pippin <[email protected]> writes: > As said before: it's still on my to-do-list and I definitely want to do > it. > Unfortunately, it's not as simple as on Android where you can just > download tracks and throw them at the system player, iPeng would also > have to implement a full player by itself.
The beauty of iOS... But as a user, I simply love it. > One particular difficulty is the expectation of iPeng users about what > this "offline playing" would look like. I've asked a lot of those who > are asking for this feature and the primary response was that they > expect it to show similar behavior as with the current Squeezebox > playback, so providing lots of metadata, support for all the formats, > gapless, replay gain, extended search etc. Effectively a cache for the music, so that the source is not the LMS, but the local cache when offline. Usage should be the same for online or offline, only a button which I can switch (or automatic if no connection to a LMS server is available) if I want to use offline mode. And upload to the iOS device only via LMS is perfectly fine with me. > It will never be possible to do all of the same functionality because a > lot of that requires the whole database LMS provides and probably a > range of plugins to be available but even having just a somewhat similar > experience is more than just launching the stock iOS functionality on a > list of downloaded tracks which makes it a lot of work. I can imagine - but you can do it! > > It will come, but not in the next few months. Hopefully still this year. Hopefully - I am really looking forward to abandoning iTunes player and VOX for good. Rainer > > > > --- > learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox > and > Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, > at penguinlovesmusic.com > *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch* > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105408 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Rainer M. Krug email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de PGP: 0x0F52F982
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