wt0 wrote: 
> True, but this is suppose to be running on a multitasking device and it
> has to share the limited resources of the mobile device with other
> apps.
> 
What you want to say is that you don't have a reliable way to detect
that you are in the background to shut it down ;)
And good that you reminded me so that I could turn that off. I don't
really use my Nexus as a controller and definitely do not want any
controller Apps to keep running in the background.

On iOS, you can't really keep the App running in the background and even
when you do, with iPeng I shut down all connections to servers other
than the one the current player uses.
> 
> Anyway, it just seemed like a lot of extra code to make one feature a
> bit better
> 
OK, I assumes you did already have that because you are communicating to
both MySB and LMS anyway. If it's a change it might not be worth it
except.... You need it for intelligent server switching and to switch
players well between servers.
I agree having more than one real server is a somewhat remote use case,
however, I do have quite a number of users who use both the server on a
computer and a USB drive on a Touch.
> 
> Hey pippin, you know the way a mini controller appears in the
> notification area when the app goes into the background but stays
> connected, it that something that could be done on IOS?

No, you can't do that on iOS, it's the biggest advantage I see for
Android, especially widgets.... And my biggest disappointment so far
because all the widgets I have for mail, twitter and facebook don't
update while the device is on, they only do that when it wakes up from
sleep. Probably for communication overhead and power consumption
reasons. But that way they are useless. If I see my mail status of three
hours ago and have to open the mail software to see whether something
new came in (the fact aside that that, TOO, doen't manage to update
properly), the widget is useless.

Err... regarding your mini controller feature... how do I get that? I
didn't find it.


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