Renderer confusion

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My Creation5 iPhone app that streams to my Chromecast Audio, and the Roku Media Player channel on my Roku both have no provision for entering a username or password, so both get assigned username "guest", but even more disturbing is the fact they appear as the same "player", with no differentiation shown in the "now playing" column, even though I've deleted all players, renamed once I first began playing from my phone and saved unchecked "dynamic IP". Roku and Chromecast have separate and distinct IPs, why would Subsonic not see these as two vastly different players? Why would "username" seemingly take precedent over "player" identification?

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So nobody has any feedback or suggestions as to why two different applications from two unique IP addresses - one an iPhone app, the other a Roku channel - both appear as using the same Subsonic player, presumably because neither app has specific login name ability and Subsonic defaults to "guest" for both? I ask, doesn't "player" platform take precedent over "user" info? Shouldn't I be seeing two "guests" on two different "players"?

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Wow, this forum is worthless; not a single suggestion or answer to my problem.

[acroyear]

The "player" choice is sent by the client as part of its API call. In my case, I have "SubFire" sent. Other apps may not have been so careful in choosing what string to send, but the server has no control over it nor any rules to enforce it. What the client sends, the "now playing" block renders, as is.

If Roku or some other app are just sending "Subsonic" or something like that, that is their choice or oversight and fixing it is up to them.