I have ours set to 12 characters and longer, both options selected. I have not had any failure for some time now. I have to keep turning the program back on after the 1 hour timeout.

Your tests sound much better and more technical than mine.

Finally i could stop the crashes by reprogramming the BeoSound to A.OPT 1 and Linkplayer too. So iTunes reacts on the Beo4 COmmands.

The only thing missing now is sound. The Audio connection between the Mac and PC2 doesn't seem to be triggered appropriate.

When i try with BM-Link i can verify that when N.Music is running and i remove the cable connected to the Headphone Output that if i touch the cable running to PC2 with my fingers i hear a humming noise via the speakers. I don't experience the same behaviour when using LinkPlayer even though iTunes responds and plays. It seems that in my case LinkPlayer doesn't seem to route the Audio to the BeoSOund.

Dear all,

Thanks to the bug reports that I have received from some of you I have identified the two causes of freeze.

One is due to sending messages to the Masterlink too quickly, the other is due to iTunes not responding when I am trying to read the current song title.

The first problem happens more often since I have introduced the song title display as I am sending longer messages on the bus.

I my internal development version, I have already fixed the first cause, and will be working on the other one this week.

I am also aware that compatibility with Leopard (10.5.x) has been broken since 0.5, but I'll try and fix that in the next version as well.

I'd like to know if some of have managed to get song titles diplayed on a Beosound with "Longer display". 

If experiencing any other problem than the 2 mentioned here (freeze and leopard compatibility), please report to me by email.

Thanks all for your help.

Philippe

i am interested in being a beta tester. have beolink pc2 attached to a macmini. audiomaster in different room is beosound 3200. i can distribute n.music, and can control itunes (either direct or via frontrow) but i can't listen to audio sources like cd, radio, a.mem via the Mac.

Razlaw wrote:

Your tests sound much better and more technical than mine.

that's because I have been in IT a long time ... I started programming in 1967 !

rippi wrote:

The only thing missing now is sound. The Audio connection between the Mac and PC2 doesn't seem to be triggered appropriate.

When i try with BM-Link i can verify that when N.Music is running and i remove the cable connected to the Headphone Output that if i touch the cable running to PC2 with my fingers i hear a humming noise via the speakers. I don't experience the same behaviour when using LinkPlayer even though iTunes responds and plays. It seems that in my case LinkPlayer doesn't seem to route the Audio to the BeoSOund.

I am having similar problems, but I don't know if it is the software or the actually Macbook headphone jack - sometime wiggling the cable cures the problem, but other times even when I remove it I dont hear anything through the Macbook speakers - very strange. 

I plan to do test in the weekend to try to isolate it.

I will probably find it is my ears that are loose :D

elephant wrote:

I am having similar problems, but I don't know if it is the software or the actually Macbook headphone jack - sometime wiggling the cable cures the problem, but other times even when I remove it I dont hear anything through the Macbook speakers - very strange. 

I plan to do test in the weekend to try to isolate it.

I will probably find it is my ears that are loose :D

 

violinman wrote:

but i can't listen to audio sources like cd, radio, a.mem via the Mac.

Hmm, I will try that test tonight !

No problems today with headphone jack connectivity, and so I had a very successful 60 minute test to address violinman's requirements.

I used the LinkPlayer Virtual Remote aka VR (i.e. the screen interface, see below, pardon my desktop in the screen shots!) to:

• start CD on my BeoSound 4 and hear it on the BeoLab 4s attached to my BeoPort

1. the VR's display increments its number as the CD plays through its tracks (see screenshots below, left hand VR)
2. switch between CD tracks using the ^ and v keys
3. fast forward and rewind through the CD with the ">> and then (GO)" and "<< and then (GO)" key combinations - no sound is played as the CD speeds through the track

• start RADIO and hear that from the BS 4

1. switch stations using the ^ and v keys

• start A.MEM on the BS 4 (i.e. its SD Card) and hear that

1. switch tracks using the ^ and v keys
2. switch "folders" using the << and >> keys
3. the VR displayed both "folder" and track numbers (see middle VR in screenshots)

• start A.AUX on the BS 4 (I had plugged in my BeoSound 2 into the BeoSound 4) and heard that 

1. although the VR keys of ^, v, <<, and >> were highlighted the BeoSound 4 DIN to BeoSound 2 headphone jack interface could not carry any signals and so no track or "folder" skipping of the BeoSound 2's SD Card was possible ... if I get a chance (and can clear the space for it), I might hook up one of my BeoCord 5000s to the BeoSound 4 just to make sure those commands are also propagated across the A.AUX DIN interface (I am sure they will be)

• start DTV on my BeoVision 8

1. at first I thought this test had failed, however the considerable delay was the BV 8 switching on and going through some decision process to not activate its BeoLab 3s and not activate its screen and then to start transmitting the audio over the MasterLink
2. I then used the ^ and v keys to move up and down digital TV stations
3. The VR displays the number of the digital station as registered in the BV 8

• start V.AUX on the BV 8 ... after a long period of silence I realised I had accidentally pressed V.MEM, so I pressed V.AUX again, and

1. heard my Foxtel (Sky equivalent) 
2. the video station number however continued to be the number last displayed (#22) under DTV (see right hand VR screenshot) 
3. tried using the ^ and v keys but got no response
4. tried using the << and >> keys but got no response (in any case these would have been visual responses on the BV 8 which still had its LCD off)
5. entered a station number (#102) and heard the audio switch to our ABC, which I then verified by activating the BV 8's LCD and pressing >> on the Beo4 for the BV 8 to bring up the Foxtel mini-program guide for that station

• start DVD on the BV 8 and got silence ... which was to be expected as I had not activated the PS 3 which is attached to that option/interface ... I do not have an IR blaster for this interface anyway, so the testing/experience would have been rather limited 

All in all a very satisfactory result, I will later repeat this type of test sequence using a Beo4 on the BeoPort/LinkPlayer rather than the VR on the MacBook ... and hopefully include devices such as my BeoCord 5000, BeoCord VHS, and the PlayStation itself (or perhaps a "real" DVD player that I have as a spare)

LinkPlayer Virtual Remote (VR) playing BeoSound 4's CD and then its SD Card, and then playing the BeoVion 8's Foxtel/Sky STB

violinman wrote:

i can't listen to audio sources like cd, radio, a.mem via the Mac.

I think Violinman is talking about BMLink, as he has just requested to be a Beta tester, and I have not sent the version yet.

Been very actively working on 0.6 and it will be released this weekend.

Lot's of bug fixes, but surely not all unfortunately, many improvements and a couple of new features.

For those who have not seen it yet, here is the website: 

Hey P,

you are doing a great job !]

E :-)

Hey P,

you are doing a great job !

E :-)

cool project! i am happy on the final version.

if you still need some beta tester, let it me know.