I know I have written that I am not a big artwork buff :-)
But since I got to use iPeng on a Mac (not only on the Touch), I have
found it so extremely fast that the graphics are no longer annoying
waitingtime, but instead are contributing to a good user experience.
With respect to CustomBrowse
Sune;283412 Wrote:
With respect to CustomBrowse I noticed that the artist pages does not
contain the custom artwork downloaded with CustomScan. It would be nice
to have the option to have it shown here together with the downloaded
info about the band... as an option, not forced...
It
Hi Erland,
Thanks - will try. In the standard skin for SC7 on my Mac it just shows
up on its own, when browsing artists with CustomBrowse.
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erland;280957 Wrote:
As you can see, the onClick action uses album.id=32 while the album
link at bit below uses album.id=75. The track id 964 used for the cover
image belongs to album 75, so the album link is correct but the onClick
action link is incorrect.
I suppose the problem is in
pippin;280895 Wrote:
So, finally managed to get MusicIP to work on my Mac...
I think I got the artwork issue fixed but I cannot reproduce the hash
issue. Maybe it just went away with the artwork fix (after all I now
use the track id for the cover so if this was related to cover loading
it
Sune;279092 Wrote:
Hi Erland,
One thing - when I make a music mix using custom browse, then the very
first line is called The Entinre Playlist. If this line had been a
part of the standard iPeng interface, a click on this line would have
resulted in the current playlist being subsituted
So, finally managed to get MusicIP to work on my Mac...
I think I got the artwork issue fixed but I cannot reproduce the hash
issue. Maybe it just went away with the artwork fix (after all I now
use the track id for the cover so if this was related to cover loading
it may make sense, but then...
pippin;280326 Wrote:
OK, got a fix for that, too.
Try this.
I will lokk at it a bit since I'm not completely sure when he verbose
flag will be set and I suspect that now the Artist Display will be
double when that is the case but let's see...
That seems to solve it.
The only problem now is
erland;280408 Wrote:
That seems to solve it.
The only problem now is that the cover art shown is incorrect, this was
also the case in the previous version but I forgot to mention it. It
shows the same album art on all rows even though they belong to
different albums.
Sorry Erland, I
erland;280442 Wrote:
It seems like the cover image url is based on the album id and not the
track id as it should:
It looks like this (track id = 406, album id =32):
/music/32/cover_46x46_f_FF.jpg
While it should look like this:
/music/406/cover_46x46_f_FF.jpg
Wait a moment.
pippin;280458 Wrote:
Wait a moment. This is more or less true. Up to now my assumption was
that - this being ALBUM art - an album should have the same cover art
for all tracks. So I do generally prefer to use the album_id instead of
the track_id to load album art unless stated differently in
Sorry to butt into your conversation; I haven't really been following it, but
noticed your para about artwork for tracks on an album.
Generally it is true that artwork for every song on an album would be the same.
However, this is not necessarily true for multi-disc albums (each disc could
OK, understood.
That part of the code was in a branch not used by the internal code.
You are correct, the track ID should be used and actually in the cases
where no album id was known (e.h. search and playlist views) that was
already happening. Didn't see this case before.
Fixed.
Another issue is
Sune, Erland, did anyone of you try this out?
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pippin;279541 Wrote:
I did a fix, will be in next release.
If you want to try it, exchange the cmdwrappers file of a 0.3.9 (!
probably won't work on 0.3.8) installation with the one attached.
I could not try this with MusicIP (don't have it), so it would be nice
if somebody could try it for
I did a fix, will be in next release.
If you want to try it, exchange the cmdwrappers file of a 0.3.9 (!
probably won't work on 0.3.8) installation with the one attached.
I could not try this with MusicIP (don't have it), so it would be nice
if somebody could try it for me.
Hi Erland,
I have now gotten more used to CustomBrowse and I see a use for more
and more of the functionality.
One thing - when I make a music mix using custom browse, then the very
first line is called The Entinre Playlist. If this line had been a
part of the standard iPeng interface, a
Sune;279092 Wrote:
One thing - when I make a music mix using custom browse, then the very
first line is called The Entinre Playlist. If this line had been a
part of the standard iPeng interface, a click on this line would have
resulted in the current playlist being subsituted with the
erland;279249 Wrote:
The page that is shown after you have launched the MusicMagic mixer is
handled by the MusicMagic plugin bundled with SqueezeCenter. So this is
something I can't fix in Custom Browse, it needs to be fixed by pippin
in the iPeng skin.
OOpps...
Hmmm...
Or by whoever did
pippin;279252 Wrote:
OOpps...
Hmmm...
Or by whoever did the MusicMagic Plugin ;-)
Will have a look at it some time, but will take a bit since I don't use
MusicIP.
It seems to be using the standard components, the page is the
following:
Ok. That looks a lot like the bug that also keeps some of the All
Tracks entries from working. A short term workaround would be to
change the browsedbitems_list line to
Code:
[% PROCESS browsedbitems_list.html noLink=1 %]
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I have forgotten to tell that some weeks with iPeng has made things work
out better.
