There is a new version of LinkRemote on the App Store.

It will work fine on iPhone iOS 3.0, 3.1 or iOS 4.0, and on the iPad.

It's got some features that will only be visible on the next version of LinkPlayer that I am working on and that should be released in about a week.

This has probably been commented on before so I apologize if I am repeating. I noticed today that Linkplayer when installed on both an iPad and iTouch will mirror each other. Making a selection on either instantly causes that same action to appear on the other. Seems like an iPad could be placed at every audio location as a fixed controller with an iTouch being the portable controller.

Phil

This is excellent advise, thank you so much. I am travelling at the moment but will be back this weekend to try the direct connection and if that works I may invest in a DAC as this will allow me to receive music around the house and with your iphone apps I overcome my big down on N.music which is the music selection where no screen is available on the device

Thanks again its much appreciated

Regards

Pete

Am I the only one who noted that Linkmusic in Linkplayer doesn't play gapless? Or is there a special trick to make it play so? I checked the "part of a gapless album" in the Itunes settings, nothing's changed unfortunately..The BM Link software plays gapless, I'd love the next SW update from Philippe to fix that issue, at the moment I'm still using BM Link because I hate hearing gaps in NMUSIC...😉

Hi,

LinkMusic, is not hapless yet. Even if I have some plans to reduce the gap duration, I have read that it is very difficult to make a full gapless player. 

Bmlink is gapless because it uses iTunes to play the songs and iTunes is gapless.  Instead of using LinkMusic, you can set N.Music to "iTunes" and it will be gapless. 

Philippe

Hi everyone,

After reading this thread and going over the info on the Linkplayer site, I'm considering adding a Mac mini (with Beoport) to act as a media server, as well as providing N.MUSIC and N.RADIO, all via Linkplayer.

Current set-up is BS3200 (audio master, linked to 3 other rooms on ML - audio only) with a Pioneer HD TV (connected to BS3200 via RCA leads to A.AUX for TV sound through BL6000's) all controlled via Beo5. TV and BS3200 are in the same room. Mac mini and Beoport to go in the same room (hidden and no additional IR eye or speakers connected to Beoport).

With this in mind, I have the following questions I'm hoping can be answered before going ahead:

1. Will I be able to wake-up the Mac and control Front Row with this set up? i.e. press V.MEM on Beo5/4 and have the BS3200 (in V.MEM mode) acting as the IR receiver, sending commands through ML to Beoport and on to the Mac? Presumably N.MUSIC/RADIO will work also?

2.  I'd like to connect the Mac mini to the TV via HDMI to get the best quality video signal. If I do so, what will be the result for the audio signal? Presumably for N.MUSIC/RADIO to work I'll need to connect the Mac's headphone jack to the Beoport Audio In. With both this and the HDMI connection to the TV, what happens to the audio signal?

Here's hoping I can get a reply and a solution, as from what I'm reading here the Linkplayer software seems to be a great leap forward in integrating Mac with B&O.

Thanks in adavce for any help, guys.

Matthew

Hi Matthew

The BS3200 will only pass the N.MUSIC and N.RADIO commands to the Beoport. If you want to control other sources in fullscreen mode on your TV, there are 2 possibilities:

1 - You set N.RADIO to MENU. In this solution, you press NRADIO, and the 2 to get N.RADIO, without turning the TV on. Or you turn the TV ON and then press N.RADIO and you get the menu interface, with all the sources to choose from.

2 - You get an IR receiver for the Beoport (they are not the same as for the Beolink active, so make sure you order the right one). You can then set LinkPlayer to react to either PC or V.MEM or the source of your choice.

Beoport should wake up the mac mini when you call N.MUSIC, or N.RADIO or V.MEM...

The problem with the new mac mini is that you have to go to the sound preference panel to change the sound output from the HDMI to the mini jack and vice versa. It cannot output from both at the same time.

In your setup, in the 2nd solution as described above, it would need to send the sound in analog to the Beoport (for N.MUSIC distribution) and in digital through the HDMI (for the PC or V.MEM) usage.

I will try to include a feature in LinkPlayer to make this happen automatically, but it will take a few weeks to be ready.

I would start by the first option a described above, and then when you see the LinkPlayer has this new feature, maybe you can order an extra IR receive and switch to the second option.

p.

Thanks for the response, Philippe - much appreciated.

Suggestion 1 makes sense and may be the way forward. If I understand correctly, the idea is to use N.RADIO on the Beo4/5 to activate the Linkplayer main menu and from there, pressing 2 activates Linkradio. This will put the BS3200 into N.RADIO mode and, given N.RADIO is recognised by the BS3200, commands from the Beo4/5 should be sent through the BS3200 to the Beoport without any problems? Will the display work as it should too?

Presumably, I can then access any of the Mac's available media options/sources through the BS3200 (in N.RADIO mode) in this way, including FrontRow, Video, Photos and Web?

If I have all of that right, does the audio issue you describe in suggestion 2 go away as long as I set 'audio out' on the Mac to the headphone jack? If I'm accessing/controling Linkplayer with the BS3200 in N.RADIO mode, and the Mac's 'audio out' is set to the headphone jack, all sound from the Mac should go out via Beoport to the BS3200, and this would be independent of any video sent to the TV via HDMI - is that correct?

If I have that all right, it looks like I might have a solution here, which would be fantastic. If you have time Philippe, and can let me know if I'm on the right track (or not!), that would be great. Thanks again,

Matthew

You have understood perfectly!

I still recommend solution 2 when I have solved that issue.

p.

Thanks for your help once again Philippe. I really appreciate it.

Cheers,

Matthew