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This, is, however, my workaround:

1. Attach a streamer to ML/NL converter.  Have the ML/NL converter on Aux-In autoplay.  I use a $99 Wiim Mini.

2.  AirPlay to that streamer.

3.  Sound starts playing on the BL6000’s I have directly hooked to the ML/NL.

4.  JOIN my Beosound Essence to the ML/NL.

5.  JOIN my Beoplay A6.

This is my preferred setup.  However, I have also tried this:  connect a streamer to an ML device such as my Beosound 3000 via Aux-In.  On Beo4, select A.AUX.  Airplay to the streamer.  Sound starts playing.  JOIN the experience to the other devices on your NL network.

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Looking at my BS5’s small library, all albums that start with the article “The” are alphabetically classified under the 1st letter of the second word.  And so “The Soul Cages” appears under “S”, for example.

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Clearly he gets on loan the new B&O equipment he reviews.

 

That said, like he explains on the video, que has personally made very modest purchases of older B&O.

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I concur.  Following a restart, something —anything— should be displayed on BS5.  If it doesn’t, the next step is to connect a monitor, mouse and keyboard to the BM5 and see if anything shows up.  If it does, the problem may lie with the BS5.

If nothing shows up on the monitor… it is not a good augur.

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I can confirm Rolf’s post «In the old BeoMusic App the BV 10 is displayed as an icon. In the new app this functionality seems to be no longer active, as I, as well, get only the BLC on display».  I only started using the B&O app about 2 yrs ago and likewise in my experience it only displays a photo of the BLC, regardless of the setting.  A couple of months ago I reconfigured my whole setup and left only one device ML’d to the C: the BS5.

And so I re-confirmed that even if you only have one device connected to the BLC, you can’t get the app to display an icon of the BS5, even if you so set it on the BLC’s settings.

That, plus my recent discovery (via Andy’s command-based app he issued a few weeks ago) that devices such as Beoplay A6 and Beosound Essence Mk2 fail to recognize the C’s push to the network that it has changed tracks —or, perhaps, the C’s failure to even send such an update—, really underscore that the C is now under the barest minimum possible functionality maintenance.

This, plus the concern raised months ago that the C’s poor old memory is constantly being rewritten to with useless failure log messages —thus condemning the device to an early, unnecessary death— tells us that the C is probably not long for this world.

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Looks like a great initiative!

It looks like it wold bump Beoplay Remote GUI from my Mac!

https://github.com/tlk/beoplay-macos-remote-gui

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If I understand correctly, BeoConnect is strictly for file transfer and not for file streaming, and, therefore, cannot possibly be used with A9, as A9 has no storage features.

A9 can receive a extensive range of streams from the B&O app, which runs on Android, iPhone, and iPad devices.

Once upon a time, I played with an Android emulator that ran inside a MacOS environment; it did useful things.  Perhaps such a thing may be able to download the B&O app to a Windows environment?

Best of fortune,

[XavierItzmann]

Apple today terminated its old Airpods Max colors and launched new colors: the new colors are five.

But it cannot be coincidental that orange and starlight are two of the new  colors, very equivalent to B&O’s apricot and sand.

There must be some high-priced consultants somewhere telling companies that “cerulean” is next year’s color.

Reference:

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Good video, Steve.  I wish more properly suited people made videos.

I bought H95 and ended up giving it to my wife, who absolutely loves it; I can only keep them about 1 hr in my ears before fatigue sets in.  One defect I see as I often talk to her as she is wearing them is that often one-tap to pause doesn’t work for her at first tap.  H100 having tap-to-pause in both cups reduces the chances of a wayward capacitor somewhere.

I will have to try H100 before I buy it for her.  I think you said they have less pressure than H95.

Steve’s video had only one color.  I like the orange ones.  This lass here —Korean only— has a long and detailed video and unboxes and extensively videographs each detail of all colors.

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Wow, wrote a long post about an error, and something called “Wordfence” blocked my post and deleted my draft.  Apparently it interpreted the output I pasted from Beoutil as a hack attempt!

Anyway, the command «watch» exposed a B&O error I had been lamenting for months now:  if I am playing Deezer on all my 3 products, and then tell the A6 to start playing N.MUSIC, and then join the Essence, now all 3 products are playing N.MUSIC from the ML/NL Converter.

But «watch», applied sequentially to all 3 products demonstrates that «Type: NOW_PLAYING_STORED_MUSIC / Kind: playing» still reports as the current song/album/artist/artwork whatever last played on Deezer!  B&O fails to update this to N.MUSIC, which should be the minimum, much less to profit from any N.MUSIC metadata.  This error is reflected in the B&O app by showing whatever final Deezer artwork, and ignoring the current N.MUSIC.

