mherger wrote: > > There are technical implications here. Eg. Random Play needs to know all > > of your collection to build the mixes - but you wouldn't want to upload > > all your library information to uesr.com (and we wouldn't want to manage > > it :-)). > Actually, that's more or less exactly what I would like, I like to have the metadata of my collection on uesr.com, at least the metadata for the tracks I've played last 6 months or something similar. With this data you should be able to do a lot of creative, exciting features which really would make the word "smart" in UE Smart Radio to mean something. Take a look at what Apple does with its genius technology and what LastFM/Pandora does. You would probably not even have to handle the data yourself, you could just get a commercial agreement with LastFM and let them store the data if you prefer that, they already have API's for it and so does EchoNest, you just have to pay them a bit for a commercial agreement.
Yes, I realize I'm dreaming a bit, I don't really think something like this will happen because nobody at Logitech understands it, but something like this would give UE Smart Radio a competitive edge compared to all other products on the market in similar price range. It would also be a feature which would be a reason for me to move on to UE Smart Radio products if you also start to produce variants that suits other rooms than the kitchen and bedroom. Some people are of course going to be concerned regarding privacy, so an option like this would have to be possible to enable/disable, else you would get a lot of critique. However, your current terms of use agreement on uesr.com would allow you to do things like this as far as I can see. However, to be realistic, I suspect you are right, Logitech will continue to primarily focus on doing basic integration with as many streaming services as possible without really caring much about features that would enhance the music listening experience, it has been this way for the last 3-4 years and even if I would like this to change I don't really expect it to. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96188 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
