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The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". Dims the display and moves the clock around in Standby. Improved Web UI for "phablet" sized displays. Added a tagging function for FLAC files that will allow Sonos to show the correct names and any cover art. Its very new so test on one album from the album menu first. It will be slow the first time then after that it only changes files that have been renamed or new art.
You will need to update the Sonos Library after tagging. Increase memory limits 10, albums - more storage for Classical New Youtube cache improvements. Web change only software version will show 2nd Feb. Artists in playlists were corrupted if you renamed an artist to the same name as an already existing artist name - effectively merging them.
Thanks to Chris for his patience and help and thanks to forum members for a few key observations. Play buttons in playlist panel - lets you play the playlist from any item. Menu buttons in playlist - lets you reorder and delete playlist items if you don't have drag and drop.
Guest mode track order fixed. Force desktop in settings - may help with some "phablets" - more to follow 23rd January Improved Youtube fix - for Safari and Internet Explorer. Refresh Web UI when playlist cleared.
Improved Wifi switching. Don't display channels in Youtube Search results. Aux mode - main menu replaced so new owners don't get stuck in Aux Mode. Remove invalid Network Down message. Added images to search and history. I was on holiday recently and a piece of music came to mind Procol Harum and I played it using Youtube on my laptop - its was a bit tinny on the laptop of course but I realised what a treasure trove of music Youtube has become.
Just type "youtube" into the search window and this box will magically appear. Paste the Youtube URL into the box and click start. Its very crude - for instance on some videos there is a lengthy pause at the start - but I wanted to get some feedback. There are some obvious things to do next - like keeping a history or adding the Youtubes to playlists. Let me know what you think. Martin 7th July Added menus to Artist and Album panels to make the UI more uniform and help folk who are systematically organising their music.
Added a Cleanup function in Maintenance - removes empty artists and albums. Clear album art when playing radio. Keep search results fixed after Art upload. Reload Guest Mode Playlist on power up. Guest Mode prevents you from making changes to the B2.
So you can allow friends and children to use the B2 without fear that they will delete your music or rename something. In Guest Mode you can play CDs but not load them to disk. You can optionally select a playlist and the B2 will only allow acces to the music in that playlist. So for instance if you have some music for your kids then they will only hear their music.
Guest mode also make it easier to partition different music for different family members. Once Guest mode is selected - search will only show music from the selected playlist. Guest mode is best turned on using the web UI under the settings cog menu. Thanks to Vince and others for this idea. Let me know if there are any loose ends or side effects. This is just the start - many thanks to Paul H for his help. More margin around menu button three dots in search results on mobile so its not so fiddly to rename and add to playlist.
Thanks to Brian H for this. Now if there is no phone or tablet connected this button will toggle the Bluetooth connection to a Bluetooth speaker. Basically its a quick way of reconnecting Bluetooth speakers without going through the menu. Enable through Settings panel on Web UI. Allows you to optionally play music simultaneously through wired and Bluetooth Speakers. You can control the volume, search, play and stop etc. Added to remote and rotary for Wifi passwords. Further improvements to Bluetooth.
Further work on working with screen readers. Oddly this makes Bluetooth a bit simpler because you don't have to select whether B2 is input mode or output mode. Support for difficult speakers like Taotronics is now built in so no special mode for that. Some experimental Bluetooth menu items have been removed. Album art is now displayed in now playing box - and you can paste images into the album panel heading.
So lets say you have an album by Van Morrison with no image. That image will be displayed when you play the album. You could use your own photos - it doesnt have to be the official artwork. Use small images. Some work on Vtuner panel for screen readers. Use Import to get music back. This paves the way for a simplification of Bluetooth. I'll do some more work in the months ahead. Let me have your feedback. Its slow because it has to rewrite all the music file so you wouldn't do it unless you needed.
See NAS and Sonos tab on left. Reduced delay on audio out - aux in and buttons will be less laggy. Thanks again to Keith for helping isolate this. Thanks to Pat for his blog on how to create an icon on iPhone. Also updated Playlist lengths after deletion.
Fixed a problem caused by very very long artist name on CD ripping. I think it included all the soloists, the woodwind section and some of the audience. Also Classical mode is now ignored when playling playlists.
