Option for: led on while playing, off when not playing

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Hansroggen

• January 24, 2023 20:00
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I’d love to be able to see if my Node is playing music. Not just because it is totally logical to see if it is active, but also because I sometimes find it’s been playing for days when my amp was off. I know someone already requested this, but it’s been three years and it seems such a logical option. Thanks!

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• Official comment

  

  Mark T.

  Sr. Support Crew Member

  • February 07, 2023 14:01

  I have forwarded your feedback to our quality assurance and development team for future update consideration.
  
  Thanks for #LivingHiFi
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  krang

  • February 07, 2023 12:10

  Node/Powernode/Speakers are blinking when muted which is helpful for me.

  Still I think blinking is not ideal (it's rather disturbing when you have multiple speakers in view and they all blink at different rates) but what you suggest would be way better. Blue when actually the DAC sees music (or via whatever measure) and an previously unused color if inactive, purple?

  I also see that this will be forwarded to the product development folks. An image of said Bluesound department can be found under /dev/null

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  Hansroggen

  • February 08, 2023 17:10

  Thanks Mark!

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  Sergio Lupi

  • November 01, 2023 22:33

  Come on Bluesound, pleeeeease. 

  Sometimes I turn on my amp only to find out that the Node had been streaming the whole night.

  Really, it only takes a very little software update to change the led lighting scheme to show when the Node is playing or not. 

  It is very annoying that a 600 dollar device does not tell you if it's on or off.

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  Derek Stratton

  • November 02, 2023 06:07
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  I get around this by setting an alarm that at midnight starts a playlist that contains only one 10-second track (from the library) called "silence". In reality, any single mp3/wave/flac file will do; the lower volume the better. (It's well worth the time to learn to use Audacity).

  Every day at midnight the alarm replaces the play queue with this playlist, then (by default) stops when it is done.  Only downside (but easy to live with) is that the old play queue is lost.

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  Stefan c

  • April 08, 2024 18:51

  I agree this is one of the most annoying issues with the player. Even more annoying is though that support does not care to provide any feedback or acknowledgement of the issue. Is it a software change (future update) or hardware (future model)?

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