Thread: Lumin Android app 4.0

hello all,
a brand new user of Lumin U1-Mini here and not aware of this forum,
i just fired off a not-so-enthusiastic email to Lumin outlining the following issues after just 1 week of usage:

1) upon resuming from inactivity, now-playing is not in synch
with actual music that is playing on u1-mini. this is the case nearly always.
i have experimented with android app setting: optimized for battery.
and it seems to improve if it is set to 'not-optimized' but not 100%.

when now-playing is not in synch, the clock on the app is not ticking.

2) app running on pixel 4a/5g performs a lot better than on amazon fire-hd-10,
which is understandable since the former is both more powerful and physically smaller.
when my-favorites/album is selected, images in grid are loaded quite slowly on fire-hd-10;
so much so that there are several very-visible refreshes of the screen.
this is of course quite distracting.

i believe the images should be loaded progressively instead of all-at-once;
i.e., load only when required and what is visible on the screen.

3) certain radio stations will not play;
now-playing shows correct station info. here are two:
91.9 HD2 | WUOT-HD2
89.9 | South Carolina Public Radio

4) this bbc station causes strange behaviors:
BBC World Services UK (World News)
when selected, app jumps to Albums page of local minim server.
and app is basically non-functional.

5) sometimes when the app is started fresh (not resumed),
it does not discover the u1-mini. then, i have to stop the app and try again.

please comment on these 'cause i am surprised at the app's low quality,
especially compared to something like Tidal app on android which i stopped using due to its
lack of Connect services. i have tried Roon in the past but did not think it was worth the cost.
Spotify has its connect pretty much functional but they lack hi-fi streaming and editorial material.
so, for now, i'm counting on Lumin to either support Tidal Connect or improve its own app or both!

Originally Posted by wklie

1, 5 please kill the app and relaunch it

Please make sure you're running Android app 4.0.1

Yes, I'm running 4.0.1. and yes, that is my default solution: restart the app.
But that gets tiring...

Originally Posted by wklie

1, 5 please kill the app and relaunch it

Please make sure you're running Android app 4.0.1

hello, peter,
can you confirm or deny that stated issues are real and reproducible?
and if valid, are solutions being worked on?

well, i found the answer and it's called Linn Kazoo for android.
no learning curve, no bugs (so far), good performance even on a cheap fire-hd tablet.
it is incumbent upon Lumin to match and exceed their competitors in their app design and functionality
in order to maintain respectful reputation of hardware equipment.