stefan wrote:

Spotify covers are already sent to BS5, BV11, V1 - should be no problem, regarding copyright, with Beo6...or do I miss something?

Not knowing anything about the actual problems or agreements... BV11 and V1 are the Spotify players, they are not transmitting anything anywhere when they show the artwork. Similarly with BS5 which cannot be used alone, you can consider it just a wired display for the actual player (because that's what it is) and not much different from the display screen of a desktop computer running a Spotify application.

Surely the hand held sonos controller is not transmitting anything, it merely selects the music that the sonos box will stream, is this not analogous to the Beo6 controller?

tournedos wrote:

stefan wrote:

Spotify covers are already sent to BS5, BV11, V1 - should be no problem, regarding copyright, with Beo6...or do I miss something?

Not knowing anything about the actual problems or agreements... BV11 and V1 are the Spotify players, they are not transmitting anything anywhere when they show the artwork. Similarly with BS5 which cannot be used alone, you can consider it just a wired display for the actual player (because that's what it is) and not much different from the display screen of a desktop computer running a Spotify application.

Right. But Beo6 will transmit same artwork for N.MUSIC, for the stoted music on HD, so should be possible for Spotify.

Beolink app also display cover from N.MUSIC....

Stefan

stefan wrote:

Right. But Beo6 will transmit same artwork for N.MUSIC, for the stoted music on HD, so should be possible for Spotify.

That is irrelevant (to my point, which may be totally beside the point already, but anyway...). N.MUSIC artwork comes from the user's library on the HD. Spotify's artwork comes from Spotify while you play. We (or at least me) are not discussing a technical problem here, but what is allowed by Spotify and what is not.

tournedos wrote:

stefan wrote:

Right. But Beo6 will transmit same artwork for N.MUSIC, for the stoted music on HD, so should be possible for Spotify.

That is irrelevant (to my point, which may be totally beside the point already, but anyway...). N.MUSIC artwork comes from the user's library on the HD. Spotify's artwork comes from Spotify while you play. We (or at least me) are not discussing a technical problem here, but what is allowed by Spotify and what is not.

Exactly.

So is the problem actually a Spotify licensing issue or lack of software development by B&O? 

All this fuss over some tiny little coverpics on a minature display.

I would go for a 'BeoPad' instead.

MM

Mmm...

What is a "BeoPad"?

Don't know - but it would be nice anyway 😎

Just kidding - what I meant was a mobile device with a bigger screen/display to select/control the media (local or from a music service) to be played through B&O speakers....and to show the coverpics as well.

Not existing, but maybe someday.....

MM

PapaJustify wrote:

tournedos wrote:

stefan wrote:

Right. But Beo6 will transmit same artwork for N.MUSIC, for the stoted music on HD, so should be possible for Spotify.

That is irrelevant (to my point, which may be totally beside the point already, but anyway...). N.MUSIC artwork comes from the user's library on the HD. Spotify's artwork comes from Spotify while you play. We (or at least me) are not discussing a technical problem here, but what is allowed by Spotify and what is not.

Exactly.

Not exactly. I had hoped that you could explain your post a bit further:

"Well, I know that specifically in the case of transmitting Spotify covers special agreements would have to be made with the copyright-holders of each label."

Obviously you can`t.

Usually Beo would make an agreement with Spotify. Spotify has agreements with music labels, artists, etc.

So,  if Beo made agreements with Spotify that exclude coverart sent by Beoremotes, this was a big mistake.

I can`t believe that. You, as a dealer, should know that....

So, please explain, what "exactly" is the problem?

Stefan