Hi Philippe,

Sorry forgot to ask, when do you think V2 will be released? Can't wait :-)

Best,

Rob

One more precision about the icon... it will turn into a mini display when the virtual remote window is closed. Looks cool.

I am currently working on ironing the most obvious bugs, hoping to release the first Beta version here by the end of the weekend.

To avoid dissapointment I need to stress that this is far from being the final version. It will not contain all the features, not all the sources and will not work with the current version of LinkRemote.

But this new version's code is so much cleaner that this Beta testing phase should allow me to fix all of them more reliably than before. Also it will allow me to add more features more easily in the future.

I'll make sure the Beta can be installed alongside v1 without interfering, so you can switch between one an another.

Currently it will contain only the "internal" sources:

• Music, plays iTunes Library and audio podcasts,
• Radio, Plays internet radios,
• CD, plays the CD in your CD drive,
• Video, plays videos stored in the iTunes library, Video folder, EyeTV archive and also Video Podcasts,
• Photo, Displays photos from the iPhoto Library and RSS photostreams (Mobile Me Gallery, Filckr...). No background music for now.
• Web, Navigate through your safary bookmarks and RSS feeds.
• Spotify, plays music in your Spotify playlists. Requires a Premium Spotify subscription.
• Menu, as before, allows to choose between all the other sources. In the preferences, you can select which sources is displayed and re-order them.

No external sources have been re-implemented yet, such as EyeTV live TV, Plex, iTunes Music, iTunes Radio... I will try not to re-implement the sources that duplicate internal sources.

The new version of LinkRemote is well under way as well, but Apple's distribution mechanism makes it difficult to distribute it for Beta testing.

p.

You'll still be able to play music stored into your iTunes Library as before, but it will not launch iTunes, the music will be played by LinkPlayer's internal music player.

This is to reduce dependencies on Apple's implementation of iTunes. Everytime they release a new version, it makes LinkPlayer or BM-Link fail.

Also LinkPlayer 2 new architecture, will allow a better use of multiple sound cards, and playing the music with iTunes doesn't allow me to direct the music to a specific sound card.

But again, the reason of the Beta phase is to get feedback, so we'll see how it goes.

The reason I sold my BS5 was the lack of gapless playback, so I'm really looking forward to your new version.

As I can remember from your previous version the internal player didn't play gapless, iTunes does. Has there been some changes made so the internal player will be capable to play as the original music. 

There has been some changes to the internal player. It has "less gap" but I haven't test if it was totally gapless as I do not have gapless albums to test.

No live recordings?

Beogen wrote:

No live recordings?

Not in this first Beta, this will come back. I will be looking at a better way of integrating EyeTV.

I'll now be posting in this new thread.

 The download link is now available in the new thread 🙂