Comments for Penguin Loves Music

Comment on Playback Comes to iPeng! by admin

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:26:00 +0000

There isn’t really anything to set up. If you are connected to a Logitech Media Server (formerly Squeezebox Server) your iPhone should then show up in the list of players (swipe right on NowPlaying) and you use it just like a Squeezebox.
http://penguinlovesmusic.de/ipeng-the-iphone-skin-for-squeezecenter/how-to-use-the-ipeng-application/nowplaying/
If it doesn’t, please send me a diagnostics mail from within iPeng (hut the mail link under “Help”).

Comment on Playback Comes to iPeng! by MickieDS

MickieDS — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:58:00 +0000

I just purchased the playback function to use my iPhone 4 as a player to stream music on my PC and cannot figure out how to make it play. Can you provide setup instructions?

Comment on iPeng goes iOS5 by coolio

coolio — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:31:00 +0000

I’m not aware about specific issues with iOS 5.1, is there anything you can reproduce?

There is a bigger update waiting for App Store approval for a while right now, we hope to get it approved this or early next week.

Comment on iPeng goes iOS5 by cthdt

cthdt — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:03:00 +0000

I get some ipeng crashes with iOS 5.1 on ipad2, are these known errors? Is there a new release imminent?

Comment on Playback Comes to iPeng! by coolio

coolio — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:49:00 +0000

Yes, I meant iOS.
When playing on a Squeezebox the mode depends on the Squeezebox model and the server settings.
The SB capabilities are as you described.

The only example is when you synchronize players, then a format will be chosen that is supported on all devices so if your SB3 is part of the sync group 24/96 will be resampled to 24/48.

Comment on Playback Comes to iPeng! by chuttt

chuttt — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:59:00 +0000

Thank you it pretty much answered all my questions. When you say iPeng play FLAC directly are you simply referring to the case in iOS ? I assume when it comes to squeezebox you just act as a control to SB server in which the server play directly to the squeezebox in whatever way (native or decode) its set up in the server.

The fact that you don’t implement another layer of volume control is a very good thing. Because by using the audio line out from the iPhone/iPad dock connector we can bypass the volume control (and the op amp) inside the iOS device and therefore gain best sound quality to my headphone amp and other stereo equipment.

Thank you.

Comment on Playback Comes to iPeng! by admin

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:36:00 +0000

Hi,

TODAY, iPeng plays FLAC directly but only up to 24/48 which is actually a bit of an accident in the protocol, iPeng can do 24/96, too, but since it doesn’t tell the server the server defaults to 24/48.

This will change with the next update which is due hopefully next week and will have a lot of improvements for playback (e.g. gapless and synchronization).

Now what happens “behind the scenes” in iPeng is that iPeng decodes FLAC to PCM (raw audio data) and throws that at the iOS device’s Audio Unit at up to 24/96 (depending on the format you have).
Now what iOS does then is re-sample that to 16/44.1 because that’s all iOS devices can actually play, they don’t have HD DACs or Audio processing (you also can’t do more than that on AirPlay, AppleTVs etc.). After this re-sampling, iPeng does some final in-the-loop procesing for synchronization and gapless playback (next version) and then the data is being sent back to iOS.

Volume control is NOT being done in the digital domain by iPEng but iPeng instead changes the playback volume on the iOS device. What the iOS device to handle the volume is something I don’t know, it may be a digital or an analog processing.

Dies this answer your question?

Comment on Playback Comes to iPeng! by chuttt

chuttt — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:01:00 +0000

Great feature I love it. Now that all my IOS devices are essentially squeezeboxes now!

I have a question, when I’m playing 24/96 FLAC files on these IOS devices what happens? On my squeezebox server I have FLAC as native meaning the individual SB are doing the D to A. So my squeezebox touch will decode natively the 24/96 and I know my older SB v3 will down sample as the dac there can’t do 24/96. So for these iOS device in playback what happens behind the curtain and is that adjustable?

Thx

Comment on New iPeng Versions Update Playback, Change Discount Model by Carlos6868

Carlos6868 — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:04:00 +0000

Sorted downloaded the iPhone app to the iPad and re-enabled playback

Cheers

Comment on New iPeng Versions Update Playback, Change Discount Model by Carlos6868

Carlos6868 — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:31:00 +0000

Just got the new iPad today and have downloaded iPeng to it but i no longer have the option of playing through the Ipad, the only option is to control my SB Touch.

It worked fine on my old iPad 1 and also works fine on my iPhone 4, i have deleted the app and redownloaded but its still the same.

Any ideas ?

Thanks for all your time and effort

Cheers, Carl