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Comment on iPeng Adds Back Support for Older Devices, Your Route to a Budget Player by coolio

coolio — Sat, 25 May 2013 18:43:00 +0000

It’s not possible to make older versions of App Store Apps available, sorry.

What you are seeing sounds like your WiFi connection breaks down after 12h.
We’ve seen this, too, on older devices, it seems to be an issue with either the device itself, the iOS version or – most likely – a compatibility issue between routers and the iPhone. Back when the originla iPhone platforms were developed, the 802.11n standard wasn’t completely finalized so all older chipsets had some kind of workarounds that occassionally cause compatibility issues.

Do you see similar problems with the newer device?

Comment on iPeng Adds Back Support for Older Devices, Your Route to a Budget Player by mle

mle — Sat, 25 May 2013 23:26:00 +0000

do you make available the older ipeng app versions for download so one could possibly test for bugs presence?

Comment on iPeng Adds Back Support for Older Devices, Your Route to a Budget Player by mle

mle — Sat, 25 May 2013 23:15:00 +0000

hi, great to hear about backward support !!!
i just resuscitated my old 3g and turned it into a sb player using ipeng.
there seems to be a bug though in 2.0.10, i use “preserve connection”, “prevent sleepmode” and “proximity sensing ” but usually after around 12 hours the player “disappear ” and when i lift the phone up it shows “your player was not found” where usually the player name is displayed. ipeng interface seems to be stuck and only after a while ( touching different controls ) ipeng comes alive and player name is again displayed. the ios version on 3g is 4.2.1. i’ll try the same with 3gs and report back if the bug reveals itself on it as well with ios 6.1.2.
did anyone reported such behavior already?

Comment on Playback Comes to iPeng! by coolio

coolio — Sat, 25 May 2013 01:22:00 +0000

Hi,

the player App works with 1.6.1 and older hardware, the only thing that will not work as well is the synchronization. The playback feature otherwise is pretty much the same in 1.6.1 and 2.0.x.

The problem you are facing is that iPeng for iPhone and iPeng for iPad are different Apps and the App Store can’t share In-App-Purchases between them, that requires iCloud which doesn’t work under iOS 4.2.

The one thing you _can_ do is install iPeng (the iPhone version) on the iPad, too. There you will be able to purchase the feature for $1 again and if you do that you will be able to restore it on the iPhone 3G.

If you want a refund on the duplicate purchase, please drop me a mail under coolio (att) penguinlovesmusic (dott) com.

Comment on Playback Comes to iPeng! by PDK

PDK — Sat, 25 May 2013 14:56:00 +0000

Hi. I have the older iphone version 1.6.1 running on an old iphone 3G. I purchased the new ipad version and was able to do the $1.00 install of the player app on my ipad after installing both versions; however, when I tried to “Restore Previous Purchase” on my iphone, I can’t get playback on 1.6.1 (iphone).

I did the ipad purchases over the air, but my original ipeng 1.6.1 was purchased through iTunes. Do I need to sync both my iphone and ipad with iTunes? or do I need to re-purchase the player app for 1.6.1 ($4.99) because it is not the latest version (V2)? Does the player app even work with 1.6.1 on old hardware?

Thanks.

Comment on Playback Comes to iPeng! by SiliconLunch

SiliconLunch — Sat, 25 May 2013 13:18:00 +0000

That’s awesome, thanks. Just the info I was looking for.

“Bitrate 926kbps VBR (converted to 320kbps MP3)”

With the old Fishbone skin, you could see this info on the browser interface.

Comment on Playback Comes to iPeng! by coolio

coolio — Sat, 25 May 2013 03:53:00 +0000

Yes, you can .
On the NowPlaying screen, just “hold” the cover art and you get to a context menu. This does have a “More Info” menu which includes the format in which the server streams _to_ iPeng.

iPeng itself doesn’t manipulate the format (e.g. downsample or something) but iOS might if your output device doesn’t support the format in which iPeng is processing the data; and on iPhone/iPod no sample rates higher than 96kHz are supported anyway, so iOS would downsample these.

iPeng also has it’s own bitrate limitation settings under the player settings.

Comment on Playback Comes to iPeng! by SiliconLunch

SiliconLunch — Sat, 25 May 2013 03:15:00 +0000

Hi, Just installed iPeng 2.0.3 + playback option, it already rocks. Great effort, thanks.

One question: is it possible to tell somehow what format & bitrate the music playing through iPeng is currently being transmitted over the network to the iPhone? As advanced users know, there are many audio options with Slim devices system.

Eg:
Audio streamed in native format or transcoded?
If transcoding is enabled, is it being done at the source (Slim server) or the destination (iphone)?
Cellular vs. WiFi network access?

Is there any way I can tell what’s happening, either at the Slim Server side or the iPeng player side? Because I am seeing some occasional dropouts and I suspect I am streaming FLAC, just want to confirm what’s actually happening.

Comment on iPeng Goes Audiophile by coolio

coolio — Sat, 25 May 2013 20:46:00 +0000

Robert,

thanks for reporting back.
Actually it’s a better solution than the dock I believe since AFAIK docks will not support the 96kHz playback but only 48kHz, only the Camera Kit seems to support the 96kHz.

Comment on iPeng Goes Audiophile by Grumpy Bob

Grumpy Bob — Sat, 25 May 2013 19:15:00 +0000

I’ve now got it working – this might be helpful to your users!

I have a small 4 x USB hub (generic I think, but branded Nikkai), with a fifth micro USB socket and a 5V input. With the iPad/camera connection adapter connected to the micro USB and the DAC connected to one of the USB sockets, everything seems to work, with no errors thrown. I didn’t need to add power to the hub. As an additional bonus, the small hub glows green!

Robert