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Re: Testing the new version 4.65 of Beoport

wogga383 — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:50:00 GMT

Hi Keith, i have got beoport working nicely on XP Pro, what parameters are being changed in vista to enable beoport to work? i always assumed the main problem was with the usb drivers?

Regards

Pete

Re: Testing the new version 4.65 of Beoport

Keith Saunders — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:00:39 GMT

Officially, that's has always been B&O's statement.

However, many members have still tried it with Vista and got it working subject to changing some parameters in Windows Vista

Re: Testing the new version 4.65 of Beoport

MikaelB — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:50:38 GMT

Hi Guys!

I have recently contacted B&O customer support regarding USB problems installing version 4.65 on my Vista.

They got back ad told me that they will release a version this spring that supports Vista. Current version does not support Vista.

/MikaelB

Re: Testing the new version 4.65 of Beoport

Keith Saunders — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:58:36 GMT

Pete,

Frankly, I have not had time to complete the tests on all configurations, but I have managed to get it to run correctly under two Vista configurations provided you switch off several Vista facilities which effectively then makes it look like Windows XP to the program.

Re: Testing the new version 4.65 of Beoport

wogga383 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:27:53 GMT

Hi Keith any conclusions? in your trial you said you were trying Vista 32bit, did it work? Forum seems to say no go with Vista.

Keep up the good work!

Rgds

Pete

Re: Testing the new version 4.65 of Beoport

David — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:21:31 GMT

Hi,

Have any of our Beoport users managed to access itunes via pc?

Cheers,

David.

Re: Testing the new version 4.65 of Beoport

Yendys — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:03:52 GMT

My experience on XP SP2

Un-installed BS2

Disconnected USB cable

Restarted PC

Un-installed BeoPort (4.61)

Disconnected its USB cable

Restarted PC

Installed BeoPort 4.65

Replaced USB cable when asked by the installation program

Installed BS2

Replaced USB cable when asked by the installation program

Results:

Both installation went with our any issues

Lost all playlists (N.Music and for portable players) which is a BIG pain!

No album cover at all, none!

Other than that it seems to be behaving its self, will use and report back in a few days as I’m a little shocked that it worked. Had to replace 2 x Beoport black boxes as a previous upgrade rendered them in operable….

Re: Testing the new version 4.65 of Beoport

Razlaw — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:47:27 GMT

I upgraded to 4.65 and album covers seemed to all appear. Netradio however did not work. After uninstalling and reinstalling many times I finally traced the problem to an unused antivirus program which I have now deleted. I am now reinstalling CDs and all covers are appearing with the exception of a CD of Bach organ music. Instead of the cover I received a display asking me to submit info on the CD to add it to the database.

Re: Testing the new version 4.65 of Beoport

atm — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:21:05 GMT

Dear Gavin,

thanks for the advice - tested it and it works perfectly. Regarding the N-Radio issues I'm still stuck at square on. Have tried to install BP4.65 several times but it doesn't work. Just don't get it as I didn't orignally change anything in my set-up and N-RADIO just stopped working by itself.

thankful for any advice

regards //anders

Re: Testing the new version 4.65 of Beoport

Rolf — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:49:34 GMT

I upgraded to 4.65 the day before yesterday but will probably have to downgrade again based on the following problem.

Since the upgrade my timer setting activating N-RADIO each morning in my link rooms has stopped working. The Timer setting is set in my BV5 as the master and the timer set activated in my bathrooms via BL3500s and in the Diningroom via my BeoSound4.

Since the upgrade the timer is no longer activating and I would almost suspect that there is a massive disturbance on the MasterLink as both the BV5 and BS4 are totally uncontrollable (frozen) until I unplug the ML from the Beoport unit and power recycle the BS4.

Once this is done and the Beoport is again connected and the Beoport application is restarted the system works as normal i.e. N-RADIO, N-MUSIC can be selected from any of the link rooms.

Note that on the PC locally N-RADIO works even though the other link devices are "frozen". This behaviour only seems to be triggered by the timer setting. The PC and attached loudspeaker are by the way not set to activate on timer.

Any ideas or is a rollback the only option.

Kind regards Rolf

Re: Testing the new version 4.65 of Beoport

Rolf — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:49:23 GMT

Duplicate

Re: Testing the new version 4.65 of Beoport

Gavin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:09:12 GMT

Hi anders, I missed this too to begin with, there is a config option within setup that controls random playback either within a single group or across all groups, so it's not a bug but a new "feature"!

Gavin

Re: Testing the new version 4.65 of Beoport

atm — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:36:45 GMT

Hello all,

I downloaded and installed 4.65 the other day and everything including albums worked fine (on XP). There seems however to be a bug in the random function. Instead of playing random songs within a playlist, it plays random songs within all my playlists, which kind of kills the whole point of a play list for me.

Has anyone else discovered this issue?

regards //anders

Re: Testing the new version 4.65 of Beoport

Keith Saunders — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:06:30 GMT

During my testing I have observed the following symptoms related to "Album Covers" and I would be pleased to received feedback on this thread of your observations.

Having tested Beoport version 4.65 on 4 PC's so far both as "clean" installs, in other words Beoport was not previously installed on the PC or as an upgrade I have noted the following points:-

If music files exist in your "My Music" folder prior to installation, then after installation either no album covers are downloaded or just a few and the ones that did not get downloaded previously do not subsequently get updated.
When you copy a CD from PC CD it seems to always run the downloader for the cover, but never checks for other missing covers
If you add music files AFTER Beoport has been installed it seems to download the covers every time correctly.

So, the observations so far are that if you are a new user of Beoport and you do not have any music albums on your PC yet, the new version will work perfectly for you. If you already have a copy of Beoport on your PC with Music files or you already have music files on your PC before Beoport is installed you will get verious results with regards to the Album covers, how many are downloaded, or if any are downloaded at all.

Please provide your feedback of Beoport Version 4.65 in terms of "Album Covers" only

Re: Testing the new version 4.65 of Beoport

Jandyt — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:38:24 GMT

Funny that you should ask Keith.
After my scan, just a few covers turned up but every time I click on NMUSIC, more keep turning up!