Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-08-14 Thread mweb
One limitation I still want to apply is that with one online streaming account you will still only be able to stream a single song to one device or to multiple devices synchronized, basically no possibility to play different songs to different devices simultaneously as this usually is

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-08-14 Thread aubuti
mweb wrote: For me, this is the single most annoying issue with streaming music. My kids want to stream pop hits with Pandora and at the same time, I want to stream something other than pop hits with Pandora. Would separate Pandora accounts and separate mysb.com accounts get around this? Or

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-03-12 Thread SpeedyM
1) We use just 1 premium account: Pandora One 2) My guess is that most would prefer the ability to multi-stream vs. individual playlist 3) Yes. 4) Not needed. 1 favorites list is sufficient for us, but I could see how larger families would like to customize for each persons likes/dislikes. 5)

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-03-12 Thread socistep
erland wrote: For those of you who are living together with a spouse or kids, I'd like to understand a bit better how you would like to use premium online streaming services. Ignore what's supported in LMS and Squeezebox today and instead think about how you would like it to work in the

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-03-12 Thread JonWill
erland wrote: For those of you who are living together with a spouse or kids, I'd like to understand a bit better how you would like to use premium online streaming services. Ignore what's supported in LMS and Squeezebox today and instead think about how you would like it to work in the

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Herger
I forgot to add that I also use the MP3tunes Music Locker, because I use the DAR.FM service to record a radio show I always miss on a Saturday night, and that drops the recordings into MP3tunes. Are you still using this? I tried to access mp3tunes.com and get a service not available. DAR.fm

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-03-11 Thread altruizine
Michael Herger writes: [paulster writes:] I forgot to add that I also use the MP3tunes Music Locker, because I use the DAR.FM service to record a radio show I always miss on a Saturday night, and that drops the recordings into MP3tunes. Are you still using this? I tried to access

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-03-10 Thread kc5f
We use Last.fm as our premium service, with Slacker and Pandora as free services. One account for each for the whole family. The ability to keep track of individual playlists or favorites for each family member: Not a problem in our house. My wife and I have fairly similar tastes, and we have

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-03-10 Thread jhonsber...@msn.com
paulster wrote: 1. Single account for MOG 2. N/A 3. N/A 4. No 5. Happy with how it is now. Love that MOG can stream to more than one device with different streams, and supports synchronisation as well. I finding that no 5 is no longer the case . That rug one stream will now

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-03-10 Thread paulster
jhonsber...@msn.com wrote: I finding that no 5 is no longer the case . That rug one stream will now cutoff the other . I've just tested it again right now and I have two different streams running from MOG perfectly. Weird that you don't. Hopefully this isn't something that's getting

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-03-10 Thread JJZolx
paulster wrote: I've just tested it again right now and I have two different streams running from MOG perfectly. Weird that you don't. Hopefully this isn't something that's getting rolled out gradually. I just tested it and it works fine for me as well.

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-03-09 Thread erland
I'd like to thank everyone who have answered on my questions in the initial post so far and I'm just posting this to lift up the thread in case some people missed it the first time. The intention with the thread was to get a feeling if there is a need for better support for online music listening

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-03-09 Thread paulster
1. Single account for MOG 2. N/A 3. N/A 4. No 5. Happy with how it is now. Love that MOG can stream to more than one device with different streams, and supports synchronisation as well. paulster's Profile:

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-03-01 Thread Dogberry2
We use Pandora, SiriusXM, and occasionally Slacker. One account in each case. Never felt a need for separate accounts/playlists/favorites. The currently-existing functionality is adequate for our needs. Obviously if a new plugin or plugins had that same functionality but added new features, that

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-03-01 Thread plympton
erland wrote: If you have a single account for the whole family, are you severely missing the ability to keep track of individual playlists or favorites for each family member ? I have a single Pandora account, and it would be nice to have separate ones, with individual favorites. Kiddo

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-03-01 Thread w3wilkes
Pretty much play local music only. Little to none online service usage. Occasional novelty browsing at the most. w3wilkes's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22973 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-03-01 Thread matka
I use qobuz plug-in extensivelly. erland wrote: One limitation I still want to apply is that with one online streaming account you will still only be able to stream a single song to one device or to multiple devices synchronized, basically no possibility to play different songs to different

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-03-01 Thread sbp
Hi. I'm using wimp, and here there is no problem playing different songs on different players, so I'm not sure that it is not possible in the future to have a similar feature. sbp's Profile:

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-03-01 Thread paulster
MOG also allows more than one simultaneous stream and that's something I've taken advantage of occasionally. Usually I just use it to listen to new albums before I buy them though. paulster's Profile:

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-02-27 Thread simbo
erland wrote: One limitation I still want to apply is that with one online streaming account you will still only be able to stream a single song to one device or to multiple devices synchronized, basically no possibility to play different songs to different devices simultaneously as this

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-02-27 Thread bernt
erland wrote: For those of you who are living together with a spouse or kids, I'd like to understand a bit better how you would like to use premium online streaming services. Ignore what's supported in LMS and Squeezebox today and instead think about how you would like it to work in the

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-02-27 Thread garym
We have single account (MOG, free Pandora). garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98198

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-02-27 Thread maggior
We use slacker, pandora, and rhapsody. Rhapsody is the only premium service we use. On a regular basis, different squeezeboxes are streaming different content from Rhapsody. If that capability was lost, I'd drop rhapsody. 1-3 don't apply since we have a single account. 4 - Yes, it would be

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-02-27 Thread ajkidle
We use Rhapsody and Pandora ONE. Single accounts for the family, although it's possible that will change as the kids get older. Rhapsody's current offering of family plans is severely limiting and stupid. Currently I'm the only one in the family who really plays with maintaining a library,

Re: [slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-02-27 Thread HeadBanger
We've just started using Napster after a disappointing trial of Spotify and really like it. It has a very intuitive GUI meaning that you can actually find new stuff. Much better than Spotify in this regard. Also, we can stream separately to each of our SBs whilst Spotify will only allow one

[slim] Usage of online services in your family ?

2013-02-26 Thread erland
For those of you who are living together with a spouse or kids, I'd like to understand a bit better how you would like to use premium online streaming services. Ignore what's supported in LMS and Squeezebox today and instead think about how you would like it to work in the future. One