browellm;610024 Wrote: 
> Are there any material differences between the two competing playback on
> ipad systems?  I have both Squeezepad and iPeng for iPad.  I already
> enabled playback via Squeezepad.

Differences how I see them (pippin please add)

As of today iPeng supports native FLAC decoding (SqueezePad right now
streams them as pcm or mp3), experimental WMA decoding (won't be a
feature in SqueezePad) and synchronisation already works most of the
time.
pippin also had a good idea to detect if people use 3G and then forces
the server to trancode to mp3 automatically (will follow in SqueezePad
:D ).
In SqueezePad right now you would need to activate bitrate limiting on
the server for better 3G performance of lossless formats.

SqueezePad is able to stream Spotify (when using triodes plugin).

As of tomorrow a new SqueezePad version arrives on your AppStore and
will 
- also feature native FLAC decoding
- feature gapless playback (not available in iPeng - yet)
- synchronisation among devices as well

In one, two or three month I guess both will have exactly the same
feature set and if there are any quirks left they will be solved in
both.
This is not an area where we can compete much regarding quality I
think.

Music is Music in the end (and only some Audiophiles will tell us soon
how the music can be improved with interesting tricks).
I'm waiting for the day someone announces that the audio from the iPad
does sound better than that from the Touch though :)


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