sjmcguckin wrote:

The easiest way to "reset" the MOTS is to reinstall the Beosound software, then it will reset all the indexes. This is better than deleting all the music. You will have to use the service menu on the Beosound to do this.

How do you do this? 

A somewhat belated question but I rediscovered this thread from some months ago because MOTS is increasingly annoying me. Did B&O actually test this software properly? It really seems a bit repetitive after heavy use - always reverts to a few select artists or albums after a time regardless of the seed. I wish it had a random function or more control over the parameters for selection. Apple Genius appears to function better.

I find it excellent, and always surprises me with the play list. I think the results you get can possibly happen in two ways.

1. You seed it with similar type tracks so it will create similar playlists.

2. There are limited tracks similar to the tracks selected to seed the play list, therefore it will cycle back round the same ablums.

Have you tried to select completely different songs to see what MOTS come up with?   

I experienced similar behavior.  For a while, it seemed like ~20 songs into the queue, I got a similar sequence of songs regardless of where I started (AC/DC, Jazz, Classical all eventually found their way to Jimmy Buffet).  I deleted some of the songs that MOTS seemed to like too much (this was before the ability to disable MOTS for specific songs).

However, my BM5 died a while back (main board problem that is common to early versions), and now it seems to find more diverse songs, and I haven't experienced this.  Perhaps the new software releases have tweaked the MOTS algorithm, but you need to re-scan the music to benefit?  I'm not sure how to follow the advice to re-install the application, but I believe that is essentially what happened when they replaced the board in my computer (when I got it home, it took another few hours before the "Analyzing for MOTS..." icon went away) so perhaps it is worth a try?

Stan

The way I did it was to use the engineers service menu and go to the restore software option, not the reboot option. If you use reboot it simply shuts down and restarts. If you use the restore it reinstalls the software from scratch and then rebuilds the complete MOTS database.

Do you mean - use the "recovery" option rather than "reboot" or drop into the service option in windows? If I drop into windows there appear to be no options available other than to restart the service menu again. I am sure I am missing something obvious here...

Sorry, yes I mean the recovery option. I'm travelling at the minute and couldn't check the actual menu before replying.

If I want to re-seed MOTS the documentation states that this can be done by holding the GO button down for 3 seconds. When I do this there is a short pause in playback, but the queue remains the same - surely the queue should be reset?

EDIT:

looking above I think I have already asked this question - still a problem though. Overall I am a bit disappointed in the execution of MOTS on the BS5. I doubt B&O are listening.

Hi Propaganda,

The way it works for me is as follows.

1. Select a track and hit GO. This will immediately start playing the track you selected and will re-seed MOTS.

2. If after you have performed step 1, you then immediately select another track and hold GO down for three seconds, this will add the second selected track to the queue immediately after the one that is currently playing and re-seed MOTS (based on the new track)

3. If you repeat 2 above while the original track is still playing, then another song will be added to the queue and MOTS will be re-seeded. In this case the queue will have the three tracks you selected followed by the selection from MOTS.

4. If the three tracks you have selected have been played and you are now listening to tracks selected by MOTS and you select a further track and hold GO for three seconds, this will be added to the queue immediately after the currently playing track and MOTS will re-seed the queue based on you newly selected track. You may have to scroll through the queue to the currently playing track to see this actually happening.

Hope this helps to explain how it works (at least for me).