I broke down and got a new iPad–too many apps now just won’t work on my old first-gen version. (I’m annoyed about that, but it’s a different discussion.)
Got the new mcontrol app. Having vtuner will be nice and it can do some cool things like upgrade the firmware from within the app (not yet, of course, since Dennis hasn’t posted it; but the facility is there).
But this version does NOT address the issues I have had for a long time with mconnect, one serious and one less so.
#1: if you set up some music in the playing queue and then go off to check email or look at some websites, mconnect/mcontrol is apt to quit and lose the music you queued up. It doesn’t always do so. I don’t know whether it’s a time issue (you don’t interact with it for X minutes) or an issue of resources in iOS (an app that isn’t actively in use must give up its memory if other apps need it). But either way, mconnect/mcontrol should save the queue. Safari, for instance, keeps track of what web pages you had open. When you go back to it, the pages are not actually open (that’s OK, saves memory or whatever) but the addresses are there on each tab so it’s easy to reload. Losing a carefully constructed queue with the music I want tonight is not acceptable.
#2: mconnect/mcontrol does not provide the option to remember the renderer and library that were used in the last session. Every time I start I must tell it to use the same settings as I used before. The first few times it’s no big deal. By the 200th time it’s really annoying. (Remembering previous settings should be an option, not a default, since some people carry devices around when they are out and about. But my iPad lives in the listening room.)
I know PSA works with mconnect so maybe you could pass these comments along.