Update apps - news ?
Posted by: james n on 20 October 2011
Any news on when they will be out. IIRC Beta testing had been completed ?
Thanks
James
Sorry I don't know.
So the only new things are a few trivial presentational bits and pieces. Don't hurry home for this Allen!
Keith
Just downloaded 2.2, and unless I am missing something, it is still the same old tedious navigation model. I still have to go from All Artists/Artist Name/All Albums/Album Name/Song in order to play music. Once an artist name is selected, why can't it just show all albums? Sigh. And I still have to walk back up, step-by-step. Why no escape to All Artists button? Manu was, of course, correct -- no playlists. I do see a new right arrow to access the (minimal) file info, and then left arrow to come back again to the player screen. And the library/player toggle has moved to a button in the upper right hand portion of the screen....
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Hook
Hook,
Mmmm - some of that behaviour (the All Artists/Artist Name/All Albums/Album Name/Song part) doesn't seem to be part of n-Stream - it needs to be supported by the uPnP server. I'm using Twonky into an NDX and I can go from the top level Music to Artist/Album, select an artist and then directly the album... I can even go to a listing of all tracks (though it does take a while to fully load). All n-Stream seems to do is mimic what the upnp server supports.
But even after the update its all a bit minimalist and there's some rather odd behaviour around volume control depending on what's in focus. [I'm using automation between the NDX, Supernait and CD5XS...]
But it works, it does seem a bit more responsive. I think it crashes a bit more than it did before (first gen IPAD, IOS5) but only after the ipad has locked itself....
Still, n-Stream could easily store the path and let the user jump further down the tree, not forcing the retarded step by step schema. This should be a no-brainer for anyone with some UI experience.
iPad's display real estate is pretty much wasted on the app. The new "frame" around the cover art area doesn't fool anybody about the fact and the backround gradient is still horrid. It works but is cumbersome & ugly.
Yes indeed. Even if you end up with the prototypical IOS 'mail UI' with floating list windows - just like plugplayer
And even with the frame around it, the re-rendering of the artwork is not good. [That might not be n-Stream - might just my set up - will have to have a look with something else.]
<Edit: - no, the graphic thing is n-Stream. Sigh>
Just downloaded 2.2, and unless I am missing something, it is still the same old tedious navigation model. I still have to go from All Artists/Artist Name/All Albums/Album Name/Song in order to play music. Once an artist name is selected, why can't it just show all albums? Sigh. And I still have to walk back up, step-by-step. Why no escape to All Artists button? Manu was, of course, correct -- no playlists. I do see a new right arrow to access the (minimal) file info, and then left arrow to come back again to the player screen. And the library/player toggle has moved to a button in the upper right hand portion of the screen....
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Hook
Hook,
Mmmm - some of that behaviour (the All Artists/Artist Name/All Albums/Album Name/Song part) doesn't seem to be part of n-Stream - it needs to be supported by the uPnP server. I'm using Twonky into an NDX and I can go from the top level Music to Artist/Album, select an artist and then directly the album... I can even go to a listing of all tracks (though it does take a while to fully load). All n-Stream seems to do is mimic what the upnp server supports.
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Hi Slioch -
You are 100% correct. When I looked at Artist/Album in Asset's browse tree, I saw below that there was a box labeled [A-Z] that was checked! Unchecking it, and restarting Asset, eliminated this annoying extra step. Now when I select an Artist, I immediately get their list of Albums. Thank goodness -- this was really bugging me! Thank you so much!
Hook