Mats,

It seems you have good reason to be frustrated/mad/etc.  It was never my intention to say otherwise.  I would be mad too.  I was just trying to point out the difficult position that B&O has put its dealers (IMHO).

Stan

Dear Mats,

your contribution is much appreciated. It matches with my concerns about buying the Beosound 5, even as a loyal B&O customer. I hope your feedback will make B&O rethink their attitude. Products like Beo5 and Beosound 5 incapacitates B&O's technically sophisticated customers AND dealers.

Kind regards,

E.

It seems that most of us are of the same opinion questioning B&O current approach with the BeoSound 5 system. My dealer is obviously going to factory in Denmark today and tomorrow after which, we will have a chat over the phone. Will be interesting to hear the feedback.

Have two questions about issues that some of you already might have encountered.

First of all, when using BeoSound/Master 5, are you supposed to use BeoPlayer or BeoPort. If not mistaken BeoPort has some additional features needed for more integrated installations with B&O products as BeoPlayer can be used as iTunes to play music just on your PC.

After copying most of our original CDs to the PC using BeoPort, while in Sweden, I had no problem in downloading the covers and titles. However, when I yesterday was trying to do the same thing (on the same laptop) here in Manila connected to another internet provider, not one single CD cover/title was downloaded.

Do you need to re-register BeoPort/Player if you change internet provider? If so, it seems little weired to me. Or what other problem could there be and how to fix it?

Mats

An alternative to this system is XBMC. To be honest, it totally blows the B&O away in terms of functionality, flexibility and configuration.. I'm running it on an XBOX which cost me the grand total of £50, but it can be installed it on a hidden/silent shuttle style PC, controlled via touchscreen TFT etc.

http://www.instantfundas.com/2009/08/xbmc-is-best-media-center-application.html

http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=XBMC_Features_and_Supported_Formats/Codecs

MatsElerud wrote:

First of all, when using BeoSound/Master 5, are you supposed to use BeoPlayer or BeoPort. If not mistaken BeoPort has some additional features needed for more integrated installations with B&O products as BeoPlayer can be used as iTunes to play music just on your PC.

After copying most of our original CDs to the PC using BeoPort, while in Sweden, I had no problem in downloading the covers and titles. However, when I yesterday was trying to do the same thing (on the same laptop) here in Manila connected to another internet provider, not one single CD cover/title was downloaded.

Do you need to re-register BeoPort/Player if you change internet provider? If so, it seems little weired to me. Or what other problem could there be and how to fix it?

Mats

I am confused because BeoPlayer is the software that runs on a PC while BeoPort is a box that allows one to integrate their computer into a B&O audio system.  BeoPlayer can talk to the BS5/BM5, BeoPort as well as BS2 (and whatever the other MP3 player is).  A Bs5/BM5 more or less replaces the BeoPort, although a BeoPort can still be in a system with a BS5 - the BeoPort just no longer distributes N.Music/N.Radio via ML.

I have experienced periods where BeoPlayer cannot find covers and titles.  In my case, it corrected itself when I tried again after a day or two.  It doesn't seem like Internet provider should matter, but I really do not know how it works behind the scenes.  You can always try to re-register (the only way I know how to do this would be to re-install BeoPlayer).

Stan