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 local music > libraries in the future. Ignore what's supported in LMS and Squeezebox > today and instead think about how you would like it to work in the > future. > > Do you have a need to let each family member browse their library > individually ?
No. Wife and three kids. Nobody minds that all our music is in one place. > If so, where are the music files stored ? On a central computer/NAS, on > a computer/NAS per family member or on the portable device of each > family member ? All on a single library on a single NAS. Kids have their own portable devices on which they save their favourite tracks for portability and private listening. > If you have individual libraries, do you also have a need for shared > libraries which is common for multiple family members ? See previous answer. > Do you have a need to keep track of playlists for each family member > ?Playlists rarely used in this house. Nobody has the time to make them! > Do you have a need to keep track of favorites for each family member ?Nope. > Do you have a need to keep track of ratings and playback statistics for > each family member ?Nope. > Does each family member have individual players which only one of the > family members mostly use ?Yes. My wife and I have android phones with memory > cards and SqueezePlayer/OrangeSqueeze, the two boys have iPod Classics, my daughter has an iPod Touch 3rd Gen with iPeng (including the player function) and a BB with a memory card on which she saves a few MP3s. > If so, should all players be controllable by everyone or do you want > access to certain players to be restricted ? In that case why ?Everything > controlled by everybody. > Does each family member have their individual remote control/smartphone > to control the players or do you also have remote controls which you > share between different family members ?Remote apps on the two android phones > and the iPod Touch. Two Logitech controllers by each of the two "Receiver" players that are used by everybody. > If you have a remote control which you share between multiple family > members, is it a IR-remote, smartphone, tablet or computer ?See previous > answer. > How would your dream system work to work as good as possible for usage > of local music on Squeezeboxes and portable devices in your family ?No real > need for anything different. Off topic for you, but the most useful thing for us would be a smartphone app which allowed the user to sync/cache music files and playlists from the LMS server to storage on the phone over wi-fi (for off-line use). At the moment I use OrangeSqueeze/SqueezePlayer to play music on my phone when at home, but have to download files manually from the LMS server to a 32GB card on the phone and use a different app to play music while away from my home network. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheLastMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98199 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
