I'm contemplating getting the Beoport linked to my BS9000, but I'm a little uneasy about how controlable the selection of tracks, albums etc actualy is when the BS900 has no way (as fars as I can tell) of showing what track etc has been selected.

I have a BS9000 linked to Beoport, which is plugged to a PC using Beoplayer. 

I think that all depends of number of albums / tracks you have stocked in the computer, and what kind of listener you are: nervous, changing tracks all the time, or quiet, listening complete albums without intervention:
for a hard disk with 2 albums and 5 songs each, the control via beo4 even blind is very easy...for 2.500 albums and almost 40.000 tracks (as I have) the ONLY control possible with beoport+beoplayer is via the PC screen and using the mouse: the beo4 is useless.
For intermediate situations you could find also intermediate solutions, like PDA controlling, laptop remote desktop, TV monitoring with wireless keyboard...and so on.

I feel like I'm going to be spending alot of time at the PC selecting songs and creating playlist

When I want listen to long play N.Music unmonitored sessions, I only do a 2 minutes selection by dropping into "playlist", which can play during all day long... and more.

 
But YEEEES,  I would really love a new generation Beo5 "two ways", where I could do the real time selection remotely 🤒

Hi folks

I have Beoport, and my computer is well away from my main listening room. What I have done is install gotomypc program on a small laptop, then connect it to my main computer. Basically it's a bit like remote assistance or pcAnywhere.

Anyway, I'm now in my lounge with small laptop which shows me exactly what is on my main computer screen and tells me what tracks are coming up, and I can change to different cds or playlists while still listening.

Brian

I think that the best intermediate situation, if you have a Beoport and a BS9000 (like me), is to have it all connected via beoport (ML) as well as an AEX (through the AUX). Have something like a Powerbook or a MAc Mini (or a PC) in the same room (living room), so you have rough control with the Beo4, but also have FULL control via the computer screen right there in the same room. It does mean that you'll need to change the source from N.Music to A.Aux, but that is a small price to pay for FULL control.

If you have all the computers linked (wired or wireless), you can designate the computer in the living room as the "GENERAL MUSIC LIBRARY" so that everyone in the household can dump music files onto that computer that they want to eventually use.

Begin with a small stock library, and then keep adding to it. Obviously you can prepare well in hand by setting up an applescript / automator action to add downloaded itunes songs to that GENERAL MUSIC LIBRARY, automatically.

-Sal

Guys I have now in my mind the perfect solution

This software runs on a ipod touch (or iphone) link and allows remote control over a wirless network of Winamp, Windows Media Player or Itunes 

I then used this bit of kit

I agree remote buddy is great, but its MAC only I think

The solution I suggested works on both MAC and Windows PC's