michael123;606896 Wrote: > thanks! > Which features are unique to iPeng?
It doesn't have a lot of really unique features in itself, OK, a few: server rescan, manual WOL, Lyrics screen saver, playlist screen saver, some additional search features, relative volume synchronization, show all tracks of an artist,... OK maybe not so few after all. What it does differently than SqueezePad is that there is a lot of stuff that is hard-coded into iPeng to allow faster access than through the deep menu structure of the SqueezePlay interface SqueezePad is using. One example is player management. In iPeng you can control all of your players in one place (through a drop-down menu), change their powerstate and volume and you can change synchronization settings. In SqueezePlay you have to do this through settings menus. Another example is Search: iPeng has a search entry field on the main screen where you can enter a search text and get immediate results, in SqueezePad you need to go through the menu to get to search. This gives SqueezePad a somewhat "cleaner" interface (all the functionality in iPeng has to "go" somewhere), granted. Speed differences are mainly due to two aspects: 1. iPeng uses much bigger artwork, for stuff like a cover wall. This puts additional load on the server to generate these images the first time 2. iPeng shows more information in library menus (Albums, Tracks), the more complex queries to get that information can indeed be slower. In this case it's true that iPeng trades performance for functionality. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84957 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
