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Re: Beosound 8 is dumb

Karel Uyttendaele — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:41:38 GMT

trustedreviews.com has done an in depth review of the BeoSound 8 and has given, mostly to my surprise, an overall 8/10.

Here's the writedown: http://www.trustedreviews.com/mp3/review/2011/01/28/Bang---Olufsen-BeoSound-8/p1

Re: Beosound 8 is dumb

Henry — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 03:14:15 GMT

Raeuber:
For going to sleep to music from the IPod use the CLOCK app and for waking up from the radio use the radio app.

If you mean do this using the Beoplayer app, the radio stations are too limited and there isn't one I'd want to wake up to.

Re: Beosound 8 is dumb

Raeuber — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:44:39 GMT

For going to sleep to music from the IPod use the CLOCK app and for waking up from the radio use the radio app.

Re: Beosound 8 is dumb

Henry — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:55:17 GMT

A lot of interesting debate that confirms my experience. The Beosound 8 is a superb iPod dock but is no more than a pair of speakers and amplifier that requires an intelligent iPad/iPod app in order to do all I want from it. I can set the sleep timer on the radio station I want to wake up to, but I can't go to sleep to music from the iPod and wake up to the radio. I've tried all the radio apps recommended in this thread, to no avail.

Re: Beosound 8 is dumb

Raeuber — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:35:07 GMT

Or search for Radio.fx in Apple's App Store.

/Räuber

Re: Beosound 8 is dumb

The Plumber — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:29:32 GMT

Henry:
The Beosound 8 is a wonderful iPod/iPad dock but regrettably is totally dumb and reliant on a decent app on the iDevice that you use. The Beoplayer app is totally useless having so few UK radio stations. Any one country gets no more than three or four stations as there are only 20. How much does it cost, or how difficult can it be to add a wide range of stations but there is still no upgraded version available?

I've not found, despite purchasing a good few, a radio app that will allow me to go to sleep on a timer playing music from the iPod player and then wake up to a radio station set with the alarm function. It just doesn't work.

Does anyone know of an app that can do this?

Here you go Henry, try this app http://www.tunein-radio.com/index.html

Re: Beosound 8 is dumb

beopaul — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:42:14 GMT

Karel, I'm not saying add a music player interface. That would indeed be silly. I, and presumably Chris, are talking about music information shown for streaming internet radio music. When I listen to Absolute Radio on my computer through iTunes, it shows the song title, album and artist, which is really helpful if it's something I haven't heard before. On the other hand, when playing this through BeoPlayer on my iPhone, I get none of this data. Many internet radio stations include this info in the data stream, and as you can see from the AccuRadio screen snap earlier in this thread, this feature is present in other apps.

Re: Beosound 8 is dumb

Karel Uyttendaele — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:41:13 GMT

BeoPaul... why would you add an music player interface in BeoPlayer when you have an iPod function in very iPhone/iPod Touch? If you want to play your music files start the iPod. Want to listen to the radio? Start the BeoPlayer.

Both can be controlled with the remote. So I don't see the problem.

Let's be honest.. If B&O would add such an option in the BeoPlayer app then everyone would argue that this function already exists on their iPhone/iPod Touch... and that B&O did a lousy job implementing it.

Re: Beosound 8 is dumb

beopaul — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:59:40 GMT

No, Chris is right. These internet radio stations broadcast song infomation that iTunes and other software can display. I too find the lack of this info in the BeoPlayer app annoying. B&O could certainly add this via an update however.

Re: Beosound 8 is dumb

soundproof — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:53:23 GMT

Exactly.

Re: Beosound 8 is dumb

Karel Uyttendaele — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:31:54 GMT

If my memory serves me right.. then the App is intended for tuning into radio stations and the clock functions... nothing more.

If you want to see track/artist/album name.. then just use the iPod function on your iPhone when it's docked into the BeoSound 8! Why would B&O re-invent the wheel if there's already a way of displaying all the info? And.. it's controllable with the remote.

Re: Beosound 8 is dumb

Chrisreunion — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:37:01 GMT

For me, one of the major weaknesses of the BeoPlayer app for Idevices is that , as for all other B&O-based softwares, it doesn't show any information about track, artist and album names, unlike the free BMLink with BeoPort or even the almost-free Linkplayer..So I don't think I will purchase the new app, even if it has a wide choice of stations.

Re: Beosound 8 is dumb

redfresnel — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:31:03 GMT

bayerische:

redfresnel:

bayerische:

jc:

Isn't internet-radio-listening by an iPhone limited by the "fair use policy" of your telecom provider?

And listening radio wit an iPod is not possible at all, or am I missing something?

There's no frequency tuned radio in the iPhone, iPad or iPod , that's right, only internet radio. I guess there's radio add-ons available...? Not sure if they will work with a dock though.

5th gen iPods and iPod Nanos with SW ver. 1.1. have FM tuner. Again this is off the original topic () and this radio cannot be used with BS8 but i think this is what you meant with frequency tuned radio?

Just saw that, wasn't aware! Are you sure the iPod classic I presume you mean has FM? I saw it only mentioned on the Nano...?

Hmmm...Maybe i misunderstood something from the Apple site and maybe then the FM tuner for other models is only with the external Radio Remote, not sure...Atleast on Nano it's integrated, that i physically confirmed this morning.

Re: Beosound 8 is dumb

soundproof — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:41:12 GMT

You can place your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch in the dock on the BeoSound 8, and use WiFi to access a service such as that of AccuRadio. And then you are streaming content to the speakers.

Re: Beosound 8 is dumb

bayerische — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:12:28 GMT

redfresnel:

bayerische:

jc:

Isn't internet-radio-listening by an iPhone limited by the "fair use policy" of your telecom provider?

And listening radio wit an iPod is not possible at all, or am I missing something?

There's no frequency tuned radio in the iPhone, iPad or iPod , that's right, only internet radio. I guess there's radio add-ons available...? Not sure if they will work with a dock though.

5th gen iPods and iPod Nanos with SW ver. 1.1. have FM tuner. Again this is off the original topic () and this radio cannot be used with BS8 but i think this is what you meant with frequency tuned radio?

Just saw that, wasn't aware! Are you sure the iPod classic I presume you mean has FM? I saw it only mentioned on the Nano...?