MeSue;658004 Wrote:
> Looks interesting. Will this eventually work with Rhapsody (and other
> services?) so I can have a combined library with both my local music
> and my Rhapsody library in one menu?
>
Yes, that's one thing that's in the plan, I can't say for sure exactly
which services we will support at the moment.
We actually support an extremely preliminary integration of Spotify
tracks already now where you can add Spotify music to your library. You
do this, by open the context menu (More button (Radio/Touch/Controller)
or hold+play (Classic/Boom/Transporter) and select "On Spotify" and
then browse to the related Spotify album, track you like to import and
open the context menu from that and select "Import from Spotify". This
is just a very preliminary implementation to show the concept, it will
got a lot better before we are finished.
The plan is to support this kind of integration of third party services
through a plugin system, where it's also possible for other third party
developers to add support for their favorite streaming service.
For playback of these streams we rely on standard Squeezebox Server, so
when you select to play a Spotify track through the SMD menu it will be
played back through Logitech's standard Spotify plugin or Triode's
third party Spotify plugin.
MeSue;658004 Wrote:
>
> Will it provide a rating system for non-local tracks?
>
Rating support is definitely on the agenda, both for local and online
tracks like Spotify/Rhapsody and other services supporting playback of
individual tracks.
The main reason for supporting ratings is to support a user friendly
smart playlist functionality which is also something we would like to
support eventually.
However, it should also be said that we really need more core
contributors in the project who can contribute as developers if we like
to speed this up, because currently the progress is limited by the
amount of spare time the current core contributors have. With the
current progress it's going to take a while before we support all of
the above mentioned functionality.
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