[quicon]

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.

[pfannkuchen]

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.

[venusenvy47]

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.

[Flimm]

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?

[PaulHoule]

Patents? Not enough control over latency?

[karmakaze]

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_.

[PaulHoule]

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.

[kalupa]

probably due to licensing to music labels ...