= RoarAudio !PlayList Daemon Compare to other software =

== General features ==
||=Feature                     =||= rpld =||= mpd =||
||=Multiple Playlists          =|| Yes    || Yes   ||
||=Queues                      =|| Yes    || No    ||
||=Multiple independed queues  =|| Yes    || No    ||
||=Random playback             =|| Yes    || Yes   ||
||=Random playback based on "likeness" =|| Yes || No ||
||=Playlist Pointers           =|| Yes    || No    ||
||=Network support             =|| Yes(UNIX, TCPv4, TCPv6, DECnet) || Yes(UNIX, TCPv4, TCPv6, DECnet) ||
||=Multi Protocol Support      =|| Yes (rpld+mpd+plugins) || No (mpd only) ||
||=Plugin support              =|| Yes    || No?   ||
||=Easy way to start in play/stopped state =|| Yes || No ||
||=Watchdog                     || Yes    || No?   ||

== As source client for Icecast ==
||=Feature                     =||= rpld+roard =||= rpld+SavannahIce =||= ices2 =||= mpd =||
||=Live input                  =|| Yes          || No         || Yes     || No    ||
||=Playlist input              =|| Yes          || Yes        || Yes     || Yes   ||
||=Dyn. input changeing        =|| Yes          || Yes        || No      || No    ||
||=Codec converting support    =|| Yes          || Yes([[#note_codechelper|note 0]])       || No      || Yes   ||
||=Resampling support          =|| Yes          || Yes([[#note_codechelper|note 0]])       || Yes     || Yes?  ||
||=Need reencoding             =|| Yes          || No         || No      || Yes   ||
||=Live playlist updates       =|| Yes          || Yes        || Yes     || Yes   ||
||=Time controlled playback    =|| Yes          || Yes        || No      || No?   ||
||=Full metadata support       =|| Yes          || Yes        || Yes     || ?     ||
||=Multiple output streams     =|| Yes          || Yes        || Yes     || Yes?  ||
||=Multiple independed streams =|| Yes          || Yes        || Yes     || No    ||

 [=#note_codechelper]note 0::
   Possible using codec-helper.

== Playlist format support ==
||=Format                   =||= rpld =||= ices2 =||= mpd =||
||= rpld                    =|| R/W    || No      || No    ||
||= vclt                    =|| R/W    || R       || No    ||
||= pls                     =|| W      || No      || No    ||
||= m3u                     =|| R/W    || R       || R/W   ||
||= xspf                    =|| R/W    || No      || No    ||
||= plain                   =|| R/W    || R       || No    ||
||= URAS                    =|| R/W    || No      || No    ||

If you found a error in the lists above or know any other source clients please just change it, it's a wiki...