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Thank you … still trying to find them!

their folder on various backup devices is empty !

did Linn mark them as “do not copy” … or give them expiry dates ? And are those options even possibilities ?

truly strange

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Thanks again – wise words – sage advice.

I will capture the results of some testing from yesterday:

1. memory sticks work; however my current inventory was of only small capacity units
2. so I bought new portable usb drives … and then discovered the FAT32 limitation … so I had to partition the drive to get the “right” size for FAT32 formatting to then get recognised by the Horizon’s Android operating system … not cost effective, and possibly difficult people to navigate across three to four logical drives on one physical drive … so I abandoned the hard wired approach
3. therefore I resurrected my PLEX system from 10+ years ago, when I got our first BV (an 8-32) and I was using my 1st MacBook (later the 1st MacMini) as a media centre
4. amazingly on the Apple side it still worked (even without bringing the software) …and the MacMini’s PLEX server popped on the HomeMedia menu 🙂
5. I then upgrade the PLEX software (heart in mouth in case something broke … it all worked fine)
6. the PLEX directory access leaves much to be desired (in my opinion) … see the screenshots … and whilst some files a playable, so were not (see list below)
7. at first (prior to writing this!) the big issue was the Horizon’s access of the video portion times out after about 2 minutes … however the audio keeps coming through … I then found (while taking the attached screenshots) that the timeout happened on the builtin menus too!
8. so I dug around the Horizon’s settings and found thetimeout (now adjusted) and the wake-up from WLAN (the lack of which (from the B&O iPhone App) had started to irritate me me)
9. so as of now we have a happy me and more importantly a happy wife

As an aside, most of the media on the PLEX system is either ripped from our DVD collection, or downloaded … from memory the .flv format is from the era when I was downloading (YouTube?) content … and is not playable of the Horizon.

I seem to have misplaced some of my Plex music files from the Linn annual playlists (old forum members may recall be publishing those announcements and their legal download access areas) … they are in the PLEX meta-data catalogue but not on the MacMini’s HD nor the my archived HD … from memory they are in ALAC format, and I hope that is supported once I find those files!

The list of formats that do work are:

.avi

.m4a

.m4v

.mkv

.mov

.mp4

Over and out for now as I have a commercial project to completed … so no B&O games for some weeks.

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Today saw the arrival of our replacement… a BeoVision Horizon… and the departure of the BV8 …

 

And MM was correct, after Jonathan worked his integration magic, we have an even better multi-room experience.

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Thanks Peter !
You’ve got mail.

Thank you MM … that was the direction I was leaning, however Peter’s suggestion is interesting.

I need to dig into some manuals 🙂

Ed

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Many thanks Lee et al

I am one who did drift away, however I kept up my annual payment because the world deserves BeoWorld.

Sadly my passion has declined with B&O’s market shifts … however we did recently purchase a BeoSound 3200 … and my wife loves it … and uses it almost daily.

So I continue to love this site, the passion you all have, the dedication of Lee, Peter, Keith, and so many others.

And I did win two prizes, and I re-donated them as it did not make sense to have them shipped to the other side of the world.

It was never the prizes.

It was the friendship.

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Good to see that emoji abbreviations are being picked up … no need for funny codes anymore ? Not sure I can remember them anyway … was :B: beer or sunglasses

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Disappointing that there was an “unsubscribe” hopefully they are just declining the opportunity to test (this is my first comment, and so my 1st test 😀 )

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Image drag & drop for Firefox … <== .png; the larger image was .jpg

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All preivous comments were from my Monterey (12.2.1) MacBook Chrome browser (safari does not work, and Keith knows this, and I will later test from other Macs).

This is a test to see how Firefox on Mac goes with updates.

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