abyss wrote:

I wouldn't, just for the sake of usability, but then, i'm a very pragmatic person :-)

here's the sketch, just for fun...

 

 

still fighting with the file :-)

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Means no volume control at all ;-(

MM

Sal wrote:

I would suggest to the B&O developers to NOT withdraw the availability of the BeoMusic app prematurely. Leave the BeoMusic App alone on the App Stores for a while longer until the X App gets on its feet and is relatively stable, usable, bug free with the basics. Even a handful of customers with poor experiences and no way to redownload the BeoMusic App isn't great news for B&O. 

To reiterate, I'd suggest not pulling the current BeoMusic App at least a few more months longer. I know I'm going to download and keep a copy of the iPhone App on my Mac from here on in just to have it in case I have to revert back due to something inopportune happening with the X-App.

I am aware that one doesn't have to delete the app, but I've known accidents to happen where for one reason or another the app is deleted and there's no way back. 

I totaly agree with that. Currently the new X-App is just another Deezer-optimized-App - and in my opinion, for my daily tasks - not even a good one -yet. I am a big fan of the luxury sleek looking old BeoMusicApp. The only thing I've really missed is the removed landscape mode. Now with the new App, if I want to listen to my chosen Deezer content only, it is nearly impossible to find my own favorite Deezer-playlist, nor -Artists. There is no alphabetical order (artist-album) anymore. The only thing you can do, is swipe, swipe and swipe through stuff/tiles you don't want to listen to right now. Even the Deezer-App itself is able to present at first sight or tap my own lists, albums and artists. Why do I need to scroll down trough recommendations first? Dear Mr. Anderson, you wrote that some important things for some users, like DLNA-support and the all-over-search will be not supported in the current and maybe the next upcoming version and still B&O decides to move forward the official "killing" of an App which is currently working very well. 

Don't get me wrong, it was overdue, that B&O is finally catching up in the software-development-department and I am very happy about that. I see how B&O is improving fast, especially with the BeoSound Moment. Why not developing the new app in the same way, like you did it with the 2.x-version for the Moment - with the support from the crowd and beta-groups? I am a proud and a very active beta-tester, because I wanted a working BS-Moment and that the device survives.  A new App which binds all devices and sources together, great idea - but you are not finished yet and pull the plug for the BeoMusicApp. Is there a other reason, than manpower? The BeoMusicApp is done and finished. Why not keeping? The fees at the Appstore are not unbearable. Maybe the real reason is to collect new user-data or -patterns with the mandatory account - just by forcing everyone to use the new app. Currently, there is a B&O-second-hand-market too. The essence mk1 is nearly useless without the old BeoMusic-App. The new App will be limited. If some owners try to sell it, there is no way for new owners to download the surely needed BeoMusic-App and no way to get "fixed-on" to the real B&O experience. But ok, let's throw away the whole perfectly well working "old" NL-hardware, before buying a new B&O-device, because the old App is not available anymore - sarcasm off. Or maybe let's do the same procedure with every new upcoming device - Create a new App, remove the old App while crippling the device. Todays procedure is not very reassuring. We bought Bang & Olufsen Devices, not BeoPlay, which is "supposed" have a shorter circle of life.

I know some of you will write, stop ranting and being grumpy - but sometimes I feel that B&O just loses the focus on their customers

Cheers Beroli

Millemissen wrote:

Means no volume control at all ;-(

MM

The volume control would be the long line above the moment. Sorry did forget to mention that

Agreed, and a Option in the settings where you can merge your nas with Deezer 😎

Kiran wrote:

X app needs to ignore photos and videos stored on the NAS and read and sort all music content better...

I Agree, this is an app used to make your experience with your B&O products better. it is not a standard DLNA browsing app, and it should categorise the music from NAS much better, and in an intuitive way. I know this is the Beta version, but it is not the correct way to just make the app an "DLNA" browser.

/Jacob

So the old BeoMusic app separated out Deezer from NAS stored music.  -  i wonder if the intention is the same with the new app.....

The Music screen looks unbalanced now - with big expanded sections for Deezer and one small one for the NAS.......is suspect it will remain this way, after all the X-app  may not be intended to fully replace a Moment......

That said, if the Deezer / NAS content is displayed separately as in the image - i think (a) the single search field should work across both Deezer and local content and (b) the playing screen should show you whether the song playing is Deezer or Local......that part will replicate the Moment a bit but i wouldn't have though too difficult........