Release Notes
1.2.4
Windows Mobile
- Fixed a networking issue that could prevent some devices from connecting
Windows
- Fixed a bug preventing iTunes speaker selection from working when using an alternate library
- Fixed a networking issue caused by IPv6 being enabled under Windows XP
1.2.3
- Windows
- Fixed a bug that could cause a 404 error in the web interface
1.2.2
- Mac
- Support for opening the preference pane in 64-bit mode on Snow Leopard
1.2.1
All Platforms
- Fixed: The media library can now be accessed from paths containing extended characters
- Fixed: Resolved a potential hang issue with the web interface
Windows
- Fixed: Fixed several Unicode compatibility issues with Winamp
- Fixed: Folder-based album art images will be displayed again
1.2
Windows Mobile
- Converted menu and toolbar buttons to softkeys
- Live media library scrolling
- Improved reconnect time
- Fixed: Resolved a potential hang issue when reconnecting
All Platforms
- Improved Unicode support
- Improved album art display performance
- Improved media library indexing performance
- The station name is now displayed as the album for iTunes internet radio
- Added crossdomain.xml to support interfacing with Flash-based clients
- Fixed: Resolved a speaker selection compatibility issue with iTunes 8.2
Mac
- Signal is now a system preference pane
- Added automatic detection of changes to the iTunes library
- Substantially improved performance of playing or adding a collection of media items in iTunes
Windows
- Added Bonjour advertisement of the HTTP interface
- Added an option to start Signal when Windows starts
- Signal will now register itself with the Windows firewall automatically
- Substantially improved performance of playing or adding a collection of media items in WMP 11
- Fixed: Resolved an issue with updating the playback position in WMP
1.1.6
- iPhone / iPod touch
- Resolved a compatibility issue with iPhone OS 3.0
- Improved reconnect time
1.1.5
- Windows
- Fixed: Resolved a media library compatibility issue with Winamp 5.55
1.1.4
- Windows
- Fixed: Resolved a speaker selection compatibility issue with iTunes 8
1.1.3
iPhone / iPod touch
- Fixed: Updated the text shadow on the speakers screen to match WebKit changes
Windows Mobile
- Decreased album art download delays
- Fixed: Proxy settings are no longer used when downloading album art over the local network
All Platforms
- Added favicon to for the web interface
- Fixed: Resolved speaker selection compatibility issue with iTunes 8
- Fixed: An iTunes playlist folder with the same name as a playlist can now be browsed into
- Fixed: Album art is now displayed for tracks containing a title but no artist or album information
Mac
- Signal is now signed by a trusted CA, allowing it to be added to firewall rules automatically
- Fixed: Resolved an IPv6 issue preventing Windows Mobile client discovery from working on some systems
Windows
- Fixed: Star ratings are now set and read properly for WMP
- Fixed: Radio stations played through WMP can now be stopped using the play/pause button
1.1.2
iPhone / iPod touch
- Resolved a Safari compatibility issue
All Platforms
- Fixed: Selecting speakers with a CD selected in the iTunes window now works
- Fixed: Hidden iTunes playlists are no longer displayed within the media library
- Fixed: Fixed playlist sorting to sort playlists starting with lower-case characters properly
- Fixed: Improved tracking of iTunes library changes to not trigger a re-scan for playlist changes
Mac
- Fixed: Using playlist remove now removes the correct playlist item in iTunes
- Fixed: Unchecked tracks can now be the first track played in the queue
1.1.1
iPhone / iPod touch
- Optimized images for slightly faster load time
- Fixed: Resolved an issue with web interface upgrades
- Fixed: Bookmarks and automatic Safari reloads from somewhere other than Now Playing now redirect to Now Playing automatically
Windows Mobile
- Added new Signal icon, including high DPI versions
- Fixed: Corrected toolbar icon highlight alignment
- Fixed: Resolved an installation issue that could result in two Signal shortcuts being created
- Fixed: Resolved an issue that prevented the remote speaker menu from appearing in some configurations
- Fixed: Album art was not displayed for some devices through direct USB ActiveSync connections
All Platforms
- Fixed: Albums are now sorted by disc number before track number
- Fixed: iTunes is now automatically restored from minimized states when switching remote speakers
- Fixed: When playing or queuing an artist with only one album tracks are now sorted in disc and track order
- Fixed: Files tagged with a genre of "Podcast" no longer cause a second Podcast category to be displayed
- Fixed: Previous media library information is no longer wiped out if the library file cannot be read when Signal starts
Mac
- Fixed: Resolved issue with path handling for files on some remote volumes
1.1
iPhone / iPod touch
- WebClip icon
- Basic landscape support
- AirTunes speaker selection control
- Added alphabetic jump to media library
- Safari's back button can now be used for a one-tap return to the now playing screen
- Moved previous / next controls inward to help avoid hitting Safari's back or tab button accidentally
- Fixed: Album art is now displayed properly when accessed from outside the local network
- Fixed: Single song search results can again be interacted with properly
Windows Mobile
- AirTunes speaker selection control
- Fixed: Resolved an issue with the over-the-air install page not being shown for some WM6 devices
All Platforms
- Previous button now acts as backtrack when controlling iTunes
- Nokia internet tablets are now detected and redirected to the iPhone interface
- Podcasts are now a separate media category of their own, organized by podcast name and sorted by date
Mac
- Signal now advertises its web interface via Bonjour (it will appear in Safari's Bonjour bookmarks automatically)
