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Spotify Connect is available on the A9, but suspiciously not on the A8 or Beolit systems.
And it's not available on the top-of-the-line solutions based on the new platform, like the BeoSystem 4 and Beovision 11, even though they do have Spotify.
What do you think? Will we get Spotify Connect on these things? Any rumors?
And BS5 does also not have it.
I wonder why, it is a great feature to have available, and that does sell a lot of Sonos systems.
The Spotify interface of BS5 could be better, with Connect it would really be great.
What benefit would Spotify Connect add to the BS5. Isn't it already 'connected'?
The benefit would be to use another device to control the BS5. An iPad for example. You'd use Spotify on the iPad and have an icon you tap to tell what your BS5 to play a song.
lundmark:The benefit would be to use another device to control the BS5. An iPad for example. You'd use Spotify on the iPad and have an icon you tap to tell what your BS5 to play a song.
Yes. And it's especially useful on the other B&O systems where you don't have any other input device than the remote control. But even for BS5, the iPad's interface allows you to search for songs more easily and relax in your couch while you do it.
I use my iPad this way today with AirPlay to an Apple TV. The difference with Spotify Connect is that it's the TV/A8/BS5 itself that does the actual playback and not the iPad. The iPad just tells the TV to play a particular song and then the TV is on its own.
lundmark: The benefit would be to use another device to control the BS5. An iPad for example. You'd use Spotify on the iPad and have an icon you tap to tell what your BS5 to play a song.
You seem to have missed the whole point of a BS5 - it was basically made for direct interacting with the screen/the menu via the wheels, playing the local files on the BM5 drive.
What you want is a 'new' device.
Soon we will see the Essence - that (controlled by the BeoMusic app) will do exactly what you want.
Only problems is - you won't have the BS5 on the wall/table to show off!
P.S. To date we don't know if Spotify Connect will be an integrated part of the app - but the device will support Spot-Connect.
MM
There is a tv - and there is a BV
No, I haven't. I agree the BS5 controls are nice, but they suck for searching.
That said, I don't have a BS5 but a BV11 and an A8 and they would both benefit immensely from Spotify Connect.
On that I agree definitely.
That would be a great update!
Especially if one could start the BV11 up in 'audio mode only' - means without the screen turning on.
we tend to forget there is more to design than designing.
Mark:Also reading what Neil Young is trying to do with music download quality would he not have been a better Bang ambassador than Paul McCartney ?
This is very off-topic and doesn't add to the discussion, but to answer your question: no, I don't think so. What Neil is trying to do is a marketing gimmick, which shouldn't be conflated with improvements to audio quality. Because there aren't any to 24/192, which is what he's pushing.
That said, if he can push a change for better mastered original recordings, then that's great. But as for 24/192 - no. That's just voodoo, like so much else in the hi-fi world.
The B&O choice of Spotify is very market orientated - it is simply the most common music service.
For the chinese market there is support for Qmusic.
If they wanted they cound add support for more services - WIMP Hifi or Qobuz Hifi (for those of the B&O costumers who go for better sound quality).
I would not advice B&O to let Spotify invest in B&O - that would mean end of hope for adding support for more (or better) music services.
That said - Spotify Connect is a clever technology. I wonder why the 'others' didn't come up with that too.