spezializten wrote:

How shall I configure my system. I have the BeoPort with IR-eye connected to a MacMini which is connected to a BV8-40 and a BeoLab 3500?

If the Beoport and the BV8 are in the same room, you do not need the IR eye. Set your BV8 in Option 2 in order to use its IR eye for both Audio and Video.

In LinkPlayer > Preferences > General > IR REceiver, disable the IR Receiver.

In LinkPlayer > Preferences > General > AudioMaster, set This Mac is the AudioMaster

In LinkPlayer > Preferences > General > VideoMaster, set This Mac is connected to a TV and is controller using the PC key

In LinkPlayer > Preferences > Sources, assign: N.RADIO to Radio, CD to CD, N.MUSIC to Music, A.AUX to Spotify, PC to Menu.

In LinkPlayer > Preferences > Sound, tick both boxes, and move the first cursor to 100% and the second to 75%.

Is it an Aluminium Mac mini?

Okey, then I just wait to test the Video sources.

I have Spotify Premium and I have configured it to run with A.MEM. When it tries to start spotify it just says black screen and null. In the console it just says, Beo4 key Key Beoport audio A.MEM Device.?

I can see Artist - Album - Genre - Playlist and Mode NULL, all black.

The first time, It may take a while to sync all your Spotify playlists. Wait for a while then press Go from time to time.

PhilLondon wrote:

spezializten wrote:

How shall I configure my system. I have the BeoPort with IR-eye connected to a MacMini which is connected to a BV8-40 and a BeoLab 3500?

If the Beoport and the BV8 are in the same room, you do not need the IR eye. Set your BV8 in Option 2 in order to use its IR eye for both Audio and Video.

In LinkPlayer > Preferences > General > IR REceiver, disable the IR Receiver.

In LinkPlayer > Preferences > General > AudioMaster, set This Mac is the AudioMaster

In LinkPlayer > Preferences > General > VideoMaster, set This Mac is connected to a TV and is controller using the PC key

In LinkPlayer > Preferences > Sources, assign: N.RADIO to Radio, CD to CD, N.MUSIC to Music, A.AUX to Spotify, PC to Menu.

In LinkPlayer > Preferences > Sound, tick both boxes, and move the first cursor to 100% and the second to 75%.

Is it an Aluminium Mac mini?

OK my feedback 🙂

Download was very nice (seeing the new icon bounce at the end of the download!!) and a quick start (click, yes open it, and lock it into the dock) to get going !

I did not change my BV8, BS4 nor BeoPort options from LinkPlayer-1; but I went through the configuartion process you provided our friend:

[X] In LinkPlayer > Preferences > General > IR REceiver, disable the IR Receiver.

[X] In LinkPlayer > Preferences > General > AudioMaster, set This Mac is the AudioMaster

• Now this threw me since I think of my BS4 as THE audiomaster I selected "N-Music compatible" however selecting the option did not seem work 
• Note that when I reverted back to the Mac as audiomaster the tick marks of the previous setting stayed, so I went back to untick those 
• Note that the Audiomaster dot is neither green nor red so I am not sure I have perfected the settings

[X] In LinkPlayer > Preferences > General > VideoMaster, set This Mac is connected to a TV and is controller using the PC key

[%] In LinkPlayer > Preferences > Sources, assign:

[X] N.RADIO to Radio,

[no] CD to CD, <= I want CD to be my BS4

[X] N.MUSIC to Music,

[no] A.AUX to Spotify, <= no Spotify in Australia

[X] PC to Menu.

[X] In LinkPlayer > Preferences > Sound, tick both boxes, and move the first cursor to 100% and the second to 75%. <= set first to more like 95%

[X] Is it an Aluminium Mac mini?

Now my initial AUDIO tests and feedback:

1. I could not seem to get the virtual remote to work with mouse clicks on "STANDBY", so I selected the Window from the top menu bar, and then [PC] on the Beo4
2. Music played from visually but I got no audio
3. Tried the BS4 room with [N-Music] and got the audio of the track but not characters on the BS4 display other than N-MUSIC 1 or 27
4. Tried a loooong GO to get voice over of what was playing but heard nothing (nor from the BV8 room it seemed)
5. Tried [N-RADIO] and I was then hearing two separate tracks, the original N-Music and what sounded like a track coming over an analogue medium wave radio (snaps, crackles and pops!) so I put the BS4 into standby
6. Went back to the Mac/BV8 and overrode the BV8's sound selection to use BV8 (i.e. HDMI)
7. Now listening to my music 🙂
8. Went back to the BS4 room, tried [N-MUSIC] saw the same display behaviour but got no audio
9. Tried [N-RADIO] and the display changed, but no audio, and NO change to the BV8 room - still only playing N-MUSIC with no overlay of any N-RADIO effects

I had to try a restart to clear the running video ... so I tested Console option and saw the familar trace information, accidently did a CMD+Q which shutdown LinkPlayer.

On restart LinkPlayer temprarily had the B&O font on display PLUS a lovely karge thick nicely smooth font -- I could be tempted to use that for the Menu to match the new big icons !

Strangely, LinkPlayer stayed in Standby mode, I am used to the old LinkPlayer switching to Menu mode after about 10 seconds (probably a menu option I have not tweaked properly).

