erland wrote: 
> For those of you who are living together with a spouse or kids, I'd like
> to understand a bit better how you would like to use premium online
> streaming services. Ignore what's supported in LMS and Squeezebox today
> and instead think about how you would like it to work in the future. 
> 
> One limitation I still want to apply is that with one online streaming
> account you will still only be able to stream a single song to one
> device or to multiple devices synchronized, basically no possibility to
> play different songs to different devices simultaneously as this usually
> is prohibited by the streaming providers and won't change in the
> future.
> 
> The questions I'm wondering about is related to if you have separate
> premium streaming service account for each family member or if you are
> using one account for the whole family.
> 
> If you have separate accounts, is the main purpose of that to be able to
> stream simultaneously or is it mainly to be able to keep track of
> individual favorites and playlists ?

There is a house Napster/ Rhaposdy account which all used (from 6 up!)
Our 15 yearold has a separate free spotify account which she uses mainly
to build playlists, I believe - no idea why - probably to do with the
brand :).  We also have a Deezer account (free with my mobile phone
contract - useful as it (i) has a slightly different library and (ii)
means that I can take music that I don't own offline - e.g. into the
car
> If you have separate accounts, do you feel it would be important to be
> able to listen to the music from one of the account on all player
> devices in the house ?

Syncing is important to us (well, me!) - so yes.  However the teen's
music may follow her around like a bad smell.

> If you have separate accounts, do you have accounts from different
> streaming providers or does all family member use the same streaming
> provider ?

As above - Napster/ Rhapsody premium - Spotify free and Deezer as a part
of a phone package

> If you have a single account for the whole family, are you severely
> missing the ability to keep track of individual playlists or favorites
> for each family member ?

I think the Teen would miss that ...

> Do you have any ideas how you would like online streaming services to
> work on your Squeezebox and portable devices from a family perspective ?
> How would your dream system handle it ?

Most of my use cases are covered at the moment...


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