New UI in audio player Good or Bad?!?!?

Hello. My name is Igor, I am 26 I use iphone 4s and I am art director of Ukrainian gaming company. I own a media art resource and occupy a major position in the formation of youth media trends. I am a user of apple products and latest changes me extremely disappointed that led to my psychological disorder. Everything is connected with innovations that have appeared in the new operating system ios6. I perfectly understand your attitude towards innovations opened society and improvements, but it seems to me that the new operating system has become very ios6 crumb recycled and not coherent.(which in my opinion is the system Android) irritation causes the presence of different style interfaces, ending his excessive Visual similarity with Google apps. I understand that all your actions make sense, and you have an infinite number of competitors, but what I, a normal user? Who is so used to your products, strictly because of their conservative and solid approach? How do I generate the view that innovation does not pokazanye in presentations such as podcasts, audio player, itunes become better if it seems to me that much of this design for design? How can I now go back to normal sleep and not think about these changes?

I think that this would be more for something that would need to be submitted to Apple's feedback rather than a support subject.
Try the link below:
http://www.apple.com/contact/feedback.html

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    1) Can all my MP3 assets stay as is and still be streamed to the iOS Safari client? To the best of my knowledge, the key properties of my MP3 files are CBR, 44,100Hz, 320Kbps.
    2) If not, can they be converted on-the-fly by FMS or do I need to create additional audio assets to support HLS etc.?
    3) If I have to manually create additional audio assets, how do I do that (I’ve seen references to tools from both Adobe and Apple but not actually found the kits)?
    4) Some of the Adobe documentation I’ve read implies that FMS support for HLS etc. is only available when FMS is used in conjunction with the bundled Apache web server. As stated earlier, my entire site runs on IIS so does that mean to achieve what I want I’ll have to run two web servers on my physical server – IIS for the website itself and Apache for RTMP/HLS/etc.?
    5) What changes do I need to make to my current FMS configuration to get HLS to work? I’m sure someone has been here already and can enlighten me with their experience and hopefully point me to some straight forward documentation to follow!
    6) Lastly, and really part of (5), once I’ve got FMS configured correctly, what would be the typical path to a given MP3 audio file that I would give the iOS Safari browser to make this all work.
    I appreciate this is rather a lengthy first post but hopefully the background puts my questions (and confusion!) in context. Bottom line is… I simply want to be able to stream audio clips only (no video) to iOS Safari browsers from FMS v4.5.5 running on a Win2K8R2 platform with IIS v7.5, and with no audio content being stored (even temporarily) on the iOS platform.
    My thanks and appreciation in advance to anyone who can help me achieve this.
    Steve Barker
    Business IT Solutions

