Handling of stations with multiple channels

[ericDMH]

Some radio stations have more than one channel. At the moment, each time a user switches between channels, a new sessionID is assigned to him/her. When switching back to the station they previously listened to, they will also receive a new sessionID as they are currently not stored.

I'm wondering what would be the best way to improve this situation. We could:

• Store the last sessionId for each channel on the client
• Reuse the same sessionId for multiple channels (server side management)
• keep everything as it is.

[sebastian-weiss]

I prefer the first option: Store the session id for each channel.

The third option is not an option :-) and the second option would confuse later reportings (analytic purposes)

[sebastian-weiss]

Don't forget to be careful: In case the session became invalid, a new session has to be created. That means channel switching should rely on the same mechanisms as normal channel startup.