Hi Ternst

The BS Moment never had any support for Spotify Connect.

MM

Too bad. I really had my hopes up based on this thread.

So all the pictures and explanations given by Laseralex on page 1 of this very thread were for some reason simply not correct?

Re-reading this whole thread I’ll have to correct myself……...the BS Moment was never sold with an official support for Spotify Connect - and Deezer is the main built-in source (apart from the DLNA support).

It seems that only trying out can proof this - I did not have the chance, the Moment never became part of my setup (was too expensive to get just to ‘play around’ with.

Actually not many Moment user were interested in Spotify, since they and B&O fully focussed om Deezer.

Would be nice if Laseralex could chime in to tell if it is still so and how his experience has been since the time of his former postings.

MM

BS Moment had actually support for Spotify Connect in one of the official releases, but was removed in a later version. If I remember correctly this was before the rewritten SW, the bigger upgrade. As we are all aware, no new SW has been released in a long time. Today's SW is stable and has the basic functions, but lacks some functions that it has had. There is certainly a good reason for that.  

Thank you very much for the answer. Not what I was hoping for but certainly seems to be conclusive. 

Moningsand wrote:

BS Moment had actually support for Spotify Connect in one of the official releases, but was removed in a later version. If I remember correctly this was before the rewritten SW, the bigger upgrade. As we are all aware, no new SW has been released in a long time. Today's SW is stable and has the basic functions, but lacks some functions that it has had. There is certainly a good reason for that.  

Thanks for clarifying.

Can you ‘downgrade’ the SW to get the original release…..in order to have support for Spotify Connect?

MM

I would say that is impossible since you can't chose SW version without special support from B&O. If your main use case is Spotify connect I would go for a BS core instead. Moment is tailored for Deezer, and without you don't really gain anything with a Moment, besides WISA and screen. 

Thanks.

I use - and that as my main source - the Essence MK2 since day 1….it offers me all I need, really!

It was just the thought of having the screen (and the controls at hand) that triggered my question.

However looking at the pic on the previous page it seems that only the artist, album….title is shown there - with no album art, when playing via Spotify Connect.

In that case I am better off with my dedicated iPad Mini‘s in (almost) every room here.

MM

What is shown when playing via Bluetooth on the Moment?

Was thinking that one could always pair a Google Home Mini and/or an Apple TV via Bluetooth and gain Spotify Connect, Airplay etc. that way. Should at least still be possible to control volume, skip tracks etc  

I believe I read that up to 8 Bluetooth sources can be remembered by the Moment, so it should not really limit the use in any way to have one or two devices permanently linked via Bluetooth.  

Millemissen wrote:

Would be nice if Laseralex could chime in to tell if it is still so and how his experience has been since the time of his former postings.

I never ended up using Spotify Connect, because I preferred the interaction using the Momen't touch interface as well as the B&O app, which are both designed around Deezer and TuneIn.

I just downloaded Spotify to my phone again and have confirmed that the Spotify Connect feature has been removed from the latest B&O firmware.  It doesn't make any sense to remove working software from functional software, so I can only imagine that Spotify released an update that broke the B&O software and they removed it instead of fixing it.

I added some disclaimers to the beginning and end of my previous post in hopes that nobody is led astray by it in the future.