http://bookshelfapps.com/blog Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:15:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The new features include: Many updates to the Library browsing, including sorting and filtering. Sorting is alphabetical by default. In albums though the sorting is by track number. You can switch sort modes with the toolbar button. Adding a track to the playlist now does not switch tabs, this makes adding ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2008/12/songbook-11-for-iphone-released/ Sometimes there are bugs in iPhone apps that cannot be reproduced easily in a test environment. This is normally because the bug in some ways is specific to the environment that it occurs in, this may be due to network or hardware configuration (I don't have one of every Linn ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2008/12/sending-in-iphone-crash-reports/ I get a lot of questions about Album Art support in SongBook. Mostly the Album Art is dependent on your MediaServer, and unfortunately Twonky MediaServer is a bit difficult to set up with Album Art. Here are some hints to help get your Album Art working correctly with Twonky. In each ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2008/12/album-art/ From tomorrow for the next week or so I will be traveling and will not have consistent internet access. Normally I try to respond to support emails within a day or so. I know that lately the volume of emails has been really high and it has taken a while ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2008/12/travelling/ Some users have been reporting errors with SongBook startup. This has been narrowed down to users that do not have the latest Linn firmware, so the fastest solution is to upgrade your firmware (using LinnConfig) to the latest Linn version. I do think that SongBook should be compatible with all firmware ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2008/12/songbook-discovery-issues/ A late announcement here, but as some people may have noticed I have been very busy lately. Apple have approved the latest SongBook iPhone release. I was rejected 3 times because SongBook would not play music, which, of course it was never designed to do. In the end I resorted ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2008/12/songbook-back-on-app-store/ Apple allow an iPhone developer to distribute a limited amount of copies of their applications using a mechanism called Ad Hoc Distribution. This is intended for testing purposes, but it can also be useful to send out a fix quickly. Installing with Ad Hoc Distribution is more difficult than buying through ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2008/11/installing-ad-hoc-iphone-applications/ I've taken the difficult decision to remove SongBook from the Apple App Store. The reason is that the currently approved release, version 1.0 has difficulty finding Linn products on a number of networks. I have fixed this issue in version 1.0.1, but it has so far twice been rejected from ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2008/11/songbook-iphone-removed-from-sale/ The first release of Mobile SongBook had quite a short search window for devices. It now appears that for many users this was too short. The problem was identified quickly and an update was submitted to Apple on the 29th October. The problem is now that Apple have not released ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2008/11/songbook-device-search-errors/ SongBook is now listed on the Apple App Store. The release came through in record time. For those of you that are not aware an iPhone application must go through an approval process by Apple. My first iPhone application, SecretBook, took quite a while to get approved, partially because there ... http://bookshelfapps.com/blog/2008/11/mobile-songbook-released/