tha beta-crap is ridiculous and makes me angry! airplay 2 was announced for august, other brands already have it... just poor. there are already so many beta-testers for the, let‘s say boring, b&o-app; why can‘t it be tested with them (i‘m already in).

i was about to get a beosound 1 for the garden but go in that case for a libratone. really really poor. btw: the homepod is pretty good

"the beta-crap is ridiculous and makes me angry! airplay 2 was announced for august, other brands already have it... just poor. there are already so many beta-testers for the, let‘s say boring, b&o-app; why can‘t it be tested with them (i‘m already in)."

Outside of that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

I do like the innovation of crowdsourcing your tech R&D for free. Did B&O learn that from Nova Nordisk?

I think it's good B&O are targeting enthusiasts - many of us who have many unique use cases for some beta testing. 

lol.. either sign up or don't.

egges wrote:

tha beta-crap is ridiculous and makes me angry! airplay 2 was announced for august, other brands already have it... just poor. there are already so many beta-testers for the, let‘s say boring, b&o-app; why can‘t it be tested with them (i‘m already in).

i was about to get a beosound 1 for the garden but go in that case for a libratone. really really poor. btw: the homepod is pretty good

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Just to give you the truth : Currently, I think there is just one brand appart Apple which has finalized its Airplay 2 update: Sonos.

Libratone was advertising end of June, and finally it should come in mid september (I had a Zipp CPH until now and I can tell you: no sign of any Airplay 2 compatibility. B&W (which can be directly compared to Beoplay in terms of pricing and performance has announced that there won't be any compatibility for any of their portable products. 

So before claiming that "other brands already have it", one should see what's happening on the other brands...

Aussie Michael wrote:

I think it's good B&O are targeting enthusiasts - many of us who have many unique use cases for some beta testing.

lol.. either sign up or don't.

Aussie Michael wrote:

I think it's good B&O are targeting enthusiasts - many of us who have many unique use cases for some beta testing. 

lol.. either sign up or don't.

I’d gladly sign up.

But since I’ll mostly be away from home the next two weeks, I’ll wait.......untill I am able to send the feedback from my setup.

MM

mbee wrote:

So before claiming that "other brands already have it", one should see what's happening on the other brands...

sorry for NOT checking again Libratone's website before posting, just amazon. but as you wrote, they advertised it end of june and in july. i noticed it at amazon at that time and checked Libratone's homepage where it WAS advertised. and it still is advertised on amazon.

anyway, i find it poor from B&O to announce airplay 2 for august and then just do a beta-test with a restricted amount of testers. they had an have with other products and features no inhibition to use the consumers as beta-testers.

outside of that, Mrs Lincoln, i still enjoy the play 🙂

Just to give the truth again: after pre launch announcements saying that B&O will be one of the very first brands to support Airplay 2, B&O advertised for a release somewhere in September, not August. So depending on the beta stability, they could be on time.

Libratone advertised for an availability at the launch (beginning of June), then for something around the 22 June, then sometimes in September... so I don’t see where Libratone is better, I think that all the brands are struggling with this new API.

@steve1977: I only know 2 airplay (2) battery-powered speakers: Beosound 1 and Libratone Zipp. That’s quite strange considering all the Bluetooth battery-powered speakers around, Airplay 2 might be a niche market after all.