Scrolling would be faster and easier if the Beo4 numbered keys could be used for alphabet letters, as we do on our cell phones when typing SMSs.

Another suggestion for the next version maybe?🙂

berlin2010 wrote:

elephant wrote:

Interesting.

I created a dual boot system so I can flip-flop between Snow Leopard and Lion.

I have just flipped from LinkPlayer under Snow Leopard to Lion and I can scroll up and down the main menu with my Beo4.

And I can select the "iTunes" option via (GO) on the Beo4 ....... my recollection is that when I first tried this under Lion (a preview or two ago) then the main menu would disappear ....... I was able to use LinkPlayer to play via the mouse controls but not the Beo4 ........ now magical I have a fully working system ....... thank you for encouraging me to do another test 😂

🙂 Glad to hear. One thing that does give me a problem though is scrolling through a long list e.g. when i enter artist mode under itunes and I want to scroll down from the A's to M or something (likely 1,000 names later) it scrolls down on the screen and then the screen stops refreshing. If I keep the down key pressed and after some time let go it will refresh and I will find myself perhaps in the F's... press down again and guess how long to release before I get to M... a little annoying.

So no 'fast scrolling' or at least not very smooth. 

Can you try on your end?

There are some days I *hate* software ...

I tried the tests again (and I swear that "nothing" has changed) and I had all sorts of trouble:

• full screen menu is now fragile again and disappears if you wiggle the mouse
• significant lag at times between the Beo4 clicks and the responses
• at one point I had to power down (not reset, I mean yank out the power cord) to get the BV8 reset
• could not get any coloured kets other than Yellow and Blue to work

So I was unable to get a list of artists and so I was unable to do your scroll tests 

Sorry but I have gone back to Snow Leopard to calm down !

Hi Phil

Any news on the progress? I really look forward to this next version - sounds very interesting ;-)

Best regards

Jan

Yes, good progress recently. I had a week off work, so I could spend quite a lot of time of LinkPlayer 2.

I now have Lion and am testing the new version works with it fine.

Recently, I have been working on integrating RSS feeds in most sources.

In LinkPlayer's preferences, you'll be able to subscribe to RSS news feeds, Podcasts, Video Podcasts, Photostreams. And play them directly within LinkMusic (Now called Music), Video, Photo and Safari (Now called Web) sources.

That will make the Web source much more useable:

For example, if you like to use it to get the BBC news, you'd have to go to the BBC news page and then use cumbersome Beo4 key navigation to get to the different articles.

Now, you just subscribe to the BBC RSS feed in LinkPlayer's preferences. Then you can navigate through the headlines like you navigate through songs in a playlist and display each article's pages.

Today I have re-implementing EyeTV Recording playback in a way that will not require to launch EyeTV. It works directly from the Video source.

I have also re-implented the CD source is a way that does not require to launch iTunes.

Having sources that play internally like this allow a much consistent behaviour between all the sources.

Hi Phillippe - that all sounds really good !

The EyeTV recording improvement would be good.

Not sure I will make use of the CD source but using the MacMini's drive as a DVD source would be interesting !  

What is great about LinkPlayer is its flexibility that allows many different usage patterns.

Let me/us know if any of us can help with any Beta testing.

I'll re-try to implement the DVD source - But Apple's API for this is quite, well, bad. But it is really something I'd like to achieve.

Tonight I re-implemented the 'Line-In' source, now called 'Aux'.

Probably not a very used source, but you can use it to connect any device to you computer's line in and play it through your system. 

In this new implementation, you can choose between the Line-In, the Microphone, or any Sound Card Input using the navigation menus.

PhilLondon wrote:

I'll re-try to implement the DVD source - But Apple's API for this is quite, well, bad. But it is really something I'd like to achieve.

Thank you !

Just a note, today, with the current LinkPlayer you can watch DVDs using FrontRow.

PhilLondon wrote:

Just a note, today, with the current LinkPlayer you can watch DVDs using FrontRow.

Yes, thank you, I know 🙂

Just looking to a Lion future without FrontRow 🙁

I chose to buy a second-hand Mac Mini and use it only as a music server with Linkplayer.

I'll keep Snow Leopard to be able to use the built-in CD/DVD playback features..and the Apple Remote!

I removed all other apps like Office, Mail or Imovie, and this system is so great, that I don't need more at the moment. I only use RADIO/CD/A.MEM sources and have a setup with Linkplayer as the audio master. The BeoCenter 2 is now a stand-alone unit feeding Pentas.

The only thing I miss is scrolling metadata on my BeoLab 3500 in the bathroom😁