standalone, fire-and-forget web radio and DOS2

[gelasma]

Hello everyone,

what's been holding me back from upgrading to DOS2 (and from buying a second Classic) is the way web radios are handled with Spark. Basically, it's like Spotify Connect. You start the app, choose what you want, start playback and then it doesn't matter what you do with your phone or PC, playback will not stop until you tell it to. The phone can lose connectivity, the app can be shut down, it doesn't matter. You've just directed the Phantom to play that source, and it will.

I don't want to lose this functionality. I don't want to worry about being the source of music for the family, making sure that my phone stays in range, has enough juice, having to figure out what other device could be a new source to switch to if I decide to go to the shop around the corner and don't want to deprive the family of whatever they are hearing.

Can this be achieved with DOS2?

Thanks all

exactly my problem as well.

I will never update when I can not have radio streaming anymore that is independent of a phone or another computer. Using Airplay the music is bound to the device that startet the session. I start a song, leave the room and take my phone with me, music stops and my wife must start the music again from her phone? This is just so nuts. And what I’m I supposed to do with the Dialog, I bought that device for this very purpose that was part of the sales package. I like it a lot that I can turn down the volume from my phone when the kits push it to the limit using the remote. I guess that won’t be possible anymore unless I started the stream. 

Despite the ugly and user unfriendly Spark app I have to problems with the current setup, why break something that works well...