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Wow, Elephant! So much info!
My pleasure 🙂 it made it an enjoyable Sunday for me ... luckily the fabric selector was working and so I was able to devote the time to testing music and videos I wanted to listen to 😂
Right now the family is sitting and listening to "Anothr Brick in the Wall (part 2)" 😂
For Elephant:
> I did not change my BV8, BS4 nor BeoPort options from LinkPlayer-1; but I went through the configuartion process you provided our friend:
The setup I gave to him is specific to the system he described. As your system is different, the setup should be adapted.
As you have a BS4, you should set AudioMaster to "The AudioMaster is N.MUSIC Compatible". (You'll need to restart LinkPlayer to take effect, and the LED should go Green)
>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
That's right, I have not yet re-implemented TEST display over MasterLink. That will come later.
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I also need to explain how ALL the sources menu hierarchy work, as this has been unified for all the sources.
When you enter a source, LinkPlayer will play the last track you played in that source. If it is the first time, it will play track 1-1.
Press MENU and you'll display the content of the current Playlist. Press << or STOP to display the lists of Playlists. Press << or STOP to display the MODES.
The MODES can also be changed by pressing the colour buttons, without going through the menus.
Note that Repeat One, means Repeat One Track forever. No repeat once.
Repeat and Random can also be activated using the Beo4 LIST keys in N.MUSIC.
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N.RADIO needs work - but try and increase the buffer for N.RADIO in the Preferences > Modules.
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Regarding Video, the first Mode, is called Playlists, and shows all the video stored in iTunes (but not the podcasts).
The second mode is Folder, which shows the content of your Video folder.
The third mode is Videocasts, which shows video podcasts. But not the one subscribed in iTunes, the one you subscribe to in the RSS section of the Preferences. Go to LinkPlayer > Preferences > RSS > Videocasts, then paste the URL of the podcast and click +.
You can copy the URL from iTunes, by right clicking on a podcast section in iTunes.
LinkPlayer handles the download of videos in the background. In keeps the last 6 episodes for video podcasts (and the last 11 for audio podcasts.)
When switching to Folder, it shows the Folder hierarchy, if you select a folder, it then shows the list of files in that folder. For now Aliases are not yet supported.
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Regarding Last.FM, I do have the intention to add it later on. I am in fact quite advanced in the programming, but I'd like to get the current thing to work first.
I do not see why your Last.FM track are not playing??? Where they stored in iTunes? Which format?
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> 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
Re-download LinkPlayer, I have fixed this. I was sending the voice to the digital channel.
>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
Yes, that's one of the BIG new feature of LinkPlayer. I do not have the setup to test it at home, so I am really glad it works as expected.
If you've got 2 sound cards, LinkPlayer now handles the 2 separately.
>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 !
Yes, this View menu allows you to monitor both channels.
>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
Oh? I'll test that, that is not normal.
To All: You can re-download LinkPlayer from the same link as Above. I have fixed a few issues:
excellent turnaround and detail - thank you !
also thanks for the quick fixes 🙂
I do not see why your Last.FM track are not playing??? Where they stored in iTunes? Which format?
My "bad", what I meant was that with LinkPlayer 1 invoking iTunes I was able to use the Last.FM scrobbler to capture my listening behaviour; with LinkPlayer 1 your LinkMusic option never did that (which is why I never used it!); but now LinkPlayer 2 is totally implemented link LinkMusic was I have lost the scrobbling ... so I am very happy to hear that you have plans in that direction; no need to rush - I agree with your priorities, and in any case Last.FM seems to have problems at the moment with LION and other changes so my scrobbling is a generic mess ATM
I will download now (well once "The Wall" finishes) and do some more tests 🙂
PS just a suggestion since we are all BeoFreaks 😂
I liked the fact that Radio icon was a classical bakalite B&O radio
Why not make Music icon something like the sliderule BeoLab ?
The Video icon could be one of the first of the B&O Televisions !
CD icone could be a collection of B&O CDs? or equally be used for Music ? or a B&O LP for music if anyone has a picture that they can donate royalty free to you
Photos .... maybe some faded B&Ws of Peter Bang and the crew at the Farm ?
I did like the amplifier jackplug cord for the external connection 🙂 but not sure what could represent the Mac sounds except a glowing valve perhaps 😂
I have just uploaded a new-new version with the following changes:
I had not realised the icon for Radio was an old B&O radio. I googles Radio in google image, and found that was the best looking one😂
Downloaded and tried the new beta. Just found some issues in the preferences pane, under modules there seems to be something wrong with the icons. Can't get Spotify to work, have wait for a long while to see if Linkplayer will download my playlist...
I'm running Mac OS X Snow Leopard...
As you have a BS4, you should set AudioMaster to "The AudioMaster is N.MUSIC Compatible". (You'll need to restart LinkPlayer to take effect, and the LED should go Green)
Yes, it does.
A comment, the system now seems slower ... I am guessing that is because we now have handshaking operating between the BeoPort and the BeoSound.
Slower on start up and on selecting Music ... the music will start playing before the cover art etc appears.
>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
Oh? I'll test that, that is not normal.
It may be the delay, or it may be intermittent, but I had a real impression that the second [PC] command from the Beo4 was sometimes not picked up. I will try to do more thorough testing once the family has gone to bed.
N.RADIO needs work - but try and increase the buffer for N.RADIO in the Preferences > Modules.
Will do.
> 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
Re-download LinkPlayer, I have fixed this. I was sending the voice to the digital channel.
This is now sort of working ... the BS4's volume drops for a period of the announcement, but there is no voice; the voice is NOT mis-directed to the digital output, so it must be something else for you to dig into 🙁
I have just uploaded a new-new version with the following changes:
- Icon for "Mac Sound" now shows... your Mac
- When starting a source in Video mode (Started from TV, DTV, V.TAPE, PC... or AV-N.MUSIC...) the source now shows the top level menu rather than starting the last played track.
I had not realised the icon for Radio was an old B&O radio. I googles Radio in google image, and found that was the best looking one😂
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