erland;697005 Wrote: > Do I understand it correctly, that people think support for multiple > user profiles are pointless unless ratings also is supported ? > So Logitech either need to do both ratings and user profiles or not do > user profiles at all ? > > Or is there some minimal implementation of user profiles that would > make sense without having the ability to browse by ratings and even > without ability to browse music library per user ? > For me it feels like multiple user profiles could have some usage even > if rating support aren't implemented. > > As an example, would it makes sense to have multiple user profiles that > only offered separate favorites per user > > Favorites are pretty obvious, but are their other things that are > really critical to make it worthwhile to implement support for multiple > user profiles ? > - Separate playlists per user > - Separate LastFM accounts ? > - Separate mysqueezebox.com accounts ? > - Possibility to configure a sticky user per device ? > - Separate library browse menus ? > - Possibility to have common tracks that are available for multiple > users ? > > It feels like it's important to take this step by step and not wish for > everything in a single release even if the vision/goal at the end is to > have it all. The main reason is that if we only wish for everything > there is a risk it's going to be considered too much work so it will be > dropped completely because of other more important features, like > support for new hardware and new streaming services, which also needs > to be included in the release.
I think that a common use case is that family members simply have different music files and taste altogether so by choosing your user you switch everything . Would not that simply be easier but the integrating things between users the more demanding stuff . I mean if user simply have their own cache and prefs folder locations, would not multiple users be like (re)starting LMS with another set of those . That would mean installing plugins for every user but also that users could have different plugins . Harder to do spawn LMS with different users at the same time ! on any platform, multiple instance is not unknown but this usually involve some knowledgeable trickery with bind addresses so that you can make the players see the difference . if this is done select source on a player could be select user too . Next big issue would be to stop family members from stealing each others players :) -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94109 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
