Love this thread. Since I don't have a dedicated music system, I've been using HomeMedia for music listening exclusively.

A better search function (even though it is dependent on the server), and Net Radio (even though it could be in a separate source) would be great.

Twonky has the "INDEX" option, which sorts the media in three letter increments (ABC, DEF, etc), but that's still not convenient enough.

As I've mentioned in a previous thread, NetRadio (software functionality) being sequestered to the Avant as a purely marketing decision seems uncharacteristic.

Yeah I also gave up on Plex after a while, also I found it would drop the feed and in general refuse to play on BV11 and to work on WD LiveTV devices plugged into older Beovisions.

Now I have Emby (link) which seems to work no problemo with Homemedia on BV11, and now flawlessley on my older BVs now running through Philips media players attached to them. (

From what I have seen so far, the new Avant update (4th May 2015) hasn't assisted in areas that we have previously written about in this thread.

If I try to play an AVI or MP3 video file, it still causes the Homemedia application to freeze and the only solution I have is to turn off and then back on the television. Surely this can be corrected in an update patch?

Hopefully we can all receive more details on what type of bugs/issues this current update has corrected.

I've just switched on my Television this morning to see an update (17th June 2015) for the Avant. A quick read reveals that there are a couple of updates, one including

"The HbbTV function of your TV now supports MPEG-DASH streaming"

I therefore ran a quick test on some of my AVI files which I previously could not play on through my Homemedia (caused the TV to freeze) and NOW they work. I am very pleased!! Thank you B&O 🙂