I had thought the error laid on the app itself, but I guess it is something in the code of the ML/NL: it probably fails to send an update to the network.  Sad, if so!

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It worked!  On my Mac as long as I type (or use a shortcut) «~/go/bin/beoutil» it all works as you said.  Thanks for your patience!

Now, I have 3 wireless devices, well, 4 if you count the H95, but I am not sure your app would track the BT-only H95, so forget about that.  But… look at this:

MacBook-Air:bin fmmbair$ ~/go/bin/beoutil find-products
Scanning for products...
Found 3 products.
MacBook-Air:bin fmmbair$ ~/go/bin/beoutil list-products
NAME             ROLE    IP            JID                                             ONLINE  STATE
Beoplay A6       -       192.168.0.66  2703.1200287.27252054@products.bang-olufsen.com true    -
Beosound Essence -       192.168.0.235 2872.1293028.28118056@products.bang-olufsen.com true    -
MacBook-Air:bin fmmbair$

It  found 3, but displayed only 2!  The one missing is a Converter ML/NL, with the latest sw installed, and known to be functional 100%, and with IP 192.168.0.168, so it is in the same network segment.

I tried this twice; once with all systems on std.by, and then once with all systems playing the same Deezer source, multiroom.

What’s interesting is that get-sources 192.168.0.168 works!  It gives me the sources for the product it didn’t list.

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I again thank you, and admit that the Terminal lies outside my comfort level.  I don’t want to further harass you.

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Thank you so much.  With the new instructions, both Method 1 and Method 2 completed with no adverse feedback.

Alas!, once instalation appeared to be complete, the command «beoutil» was not found.  The good news is that the command «go» was found.

 

 

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Thanks.  The good news is that these commands now download v.0.1.0, whereas before  it was o.o.o.2024…

Unfortunately, no joy: method 1 yields “found (v0.1.0), but does not contain package github.com/andy-js/beoutil” and method 2 yields “no Go files in [local directory].  Underlined both outcomes here:

[XavierItzmann]

Hello Andy,

Thanks for this initiative!

I tried both installation methods, with the following results.

Method 1: go install github.com/andy-js/beoutil@latest

And so, I tried your second method, with the following similar result:

 

However, the above must be somehow wrong, because your app seems to have written the files!  I must be doing something wrong:

I realize you are not the help desk, but I do want to try these commands.  Best,

[XavierItzmann]

« The Playmaker is still a nice device, when used wired – the line-in connection with the auto sense is a great/usefull feature»

Yes!  I must say that as an auto-sense line-in device connected to powered speakers, it worked 100% absolutely perfectly.

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Right you are, Fai Kam Tang.  Oops.  My analysis was incorrect at least with regard to iPad Mini 6, and so the proposed mod will not work with that device.

Further research is needed to find a Lighting Connector to USB-C adapter, or, better yet, a 30-Pin to USB-C adapter.

 

If you find a solution, please be sure and post it here.  In the meantime, the proposed mod still runs the same iPad OS 17.6.1 as a brand new iPad you might purchase at a store today, and will remain security-supported for at least the next 13 months from today.

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I’ve read «about dampening material that disintegrates and destroy the PCB» only in the context of BL8000 Mk1 & a range of Mk2.  Never about BL6000.

Our BL6000 are now 27 year-olds, still as beautiful as the day we bought them in preparation for our wedding and first home.  At some point circa 2010, one of them started making a disagreeable reverb.  I sent both BL6000s to the Sound Smith here in the US and he replaced the cardboard speakers, if I recall correctly.

No issues since.

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We had a Playmaker in the yacht, connected to Beolab 4’s hanging from the ceiling in the master’s cabin.  The sound was excellent, given the small space.

But we mostly used it auto-sensing line-in from the yacht’s main source.  We had a difficult time trying to airplay anything to it and get consistent good results.

I know it doesn’t help you, but we basically gave up on the Playmaker as a wireless device.   I must say I am glad/surprised to hear Millemisen has had it be reliable.

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As a long time iTunes library holder (owner?), I am not aware of an iTunes library having ever been compatible in the last 20 years with B&O, whether ML nor NL, unless using the long-discontinued/now unusable (because of the death of the e-Sellerate servers) LinkPlayer software.  And even that skipped over any files stored as a copy-protected Apple .m4p files.

I think the alternative has always been to play Apple Music to the B&O system *from* an Apple device (MacOS/iOS/iPadOS).

The downside, of course, is that if the playing device loses connectivity with the B&O system, the music stops.

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