Instant Queue Add is moving up the App Store lists

It's hovering around 75th spot in the Paid Apps in Entertainment list, and has moved ahead of two other apps to become the leading paid Netflix app! More than 10,000 users have upgraded to V6 since Monday, and the average rating for V6 is three stars, up from 2.5 stars for V5. Many thanks to all the users, and enjoy the Oscars tonight... [Update: During the Oscars broadcast IQ+ made it as high as 64th place.]

Sorting and archiving queues

I'm making progress on the next version. It can now create named archives of the instant queue, and write the archives back to Netflix. Basic sorting of the queue at Netflix also works, and I'm developing an advanced sorting wizard for combination sorts. I may also add multiple account support to make it easier to move queues between accounts. The basic idea is that you may have one account activated on a TV set, but have several accounts that would like to take it over by copying their queue's over (and restoring the original afterwards).

It's going to take a few weeks before the new features are ready to release. In the meantime please remember to rate Version 6, and suggest new features in the comments here or in iTunes reviews.

Please rate/review IQ+ V6

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IQ+ Version 6 was approved March 2nd

Apple has a much faster turnaround nowadays, less than one business day, thanks Apple! The flood of customers updating the app has started, any bugs or issues, please post comments here.

App-store issues

I submitted V6 to the app store and set a start date a few days into the future. A side effect of this is that V5 was suspended from the app store for Sunday through Monday morning. The way App's are updated makes it look as if some things are private to the version of the app being modified, but they affect the old version as well. Apologies to anyone who was looking for Instant Queue Add for Netflix yesterday.

IQ+ Version 6 has been submitted to Apple

The RSS feed and landscape view changes are working fine, the app is now also more robust to timeouts and failures when calling into Netflix over flaky network connections.

Unfortunately I still can't make the underlying Netflix API operation needed to re-sort the queue work, and I'm going to debug that over the next few weeks and submit an update when it works.

Turn-around times for the App Store review process have been much faster recently, according to several reports, so we will see how long it takes.

IQ+ Version 6 is almost ready

Thanks to review feedback from customers, two features will be added. One is that the application can be rotated so that the lists are shown horizontally, and more text can be seen for each movie. This is useful for movies with long titles. The other is the re-instatement of the RSS feed of new instant choices as an additional list. There is less data per movie, so the RSS list display shows the synopsis in the sub-area under the title, and the only sort option is a title sort or the original sort, which is grouped by genre. Adding a movie from the RSS feed takes a little longer since the extra information is loaded at that point.

Some minor additional bug fixes and enhancements are that the number of movies in the Instant Queue is shown immediately on startup, and any lists that fail to load due to poor network connections will be retried without having to quit the app. The free trial button is changed to link via the new Netflix deal with the Google Affiliate Network program, as is the link in the blog border.

At present, I'm still working to debug sorting the queue and having it change at Netflix, and this feature may not make it into V6. Some of the views currently ignore rotation, so you have to rotate at the starting screen or go back to it to change from portrait to landscape mode. I may just leave rotation working this way...

I expect to submit V6 to Apple in the next week or so.