BluOS 4.0 spring 2023 announcement
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Quite a bit of useful information in the press release.
https://bluos.net/2023/01/bluos-announces-4-0-mobile-application-update/
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Official comment
We deeply value your feedback and appreciate your input. As a result, we have decided to reschedule the release of BluOS 4.0 to October. While our initial plan was for a spring launch, we are committed to incorporating your valuable insights in this release, resulting in the best possible version of BluOS. We aim to create a truly exceptional experience for you and are excited to deliver on that promise.
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Looks exciting but I REALLY hope that it is not just a reskin without any maintenance/upgrades/overhauls underneath...
Nothing in the press release mentioned any sort of work being done to the underlying architecture to improve responsiveness, etc., which is what I would assume is cause most of the bugs and issues which people encounter.
In any event, crossing my fingers that this will be the the answers to all of my prayers!
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10 years of BluOS, hopefully now they are willing to introduce a Shuffle function. :)
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I really hope 2 particular requested features are included:
Search not restricted to exact text string.
Option to sort albums using the Sort Album field.
These are the 2 things that the lack of currently make me struggle using the app.
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I'm hoping they finally fix the long-standing issue where the controller shows the wrong release date (and track count) for albums with the same name. Really screws things up when attempting to view an artist's albums sorted by release date!
Or that they've put some effort into handling larger artwork (like almost every other piece of music software/hardware seems to accomplish without all the extra messing around)
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Just hoping they add support for "real multiroom", without having to recreate groups... But from the article, it "just sounds like" and app redesign. But who knows.
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Here's a quick sneak peek video of BluOS 4.0. We are really excited about this.
BluOS 4.0 app offers cleaner layout and easier navigation - YouTube0 -
Mark, but is it an UI overhall only, or will there be new features as well ?
Or do we have to wait until mar/apr as the video states to find out. If the timeline holds. :)
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To bad that they only show it on iPad (I think it was iOS), I like to see it on Windows and Android as well.
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JUST MY PERSONAL OPINION.
There is nothing I find exciting in the future 4.0 release, it's mostly cosmetic, moving things around, cleaning things up, etc. I was hoping to see an easier way to manage playlists. Easily remove, rearrange, sort songs straight from the playlists itself and not have to go into the Play queue to do this. This has been a long-awaited feature/request from a lot of people on this board.
I use a Bluesound ecosystem in my home that includes, Vault 2i, B400s, a Pulse and a few battery-operated Flex's. I also have a Roon Nucleus+ and this is where Bluesound is falling behind and I was hoping it was a direction it would go in.
Last year Roon introduced Roon ARC a separate app that lets you stream you entire Roon library from your Roon, in this case my Nucleus+, to your mobile device anywhere you are. It even supports Apple Carplay & Roon recently added Android Auto for ARC. Now this is innovation. I was hoping Bluesound would be announcing something similar. I have Roon streaming from my Vault 2i to my phone connected to Apple Carplay. No need for Sirius anymore, I have all my playlists to choose from and not to mention the individual songs I now have access to. Why can't I stream my Bluesond Vault 2i library, to my iPhone or to my car? That would be a great feature and I can eliminate my Roon Nucleus+
I will still continue to invest in the Bluesound system, but it would be nice if they can move to the forefront and come out with some truly innovative features.
Just my 2 cents.
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Any chance to get into the betatesting?
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Oh no, at 2:58 of the youtube video, the narrator says, "in here, we're going to add a quality indicator."
I seriously hope it's not the same icons BlueSound has used before, but it's actually detailed info showing bit rate, bit depth and sampling rate?!
Here's my my Wiim app screenshot showing detailed info for every track, which BluOS 4.0 should have:
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Nice to hear about changes in 4.0 Would really appreciate possibility to access main function while digging deep in tunein or local library as example (without pressing "back" 5-10 times). Global search is also nice function for local library owners or multi subscriptions to different streaming services (really hope that sources will be visible in search result tab) Many thanks in advance.
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Looking forward to this update!
I really hope that this update improves the situation that Qobuz user, such as myself have to deal with, with the lack of any sorting options for your album collection with the current Qobuz api, not even maintaining correct alphabetizing.
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Any updates on this update, Bluesound team?
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Hello,
Is there release/launch date yet for 4.0?
Thanks
Ali
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+1
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Please add sort album on date descending and not only ascending
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Please also pay attention to the many, many remarks made by users in the Apple AppStore.
the current number of errors is enormous.further I’m looking forward to this update.
but what is the date? Spring is long on the way now.
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^^^
Spring in the UK runs until the 21st June so still quite a long springing left. Mind you the weather today was abysmal and more like winter here. Looking forward to the release.-2 -
On one of the YouTube videos from whatever hi-fi show v4.0 was announced at, you can hear the Bluesound representative mention "end of March, early April". That was a few months back though, and things can change at short notice when software isn't quite ready yet.
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Over 3 months since the announcement can someone give us UK users an idea of which month in 2023 please
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It is the High end show in Munich from 18 may to 21 may,and if I remember correct Bluesound celebrate 10 years in May . So maybe Blueos 4.0 is released this month .
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Well, still no release of the new bluos....what's happening over there?
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I wonder if they've realised it didn't contain any of the features that people have said they hope is in it!
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By now it seems like vaporware to me.
Just like the Dirac Live Bass Control that NAD promised 3 years ago.
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Almost summer now. Still NO BluOS 4.0….
I am getting very disappointed with this firm. Many, many errors in the current app for many years. And still no improvement. This is not a class A firm anymore.0 -
Looks like they added a cell phone GUI to the desktop screen.
There is a reason why nobody does this....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRhuia1j04Q
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With a little over 20 days left in spring and no beta testers it's very doubtful Lenbrook will be able to deliver as promised.
As it stands, a desktop GUI with 1/3 of it appearing as a cell phone GUI is not exactly innovation, more like lack of imagination. No idea why so many audio manufacturers want to reinvent the wheel when it comes to audio software GUI's.
BTW, Lenbrook is hiring a software dev...if anyone is interested.
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I'm slowly saying goodbye to Bluesound.
I will switch...BS can take an example from this...
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