Spotify playlist issues on BeoSound 5

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Stefan71a
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Stefan71a
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Posted June 24, 2017 at 20:22 GMT
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Found this information on Spotify´s development site

 

"Important! LibSpotify and CocoaLibSpotify are no longer under active development on any platform and are considered deprecated. If you are building applications for iOS or Android, please use the link or . We hope to be able to provide you with a new library for other platforms.

Until then, you can request new keys for use with existing projects built on libspotify, such as home media center plugins. If we decide to issue a key for your purpose, you will receive it via email. Please note that we don’t have an estimated timeline for this process. Please be aware that we cannot offer active support or guarantee future functionality on LibSpotify or CocoaLibSpotify.

LibSpotify and CocoaLibspotify Downloads

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Please note that we have removed the LibSpotify binaries from our website in an effort to phase out the usage of this deprecated library. LibSpotify has been considered deprecated since 2015 and will be shut down in 2017, so we want to ensure that all developers’ efforts and attention are focused on newer and better APIs that we actively support and maintain. These APIs include the Web API, iOS and Android SDKs, and upcoming embedded libraries for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. More information regarding upcoming libraries will be provided in the coming months."
So this information have been known since 2015 by developer that the API that Spotify now have killed have been removed from Spotify´s side already 2015 and their hope to replace it with a new api for other operating systems than Android, iOS and Web have never become reality....  So this is probably one of the reason why we never saw Spotify in Moment since B&O already know at that time that Spotify was to become a dead end....

Location: Sweden

My B&O Icons:

BeoCenter-9500.png BeoCenter-9500.png
Beoremote-Beo4.png Beoremote-Beo4.png
Beovox.png Beovox.png
Beotime.png Beotime.png
Beosound.png Beosound.png
Beosound-9000.png Beosound-9000.png
Beosound-5.png Beosound-5.png
Beoplay-H4.png Beoplay-H4.png
Beocenter-2.png Beocenter-2.png
Located in Sweden and have passion for B&O since my years in school. Had the pleasure to be employed by the local B&O dealer in town in the 90th and got an education on the B&O product range at that time (the last fully 2-way integrated products).

Now fascinated about how far ahead B&O was with their Link integrations that you can still use to control and integrate 40 years old products in your smart home.

Prefer the older products since I feel those had a different classic to them and also they were priced/aimed more to the market so that normal people still had a chance to realize their dream and own a B&O product.
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Remy (archived2)
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Posted June 30, 2017 at 18:22 GMT
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I've heard from a local B&O dealer, that B&O is busy with testing some new software for the BS5. 

That was 2 months ago, he had a BS5 with the Beta-version running, but could not (not allowed to) tell me more about the changes.

Fingers crossed, hope good news will follow soon.

Prices of BS5 systems are  dropping verry hard. A secondlife dealer only gives me 600-650 euro's for my BS5 system

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ECF (archived2)
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Posted July 1, 2017 at 07:42 GMT
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Well a least we do not have to worry about Spotify anymore since the new hip B&O has been so "kind" to remove it. They have downgraded the beosound 5 system and as compensation they offer a discount on a new system.

This is in my opinion shameful! How can they think that I even would concider to buy a new B&O system after this? Are they high or just plain stupid?

Erik
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koning (archived2)
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Posted July 1, 2017 at 17:44 GMT
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That would be great news,but why is it all so secret?

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Remy (archived2)
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Posted July 1, 2017 at 23:14 GMT
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Don't know...

Maybe they completly want to change over to another music streaming service, for example Deezer.

Anyway, hope to hear soon, because this won't do good. Not for BS5 owners, but aswell for B&O itselfs. 

Many people start complaining now, that is no good for their image!

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benoit (archived2)
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Posted July 2, 2017 at 15:54 GMT
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Remy wrote:
Many people start complaining now, that is no good for their image!

Do they even care? It's the same for the support of Airplay 2 or not... Many brands announced that they will support it (or not) on their old audio systems. B&O stays silent! 🙁 😭 Lightning

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koning (archived2)
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Posted July 2, 2017 at 16:27 GMT
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Rich people buy it anyway......

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carolpa
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Posted July 2, 2017 at 17:23 GMT
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koning wrote:
Rich people buy it anyway......
Finally the word is out...............you're rich😎

 

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koning (archived2)
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Posted July 2, 2017 at 17:35 GMT
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Haha...very good!

Your right 😁

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carolpa
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Posted July 2, 2017 at 17:37 GMT
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benoit wrote:
Remy wrote:
Many people start complaining now, that is no good for their image!
Do they even care? It's the same for the support of Airplay 2 or not... Many brands announced that they will support it (or not) on their old audio systems. B&O stays silent! 🙁 😭 Lightning

Sorry, but I do not understand this Spotify issue. The BS5 was/is a Netradio player and a DLNA media player. The Spotify functionality was introduced much later and more over it never had the complete Spotify experience.

The point why I sold my BS5 was the support of Windows XP Embedded. This ended beginning last year. But everybody do seem Spotify more important! 

 

advice: use the BS5 without connection to the www, at least as little as possible or be sure the have your security covered! you do not "wannecry"

 

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