Spotify Connect is now on my BS5!!!

I don't know when this happened, but I opened my Spotify app on my phone tonight to listen to some music.  When I opened "available devices", there was a new listing: "BEOMASTER5".  I selected "N.Music" to fire up the BS9000 + Bs5, selected "Spotify" as the mode, and music came out of my speakers!!!

As far as I'm concerned, this is better than the old Spotify support.  Thank you B&O.

Stan

 

 

Hi Stan, I dont get this to work.are you loged in to spotify in the Beosound 5?

When I start my spotify app I see no Beomaster5.

 

best regards

Martin

Are you getting coverflow ?

peter

I am logged into Spotify with my premium account. This is the account I used back when Spotify worked. The strange part for me is that I didn’t do anything to make this work. One day, Spotify stopped working. Now, it just showed up in my list of devices

No, I don’t get cover flow.

My application version is 7.04.01.1945

Stan

Hi Stan, 

Is it still working for you? I´m not able to log on to my Spotify Premium account and it only say no internet connection an problem people have had in the past as well related to the Spotify service been down.

Stefan 

Same here, trying to log in on Beosound 5, says “no internet connection”. Although I have the Spotify app running on BM5. That gives you “connect” via A.Aux.

Petet

Same problem here too.

When I check the network info, under the settings menu on my BS5 it ‘checks’ for ages then states that there is no network connection, even though it’s currently streaming Radio 4!

i wonder if the problem lies with the connection to the servers at Bang & Olufsen rather than Spotify.

Best,

Paul

 

Same problem here..... “no internet connection” message.

It is still working for me. I do get the “no internet” error, but Spotify and N.Radio still work. Also get the “checking for ages” issue when I go into network settings.

Hmm... As I was writing this, my music stopped, and Beomaster5 has disappeared from my devices list. . I’m also not seeing the Internet error.

Easy come, easy go?

It is possible that this behavior is something left over from prior attempts at running the Spotify app on the bs5. My recollection is that I never got this to work across a reboot and I disabled it, but my memory is not what it once was. However, I definitely do not remember ever seeing beomaster5 in my Spotify devices list.

Stan

So I rebooted the bs5 and my iphone and it still no longer works. I looked at my Android phone, and beomaster5 still showed... then it disappeared

This must have been the spotify app you installed at some point that came alive somehow. I'm using the same solution.

No way this is the old integration working again. That one will never come back.

Yes, I agree on that one.

I have Spotify installed manually on the system, and the system has the default name BEOMASTER5 using Spotify Connect.

 

However, we know that Spotify have turned off the API's that B&O "natively" used to connect to Spotify, but since the installed Spotify on the BM5 Windows XP system is working, I wonder what API the standard Spotify software is using and why B&O cannot use this.