LinkPlayer 2 Feedback thread

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Hi Phil,

at the first look a great work! gratulations!

But i have a problem. I have a BeoSound 3200 an Beolabs with Wireless 1 or beoaktives in the House. No TV. My Beoport ist connected with a imac via usb ans the line in about a airport express (i know thats not ideal for the sound, but in this way i can avoid that the mac sound is streamd to my BS3200 next to the musik). My favorit Playlist in iTunes ist iTunesDJ. Actually i can control everything with my beo4 over LinkPlayer1 and also when playing N.Musik with our ipads, iphones and ipod-touchs. The important think is, that i can edit iTunesDJ (erase a song, or make whichs) while it is playing.  And I can receive the Musik with non B&O Speakers (like B&W Zeppelin Air) over Airplay. Perfekt!

With LP2 i have two problems:

1) AirPlay is actually not supported

2) I can´t edit iTunesDJ with the RemoteApp on the different Devices

Maybe you can reconsider the iTunes-integration. It could be very helpfull for some of us.

spezializten wrote:
under modules there seems to be something wrong with the icons

I just noticed that, and that will be fixed.

spezializten wrote:
Can't get Spotify to work

I am now having the same issue when I installed LinkPlayer 2 on my other Mac. Now that I can reproduce the issue, I should be able to fix it... stay tuned.

elephant wrote:
yes, Video now behaves that way, thanks ... but the behaviour is also on Music as well which you may not have intended ... 

Yes, that is intended for Music as well. I am trying to get all sources behave the same. So all sources that are started through a Video key (PC, TV, DTV, or using AV before an audio Key) will start with the top menu. (Note: this has not yer been implemented for Radio)

elephant wrote:
... and when I exit (without playing) from the first level menu of Music I get presented with the text of a track but no music and no cover art 

Just press GO to start that song/track/video...

ChrisBerlin wrote:
1) AirPlay is actually not supported

I have tried to support AirPlay, as this would be a perfect addition, but I have not succeeded yet. In the meantime, I recommend

PhilLondon wrote:

elephant wrote:
... and when I exit (without playing) from the first level menu of Music I get presented with the text of a track but no music and no cover art 

Just press GO to start that song/track/video...

Yes, I understand ... I did do that ... but my point was [EXIT] should exit back to Menu, not to the meta-data from some previous invocation

First of all many thanks for the new release!

 

N.RADIO works - at least any radio station plays. But I cannot switch the station. Which channels are tracked by LP2?

Is it normal that when playing N.RADIO the LP2 sidebar still shows "Standby"?

elephant wrote:
Yes, I understand ... I did do that ... but my point was [EXIT] should exit back to Menu, not to the meta-data from some previous invocation

On a Beovision, [Exit] exits the menu and goes back to the playing source. [STOP] goes one level up. That's what I have tried to mimic in LinkPlayer. In addition [LEFT] goes one level up as well, this is to make it easier to use for Apple Remote and PUC users.

Currently, [LEFT] will allow you to go from a source's top menu back to the 'menu' module source list, but [STOP] doesn't. I'll fix that. I'll see what logical thing I can do about the meta data.

Another way to go from a source to the 'menu' module source list is to press [EXIT] when the sources's own menu is not displayed, for example when a track is playing.

p.

stampfki wrote:
First of all many thanks for the new release!

My pleasure ;-)

stampfki wrote:
N.RADIO works - at least any radio station plays. But I cannot switch the station. Which channels are tracked by LP2?

Currently it only tracks channels int the N.RADIO playlist that you should create in iTunes. I'll soon revert to the old way of being able to pickup radios in mutliple playlists.

stampfki wrote:
Is it normal that when playing N.RADIO the LP2 sidebar still shows "Standby"?

Yes, the virtual remote now reflects what has been activated through the Virtual Remote itself. You use the View>Distribution menu to visualise the source beind distributed over Masterlink.

I just installed the last update, and with BeoPort set as audio master with no other video or audio master in my setup, I can only access and play local sources on the Mac Mini/BeoPort combination, but can't play anything on the link speakers (Lab 2000+3500). The setup display says "audio master/inactive".The link speakers turn on but there's no sound.

NRadio stations are played in alphabetical order, not by number stored in the NRADIO playlist.

Sound on all sources is not good at all (with volume set to 90% on the external DAC, there's some kind of "tube" noise).

When selecting "distributed source", I have no sources at all, they're all greyed. 😉

I'm going back to LinkPlayer 1 for the moment..

Another thing: the volume level on LinkRemote doesn't sync with the one on BeoPort.

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