Is anyone savvy enough with BeoSound 5 yet to know the answer to this ?!   ❓

I have no shame in addmitting i'm not, but someone might?! 

Lee

Is anyone savvy enough with BeoSound 5 yet to know the answer to this ?!   ❓

I have no shame in addmitting i'm not, but someone might?! 

Lee

Unfortunately I don't have BS/BM5 hence my BeoPort is setup accordingly... without it, that is.

The only thing I thought of/imagined is: when you connect an external HD to your PC, wouldn't scanning of portable devices (that's what an external HD is) help with your issue making it visible to your BeoPort? In my setup, you do it in BeoPort configuration menu under Portable devices - sorry, if I'm mentioning things too obvious...

Not sure if location for copying CDs has much to do with what you want to achieve.

Thanks, Saf. You are correct about the way to tell Beoplayer to scan for an external hard drive. It does that well and shows which music is on the BeoSound 5 or on the scanned hard drive or on both. 

The problem is with directing Beoplayer to copy any non-synchronized files from the Beosound 5 to the external hard drive. The default setting is for Beoplayer to copy the files from the Beosound 5 directly to the computer's internal hard drive when synchronizing. This is especially a problem for Mac users because we use Beoconnect to copy iTunes purchases from the Mac OS to the Beosound 5. It would then be nice to easily use Beoplayer to periodically synchronize the Beosound 5 library to the external hard drive to maintain a safety backup.

Another obvious one (sorry - haven't had time to dig around in BeoPlayer to see if there's a better way):  When you open BeoPlayer and connect to the BM5, it "mounts" the BM5's disk on the local laptop.  You could just use Windows Explorer and drag and drop the music folder from the BM5 to the external drive.  Not fancy, but it would be effective (and take a while if you have a lot of music and/or a slow network).

Stan

Unfortunately, that's not practical for music transferred via Beoconnect on the Mac OS. On a Mac, Beoconnect dumps everything into one folder on the BS5 and doesn't organize the music by artist sub-folders. BeoPlayer is designed to facilitate keeping the music synchronized. There just doesn't seem to be a way to change the preferences to make the "copy to" computer library the one that resides on an external hard drive.

Hi Beojeff,

There is now an updated version of  Beoconnect on the B&O website that now creates seperate folders for each album when transferring music. I have tried it and it does seem to work.

Regards

Paul 

Thanks, Paul. I was unaware of that update. That will certainly help. I hope that B&O comes up with a way to create folders for the music that has already been dumped into the common folder from the old version. That really created a mess.

The BeoConnect update will certainly help matters by creating sub folders within the "mac" folder on the BeoSound 5. 

I've been having difficulties copying the "mac" folder on the BS5 to an external hard drive (formatted for the mac and windows). With a transfer time of about 60 minutes, I keep getting an error during the last 7 minutes stating that files could not be copied to the external hard drive. There are 11,700 files in this "mac" folder (which the old version of BeoConnect DUMPED into the folder without creating sub-folders). Could the reason for this be a limit to the number of files allowed in a folder? After having spent months cleaning up the tagging and replacing cover art on the Beosound 5, re-transferring all of the iTunes music from the Mac to the BS5 is not an option. However, I might be willing to re-transfer a portion of those files if that would solve this problem. Any ideas?