Great, Simple App
It has all of your basic needs, and even some more advanced tuning features if you really want to personalize the sound. All around, it’s everything I need. Worked well getting my Beosound Stage set up, tuning is fun, switches sound profiles very well based on input. There’s just a couple things that I wish could happen:
When I airplay content, the album artwork doesn’t update with the song. It’ll display the same artwork for days at a time, then it’ll randomly update to something I’m playing, then get stuck there too. It’d be cool if this could get updated.
This is more of a personal preference and wishful thinking, but I wish loudness was a toggle within the sound profiles rather than the separate sound setting tab. I honestly wish they weren’t separate and I could tune treble, bass, and loudness for each of the profiles instead of an overall blanket setting.
When I airplay content, the album artwork doesn’t update with the song. It’ll display the same artwork for days at a time, then it’ll randomly update to something I’m playing, then get stuck there too. It’d be cool if this could get updated.
This is more of a personal preference and wishful thinking, but I wish loudness was a toggle within the sound profiles rather than the separate sound setting tab. I honestly wish they weren’t separate and I could tune treble, bass, and loudness for each of the profiles instead of an overall blanket setting.
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Solid App with a Few Quirks
Overall, I really like the Bang & Olufsen app. It’s intuitive and pairs easily with my headphones and speakers, making the experience seamless.
However, I’ve noticed a few quirks when using the app with my Tidal subscription. If I go to a playlist, unless I hit the “play” button and let it run, I can’t skip to the next song if I manually select one. It only plays that one track, which is a bit strange. I’m hoping this is something that can be addressed in future updates.
One thing I do love is that the sound quality through this app seems better and louder than when using Tidal’s own app. I’m curious why that is—does the app deliver higher sound quality or use a different frequency range? I’d love more clarity on this since I prefer using your app for that reason.
That said, I wish the app allowed me to download playlists for offline use. Since the music sounds better through your app, I’d much rather use it over Tidal’s own, but I travel frequently and don’t always have phone signal. It would be great if offline playback could be added in a future update.
All in all, I enjoy the app and just hope these issues can be resolved in future versions!
However, I’ve noticed a few quirks when using the app with my Tidal subscription. If I go to a playlist, unless I hit the “play” button and let it run, I can’t skip to the next song if I manually select one. It only plays that one track, which is a bit strange. I’m hoping this is something that can be addressed in future updates.
One thing I do love is that the sound quality through this app seems better and louder than when using Tidal’s own app. I’m curious why that is—does the app deliver higher sound quality or use a different frequency range? I’d love more clarity on this since I prefer using your app for that reason.
That said, I wish the app allowed me to download playlists for offline use. Since the music sounds better through your app, I’d much rather use it over Tidal’s own, but I travel frequently and don’t always have phone signal. It would be great if offline playback could be added in a future update.
All in all, I enjoy the app and just hope these issues can be resolved in future versions!
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Response from developer
Hi Jimmy, we're sorry to hear that your experience with the Tidal feature on the app hasn't been up to expectations and you have further questions on the sound quality as well. We would like to invite you to contact us with more details via https://www.bang-olufsen.com/en/support/contact, which we can look into the feedback and provide helpful information or assistance. Kind regards, Bang & Olufsen Customer Care
Recurrent issues
It is unreliable. It often needs re-starting. The search facility is non-existent. With many recordings it takes forever to go through the alphabet.
I would recommend against purchase.
G Howie
I would recommend against purchase.
G Howie
Response from developer
Hi Howie, we're sorry to hear that your experience with our app hasn't been up to the expectations and the app keeps crashing and needs to be restarted. We're happy to help, please send us further details on your setup and issue via https://www.bang-olufsen.com/en/support/contact, Kind regards, Bang & Olufsen Customer Care