LUMÏN 4+

In general all control points apps are very basic, poorly designed and flakey and are as a group undeserving of one star. The 3 stars here is relative to the following competition. I have tried many on the iPad apps - naim, linn, synolgyDs, Audionet, arcam. Lumin is perhaps the best but suffers from a cluttered design and handles play lists poorly. At present on latest software of all the components in my home streaming lumin crashes when trying to manipulate the playlists. This is an old problem with lumin it seems, which has not been properly fixed. The best feature by far is that I can vary the size of the artwork from filling the screen with one item or having many album artworks on the screen, by using the standard iPad two-finger pinch. Why all the other players prevent you doing this is a deep mystery - haven’t the developers learned how to implement this std iPad capability? iTunes remains way in design, features and stability, but cannot use it as a upnp control point which is a shame. As a final word, the whole upnp standard and related available software is itself flakey and not fit for purpose - perhaps why Apple haven’t provided this feature in iTunes.

I have used the LUMIN app for a couple of years with a couple of Linn streamers and have found it to be generally ok. Better than Linns own app but a little bit more flakey. However with the recent 6.1.13 and 14 updates a big problem has been introduced when using with an iPhone. An additional menu item has been introduced for Roon use but this simply squeezes the items in the top menu for choosing the view - song, album, composer etc. This means that the button to toggle between album and song view is masked and cannot be used. It is overlapped by the button for Radio station . This is really frustrating since one song view mode is selected it cannot be unselected. This is NOT a problem with an iPad. Please get it fixed!

...works nicely with Linn Akurate and Melco (with Akurate or to USB DAC). Good with Synology DS server and MinimServer. It would be great if booklets from MinimServer could be added.