Why don't you use software to convert it to flac and forget about Apple lossless for good?

jk1002 wrote:

I still can't get my head around why B&O has such a hard time supporting Apple Lossless. Sonos pulled it off.

Reading up on the wikipedia, while it is not possible to get an official decoder from apple there is a public library available - someone reverse engineered the apple decoder. That must be what Sonos is using.

Having this would make live so much easier for people who manage their libraries in itunes and who are bothered by the gaps between the songs when playing concerts etc.

I thoiught based on posts this was coming?

Why doesn't  Sonos support WMA lossless?

Why doesn't Apple support FLAC or WMA lossless?

Why does Apple protect there lossless format? Wouldn't it increase their business also if he license would be "free" of charge? 

Why can't I play WMA on my iPod?

Why can't I use flac on iTunes?

Why B&o..................?

Small fish bends over to big fish.

Many B&O customers run MACS, use Itunes, have Ipods, Ipads, Iphones, I anything. Might be worth supporting.

Apple is right now the market leader. Why make my life difficult if I stick to the market leader for all things digital. B&O does just that by somehow forcing me of buying into the concept of maintaining multiple libraries for my digital content.

You are a windows person, aren't you?

No

I run both W7 & Snow on Mac's and PC's

But I hardly use iTunes. Only sometimes to sync the AAC's to my iPad or iPod.

On Mac I use XBMC 

on my PC Beoplayer and mostly I listen to my BS5 - up till now WMA lossless but I have converted all the files to FLAC so I can use the same files in XBMC and on the BS5 - so on both platforms. Great!

use ipad with remote app

airport express on the AUX entry of your beosound or beocenter

and forget beosound 5!!!!!

It's always astonishing to see that Bang & Olufsen provide some strange alibis to explain that they don't have a technology that is everywhere else : no support for Apple Lossless is a bit of a shame for a lifestyle music product (as B&O owners are often Apple users), some other brands have it. And no, connecting an Airport express to the Aux input of your Beosound is not a good solution considering the horrible sound quality of the analog output of the Airport and the lack of digital inputs on our Beosounds.

Now I feel the same with Spotify : I think I would buy a BS5 Encore (or BS5) if it was able to give me Spotify : Sonos is compatible, and today Logitech Squeezebox announce that they are compatible. That's not an expensive hardware technology, that's a bit of code to get with a cooperation with Spotify (so if it becomes useless because Apple buy Spotify and close their business, or if Qriocity/Deezer becomes the leader, thy can jump on the other train quickly), but a high-ranked B&O guy told me that there was nothing planned for Spotify compatibility. Sad. At least we can hope for future updates.

There's a crucial difference between the lack of support for Spotify and lack of support for Apple Lossless.

Spotify isn't available around here. In fact, it's not available in most of the world.

Podcast support (including subscriptions) and Apple Lossless seems to be more general things (even if I don't use Apple Lossless anymore).

Edit: Here in Denmark we have TDC PLay and a few other services like Spotify.

dueno wrote:

use ipad with remote app

airport express on the AUX entry of your beosound or beocenter

and forget beosound 5!!!!!

I like my iPad, but the "wow" experience of the BS5 is something complete different than your proposed setup 

I think the remote app interface is much better than the beosound5

and on the beosound 5 you can only have 4 playlist!!!!