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BeoPlayer: An iPhone Application by Bang & Olufsen

Charles-Edouard Carrier — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:19:51 +0000

Bang & Olufsen is launching a new iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch app that is free. The BeoPlayer application is perfect for fans of Bang & Olufsen systems. Now available on iTunes, this application is essential for getting the most out of your Bang & Olufsen system.

The BeoPlayer application gives you access to 20 Internet radio stations from around the world. An elegant clock is also programmed into this perfect complement to all BeoSound components. This way, once the alarm is scheduled, it will wake you to the sound of one of the radio stations or one of your music files, all from the BeoSound.

Here is the list of Internet stations that are available for free:

Radio100 Soft - Denmark?Radio 100FM - Denmark?SWR3 - Germany?Klassik Radio - Germany?Antenne Bayern - Germany?France Inter - France?France Info - France?RTL - France?Cool FM - Great Britain?Kiss Kiss Napoli - Italy?Latino FM - Spain?Radio Svizzera Classica - Switzerland?AVRO Steenen Tijdperk Fifties - The Netherlands?AVRO Baroque around the Clock - The Netherlands?Absolute Radio - United Kingdom?Absolute Radio Classic Rock - United Kingdom?Digitally Imported Chillout - United States?977 The Hitz - United States?Soma FM Groove Salad - United States?Afterhours DJs - United States

To download the BeoPlayer for free, visit iTunes: BeoPlayer on iTunes. People who don’t have Bang & Olufsen components can still download the application and enjoy access to radio stations and alarm-clocks.

Digitized Album Artwork

Charles-Edouard Carrier — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:32:18 +0000

Earlier this week we were talking about Bang & Olufsen’s BeoMaster 5, a 500 GB hard drive that can store your entire media library. To access the music content of the BeoMaster 5, the BeoSound 5 is the tool of choice. With the accompanying booklet, photographs and information about the artist, you will feel like your holding the album cover in your hands.

There was a time when showing off your collection of LPs or CDs was very trendy. Today, the idea is to design electronic devices that blend into the decor of your living room. Discretion and aesthetics are becoming the rule. Keeping stacks of CDs below your flat screen is no longer practical.

In the digital era, Bang & Olufsen offers a component that doesn’t sacrifice the sound quality or visual appearance of what a hard drive can offer. The elegant cylindrical navigation control of the BeoSound 5 can browse your collection stored in the BeoMaster 5, and the high-resolution screen will give new life to your album artwork.

The BeoSound 5 supports WMA files. The WMA format is superior to MP3 because it requires less compression, but the file is much larger. The MOTS function (More of the Same) searches tirelessly through your music library and analyzes songs: tones, rhythms, vocal harmonies, frequencies, etc. and builds logical playlists from the search results.

Tomorrow we will talk about the BeoVision television series, which can also be connected to the BeoMaster.

For more information, visit the Bang & Olufsen website.

Photo source: BeoUniverse.com

Bang & Olufsen doesn’t make mere products, they make icons.

Jean-François Gagnon — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:52:27 +0000

We mentioned in an earlier post that we at Fillion have decided to dedicate an entire room to demonstrate products from the company Bang & Olufsen. But let me say that this company is in the business of much more than just selling products. They’re first and foremost designers who develop truly iconic pieces! The company has existed since 1925 and has no reason to be envious of the big boys. An example? Take for instance, the Beosound 9000 6 CD Player that came out in the early 90s. Truly a masterpiece of design and technology. Whether it’s mounted vertically or horizontally, lying flat or hung, you get to choose how best to position this audio system with its 6 separately playable CDs. It allows you to personalize your selection of favourite music or to assign a particular style of music to each compartment. Just one touch allows you change from one CD to another in an amount of time that’s no longer than the normal interval between tracks. I don’t know of too many products out there that are selling with just as much enthusiasm now as they did when they first came out 15 years ago. The Beosound 9000 is one of those products because Bang & Olufsen have a passion for creating icons that stand the test of time. The designers at B&O are at the heart of research and development – the engineers only intervene afterwards and are required to “fit” the technology around the design. In the end, what the customer gets is a absolute work of art, no less. Does this remind you of another company? Apple, perhaps? I think that there are definitely parallels to be drawn between Apple and Bang & Olufsen, as both companies have the same love of design and are often the first to come out with products that spark emotion, elicit everyone’s interest, and sometimes even, provoke debate. Is it worth it to pay more because something’s beautiful? Umm, it’s not just beautiful, these products immerse you in a complete sensory experience. Just a little acknowledgement in passing… The ubiquitous “wheel” that appears on the iPod and that revolutionized forever the way we intuitively search for and select music, was actually first invented in the 1970s by Bang & Olufsen. To be precise, it was invented in 1974 with the release of the Beomaster 6000, designed by Jacob Jensen. Having whet your palette, I’ll be going into a new icon from Bang & Olufsen, released worldwide and already on display at Fillion… But that will be in another post!

For more information on the history of Bang & Olufsen up to the present day, feel free to consult this site.