I must say I really love LMS and iPeng - I always come back to them and find new intriguing new stuff.
To be clear - these are no complains or reasons to leave LMS behind (at the moment), but the points could be a major improvement for a certain user segment of LMS. Here comes my confession: We are an Apple household, and I am also using Apple Music, AirPlay 2, Siri, HomePods (soon), ... So while I always use / return to the LMS ecosystem, there is essentially no integration with the Apple ecosystem, apart from iPeng which is really great (but slightly outdated?). I am really wondering: what is the reason, why there is no further integration with the Apple ecosystem? Is it because of missing Apple users who can also code? Is it because of the limitations of the Apple ecosystem? I think one has to differentiate between the server side and the client side. On the client side (controlling LMS player) there is iPeng. As I said, it is great, but I am still waiting for shortcut and Siri support which would be a great step forward. Your iPhone as the hub to control LMS via Siri. To be able to include LMS into automations would open the doors for further usage scenarios. Would it be too much to ask, to have squeezelite / LMS player on an HomePod? Probably yes, but one can dream. I think that most users would even be prepared to pay for new features, either via a new version, or via a new subscription model for iPeng with regular updates and new features? On the server side, the problem is likely more difficult, as I do not know if e.g. Apple Music integration could be managed from any other platform than a Mac. But still - it should be possible to get this integration for a Mac. I just saw there is at least a web API to https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi (The Apple Music API is a web service that lets you access information about the media found in the Apple Music Catalog and the user's personal iCloud Music Library. ) and also https://developer.apple.com/documentation/musickitjs (MusicKit JS lets users play songs from Apple Music and their Cloud Library inside your JavaScript app.). I do not know enough about these APIs and the inner workings of LMS, but I think some level of integration should be possible? As above, I think that many Apple users would be happy to have the integration of Apple Music and would be prepared to pay for it - be it in crowd funding, or purchase / subscription of the final plugins. The last point is AirPlay 2. The Protokoll has been been described / cracked / ... So why is there no implementation yet as there is an Airplay one? No idea why, but would like to understand it - is it because AirPlay 2 does not offer that many advantages over AirPlay (1)? To sum up: LMS is great, and I even consider getting a Qobuz subscription only for LMS. But I would prefer if LMS would integrate more with the Apple ecosystem and I would happily give the money I would pay for Qobuz to the further development of LMS and the LMS - Apple integration. Cheers, Rainer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rkrug's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62249 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113721 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
