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I was somewhat concerned to see degree of surface change to iTunes.
What if something fundamental had changed and BMLink / LinkPlayer (I or II) stopped working ?
So at this stage I have upgraded my MacBook to Yosemite (OS X 10.10) and that includes iTunes 12.0.1 and I have done a keyboard test of LinkPlayer I (as opposed to using a BeoPort and Beo4) and that seemed to work.
I have now upgraded the MacMini (media centre, the heart of my universe) to iTunes 12.01. and I am listening to Net-Music via BMLink - so that all seems very cool. In fact I am tempted to stop testing and just enjoy ... started with Jeff's recommendation, Kimiko Itoh, and now listening to a music video on a blacked out BV8-40
However some comments about iTunes 12.0.1 (I will restrain from passing comments (positive and cautionary) about Yosemite other than to say it might be like Vegemite ... something you adore or something you dislike.
The iTunes interface is ... nice ... I think. It is fresher, cleaner, but then at times you find yourself back in the old word, or a half-way house of old & new visual design / menus. However I think it will take getting used to. Just glad BMLink works !
BeoNut since '75
BMLink testing continued ...
http://www.odlund.se/bmlink/documentation/pages/nmusicbeo4.html
> and < and >> and << all work -- and are as confusing as ever on a large and diverse music collection as mine.
I just found that pressing a number key works for going to the first N groups/playlists one has set up.
Except "1" takes you to the Music area (or so it seems) and "0" does not work (despite the text in the link above)
And as reported earlier /elsewhere Net-Radio appears not to work anymore (on the other hand none of the stations in my N.RADIO playlist seem live these days.
On the other hand Net-Radio does place you in a mode where BMLink then plays whatever is playing on the Mac e.g. Spotify or in my case Apple Radio ...
LinkPlayer I testing ... against iTunes 12.0.1
Only the Yellow (songs) and Blue (playlists) buttons work.
(Green and Red don't)
Net-Radio, like BMLInk, simply opens the MasterLink to whatever you want the Mac/Beoport to broadcast.
I am using Apple's new Radio stations - and I noticed that LinkPlayer picks up the meta data and displays it on the screen - but does not propagate it across the MasterLink.
LinkPlayer II testing ... against iTunes 12.0.1
Again the fundamentals are working.
Song skips back and forth, Playlists etc. work.
Red, Blue, Yellow and Green keys work - with their voice over feedback !
And Net-Radio triggers access to the correct LinkPlayer II display and graphics, however no audio is produced - so it's off to Spotify for us.
So it looks like the iTunes upgrade has not broken anything.
I may upgrade the MacMini tomorrow to Yosemite ... or I may not as it seems to have a few glitches, e.g. the edit function on the posts seem to hang !
I have been a beta tester for a few months and the impossibility to edit or post a picture in Beoworld has not been solved in iOS8 or Yosemite. A real pain in the neck. I have to do that in Firefox, which I hate.
Jacques
Yosemite ...
Nothing ventured, nothing gained ...
I have just upgraded the MacMini running iTunes 12.0.1 to include Yosemite (OS X 10.10) ...
And BMLink works fine ... including all 4 coloured keys to switch between Genre (red), Album (green), Artist (yellow), and Playlist (blue).
Skipped tracks back and forth; and paused - all good.
That was N-Music (obviously), and N-Radio results in silence, unless I play another source ....
And I am happy to report that LinkPlayer I also works.
elephant: And I am happy to report that LinkPlayer I also works.
And LinkPlayer II too
Heya,
Does this still apply to iTunes 12.1.2?
dilznik:Heya, Does this still apply to iTunes 12.1.2?
Very good. I guess I can't sit on Mountain Lion and iTunes 11.3.1 forever.
I think the day BM-Link stops working with iTunes is the day I sell all my B&O stuff and move to Sonos.
dilznik: Very good. I guess I can't sit on Mountain Lion and iTunes 11.3.1 forever. I think the day BM-Link stops working with iTunes is the day I sell all my B&O stuff and move to Sonos.
I hope that day has not arrived ... however my initial test of the Apple Music version of iTunes did not look good.
I had posted this finding in the Apple Music thread in the General Forum.
Unfortunately the iCloud Library matching process is now underway -- seems they did not repurpose the findings from iTunes Match ... so now my system is doing a bulk upload of "missing" items.
I hope to resume testing in a few hours -- however even though the upload process is speedier that the Photos process, I have very limited diagnostics as to where we are in the process ... it has been sitting at 99% complete for almost 10 hours, during which it has moved 544 MB of music :(
FYI the process has identified the 3 Apple Music curated playlists I marked on my iPhone, as well as some of the albums I marked.
As you can see those albums/tracks (unpurchased but marked for offline playing on the phone) are shown as in the cloud (for the moment at least) -- they are the three most recently added items.
I have also included a snapshot of the useless progress indication ...
elephant:I have also included a snapshot of the useless progress indication ...
It occurred to me that I can hook the Mini up to the A.Aux port of the B&O but then the remote will be good for nothing but turning it on and off and the volume. I'd have to go into the Apple Remote app to change songs up and down and at that point I really can switch to Sonos since that was alway the biggest thing that bugged me about Sonos.
That and their speakers are ugly.
dilznik:It occurred to me that I can hook the Mini up to the A.Aux port of the B&O but then the remote will be good for nothing but turning it on and off and the volume. I'd have to go into the Apple Remote app to change songs up and down and at that point I really can switch to Sonos since that was alway the biggest thing that bugged me about Sonos.
dilznik:That and their speakers are ugly.
So I loaded up the new iTunes on an MBP I had here and hooked it up where my Mini usually is and tried it out. BM-Link worked to turn my BeoSound 4 on, forward, back, the colored buttons worked, and I could do things like switch between artists and playlists. So basically, it's doing exactly what I want it to do and was afraid it wouldn't.
I'm updating the Mini to Yosemite and the latest iTunes as well and I'll try again when El Cap comes out.