Does anyone knows what will happen with BM5/BS5 in the future? Will there be any updates at all, or will all development be focused at the new audio platform (which I fear 🙁).

Regards...

I think they will keep improving the software and maintain it, but mostly what you have is it.

The software improvements will not re-ignite sales to a volume to justify the expense. Only thing that I could see moving it again would be a 2 way remote. 

I mean can you imagine a BS5 add in a magazine, saying hey we added apple lossless and gapless playing to it.

JK

jk1002 wrote:

I mean can you imagine a BS5 add in a magazine, saying hey we added apple lossless and gapless playing to it.

JK

No, more a message like; "Hey you there, reading this magazine, we have a new 2-way remote and, be totally astounded,  we offer iPad and iPhone support too"

That goes for the new Beosound 5 encore?

Do you have any news about it?

Harry2008 wrote:

jk1002 wrote:

I mean can you imagine a BS5 add in a magazine, saying hey we added apple lossless and gapless playing to it.

JK

No, more a message like; "Hey you there, reading this magazine, we have a new 2-way remote and, be totally astounded,  we offer iPad and iPhone support too"

Wouldn't that be like Mercedes advertising "Hey, we have a gas tank and a steering wheel. We will even give you the option to fit an ashtray and a stereo if you want to"?

Seriously, gapless playback and ALAC as well as FLAC should be available through a firmware update. It can't be that hard to add.

The two-way remote is also a must. Especially considering that the screen on the  BS5 doesn't react to the input of the remote, and that it is in fact competing with systems such as Squeezebox, Sonos, and even a NAS with a smartphone or an iPod/iPhone as a remote,  all having the option to browse from your chair.

The iPhone/ipod support, well, if it could be streamed to the BM5, it would be neatest. Plugging the iPod in as in a dock defeats the purpose of using the iPod as a master and it will become a harddisk only. Sort of, because the iPoods an iPhones can't act as harddisk  or thumbdrives anymore.

I also think that it needs a headphone plug on the BS5 part.

But, to me, all the hardware changes in the world won't suffice to make me buy one, unless they start thinking integration and useability into the firmware and take some useability cues from the competition. The real competition, not the CD-player brigade.  A basic capacity it doesn't even have the ability to mimick.

For starters, besides adding gapless and playback of ALAC and FLAC, they also need to support such "advanced tech" as "podcasts", seeing how there's no way they will incorporate FM and DAB (+).Alas, it seems like they're acting in a vacuum these days and think that it's perfectly fine to have to use several other products to accompany theirs to get a "full" experience, not realising that in such a context, their part of the "system" becomes superfluous.

I'm all for simplicity and I'm against feature creep, but if you limit a product so much that you'll end having more boxes and more systems to take care of and keep in sync, the seemingly simple solution suddenly becomes very complex or at least time and space consuming.

My addition to the wishlist:

1. BS5 to show the radio station's logo as it shows the CD-cover
2. when turning off with Beo5 the system slowly phases out (turns down the volumen slowley). The same sould happen when turning it off directly on the BS5

I would like the ability to easily remove tracks from the queue. MOTS is good but it is not perfect.

Allow some parameters to be set for MOTS e.g. restrict the number of tracks from a single album or artist, and ability to reorder/re-randomise the queue

propaganda wrote:

 ability to reorder

A slight misread on my part had me thinking about recording. Is it possible to record a radio broadcast (say, p1/bbc1/npr) on that thing, or is that not possible, just like podcasts aren't possible to subscribe to?

Besides that, I completely agree with the restriction. I don't want to listen to myself, nor any radio documentaries/features or whatever if I'm in a music mood and vice versa.

I don't know if the BS5 is able to at present -  it wasn't when I looked at it, but a way to enter radio station URLs by oneself is another must. Not that there aren't many, but I don't like the idea that if I discover a great little radio stream from some basement I have to email Struer. Perhaps in the Encore (crossing fingers).

Hi

I have asked my dealer to put a request at B&O to be able to search for Album Artist also, and not just Song Artists. Many songs that I have are often with 2 or more artists, which makes the search quite difficult.

How does B&O get the request for BS5/BM5 changes? Is that via the Dealer?