Feature Request/Idea: Multiple Music Collections

[simoncn]

(26-04-2012 22:40)simoncn Wrote:  What's not clear to me is whether there's a requirement for the father to be browsing his selection at the same time that the mother is browsing her selection, etc. If each family member has their own playback device, this would be necessary, and it would force the use of different MinimServer instances.

I've been thinking some more about this aspect. At the moment, multiple people can browse a single MinimServer instance at the same time, and they can select and play music on different devices. However, there are a couple of places in the MinimServer design where I've assumed a single user, and I'll need to think about what issues (if any) might occur with this scenario of multiple simultaneous users.

It would be quite a small step from this current situation for MinimServer to provide an optional top-level selection to choose from a predefined list of user profiles. This would take the user to a home screen with personalized content and personalized preferences.

I'd need to think carefully about which preferences could be customized on a per-user basis and which preferences would need to be global for implementation efficiency reasons. I could start by just supporting personalization of the top-level selection of content directories.