April release of the Bang & Olufsen app

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Hi guys

So you beat me to it in the old thread :) Yes we released the new version today and we're going to release once a month from now on. Next one is late May.

This is the highlights
  • We have implemented a notification control/ lock screen control for both platforms. It was a bit of a struggle, they're not really meant for playing on a speaker but from the phone itself. 
  • Items in the Play Queue can now be reordered, just drag in the thumb far right.
  • The Feedback view has been improved, you can select more specifically what you want to give feedback on.
  • The app is now translated to Dutch and Italian, more is coming.
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements, the usual one. We spend quite some time refactoring the code and getting rid of some technical debt.

Known issues

  • The metadata (album art, title etc) can still behave oddly at times. Working on it.
  • Fast "next track" clicks are not working very well. We're working with the product team to make the product respond faster
  • Sometimes the TuneIn and Deezer credentials are not set when adding the product to the account. Will retry each time the app is opened.

Next up

DLNA and Essence Mk1

Br,

Thomas, Bang & Olufsen

 

 

MrAndersen wrote:

Hi guys

So you beat me to it in the old thread :) Yes we released the new version today and we're going to release once a month from now on. Next one is late May.

This is the highlights We have implemented a notification control/ lock screen control for both platforms. It was a bit of a struggle, they're not really meant for playing on a speaker but from the phone itself. Items in the Play Queue can now be reordered, just drag in the thumb far right. The Feedback view has been improved, you can select more specifically what you want to give feedback on. The app is now translated to Dutch and Italian, more is coming. Bug fixes and performance improvements, the usual one. We spend quite some time refactoring the code and getting rid of some technical debt. Known issues

The metadata (album art, title etc) can still behave oddly at times. Working on it. Fast "next track" clicks are not working very well. We're working with the product team to make the product respond faster Sometimes the TuneIn and Deezer credentials are not set when adding the product to the account. Will retry each time the app is opened.

Next up

DLNA and Essence Mk1

Br,

Thomas, Bang & Olufsen

BV14 support??

MrAndersen,

 

I raised a ticket for this one too: the Recommended playlists and artists section headers are showing technical fields names instead of the French value of these fields, same issue for Spotify settings - Cheers

 

 

 

 

 

Location: Brittany - France

My B&O Icons:

Beoremote-Beo4.png Beoremote-Beo4.png
Beotime.png Beotime.png
Beosound-Moment.png Beosound-Moment.png
Beoplay-P6.png Beoplay-P6.png
Beoplay-M5.png Beoplay-M5.png
Beoplay-M3.png Beoplay-M3.png
Beoplay-H3.png Beoplay-H3.png
Beoplay-Beosound1.png Beoplay-Beosound1.png
Beoplay-A6.png Beoplay-A6.png
Beoplay-A1.png Beoplay-A1.png
Beomaster.png Beomaster.png
Beolab-18.png Beolab-18.png
Beogram-400x.png Beogram-400x.png

seems ok in the dutch version . . ., but when select playing, the play-arrow and pause-button is not visable.

Also some struggling wihen switching sources on the screen.

Still, very well done till now! Thanx!

MrAndersen,

Another issue I raised: if you start TuneIn on a Moment through the device "now playing" screen, the app does not reflects that something is effectively playing:

Open the Moment "now playing" screen

Press the "..."

Choose TuneIn

Radio stream starts on the Moment

X app does not show any playing activity (see picture below) while you can still control it through the app (stop/start fwd/bkwd)

Cheers

Location: Brittany - France

My B&O Icons:

Beoremote-Beo4.png Beoremote-Beo4.png
Beotime.png Beotime.png
Beosound-Moment.png Beosound-Moment.png
Beoplay-P6.png Beoplay-P6.png
Beoplay-M5.png Beoplay-M5.png
Beoplay-M3.png Beoplay-M3.png
Beoplay-H3.png Beoplay-H3.png
Beoplay-Beosound1.png Beoplay-Beosound1.png
Beoplay-A6.png Beoplay-A6.png
Beoplay-A1.png Beoplay-A1.png
Beomaster.png Beomaster.png
Beolab-18.png Beolab-18.png
Beogram-400x.png Beogram-400x.png
MrAndersen wrote:

Items in the Play Queue can now be reordered, just drag in the thumb far right.

MrAndersen - when you reorder items in the play queue, items below the item you just moved are eliminated from the list, see pictures:

List before ordering:

List after moving M.I.A track just below the currently playing track:

Cheers

Location: Brittany - France

My B&O Icons:

Beoremote-Beo4.png Beoremote-Beo4.png
Beotime.png Beotime.png
Beosound-Moment.png Beosound-Moment.png
Beoplay-P6.png Beoplay-P6.png
Beoplay-M5.png Beoplay-M5.png
Beoplay-M3.png Beoplay-M3.png
Beoplay-H3.png Beoplay-H3.png
Beoplay-Beosound1.png Beoplay-Beosound1.png
Beoplay-A6.png Beoplay-A6.png
Beoplay-A1.png Beoplay-A1.png
Beomaster.png Beomaster.png
Beolab-18.png Beolab-18.png
Beogram-400x.png Beogram-400x.png
mbolo01 wrote:

MrAndersen - when you reorder items in the play queue, items below the item you just moved are eliminated from the list, see pictures:

List before ordering:

List after moving M.I.A track just below the currently playing track:

Cheers BS Moment, BL 18, BL 19, A6, M5, A1, H5

I am glad someone figured out how to reorder ... and provided a screenshot

I then realised I was trying to reorder a "play list" not a "play queue"

Which then raised in my mind; why are the views of these two "things" so different ? I.E. I would ❤️ to ❤️ my "play queue" and see which item is playing (and please keep the historical view of what was played!)

Play List

Play Queue

Great work! Personally I appreciate the change in the way my albums are sorted. I know you're working on some options there, like we discussed earlier, but for the time being it is better to have recently added albums on the top, not the bottom. Nice "quick fix".

I have a few issues with the app:

1 - In the bottom bar, where my devices should be (I have only one - my Moment), it just says "BeoSound Moment is not reachable". However, with the old BeoMusic app my Moment is perfectly reachable. I just used the BeoMusic app to start playing some music, and then switched back to the X-app again. It still says that the Moment is not reachable. This has been an issue for some time, the error didn't appear with this latest release.

2 - The app is extremely sluggish. Granted, I do not have the latest hardware - my iPhone 6 is a couple of years old now - but on the same phone there is a huge difference between the X-app and the BeoMusic app, which feels much more responsive and quick. This is the case with scrolling and flicking through menus in general, but the most extreme case is when I use the left menu to switch between "Music" and "Radio". The phone/app freezes for two minutes (!) before it shows the lists of radio channels.

Some other issues as well, but those have been mentioned and discussed earlier, so I know you're aware of them.

This is going in the right direction! Can't wait 'till you get this out of beta.

-h.

 

MrAndersen wrote:

Hi guys

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Next up

DLNA and Essence Mk1

Br,

Thomas, Bang & Olufsen

'Essence MK1' - how may we understand that?

Always thought that the MK1 is not a NL-product?

MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

Sorry, I missed that this thread had been created - I also would love to know when my BV14 can join in the fun of the new app. Cheers
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