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No interest or comment on this?
If it is possible I think it would make XBMC the complete package. Anyone who has multiple xboxs on their network would enjoy these features.
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The hardware component should be something that you carry so the XBox could know where you are, for example, a bluetooth movile. But the most important point is to add the bluetooth support to the XBox.
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Why would you need extra hardware? To stop a movie and continue in another room, should be possible. Instead of saving the timeindex of where you left of just to the database, you could save it at the same location of where the movie is.. then the other xbox could pick up where the other left off..
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yeah i'm not quite sure why you think it would need bluetooth, unless you don't have the xboxes hooked up to the network, which i think most people do. This would be a neat feature if it was implemented, more if used with video than audio personally.
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RE : Party mode (be careful, we already have a feature called party mode)
at this time there is no audio server available on the xbox platform that doesnt use a buffer.
For example if xbox A is the 'master' xbox that is streaming to xbox B and xbox C. Xbox B and C have a cache of about 256k which is about 20seconds. This means that xbox B and C are out of sync with xboxA by the amount of time it takes to fill 256k of data over the network. The end result is un-syncronised music
A special server and streaming system would need to be developed or ported to allow this functionality.
Regarding the follow me feature.
Interesting, but how and where would you propose to impliment this in the UI? It wouldnt be terribly difficult to code but fitting it into the UI isnt the easiest thing to do.
(and pop-ups would be FAR too intrustive to a user on another xbox)
Think more about your idea and try and find solutions to some of these problems
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oh, wow, party mode would definitely be cool, i didn't catch that part at first
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haha, yeah that would be a great feature, both of those really, but I especially like the...Music Syncing, as you called it. It could also just be something in the context menu, and you would highlight a song in a playlist or something and press the white button and choose "Sync to Other Xbox" or something, and if you selected that it could bring up a little window where you could choose between detected xboxes, or select all, and then execute, and it would wait a few seconds while the other xboxes cached and then everything would start simultaneously.
Also, for the thing where you continue stuff in other rooms, this is something I would probably use fairly frequently....Not constantly, but it would be a nice feature to have. I have one in the living room and one in my bedroom, and sometimes my parents come home and want to watch something else while i'm in the middle of something, so i could just continue it in my bedroom, or its frequently the reverse too, when my parents take off somewhere.
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the easiest way to do multi-xbox audio syncronization would be to code a slimp3 client for xbmc. there are some software based slimp3 clients. right from the get-go, you get the advantage of being able to use an external slimp3 server as the stream source. the harder part will be integrating the slimp3 server portion into xbmc so that an xbmc can act as the master.