And the combination of
- the actual SqueezeBox
- SqueezeCenter 7
- iPeng Skin
- iTunes Update
- CustomBrowse / Scan / TrackStat
- The alternative Music Information screen
- MusicIP Mixer
- iTunes
- A Mac
Hi there,
Thanks for keeping up with my lack of manual reading ;-) Anyway, I
belive that you as a UI designer will have to make things so simple to
use that people can do it intuitively, not through unrealistic
requirements of manual reading (or FAQ's for that sake). This is the
only thing I
Sune;275104 Wrote:
Thanks for keeping up with my lack of manual reading ;-) Anyway, I
belive that you as a UI designer will have to make things so simple to
use that people can do it intuitively, not through unrealistic
requirements of manual reading
I tend to agree. This is why, apart
Sune;275104 Wrote:
If I could choose three, I'd go for having
a) Add
b) Play
c) Mix from CustomBrowse ;-)
Would a simple solution be to make make it possible to set in the
settings which buttons I wish to have available, and then make the
default fit Pippins favorite way (that is,
Sorry Pippin, reg. my last repeat question. I simply did not get it
w/o having the interface in front of me...but I thought I did. This
works as explained and *IS* logic. I was too focussed on the +.
My bad. Sorry for wasting your time on that one - this works
beautifully. So now do not need to
Sune,
No problem, but I guessed something like that.
It happens to people that are more familiar with SqueezeCenter than
iPod/iPhone that they have a different understanding of the UI concept.
As is written in the first chapter of the manual... (sorry for the pun)
I generally let the iPod UI
Hi all,
I know this may be hidden somewhere in the extensive documentation for
the CustomBrowse plug-in...but I dare to ask anyways:
When generating a new mix using MusicIP Mixer using the iPeng skin on
my iPod Touch, everything works as expected.
But...how do I get the generated mix to
Sune;274745 Wrote:
Hi all,
Note: Using CustomBrowse on iPeng seems a bit slow when donethrough
iPeng instead of directly on the SqueezeBox, but I cannot tell if it's
iPeng, CustomBrowse or the SqueezeCenter web-server that is causing the
slowness...I do suspect it's the whole web interface
iPeng is in general a bit slow, but I suspect the iPod Touch browser to
be the issue here.
However, where I really notice this is with CustomBrowse. Wonder why -
perhaps it's the rendering of the long menus (some takes forever to
scroll through). I have 1000+ albums and approx. as many
Sune;274745 Wrote:
I'd like to shorten this procedure to b and then a play command
that makes the new mix start playing, replacing whatever other playlist
I had going (this is how MusicIP Mix'es works when activated directly
from my SqueezeBox w/o the use of CustomBrowse).
I think it
How is this expected to work? The default mixers Custom Browse gives me
(e.g. Random Mix, I don't have MusicIP) do exactly what you expect. I
don't even have a + on the mixer screen.
I can confirm, that CustomBrowse is actually slower on long lists than
the native iPeng screens, even though I
pippin;274828 Wrote:
How is this expected to work? The default mixers Custom Browse gives me
(e.g. Random Mix, I don't have MusicIP) do exactly what you expect. I
don't even have a + on the mixer screen.
You need to configure MusicIP and configure SqueezeCenter to perform
scanning with
It's great with this quick ping-pong. It makes it fun to give feedback
in a forum - I almost feel like I participate in the development,
although all I do is whine ;-)
Anyway - one thing caught my eye here:
There is no standard play buttom in the iPeng setup, you say? There
definately should
Sune;274843 Wrote:
- I would like to have a play buttom for an artist, so I can play
everything from this artist (like it, as it works on my SB with the
remote - pressing play on an artist, replaces the playlist with all
tracks from the chosen artist...and it still remembers my shuffle
OK, being a UI-is-something-you-use guy, I haven't read the full
manual (but I have read bits and pieces).
Going for an artist, let me get the proper procedure for playing
everything from that artist straight, starting from the following
assumption:
- I currently have a playlist with 30
Sune;274843 Wrote:
I also found the reason for this lacking in most iPeng menus: Clicking
the track title will make it play, hence no need for a play buttom. And
when browsing playlists / Random Mix'es, then there *is* a play buttom.
However. It should be there more places, I think:
-
Sune;274874 Wrote:
OK, being a UI-is-something-you-use guy, I haven't read the full
manual (but I have read bits and pieces).
I can see that ;-) But I understand. I never read a manual, too. Will
call it FAQ in the next update
Ok. This works. But I could have saved a bit of waiting time
OK, you beat me on this one ;-)
erland;274886 Wrote:
pippin, would it be possible to detect and use the event when you hold
down the play button for a while in some way to make a single click
result in add but holding down the button a while result in play,
or is the hold event limited to
pippin;274855 Wrote:
I haven't taken too deep a look at custom browse, but my impression was
it works just as the standard screens?
I've tried to implement the same behaviour as in the standard screens,
but I think there are still a few things which works differently in
Custom Browse. So
Ok, just noticed it, All Tracks doesn't yet work wit CB. But my
description was for simple iPeng anyway. I have to admit that I use
CB only for the features iPeng doesn't have (i love Decades, for
example).
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