I'd be interested to know this and also:

Does cover art show?

Can it create playlists?

Can it be used as s basic music player?

seethroughyou wrote:

Does cover art show?

Can it create playlists?

Can it be used as s basic music player?

1: yes, if your files are tagged properly.

2: no!

3: yes - very basic, if you are willing to do pretty much scrolling.

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I would recomment, that you use a DLNA server, where you have your content (instead of a connected usb-drive) and a DLNA controller app (like PlugPlayer, 8Player, Bubble-UPnP etc to choose, what you want to play - and send it to the BV11.

MM

But using it with a DLNA server is not going to playback gaplessly is it? When I'm streaming music from my beosound5/beomaster5 it curtainly does not!

That is why I'm wondering if it would do that with a USB harddrive directly connected to the beovision11.

BS5/BM5 can play gapless files which have been ripped from CDs. I recall that clear from the time i owned it.

DLNA doesn't have gapless playing as far I know. You need a front end audio system or software that acts as a renderer to do this.

musicman123 wrote:

But using it with a DLNA server is not going to playback gaplessly is it? When I'm streaming music from my beosound5/beomaster5 it curtainly does not!

That is why I'm wondering if it would do that with a USB harddrive directly connected to the beovision11.

I did not answer to that question, since I have no experience/knowledge of playing back from a connected USB-drive.

The BS5 plays gaplessly back from the BM5 without issues, because it basicly is a pc-based setup.

Using the DLNA server for playback on the BV11 does not provide gapless play.

Gapless playback is a 'problem child'' for any DLNA-based system, and requires some tweaking on the renderer site.

MM