Maybe there are other experts out there but I can describe my installation. The BM5 is connected via Beolink to my BV10 and all speakers are only connected to the TVs powerlink. The BS5 is then connected to the BM5. When want to hear music I can press the button on BS5 or on CD on my BEO4. The BS5 is then navigated via the BEO4 or the BS5. The navigation on BS5 is much more rich because I can browse thru all CD convolutes and all names on artists, album, tunenames, etc.

In my bedroom and also in the bathroom I have a linked TV and linked speakers and from there I start and navigate in blind the BS5/BM5. It works quite OK even though you have to remember how you have maked the favourite list.

Hopes that help you a little, brgds Ingvar

As mentioned by IngvarW your navigation possibilities via link room tv:s will unfortunately be reduced if you connect a BS5 to the system. While the BM5 uses the Beoplayer navigation, you can only go to next or previous tracks or to a colured playlist with your remote from link rooms if you connect a BS5.  Hopefully the new Beo6 will reduce this problem.

Thanks a lot, does that mean that all I can navigate on from the link TV's is Photo and Web (I don't use Web though)?

In other words, the BS5 is the one to use if I wan't to listen to - or search for - an album?

beolion wrote:

Thanks a lot, does that mean that all I can navigate on from the link TV's is Photo and Web (I don't use Web though)?

In other words, the BS5 is the one to use if I wan't to listen to - or search for - an album?

Yes and no...All you have on link TVs is the cover of the current song, no covers on the left side to scroll for searching albums - disappointing!

But you can use up - down, left - right buttons to navigate.

I`m copying new albums to the red list. Now you can select one of these albums by pressing N.MUSIC - RED - left/right or 1/2/3...also works in audio linkrooms.

Mainly I use the MOTS feature, selecting a song and let the BS5 create a list.

Hope this helps.

Stefan

Hi Stefan

That sounds actually usable for me (and perhaps my wife 🙂), I could imagine that the MOTS will be used in general.

Do you know how many albums we can store in the fav. list? Is it 99 albums or 99 songs?

It's 99 tracks so 396 tracks for 4 favorite lists.

beolion wrote:

Hi Stefan

That sounds actually usable for me (and perhaps my wife 🙂), I could imagine that the MOTS will be used in general.

Do you know how many albums we can store in the fav. list? Is it 99 albums or 99 songs?

I just stored more than ten albums to the yellow list, so it`s more than 99 songs. As said, navigation is quite simple. You can select next/previous song by up/down buttons and next/previous album by left/right buttons, or 1/2/3... to select a specific album. 

Stefan

A small thing, maybe, I was at the dealer today, and I like the feel and use of BS5, and I asked a small question he could not answer (now), and this is about the tagging of music.

On the BM5 I can navigate on Playlist, Genre, Artists, Albums, Titles and Folders. I use the Playlist and Artists mostly, but, what I miss is the Album Artists. The Artists on my BM5 is the song artists (there can be more artists to one song), which gives me far too many artists to select among (makes navigation a bit difficult). 

Does the BS5 use the Album artist or Song Artist?

And how do you navigate using the Album Artist? I hoped I could use the Folder (I use Subfolders for albums for an artist, but BM5 can't show me the Folder structure, only the "lowest" level of folders which = Albums)

BS5 uses the song artists.  As you say, extremely useless to navigate.

In general, navigation on BS5 is a real pain.  Incredible how bad they made it.

You can scroll through covers.  But the icons are so small that the only way to make something of it, is to remember from the time you used the CDs.  They should have shown a bigger picture of the cover under focus at the left side of the screen, plus title and album artist.  Even that is never shown!

Searching through album artist is also missing, or at least, I haven't found it yet.

Navigating by Genre simply doesn't give anything.

And yes, there is a concept of Folder, but I am still to find out how that works.

While the concept of BS5/BM5 is great, and the design and sound quality are marvelous, I am quite disappointed by the quality of their software (navigation is not the only bad thing).