Bowers & Wilkins Formation Flex Manual page 5

3. Using Your Formation Flex
The Basics
You can use your Formation Flex to play audio from
streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music,
and Tidal, from the Roon music library service and
from internet radio via an appropriate iRadio app.
If you have further Formation devices connected
to your network, a Formation Audio for example,
conventional audio sources connected to it will also
be available through your Formation Flex.
Spaces
Spaces are a core concept of the Formation product
family. A Formation "space" is a room or a specific
area in your home in which you listen to music.
Each space can include different combinations of
Formation products. The possible configurations are
displayed in the Diagram 4.
Playing Audio
The Bowers & Wilkins Home app enables you to
select and play any available audio source or stream.
However, in much the same way that conventional
audio source playback requires initiation through
a play command, Formation streams must be first
initiated through their own gateway app: the Spotify
app for example, or a music library app such as
Roon. Each gateway or library app will list your
Formation Flex space as an available playback
device using Airplay, Bluetooth or in the case of
Spotify, Spotify Connect.
Once audio streams are playing on the Formation
network they can be selected via the Bowers &
Wilkins Home app or via the Formation Flex top
panel Form touch button
. Touching the Form
button will cycle though the available streams and
sources.
Formation Flex Top Panel Controls
Your Formation Flex has touch buttons on its top
panel that provide play/pause control, volume
adjustment and source/stream selection.
• Touching the Play/Pause will alternately
stop and restart audio playback.
Note: Play/pause will only operate if the stream
source has play and pause functions that can
be accessed through Bluetooth or network
connections.
• Touching volume up or down
the local volume of any network stream or local
source. Pressing and holding the
buttons will continuously increase or
decrease volume.
• Touching the Form button will cycle through
and play the active streams and sources available
to the Formation Flex.
Form Button illumination
The Formation Flex Form button illumination
changes to indicate a variety of operational states.
The illuminations are displayed in Diagram 5.
TV Space configurations
Music Space configurations
will adjust
and
Diagram 4
Space configurations
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