Is somebody drawing up a list of use cases for syncing? Currently we have "take control of" and "join up with" directions. One problem is that each makes sense in certain use cases -- "take control of" for the Controller and Web UIs, where it's pretty simple to change your "perspective" to be that of the Squeezebox that's playing the desired content (and where the focus of the UI -- especially the web UI -- is an existing playlist); and "join up with" for the frontpanel and IR "player" UIs where you're more likely to want to affect the output of the device that's within arm or IR reach of you than you are, IMO, to foist your nearby player's content on another room.
I'm open to the notion of zones, but I can't imagine how to implement that in a way that makes sense. I guess zones as saved named sync groups, but that could get cumbersome. I "only" have 6 players, but that's dozens of possible sync group combinations. Let's say I have a 2-player "main level" zone -- how would I decide which player should be the "master" (whose current playlist should govern the zone) when activating that zone (whether saved or created ad-hoc)? -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SettingsManager SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53404 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
