We discovered we had the same problem when we upgraded from XP to Win 7 - 64.  We lost access to a number of stations, including our favorite SWISS POP.

I spoke with a number of B&O sales and technicians, all with no solution. I also contacted a few of the radio stations directly, with the same result.

Our solution is to just use the PC directly and listen to the radio as a favorite. This of course means that there is no usage, or need of the BEOPLAYER N.RADIO feature.

Not a very satisfactory answer of course, but one hopes for a better solution to come from B&O. Perhaps with Beonet.

I thought it was just me. I have same issue from 3 windows 7 32 bit PCs. They must get this fixed

Hi. I experience the same problem on Windows Vista.

I thought it was caused by the later versions of Beoport/Beoplayer software, so I installed an old version 4.x of Beoport. Unfortunately the exact same problem.

Regards

/Ulo

 

 

Hi,

 

I got following information from Beocare:

Dear Mr. Streule.

We refer to our previous correspondence concerning BeoPort, and we have now received a change in priorities.

We are planning to correct this in an upcoming release of BeoPort planned to be released in February 2011.

Best regards/Med venlig hilsen

Benny Machon

Market Quality Coordinator.
Global Service

Bang & Olufsen a/s
Peder Bangs Vej 15
P.O. box 40
DK-7600 Struer

I use LinkPlayer which is wonderful for all sorts of functionality.

Nonetheless, with regards to your upgrade from XP to Win-7: please realize that BeoPort is 10-year old tech, like (presumably) much of your B&O kit.  Just like one might not expect a BeoCord to fully integrate with the latest B&O equipment, one should realize that whatever computer worked with B&O, that's the computer that's contemporary to your B&O.

We have several Macs.  The Mac connected to BeoPort is set to never update.  It is "frozen in time".  I will only update it if/when Phil (the creator of Linkplayer) advises me to update.  Otherwise, it will stay with its current version until it dies, or until my B&O stuff dies.

 

Our other Macs are set to auto-update on a periodic basis and we always purchase the latest systems and software.  But they are not part of the MasterLink network.

XavierItzmann wrote:

I use LinkPlayer which is wonderful for all sorts of functionality.

Nonetheless, with regards to your upgrade from XP to Win-7: please realize that BeoPort is 10-year old tech, like (presumably) much of your B&O kit.  Just like one might not expect a BeoCord to fully integrate with the latest B&O equipment, one should realize that whatever computer worked with B&O, that's the computer that's contemporary to your B&O.

We have several Macs.  The Mac connected to BeoPort is set to never update.  It is "frozen in time".  I will only update it if/when Phil (the creator of Linkplayer) advises me to update.  Otherwise, it will stay with its current version until it dies, or until my B&O stuff dies.

 

Our other Macs are set to auto-update on a periodic basis and we always purchase the latest systems and software.  But they are not part of the MasterLink network.

I agree, Beoplayer is a pretty old tool and I would even accept if B&O would officially communicate NOT to support it in combination with Windows 7. But as long as they officially sell and support it, I can expect that it works.

I also did not update the Beoplayer-PC for several years, but few months ago, first parts failed and I had to replace it. So I tried to a find a new Notebook with XP, but I could not get one. Today you only get PCs with Windows 7.

Anyway, a Mac with Linkplayer is certainly the better solution. I just ordered the new Mac mini which will be used only for the Masterlink integration. 

Best regards,

Hangglider