rydenfan;302647 Wrote: > Would a Controller operate any faster than my touch with this plugin? > Thanks for the help.
You mean SBC? Really depends on what you want to do. Loading menus and pages is faster, scrolling though lists, too, although you have more direct access through the alphabet bar with iPeng. iPeng has much more functionality that can be accessed directly, especially on NowPlaying. If you use any of that, iPeng is faster (or the only choice). If you use more than one SB, for example, and you want to control the volume (or something else) on two of them (independently), that's much faster now with iPeng. Shuffle, Repeat, Love, Ban, skip (within a track), etc is faster with iPeng. If you want to access stuff you put on the toolbar that can also be faster than with the SBC since you don't have to dive down a menu structure. On the functionality side: you can rearrange playlists with iPeng, you have more browse choices, you can access TrackStat Ratings and maybe some more things... Generally: SBC is much more comfortable if you just want to control one player immediately due to the hard keys, this is a principal drawback of the touch (that is also present for the iPod application, for example), it also FEELS faster when browsing long lists, although it also takes a few seconds to load a album list (for example). iPeng can build on the broad support (especially plugin wise) for the Web Skin platform and thus has more functionality. This is especially true for the NowPlaying screen since it allows all this context sensitive stuff that SBC is (yet) missing. And some things are more comfortable since you have more options to do things on the touch screen than with the controller, Alarm and the new MultiPlayer control come to mind as examples. iPeng native will be somewhere in between. It will be faster than the webapp but it will not be as compatible to plugins at the beginning. It does have even more touch screen capabilities on the usability side but it still lacks hard keys for volume, skip and play/pause. Does that help? It's a hard choice. Myself (now having both): I generally use iPeng to browse my database (I use "Albums sorted by Artist" in around 70% of all cases and SBC doesn't have that) and I use iPeng to control my two SBs and to rate tracks but I always use the SBC for fast changes (volume, pause) or when browsing by artist. Oh, and then there's probably the most important distinction: I use what ever is laying around in the room I'm in, it's really niche to have more than one remote... -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46294 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
