After a long time and a lot of hard work, SqueezeCommander 0.9.6 finally arrives on AndroidMarket and on SlideME.

This version contains a lot of changes.

It has a new UI (similar to a well-known iOS app) and many new features.
You can now use Drag-And-Drop in the Playlist and the PlayerServerScreen (to sync/move players).
SqueezePlay/Jive menus do work now, i.e. most plugins will probably work.
If you enter an album, you can now select a default “playmode” (play/add/playnext) that will be used if you tap on an item.

Some new screenshots can be found at:
http://slideme.org/en/application/squeeze-commander

I’ll update the documentation to the new version in the next few days:
http://www.squeezecommander.com/doc

If you find any bugs/problems, please drop me a line at
android ATT flattermann DOTT net
or open a ticket in the tracker
http://www.squeezecommander.com/trac

Changelog of 0.9.6:
- Complete rewrite of most of the code
- Implemented SqueezePlay Menus (i.e. most plugins should work now)
- Adding Favorites does work
- Caching of Artists/Albums/Genres implemented
- Added Option to “Play other Tracks in Album”
- Random Mix
- Change the volume of all synchronized players
- Fixed Pandora Idle-Timeout-Bug
- MainMenu saves the last position
- A-Z index for Albums/Artists/Genres
- CustomBrowse support
- SongInfo support (e.g. for Lyrics)
- Auto text-size for most items
- Transcoding (e.g. FLAC to MP3) when downloading (needs SBS 7.6+)
- Expert Option to ignore Players or Servers
- Added HiRes and LowRes icons
- Swipe gesture (left-to-right) to go back within HomeMenu
- Caching of SqueezePlay menus where supported (e.g. CustomBrowse)
- Option to pre-fetch all album artwork after a DB Sync

Have fun!

Phones running this firmware will not be able to receive UDP broadcasts (sending works fine).

The issue is described on http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8407

That makes apps that rely on UDP broadcasts, like SqueezeConfig, not working.

Fortunately, if you have root access to your phone, there is a solution!

As jimmychingala mentioned in the issue above, you only need to replace the wpa_supplicant binary with a working version.

I’ve now created a small app that will accomplish this task.

I’ve tested it with my HTC Hero running stock 2.1-update1 firmware and it’s working fine.

If you have another HTC phone running 2.1/2.2 and encounter the UDP issue, feel free to also try the app.
Please add a comment and tell me if it works for you.

The app will create a backup of wpa_supplicant on your sdcard first (/sdcard/wpa_supplicant.bak).
If anything goes wrong, you should be able to revert to your original version.

Anyway, a nandroid backup of your phone before using this app is strongly recommended.

You can download it from the Android Market (direct Market link or use the QR code) or from my server:
HtcUdpBroadcastFix.apk

You can also download the source code if you like:
HtcUdpBroadcastFix.src.tgz

After patching the wpa_supplicant binary, you can safely remove the app to save some space.

The app is licensed GPL:

(c) Christian Erpelding aka flattermann, http://www.flattermann.net

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

Version 0.9.5.1 is mostly a bugfix release:

• Added App2SD for Android 2.2+
  
• Fixed TrackStat problem
• Fixed cover art download problem
• No confirmation dialog when downloading single files
• Allow downloads to internal storage (“/emmc”), where applicable
• Fixed WOL config problem/crash
• Fixed alarm playlist selection on MySB
• Several smaller bugfixes

You can find the full ChangeLog here:
http://www.squeezecommander.com/trac/query?status=closed&group=resolution&milestone=0.9.5.1

As always, please report any problems in the Tracker:
http://www.squeezecommander.com/trac/

Have fun!

Christian

This release includes many new, cool features and several bugfixes.

New key features are:

• Support Love/Ban/Thumbs for LastFM/Pandora/Slacker
• Support Alarms
• Support Sleep Timers
• Support TrackStat Rating
• Support Digital Inputs for SB Transporter
• Downloaded Music now includes Cover Art
• It finally includes a ChangeLog (MENU / ChangeLog)

I think this is a pretty nice release and I hope that you’ll have fun with it!

You can find the full ChangeLog here:
http://www.squeezecommander.com/trac/query?status=closed&group=resolution&milestone=0.9.5

As always, please report any problems in the Tracker:
http://www.squeezecommander.com/trac/

Have a great day!

Christian

In this case, you should take a look at the SheevaPlug embedded PC.

It’s not exactly very pretty, but it’s cheap (~100$) and it serves it purpose. It uses a 1.2GHz ARM CPU, 512MB RAM and uses as little as 2.3W (idle) to 7W (100% CPU usage).

You can attach an external USB drive to store your music on and install the SqueezeBoxServer to serve the music to your SqueezeBoxes.

Thomas Rühl created some images for the SheevaPlug that include the SqueezeBoxServer. His project is called SqueezePlug. It makes it very easy to get the SBS on SheevaPlug running.

Of course, it’s perfectly controllable with your Android mobile using SqueezeCommander.