@mbolo01 :

No, the problem is larger : when playing tunein, changing station (with left/right arrows) freezes the Essence with no sound and the only way to get music again is hard reboot from the mains.

in DLNA, using the time bar to go further in a song freezes with no sound, and usually I can get music again with a simple power off/power on cycle.

No such problem here.

I just tried changing radio stations the way you described...flawless.

Usually I don’t ‘scrubb’ in a song, but for testing I just tried.

When moving the bar, the time is shown in the album art (current and total).

The song just played on at the new point.

(P.S. This rather sounds like a problem with your DLNA server).

MM

All of my link products suffer from the same issues (Essence mk2, BS 2 etc). Another sad weekend for a BeoWorlder with friends over, and the system acting up again - resulting in music being streamed from an iPhone. 

They do not attract new customers by doing this. After a hard reset I got intermittent drop-outs of sound, which is actually worse than no sound at all. 

Is it a combination of the new firmware and the updated B&O app? I think so based on my testing.

As stated earlier - the rest of the household have switched to BeoPlay products only... and I am close to joining them.

Roger

So sad, maybe a takeover from another company wasn 't a bad idea.

@mm it’s surely not my DLNA player, as nothing changed on this side. Are you running the firmware 1.15 on Essence mkII? And app v 1.2.1?

YES - of course my Essence and the Bang & Olufsen app are up to date.

MM

koning wrote:

So sad, maybe a takeover from another company wasn 't a bad idea.

Oh well - that would be like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut....

.....without even knowing if the sledgehammer could hit the nut.

MM

If you hear all those problems whats your vision in this case

I ran into issues again this morning.  I tried to play some music on my BS1 and it wouldn't produce any sound, but in the app is looked like it was playing.  After powering it off and on again it started working.

All my BeoSound Essence systems have continually frozen over the weekend, and I’ve had to reset them all several times since the software update on the Essence.

The main problem with mine seems to be that as soon as you attempt to scrub forward, or attempt to forward to the next track in Deezer the system freezes.

Cover art is also intermittently shown and some radio station idents don’t show at all.

I’m beta tester for the app and downgrading to previous builds of the app doesn’t solve the problem therefore I’m convinced it’s the recent software update on the Essence that’s causing the problems.

Paul