, I don't guarantee what happens when you enter 2.400, but at least
for a few 100 it works...
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pippin;365131 Wrote:
No, sorry, I edited my reply.
It should ALWAYS be 100 (iPeng didn't request the pref correctly).
Will be fixes in next version
75 is the last header you see.
aha, my bad then..
So next release you will get the total number you have specified in the
settings?
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pippin;364521 Wrote:
if somebody tells me how to find the MAC address of the server, I'll
immediately add this.
Couldn't we type in MAC address in settings?
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michel;364680 Wrote:
Couldn't we type in MAC address in settings?
This - http://www.soft32.com/download_187054.html - will give you
the mac address.
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ch1525;364647 Wrote:
Yes, this is basically what I mentioned was my biggest problem with the
app in a previous post. You must have missed it with the flood of
posts that have been pouring in!!!
No, I haven't missed it, it's a bit hard to answer everything right
now.
The Problem is, thta
Tkosh;364657 Wrote:
Everything seems to work, only one or two crashes so far.
If your taking any dev requests I would love to be able to chose what
icons are on the bottom, I would like to have my favorites only one
click away at all times.
Have you tried the Edit button? I have Favorites
pippin;364698 Wrote:
No, I haven't missed it, it's a bit hard to answer everything right now.
Oh, I'm sure it is, but you are doing a wonderful job so far. Keep up
the good work!
I do realize that the long filename and composer issues will be pretty
difficult to tackle and wouldn't expect
Any thoughts on what you are planning for on local playback? Would this
just be streaming MP3's from the SC to the iPod Touch/iPhone? I don't
suppose you have any plans for supporting the iPhone/iPod as a SC
synched client nor support of FLAC?
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Chris
Looks like a bug :-(
I first suspected an empty ignoredarticels string (in SqueezeCenter:
Settings-Music Library-Ignored Articles) but here it looks robust
against that.
So it's probably like you suspect, one of your albums containing an
empty title or artist string
Which is a BIT strange
Sune;364434 Wrote:
I bought it, installed it and I am so far happy. There was a bit of
weird stuff going on initially, but after having updated by
SqueezeCenter to 7.2.1 and then flushed the cache on my 'Pod,
everything seems to work.
Do you use authentication? I've seen some trouble
pippin;364424 Wrote:
Looks like a bug :-(
I first suspected an empty ignoredarticels string (in SqueezeCenter:
Settings-Music Library-Ignored Articles) but here it looks robust
against that.
So it's probably like you suspect, one of your albums containing an
empty title or artist
I understand that when iPhone apps start they get to display a static
splash screen, so that the user gets to see something before the app
proper is running. iPeng's splash screen shows a volume bar and the
transport buttons.
I really think you should remove the controls from the splash screen.
Dear Pippin,
Just wanted to say that I more or less gave up on the web app, as it
was too slow for the way I used it. Thus, I have been looking much
forward to the actual app (I bought my iPod Touch in spring 2008,
specifically because of iPeng).
I bought it, installed it and I am so far
ccp_merc;364383 Wrote:
I just downloaded it today and am having lots of problems.
If I stay on the Now Playing screen it lasts about 20 seconds before it
crashes, and if I go back to look at albums it lasts about 2 seconds.
I am guessing there is something in my list of songs/albums etc
Morbius;364491 Wrote:
I have EXACTLY the same problem, cannot keep the app running for more
than a few seconds before it crashes back to the main iPhone
screenhope the fix comes soon as most people seem to be having a
very positive experience with it.
Mark
The fix itself is ready,
Good work Pippin, just splashed the cash and it was worth it.
Very quick, internet radio working as it should and I didn't even have
to enter any details.
Brilliant :)
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pippin;364493 Wrote:
The fix itself is ready, yet I have to wait until Apple starts to work
again to approve it, which will be Monday morning California time...
That's great newsthanks :-)
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Great app, thanks Pippin.
As my server is set to go into standby is there a chance to send a
magic packet from iphone for wake on lan?
At the moment I always have to grab the otherwise obsolete IR reomote
to perform that simple task.
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The code to send the packet is there now, if somebody tells me how to
find the MAC address of the server, I'll immediately add this.
Hint: no if_arp on iPhone and no spawning of processes. It seems to be
simple since there are plenty of apps out there doing it yet I have not
yet found any useful
mattybain;364501 Wrote:
Good work Pippin, just splashed the cash and it was worth it.
Very quick, internet radio working as it should and I didn't even have
to enter any details.
Brilliant :)
Thanks.
Do you know what happened to Luke's app? Is he having trouble with the
approval, too or
Wow, pippin, this thread is growing fast, so do your great ipeng app.
I just installed and used this app, everything works fine and pretty
fast as compared to ipeng plugin. Should there be any bug, i will
report here.
As others said, it would be great if the app. provides local
streaming.
michel;364515 Wrote:
Great app, thanks Pippin.
As my server is set to go into standby is there a chance to send a
magic packet from iphone for wake on lan?
At the moment I always have to grab the otherwise obsolete IR reomote
to perform that simple task.
Aaah...this is one of my old
pippin;364493 Wrote:
The fix itself is ready, yet I have to wait until Apple starts to work
again to approve it, which will be Monday morning California time...
Ah, very good! Will this update address the coverart problem as well?
At the moment iPeng is pretty much unusable for me because i
pippin;364436 Wrote:
Do you use authentication? I've seen some trouble when starting iPeng
teh first time against a server with authentication. The workaround for
that would be to simply exit iPeng AFTER you have entered the
username/password and restart. No more issue after that.
Nope -
After purchasing a Nokia 770, Logitech Controller then an iTouch, I'm
finally pleased with a remote that's performing as I've always thought
a Squeezebox controller should. Nice job and of course much thanks for
the efforts!
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sprutzle;364562 Wrote:
Ah, very good! Will this update address the coverart problem as well? At
the moment iPeng is pretty much unusable for me because i cannot read
the album name (coverart is too big in album and artist/album view and
it covers the text).
regards
sprutzle
Oh yes.
Sune;364564 Wrote:
As for the dots / swipe. Oh well - I like it as it is :-)
Me too, I kept this against pretty strong opposition from some of my
beta testers.
But if I cannot fix the issues I'm seeing I don't have much of a chance
because then I cannot do the enhancements for which it was
I have a question. I haven't been able to find it in here or in the
help. I just added a few albums to my music folder, but Iphone doesn't
pick them up. What do I need to do to get it to add them?
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FSlater;364605 Wrote:
I have a question. I haven't been able to find it in here or in the
help. I just added a few albums to my music folder, but Iphone doesn't
pick them up. What do I need to do to get it to add them?
Did you rescan your library with SqueezeCenter?
When that's done (the
Ohh great, now it works. Never have had to rescan in settings on the
Squeezecenter before. Always when I have added an album I just jump
back with the remote and then into the music folder again and there it
is. What makes the difference now from before? Is it that I dont have
any option in Ipeng
pippin;364493 Wrote:
The fix itself is ready, yet I have to wait until Apple starts to work
again to approve it, which will be Monday morning California time...
Great - is there anything we can do this end to get around it - as I
believe Apple can be slow in moving updates to the app store
FSlater;364610 Wrote:
Ohh great, now it works. Never have had to rescan in settings on the
Squeezecenter before. Always when I have added an album I just jump
back with the remote and then into the music folder again and there it
is. What makes the difference now from before? Is it that I
Sorry if it has been asked before. I have a large collection of
classical music. The title of each track is pretty long and cannot be
displayed in one line. How can we display the track in 2 or 3 lines
rather than 1 line?
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