Comments on: Introducing Signal http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:55:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Mike http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/comment-page-2/#comment-3859 Mike Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:12:08 +0000 http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/#comment-3859 Hey Matt, I'm trying to resurrect Signal after a time away. I've got it controlling iTunes on my Mac Pro, but the songs aren't coming through the output jack on my Airport Express. Any thoughts? Thanks, Mike Hey Matt,

I’m trying to resurrect Signal after a time away. I’ve got it controlling iTunes on my Mac Pro, but the songs aren’t coming through the output jack on my Airport Express.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Mike

]]> By: Matt Stevens http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/comment-page-2/#comment-2767 Matt Stevens Sun, 11 May 2008 22:25:20 +0000 http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/#comment-2767 <strong>Reza:</strong> Thanks! Currently Signal doesn't support native reading of album art through Winamp, but if an internet connection is available it will use this to search for album art online. If album art is available on the file system (e.g. folder.jpg) this will be picked up as well. This is highly configurable, so if the album art is stored in image files on the file system Signal can probably be configured to read it. I'll also look into the Winamp APIs to see if these has been updated to expose album art. Reza: Thanks! Currently Signal doesn’t support native reading of album art through Winamp, but if an internet connection is available it will use this to search for album art online. If album art is available on the file system (e.g. folder.jpg) this will be picked up as well. This is highly configurable, so if the album art is stored in image files on the file system Signal can probably be configured to read it. I’ll also look into the Winamp APIs to see if these has been updated to expose album art.

]]> By: Reza http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/comment-page-2/#comment-2749 Reza Sun, 11 May 2008 06:59:47 +0000 http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/#comment-2749 Hi Matt, Congratulation for a great product, Love it! I'm using O2 PDA with WM6 Professional and link it with Winamp. Although all my music are kept in albums, with the respective album art, it doesn't show in my PDA. I just see it shows once, after which its gone again. Can you please tell me what do i need to do as it really annoys me. Thank you very much for the assistance. Regards, R Hi Matt,

Congratulation for a great product, Love it!
I’m using O2 PDA with WM6 Professional and link it with Winamp.
Although all my music are kept in albums, with the respective album art, it doesn’t show in my PDA.

I just see it shows once, after which its gone again.

Can you please tell me what do i need to do as it really annoys me.

Thank you very much for the assistance.

Regards, R

]]> By: D.Spiljard http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/comment-page-2/#comment-1118 D.Spiljard Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:18:43 +0000 http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/#comment-1118 So I upgraded my Winamp Remote to Signal. I have it on a HTC Tynt in combination with Windows XP, iTunes and Airport Express. At first I installed on the SD card but that gave a lot of hangs, very slow response and a queue that you couldn't remove and gets everlasting longer. So don't try this at home. Reinstalling in main memory works much better. When switching it on it sometimes takes only 3 secs to contact the network and update the screen. My compliments for this. This is however not always the case. Sometimes (I'm trying to find out why) it acts extremely slow and inresponsive. The lines appear in the queue one by one with 10 secs in between. The lbrary is then inresponsive for several minutes. When I set the up/down keys(=scroll-wheel) to control the volume, they keep doing this while browsing media. This is not the case with the left/right-buttons, These can be used for both. In Winamp Remote this worked all fine. All hardware keys could be keymapped and when browsing be used for browsing your media. Now I have to use my stylus This is realy no improvement. Request: When my mobile pocket pc phone gets a call, pause the music ? Would be very nice since the keymapping doesn't work at that time. Keeping the keymapping going is also a nice solution. Ability to copy the Signal queue to a playlist ? An airfoil-like control would be very nice. I'm the first to upgrade when you fix this ! So I upgraded my Winamp Remote to Signal. I have it on a HTC Tynt in combination with Windows XP, iTunes and Airport Express. At first I installed on the SD card but that gave a lot of hangs, very slow response and a queue that you couldn’t remove and gets everlasting longer. So don’t try this at home. Reinstalling in main memory works much better. When switching it on it sometimes takes only 3 secs to contact the network and update the screen. My compliments for this. This is however not always the case. Sometimes (I’m trying to find out why) it acts extremely slow and inresponsive. The lines appear in the queue one by one with 10 secs in between. The lbrary is then inresponsive for several minutes.

When I set the up/down keys(=scroll-wheel) to control the volume, they keep doing this while browsing media. This is not the case with the left/right-buttons, These can be used for both. In Winamp Remote this worked all fine. All hardware keys could be keymapped and when browsing be used for browsing your media. Now I have to use my stylus This is realy no improvement.

Request:
When my mobile pocket pc phone gets a call, pause the music ? Would be very nice since the keymapping doesn’t work at that time. Keeping the keymapping going is also a nice solution.
Ability to copy the Signal queue to a playlist ?
An airfoil-like control would be very nice. I’m the first to upgrade when you fix this !

]]> By: JAESINN http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/comment-page-2/#comment-929 JAESINN Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:59:34 +0000 http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/#comment-929 DUDE THIS APP IS BAD!!!!!!!!! I INSTALLED SIGNAL ON MY WINDOWS XP SP2, BASED VAIO LAPTOP, AND THEN READ THE BLOGS ON THIS PAGE TO MAKE SURE I DID EVERYTHING RIGHT. I THEN ENTERED THE URL ONTO MY IPHONE AND SIGNAL WORKED ON THE FIRST SHOT AWESOME. THIS IS MY FIRST APP I GOT FOR MY IPHONE AND I LOVE IT. I CAN LAY IN MY BED AND JUST CONTROL MY MUSIC RIGHT FROM MY IPHONE. LOVE IT MAN, AND AM GOING TO PURCHASE AS SOON AS I CAN, THANKS GUYS! DUDE THIS APP IS BAD!!!!!!!!!
I INSTALLED SIGNAL ON MY WINDOWS XP SP2, BASED VAIO LAPTOP, AND THEN READ THE BLOGS ON THIS PAGE TO MAKE SURE I DID EVERYTHING RIGHT. I THEN ENTERED THE URL ONTO MY IPHONE AND SIGNAL WORKED ON THE FIRST SHOT AWESOME. THIS IS MY FIRST APP I GOT FOR MY IPHONE AND I LOVE IT. I CAN LAY IN MY BED AND JUST CONTROL MY MUSIC RIGHT FROM MY IPHONE.
LOVE IT MAN, AND AM GOING TO PURCHASE AS SOON AS I CAN, THANKS GUYS!

