I agree with all of my fellow Swede Ingvars wishes and indeed also lack the "promised" rate of upgrades to the BM5/BS5, although I know there is a lot of development going on it would be nice to get some ideas of the timeframes from B&O.

I would like to add the following to the wishlist.

1: Some type of Screen saver / Graphics for the TV set that can be activated whilst playing music, gives someting to look at whilst enjoying the music.

2: Ability to control the BM5/BS2 via the Beoport/Beoplayer application i.e. click on an album on Beoplayer and choose for it to be played either on the local PC or via the BM5/BS5,

3: On-Screen keyboard for input into websites ex

Where are all the updates?  I have had my BS5 for over a year and very few improvements have been made.  I am getting disappointed.  However if B&O ever asks, I would at least want Apple Lossless, the ability to turn off MOTS temporarily, and proper sorting of multiple CD albums.

@linder: Tesla?

burantek wrote:

@linder: Tesla?

I like the roadster. 

This is a good thread. Certainly the updates are not as frequent as B&O suggested but that may point towards everything working on the BS5 ;-) 

I would like to see:

1. Ability to turn MOTS off. It would be very nice to play an album on the BS5 in the same way as playing an old fashioned CD. e.g start it from any track, and move up or down through the tracks as I liked. 
2. It would be nice to have a minute / second counter display option to show how much longer was left on a track or album. 
3. Apple Lossless - goes without saying..
4. Oh, and two way remote so I can control my BS5 easily without having to get up to it each time.

Gapless playing with at least Apple lossless. That it is only working with WMA is a pitty.

I am surprised by "Ability to turn MOTS off. It would be very nice to play an album on the BS5 in the same way as playing an old fashioned CD. e.g start it from any track, and move up or down through the tracks as I liked. " Can't I do this.

Also for those asking for a video solution. I would accept this as a music only system. For video there are very good solutions out there and I don't think it is clear where the market is heading. I started streaming a lot using boxee, netflix through my wii and all kinds of content on my Ipad.

My main problem is that, if I turn on N.RADIO, then the system does not always start up. I need to change radio channels before it makes the connection. My dealer says that the next update will fix this. So I am waiting, and my wife is frustrated that such a small detail does not work in a brand new installation with only new products (and at that price).

I agree with the above mentioned (I don't have the BS5 though), plus:
1) Able to show pictures in random order

A comment to the video part, I have installed the DivX7 and I can play back AVI movies on the BM5, however, I have decided, that the BM5 in our house is only for Music, Radio and Pictures. In addition, I have purchased a Tvix for movies.
The reason is that I still want to be able to listen to music in the kitchen while our kids watch movies in the living room.

And this works just perfect for us.

Bang & Olufsen has to implement some realy basic functions!!

- cue/search inside tracks like on a CD player

- a small elapsed/remaining time indicator while playing

- feedback from the unit (when I hit "MOTS" on the remote I never know if the black box has understand it or not!)

- Repeat Track

- Repeat Album

- Repeat Playlist

jk1002 wrote:

I am surprised by "Ability to turn MOTS off. It would be very nice to play an album on the BS5 in the same way as playing an old fashioned CD. e.g start it from any track, and move up or down through the tracks as I liked. " Can't I do this.

MOTS is nice most of the time and it is always interesting to see what it will play next.  However I have many classical albums in which there are multiple CDs and I would want them to play in sequence.  B&O didn't have classical music in mind when implementing MOTS.  As mentioned before, if you have seasonal music on the BM5 like Christmas music, I would want MOTS turned off for those CDs.  I solved the Christmas music problem by deleting them.  I will add them back in late November.

Because I have limited space in my condo, my Beosound 5 is in the bedroom.  It looks cool but I would like a blank screen saver to start after about 5 minutes

I have already purchased CD albums in the FLAC format.  The sound is superb.  However in order to get them onto the BM5, I first have to convert the tracks to apple lossless, then convert those tracks to AAC 320.  I then finally move the AAC 320 track to BM5 and subsequently delete the AAC 320 files from iTunes.  FLAC is an open standard and can be added to BM5 for virtually no cost.

I understand the desire to add video codecs to BM5 but it wouldn't matter to me.  I am already in the Apple TV and now iPad video orbit.  I really enjoy the option of downloading movies from iTunes and I especially like streaming videos from Netflix on the iPad.  Now that I have an iPad, its one of my most used gadgets on a daily basis.  Maybe B&O will have an iPad dock for BM5.