Anything, also will that enable gapless playing for live recordings etc like it does for WMA?
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Even though I own a Beosound 5, I am starting to think Apple lossless is never going to happen.
Bang and Olufsen doesn't seem to understand that some of their best customers are Apple users in a big way. In my small family, there are 2 Macbooks, 1 Mac mini, 1 iMac 27, 2 iPhones, and now 2 iPads. The forthcoming B&O iPhone dock sounds interesting but is rather late. Judging from the posts on this site, there are others who feel the same way.
Even though I own a Beosound 5, I am starting to think Apple lossless is never going to happen.
Bang and Olufsen doesn't seem to understand that some of their best customers are Apple users in a big way. In my small family, there are 2 Macbooks, 1 Mac mini, 1 iMac 27, 2 iPhones, and now 2 iPads. The forthcoming B&O iPhone dock sounds interesting but is rather late. Judging from the posts on this site, there are others who feel the same way.
I agree. I've had my BeoSound 5 for a year now. I'm wondering what ever happened to all of those feature updates that B&O promised us. They seem to have forgotten all about the BeoSound 5.
I don't think it's a big seller and this is why they are not updating. I think while there is certainly a too late there may also be a too early for a diskless sound system.
I still like the idea and would even oversee the missing 2 way remote but I want gapless playing since I listen to a lot of life recordings. It's fine to me that it doesn't do video and what not but if it is just there for music it needs to do that perfect and little hicks between tracks is so 90ies and I am not switching back to Windows for this.
I don't think it's a big seller and this is why they are not updating. I think while there is certainly a too late there may also be a too early for a diskless sound system.
I am also wondering why so little happens on the BS5/BM5 area, it is quite expensive, and I believe that B&O does have a clear strategy with the BS5 in the future product platform. If not, I feel that B&O is laughing at their customers.
One could hope that B&O would open up - just a little bit - about what plans they have.
My BS/BM 5 also celebrated its anniversary. I hope the B&O executive suite does not forget us. The last updates were rather "marginal"...
No Apple lossless support
No Tv/Video source sound from aTV master
No visible navigation of music collection in the link rooms
The lack of support of this potentially great product from Struer is IMHO scandalous.
I think what happens is that they don't sell enough to justify the cost of updates.
I know some might find the thought upsetting but rather then no improvements maybe paid upgrades are the way to go.
I am so used to that from my computers ........
I also think that they are in way over their heads, there was supposed to be an increased product dev cycle and right now i don't see much of that. They pay way to much attention to TVs in my opinion. I woulnd't have bought the b&o tv if i wouldn't have had the music system already.
I know some might find the thought upsetting but rather then no improvements maybe paid upgrades are the way to go.
I am so used to that from my computers ........
I also think that they are in way over their heads, there was supposed to be an increased product dev cycle and right now i don't see much of that. They pay way to much attention to TVs in my opinion. I woulnd't have bought the b&o tv if i wouldn't have had the music system already.
JK, while I don't agree about paid updates for such an already expensive device, I do agree that B&O is missing something by giving their attention to TVs at the expense of the new music platform. It's a shame that B&O has put off production of the new link room music product in order to produce the larger BV10.
I've always thought that something very unique about B&O products is the MasterLink, which, in my opinion, is not promoted enough. Link room control of the BeoSound 5 via perhaps smaller control screens with a similar interface would make the new music platform something to be noticed, indeed.
I remember back in the early days of mp3 music when B&O announced that it would be doing beta testing for a new product (the PC Office 2) with BeoPlayer to be able to distribute such music around the home. I thought how brilliant this was and how perfectly logical it was for B&O to use their existing MasterLink network to distribute mp3 music and provide control around the home. At the time, I had purchased my first B&O stereo, the BeoCenter 2300, within about a year. I was so terribly disappointed when B&O finally launched the PC Office 2 with BeoPlayer to learn that B&O would not be working on a way to make it compatible with older products such as the BeoCenter 2300.
The same thing seems to be happening yet again. The latest feature added to the BeoSound 5 was the ability to extend link room control via link room tvs connected with video link. Having recently added a BeoSystem 3, I was excited that we in the US with the latest BeoSystem 3 could finally utilize this video link feature. I have a BeoSystem 3 in the living room with an Avant and a BeoSystem 1 in link rooms. However, B&O tech support advised me that in the US we could not use the new link room via link tv feature with the BS5 with Avants or BeoSystem 1. They advised that this would certainly be possible but that it would require a software update to the Avants or BeoSystem 1 to add the PC control function. They advised that B&O just didn't deem it worthwhile to update those discontinued products to make them compatible.
What baffles me is, non of the issues we discuss here probably come up in a sales demo. I mean for example on the demo units you just have single songs and many do not even think about the issue since most MP3 players just deal with.
To me it looks very much like B&O doesn't further invest in what we ask for since it wouldn't increase sales much. Will there be a 2 way remote? I am sure since it would spark more sales. will there be gapless playing for other formats then windows media? I know for sure that many dealers do not even understand the issue, it's mostly something that affects one in a mac only environment or those who do not wish to use windows media.
Out of that position, I would sign up for paid updates, I can decide on my own if I want that or not. Is better then nothing. We already had something like this in the past, i.e. one paid for chip updates on Beosounds or TVs.
To me it looks very much like B&O doesn't further invest in what we ask for since it wouldn't increase sales much. Will there be a 2 way remote? I am sure since it would spark more sales. will there be gapless playing for other formats then windows media? I know for sure that many dealers do not even understand the issue, it's mostly something that affects one in a mac only environment or those who do not wish to use windows media.
Out of that position, I would sign up for paid updates, I can decide on my own if I want that or not. Is better then nothing. We already had something like this in the past, i.e. one paid for chip updates on Beosounds or TVs.
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