Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
The time had come to send our venerable Yamaha soundbar to wherever old broken soundbars go. Anyhow, I bought a new one, this model, in fact (albeit the price has gone up for Xmas - who'd believe it):
https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-an...ound-bar-with-dts-virtual-x-10215023-pdt.html
All good, connected it up (once I took the ruddy protective caps off the optical cable - how was I supposed to know?!) and away we went, connected to my old subwoompler too. A feature I really like is the ability to bluetooth my phone to it and use it to control the bar, and as a Brucey Bonus I can play BBC Sounds through it at much better fidelity than Alexa's capable of. Well it was, until it stopped being able to play the radio. Not a problem, I'll delete and re-load Sounds. Nope, no dice. I was fiddling around when I accidentally fired up some random thing called Bixby on my phone, and lo, the voice instructions on that played through the bar, so it's definitely connected. OK, let's load another Radio Player app and just check it's definitely a problem with Sounds. Guess what - no, that won't pipe through the soundbar either (both Sounds and this one play happily on my phone's speakers, by the way).
Has anyone any ideas, bright or otherwise as to why my soundbar is sulking thus?
https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-an...ound-bar-with-dts-virtual-x-10215023-pdt.html
All good, connected it up (once I took the ruddy protective caps off the optical cable - how was I supposed to know?!) and away we went, connected to my old subwoompler too. A feature I really like is the ability to bluetooth my phone to it and use it to control the bar, and as a Brucey Bonus I can play BBC Sounds through it at much better fidelity than Alexa's capable of. Well it was, until it stopped being able to play the radio. Not a problem, I'll delete and re-load Sounds. Nope, no dice. I was fiddling around when I accidentally fired up some random thing called Bixby on my phone, and lo, the voice instructions on that played through the bar, so it's definitely connected. OK, let's load another Radio Player app and just check it's definitely a problem with Sounds. Guess what - no, that won't pipe through the soundbar either (both Sounds and this one play happily on my phone's speakers, by the way).
Has anyone any ideas, bright or otherwise as to why my soundbar is sulking thus?
