Homemedia additional functionality - what's your wishlist?

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jans (archived2)
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Posted September 4, 2014 at 20:09 GMT
#2023628

I was recently thinking of buying a non B&O streaming device for playing Hi-Res music.

 

However, when reading this thread /forum/general-discussion-and-questions/sacd-hybrid-reading I started to realise that the HomeMedia player in my V1 actually is a very powerful device!

I spend the week-end enjoying Agnes Obel in Hi-res StudioMaster (24bit / 192kHz) playing via Homemedia to the Beolab 9's. Really great!

Nevertheless, it would be even better if  the Homemedia User Interface could be further enhanced. Here is my wishlist for enhanced Homemedia Functionality.

- NetRadio (maybe in the next software release?)

- A good search function (ideally, a search function which goes across my music libraries on the NAS, and the music services I am using (Spotify, Deezer, ...)

- Ability to make Playlists

- And controlling all of the above not only via the TV screen, but also in a convenient App  (I admit this is inspired by my Sonos User interface 😐)

 

Curious what other Beoworlders will add! 

Jan
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elephant
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Posted September 4, 2014 at 23:17 GMT
#2023629
Good list !
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seethroughyou
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Posted September 5, 2014 at 06:18 GMT
#2023630
Do the recent smart Beovisions not have Netradio?
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Raeuber (archived2)
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Posted September 5, 2014 at 06:41 GMT
#2023631
seethroughyou wrote:

Do the recent smart Beovisions not have Netradio?

Actually only the Avant.
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rob08 (archived2)
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Posted September 5, 2014 at 07:19 GMT
#2023632
Good list!

I'd like it to more "Plex" like with a more grahical interface and with some of Plex background services such as finding and downloading correct cover art automatically

Also be able to manage .sub or .srt subtitles when playing movies
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Griebel (archived2)
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Posted September 5, 2014 at 07:54 GMT
#2023633
A good search tool! It's just a pain to browse through your media library when you have several Ks of titles/albums

Agree also that there is much room to improve the graphical interface, too simple and not very informative.
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carolpa
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Posted September 5, 2014 at 19:31 GMT
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Griebel wrote:
A good search tool! It's just a pain to browse through your media library when you have several Ks of titles/albums

Agree also that there is much room to improve the graphical interface, too simple and not very informative.

this is heavely dependent on your music server. Twonky as well as JRiver (esspecial the second) can be tweaked to have good search options.

Just a usb connection gives just basic options

 

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jans (archived2)
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Posted September 6, 2014 at 08:17 GMT
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Here's one more, looking a bit further into the future.

It would be great to see Homemedia develop into a cornerstone of a (wireless) NL based multiroom set-up, so that I can use it in my Living room to activate a B&O device (essence-like) in my kitchen playing the same music (party mode) or a different piece of music. Or is this something we can expect from the new 'Moment'?

Anyhow, when going for multiroom, B&O will have to sort out how to synchronize across devices, as the Bsys 4 AV engine induces a small time lag compared to regular audio streamers.

Just my 5 cents when dreaming about my future B&O set-up
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Raeuber (archived2)
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Posted September 6, 2014 at 09:40 GMT
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jans wrote:

Here's one more, looking a bit further into the future.

It would be great to see Homemedia develop into a cornerstone of a (wireless) NL based multiroom set-up, so that I can use it in my Living room to activate a B&O device (essence-like) in my kitchen playing the same music (party mode) or a different piece of music. Or is this something we can expect from the new 'Moment'?

Anyhow, when going for multiroom, B&O will have to sort out how to synchronize across devices, as the Bsys 4 AV engine induces a small time lag compared to regular audio streamers.

Just my 5 cents when dreaming about my future B&O set-up

This dream came true for me several years ago, it's called MASTERLINK!
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Horst Schneider
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Posted September 6, 2014 at 12:22 GMT
#2023637

wol would be nice;

to start the sleeping dlna server -

and let the server  fall back in sleep mode, if for example you switch to tv mode.

or
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