- Fixed: Resolved an issue that could cause Signal to become unresponsive when iTunes was restarted
- Fixed: Resolved playlist update issues when using Party Shuffle
Windows
- Fixed: Added throttling to the iTunes media library update monitoring to stop iTunes from creating .tmp library files
1.0.4
iPhone / iPod touch
- Fixed: Long-running operations (adding many tracks at once) no longer get stuck in a repeated command loop
- Fixed: Resolved an issue with HTTP requests that could cause the interface to stop responding
Windows Mobile
- Fixed: Artists with just a single album now display the full track listing
Mac
- Server now resizes album art for improved display performance on clients
- Fixed: Resolved a crash bug when retrieving album art on Leopard
Windows
- Fixed: Track information is now displayed correctly for shared iTunes libraries
1.0.3
iPhone / iPod touch
- Media library back button now navigates back to search results
- Media library back button now remembers the previous page when browsing through multi-page search results
- Fixed: Using search from the top of the media library tree no longer results in the media library browse tree being inaccessible
- Fixed: Browse categories containing an asterisk, ampersand, or quotation mark can now be navigated into properly
Windows Mobile
- Fixed: Fixed a bug preventing the EQ preamp bar from working
- Fixed: Resolved an issue preventing software updates from working
All Platforms
- Video and TV shows are now played using the configured iTunes default playback preference (full screen, windowed, etc.)
- Updated server application interface to monitor for changes to the local IP address and update the displayed URL as needed
- If the default HTTP port is not available the application will now search for an available port
Mac
- iTunes is now started automatically whenever a web client connects
- Additional fixes for track titles and paths with extended characters
- Fixed: The EQ can again be controlled from the Windows Mobile client
- Fixed: Files in paths containing extended characters can now be played
- Fixed: Resolved 404 error when attempting to install the Windows Mobile client through the web interface
Windows
- Fixed a potential lock up issue on client connect when using iTunes or Windows Media Player
- Fixed: An error message is now displayed if the download of a software update fails
1.0.2
iPhone / iPod touch
- Added iPod touch support
- Added detection for JavaScript being disabled
- Updated playlist view to emphasize track title over artist name
- Lowered list font size slightly to allow more characters to fit on the screen
- The media library now retains its last view when jumping out using the header bar shortcut
- Fixed: Metadata and album art for songs with non-ASCII characters are now displayed properly
- Fixed: Browsing into and searching for artists or albums with special characters now works
- Fixed: Requests made while the iPhone is still on EDGE are now timed out and resent when Wi-Fi connectivity is re-established
- Fixed: Content requests no longer get "stuck" due to Safari trying to use the persistent connection even when it has another connection free
All Platforms
- Improved the web interface's cache handling
- Improved performance of iTunes music library indexing
- Fixed: Accessing the web interface through an alternate URL (e.g., public internet IP, dynamic DNS service) now works
Mac
- Added initial help documentation
- Fixed: Resolved a potential lock-up issue when starting the app
- Fixed: License owner names with UTF-8 encoded characters are now registered properly
Windows
- Added update notification interface
- Updated help documentation to include iPhone interface
- Further upgrade installation fixes for Windows Vista
1.0.1
iPhone
- Added queuing support
- Added song rating support
- Improved volume bar tap points for setting volume directly
- Moved volume bar to bottom of subcontrol screen and added volume up/down buttons
Mac
- Added support for resolving aliases when reading the iTunes Music Library.xml file
- Added support for reading the current media library when iTunes is using a non-default library
- Fixed: Artist and title information is now displayed for internet radio stations
- Fixed: Resolved a crash issue when reading the IP address on some systems
Windows
- Added support for reading the current media library when iTunes is using a non-default library
- Fixed: Resolved some installer issues under Windows Vista
- Fixed: iTunes album art is now read properly under Windows Vista
- Fixed: iTunes files added directly from network shares can now be played and added to the queue
1.0 (Changes since RemoteAmp 2.x)
- iPhone client
- Windows Media Player support
- Winamp media library support
- New media library interface
- Automatic album art retrieval
- Automatic updating
- iTunes queuing
- Database performance improvements
- Added support for iTunes playlist folders
- Added support for videos and TV shows
- Added track rating support
- Improved VGA support
- Changed: Current artist and title information is now read from iTunes radio stations if available
- Changed: Updated media library sorting to ignore any leading 'the' in the artist, album, or track name
- Changed: Prevented multiple instances of the application from being started
- Changed: Protected the media library from being corrupted if the application is shut down or killed while in the middle of an update
- Changed: Improved automatic library update triggering
- Fixed: Server no longer needs to be restarted between iTunes sessions (the COM interface dialog no longer appears if iTunes is closed before server)
- Fixed: An open dialog in iTunes no longer causes the client to blank out state information
- Fixed: Display of the current output position no longer gets cut off for internet radio stations that have been running for a long time
- Fixed: Stopped current output position from advancing beyond the total length of the current media item