Could you also post some photos? Display, menu etc.. 

We are still waiting for the BeoNet to ML converter... I hope it will come soon!!!!

Here is the first image I took : the little new thing replacing my good old CD player. More will come later!

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The BeoSound 2300 (or 3000) seems very "out of age" next to the BeoSound 5 Encore.

Very good choice, and... I too love my BeoSound 5 .

I currently use a PC and iTunes, connected via the aux input on my BS9000 thru an outboard DAC. I find Genius very useful, though certainly iTunes has other annoying anomalies in how it handles things. Sounds like the Beo has some issues too, wish there was a better solution but it seems all have faults. 

I'd be really interested in comments about how MOTS differs from Genius. Always thought it'd be fascinating to have the same music collection on both, start with the same seed song, and then see how they compared. 

Jeff wrote:

I'd be really interested in comments about how MOTS differs from Genius. Always thought it'd be fascinating to have the same music collection on both, start with the same seed song, and then see how they compared. 

The theory/engineering behind both of them is completely different.  I am sure that from a common seed there would be many similarities, but I would expect MOTS to throw out very personalised exceptions that Genius would never come up with.

There was once a bit of a discussion on this in the old forum /forum/general-discussion-and-questions/beo4-sw-version

mbee wrote:

Some would prefer a Mac, I prefer something with a user interface that differs from what I'm using all the day at work.

Hide the MAC; you don't need the user interface...

mbee wrote:

Some would prefer a Mac, I prefer something with a user interface that differs from what I'm using all the day at work.

Hide the MAC; you don't need the user interface...

Perhaps its just my library but does anyone else when using MOTS get duplicate, triplicate or more of the same song after seeding a song?  I hope B&O come to their senses and make the BS5 Encore 2 way compatible with the Beo6.

Luke wrote:

Perhaps its just my library but does anyone else when using MOTS get duplicate, triplicate or more of the same song after seeding a song?  I hope B&O come to their senses and make the BS5 Encore 2 way compatible with the Beo6.

Luke, it isn't just you, or your library.  It is how MOTS 'thinks'.  Best/worst example:  Our library at the shop.  When we got our first BS-5 everyone in the shop started bringing in CD's.  Then one of us simply brought his hard-drive from home and dumped everything into it.  So, we have about a dozen Andrea Bocelli albums, and more Sting and Phil Collins than ought to be allowed by law.  😁  If you choose "The Prayer" (or if MOTS runs across it on its own), then you are certainly going to get every copy of the original (original CD, Greatest Hits, Best Of, etc...), as well as every version he's recorded with various different Female partners, oh, and of course the one on Celine's CD's as well.  It's because all of these versions are so very similar in structure (not to mention the identical ones.)  

A lot of us have favorite artists, and al lot of those have songs on several CD's.  The best solution is to put all of the Dupes on the 'Exclude' list.

Hope this helps, gotta run!

Russ

@Silou : if you're happy with the Mac Mini solution, I'm happy for you... But I've tried this, and I've also tried the Sonos solution, and I was not so happy with them... So now I try the BS5 way, it's a totally different approach, less geek, more "audiophile"... I don't know how to explain, but the Encore is a very interesting thing.

New discoveries :

-As already stated on the old forum, there is a delay (almost 1s) if you use the A.Aux input. That means that the Encore, like a Sonos, is NOT suitable as an audio center connected to a non-B&O TV. But it seems to be the sign that the Encore doesn't simply output the analog input, but digitalises it, so that it could, I hope in a near future, diffuse the A.Aux in other "BeoNet-linked" devices, like a Sonos.

-I've seen in the old forum that there was a problem with the BS5 and compilations : there is no problem on the Encore (and I hope on the latest BS5 firmware) : at first, you see the compilations multiplied in the "cover" view for as many artists as there are in the compilations. But after the Encore has finished computing the library, you see only one cover under "various" as artist. The artist information is not lost, it's still displayed in the fullscreen view, under the cover : various / artist / title