The update screen also mentioned adding items to the star list with Beo 4.
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BeoSound 5 - search function for Spotify released
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I loaded the Beosound update for Spotify and played one of my playlists. After about 10 mins, the system halts with a solid blue screen. My Beosound 5 was halting periodically after the last update. With the recent Spotify updates, the Beosound 5/BMS started to become useful. Unfortunately for me the Beomaster 5 is failing.
I am aware this will be expensive to fix or replace and may end up in the dustbin of history. Normally I would consider upgrading to a new Beomaster 5 but with the uncertainty of B&O's product direction this seems like the end of my Beosound 5.
Here are a few reasons I hesitate to purchase anymore B&O products.
1. The NL networking makes all of my ML systems obsolete unless I purchase a $900 USD converter box. This make all my analog sources digital. Not a good option.
2. I don't like BeoPlay products. I have a Beolit 12 purchased new and is less than satisfactory. Wireless mode is 2008 tech and is clumsy.
3. B&O has failed to present us with a product roadmap. I have no idea what I should look forward to over the next year. Recent history suggests less expensive but mediocre products.
4. Finally, the worldwide economic problems could be the end of B&O. As difficult as that is to contemplate, it is a very real possibility.
Can an Encore stream Spotify or does it purely play music via a hard drive?. Have no interest in CDs .
NO. You can NOT use Spotify on Encore.
"Beo, please one wish: would be great to have a function that just plays the latest addition to Spotify."
Appears the newest Spotify release no longer shows most recent additions. All I get is recommendations. Wonder if that change is worldwide or if I messed up a setting somewhere.
And then noticed on the BeoSound 5 that "new releases" DOES still show up. Who would have thought?
I am so glad I sold my Bs5. Terrible product and when I read this and similar threads it reminds me of my hopes being dashed at every cycle of update. The hardware was 5 years out of date when released in 2009 and since its release its software updates have looked more and more antiquated, rushed and unfinished.
I am so glad I sold my Bs5. Terrible product and when I read this and similar threads it reminds me of my hopes being dashed at every cycle of update. The hardware was 5 years out of date when released in 2009 and since its release its software updates have looked more and more antiquated, rushed and unfinished.
Well, I'm sure we're all very happy for you, but isn't there a 12 Step program, grief counseling, something that might help you get over the trauma? You really seem to dwell on this to a level that appears unhealthy...
Another user interface improvement.... If you have link rooms, the volume control does did not work on the BS5 (the logic was - which rooms volume does the bs5 change). I have a BV10 in the same room as my BS5 and this was annoying, since I had to find a remote to change the volume (Esp for the wife when I slip the remote in my pocket and walk around the house-opps). Now, you can control the volume in the room from the bs5 volume control... Thankfully - just a great usability function.
Jeff, Sarcasm from you...not a suprise response and highly predictable. if I didn't know as much about you as I do I would assume you were a teenager who had regrettably discovered sarcasm which in adulthood is rather unoriginal and deeply tiresome. The comment seems to have affected you so much that you felt it necessary to get in my face by making a personal and passive aggressive comment about me which typifies this and your last interaction with me in another thread. It must be concluded that you deliberately engineer provocative and inflammatory remarks about me. I am at liberty to express my poor opinion of the Bs5 after having spent £thousands on it in addition to being at liberty to expressing affection for other products and B&O in general. Others are able to do so I take issue with your response when I do. The report abuse button doesn't work and causes an error response so is it at all possible that you could refrain from being so unbelievably rude and confine your comments to products and not to other members? I hope this question about your capability to be civil in future threads does not become rhetorical...
Apparently complaining about products that you no longer own is what passes for a hobby with you.
I'd add that unlike you, I pay to help keep this site alive, as such I find comments from the peanut gallery who's sole purpose are to whine, complain, and denigrate the very company this site is designed to support to be obnoxious and in bad taste.
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