]]> By: Matt Stevens http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/comment-page-2/#comment-768 Matt Stevens Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:19:57 +0000 http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/#comment-768 <strong>Flint:</strong> Thanks! Streaming is on the list for consideration, but no promises yet. Flint: Thanks! Streaming is on the list for consideration, but no promises yet.

]]> By: Flint http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/comment-page-2/#comment-748 Flint Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:51:43 +0000 http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/#comment-748 This app is great! I love it! Thanks! I agree with some of the other people who posted here, It would be nice to be able to browse using album art. It would also be cool if it also streamed the music or video to the phone too.(maybe as an option?) I have some other ideas that I think would be cool too but I won't go into that right now but just had to say Thanks! I think this is a great product and I have been missing something like this since I got my iPhone. I used to have a Sony ericsson k790a that I liked alot and I used to use the bluetooth to do similar things. Sure wish that apple would open up the bluetooth capabilities on the iPhone! This app is great! I love it! Thanks! I agree with some of the other people who posted here, It would be nice to be able to browse using album art. It would also be cool if it also streamed the music or video to the phone too.(maybe as an option?) I have some other ideas that I think would be cool too but I won’t go into that right now but just had to say Thanks! I think this is a great product and I have been missing something like this since I got my iPhone. I used to have a Sony ericsson k790a that I liked alot and I used to use the bluetooth to do similar things. Sure wish that apple would open up the bluetooth capabilities on the iPhone!

]]> By: Matt Stevens http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/comment-page-2/#comment-598 Matt Stevens Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:13:15 +0000 http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/#comment-598 <strong>Jake:</strong> I'm going to take a stab here and guess that you're using Signal on Windows with iTunes. If that's true, try pulling up the Signal settings window on the computer and press Ctrl+Shift+D. This should bring up the application's debug log. If you see a message in red that reads something like "iTunes is not installed or not accessible", you have probably run into a situation where iTunes did not properly register its programming interface when it was last installed or upgraded. To fix this, exit out of iTunes, Signal, and any other application that interfaces with iTunes, then re-install iTunes. This should take care of the problem for you. <strong>MrWizzer:</strong> Have you restarted Signal since selecting a new library in iTunes? Currently Signal doesn't monitor for library location changes while it is running, but will check for a new library the next time it is started. I've been thinking about how to better incorporate album artwork into the web interface, I'll be playing around for a few ideas for this post-1.1. Thanks for the comments! Jake: I’m going to take a stab here and guess that you’re using Signal on Windows with iTunes. If that’s true, try pulling up the Signal settings window on the computer and press Ctrl+Shift+D. This should bring up the application’s debug log. If you see a message in red that reads something like “iTunes is not installed or not accessible”, you have probably run into a situation where iTunes did not properly register its programming interface when it was last installed or upgraded. To fix this, exit out of iTunes, Signal, and any other application that interfaces with iTunes, then re-install iTunes. This should take care of the problem for you.

MrWizzer: Have you restarted Signal since selecting a new library in iTunes? Currently Signal doesn’t monitor for library location changes while it is running, but will check for a new library the next time it is started.

I’ve been thinking about how to better incorporate album artwork into the web interface, I’ll be playing around for a few ideas for this post-1.1.

Thanks for the comments!

]]> By: MrWizzer http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/comment-page-2/#comment-580 MrWizzer Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:47:53 +0000 http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/#comment-580 Hi Matt! Just purchased signal. Love it! Nice work! Perusing your release notes, I discovered, thanks to you, that one can have iTunes load a different library by holding the option key when starting iTunes. So, I can see and choose the playlists from the alternate library in iTunes, but Signal is still only displaying the original local playlists. : ( Is there a way to see the playlists that correlate to the alternate itunes library in Signal? Also, if you can't incorporate Coverflow for now, do you think you could find a way to let Signal browse Albums via album artwork, just without the fancy flipping animation Coverflow has? That would really bring back the good old days of browsing your album collection. Thanks again for a great ap! Mike Hi Matt!

Just purchased signal. Love it! Nice work!

Perusing your release notes, I discovered, thanks to you, that one can have iTunes load a different library by holding the option key when starting iTunes.

So, I can see and choose the playlists from the alternate library in iTunes, but Signal is still only displaying the original local playlists. : (

Is there a way to see the playlists that correlate to the alternate itunes library in Signal?

Also, if you can’t incorporate Coverflow for now, do you think you could find a way to let Signal browse Albums via album artwork, just without the fancy flipping animation Coverflow has? That would really bring back the good old days of browsing your album collection.

Thanks again for a great ap!

Mike

]]> By: Jake http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/comment-page-2/#comment-548 Jake Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:42:34 +0000 http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2007/07/13/introducing-signal/#comment-548 I downloaded Signal and installed it and went to the address on my iPhone the box gave me. I can see my content on the phone but I can not control it at all. I need some help. This app. looks awesome so I am very eager to get it working. I downloaded Signal and installed it and went to the address on my iPhone the box gave me. I can see my content on the phone but I can not control it at all. I need some help. This app. looks awesome so I am very eager to get it working.

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