pippin;620121 Wrote: > Yes. But technically and probably also UI wise it would be hell. > I'll have to look at ho that plugin in 7.6 really works but usually it > would even mean we are talking two different libraries here. You could > mix players, but they would have completely different capabilities. > I'm not sure it's a good idea.
I don't know really... If you use e.g. PlugPlay to access the same content with say Mediatomb or Twonky, you get slightly different structure reported to PP. Twonky is more like SBS in that it gives you a lot of different options like Artist, Genres, Years etc. AND they are also representing two totally different "libraries" or databases of course. Also there are "behind the scenes" differences as well, like transcoding or not, plugins or not etc. However, when I instead access my music via Whitebear, it is the exact same structure as I get on my SBC. The reason is simply because Whitebear is acting as a front end to SBS and USES SBS Library, not creating it's own. Hence I would assume 7.6 would be exactly like that, adding DLNA on top of the already working SBS structure, and Library.. So yes if you were to access the same music content via another server, it would be a different library, and different functionality. However from a UI perspective (the general principles) I don't see much of a difference between iPeng and PP for example. Yes the "content" of each area in the screen may differ from server to server, but the principles and thus structure of the UI would still remain. And yes I do consider iPeng to be much better than others in that it provides a complete, well working and very nice interface! Besides looking into 7.6, which I have no clue when it will be ready for release, I would also look at what works already now, i.e. Whitebear. All you need to do is to install it on our SBS machine and off you go (unless it's a NAS in which case I don't know how to run it, but I got it to run under Wine on Ubuntu). There you would be able to test already today towards your more stable releases like 7.5.3 etc Perhaps you two could team up even... pippin;620121 Wrote: > > Well, _that_ might be the easiest part. > I figured as much... :) pippin;620121 Wrote: > > Well, just like that: just drag the progress bar. Well, well, what do you know... It's me needing to be more precise when pointing. I tried a few times you know but either nothing happened or I opened up the server drop down... A wish from my side then, in a future release perhaps the progress bar could be a tad thicker to make "targeting" easier. ;) At least on the iPad there is definitely the space for it... -- Gblenn ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gblenn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22759 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
