3.25 out of 5
20 ratings in United Kingdom
I’ve been looking for an app to use with my Yamaha MusicCast kit that works better then MusicCast for ages. This does everything I need, allows me to control my kit, allows me to easily add individual tracks to a queue, allows me to search my media. Superb!
Since the latest update I can no longer use the search track option to go back and forward. A real shame as I would happily pay for this app.
Have purchased a LUMIN streamer after struggling with other streamers. Now I cannot even play any songs without the system totally crashing. Over twenty thousand on my setup and I now prefer Alexa that’s in the kitchen. Stleast I can get to the end of a song without it crashing… honestly can’t quite believe it
The ability to view Qobuz album booklets from within the app is a game-changer for me, and makes an already good app indispensable.
New iPhone and having used Auralic which is stable. This app works for a while then switch to it and it loses the lumin m1. Restart the app and it doesn’t find the lumin. Seems very unstable. Lumin please debug and fix before making new features. My network is rock solid with Auralic.
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!
LUMIN is fab! After a long search finally I've found a quick, responsive MPD application that's simple to use and easy to navigate. It finds all my album artwork (most similar systems fail badly here). I'm using it with a Raspberry Pi/HiFi Berry setup running Moode software into an Arcam D33 DAC where it finds all networked music via Minim Server on a QNAP NAS and displays my preferred internet radio stations. FINALLY streaming seems far less of a faff and something actually easily useable by the whole family.
...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.
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.
Unequivocally the best control point available but it consumes far too much storage on my iPad where space is already very low, and it's always growing. It needs the ability to regularly clear the cache and possibly set a max limit on storage usage. My only other suggestion would be the ability to create random playlists based on genre or artist to allow genre/artist based radio within our own media server collections.
