At the German App Store the Bang&Olufsen App has only 1,8 stars. What changes would you suggest / demand, to give the Bang&Olufsen App 5 stars?
I would give 5 stars, if all the following A + B would be implemented in order to get an App that supports me to manage my multiroom set-up.
A) Short term optimisations:
A.I) Splitscreen / Multitasking possibility on Apple iPad
A.II) Same size of cover art used in „Music“ and „Radio“. Why is the cover art in „Music“ compared to „Radio“ bigger? I prefer the smaller cover arts at „Radio“, so I can see more on the same page without scrolling.
A.III) Much smaller picture on „Products“ page, so that more products are displayed on the first page. Better overview less scrolling. It makes no sense to have such big product pictures. Product pictures should have the same or smaller size as cover art size of „Radio“
A.IV) When displaying “show all” at Deezer picks (= genre) display a list with small cover art, not a matrix with big cover arts so that you see less than before on one page without scrolling. Same list style as at all other Deezer “show all” results.
A.V) „Status Window / Line“ of product selected. Include volume change „+“ and „-“ besides already existing „start / stopp“ and content information. Because these are the most used buttons. Additionally / Alternatively use volume buttons of iPhone / iPad.
B) Mid term optimisations:
B.I) „Multiroom“ page and selection of a product from “Product” page should be integrated in one page (“Multiroom” page should be the starting page, then)
B.I.1) Show ALL online multiroom products on the page „Multiroom“ with the currently used small icons (including status, what is currently playing same content as in „Status Window / Line“ of product selected)
B.I.2) Possibility to select a product (similar to „Product“ page = highlight selected product) and add additional products by pressing „+“ (not like currently, that you can only add products to a before selected product at the „Product“ page)
B.I.3) Put „Turn off“ Button from the „Product“ page on the „Multiform“ page, too.
B.I.4) Possibility to Group Products (e.g. for a room), so that it is possible to select the group instead of individual products and control them together as one product
B.I.5) Keep the linked products or groups, even when these products are turned off / lose connection
B.I.6) Hide „Product“ page or put it to the right side, because it is only needed when a product has to be configured (hopefully not too often)
B.II) Much better handling / integration of DLNA server content
B.II.1) Show only Music relevant content / folders / files (e.g. mp3, wav, aac) of DLNA Server not Fotos and Video folders with empty content / respectively with jpg and mp4 files, that are not usable within the B&O app.
B.II.2) Show the content of the DLNA server in similar style like top part of „Music“ page (= Deezer content), that means Headline (e.g. Genre DLNA, Album DLNA, Artist DLNA, Album-Artist DLNA, Folder DLNA, Playlists DLNA) and below the Headline the first content line (for Genre e.g. Rock, Pop, Dance, Hip Hop) with a cover art (to make it easy, I would use the cover art of the first album of the relevant category)
B.II.3) Drill down possibilities per Headline “show all” for DLNA content: (a) Album -> Track (b) Artist -> Album -> Track (c) Genre -> Artist -> Album -> Track (d) Year -> Album -> Track (e) Album-Artist -> Album -> Track (f) Folder -> Sub-Folder -> Track
B.II.4) Possibility to change order of Headlines on “Music” page, so that I can mix DLNA content and Deezer content.
B.II.5) Offer the possibility to add already the Album to current playlist (not only on the lowest level the individual track)
B.II.6) Offer an alphabet selection list as sidebar, as soon as a list gets longer. So you can jump within the list by choosing the letter (would reduce annoying scrolling by long lists)
B.II.7) Offer a search function that considers also DLNA server content (not only Deezer). Could be similar as at the Beosound moment with a preselection how to search (e.g. by Album, Artist, Track, etc.).
B.III) Optimize Deezer content:
B.III.1) Include “Deezer Flow” on „Music“ age as a additional headline
B.III.2) Include “Deezer My Music” on „Music“ page as a additional headline
C) Visions to be better than competition
C.I) Two B&O Apps (instead of one App), one for controlling / playing multiroom products and one app for the configuration of all other products (to reduce complexity)
C.II) Nice / design table-stand for the Apple iPad (mini ?) and / or other Android tablets with integrated power supply and perhaps an integrated bluetooth remote (similar to Essence Remote - to steer volume, select tracks, stop/go, AND additionally scrolling and selecting in long lists). In combination with a hidden or in the table-stand integrated Beosound Core would be an interesting and easy to develop successor of Beosound Moment.
C.III) Management of each individual channel of 2 channels (Stereo) to >10 Channels (for e.g. Atmos) via B&O multiroom. Idea is on one hand to set up several loudspeakers as a stereo speaker (e.g. two Beosound 1 speaker in one room use one as left and the other as right speaker) or to set-up several loudspeakers to dolby surround (e.g. use a shape with several cores / several amps for surround sound - controlled individual or as group by the B&O App).
C.IV) Integration of MoodWheel or MOTS or something similar into the “Music” page of the B&O App for all people, that have still personal music libraries (connected via DLNA server)
C.V) …
What are you desired functionalities of a good Bang&Olufsen App?