DoublU, how would MOTS work if you rip the CD as one track. If they cant support apple lossless the other good option would be to read that gapless tag in Itunes and filter and handle it in the player software.

Good question! Probably it won't work. But a rock-, classical-concert, DJ-mix, cabaret performer, etc, last for an hour or so. Do you really need MOTS, with these CD's?

Agree! That's why I sold my BS5 and got back to a BC2, I was fed up waiting for an update which will never be released I think.

Regarding the ALAC playback on non "IDevices", I came accross an interesting Wikipedia article that I've pasted below:

"David Hammerton and Cody Brocious have analyzed and decoded this codec without any documents on the format. On March 5, 2005, Hammerton published a simple open source decoder in the programming language C on the basis of the reverse engineering work.

The open source library libavcodec incorporates both a decoder and an encoder for Apple Lossless format which means that media players based on that library, including VLC media player and MPlayer, are able to play Apple Lossless files. The library was subsequently optimized for ARM processors and included in Rockbox."

What prevents B&O from using these open source libraries?🤔