Multiple Pandora Accounts?

[Tim S]

This has likely been asked before, but I didn't find anything in my brief search, so. . .

Is it possible to access two different Pandora accounts from one Squeezebox? I could probably change the account info each time, but that would be too annoying. The thing is my gf and I both have Pandora accounts with trained stations and it would be nice to select between them. Anyone know of a good solution?

Tim

[andyg]

On Sep 25, 2006, at 9:11 AM, Tim S wrote:

>
> This has likely been asked before, but I didn't find anything in my
> brief search, so. . .
>
> Is it possible to access two different Pandora accounts from one
> Squeezebox? I could probably change the account info each time, but
> that would be too annoying. The thing is my gf and I both have Pandora
> accounts with trained stations and it would be nice to select between
> them. Anyone know of a good solution?

I think you're the first person to ask. There's no way to do this
currently. Probably the best you can do is access her stations as
shared stations, but you won't be able to rate tracks that way.

[jeffluckett]

If Tim is the first person to ask ... let me be the second.

I have several Pandora users in my household who have all created and matured rather extensive "station" libraries.

It'd be great if we could have all these logins be accessible from our SqueezeBox.

[Tim S]

I would have thought that this would have been a more issue. I guess that explains why I wasn't finding anything on it. I agree with Jeff that it would be very useful to have. I suppose it would require a menu added under the Pandora option in Squeezenetwork to choose between accounts. In principal, I would think that shouldn't be too difficult of an addition to slimserver.

I just took a look back at the long thread of suggestions for version 7.0 and it looks like one of the main early suggestions was for multiple accounts or personas with the focus mostly on individual music libraries and such. I think this would match with that well if anyone on the development group is reading this. . .

Tim

[bradsjm]

I guess the idea of multiple users never made it to 7.0? I'm planning to use the Squeezebox/Duet devices for whole house audio for multiple family members. The one major issue with this idea is that it seems SqueezeCenter was designed for a single person's music tastes. No support for multiple libraries or multiple accounts for Pandora or other services. How are other people resolving this issue?

[andyg]

On Jan 29, 2008, at 8:49 AM, bradsjm wrote:

>
> I guess the idea of multiple users never made it to 7.0? I'm
> planning to
> use the Squeezebox/Duet devices for whole house audio for multiple
> family members. The one major issue with this idea is that it seems
> SqueezeCenter was designed for a single person's music tastes. No
> support for multiple libraries or multiple accounts for Pandora or
> other services. How are other people resolving this issue?


No, not supported. But you can create up to 100 stations, certainly
that's enough for everyone in the family?

[robbin]

I would like to be able to access multiple Pandora accounts also.

On Jan 29, 2008, at 8:49 AM, bradsjm wrote:


No, not supported. But you can create up to 100 stations, certainly
that's enough for everyone in the family?

I thought one of the positives of the SqueezeBox is that is is pretty unlimited in music library size, etc. It seems to me that saying 100 stations should be enough for the whole family is just the opposite. 100 stations is certainly not enough for my family!

[andyg]

On Jan 31, 2008, at 6:20 PM, robbin wrote:

>
> I would like to be able to access multiple Pandora accounts also.
>
> Andy Grundman;263574 Wrote:
>> On Jan 29, 2008, at 8:49 AM, bradsjm wrote:
>>
>>
>> No, not supported. But you can create up to 100 stations, certainly
>> that's enough for everyone in the family?
>
> I thought one of the positives of the SqueezeBox is that is is pretty
> unlimited in music library size, etc. It seems to me that saying 100
> stations should be enough for the whole family is just the opposite.
> 100 stations is certainly not enough for my family!

Wow, well that limit is one imposed by Pandora.

[robbin]

How is this limit imposed by Pandora? We have multiple paid Pandora accounts. But we can only listen to one of them each on each of our SqueezeBoxes. That limit is imposed by the SqueezeBox / SqueezeCenter / SqueezeNetwork. I fully understand that muptiple accounts are not supported, but I don't understand your attitude that no one would want or need it.

[andyg]

On Jan 31, 2008, at 7:09 PM, robbin wrote:

>
> How is this limit imposed by Pandora? We have multiple paid Pandora
> accounts. But we can only listen to one of them each on each of our
> SqueezeBoxes. That limit is imposed by the SqueezeBox /
> SqueezeCenter /
> SqueezeNetwork. I fully understand that muptiple accounts are not
> supported, but I don't understand your attitude that no one would want
> or need it.

I never said no one would want it, I just said it's not supported.
You are the first person who has ever asked for it. I merely
suggested a workaround. You could also share your stations from your
secondary accounts to your primary account.