The AK Connect is a DLNA-based Control APP.
Can play back music data on NAS and PC from the AK products with the AK Connect.
Also, you can enjoy streaming service such as TIDAL and so on. (Streaming service will be available soon.)
In addition to the network connection with the AK Connect, music playback control and playlist editing are also available.
For a description of the main menu as follows:
Player: You can operate the currently playing song by the Next / Previous / Play / Stop / Volume.
NowPlay: Shows a list of the currently playing song.
Playlist: You can easily set, select, and change the list of music you want to listen.
Library: You can select the device where the song you want to play is stored.
Speaker: You can select the device to output the sound
Compatible with DLNA and UPnP
Streaming music from DLNA devices to DLNA playback devices.
AK Connect 2.0 provides the better User Interface that previous version.
DLNA APP for Astell&Kern devices
Developed by IRIVER Limited
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Too long to connect
I have an iphone 14 pro and it took the akconnect app 10mins to connect/find my SR25 using personal hotspot, i wish they could implement Bluetooth connection in the akconnnect app, and the akconnect app unpaired my SR25 because it took too long to sync all my music in the AK app i have over 13k songs and maybe the processing of the app couldn’t take it, I just want to play all songs from my SR25. when i select a song and play it, and after the song finishes, it doesn't shuffle next to another song it just stops. And when I try to play all songs it only selects the ones that has processed already, it only selected 630 songs to play. Im not sure whats the purpose of the long processing in the ak app does.
I just wanna,
Leave my SR25 connected to my speaker, when there’s a music that came up that I don’t like or it doesn’t suit the vibe i could just open the ak app, and just press next or select a music i like and still continues to shuffle all my 13k songs.
My smart lightbulb app does way a better job, i go to bed, forget to turn off my lights across the room, open the lightbulb app, presses the off button and voila! The light turns off!. It does that in less than 10 seconds.
Very disappointing
Hard to connect to SR15 - drops connection when I get a phone call. Then it's painful to reconnect.
SP2000
The free app for my 2nd $3000 music player isn’t working. Thanks guys. This is my 5th AK player and 2nd of your top of the line model players. There are some things you guys should make sure is working.
Terrible company
Terrible company, a host of their physical devices stopped supporting streaming services, and their workaround, which is this AK Connect app doesn’t work at all. Even 12 year olds write better apps.
No idea how this archaic one trick pony company survived. All they do is pack powerful DAs and amps into bricks that have abysmal battery life. They have absolutely no clue on how modern application programming works. User friendliness is at the floppy disk level.
Slow playback
When I play a song, it takes few seconds to start and it makes the Play Next / Play Previous function so painful. Please fix. Anything other than that is just fine.
Total Waste
Did not connect properly. Tidal does not work. It is an unsupported app. Don’t waste your time.
So far the only usable and bug free DLNA control point on iOS
I’ve tried multiple DLNA apps on iOS including VLC and mconnect, non of them could handle play from upnp server to renderer bug free. This is the only one that works flawlessly including background progress syncing and playlist. Also the UI is pretty usable, so I give it a five star.
So broken
Can’t even play songs in my library, it just crashes when a song is added to the playlist and I pressed the next song button.
Work ok but few issues to be fixed
All feature was working ok. However, there are a few things that need to be improved.
1. Gapless playing is not working properly.
2. If the app from ipad was closed the music stop playing. Also, it happened when ipad was get into sleep mode.
Make my AK is more portable with control from iphone
This apps matches what i need to switch songs while using AK Sp1000m with speaker. I can just change songs, select songs from Iphone, quite handy.
It is good if you have music sever in computer then can play through AK to speaker.
Require the update for Tidal login within the Apps AK connect. I can’t login to my Tidal account, probably due to upgrade from Tidal login credentials.
Regards,
Blue
