Technology behind Starbucks Wifi Store?

[zainjetha]

Hi

does anybody here know what drives the itunes wifi music store?

puzzles me how it works coz each starbucks plays different music and i wonder where they play it off and how the source of the music is linked to the itunes wifi music store? maybe they have a server in each coffee shop..

anybody know

 

[wrboyce]

At a guess, the mac address of the base station is transferred to the wifi store as part of the request, which in turn queries and returns the recently played tracks..

As I say, only a guess - we don't get such features in the UK :-(

 

[waterskier2007]

each starbucks probably has its own dedicated music server and so when your phone is on their network and you connect to the music store you are just connecting to their individual server. im not good with this stuff so its just a guess

 

[wrboyce]

each starbucks probably has its own dedicated music server and so when your phone is on their network and you connect to the music store you are just connecting to their individual server. im not good with this stuff so its just a guess

seems like overkill to distribute a few songs.. I think it's more likely that each Starbucks reports back it's played tracks in a last.fm-esque manner and the network you are using is used to identify the particular starbucks you are in.

 

[waterskier2007]

seems like overkill to distribute a few songs.. I think it's more likely that each Starbucks reports back it's played tracks in a last.fm-esque manner and the network you are using is used to identify the particular starbucks you are in.

yeah like i said i am not knowledgeable on this, just giving my $ .02, but what you said seems more logical

 

[genshi]

I'm still wondering why they haven't rolled this out in Los Angeles yet? This was supposed to happen by end of February in Los Angeles (according to Apple; by March for Chicago) but none of the Starbucks I have been to have this working yet...