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Thanks Millemissen.
If I email you a wma lossless file, could you test the app?
It's a pity that there no way to try an app before buying it.
Kind regards,
Yann.
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Hi Yann,
the WMALosless file is no problem - that one I can make myself.
I'll try and find time tomorrow to do a test!
Greetings Millemissen
There is a tv - and there is a BV
Thank you Millemissen.
I hope you'll come back with good news :)
Hi Millemissen,
Coming back after short holidays.
Looking at the Appstore, I unfortunately did not find any app which states WMA Lossless support... and "pay to see" is not a way I appreciate :)
Did you make a test with your own setup?
I ripped a few CDs in FLAC to make tests and purchased the PlugPlayer app to control everything.
It works pretty well, but I cannot find how to activate a "random play" feature of Playlists.
Does it exist in the app?
Thaknks by advance,
sorry for not answering - i DID NOT forget you, but.....
..and will try to give a short answer later on.
For now:
No, a random-playlist function is not part of the PP.
Actually I have never thought of that as a problem, since I definitely am an album-listener.
But it seems to be important to you?
Greetings MM
Thanks, Millemissen,
I agree with you, for album listening random feature is of no use.
I also have a playlist with all my albums, that I use when I have friends at home or for "easy listening" and is this case random is rather useful!!
hello,
i have read through this thread quite a fe times. i want to understand because it seems to address a problem i have. my masterlink system is without a audiomaster since i replaced my trusty bc1. i have understood that a playmaker and a beolink converter can solve the problem.
i have understood that the beolink converter receives audio from the playmaker and injects it into the ml system. more importantly, if an audiomaster is not present it will take on this role automatically.
in one proposition, the playmaker receives music from itunes (or other source like pandora) running on a distant mac. this made possible by running airfoil and treating the playmaker as airfoil speakers. this is especially interesting as i would no longer be limited by what formats the playmaker could manage but by the (lesser) limitations of the mac.
now then, is this correct ?
some questions remain :
* are we referring to 'old' beolink converter or the nl/ml version ?
* what cable is needed to connect playmaker to beolink converter, rj45 - powerlink ?
* and why is there only one powerlink input on beolink converter, is it stereo ?
i would appreciate any help on my understanding of this solution. please let me know if i have erred before i purchase a playmaker. thanks !
- scott
How does this solution work ? Do you use the Beolink Converter 1611 or the Beolink Active to achieve this? How do you program settings to activate using CD?
Spinoza:How does this solution work ? Do you use the Beolink Converter 1611 or the Beolink Active to achieve this? How do you program settings to activate using CD?
The 'new converter'/the NL/ML is used to network a ML setup and a NL setup.
The Playmaker is not a NL product, but a standalone product (that can be used as a source connected to the 'old Converter/the1611).
However if you have a setup, which includes the NL/ML Converter, you can connect the Playmaker (as a source) directly to the Aux-in of the Converter - and this way use it in both systems. The configuration will then be done in the web-interface of the Converter.
MM
I would not say it so.
The Playmaker is a device with AirPlay- and DLNA-possibilities (perfectly controlled by an iDevice) and it has an Aux-in as well.
These 'ports' are autoswitchable, which makes it very comfortable.
The NL/ML Converter has (in addition to being the bridge between the two link-systems) an Aux-in, which can be used for any source with a fixed line-out volume. Connecting a Playmaker there gives you a lot a possibilities in a setup.
That would be my conclusion.
P.S. a BeoPort needs a computer (and the software running on it), to which it connects physical through a USB connection - that's something quite different.
Another option, I have Apple TV and have it connected via HDMI to my BV8 on AV2, The ATV goes through an HDMI splitter and then one feed to the TVs HDMI socket, one to an HDMI converter and into the AV2 Scart Socket. This allows control of the Apple TV and viewing in the link rooms which are fed from the BV8 - quality is not bad. From the optical out on the ATV I have a DAC feeding the CD input on my BM6500 - this allows airplay also and is a cheap way needing only one ATV
My experience of the Airport Express was that it dropped out frequently - may have been just mine though but it was hard wired in - sound quality without a DAC is pretty poor too.
As I described above the Playmaker has 3 'ports' = AirPlay, DLNA and line-in.
It is a device that you stream to from an external device (iDevice, tablet, pc.....) or start the device connected to the A-aux-in (could be a turntable...) manually.
If you have it connected to the converter, you - of course - will have to assign a source button for the A-aux-in (of the converter) in the webinterface of the converter. Otherweise you would not be able to get access to the Playmaker in your setup/from the linkrooms etc.
N.Music is a command, that you use to access music e.g. on the BS/BM5.
You could also say: changing track, playlist... must be done on your iDevice, tablet, pc... - the Playmaker just plays, what is thrown at it/streamed to it.
Everyone is hoping for the coming BS Moment to be that device!