elephant wrote:

laseralex wrote:

All controllable by the app, but operated primarily by the 8 Essence Remotes I have strung around the house.

OMG

A world record ?

I just keep adding them.  They're the best value from B&O in years.  (At least when all the software is working. :-/ )

My bedroom has one at the door so I can join a stream when I walk into the room, or stop the music when I leave.  Of course there is also one by the bed so I can control music and volume while lying down.  Just inside the master bath is another that I can reach from the shower to control the M5 on the counter.

My office has one on the wall at the doorway, and one on my desk, both controlling the moment.

My kitchen Essence has one remote at the entry to the kitchen.  The Dining room has a table remote to control an essence, and it is the same for the living room.

That's 8 remotes, and it's almost enough. I actually have a 9th on order so I can also have one at the entry to the living room.

As opposed to an expand function for the moment, what I'm really interested in is a "target" function where I'm able to target the playback from the moment to any of one of the various beolink devices I have throughout my home.  My phone is OK for solo use, but when I'm listening to music with others or entertaining, the interface of the moment is very much appreciated.

After playing around with the moment, I wonder if there is a work around. My Moment is linked to my 2014 Avant 75 and I noticed that when content from my moment is playing on my Avant 75, I can perform a multiroom expand via the Bang & Olufsen app to additionally playback the content from the moment to a second device.  Further, I can even terminate playback to the Avant 75 via the Bang & Olufsen app while continuing playback on the second device.  This effectively shifts playback from my Avant 75 to my second device, which is exactly what I want.  Unfortunately, whenever I change tracks, the Avant 75 turns back on and playback occurs via both the Avant 75 and the second device.

Thus, if I had a software wish for the Moment, it would be, in the above scenario, to not resume playback on the Avant 75, when the connection is terminated via the Bang & Olufsen app while in a multiroom expand initiated via the Bang & Olufsen app.  This would allow one to use the Bang & Olufsen app to effectively be able to target the playback from the moment to any device in my beolink network.

And while I haven't tried it yet, I believe there may be a way to get around the above issue.  I intend on decoupling my moment from my Avant 75 and setting it up for a wired connection, but without any speakers actually being connected to the moment.  While I'll unfortunately have use the Bang & Olufsen app each time I use the moment to expand to whatever device(s) to which I want to target playback from the moment, my hope is that is avoids the issue I described above with my Avant 75.  However, this is just a a work around and I lose the benefit of the immediate turn on of my Avant 75 by the moment while requiring the need to use the Bang & Olufsen app each time I use the moment, so this is not the ideal solution.  I believe the ideal solution  would require a change to the software. 

EDIT: THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION NO LONGER APPLIES TO THE CURRENT SOFTWARE (V2.2) WHICH DOES NOT SUPPORT SPOTIFY CONNECT.

Millemissen wrote:

Is this a new feature - or one, that you just newly discovered?

It was discovered / mentioned on 2018-03-24 by a poster named "Paco", here.

Millemissen wrote:

Does the Moment appear in the list of ‘Spotify devices’, when using the Spotify app?

Yes!  On my iPhone, Spotify lists a bunch of Google Cast and Spotify Connect devices.  The Moment is listed as a Spotify Connect device just like my Essences and my M5, and can be connected to just the same as any other Spotify Connect device.

Millemissen wrote:

When you can control the playback (skip tracks, stop/start) via the Essence Remote, can you also do it directly on the display of Moment/the wooden part?

The round volume/control surfaces on both the metal and the wood sides of the Jukebox work for volume and track skip forward and back.  The touchscreen doesn't allow me to swipe, as it doesn't seem to show upcoming or past tracks the way the Moment does when playing Deezer content.  Possibly because I don't have a paid Spotify plan.  (I expect that this will change very shortly, given this new feature!)

Millemissen wrote:

(if you know) can you do the same with the beo remote, if the Moment is set to be integrated with a NL-tv?

I don't own a Beo Remote.

Yet.  ;-)

Millemissen wrote:

How about multiroom? I can hardly believe that you can join in from elsewhere, like you can using Deezer.

