pippin wrote: > No, that wouldn't make sense. iPeng can play up to 48kHz, 24 Bit FLAC > (output wise) and 96kHz, 24 bit input wise (it can also play that full > rate through USB audio on the iPad, read the latest announcement on the > web site). > Even when iPeng only actually plays the audio as 44.1 kHz, 16 bit output > (when using analog out on iPhone) it still makes sense to be able to use > the full stream because that way you can sync it to another Squeezebox > (Touch or Transporter) without spoiling the HD sample rate playback. > > Well, maybe Synology uses something like shine, too. There are also > commercial mp3 encoders that use fixed point maths to encode mp3, which > is what it's needed to make it perform well on most NAS because these > lack a floating point processor. > Which model is it, BTW? > > The one gotcha here is that if you use port 9002 internally it's also > got to be 9002 on the internet.
Yes, totally makes sense on the player aspect; my own assumptions were pretty fuzzy. The Synology model is DS212. No idea what they use, and hadn't set up their Audio package to see how it performs myself, so was just going by ratio of complaints to compliments in their forums :). It is not their bottom line, but the specs did not seem too robust either, for stuff like transcoding on the fly. I realized in any event, my results could differ with LMS. I was happy with my initial test because of my erroneous assumption that it was transcoding quickly, but of course it was not when I was local. I did catch that I need to keep the ports identical (which was great to know, since I have intentionally not done that for some other ports). At this point, I guess I need to decide how important it is to me to keep track of what I play on the iPhone (over 3G) in a unified way with what I play via the Touch. I could solve it with hardware if it's important enough to me. I haven't done anything with the SQL Playlist plugin yet, but if I convert some portion of the library to mp3 to play via iPhone (i.e., replace iTunes with LMS-managed mp3), I wonder if I could cobble together some SQL that matches on album+track. Anyway, more stuff to tinker with. One question from an earlier post. Your suggestion of player syncing I think will do the trick, and to be honest it didn't even occur to me because I'm still not used to the concept of multiple players to even keep in sync. But you also mentioned a Switch Playlist plugin. I couldn't find it on the slimdevices wiki or erland's wiki. Do you know if it's perhaps called by another name? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
