Just to give it a voice as well: I do love the latest app the most from a design and UX perspective. Too many bugs during development, but the Ux idea is for me the way to go!

cheers, rémy

Stephen, I've sent you a message with an invite etc., and small explainer.

Let me know if you have any q's.

 

Like Millemisen, I like to see what's playing and so I have an iPad 6 on a Beoplay A3 and a Fire HD 8+ on its own dedicated wireless charger, as monitors.  In my case, these run the B&O app 24x7, and the screens are on at all times.

The transition to 5.4 has been a complete disaster.  I can no longer play B&O Radio from the App; instead, I must use a Beoremote Essence to switch sources until B&O Radio plays; only then does it appear in the app and can the stations be switched, etc.  Same for Spotify.

Only Deezer and CD can be started from the app; N.Music is gone.  Oh, and the interface is thoroughly messed up.  Here are a photos of what's playing right now this minute:

iPad:
B&O Radio radio is playing in Multiroom, but the app is unaware.  The song title includes accents or other non-English characters such as ç, and the app can't parse them, so the tile reads «Suite de valses et cortège-blues pour piano». Login to view image

IR Eye:
The IR Eye, using decades-old tech, knows we are in a Multiroom situation, and happily plays the B&O Radio content, having Joined-In.
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Fire Tablet (Amazon's version of Android):
Utter and complete disaster.  Can't see what's playing, other than "B&O Radio".  No pause, volume, nor switch controls.  No multiroom controls.
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Update to the message above. Test Flight for Mac shows the previous builds of the B&O app but it does not allow one to install any of them, including the most recent. It notes that the app is 'for iOS devices only'. (See attachment,) Presumably , this is because the B&O app is not approved for Mac computers. I wish it was.

Stephen

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Hi Beoworlders,

Here is an open invitation link to the B&O Discord server, where members of the B&O development team are active so you can offer your feedback directly to them:-

https://discord.gg/e7kC3aHrTc

It is also a vibrant B&O fan community and a great place to chat - I look forward to seeing you all there (as well as here on Beoworld of course!)

Kind regards, Steve.

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You can enter a Feature request – in the App Feature Request thread – in Discord. Mr.Anderson of the app dev team asked me to set up a section there (its under B&O Engagement), and there is a master list of outstanding feature requests there, for B&O to look at. While i imagine you have provided your feedback through other means, I only mention it to you as the B&O guys have a specific place on the Discord server where they check in and look at a collated list of feature requests. Anyway, just a passing thought.

I started this thread because I wanted to know what people think about the appearance of the different app versions from an aesthetic, visual point of view. The quirks with the newest app version - what does not work etc - is another can of worms. These issues should better be discussed in the long here. This thread was by no means meant to take over… I think it is fine that Mr Andersen and the app team is present on the Discord/B&O. However, Mr Andersen used to be on Beoworld from time to time - and I guess the long app thread here could give some inspiration for the team. Personally I am more or less arrived at a point, where I think that this has no sense anymore - Mr Andersen and the team are doing their thing no matter what. I have yet to see how many of the ‘requests’ on the Discord/B&O have been taken serious. Lately they seem take make changes in the app without telling people how to execute these…..according to Willy in the Beotalk show this sunday. My 5.3 beta version will soon expire and there is no way going around the new version, whether one likes the appearance or not. So I will probably use the app less than before (unfortunately)……but I have my BROnes, which are my main control tools anyway. MM