MOTS = More Of The Sameshit

The BS/ BM-5 is a pice of crap from B&O. Proberly the worst audio they ever createt except from the design.

I'm not sure why I want it (or if I want it). When I listen to my favourite album do I want all songs to sound the same - of course not! When I'm listening in the house all by myself do I want to listen to songs that are in a similar vain - I hope not. Do I want to dance all day (maybe sometimes) do I want to feel sad all day (probably not). Should the feature be selectable - absolutely, how often would you use it - debatable.

What do I want to hear after "Hang on to Yourself".............. "Ziggy Stardust" of course!............ nothing else will do. Unless you're not really listening, in which case does it really matter what's next?

A technically clever feat but is it for me? ................... if someone buys me a BS5/BM5 combo I'll give an unbiased report later.

I may be slightly cynical but is any early adopter going to dis' the B&O features of the BS/BM5 - I doubt it.

I think people are looking into this in a too absolutists point of view.

MOT’s is a useful feature but it is not the be-all and end-all of the product. I like to listen to an albums cover to cover. I like albums to be listed as albums in a digital medium. I want a virtual CD and I’m not interested in downloading one or two songs from an album and mixing them in to an unambiguous list of meaningless songs. I like wart’s ‘n’ all – not just the highlights. However, in doing so, means I tend to listen to either my current favourite album(s) or go “ooh, err…I think I’ll listen to that now…or that now”

What MOTs does is cleverly (and I was originally cynical) is match up a whole heap of tracks which did have a reasonable similarity. They are disperse in their nature and I think it does allow you to listen to more of your record collection as intended. There were also one or two tracks where I thought it was pushing it a little too far. But hey, it does work.

After 10 to 15 songs, like any other album or time period, I would say enough of that and now for something completely different. It’s a choice. You can choose to use it or not.

Another little annoyance, but then the credence of garbage in and garbage out is comes to mind is that it will MOT Christmas songs in February and doesn’t know how many shopping days are left, nor when Harrods turn on the lights! Send it back now and get your money back!

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I think the idea with MOTS is superb. When my myfe comes home she wants calm and quet music for a while. In the evening we wants classic music and on the party we want Rock. Why not let the BM5 decide for us so we just dont always play the same tunes? If I hade made a long playlist by some reason then I just choose that one instead of Mots or an complete album or a specific track. So I think for me this is great with all the possibilities.  

Sean are you sure that the interface isn´t as the BM1? If i remember I hade folders on the TV when I didn´t connected the BS5. I think someone wrote that there will be some update later which give you more choises of what to show on the different screens.

PierreR, thank you for an very interesting post.

Brgds Ingvar

IngvarW wrote:

Sean are you sure that the interface isn´t as the BM1? If i remember I hade folders on the TV when I didn´t connected the BS5. I think someone wrote that there will be some update later which give you more choises of what to show on the different screens.

PierreR, thank you for an very interesting post.

Brgds Ingvar

hi there IngvarW

I thought your pictures showed no folder view??? i did not realise you can still have folder view without BS5 as i woudl like it to work as beomedia 1 without the expensive lcd tv that is a rip off.

so when looking at the album list on BM5 do you get album art i woudl love to see a pick of this interface.

Hello Sean, I haven´t had time to play/try my BM5 but this weekend perhaps. Yesterday I finalized the implementation with cutting a DVI cable and then solder it together, it actually worked! And I´m not an electrician.. The reason is that my BL7 is in another part of the living room and the cable canal is down under the concreteboard.

Brgds Ingvar

Seanie wrote:

i have been thinking about a BM5 for some time until i found out the tv interface is not the same as beomedia at present and i cannot use folder view and etc etc

If you use BM5 without BS5 you will have the folders, and albums will be grouped under artist and etc.

Seanie wrote:

 If you use BM5 without BS5 you will have the folders, and albums will be grouped under artist and etc.

But you won't have mots (only supported together with a Beosound 5) 😭

KibitoCH wrote:

 But you won't have mots (only supported together with a Beosound 5) 😭

I am not confident that this statement is correct. Although I'm not going to re-wire my BS/BM5 to test but the Beo5 can engage MOT's via remote.

It would stand to reason it could do this with or without the BS5.

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