Playmaker and Masterlink - again

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zuegers07 (archived2)
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Posted March 5, 2013 at 21:35 GMT
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Dear all

I have a BS 9000 that works perfectly fine, plus a Mac Mini feeding digital music into the system via BeoPort.

I acquired the Playmaker a) for curiosity and b) to enable my girls to stream iPhone-Music to the system without complication. Playmaker feeds into BS 9000 via A.AUX. It is just so much easier than uploading their music to the Mac Mini first (and actually I am quite glad some of their music remains on their devices and does not get to the central system 🙂)

As my BeoLink Actives are quite old, they do not support selection of A.AUX from link rooms. Therefore I thought that purchasing a Converter NL/ML would allow me to add Playmaker as a master source to the masterlink - which then could be called from all rooms.

I did read in other threads that selecting Playmaker in that setup would require the CD button. However, I would like the CD button to activate the BS 9000' CD-Changer. 

Any idea if and how this might work?

Thank you very much! Stefan 

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bnoblueboy (archived2)
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Posted March 5, 2013 at 22:48 GMT
#1990791

could just upgrade the software in the active's

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mjmedlo (archived2)
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Posted March 6, 2013 at 02:04 GMT
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zuegers07 wrote:

Dear all

I have a BS 9000 that works perfectly fine, plus a Mac Mini feeding digital music into the system via BeoPort.

I acquired the Playmaker a) for curiosity and b) to enable my girls to stream iPhone-Music to the system without complication. Playmaker feeds into BS 9000 via A.AUX. It is just so much easier than uploading their music to the Mac Mini first (and actually I am quite glad some of their music remains on their devices and does not get to the central system )

As my BeoLink Actives are quite old, they do not support selection of A.AUX from link rooms. Therefore I thought that purchasing a Converter NL/ML would allow me to add Playmaker as a master source to the masterlink - which then could be called from all rooms.

I did read in other threads that selecting Playmaker in that setup would require the CD button. However, I would like the CD button to activate the BS 9000' CD-Changer.

Any idea if and how this might work?

Thank you very much! Stefan

Can't you just press volume up in those active rooms and trigger a.aux?
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Stan
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Posted March 6, 2013 at 02:48 GMT
#1990793
Try a.tape
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Stan
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Posted March 6, 2013 at 02:48 GMT
#1990794
Try a.tape
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zuegers07 (archived2)
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Posted March 6, 2013 at 23:43 GMT
#1990795

Correct. But dealer charges EUR 65 per upgrade...

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zuegers07 (archived2)
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Posted March 6, 2013 at 23:44 GMT
#1990796

Thank you Stan.

A.TAPE to do what? To access A.AUX sources from link rooms? Or to access BeoPlayer behind NL/ML gateway?

Cheers Stefan

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Stan
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Posted March 7, 2013 at 03:31 GMT
#1990797
Sorry, typing from my phone so I cannot be verbose. A.tape from the beo4 should enable the aux input from a link room.

Stan
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zuegers07 (archived2)
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Posted March 7, 2013 at 23:24 GMT
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zuegers07 wrote:

A.TAPE to do what? To access A.AUX sources from link rooms?

Thank you Stan, works just fine!
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zuegers07 (archived2)
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Posted March 7, 2013 at 23:25 GMT
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bnoblueboy wrote:

could just upgrade the software in the active's

... and pay around EUR 1'000 ....

.... or simply use A.TAPE instead; it even has a button on Beo4
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