Release Notes

1.1.3
  • iPhone / iPod touch
    • Fixed: Updated the text shadow on the speakers screen to match WebKit changes
  • Pocket PC
    • 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 Pocket PC 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: Unchecked tracks can now be the first track played in the queue
    • Fixed: Using playlist remove now removes the correct playlist item in iTunes
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
  • Pocket PC
    • 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
  • Pocket PC
    • 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
  • Pocket PC
    • 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
  • Pocket PC
    • 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 Pocket PC client
    • Fixed: Files in paths containing extended characters can now be played
    • Fixed: Resolved 404 error when attempting to install the Pocket PC 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