Re:Why is Spotify not implementing this?
by quicon on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:13PM
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I'm curious about the real reason they are not able to prioritize the 5th most voted idea. Seems easy to do, and it would convert Spotify into a home music system.
While I don't know much about computers I suspect its because they are not sure they could stop some users from using this to share the account outside their home.
Otherwise, I can not think of any other reason.
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Re:Why is Spotify not implementing this?
by pfannkuchen on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:34PM
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It sounds like they want the same streaming music to play out of multiple devices in the same place at once. This is a very difficult synchronization problem, especially within a heterogenous device space. The user experience if they fail to really nail it would be very poor, and the potential benefit is not that big.
To me, it doesn't seem easy to do at all. How do you stop different speakers from being slightly out of sync with each other?
Patents? Not enough control over latency?
I would definitely say it's the latency issue. If the speakers are within earshot of each other, the timing differences is likely to make it a bad experience more often than not. If you really want this feature, get a house-speaker system that supports it and have Spotify stream to that _one_.
I a bunch of Denon devices from smart speakers to a soundbar to two home theater receivers and many of them support HEOS which can do whole home streaming.
It sucks that you have to control it with a mobile app (I did write a PC app using Tk but that is not much better than a mobile app!). Also I have had a lot of devices fail either completely or partially (WiFi just went on my 7.1 receiver the other day, the same receiver is relegated to a (awesome) stereo because the HDMI port). The 5.1 receiver was a decontented ‘pandemic special’ with no HEOS.
But that said, the whole home audio is great and works with my jellyfin and Amazon Music and TuneIn and presumably spotify.
probably due to licensing to music labels ...
Re:Why is Spotify not implementing this?
by venusenvy47 on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:42PM
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I'm not clear on the question being asked. I currently am signed in with my Spotify account on Alexa, my phone and my tablet. I can stream the same music from all four Alexa devices in the house, and also concurrently on my phone and tablet. I don't normally want all these devices playing (at home I just need the Alexa devices to be playing), and I actually have more issues where music is playing from more devices than I want.
My Alexa devices are scattered about the house, so I'm not interested in stereo separation in a single room - maybe they are talking about the timing required for that.