    Hi Apurva,
    Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately I am not much further forward, despite having read more Adobe documentation (FMS v4.5 Configuration and Administration Guide, FMS v4.5 Developer’s Guide) and trying different configuration options.
    First to confirm a point you made when answering point 4 yesterday. Yes, in my current RTMP scenario I have several MP3 assets (let’s call them Audio1.mp3, Audio2.mp3, Audio3.mp3, etc.) that are made available to a bespoke Flash/AS3 player via the LIVE application. I understand that as I purchased the Streaming Edition of FMS v4.5, a Flash-based player is restricted to using the LIVE application. You go on to say that I “publish” these assets to the LIVE application. I set this up a while back but do not recall having to “publish” anything. All I recall doing was to ensure that all the assets (the .mp3 files) were in a single folder and that the folder was identified by the <Streams> tag in the following file (example shown):
    Flash Media Server 4.5\applications\live\Application.xml
                    <StreamManager>
                                    <VirtualDirectory>
                                                    <Streams>/;C:\MP3Library</Streams>
                                    </VirtualDirectory>
                    </StreamManager>
    To the best of my knowledge, I didn’t have to do anything else to make the current solution work. Having read more of the documentation I am still none the wiser as to what I need to do (step-by-step) to “publish” my converted MP3 assets (see next paragraph) to the LIVEPKGR application. Please could you explain these steps to me by way of an example.
    WRT your answer to point 1 yesterday, I wish to clarify the exact output I need to create when converting my MP3 assets. Am I expected to produce a Audio1.aac file, or a Audio1.mp4, file, or a Audio1.m4a file, etc.? Or am I meant to be using ffmpeg (either directly or indirectly) with a much more sophisticated command line that somehow generates stream-rated info/files as well? An example of how you would use ffmpeg to convert one of my MP3 assets would be very much appreciated.
    Lastly, the coexistence of IIS and Apache (ref your answer to point 2 yesterday). That all made sense but given all the testing/changes I’ve been making I thought it wise to start afresh! So I completely removed FMS from my dev server and re-installed Flash Media Streaming Server v4.5.5 with the bundled Apache v2.2 server. When presented with the dialogue “Would you like for Apache to listen on port 80. If not FMS will be using port 80 instead.” I answered NO. When presented with the dialogue regarding FMS server ports, I entered 1935 NOT 1935,80 (should I have done that as the preamble makes reference to HTTP webserver proxy and HTTP Dynamic Streaming origin services?). I then modified the Application.xml file as described above.
    To test the new set-up, I did the following. First, the test environment…
    DEV Server
    Windows Web Server 2008 R2 SP1
    IIS v7.5
    ASP.NET v4.0
    Flash Media Streaming Server v4.5.5
    Apache v2.2
    IE v9.0
    Adobe Flash Player 11 ActiveX v11.5.502.146
    TEST Client
    Apple iMac (Intel)
    Mac OS X v10.6.8
    Safari v5.1.7
    Adobe Flash Player 11 Plug-in v11.5.502.146
    On DEV Server… launched IE and loaded the home page of my website, which has two elements on it – one to load/run our bespoke Flash player, the other to run JPlayer (configured to use HTTP). I selected our bespoke Flash player and it played a MP3 audio file. I verified this in real-time via the FMS Admin Console on the server.
    On TEST Client… entered http://192.168.20.250:8134 into Safari – it comes up with the FMS install completed / test your server page. In the middle of the video display area a black box appears saying “10000 OK” – I clicked OK. I then clicked HDS Single Bitrate – the video plays (Not Using Hardware Acceleration is briefly displayed). There is NO activity logged in the FMS Admin Console back on the DEV server under “live”, “livepkgr” or “vod”. I assume this is because I’ve gone straight to the Apache Server via the port reference – is that correct? Next I tried the HLS Single Bitrate – same results.
    The HDS Single Bitrate logs the following in the Apache access_log file:
    "GET /hds-vod/sample1_1500kbps.f4v.f4m HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" "Apple Mac OS X v10.6.8 CoreMedia v1.0.0.10K549"
    The HLS Single Bitrate logs this:
    "GET /hds-vod/sample1_1500kbps.f4v.f4m HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" "Apple Mac OS X v10.6.8 CoreMedia v1.0.0.10K549"
    "GET /hls-vod/sample1_1500kbps.f4v.m3u8 HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" "Apple Mac OS X v10.6.8 CoreMedia v1.0.0.10K549"
    "GET /hls-vod/sample1_1500kbps.f4v.m3u8 HTTP/1.1" 200 816 "-" "Apple Mac OS X v10.6.8 CoreMedia v1.0.0.10K549"
    "GET /hls-vod/sample1_1500kbps.f4vFrag1Num0.ts HTTP/1.1" 200 1143416 "-" "Apple Mac OS X v10.6.8 CoreMedia v1.0.0.10K549"
    "GET /hls-vod/sample1_1500kbps.f4vFrag1Num1.ts HTTP/1.1" 200 873072 "-" "Apple Mac OS X v10.6.8 CoreMedia v1.0.0.10K549"
    "GET /hls-vod/sample1_1500kbps.f4vFrag2Num2.ts HTTP/1.1" 200 1591984 "-" "Apple Mac OS X v10.6.8 CoreMedia v1.0.0.10K549"
    etc…
    At this point I’m stuck once again since I’m not clear how to construct the JPlayer HTTP reference. You have suggested:
    http://192.168.20.250:8134/hls-live/livepkgr/_definst_/livestream/livestream.m3u8
    That produces the following in the Apache error_log file:
    [error] [client 192.168.20.4] File does not exist: D:/Program Files/Adobe/Flash Media Server 4.5/webroot/hls-live
    If I change the JPlayer HTTP reference to:
    http://192.168.20.250:8134/hls-vod/sample1_1500kbps.f4v.m3u8
    the audio from the video plays.
    Also, if I look in the applications\livepkgr folder structure there is only \events (with sub-folder _definst_ and sub-sub-folder liveevent) – there are no _definst_ , livestream , streams folders etc. So besides me not quite understanding the logic/flow here, I seem to be missing a few folders/files too! I’d be very grateful for any light you can shed on all this. Plus an example of what my HTTP string should ultimately look like; for example:
    http://192.168.20.250:8134/hls-live/livepkgr/_definst_/livestream/Audio1.m3u8
    Apologies for such a long reply but I’ve been at this for over 10 hours today! I feel I’m getting closer but clearly there are still some gaps and configuration errors.
    Thanks again for your time, support, patience and understanding.
    Kind Regards, Steve

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