@MM

1 & 2) See - that’s what’s confusing:

No, the M5 is *not* playing. The M5 is the currently selected product. And it correctly shouldn’t play. Never asked it to.

The A6, is the product that is playing. As it should. I asked it to, prior to selecting the M5.

So, if I’m correct. Here, there is no way to see what product is currently playing. Other than selecting them one by one and see what is reported back to the gui.

This must be by design. Don’t think products are reporting what they are doing, when not selected. Could have been switched off via buttons on the product itself. Then what, gui-wise.

completely agree - a good example of the lack of clarity in the way the app works.

I and others have raised many times before the unused space on the Product screen - it could be used for a number of things cleanly - but nothing has happened. 

And as someone else previously posted, having a minimal nice (-ish) looking app doesnt mean its terribly useful or efficient to use.

Another example being the recently added TV remote section, which takes too many presses to access.  

If a BV is selected on the Product page, the black bar at the bottom should expand to the BV remote page(s).

But its taken something like a year and half to get where we are, so i have limited expectations of meaningful improvements to usability.

My main use case with the App is to switch on a BV before i get into the room (don't ask) - beyond that, the BR One is quicker.

In fact, now that i have paired my BR One with my A9, i now use that to control the A9 (where i have the choice).

 

jimcaj wrote:

So, if I’m correct. Here, there is no way to see what product is currently playing. Other than selecting them one by one and see what is reported back to the gui.

Your observation is correct and I agree that the indication of which device is currently playing as wells as the multiroom role when applicable is a must.

IMO, application should start with a simplified list of your products, excluding BT only products, showing for each of them what’s source is being played (when applicable), with the option of stopping/pausing/playing a “...” link to other options such as configuration.

Completely agree.

We have both suggested including the "..."  whether that 3 dots expands to source selection, or something else.

But that was 6 months ago, so its not as if anyone is listening.

jimcaj wrote:

@MM

So, if I’m correct. Here, there is no way to see what product is currently playing. Other than selecting them one by one and see what is reported back to the gui.

And what happens when you push the Multiroom button?

MM

Millemissen wrote:

And what happens when you push the Multiroom button?

It displays the multiroom group status of the selected product.

Doing that doesn't tell you what is playing on each product.

Does not answer the initial question posed.

 

Was just a question - since I am not at home, I could not test it myself.

MM

These questions seem to be very user case related.

I use one product (maybe with one or more joined products).

Therefore my focus is the now playing screen - to visualise what I am listening to and to conrol it.

Others seem to be more concerned about, what each of their products is playing....and therefore have the product screen as their priority.

MM

Indeed they are, and a good summary.

A well designed app should be robust to more than the more simple use case.

And that leaves aside the inefficiencies in the app.