iSub Version 3.0 Released - iPhone, iTouch, and iPad client

[beezy]

Also guys, definitely come visit us over at the iSub forum at http://isubapp.com/forum for everything iSub related. I try to be as active as possible, and if you have an iSub specific issue, that or directly emailing me will get the fastest response.

I'll check it.

No I won't be quiting the app over aesthetics, that would be dumb. My buddy uses a different app on the iPhone, I have tried it, it is not as good imo. Your app kicks ass and I am sure it will kick more as it progresses. My gripe about the icon is extremely minor. I am going to check out your board, see ya there.

[thomasbruce]

The actual updated features are great, I thank you. The new icon and overall aesthetics look terrible tho. That's not that big of a deal to me but I have to be honest with you

+1

Love the app and all it's features but the UI could use some cleaning up and some of the graphics/UI elements looks like it's from the 90's. Maybe I'm a bit of a perfectionist but I think the aesthetics and that it is user friendly is as important as features are. In some cases even more important. Maybe get some help from someone with some photoshop skills and and UI experience to help clean the look and feel of the app up a bit. This is just constructive criticism, as I said, I love the app it's the best one by far!!

[jah]

I'm thinking about getting one of the new iPad's (even after all of the parodies about it). This + Video Support + iPad + AirPlay would be the steady-state zen of the connected media center. I'm sure the video parameters are pretty constrained for Air Play, but that part's easy if you have a transcoder-line people can just copy/paste into the subsonic settings. Really looking forward to seeing this feature...is flv-encapsulation a roadblock btw?

[einsteinx2]

The actual updated features are great, I thank you. The new icon and overall aesthetics look terrible tho. That's not that big of a deal to me but I have to be honest with you

+1

Love the app and all it's features but the UI could use some cleaning up and some of the graphics/UI elements looks like it's from the 90's. Maybe I'm a bit of a perfectionist but I think the aesthetics and that it is user friendly is as important as features are. In some cases even more important. Maybe get some help from someone with some photoshop skills and and UI experience to help clean the look and feel of the app up a bit. This is just constructive criticism, as I said, I love the app it's the best one by far!!

The look and feel of iSub will continue to evolve. Honing the UI is a big priority along with some major reworking of the internals to support cool stuff like an equalizer, visualizer, and gapless playback. I'm also about to do a major revamp of the playlist functions to make that process a lot more user friendly. I'm also getting rid of the separate offline and online modes and a lot of the annoying alert popups. After that I'll shift focus to other areas of the app to try and smooth out the rest rough edges in the user experience. And that's just for the 3.0.x and 3.1 releases. I have plans for 4.0 to bring another huge graphical overhaul as big as the difference between the 2.x and 3.0 releases, which will hopefully be more universally liked.

I'm thinking about getting one of the new iPad's (even after all of the parodies about it). This + Video Support + iPad + AirPlay would be the steady-state zen of the connected media center. I'm sure the video parameters are pretty constrained for Air Play, but that part's easy if you have a transcoder-line people can just copy/paste into the subsonic settings. Really looking forward to seeing this feature...is flv-encapsulation a roadblock btw?

The issue preventing me from implementing video support is that Apple only allows the HTTP Live Streaming format to be used in iOS apps, and currently Subsonic can not convert video to that format. Once Subsonic is capable of creating and serving this video format, iSub will get video playback support.

[OlYeller21]

The issue preventing me from implementing video support is that Apple only allows the HTTP Live Streaming format to be used in iOS apps

Has there been a Feature Request post made requesting this option? I'd like to go and add a +1 if there is.

[einsteinx2]

The issue preventing me from implementing video support is that Apple only allows the HTTP Live Streaming format to be used in iOS apps

Has there been a Feature Request post made requesting this option? I'd like to go and add a +1 if there is.

I'm actually in the process of coding support into Subsonic for HTTP Live Streaming right now. I'm looking to incorporate video support into iSub 3.1, which will be the next big feature update. Sindre is very accommodating and his code is very well organized, so I've been able to jump right in and get cracking at this problem. It's definitely possible, just a matter of me finding enough hours to work on it.