BM-Link questions

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Hi,

 

I am rather new to having a intel mac-mini. It is connected to my beosound and I am using BM-Link 1.5 and it all works great (used to have  the the beosound integrated to a PC - but finds the mac much more attractive :)).

However I have a couple of questions that I guess you guys easily can answer:

1) I find it rather hard to know which album is played if I jyst key in a number on the beo4. On the PC platform each song had its own number - but it seems that in the bm-link application each Artist has its own number (also controlled by pressing left and right arrow on beo4 it seems to jump to next artist). Can I get bm-link to assign a number to each individual song or at the very least each album instead of the entire artist?  I have tried toggling the "Interaction->Group albums by artist" checkbox in the bm-link setup without any effects at all?

2) I can see I have firmware 1.30. I saw in some other thread in this forum that a new firmware version 1.31 is out - how do I get that and install it? I have tried the "Advanced->Update..." in the bm-link setup - it just bring up a file chooser dialog - and then what?

3) I read something about v.mem source also controls an application on the mac - is this true?

4) Anders Odlund mentioned something about controlling your favorite applications on the mac by using applescript - does anyone know which folder he is talking about and how to get this to work?

 

Thanks, Kræn David 

If you go to Anders website and download the latest version of the software, you will find a folder called 'Firmware'.  In it is version 1.31 of the firmware.

 

When you go to Advanced > Update use the file chooser to select the 1.31 hex file.  This will then update the firmware.

 

Bryn 

I don't know about assigning numbers, but you can change what the left/right double arrows (<< >>) do on the Beo4.  They skip forward or backward according to what is currently displayed.  If you have the artist displayed, this will move to the next/prev artist.  If you have the playlist displayed, it moves to the next/prev playlist.  You toggle between artist, playlist (and I forget what the other options are) by pressing the one of the colored keys (again, I forget which one).

Forgetfully,

Stan
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