DarthNerdus wrote:jl55378008 wrote:1) Caching (obviously)
2) Skipping by time increment during playback (i.e. 10, 30, 60 seconds back/fwd)
3) Ability to filter by "folder" (as designated in Subsonic settings)
4) Bookmarking playback position4a) It would be extra-nice if you could custom-set different skip durations for back/fwd (i.e. skip 10s back and 30s fwd). Instacast has this feature and it's awesome.
5) FLAC playback and/or on-the-fly transcoding
Number 1: Ad infinitum. Number 2 is an interested prospect. It was recommend to me (and you'll likely see improvements in this area) of implementing easier forward/back navigation, but specific skipping intervals is a new one to me. Would you mind sharing your use case for a feature like this while listening to music? Number 3 is a definite "child" request of folder-based browsing. I obviously can't filter by a folder unless I'm browsing by folder. That being said, if the current position on folder navigation changes this would probably be a likely solution for users that have "Music", "Audiobooks" (which Audiophone will likely never be optimized for, as a heads up), etc. and want to focus on one root directly. Number 4 (the bookmarking part) is also of interest to me. Care to elaborate on your end goal with this one? Finally, I addressed number 5 above.
2 and 4 are specific, but really important to me personally. I listen to a daily radio show that I download and play through iSub. It's 3-4 hours long, which makes scrubbing a real pain in the neck. Even with extra-fine scrubbing it's hard to get to within more than a minute or so of where I want to be.
iSub (and Instacast) have settings that give you two "jump" buttons, which let you jump back/fwd by a set increment. In iSub the fwd/back increments are the same, but instacast lets you set different increments in each direction. I find that 10 seconds back is perfect for when you are listening to something (spoken word or music) and you want to hear something you just missed. (Perfect example: when you get a SMS and the iPhone drops the volume for a few seconds to play the alert sound, or you get a turn-by-turn GPS announcement). 30 seconds is the perfect jump-forward to skip through a segment (like commercials or announcements).
As a side-note, I do use this feature for music occasionally. It makes it easy to skip back and re-hear a verse that I like, especially if I'm trying to really "hear" the lyrics. And I admit I like the 30 seconds forward button when I listen to something like MF DOOM since he puts a lot of musical collage-type stuff in his songs. Sometimes I want to skip straight to the verse, you know?
Bookmarks, again because i spend a lot of time listening to long things (radio, podcast, audiobook) it really helps to have a bookmark feature.
One other feature that I always wished Ben would put into iSub is variable playback speed. That's the only reason I ever use the stock iOS Music app, since I like to listen to audiobooks at 2x speed (which is actually 1.5x). But I hate having to use iTunes, and being able to play at 1.5x via a subsonic app would be killer.
