Re:Show HN: Tunebox, Dropbox + iPhone = cloud music service
by phil on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @05:21PM
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I totally agree, it just didn't make sense to build all the offline stuff into v1.
Obviously I'm just getting started on this, but I'd prefer not to have a switch, but just to do the right thing, and give some cues so you know if it's going to have to stream to play a song or not.
That's mostly the case now -- files should stream once, then be cached. This version uses a 250mb LRU cache, so figure the last 50-60 songs you listened to.
Re:Show HN: Tunebox, Dropbox + iPhone = cloud music service
by roc on Thursday November 17, 2011 @10:57AM
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I get that you gotta ship sometime :)
Looks great though, I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it.
Though I would urge you to reconsider the switch. There are plenty of times when I technically do have a data connection, but for various reasons, would rather hold off on streaming. (e.g. traveling through a series of deadspots; trying to prevent 3G overage charges; trying to preserve battery; generally slow data connection).
And is there an "offline" toggle in the app, or would you have to put the device in airplane mode?
I like the idea of having my music in the cloud. I just don't like the battery drain of constant streaming. Or the "what happens when I'm on a train/a plane/a crappy-2G connection?" cases. Robust offline support would be totally awesome.