StreamMagic by Cambridge Audio User Reviews

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Good device shame about the app

The app refuses to show my purchases in Qobuz most of the time
When they do appear I get a forbidden error when I select one to view tracks
Thankfully Qobuz connect works seamlessly and the app does play my local files
Hopefully things will improve over time as the device itself is very good and sounds amazing through my quad amp
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Great App but Recent Stations are once more inert after 3.2.2

I love the app and especially (recently) the ability to tap a Recent Station to select it. Sadly, with the advent of this latest release, that facility has disappeared. Can you please reinstate it?

App support and quality

Once you get used to it, it’s a great service. Easy to push liked songs (favourites) to queue, easy to add songs, great sound quality. The customer support from Cambridge Audio is second to none. Highly recommended the company.

Latest app update

After several years of successful use, yesterday's app update has stopped both of my iPads from being able to find my CXN V2 - even when I tell them the IP address. Operation by remote control still fine but now I'm limited to accessing 8 presets!

Update - not had this issue previously but total power down and restart of the CXN solved my problem. I'm happy again!
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Stream magic isn’t…

I enjoyed using this app until I had to change my router. Both CXNv2 and Stream Magic show up as connected to the hub but the app will not “find” the CXN. If I could reconnect I would give 5 stars.

Now bugging every kitten is session

Impossible to connect to my cxn v2, to listen to quobuz, deezer etc. Each new version is introducing new bugs. Listening to music has become a nightmare, rebooting everything from internet box to Cambridge app, cxn, at every session!! Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I’m really fed up !

Utter junk

Utter junk, there is no way to add a full album to the queue (listening from NAS), so you have to listen a song and then manually add and play another song and so on. Android app is way better, IOS version is a total junk…

Add playlist in the app

The hardware is very good, however, the app is bad! Need to be able to create a playlist. Nothing more frustrating than to browse through the whole library, select a song to be added to the queue in almost random order. The new added song gets added to the last song played on the queue. Ahhh! Can’t rearrange queue. This app has been around for 13 years and yet come up short. All of the music app that I know has a basic playlist capability. This app is holding back the hardware.
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Response from developer

Thank you for sharing your feedback - we really appreciate it. Playlists can currently be saved as Presets in the app; however, we understand this may not provide the experience you were expecting. Your feedback has been shared with our Product team, and we’re actively exploring ways to improve playlist and queue management in future updates. We hope to better meet your expectations going forward. Cambridge Audio

Unable to use with AirPlay

I followed the Cambridge Audio instructions carefully. My iPhone will not connect the device (MN 10) to my WiFi network, which has a strong signal and is working fine.
Long looking at a spinning wheel has wearied me.
Without Airplay, the hardware is of little use to me.
Lesson learned. No more.

Great App

I’ve got a CA Edge NQ preamp and StreamMagic works brilliantly. I’ve no complaints. Used it for over 3 years and have found it to be bulletproof

Does not work with my music accounts

Now impossible to connect to my qobuz account, or deezer, or tidal , etc

Need to invest much more in user interface

Occasionally this app stops working, meaning you click on your streaming provider (Qobuz in my case) and nothing happens. No error. No anything. Just no music and then you go on a loop of restating the MXN10, restarting the app. Etc. Casting from the phone to the MXN10 always seems unstable.

Cambridge Audio needs to display the status of their infrastructure in a page in the app and in their website. Their hardware is good but seriously worried in a commitment to software.
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Singles, EPs, Compilations and Remixes

So it works really well, apart from one niggle, which is my Albums served by my DLNA server (Plex) when looking by artist, get excluded from that view if they are any of the above types. They can still be found if searching by album name, would love it if they could be included in the artist search results.
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Can’t play qobuz connect on my new EXN 100. Lame.

It’s there. It shows. It doesn’t connect. Upsetting. Need to return the device and get one that isn’t glitchy. Maybe from bluesound.

Streaming

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Substantial UI improvements

I had previously complained to CA about the UI on the app. It gave priority to their notifications/updates etc and made common actions require a downward scroll. Recent updates have greatly cleaned this up perfectly and selecting sources or stations are simple and prominent. Nice work! CD art coming through is a nice touch too.
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Lousy connection

My phone can connect to the CXN2 using Apple play easily but the CA app simply can’t find the player.

Version 4.00 problems

I’ve been using my Cambridge audio evo 75 for over a year now but since the stream magic app update last week it’s 50/50 if my iPhone or iPad will connect, just constant searching for product. What’s even more annoying is I can’t still see it on airplay. What’s the point of an app if you can’t connect it to your streamer?
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Terrible

Terrible app with many many bugs and updated manuals. Terribly made for a $2000 speaker

Does what it says on the tin

Can’t fault it. Does what I need.