Wow. People really don't pay any attention at all. The above picture shows a feature that will ONLY be available on the BeoSound 5. NOT the BeoSound 5 Encore. Anyone who ever bought a BeoSound 5 will now be able to purchase a Beo6 and enjoy this feature provided they have stable wifi throughout the link rooms. 

Trip, as you seem to know, will the 2way Beo6 work with BM5 without a BS5?

TripEnglish wrote:

Wow. People really don't pay any attention at all. The above picture shows a feature that will ONLY be available on the BeoSound 5. NOT the BeoSound 5 Encore. Anyone who ever bought a BeoSound 5 will now be able to purchase a Beo6 and enjoy this feature provided they have stable wifi throughout the link rooms. 

If I understand your answer correct, the last software upate for the Beosound 5 has included the "Beo 6 compatibility" for the 2-way communication?

TripEnglish wrote:

What specs are you looking for?

I have a very simple question actually: does a BM5/BS5 combo located in one room make it possible to simultaneously listen to different music from the same library in a Link room with a two-way Beo6? I guess not, so I need to envisage other alternatives. Despite all that was said on this board, it is not clear to me whether the BS5 Encore actually is the alternative I am looking for.

The point is that I do not want to have a computer or a server or a router or a network or anything switched on constantly: I just want to have my B&O gear switched on, nothing else. I am not a computer freak and I just want a simple, convenient B&O-only solution.

So if I would elect to purchase a BS5 Encore, my questions would be:

1. Can one BS5 Encore be wired to a stand alone hard disk and access a music library backup stored on such stand alone hard disk (instead of a computer/server/network switched on constantly)?

2. Next step: can two BS5 Encore located in two different rooms be wired to the same stand alone hard disk and play simultaneously different music from the same library?

3. Alternatively: can a BS5 Encore located in one room access the music library stored on the hard disk of a BM5/BS5 combo located in another room and can such BS5 Encore and BM5/BS5 combo play simultaneously different music from the same library?

In other words: what is the simplest B&O solution to simultaneously listen to different music in two different rooms from the same music library and with two-way control in both rooms (via BS5 or BS5 Encore or Beo6) without having to switch on any non-B&O computer/server/network?

My other questions would be: does BS5 Encore feature MOTS and does it play Apple Lossless (I guess the answers are: no)?

EDIT: Trip, I just read your last post and I now understand that the Beo6 only works with a BM5/BS5 combo (but how can one justify that it does not work with the Encore?) and requires a WiFi network. All right. This specific point being clarified, in essence the abovementioned questions remain open to me. Thanks.

TripEnglish wrote:

Wow. People really don't pay any attention at all. The above picture shows a feature that will ONLY be available on the BeoSound 5. NOT the BeoSound 5 Encore. Anyone who ever bought a BeoSound 5 will now be able to purchase a Beo6 and enjoy this feature provided they have stable wifi throughout the link rooms. 

I find it simply staggering that the Encore, which will be wifi equipped, will not implement two way communication/display artwork etc.

double post.

Puncher wrote:

I find it simply staggering that the Encore, which will be wifi equipped, will not implement two way communication/display artwork etc.

Yes, but it plays very well into my thoughts on that other thread where I talk about how B&O seem to do something half arsed and abondon things halfway there.

One can only hope they'll remove this crippling, and until they do, I'm not buying into any promises. I've had enough of that with a certain other company.

Hi js:

I'll try to use my limited english to clarify your questions.

js wrote:

1. Can one BS5 Encore be wired to a stand alone hard disk and access a music library backup stored on such stand alone hard disk (instead of a computer/server/network switched on constantly)?

YES: it has 2 USB connections for this issues.

js wrote:

2. Next step: can two BS5 Encore located in two different rooms be wired to the same stand alone hard disk and play simultaneously different music from the same library?

YES: "stand alone hard disk" a.k.a. NAS 😕 For your needs, you need to use a NAS and you don't have to be a computer freak, so don't be afraid if the word "NAS" appears in the solution; a NAS is simply a hard disk connected to a router... Anyway, where does come your digital music from? I guess that from your computer, so, the first step is done 😕

js wrote:

3. Alternatively: can a BS5 Encore located in one room access the music library stored on the hard disk of a BM5/BS5 combo located in another room and can such BS5 Encore and BM5/BS5 combo play simultaneously different music from the same library?

ABSOLUTELY YES: the BM5 can be used as a NAS.

js wrote:

In other words: what is the simplest B&O solution to simultaneously listen to different music in two different rooms from the same music library and with two-way control in both rooms (via BS5 or BS5 Encore or Beo6) without having to switch on any non-B&O computer/server/network?

The simplest B&O solution could be:

 - A BS5/BM5 + BS5 (one or more)

 - BS5 (at least 2) + NAS

js wrote:

My other questions would be: does BS5 Encore feature MOTS and does it play Apple Lossless (I guess the answers are: no)?

YES to MOTS and NOT YET to Apple Lossless.

PhilLondon wrote:

Trip, as you seem to know, will the 2way Beo6 work with BM5 without a BS5?

Nope. It's a BeoSound 5 function. 

TWG wrote:

TripEnglish wrote:

Wow. People really don't pay any attention at all. The above picture shows a feature that will ONLY be available on the BeoSound 5. NOT the BeoSound 5 Encore. Anyone who ever bought a BeoSound 5 will now be able to purchase a Beo6 and enjoy this feature provided they have stable wifi throughout the link rooms. 

Trip, people DO pay attention but could oversee information! And for me it was NOT 100% clear if it will be usable with the current Beosound 5 as nobody even seems to know how to configure Wifi on the Beo 6 or which functions DO already work on it.

If I understand your answer correct, the last software upate for the Beosound 5 has included the "Beo 6 compatibility" for the 2-way communication?

There was no way that a regularly participating member with even a passing interest in the BeoSound 5 could have missed the lengthy, specific, and repetitious discussions about exactly what the BeoSound 5 Encore is/does. It has to be the least mysterious product ever released by Bang & Olufsen. 

And no, the Beo6 functionality is due later in Spring.