Streaming and caching

[bizibizi]

Is possible do such things with the library?

• start playing .mp3 from url immediately (like streaming or streaming)
• cache it and track caching progress during it's playback
• save cached file to local storage

[BaReinhard]

Currently how it sits no, I wouldn't even know where to begin to implement that.

Essentially how the repo is now, it uses the RPI as a "pass through" so to speak, iOS device connects to RPI via AirPlay, streaming data to RPI, RPI streams data to Google ChromeCast, and ChromeCast plays the music.

Aside from shairport-sync and pulseaudio, the RPI isn't really processing the data.

[BaReinhard]

Update: looking into playing local files. I want to add another page to the web ui to accomplish this. List all music files in a directory so you can choose which to play and it will output to the chrome casts.

It seems feasible and relatively simple. Just need to spend some time and testing.