LinkPlayer 2 Feedback thread

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stampfki (archived)
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Posted September 1, 2011 at 07:07 GMT
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Hey Phil,

Any news from your end?

I am so excited to get the new release with working Radio modus.

BR

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lyngedrengen (archived)
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Posted September 22, 2011 at 02:32 GMT
#1685814

PhilLondon wrote:

... Serious things will resume in September. I am planning to solve the issues controlling LinkPlayer from LinkRoom in AudioMaster mode first, and then tackle the other issues raised after that.

Hi Phil

I'm really looking forward to LP2 handling audiomaster mode, since I only have my Beolab 3500 connected via ML to my Beoport2/Mac Mini. So I'm curious - how are things coming along? :-)

Best regards

Jan

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Chrisreunion (archived)
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Posted October 4, 2011 at 13:35 GMT
#1685815

Any news on the next update?Cake

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PhilLondon
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Posted October 19, 2011 at 15:02 GMT
#1685816

Hi All,

I have just released LinkPlayer 2 Beta 2 that can be downloaded

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spezializten (archived)
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Posted October 22, 2011 at 10:41 GMT
#1685817
Sounds excellent!!!
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raveny (archived)
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Posted October 22, 2011 at 13:45 GMT
#1685818

the start up and wake up option for PC or A.AUX is not working. When my Mac wakes up from sleep mode I have to restart LinkPlayer and select PC. Anyone with the same symptoms?

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elephant (archived)
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Posted October 22, 2011 at 19:22 GMT
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PhilLondon wrote:
It also add some features for the Video source. In the Preferences, you can now add additional folders to be scanned for videos.

Well I downloaded at the weekend, and added a high level video folder; here is the feedback:

  • I liked the directory tree structure ... simply because library is well structured and the directories have meaningful names (this taxonomy is imposed by PLEX)

 

  • There was a default video that started plaing immediately and every time - it happened to be an eyeTV capture of a newsbroadcast
  • Only the sound played - no picture
  • But when I pressed (GO) to pause, a still frame would appear (the frame was correct timewise, i.e. it reflected where I was in the recording of the new broadcast)
  • If (while the default track was playing) I navigated the hierarchy of directories I could never find what appeared to be a list of videos ... I would enter a bottom level directory, and there would be a black (or blank if you prefer) list showing no filenames

 

 

 

Not sure if that is all as meant to be, and what we have is an user error, but for me it was not usable -- but I did play some music :-)

 

I also found that RADIO had issues: it would display a descrption in the Genre area, but nothing else (although text does flash briefly against Artist and Album, but then disappears)

 

And can you tell me, if for my MacMini connected to the Beovision 8, if the configuration should also have the PUC option ticked ? (seems to work without it; no BeoPort IR active, HDMI connection)

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elephant (archived)
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Posted October 22, 2011 at 19:27 GMT
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raveny wrote:

the start up and wake up option for PC or A.AUX is not working. When my Mac wakes up from sleep mode I have to restart LinkPlayer and select PC. Anyone with the same symptoms?

I do not use this sleep approach - but I always leave LinkPlayer running in the background and don't have any problems "starting" it, but I do always have to issue a Beo4 command to get a source.  I agree that the configuration panel implies a source should be automagically selected on start-up but I have never had a consistent experience.

Are you putting your Mac to sleep with a time to wake-up ? Is LinkPlayer left in a running state ?

 

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Chrisreunion (archived)
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Posted October 27, 2011 at 12:06 GMT
#1685821

Hi,

Thanks for the update on the beta version.

I can confirm that the audio master issue is now solved, my system worked with BeoLab 2000 + 3500 and a BeoPort setup as audio master only.

The NMUSIC/AMEM source is a delight to use, but the RADIO/NRADIO still needs a lot of work, I only had the "genre" displayed on my screen, no other metadata, the NRADIO playlist is not identified by the radio number (= from 1 to 59 in my case), but by station name, unlike the previous Linkplayer version. Besides, the sound really is terrible, it reminds me of the early days of audio compression on Internet, and this doesn't happen when going back to Linkplayer 1.

In CD mode, there is no info saying "LOAD" on the status screen, like it is the case with LP1.

Since NRADIO is the source I use most, I've gone back to LP1 and will wait for another update.

By the way, it may be a good idea to update Linkplayer's "change log" webpage with the beta versions, as not all LP users are on BeoWorld. I know several people that were checking every week for an update on Phil's website and were not aware of these beta versions. It may be good to have more people testing the application & sending their feedback.🙂

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RobN (archived)
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Posted November 6, 2011 at 06:23 GMT
#1685822

Hi Phil,

Thanks for beta 2. I can confirm that option 0, 1 & 2 all work fine. Looking very stable at present on my set-up.

The only request I have is please can we have Radio functionality so I can listen to the radio from the BeoSound 3000 (audio master) in my study on the BeoPort speakers, at present when selecting this option the radio appears selected on LinkPlayer but not actually via the ML to the Bs3000.

Please keep up the great work, thanks!

Rob

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