Added the date to the standby display. Classical mode turned off when you hit next in standby - to play everything at random. Useful for setting recording level. Fixed "Rip Incomplete" message caused by bonus video tracks on some CDs. Removed snippet of sound on changing stations. Stops play at end of current album so you don't have a heart attack when Metallica follows Mahler. Accented characters displayed correctly in small text on B2 front panel.
Large text was OK. Fixed refresh after rename on Internet Explorer. Let me know of any other IE problems - though Chrome is recommended on grounds of speed and popularity. Improved presentation. Fixed infinite scroll. Removed playlists in info display. Fixed a problem with playlists when music deleted. Also if you want to experiment there is developmental new UI at Allows you to delete from Web UI. Better use of space. Will be better for touch - no need to drag and drop or double click. More to come.
Feedback welcome as usual. You could use this to backup Playlists that have taken a long time to build or even to manually create and edit playlists using a text editor. Fixed problem with deletions and new playlists. Thanks to Chris in Iowa for bringing this to my attention. Overflow on very long CDDB names fixed. New Bluetooth mode cleared when not in use. New function added to Y key - lets you restart the program - a bit like turning off and on but quicker and easier than unplugging.
This new mode will switch off the Wifi which should be plugged into USB A while music is playing to help with the problem. Fixed a problem with the Web UI causing rename to get slower and slower at every attempt if you press enter instead of OK button. Fixed handling of large playlists. NB only first items displayed - inifinite scrolling to come. Added a delete backup utility to Maintenance menu to allow you to make a fresh backup without having to delete the old on on a PC. Thanks to Pete F.
Update - the B2 Finder App is no longer available 5th May Now attaches to open wifi networks - just leave the password empty - or clear it if you have already tried a password. More space for album names - only matters if you have loaded more than 5, albums - yes there are B2 owners who have.
You can now play your B2 into Bluetooth speakers or headphones. This changes the direction of the Bluetooth. You only really need this to switch back to using Bluetooth as an input.
This puts Bluetooth into output mode and searches for Bluetooth speakers or headphones and lets you select one pairing for sending music to. You usually have to press a button on the Bluetooth device to make it discoverable.
Once pairing is complete the B2 will remember the choice and try and connect again when it is turned on again. In output mode the Bluetooth button on the B2 remote control can be used to tell B2 to reconnect to the speakers.
You might need to press this if the speakers were turned off. On some manufacturers you need to press the Bluetooth button on the speakers then on the B2 remote after they have been turned off. You can run scan again any time. It will remember your last choice. Find the sequence that works for you and let me know. If you have any difficulty with a particular brand of speaker let me know and we'll try and fix it.
At the moment Bluetooth is either input or output - it is possible to do both at the same time - but its a bit confusing. But let me know if that's something you would use. Martin 28th April You can now drag an artist into playlists. This is the start of a comprehensive rethink and enlargement of what playlists can do.
In the weeks ahead I will allow playlists to be combined, named and searched. Effectively allowing you to partition your music into subsets - that might reflect different moods, occasions or CDs belonging to different family members.
Let me know what you'd like with the feedback form. Martin 25th April Support for accented characters from online CD lookup. Capitalisation change of album names fixed. Resizing of Web UI panels to fill browser height.
Old test. It appears that 4th April version had problems in the web UI for some. Web upgrade will take you back from 4th April to 23rd March. The improvements to the Chrome extension are independent of the B2. Update 15th April - it seems possible that some owners had bookmarked the test web page as it was called and that gave rise to the problem. I have rewritten the core and it is far better. I anticipate a little more work at the B2 end to accomodate sample rate differences that can cause hiccups over a longer timeframe.
B2 now displays the title of the tab - so if you play Spotify for instance you see the track playing on B2. Added a disk standby function to stop the hard disk in standby. Fixed problem with infinite scroll when window resized or tablet rotated. Fixed pitch shift and stuttering with Chrome extension on some PCs - you should upgrade the Chrome extension to latest v0.
Thanks to Tim for his help with this. Fixed snippet of sound on changing source from radio to hard disk. Fixed playlist item delete - the trash can - on web UI - broken when rearranged for handset use.
