Directly copying to BS5 without PC

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fishta (archived)
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Posted May 28, 2010 at 09:07 GMT
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Just a thought but has anyone thought of connecting an external USB CD Reader to the BeoMaster 5 and then in the Windows mode set up a way so that when a CD is inserted it automatically rips the CD to the MUSIC folder in a high qualty MP3 Setting (320kbs) whilst automatically detecting the cover art??

I feel that this is something a lot of people would be interested in as not always do you want to have your computer involved and then if you want the music on your PC as well you could use the BeoPlayer software to "Copy Music from BeoSound 5" back to your PC.

In the next couple of days I am going to have a play but in the meantime if anyone thinks of anything I should consider or whether anyone else has done it then your comments would be greatly appreciated!

 

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fishta (archived)
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Posted May 30, 2010 at 07:08 GMT
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No one interested? Because I've got it working and its very smart, almost Kaleidescape esque!

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jk1002
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Posted May 30, 2010 at 13:39 GMT
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I think many don't mind to manage a library anyhow to copy the files to a mobile player.

Also, the ID tags are sometimes funny and require clean up. It's a nice to have feature I guess.

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steph (archived)
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Posted June 1, 2010 at 02:56 GMT
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It's very intersting Fishta ! 🤒

Could you describe a little more your set-up ?

I've always wanted a kaleidescape system for the video but the price is very high.

So, why not try a similar solution for music.

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fishta (archived)
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Posted June 1, 2010 at 05:13 GMT
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I have installed some software and changed some settings in the BeoSound 5, connected an external USB CD drive to the BeoMaster 5 using one of the spare sockets and now whenever a CD is inserted into the drive it automatically rips onto the BeoSound 5 with coverart etc in lossless audio. It works absolutely seemlessly and I am very proud of it indeed!

For those users who don't want to be slave to PC and get involved with network and syncing issues this is a great solution.

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Bv7Mk3 (archived)
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Posted June 1, 2010 at 18:31 GMT
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Sounds great..How did you set it up?

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fishta (archived)
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Posted August 26, 2010 at 12:58 GMT
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Quite simple in the fact that I plugged in an external USB CD Recorder, put the BeoSound 5 into service mode (windows desktop) this installed drivers for CD drive and it was sat in My Computer on view.

After this with keyboard and mouse I navigated to the Microsoft Website (via a quick trip to Beoworld) and downloaded the latest version of windows media player. I set it up to record in lossless WMA, get track info and cover art automatically and most importantly to rip the CD upon detection of the CD in the drive.

At first if the BeoSound 5 was restarted it didnt work so I went back to windows mode set media player to auto startup on the machine booting and hey presto it works all the time!

Pictures to follow...

 

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steph (archived)
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Posted August 27, 2010 at 05:52 GMT
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Yeah,very cool Fishta,

waiting for your pics ! 🤒

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js
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Posted August 27, 2010 at 12:55 GMT
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Very interesting indeed  🤒

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sjmcguckin
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Posted August 29, 2010 at 04:54 GMT
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What bit rate do you achieve when coping on WMA lossless mode?

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