Confirmed that Video does not present a list of folders, nor playlists, and in fact reverted to the first track again :-(

BUT this time [Menu] worked ???

Went to list of what was in Music Videos folder, went up to the next level, which was a list of all playlists that had videos in them as well as being the Video "folders" I expected like TVs and Movies

Scolling through the list of Movies was slowed by the kickstart of the external USB drive

Navigation was all good ... its all the videos inside the different places and categories of my iTunes video library ... but not our Podcast videos (e.g. Apple developer broadcasts, fashion broadcasts) nor iTunes University broadcasts that I had stored (music appreciation classes and organ recitals)

One good thing out of these tests is that I am discovering music videos I had forgotten about :-) AND also how many I have purchased :-( over the years 

elephant wrote:

BUT this time [Menu] worked ???

Went to list of what was in Music Videos folder, went up to the next level, which was a list of all playlists that had videos in them as well as being the Video "folders" I expected like TVs and Movies

*doh*

on my third series of tests I found that Video has quite a deep menu hierarchy; you start at the "bottom" being what you were playing last, but use of [MENU] and successive [<<] keys lets you walk back up the video tree 🙂

1. "Modes" is the highest and it shows "Playlists", "Folders", "Videocasts" (?), "EyeTV Archive" (and the options of "Random", "Repeat" and "Repeat One" {should be "Repeat Once" to be picky}
2. "EyeTV Archive" works, but has an intermediate level from Modes to the actual list of my EyeTV recordings - the intermediate level has a screen shot from the first recording at the next level of the archive ... I guess I should start organising my archive wilth folders of Shows and Series and Episodes 😂
3. "Videocasts" does nothing for me ... perhaps this relates to the Web configuration page that seemed to have meta data and URLs for videocasts
4. "Folders" showed two options at the next level: "Movies" and "Realplayer Downloads" and an EyeTV screenshot, and the sound track was from that EyeTV ... I clicked through to Movies to find it was an EyeTV recording that must have been ported as a test into my iTunes, the sound track was from this option - when I clicked through I arrived at the point where the track had ALREADY played through to, not at the start, not at a resume point
5. A repeat test of this did not start playing straight away ... also, (my bad), the folder structures under the Apple "Movies" source directory contains a lot of alias folders - none of these are showing up; but this particular clip IS in that root level, and then it is or may be in the next level down inside iTunes, since we go from "Movies" to "Movie" to "recording" that I have been describing, clicking that starts the track from the start
6. Whereas clicking through to "Realplayer Downloads" (not an alias folder) brought up one track, and I had to click on that to start it to play just like at the lower level of "Movie"

Special Request time ...........

I am a Last.FM user (as is Alex and Bergholdt and I suspect a few others here).

Now that you have successfully bypassed iTunes 🙂 none of my Last.FM tracking of my music is working.

Please do ot slow down the rboad release to everyone, but as a thought could you take a look at the following:

1. Last.FM APIs: link
2. Other developers' extensions and mash-ups: link
link
3. And scrobbling:
   link
   • linklink
   • link

Well after several hours of music I decided to go back to the "destructions" and start fiddling again 😂

I found that a looong (GO) will trigger the voice announcement on my BV8 of the track etc etc

But it definetly does not work in the BS4 room

I have got both rooms working which is neat :) the new LinkPlayer support of two outputs means I can have digital (BV8 HDMI) and analogue (BeoPort) outputs

The thing that has pleasantly surprised me !!! is that these two outputs are independent of one another 

I can listen to one set of music in link room (s I presume, must test) and another in the BV8 room

[X] Yes, the N-Music works in both types of Link Rooms: BS4 connected, and BeoWireless connected; and controls work in both rooms to manage the analogue source

[ - ] No, switching to [PC] on the BV8 leaves the link rooms running, but scrolling and selecting Videos kills the link rooms' audio 🙁

[ - ] Trying to restart the N-Music in the link rooms got nowhere, so I put the BS4 link room into standby ... this killed the BV8's video playing 🙁

[ - ] Trying to restart the system with just N-Music in the BS4 link room got nothing going ... I then started [PC] on the BV8 to see where LinkPlayer was up to, and it was not at the main menu, but rather an empty "<>" track position under a source of "PC" ... the new icon in the dock also showed "<>" (I sort of like how the icon shows the 'folder' number and the 'track' number, but when I first saw Phillippe's description of the dynamic icon I had hoped for cover art ... bllody users, always demanding the impossible LOL) ... anyhow, the switch of Video certainly has frozen the system so I need to restart LinkPlayer 🙁

Restarting the system still leaves me with a Menu in standby mode, whereas the old Linkplayer always went to populating the menu ... this new behaviour means pressing [PC] once to turn on the BV8, wait a few seconds, press [PC] again to get the Menu display triggered

Also I have enabled all levels of sending the meta data on the Masterlink, and still the BS4 displays "N-Music" but no track info (other than the number)

But I found a LinkPlayer top line menu option called "View" which allows me to set the BV8 to display the cover art of what is being broadcast across the Masterlink to the link rooms ... neat ! 🙂

Setting RANDOM and REPEAT ONE on Video resulted in seeing the same Music Video four (4) times ... this might be a *bug* that needs squishing

Wow, Elephant! So much info! I am going to try and replay bits by bits!