April release of the Bang & Olufsen app

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MrAndersen wrote:

@Weebyx and mobolo01: That sounds so strange, can't say we tested the camera app with it. Didn't occur to us. I will try to reproduce it

 

Update: Ok I reproduced it, how odd. I will investigate.

Great you could reproduce it :) Took me a while to figure out what was going on :)

 

/Jacob

I really like the lock screen controls.

But I really like to use the Beolink2 app too for music.

I'm torn apart. They both work really well...

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A quick update on two issues

The camera app video recording. We nailed it down to the lock screen control. We use a media session for this and apparently we do not give it back when the camera app is asking for it. We will look into it this week.

Performance issues. The biggest issue here seems to be connecting to the products. We connect to all on boot and this takes much longer than anticipated. The more products the slower it is. Huawei phones seems to be especially bad at this. We will rework how we do this for the next release. 

 

@Kiran: my not at all biased opinion is that you should use the Bang & Olufsen app ;)

MrAndersen wrote:

@Kiran: my not at all biased opinion is that you should use the Bang & Olufsen app ;)

Easy for you to say lol...

I suppose the Beolink Gateway will never come to the new B&O app (it doesn't make sense anyway) and will stay in development with Beolink2?

Can you please confirm this.

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MrAndersen wrote:

Performance issues. The biggest issue here seems to be connecting to the products. We connect to all on boot and this takes much longer than anticipated. The more products the slower it is. Huawei phones seems to be especially bad at this. We will rework how we do this for the next release. 

Perfect! Can't be just connecting to the products, though. My app won't connect at all to my Moment ("not reachable"), and even after the app has finished loading there are some major delays when selecting albums, playlists etc. Just now I pressed an album in the "Favorite albums" section of the front page, and the app froze again for over half a minute. I was just about to force-close it, when it suddenly responded and opened the album I had selected forty seconds earlier. This only seems to happen once, every time I use the app. Now it's fine again. I'm sure if I wait an hour it will happen again, once. I use VPN on my phone, btw. Could that have something to say, if the issue has to do with connecting to Deezer?

This (including the "BeoSound Moment is not reachable") is the major reason I'm still on the BeoMusic app. And I haven't even mentioned the X-app to my wife, as she's no lover of half finished things and almost working solutions. 😂 She's not very fond of the Beomusic app though, and she'll love the interface of the X-app. When this issue is sorted, and maybe some rudimentary search/filter funtionality is added to the artis/album/track lists, I'm off the Beomusic app. And the same day, I'll tell my wife "Oh, by the way. You know the app to control the music in the living room, that you never liked? There's this new B&O-app you should download instead. You'll love it. Let me show you..." 😁

-h. 

Hard to keep on top of all feedback so apologies if anyone has reported this already:

when I start an Apple music stream in one zone and then open the Bang Olufsen app to join my other two zones it pauses the music and I cannot play again until I close the B&O app at which point I can press play.

Is this a known bug?

MrAndersen wrote:
@mbolo01: Seems the language files i have imported were incomplete. Just updated them and we will update ASAP. This morning the team is expanding the tests in this area so it won't happen again.

Latest update has fixed the above, except for Spotify settings

 

 

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mbolo01 wrote:
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

The latest update has fixed the above issue.

Question: Why can't we control the app on the lock screen when playing TuneIn?

Location: Brittany - France

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@Henrik. I know we have some way to go still before we're where we want to be. It has been hard to get right with all the legacy products and work slightly different than the others, that includes the moment. About the unreachable Moment, could you try to remove it from your account and re-add it?

@djfairley89: When you say apple music stream is that airplay?

@mbolo01: I will check the Spotify settings

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