I have followed these threads about LinkPlayer with interest, and since you now have launched version 2, I’d like to give my feedback and hope for a little support as well, as I find this program absolute brilliant, and hope I can make it work on my system.

My setup: Room 1: BV8/26, BS3000, DVD2. Room 2: BC6/22. Room 3:MX7000. Macmini and PC2 in cupboard connected to BV8 and BC6 with DVI/HDMI for picture and analogue sound via audio jack, and Masterlink.

LinkPlayer 1: 

I can access N-Music and control it in all rooms. But it is only via BV8 I can use any of the vision commands. It will not respond to “PC” on my Beo4.  But as soon as the program has started in “MENU”, I can control it without problems, start PLEX etc. I can’t control it from my BC6.

LinkPlayer 2: 

The configuration:

• Beoport connected via Masterlink
• No IR Receiver
• Audiomaster is N.MUSIC compatible (Sources:Radio, CD)
• Mac can access VideoMaster Sources
• LinkRemote & Apple Remote enabled

- I can start the Menu using “PC” on Beo4 - but only once. When I quit using “Q” on my keyboard, it won’t let me start it again. I have tried to program “V.MEM” to start it as well, but it doesn’t work

- I can scroll through the menus, but when I press GO for MUSIC and VIDEO nothing happens. I can then continue to control it on my keyboard, but I have lost control with my Beo4. 

Again it is only on my BV8 I have this control. No response from my BC6.

If I press N.MUSIC on Beo4 nothing happens. If I press N.MUSIC with the mouse on the virtual remote nothing happens. But if I press N.MUSIC on the virtual remote with the mouse once, and then N.MUSIC on Beo4 it starts to play and I can control it with Beo4. And I can do that on either BV8 or the BC6.

Chrisreunion wrote:

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.

Please do this:

• In LinkPlayer > Preferences > General > AudioMaster, select This Mac is the AudioMaster.
• Quit and restart LinkPlayer. Go back to the Preferences window and check that the LED is green.
• Go to the Beolab 2000 room and press N.MUSIC, or whatever source that is configured on LinkPlayer.
• Go to Windows > Console and press Send.

I'll check that... Radio needs more work.

Chrisreunion wrote:

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)

In LinkPlayer > Preferences > Sound, make sure both boxes are ticked. I tend to use 100% for the first slider and 75% for the second, but I do not have a DAC. If you have an external DAC, usually the first slider (System volume) is ignored, so try and play with the second slider.

Chrisreunion wrote:

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

This is normal, this allow you to monitor music that is distributed, but you cannot start the distribution from your Mac. Once it is started in the linkroom, you can see which track is playing and you can change the track.

Chrisreunion wrote:

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

Remember this is a Beta version.

Chrisreunion wrote:

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

There will be a new version of LinkRemote when LinkPlayer 2 goes final, but for now LinkRemote 1 is not supported.

JohnDK wrote:

Mac can access VideoMaster Sources

This is the wrong setting for you, you need to use: This Mac is connected to a Beovision.

Also make sure it is connected connected to SCART/Socket 3 in the BV8 menu.

You need to make sure the BV8 recognises LinkPlayer. To do so:

• Set LinkPlayer as above.
• Quit and restart LinkPlayer.
• In the BV8's menu, go to Connections, and remove the setting for SCART 3 and add it again. If you have the possibility to say a Beomedia is connected to Scart 3 then select that option.

Thank you very much for the reply.

I've changed the configuration for the LinkPlayer and reconnected it to the BV8. Rebooted the system and tried again. But I'm affraid with the same result. 

PhilLondon wrote:

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.

Thanks - I tried a quick test before heading to work; not quite the behaviour my BV8 gives me. I will document LinkPlayer and an alternative sources behaviour for you.  Thanks as always for your sterling work.

Thanks all for the feedback. There is lots of it, so I am taking things one at a time...

A new version is available from the

Back from work .....

PhilLondon wrote:

Changes:

• It is now possible to navigate up the menu hierarchy, back up to the 'Menu' source list, by pressing STOP or LEFT.

Yes, that works beautifully in the menu structure ... but once I have started playing a music track (did not try video ...) things break down. 

Once I have started playing a music track on my BV8/BeoPort/MacMini combination I find that [STOP] does not work ... yes, it stops as in pauses, but then things are stuck !

Also [<<] does not work once I have started playing music.

However now [EXIT] always works, but takes me immediatly to the highest menu where as before this new-new-new version it used to traverse the menu tree ...

elephant wrote:

Also [<<] does not work once I have started playing music.

I'll check this tonight. Can you make sure you do not have Random, Repeat or Repeat one activated.

p.

PhilLondon wrote:

elephant wrote:

Also [<<] does not work once I have started playing music.

I'll check this tonight. Can you make sure you do not have Random, Repeat or Repeat one activated.

p.

Random was ON, I have turned it OFF.

Once a music track is playing [<<] changes playlists, and [STOP] pauses the track.

Same for Video.