I love listening to the same songs with my gf, about 250 mi across the
country. So we checked out the current sync options again yesterday
using SC 7.4-25017. When using the phone, I have about 350kbps upstream
left on my ADSL line, so we set her software players to 128kbps
downsampling (LAME, Q7).
- -Playing songs from the local music library, using both SoftSqueeze
and SqueezePlay:- Works quite nice (max. .5s difference as far as one
can tell on the phone [which again has delay of course]). No real
glitches, only very occasional brief "Waiting to sync" messages on
both SBC and software players. (i.e. every 20 minutes or so)
- -Playing Deezer, using both SS+SP:- Totally messes up her software
player and my receiver, up to the point of having to restart her
software player, and needing to »cold restart« (pulling the plug, the
front button wouldn’t work anymore) my Duet receiver. *Maybe*
due to trying to access Deezer »Soul« which currently doesn’t
play anyway here.
- -Playing a podcast:- No sound with SoftSqueeze, nothing on receiver
while synced. Receiver could play it when unsynced, SoftSqueeze
couldn’t. SqueezePlay on her side could also play it, only when
unsynced.
So my »overall experience« is that both SoftSqueeze and SqueezePlay
seem to sync »okay« when playing local files, but both behave
problematic when trying to sync remote files/streams to a hardware
player. I could never get two SqueezePlay’s to sync, but syncing
one Softsqueeze with one SqueezePlay seems to work on local files.
SqueezePlay seems to have slight advantages over SoftSqueeze regarding
bitrates/file formats it’s able to play.
I agree that trying to »remote sync« over a low-bandwidth Internet
connection with additional transcoding used is probably the »worst
case« — but as you can see, it has its uses ;-)
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