You need to upgrade your extension to version 0. Was mono now stereo. Audio breakup on slower PCs fixed or much improved. Fixed add current track to playlist on long press mechanism broken when radio presets added. Fixed a recently introduced problem in web UI track listing. Increased the Web Search results limit to infinite.
Added play button for playlists for touch devices with no drag and drop. Album art lookup made optional to speedup ripping.
Then just click on the little letter "J" at the top right and the popup will let you direct whatever is playing to your B2. What it means is you could listen to music from Spotify or Youtube or just a sample track on Amazon and redirect it to your B2 for great sound.
Its brand new so let me know what you think. I will probably extend the capabilities once I have used it for a bit. I have it in mind to send music to multiple B2s in other rooms but let me know what you would like.
I will make this infinite when time permits. Many of you are using the Search window for general browsing as opposed to searching for specific items - so wasn't nearly enough. I've made the B2 home page responsive so the same page should work on desktop and smartphone browsers.
I've added some more buttons to make things better for touch devices - I will be adding more functionality in the weeks ahead. Please let me know what works, what doesn't work and what you would like to see. If you want to use the old web UI - direct your browser to Removed duplicate Recordings folders on SD only B2s.
Fixed problem saving playlists on SD models. Fixed a problem with renaming where only capitalisation is changed. Fixed problem adding album to playlist from Search. Fixed a problem adding albums to Playlists - thanks Ian. Fixed a side effect of yesterdays seamless work on Internet Radio. On the CD the first two tracks have 2,, and 7,, samples respectively. When played back either as WAV or FLAC with segue turned off The number of samples played back are 2,, and 7,, samples and the music is seamless and breathtaking.
FYI MP3 encodes in "frames" of samples and effectively pads the track to fill a whole number of frames. This results in a discontinuity for this kind of music. You don't hear the discontinuity if segue is on or if there is silence between the tracks. Thanks to Ricky for his help with this. The UI asks you to confirm when you switch - just press the source twice.
This typically caused display to skip through renamed music. Thanks to Ian for helping me find this. Artist window now doesn't scroll back to top when you click on an item.
Fixed some side effects of alphabetic sorting. Now records to SD card. Allowed longer to double press when selecting playlist by number. Better display of long artist and album names - now displays up to characters and scrolls faster if long.
Web Upgrade now reboots automatically. CD Play order fixed - was stuck on random. Web UI volume slider now responds to main volume knob. Filtered illegal characters from web rename. Internet Radio channel pick now picks one of ten preset channels - use Find Station or web UI to search all stations then press and hold number key to assign a preset. Artist rename will however allow you to merge two sets of albums under different artists and will remove duplicate albums. NB Drag and drop is difficult on touch based browsers because they drag the whole web page around.
Further developments in this area to follow. Greater control over track ordering - edit track number on web or from front panel. Added radio presets - press and hold a number key on the remote while radio is playing to assign the radio station to that key.
Select radio and press a number key to play that station thereafter. Fixed problem with web rename track. NB You must wait until B2 has written its track names to disk after a change before removing power. Press and hold stop key on front panel to make sure. Find them through the Web UI initially. Drag to Now Playing panel to play that station. Added simple volume control and experimental album art - to give you an idea where the Web UI is heading.
I will tune the Web UI for mobile phones later. Drag and drop into Now Playing to play. Double click Artists, Albums and Tracks to rename. Click on Artists and Albums to drill down. Click on the New Ui button on the B2 web ui. Let me know what you think - this will eventually become the main web ui. One in the Album menu to rename the artist for that album. Second in the Artist menu to globally rename an artist.
Fixed deleted album re-appearing after scan disk 24th July Added time to end of track and track number. Fixed rip bug introducd on 9th. Fixed bug in Playlist next track. Fixed a bug in Album Delete that caused tracks to be skipped - until Scan Disk was run. Work on the web UI is ongoing. Use this if you have been in communication with us or know about it from the forum. You can revert to the current released software by doing a normal web upgrade.
Bluetooth - improved pairing with Bluetooth devices. Spotify - adds Librespot software to enable streaming Spotify Premium account required to the B2.
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