Lumin Ap on Lumin players - not so good?


Anyone use Luman ap??

got a new luman device and find the Lumin ap as being difficult to work with.  Playlists seems to require lots of management vs Roon, Qobuz.  Also hard to figure ap out.  Seems very awkward to use.

design of ap doesnt seem to be very good.  Guidance is limited.  Very disappointed.


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tah, if your playlist is in the right hand panel of the app, you need to move it to the left hand panel. Select one track on the right, stick a finger on it until it’s highlighted. Then go to the bottom of the screen, select the icon with the ’check mark’ in it, that will highlight all your songs. then go to the bottom of the app screen again, the left icon with load your selection on top of everything previously in the lefthand panel, another loads your selection at the bottom of the lefthand panel, yet another will load your selection to the lefthand panel and erase anything else that was previously there. Play with it some. This is how my T2 works, hope your device is similar.

Hold your finger on a song for a moment, deleting it will be an option. I think in the right panel, might be both.

tah, these icons should be near the bottom of your screen. They’re only visible when you highlight (touch) a song in the right-hand panel, then you’ll see these options appear. Touch the song and lift your finger for this. If you touch it longer, you'll see other options. One that isn’t shown here is like the very bottom one, but with a ’check mark’ instead of an ’X’. It selects all songs, which is ideal for moving an entire album to the left-hand panel to play it. Have you looked at Lumin’s Online Manual? It’s not great, but you’ll be able to figure out a lot if you actually go through it while you’re using the streamer.

  • Play Now Play now: Adds selection to the bottom of the Playlist and LUMIN will skip to it and play immediately
  • Play Next Play next: Adds selection after the ’Now Playing’ song and LUMIN will play it after the current song has finished
  • Play Later Play later: Adds selection to the bottom of the Playlist
  • Play and replace Play and replace: Replaces the whole of the Playlist with the selection, and starts playing
  • Clear selection Clear selection: Deselects all songs.

 

Often, I'll use the Tidal app on my desktop machine. There are ways to save albums, etc, that will then show up in the Lumin app on my IPad. It's not too hard. I can see more stuff on the Tidal app, as opposed to looking at Tidal thru the Lumin app.

I'm actually not using Tidal connect. There was a brief period where it worked, but I haven't been able to stream directly from Tidal for quite a while. Emailed Lumin tech support, the issue is unresolved. I've come to the conclusion that the problem lies with my router, it's too convoluted to go into. I'll be going with a new ISP soon. So essentially, I'm still going with a bastardized process, find stuff I like on Tidal's app, save it to my music or favorites, and it appears on the Lumin app, where I then send it to the T2.

Just work with it a bit, read the online manual. It's better than it seems at first, the biggest shortcoming to me is an outdated poorly written manual. I'm far from an expert, but I've been pretty happy once I figured out how to send music from Tidal's desktop app to the Lumin app on my IPad, where I've organized it, so I play it from there. I think the streamer is great. The documentation is poor. The worst part, if you have issues and need help, it easy for Tidal and Lumin to point the finger elsewhere.