Yes, even multiroom works!  I started a song on the Spotify app listening on my phone, then used Spotify Connect within the Spotify App to move it to the Moment:

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Back to the main Spotify screen and it shows at the bottom that  the track is playing on the Moment:

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Switching to the B&O app, I see that the Moment is playing from Spotify (showing Spotify Logo):

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B&O app now-playing screen :

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Spotify Logo at top, Multiroom link available at the bottom!  :D

I added the bedroom with the Multiroom Link button in the app.  Then I walked to the kitchen and joined the stream with the Esssence Remote.  This was reflected as expected in the B&O app, but also showed in the Spotify app that the links had been made:

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Here's the appearance on the Jukebox:

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Millemissen wrote:

(Could you provide a couple of pics - these often show more than words?)

Nah, that sounds like way too much work. ;-)

EDIT: THE ABOVE INFORMATION NO LONGER APPLIES TO THE CURRENT SOFTWARE (V2.2) WHICH DOES NOT SUPPORT SPOTIFY CONNECT.

Great - and great thanks for taking the time for answering all of my questions....and thanks for the pics, too ;-)))

Very much appreciated and helpfull for those interested in a Moment —- and to clarify that the Moment still is a capable device.

I guess I - personally - will have to rethink my decision from earlier days not to buy one (I am a dedicated Spotify user, never really got used to Deezer).

MM

laseralex wrote:

Millemissen wrote:

Does the Moment appear in the list of ‘Spotify devices’, when using the Spotify app?

Yes!  On my iPhone, Spotify lists a bunch of Google Cast and Spotify Connect devices.  The Moment is listed as a Spotify Connect device just like my Essences and my M5, and can be connected to just the same as any other Spotify Connect device.

As long as the device you connect to have Spotify Connect built in, Multiroom should work.

Millemissen wrote:

Great - and great thanks for taking the time for answering all of my questions....and thanks for the pics, too ;-)))

Very much appreciated and helpfull for those interested in a Moment —- and to clarify that the Moment still is a capable device.

I guess I - personally - will have to rethink my decision from earlier days not to buy one (I am a dedicated Spotify user, never really got used to Deezer).

MM

If you can live without the Mood Wheel and the ability to browse the music from the Moment jukebox, just go for it 🙂  

Hiort wrote:

Millemissen wrote:

Great - and great thanks for taking the time for answering all of my questions....and thanks for the pics, too ;-)))

Very much appreciated and helpfull for those interested in a Moment —- and to clarify that the Moment still is a capable device.

I guess I - personally - will have to rethink my decision from earlier days not to buy one (I am a dedicated Spotify user, never really got used to Deezer).

MM

If you can live without the Mood Wheel and the ability to browse the music from the Moment jukebox, just go for it 🙂  

But no moodwheel, and no ability to browse music. Doesn't that just make the Moment an expensive Core that is discontinued ?

/Jacob

Millemissen wrote:

I guess I - personally - will have to rethink my decision from earlier days not to buy one (I am a dedicated Spotify user, never really got used to Deezer).

You definitely should not buy one.  Or at least you should not buy a used system from eBay.  Or if you're thinking about a used system from eBay, you should definitely hold off until I'm able to get a couple more for myself.

I only have one Moment right now, in my office. But with the latest software updates it has become a truly spectacular product.  I expect that before the end of 2018 I will have them in my bedroom and living room as well.

laseralex wrote:

Nah, that sounds like way too much work. ;-)

I know this thread is several years old but I am taking a chance and hoping for an answer:

To me, the Besond Moment was a brilliant product and should never have been discontinued- but would surely be due for an update by now.

Unfortunately, it looks like B&O has abandoned the whole idea of a music system and such and seems to be moving towards stand-alone speakers and TVs with various remote controls.

So for that reason, I am potentially in the market for a Beosond Momemt as the latest and greatest music system B&O has to offer.

However, except for your detailed post, I cannot find any indication or evidence that the Beosound Moment actually supports Spotify Connect; no listings refer to it, no searches on forums or the like confirms and any private seller I have asks just says they only use Deezer and can neither confirm or deny.

One person suggested that the Spotify Connect was only available for a short period in a beta release but was removed again.

Do you still have your Beosound Moment and can you confirm if Spotify Connect does in fact still work the way you so perfectly documented?