mkanet;567996 Wrote: > I'm not sure if this is too much to ask (or if it's been requested > before); but, all I want is a real client to comfortably playback my > squeezebox channels the same way Squeezeplay and Softsqueeze do on PC > and linux based clients. I already know there's a pretty clunky way of > using Squeeze Commander along with manually tuning into the squeezebox > stream. Unfortunately, that's not even close to being a feasible > solution.
Well, the native playback feature is still on my TODO list, but it's really not as easy as it seems. I'll probably first implement a stream.mp3 based solution in SqueezeCommander. It should be transparent for the user (i.e. it can be started/stopped directly in SqueezeCommander and avoid some of the well known problems with an external streaming app (like high latency). But this solution will still inherit some problems of stream.mp3, namely that you need a SBS server with a good CPU and that it will not work on MySB. :-/ Implementing a "real" player (i.e. implementing the complete SlimProto protocol) is a tough task - ask pippin from iPeng. ;-) Anyway, this is my preferred long-term solution (because it will allow things like MySB access (if Logitech will allow it), syncronisation and so on) but that will definitely still take some more months... :-/ Sorry. > I dont know enough about java to comprehend the difficulties. But, > isn't it as "relatively" simple as loading the latest Softsqueeze java > code (which works very nicely IMO) and recompile it for Android's > flavor of Java... only making minor compatibility changes for the audio > playback device on Android? Perhaps, it's nowhere near that simple and > could require a complete rewrite of the code from scratch; Yeah, I tried briefly to port SoftSqueeze to Android but failed miserably. Let's put the licensing issue aside for a moment (it may be possible to release it as GPL'ed app). But (for me) porting SoftSqueeze ended in dependency-hell. SoftSqueeze depends on SO many libraries (many of them will not run Android), that I finally gave up on this approach. I think the only proper way would be to create a completely new Android app from scratch (maybe take some of the SqueezePlay code as base). That what pippin and I will try in the future, but it is really pretty complicated. -- flattermann Christian Home of 'SqueezeCommander' (http://www.squeezecommander.com) - The SqueezeBox Remote Control App for Android ------------------------------------------------------------------------ flattermann's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33169 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81070 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
