mweb wrote:
>
> I just need to be able to listen to different music in two spots in my
> home at the same time and be able to play Pandora or something similar
> in those two spots at the same time from separate accounts.
>
>From the poll thread I posted earlier:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98198-Usage-of-online-services-in-your-family
I got the feeling that most people didn't even want to consider having
multiple accounts for premium streaming services.
We haven't analyzed this part of the functionality in detail yet, the
real question here is how much we should focus on families. A single
user can only be at one place at the time so for a single user your use
case doesn't make sense, but for a family I understand that it makes
sense. In a family we obviously have the scenario that one family member
might want to play one kind of music in one room while another family
member might want to play different music in a another room
simultaneously.
In my mind, it might be possible that we consider to have some kind of
support for a family concept, where each family member have individual
ickStream accounts but they can configure that the playback resources
should be possible to share within the family. I suspect a solution like
this would solve your usage scenario at least partly. Each family member
would have their own ickStream and pandora account and they would be
able to output the music on any player in the house.
I'm less optimistic about having some kind of pool solution where you
can setup a pool of premium streaming accounts, for example three
Pandora accounts, and the system picks the first free account when
someone wants to stream Pandora music. I think such solution would
probably violate the user agreement some of the premium streaming
providers have and it will also result in that you loose all
personalization features the premium streaming provider offers you to
setup in their account.
None of this is of course a problem for premium streaming services that
allows multiple songs to be streamed simultaneously from the same
account, I'm not sure what kind of restrictions Pandora have in this
regard.
Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info))
(Developer of 'many plugins/applets (both free and commercial)'
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You may also want to try my Android apps 'Squeeze Display'
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