Searching the music via B&O - say on the Beocenter 2 - is laborious and quite frankly a pain. Doing it on iTunes on the computer or via an iPod Touch is easy and is how I do it. Not had hands on with a BS5 and as the present model has only the music put on by B&O without the ability to add one's own collection, I see no way of finding out! If B&O would like me to try it out as a pilot, I would, as always, be happy to oblige! I do see the MOTS feature as something that would interest me - after many years of making compilation tapes for my car in the 80s, I have got a little set in my ways and find that most compilations sound a little the same. Genius on iTunes has therefore been a revelation though it has on very odd occasions highlighted music that I had not realised that I had and also not deliberately introduced (as in previous thread, the Wurzels never were a particular favourite of mine and goodness knows where that came from!)

The problem I have with the BS5 is that it is too big and fixed in one place. I want to be able to collapse into a chair, pick up a small remote, search my collection or set a playlist running. Picking a track and then having the system continue in a logical fashion seems remarkably attractive to me - but less so if I have to get up to do it! Sowing a seed is great but best done in comfort after a hard day!

The comment about having a CD slot on the BM5 is also understandable but the BM5 is actually designed to be hidden away and not visible which makes this idea less attractive. 

If I had been employed to design the BS5, (a very poor idea - I cannot draw a straight line!) I would have based it on the Beocenter 2. I would have possibly changed it a little so a slightly bigger screen could be used but would have used the volume control instead of the wheeels of the BS5 - making this multifunction - and had a high resolution screen - the same basic idea of layered control systems and laser beam could work with the beam starting from where the Stand by light is now. I would allow both audio and video playback and the DVD player in the modified BC2 would be there to both be used as a normal playback machine and also for ripping. The switch box could be enlarged and have the HDD in it, which would be bigger to accomodate video files and all would be controlled from afar by a two way Beo5. (That would be the tricky bit!)

Whilst in design mode, I would be tempted to have a new phone which could have control of the system as well though I wouldn't want it to be overly complicated. 

It looks sweet.  All my music is digital.  The day someone figures out how to hack it so that OS X and iTunes run on it, I'll get one.

Genius playlists > MOTS 

Well I haven't used MOTS yet, but I will say that Genius is by enlarge, useless for me. It never gets things right, even though my Library is very well tagged.

BS5 MOTS functionality compares over 20 variables compared to GENUS which uses at the most 4-6. Genius is not to be compared with MOTS. It is lightyears between these two.

Also BM5 offers the best sound output available for digital music.