Manage music service credentials and preferences across devices

[jeffme]

Similar to the sharing presets across devices feature request, it seems silly to make a user sign into every service they subscribe to more than once. For example, if a user listens to Tune In Premium, Tidal or Spotify, and YouTube Music (soon) for live music, that's at least 3 services. If you have more than a few WiiM devices (my network is 10+ devices), and you want to ensure you don't have any hiccups across rooms, better grab a beverage and a notepad to make sure you don't miss anything. Then, better hope you don't ever change a password or switch services, etc.

Similarly, it seems unnecessary to have to "turn off" all of your unsigned in services across all your devices. Seems like a better way would be to require users to add services by signing in and then only displaying the signed in services.

Let's have the WiiM "Home" App live up to its name!

 

[Burnside]

To do that, WiiM would have to introduce an account concept which would bring its own challenges. As it stands just now, having service credentials at a device level makes it simpler to have, say, a different Amazon music account per device/room if you have their family plan. Having one overarching WiiM account might make that difficult unless there was another layer of complexity like the introduction of individual profiles, or further separate WiiM accounts.

 

[jeffme]

To do that, WiiM would have to introduce an account concept which would bring its own challenges. As it stands just now, having service credentials at a device level makes it simpler to have, say, a different Amazon music account per device/room if you have their family plan. Having one overarching WiiM account might make that difficult unless there was another layer of complexity like the introduction of individual profiles, or further separate WiiM accounts.

Hey, I'm just an end user, so I'm less concerned about what WiiM would have to do than getting my needs met. Not that Sonos is the current benchmark, but in the past, they made this work, and people made do with a single end-user account for the service.

The multi-user account problem is independent of the house-wide settings, as different users cannot have independent accounts per service per device on WiiM today.

For those needs, like some of the other stuff, devices should be able to opt-out of any home-wide settings.