x5nder;693574 Wrote: > I tried browsing through these 400-some pages to find an answer, but I > can't find it, so please do forgive me if I'm asking for something that > has already been answered, but... > > Does iPeng currently do any form of buffering on the stream? I assume > not, because iPeng is pretty much unusable over 3G. In my city the > 3G-coverage is spotty at best, so driving around in my car, listing to > streaming music is a no-go. It seems to me that buffering/caching seems > a vital part of iPeng? Competitor Subsonic (iSub) solves this problem by > buffering both the current and the next song (in the album/playlist) at > all times. Could this be implemented for iPeng as well?
Buffering whole songs is not an option with the solution as it is because that's not how the Squeezebox' streaming protocol works, that would be an entirely different functionality and would probably have to play independent if the server. Offline playback has been a long-standing desire of mine but I don't know when it will come mainly because there's so much UI and control stuff involved. Buffering is around the corner, though. Currently iPeng almost doesn't buffer at all. There is, however, a completely rewritten playback feature currently in the late beta phase and I hope to have it in the store within the next two weeks. It uses a decent buffer that should get you at least over short outages or reduced bandwidth, it has around a minute of buffering capacity for mp3. Other features include (finally!) full support for gapless playback and synchronization. -- 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=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
