CB wrote:

HAWK wrote:

Can you try to play Kiss FM Ukraine, NPO FunX or Sky Radio Smooth Hits and see if they play on the MK1? They all are using HTTP.

Kiss FM Ukraine : ok

NPO FunX : ok

Sky Radio Smooth Hits : not found (there are is a bunch of sky radio “something”, but smooth hits)

Radio satellite2 : nok

The sound of jazz : nok

RTL (France) : nok

WUVT-FM : nok

None of my manually entered flows works

Manually (TuneIN) entered flows/URLs did not work on the MK1, they do on the MK2.  

PS: look for Smooth Hits (Sky Radio is only in the logo I see, not in the name). 

TWG wrote:

2.) What's the "this content can't be played back with Deezer" error message when I try to play music from a networked PC in my home network?

I only get this message from my Essence MK1 while every other DLNA compatible player at home does play the music without any problems.

Can i please ask you to help me as well, thanks very much

HAWK wrote:

TuneIN works on MK1, but only the HTTP channels but NOT the ones using HTTPS (most commercial radio stations use this I am afraid....)

I have a potential fix for this anyone needs it.  The cost is whatever you would pay for a Raspbery Pi.
(I'm using a $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W, but it's only powerful enough for a single station.)

My favorite local jazz station stopped working on all my B&O gear about 18 months ago when the station moved their offices and upgraded their streamers.  After going 'round and 'round with the station and B&O I realized they would never fix it.

I solved the problem with a Raspberry Pi and a streaming platform called icecast2.  I use vlc on the Raspberry Pi to bring in the stream from the source and transcode it into something the B&O gear will accept.  the transcoded stream gets sent to the icecast server (running on the same Raspberry Pi) where it is available for my B&O gear to stream.  I've added a "Custom URL" to Tunein using their app that points toward the Pi instead of the original station's streaming URL.  The B&O devices are happy to play the transcoded (and http rather than https) streams and everything works as original.

If anyone else wants to use this method, let me know and I'll write up some instructions.

EDIT: I won't be checking this thread forever, so if anyone wants help, my email address at Yahoo dot com is EEAlexHay - that's the best way to contact me if you don't hear from me here.

Wow, that sounds as a great workaround laseralex! Am now using a (refurbished) MK2, so not really needed, but can be very useful for MK1 users!

tuttiverkaufen wrote:

Can i please ask you to help me as well, thanks very much

ich habe die software 4189

CB wrote:

I’ve tried several DLNA Players for iOS, and some work, some don’t.

In order to be sure the music is really played from the server to the renderer (Essence) and not by the app like with Airplay, I start the song and then stop the app. If the music goes on, it’s ok.

* MyAudioStreamer (iPhone & iPad) : ok

* 8Player lite : ok

* Creation 5 (sound control does not always work) : ok