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Multi user Phone OS agnostic controlled music?

Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 9:21 pm
by Sanjøy
Evening, in a few weeks I have a lads weekend and am looking to sort the music out.

There is an amp with a 3.5mm connection and wifi.

My initial plan was an iPad with Spotify with a playlist that everyone can contribute to. Don't know what the bandwidth is though so looking for a backup.

I can load up music on the iPad but how can I let everyone control it via their android or iPhones? At home it would be done with a PC, iTunes and apple remote on iOS devices. Can't be assed with a laptop.

Any thoughts?

S

Re: Multi user Phone OS agnostic controlled music?

Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 10:03 pm
by robin
Learn to sing?

Re: Multi user Phone OS agnostic controlled music?

Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 10:35 pm
by cstrachan
squeezebox app on the iPad and set up a slim server then everyone else can download the controller apps.

Multi user Phone OS agnostic controlled music?

Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 11:01 pm
by Ferg
I was at a friends recently who is using ChromeCast Audio to great effect doing something similar to what your asking. :-)

Edit ;-)

Re: Multi user Phone OS agnostic controlled music?

Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 11:10 pm
by woody
For £30, buy a Chromecast audio. Plugs into the jack. Goes on the WiFi, can be controlled from multiple devices. I've been using a rocki since January which differs essentially the same.

ETA, missed the post above.

Re: Multi user Phone OS agnostic controlled music?

Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 11:40 pm
by j2 lot
Sonos

Re: Multi user Phone OS agnostic controlled music?

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 8:34 am
by Lazydonkey
You could still do spotify but just get people to contribute in advance and then set the playlist of offline before you go away.

We do this at new year and it works really well.

Re: Multi user Phone OS agnostic controlled music?

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 8:35 am
by Sanjøy
Lazydonkey wrote:You could still do spotify but just get people to contribute in advance and then set the playlist of offline before you go away.

We do this at new year and it works really well.
Thats where I am right now but forgot about the offline option.

Re: Multi user Phone OS agnostic controlled music?

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 9:28 am
by graeme
What possible lads weekend situation could not be covered by The One True Playlist?

Re: Multi user Phone OS agnostic controlled music?

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 10:30 am
by steve_weegie
Take a guitar and several bottles of jack daniels. If the guitar still sounds crap after the first bottle of jack, start on another bottle and repeat until everyone agrees Howlin Wolf is in the house.

Re: Multi user Phone OS agnostic controlled music?

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 10:49 am
by Lazydonkey
Sanjoy wrote:
Lazydonkey wrote:You could still do spotify but just get people to contribute in advance and then set the playlist of offline before you go away.

We do this at new year and it works really well.
Thats where I am right now but forgot about the offline option.
Oh and we used a netbook so it didn't matter if it got beer on it, plus it meant we could still play games on ipads 8)

Re: Multi user Phone OS agnostic controlled music?

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 11:13 am
by rossybee
Sanjoy wrote: lads weekend
Lazydonkey wrote:plus it meant we could still play games on ipads 8)
What no hoors?

Re: Multi user Phone OS agnostic controlled music?

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 11:13 am
by Ferg