david coyne wrote:

OSX 10.5.5

The current beta version isn't running under 10.5, some people have reported, but it should be supported again in the next beta.

I'll make a website in the next few weeks.

p.

david coyne wrote:

Hi All & Philippe..

This looks very exciting.

It is !

david coyne wrote:

My set up is:

Beocentre 2

beolab 9's

MAC MINI connected to a DAC MAGIC to beocentre 2

NMUSIC & NRADIO played via itunes 8.2

OSX 10.5.5

BV8-40 (this is the master)

BC 6 Television upstairs as link room which doubles as a pair of speakers for music of all kinds (ie radio, cd, NMUSIC, NRADIO)

,,,

David

I have been testing too, my current set up is:

• MasterLink to ...

1. BeoSound 4 with BeoLab 6000s
2. BeoVision 8-32 with BeoLab 3s
3. BeoPort with BeoLab 4s and MacBook
4. BeoWireless transmitter to ...

• BeoWirless to ...

1. BeoWireless receiver with BeoLab 4s

Anyone else testing BeoSound 4 and/or BeoWireless ?

No Beosound 4 or wireless in our system. Masterlink between iMac with Beolab 4000s connected to Beoport, Beolab 6000s in another room, and  BV7/BS3000 and speakers in another room.  The program seems to be working perfectly right now. I have been trying many different actions from all three rooms and have experienced no problems. It appears to be a brilliant piece of software that becomes more and more impressive the more one uses it.

Looking forward to the final version as the Beta version has to be restarted every hour.

I'm glad that the program is working for you, but for some reason i'm not so successful.

ctually i doesn't work at all for me, but crashes almost instantly when i start it and select say N.Music from the Beo4 or the program.

I do use a BeoSound 3000 with two BeoLab 8000 and a BeoLab 2 connected to the BeoPort PC2 FW 1.31

My Mac is a MacBook Pro from Mid 2008. Is there any special Option Setting i have to adjust or is 6 just fine.

How about The BeoSound 3000 does this have to be in a special mode ? Thanks in advance for your answers. I would really love to have a stable Mac <=> B&O COnnection. Regards Harald

Just arrived back from the business trip and can't wait until I install it and let you know about results!!!

rippi wrote:

I'm glad that the program is working for you, but for some reason i'm not so successful.

ctually i doesn't work at all for me, but crashes almost instantly when i start it and select say N.Music from the Beo4 or the program.

I do use a BeoSound 3000 with two BeoLab 8000 and a BeoLab 2 connected to the BeoPort PC2 FW 1.31

My Mac is a MacBook Pro from Mid 2008. Is there any special Option Setting i have to adjust or is 6 just fine.

How about The BeoSound 3000 does this have to be in a special mode ? Thanks in advance for your answers. I would really love to have a stable Mac <=> B&O COnnection. Regards Harald

Are you asking about the Odlund program or the new Beta program some of us are testing?  If the new program, when I installed the first versions, they all worked fine. I then installed .5 and I had the same problems you are experiencing. However, when I went back to it the next day and since then, it has worked fine. I can not explain the difference. The only things I changed in the preferences menu were what types of display the song titles are sent to and I set it to start up in stand by rather than PC for a source when opening the program. I do not know if that has anything to do with it. I have briefly changed the settings back to what they were initially trying to reproduce the problems but so far it just keeps working. We are using a 2 month old iMac and I have it set to option 6 also. Also, fw version is 1.31.

If Odlund, no special settings. It just seems to work. One thing, if Odlund are you using snow Leopard?  To get Odlund to work with Snow Leopard I set it to always open in 32 bit mode instead of 64 bit and that solved the problems I was having with it.

rippi wrote:

BeoPort PC2 FW 1.31

Before replying I tried to find the B&O or BMLink to the firmware but could not.

My recollection is that 1.31 is what I have ...

I have tested each dot version and agree that it is terrific 😁

Phillipe is doing a fantastic job of managing a beta program is his spare time.

But it is beta ... so there are always caveats.

I have some stability issues that I suspect is my environment (one reason I tried to check the FW).

I believe my systems are all in the default factory setting option modes.

I did find some sensitivity with how iTunes is set up - I had 104 playlists that were mostly non-existant movie trailers - once I cleaned up my playlists to the Apple defaults plus 4 extras I was able to better control which track iTunes was trying to use when it was launched.

I can only suggest persevering.

FW is in BM Link Preferences under Advanced.  It is at the bottom of that window, in the center.

Thanks !

My memory was correct ... I am on FW 1.31

I have performed two tests this morning ... one playing B.B.King and then the other the Australian Opera

Razlaw wrote:

I then installed .5 and I had the same problems you are experiencing. However, when I went back to it the next day and since then, it has worked fine. I can not explain the difference. The only things I changed in the preferences menu were what types of display the song titles are sent to and I set it to start up in stand by rather than PC for a source when opening the program.

Interesting ... this parallels my experience ... I have been trying both with and with-out "long display" (for the BS4) ... I have not reverted to earlier versions ... what I have noted is that "track change" transitions (which is where the software detects that iTunes is transitioning from one song to the next) result in about 8 seconds of 100% CPU utilisation ... and that some times the software does not come out of this ... and keeps running at 100% whilst iTunes is still playing music ... but the "track change" transitions are no longer captured and eventually the software crashes about 30 minutes later (perhaps the inbuilt time limiter?) ... I think I will take some measurements without "long display" being present !

UPDATE 1

The removal of "display long" option did not change the CPU processing load ... I have a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook ... using the Mac's Activity Monitor I count each track change takes 12 "ticks" of the display with both cores running at around 100% ... however in this test where the software went "busy" at the 30 minute mark only one core was running at 100% ... and the software seemed to swap between the two cores 100/0, 0/100, 100/0 a couple of times before sitting at a steady 100/0 (roughly) while iTunes continues to play through the masterlink ...

For my next test,  I might revert from "STANDBY" mode 

UPDATE 2

The revert to starting in PC mode appears to dramatically change the CPU profile of track changes !

The track change now uses considerably less than 100% (down to maybe 10% at max?) and lasts for only 2 to 3 ticks of the Activity Monitor.  I can not do more testing for now, but I will do more in about 8 hours time ...

I feel like Sherlock Holmes :-) 

Come Watson, the game is afoot !

UPDATE 3

Just did another test with the setting of 'start in PC mode' ... and got 4 track transitions of:

1 tick of 10.8% utilisation

1 tick of 11.4% utilisation

1 tick of 13.6% utilisation

1 tick of 11.8% utilisation

Given the vagaries of sampling over a 1 tick time interval I regard this as a significant indicator compared to 12 ticks at 100% utilisation ... (120X ?)

So I think I may have found a contributor in my system environment to the glitches I have experienced ...

😁😁😁