It's just me and my husband, no kids and the dogs don't care. I use the Squeezebox system almost exclusively. He only plays music at his computer or through his iPhone. Have never been able to get him interested in trying to use Squeezeboxes, or even playing music from LMS through iPeng on his iPhone. If he does use a Squeezebox, it is the Radio--if he's working outside sometimes he will use the line-in connected to his iPhone, despite having all the same music available directly on the Radio through LMS. Go figure.
Our music is combined all together on a home server. I use ratings to designate the music that is "mine" from "his." I use a static playlist to designate "his" music, so that if we are together, I can easily choose tracks we both like. If it were separated, his music library would be much smaller than mine, and we do have some overlap. If he were able to restrict LMS to only a subset of the library that was his music, I think he might be more inclined to use it, but there would have to be an easy way for him to manage his library. I'd probably set it up for him initially but I would want him to be able to add and remove things from his library. We each listen to music very differently. I use mixes and playlists. He mostly listens to albums, or, on his iPhone he'll listen to all songs sorted alphabetically. Favorites is not something I've used very much and I doubt he would either. Not the way Favorites work in LMS now anyway. I use ratings and playlist stats to manage my mixes. He probably would not care about them. > How would your dream system work to work as good as possible for usage > of local music on Squeezeboxes and portable devices in your family ? Three libraries - All Music, Sue's Music, Russ's Music. Each person would only have his or her library from his or her controller. In our house, it would most likely be iPeng. So his iPhone and iPad would default to his library, and mine would default to my library. Either of us would have the ability to swap over to "All Music" in order to choose music to be added to our individual libraries. As we are listening, also, we could flag music to be removed from our individual library but still keep it accessible from all music. Perhaps within both of our separate libraries, there could be a sub-library or "smart library" which would allow us to restrict music to only those items that reside in both libraries, so when we are together we can enjoy only the music we both like. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MeSue's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=985 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98199 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
