Masterlink and Network Link – some help needed

[CharlieWednesday]

I’m so glad you asked me to check this, because I FOUND IT!  Although the Music folder was shared, when I checked the Streaming Options and scrolled down, I found that the Essence was there and it was ticked for sharing, but below that was another item ‘Unknown Device’. I checked the IP address and this was my phone (upon which I run the B&O app), so enabling this solved it!  Guy had also tried to tell me this earlier, but I had missed it.  I just needed to scroll down and see it.  What a bloody idiot.

So, in the web portal for my BLC I have set the N.Music source to ‘Music’ now, instead of ‘Bluetooth’.  Now, if I start playing from my music library using the B&O app, my system comes out of standby and it plays.  If I press N.Music on my Beo4, my system starts playing whatever was last played.  I can play, pause, skip tracks with my Beo4.

Unfortunately however, this seems to have stopped Spotify from working.  If I use Spotify to play to my Essence (with either N.Music or N.Radio selected as the source on my system), it plays for about 10 seconds, but then the sound goes off.  Spotify shows it is still playing, and the B&O app also shows that it is still playing, but no sound is heard.

So, it seems I can have either my media library or Spotify, but not both.  Further experimentation required, it seems!

[CharlieWednesday]

Following the above, I changed Beolink Converter settings back so that N.Music is now set to ‘Bluetooth’ rather than ‘Music’.  This means that when I hit the N.Music button on my Beo4 (from Standby), nothing starts playing, but at least this way, I can listen to either Spotify or my music library, initiated from the B&O app, and controllable with my Beo4 once it’s already playing.

One annoyance for me – when you view an album in the B&O app, it show the tracks in alphabetic order according to track title, rather than by track order.  That’s just rubbish!

[Madskp]

CharlieWednesday wrote:

I’m still waiting for the adapter cable to arrive to connect my BS Essence to my Beolink Passive, then connect an MCL2A and MCL2AV to perform the other suggested tests – I’ll keep you posted.

No hurry. When you have the possibility to try it please post the result in this new tread I just made https://forum.beoworld.org/forums/topic/powerlink-comptability/

Thanks in advance

[CharlieWednesday]

Good idea – will do.

[Guy]

Great news about the Win11 music now being visible!

CharlieWednesday wrote:

One annoyance for me – when you view an album in the B&O app, it show the tracks in alphabetic order according to track title, rather than by track order.  That’s just rubbish!

I have the same problem but am not at all sure about the cause.  I thought it was a limitation of my NAS server because I think it also happens on other music ‘clients’ (eg apps on Apple TV) – it could perhaps be linked to the way the tracks were ripped, or the music library organisation/indexation – more investigation needed!

[Carolpa]

Guy wrote:

Great news about the Win11 music now being visible!

CharlieWednesday wrote:

One annoyance for me – when you view an album in the B&O app, it show the tracks in alphabetic order according to track title, rather than by track order. That’s just rubbish!

I have the same problem but am not at all sure about the cause. I thought it was a limitation of my NAS server because I think it also happens on other music ‘clients’ (eg apps on Apple TV) – it could perhaps be linked to the way the tracks were ripped, or the music library organisation/indexation – more investigation needed!

How music is presented to the B&o app depends on the music server used. So no B&o issue!
And for sure, how a music server handles tracks depends havely on 1) its capabilities and 2) on the music file tags.

See the menu structure of the music server I use:

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[CharlieWednesday]

What music server do you use, Carolpa?

[Carolpa]

I use Minimserver.

It can be setup to personal preferences.

Sometimes when I experience detection problems of music servers by the B&o app, I start Twonky for 5 to 10 minutes (for some reasons it seems to be triggering earlier detection of servers by the B&o app).

Note: in the last years this has happened twice after some sw update (the server, Windows, B&o app? I can’t recall the origin of the problem)

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[Peter Vaessen]

Tried to attach to Win10 DLNA also.

In the BEO App all worked liked expected. Music files are visible, playing, etc, etc.

But, as I am using a BLGW, in the BEO Living IOS app the resource name is visible, but no files are listed.

Any ideas?

[Carolpa]

Peter Vaessen wrote:

Tried to attach to Win10 DLNA also. In the BEO App all worked liked expected. Music files are visible, playing, etc, etc. But, as I am using a BLGW, in the BEO Living IOS app the resource name is visible, but no files are listed. Any ideas?

The sole thing comes in mind is: switch on upnp in router/modem. Or contact Khimo: I did have issue’s (Beoliving beta program) with music servers in the past, which they solved.

My connection between Minimserver works, see pictures.

 

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