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

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