Based on some info in another thread, I added the iPeng Playback. So far, it's not working as I'd hoped, and in the ways it is working, it's not going to do that good a job for me. Some of it is undoubtedly due to my configuration. The big thing is that I'm getting a very poor stream over 3G. I tried at various bandwidths (although no lower than 128k), and lots of stuttering, restart the song, skip to the next, etc. In a test last night on the same wireless network as my server, there were no issues with the stream, so I don't think that this is a server issue (Synology NAS). I may perform a longer test to verify this when I get back home. I toggled the Use small buffer setting, but that didn't make a difference either. I know in the other thread, pippin said he'd work on caching someday...here's a vote for that someday being soon :).
Here are some other things that caught me a little by surprise (admittedly didn't read much beyond the blog post, that is not all through this thread): 1. When I did get onto a wifi network away from home, I was going to see if the playback was smoother then. To my surprise, the iPhone player entry was not available. I turned off wifi on my iPhone 4, and the iPhone again showed up as a player. I'm confused if this is intended, although away from home, I would mainly be in listen mode without access to a wireless network anyway, so probably not too big of a deal. 2. I expected that my place in the song (and playlist) would be unaffected by changing players, but they appear to be independent. I kind of think of the music stream as part of the metadata. If listening to a song on the Touch just before I get in the car, I'd ideally like to pick up that song at the same point in the car using my iPhone as the player, with a minimum of hassle. I haven't tested this out, but am I correct in assuming that at least the playcount would get updated for the song no matter where you played it? I'm guessing there's a plugin -- or some option in the base playlist settings -- that would allow me to remove a song from a playlist once it's been played, even if I had to set the play count to zero when I create the playlist. (I've been doing that in iTunes in my playlists that cycle through my music collection. It's a pain because it only takes effect when you sync the device, but it works as long as I don't bounce around playlists.) I'm still getting acquainted with the base iPeng app, but I already like it loads better than the stock one. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DubMarc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56796 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
