A list of bugs in 4.4.11
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The new player BluOS 4.4.11 software appears to contain a number of bugs and I felt that I ought to share it with you.
1) The awful volume slider bug is now back in full force.
The full-width volume slider is better than its predecessor, which was too small to be usable, but the change has brought back with it the horrible V3 volume slider bug, which renders it largely unusable.
Last night, I set the volume low because it was late in the evening, and I started playing a track.
I toggled to play-pause to skip to the next track.
I toggled back and the volume slider had moved from my selected position to something much, much higher.
I tried to move it back to where it was before.
As soon as I started to move it, the Vault 2 noticed that the volume slider was set to a much higher volume than it was playing at and adjusted the playback volume to match the slider’s position.
This blasted the room with extremely high-volume music that I didn't ask for and that frightened my wife, who was upstairs.
The only way to address this was to quickly drag the volume slider down to return volume to my previously chosen setting and to then breathe a sigh of relief.
NB This bug isn't present on my Android phone or Windows 10 laptop, both of which are up-to-date BluOS-wise, but is present on my old iPhone 6S (IOS 15.8.2 BluOS Controller 4.2.3) and my 5th generation iPad iPadOS 16.7.8 BluOS Controller 4.4.0).
2) (Not a bug but a bit of a drag) The toggle feature still seems unnecessary as earlier versions of the iOS controller had everything in one display without a toggle but sized in such a way as to be very usable. Also, the toggle feature appears to be the major cause of the volume slider bug inasmuch as the volume slider setting only appears to get forgotten by BluOS when toggling away and back. Whether the setting gets lost when toggling away or when toggling back, I can’t say.
3) Song search results displayed following a simple string search no longer show albums cover images next to song titles on the iPad or iPhone.
If the string search also returns an artist, then selecting the artist leads to a song listing that does include album cover images. This string search bug is only on my Apple devices.
4) Sometimes selecting an entry from “Recent Searches” on my iPad delivers the search results for a different recent search.
I have been looking for “If Paradise” in order to find all instances of “(If Paradise Is) Half As Nice by Amen Corner so as to work out which rips are mono or stereo. I have also been looking for “Maggie” to find all instances of “I Can’t Let Maggie Go” by Honeybus for the same reason.
On one occasion, I found that selecting “If Paradise” from the Recent Searches list delivered the results for the “Maggie” search. I can’t reproduce this right now, but it did happen, and it suggests that the internal data attached to each displayed search string was for a different search string from the Recent Searches list.
5) The list of artists in the Vault’s Library (top entry of selections under Library) only shows Album Artists, i.e. it’s built up from entries in the “Album Artist” field in track metadata.
I’ve tested to prove this. I created a copy of an Ennio Morricone album and amended the Album Artist to “Fred Bloggs” using MP3tag. After re-indexing the library, Hey Presto, Fred Bloggs appears in the Artists list, even though he has no track credits on the Vault. (When I select him as the artist, I correctly get a list of Ennio Morricone tracks returned.)
As a consequence of how the Library Artist list is assembled, individual track artists on Various Artists compilation are therefore only returned by searches.
Although I don’t recall it being so, perhaps the Artists list has always been this way. If so then the title for this selection should be “Album Artists”, not “Artists”, as the latter is misleading.
That's it for now.
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Official comment
Hi Ian et al,
Thank you all for your feedback. I have forwarded them to our quality assurance and development team for future update consideration. -
are these points still valid with the new version 4.4.12?
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No idea since, to my understanding, 4.4.12 wasn't pushed out to everyone, and was certainly not pushed out to my Bluesound Vault 2.
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Nr3 also counts for Samsung phone and Tablets. Since the user interface is gone there's no option to switch back to the older version
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Using 4.4.11 here on Android phone. Music stored on Synology NAS box for years. Had the Node 2i for five years. Now in many albums classed as classical I cannot play the tracks when selecting the album icon. I can play them when clicking the three dots against the album. This suggests something wrong with 4.4.11 updated a couple of weeks ago. Before that all was fine.
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I’ve had to remind Bluesound support this bug is still outstanding. It’s been identified but three weeks later still no fix.
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