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New BluOS Controller with Enhanced UI Now Available for Bluesound

Pickering, Ontario March 22, 2016Bluesound, a leading manufacturer of wireless hi-res music systems, has announced BluOS 2.0, an exciting new upgrade for BluOS-enabled wireless hi-res music systems. The release also includes a major update to its mobile controller apps for iOS and Android. BluOS Controller, version 2.0, is Bluesound’s first phase in a fresh new user experience and features an enhanced interface, new improved playlist and playback logic, additional Player functionality, widgets, and support for Apple Watch. The new BluOS Controller is free and available now on the Apple App Store and Google Play.

Developed for Bluesound and sister company NAD Electronics, today’s re-designed BluOS Controller app is built to be a universal “one-app” solution for all BluOS-enabled wireless hi-res music systems. The updated app revamps the music experience and now features: 

  • Better Music Access: A new search engine allows users to browse networked music

collections, and select custom playlists and favorites stored in a local library, on a mobile device, or streaming music service with quick on-demand access to enhanced browsing functions.

  • SmartPlay Playlist Creation: A faster and easier way to queue up music, enabling users to instantly add and listen to tracks without limitations, while the rest of the album or playlist is auto-filled into the queue.
  • Assisted Player Setup: With guided in-app tutorials on startup, users can easily connect Players to a existing stereo system, powered loudspeaker or home network, and instantly start streaming and listening to music.
  • Apple Watch: BluOS Controller is now available for Apple Watch. Instantly check what’s playing, select a Player, or change the track, all from your wrist. 
  • Controller Widget: Access Player presets and control music playback at a glance with a single swipe, without ever launching the app. 

TThe new BluOS firmware, version 2.0, also includes Radio Paradise® integration on Bluesound. This gives Internet radio fans on Bluesound commercial-free access to a blend of music genres, carefully selected by real music fans with streams up to 320kbps. New BluOS Controller apps for Windows and Mac OS X desktops are also available at bluesound.com/downloads..

“At Bluesound, we’re committed to delivering the most intuitive, interactive and immersive music experience for BluOS users,” said John Banks, Bluesound’s Chief Brand Officer. “This is a major enhancement, and we’re confident that our new design and feature updates will connect BluOS users more deeply with their music than ever before.                               

CCombining advanced digital technologies and striking design with radical new thinking, Bluesound products have created an exciting audio revolution that appeals to a wide demographic audience. Bluesound is a smart music system of audiophile-grade wireless speakers and digital players, that allow you to stsream music from a library stored on your home network and many online streaming services, to any room in your home with the intuitive control of a full-featured smartphone, tablet and desktop app.

BluOS users are asked to upgrade to BluOS firmware version 2.0.0 or higher starting today in order to download the new apps. Download BluOS Apps and firmware updates at bluesound.com/downloads

AAbout BluOS

BluOS is an advanced operating system and music management software, that allows you to access and stream lossless music up to 24-bit/192kHz to every room using your home network. Find music anywhere on a home network, cloud music service or Internet radio station, and share it with any BluOS-enabled music system in your home. This powerful software, developed together with the most advanced audio technologies from NAD Electronics and Bluesound, also allows custom integrators to connect, manage and control networked music in a connected home with support for 3rd party control systems. 

About Bluesound

An alliance of audiophiles. We are the designers, engineers and individuals who have spent our lives in the music industry. Our founders helped pioneer HiFi in the 70s – innovation and the pursuit of perfection in audio runs deep in our collective DNA. Bluesound’s sole mission is to create innovative wireless audio products and technologies that allow for the most true-to-live performance music reproduction possible, utilizing the most advanced, state-of-the-art digital technology.

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