Only 4 playlists!!!!

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PhilLondon
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Posted November 26, 2008 at 05:28 GMT
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Having just read the Beosound 5 user guide  I am a bit baffled that there are only 4 playlists that you can configure on the BS5!!! You can only add songs to the 4 colour buttons.

 

The so called Numbered play lists, from 1 to 99 contain only one song, that is used as a seed for MOTS.

 

The user guide describes every feature and tells you how to do it from the BS5 and on the next page tells you how to do it from the Beo5. There is one exception: In front of Browse music… there is no instruction for the Beo5. I thought the way to remote control N.MUSIC on the Beomedia 1 or Beoport, if not perfect was much more complete!!! At least you could switch to Album 34, or Playlist 55, etc…

 

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Coolskin (archived)
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Posted November 26, 2008 at 05:41 GMT
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Having just read the Beosound 5 user guide  I am a bit baffled that there are only 4 playlists that you can configure on the BS5!!! You can only add songs to the 4 colour buttons.

That's in my opinion because the BEO4 has to control the BS5.

This is exactly the same for the BS3200.

Keep things simple... 

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Puncher (archived)
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Posted November 26, 2008 at 05:43 GMT
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Numbered and lettered playlists!😉 - what's going on. You'd have thought in these days of electricity and running water you'd have been able to give playlists a meaningful name!
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Lab5 (archived)
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Posted November 26, 2008 at 05:43 GMT
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nono its like the BM1 an the bs3200 together. you can choose the 4 colours  or create many different playlists!

the BS5 today are only controllable with the Beo5 in Beo4 mode...

wait for the final 

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PhilLondon
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Posted November 26, 2008 at 05:54 GMT
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I do not think it is like the BM1... If you call Playlist 3, you will only get one song, the next songs will be generated by MOTS!!!

So you only have 4 playlists (Red, Blue, Yellow and Green) when you can store a list of songs you want to listen to in that specific order.

Lab 5, do you think that they will change the way the Beo5 works when they release the product later? Have you heard anything interesting?

I know the Beo5 has 2 sets of code, the Beo4 codes and the Beo5 codes. It seems to me nobody know what the Beo5 codes are about yet.

p.

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david coyne (archived)
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Posted November 26, 2008 at 07:05 GMT
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Hmmm.... Sounds like I might perhaps just stick with my Beoport?

While the beosound 5 looks lovely, Im not sure why I would spend thousands on a product that does exactly what beoport does minus the nice display. Maybe if i didn't have beoport I'd buy it.

Now if there was a beocentre 2 variant including the functionality and screen of beosound 5 I'd be very tempted. I don't need another stand alone item cluttering my living room, competing for the wow factor with my beocentre 2!

 Of course if someone told me the sound quality would be much better with beosound 5 than beoport then I'd also be tempted... but again i suspect no difference... 

 

David

Sydney, NSW

Australia 

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skipper0815 (archived)
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Posted December 21, 2008 at 18:03 GMT
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koning (archived)
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Posted December 22, 2008 at 05:36 GMT
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What about the linkrooms with the beosound5????

Is there already a solution for?

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PhilLondon
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Posted December 22, 2008 at 06:12 GMT
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As of today, it can be used from link rooms in blind mode buy pressing N.MUSIC or N.RADIO on your remote. It seems that operations are more limited than when controlling Beoport for example, as you cannot use the color keys to sort by genre, author...

Or you can browse on your link TV in a Beomedia interface, by pressing PC on your remote, if your link TV supports it.

I had been rumoured (and it would be logical) that B&O is preparing a special link room solution as well. It is a shame they do not tell us more. 

 

 

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koning (archived)
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Posted December 22, 2008 at 07:02 GMT
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Blindless = Madness!!😡

I think that's the reason why many people will wait.

 

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