PhilLondon wrote:

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You posted this while I was posting above... Most excellent!  WOW!   Is it possible to kill the battery/carrier/time bar? 

I loved the squeaky-clean appearance below (no iPhone interface buttons visible)  and the font, and of course if it were possible to do the genius seeding, the star rating, and the search, I think this there is nothing else anyone would wish!

Bestest,

XavierItzmann wrote:

4.  The real issue I face is the lack of sufficient visual feedback in linked rooms...

Well now you have a solution, the app in Landscape mode does just that.

XavierItzmann wrote:

(b) the possibility of doing a search by author, composer, song, etc.

The App display any menu that the source would display in Full Screen mode. I am planning to add menus to the iTunes source. But at first it will be limited to Playlist navigation.

I have not yet found out how to do it by author, song... same problem with genius seed list.

6:20 am sitting in front of my home office speachless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Philippe really CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No words can describe this amazing job.

Big bravo 🤒

Excellent!!

This is what  a beoworlder would like to have!!!

Thank you very much.

wow....that really brings it up to a higher level of integration..   
Linkplayer has evolved into something way beyond 'just making itunes work'....love it. 

Thank you so much Philippe and I can't wait for the final release :)

Looks amazing

I am still having trouble making my linkplayer work and I have talked with Phil on this. I don´t wanna disturb him in the developing of this great app right now.  

Any one else who handles programming who can troubleshoot my crashreports? I assume it must be something wrong / some app at my mac that break things since no one else here report any crashes. Would really appreciate some assistance.

I have been away from the boards for tooooo long !

I just knew that Phil would pull a rabbit, or even a covey of rabbits, out of the hat while I was gone.

I can't wait to see what Phillipe does when he gets cracking on the iPd interface :)

@ scanorama ... I am sorry you are still having problems, I wish I could give you better advice :(

I still can't make up my mind as to whether I should keep the BeoPort PC version (that I've been using for years) or shift to BM Link or Linkplayer, because both Mac softwares are very limited when it comes to Beo4 compatibility:

- Linkplayer can't step through albums, and I only play NMUSIC in album mode with the left & right Beo4 arrows stepping through albums

- both have that funny track number logic, so pressing "1523" brings you to song nr 1523 in Itunes..am I supposed to remember the number for each of my 5,492 tracks? Why not making the digits play each track from each album/folder, like in CD mode?

- Linkplayer uses none of the coloured keys in NMUSIC to access 4 playlists , for instance (like in BeoPort PC)

- the display & voiceover features (+ the need for no audio master) are the most tempting reasons I would love to shift to the Linkplayer software alternatives, but I'm confident Philippe is working on other improvements, since we're still having the Beta version for the moment.

- in NRADIO, same issues with Linkplayer: because there is only 1 NRADIO playlist in Itunes, you can't step through genre/country/language with the left & right arrows, the coloured keys have no function, and numbered keys are useless if you have to remember each of the 3,000 stations available ..

- the software might be a joy to use with Ipod/Iphone products, but since I don't intend to use them instead of Beo4, I'm still waiting for a better /upgraded solution from BMLink / Linkplayer

- both softwares have to deal with the limitations/operating principles of Itunes, which I frankly don't like (& I don't like WMP either!).

- to me , the ideal solution would be to operate like B&O's PC software when it comes to Beo4 integration, with the addition of voiceover for link rooms, and a scrolling display on 8 and 12 character products; the rest would be the icing on the cake..🙂

Chrisreunion wrote:

- both softwares have to deal with the limitations/operating principles of Itunes.

That's exactly why I could not programme the Album navigation.

LinkPlayer is more optimised to use in PlayList mode (Blue), in that mode you can use the left and right key to navigate between playlists, and up and down keys to navigate between songs.

I have a plan to give the possibility to play songs through LinkPlayer directly rather than though itunes. That would allow me to offer Album navigation option again.

In the meantime you can have a look at this AppleScript which create a PlayList for each of your albums:

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=albumplaylists

Chrisreunion wrote:

- both softwares have to deal with the limitations/operating principles of Itunes.

PhilLondon wrote:

create a PlayList for each of your albums

It is not ideal, but this is my approach:

I have about 15 playlists for my library of 8,000+ tracks.

And so I use genius or itunes DJ playlists to give me a MOTS-like approach to background music.

But when I want to listen to a specific artist or album I pause LinkPlayer/iTunes, then I use iTunes' search facility to restrict my library and then I double click on the first song to restart LinkPlayer/iTunes ...

I am not sure that I would like to create hundreds of playlists for all the albums in my Library; but on the other hand maybe a few select playlists would make sense e.g. "Hell Freezes Over" :-)