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bluegaspode;604898 Wrote: > I think this will be too complicated. > - from the UI that has to configure that > - for the user who has to be asked multiple music sources for each > subgroup in a setup, when it is activated. > The way I see it the first point doesn't have to be too complicated - it is basically a two-level grouping: When you define a scenario, you create and assign one or more groups to the scenario and assign each player to exactly one group. I didn't really consider the second point - possibly because I rarely sync players during playback, but I can see how this could cause problems:-) You might also be right that it is overkill - and I don't have the use case for it at the moment either. The main reasons for the idea was: 1) It seemed logical that the app should always know and control the state of all players. 2) Sometimes players are logically connected and should never be unsynced (i.e. our "living room" and "kitchen" are not separated by walls so playing different music on those would be quite confusing so they are either both playing the same or one of them is switched off). If you have more players like this it would make sense to be able to keep them synced even when you change group setup. > > When users switch sync settings they typically do that for a particalur > reason (i.e. starting a party, going to the bathroom, going to the > garage ...). > I only change sync settings if my wife wants to listen to something in the shower and I want to listen to something different in the living room or vice versa:) the rest I control by switching players on or off - but that may be because sync control from the players is so lousy:) > > Rarely I think this involves using multiple non-overlapping sync-groups > at once (and even if: they could be activated with one click more). > Probably true! > > From your scenarios I see an interesting use case though: Until now I > only thought about synching a group of players -> but not unsyncing. > So I need to think a bit more about how users are supposed to get back > from scenario 3 to 2. > By making sure you don't just activate a group but a complete scenario that covers the sync state of all players;) > > One solution would be to unsync everyone else that is not in the group? That would probably satisfy my needs. I haven't really thought about what should happen to the playlist when a group is unsynced (partially or completely) - going from my scenario 1 to 2 or 3 to 2. In my case I would probably prefer that the "old" group playlist was transferred to all players involved, because sometimes the playlist "belongs" to the bathroom, and sometimes to the rest of the house. BTW: Again, based on my use, no matter how groups are defined and synced, it is important that syncing or unsyncing doesn't change the on/off state of players! -- ThomP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThomP's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15471 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83106 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
