Comments on: Signal 1.0.1.3 Now Available

By: Matt Stevens

Matt Stevens — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:19:17 +0000

Hilary: Signal does have issues with wide characters currently, this is being addressed in the upcoming 1.1 update.

Hassan: To connect your iPhone, start the Signal application on your Mac or PC, then open Safari on your iPhone. Tap on the address bar, then enter the web address displayed in the Signal application window. This will bring up the remote interface on your iPhone. To learn more about how to use the application, please see the program’s help file (under Help > Signal Help on a Mac or Start > Programs > Signal > Signal Help on a PC).

By: Hassan

Hassan — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:35:04 +0000

I need steps on how to actually connect my iphone and steps on how to use the application

By: Hilary

Hilary — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:23:17 +0000

Hi. Is there a problem with display non-English characters? It’s a great program, but I hope this can get fixed. Also, are there problems with displaying album art downloaded from Amazon? A lot of my album art are now showing.

By: Matt Stevens

Matt Stevens — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:58:19 +0000

Eric: Yep, this is a bug in the current version. It has been fixed in the update that will be coming out this week.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:08:49 +0000

Hi, great program but it seems to have problems when accessing songs and folders with quotation marks in the titles. It just seems to hang and not do anything. Would be great if you could fix this.

By: Matt Stevens

Matt Stevens — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:30:45 +0000

Barret: It’s certainly something worth looking into! If it’s possible to drive the Apple TV from iTunes it may be doable, but if everything goes through the Apple TV itself things get more complicated. Apple does not have any kind of development API for the Apple TV, so controlling it directly would require some hacking of the device which would limit its appeal. The user experience is not too great when the first step is “hack your Apple TV”.

Still, since there have been a number of requests for this I’ll pick one up and do some investigation.

By: Barrett

Barrett — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:12:55 +0000

How about Apple TV support? I sent an email requesting it. It really would make my ATV much more user friendly. I hate having to scroll through a mile long list with that apple remote. Using the iPhone would be fantastic.

By: Matt Stevens

Matt Stevens — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:25:21 +0000

John: Try tapping once on the album art image, this should bring up the additional controls which includes the volume, song rating, and playlist options. Please let me know if that doesn’t work for you and we’ll investigate to figure out why.

BTW: The 1.0.2 release includes some basic help documentation that describes the features available for both the iPhone / iPod Touch and Windows Mobile clients.

By: John Souchak

John Souchak — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:53:30 +0000

I am using Windows Vista Home with iTunes and my iPhone and the application is awesome and I am just about ready to buy, but I am curious about volume control. Supposedly it is in the product, but I see it nowhere in the web app with the latest download (9/18/07) and iTunes 7.4.2.4. Is there something hidden in the web app? Should I be able to remotely control the volume of iTunes as well as navigate through songs, playlists, start, and pause?

Maybe I need to do a full restart of the system?

By: Matt Stevens

Matt Stevens — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:19:42 +0000

Luiz: Try selecting the database to use in iTunes, then quitting out of both iTunes and Signal. After starting Signal and iTunes again, does it appear that the correct library is used?

Signal reads the setting of the last database used by iTunes, but iTunes may not update this file until it has been shut down after making the switch. You can look at Signal’s debug log to verify the path to the database read by holding down the option key while starting Signal. The debug log should display a line containing the path to the iTunes XML file read.

If that doesn’t help please send us an email at support@alloysoft.com and we’ll investigate further to find out what’s going on.