Dear @spotify can I have a cloud-play-queue instead of a remote control?
First and foremost, a thanks is in order for Spotify service is awesome! Yes, some of us would like to find more things that are less mainstream and the quality of the ads (for those who don't pay the premium membership) is really bad. Still, it's a fabulous service for a very good price.
You see, I've seen people asking for a remote control application for their phones so they can control spotify running on the computer while they move around (or lie down somewhere they can't be bothered to walk to the computer) but I think right now I'd like the converse of that. Let me explain, I've just paid for Spotify, essentially to be able to use it on the iPhone. As I'm working from my sofa with my laptop and it's not handy at all to plug it into the HiFi while I'm working, so I plugged my iPhone instead. The problem is that I can't control the playlist from here. The laptop is a much better interface to manage playlists and play queues, plus, it's right in front of me while the iPhone is a bit further away. Since both laptop and iPhone are connected on the same account, fairly enough, only one of them is allowed to play at the same time so one pauses whenever the other starts. Now, instead of creating remote controls to every pair of devices around, a more interesting option could perhaps be that multiple devices can control the same play queue without necessarily changing the audio source. You see? If I check the play queue on the laptop I'll be able to see what's ahead and change it, the iPhone will react to this without switching the audio source. With no additional implementation, whenever the computer is the audio source the phone can play the role of remote control. This way remote control is handled for all the combinatory explosion of device pairs without any extra effort to produce remote control applications. Life in the cloud, the true way!
