pippin wrote: 
> No new features... well, except one carryover from iPad... in this
> release.
> 
> I want to do a local caching/syncing, but that's a HUGE amount of work
> and there are still other things to be done before that. Unfortunately,
> it's not as simple as with Android, where you can just throw it into the
> device's own library.
> 
> With Subsonic, the whole system implementation is made for remote
> access, with the Squeezebox, it's not. One example: it's a total PIA to
> setup the stream again in the same place (and has a <50% chance of
> succeeding) once you lose the control connection to the server, making
> too much caching pointless.
> So an offline mode will require a completely separate playback and
> control logic and that in turn means you need additional information you
> don't process when using the server.
> It's really a different player then.

Could you use the new HTML 5 audio playback (only iOS6) to manage the
local library?  The user would have to dupe tracks (maybe iPeng could
assist?) but then iPeng would be the standard player or all audio?


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