I also stand behind this idea to get together as a larger mass and request suppor or best if Bang & Olufsen could release the software as open source (without requesting support from them) as the product in their view is EOL but have all possibility to continue to be a beautiful stereo control unit. 

eugeneh wrote:

Now all the Music is WAV lossless, all the Album Art is there, the music plays

eugeneh wrote:

made the unfortunate choice of buying a Beosound 5/Beomaster 5 for a good price, brand new still boxed, over a second Cambridge Audio CXN

eugeneh wrote:

So back to the hell that that has been my Beosound 5 experience that is almost there

Be fair, the BS5 is more than a decade old, whereas the Cambridge is at most 2 years. If you did not noticed, the technologies have developed significantly in this period. 

It was your choice! A choice with examining the pros and cons of both, I asume?

How are the files tagged for the Cambridge Audio CXN?

Do you really use .wav files or another format? As far as I know .wav files do NOT support any form of tags. Only the pure file name.

FLAC, MP3 etc. do support tags.

TWG wrote:

As far as I know .wav files do NOT support any form of tags. Only the pure file name

And yes, the tag infos are displayed on all my digital devices.

Carolpa wrote:

TWG wrote:

As far as I know .wav files do NOT support any form of tags. Only the pure file name

This has changed. You can add full tags. Generally I rip to WAV and can tag the files. 

And yes, the tag infos are displayed on all my digital devices.

Thank you for the update on wav files. Which software do you use for tagging wav files?

TWG wrote:

Which software do you use for tagging wav files?

EZ Meta Tag Editor or MP3tag (edit tags)

Not quite true, the Cambridge CXN V1 came out in 2015, some 6 years ago, the 2nd gen V2 came out in 2018. But as for poor support for standard industry music tagging, my first media streaming device was the Logitech SqueezeBox Touch which used the same principals as the CXN and to an extent the Beosound 5, where the Squeezebox Touch was a wifi music streamer which you could also attach an external USB drive as a music source.  The Logitech would then scan the entire HD Drive and build a music library including all the artwork as well as being touch screen.  This was way back in 2010 and in a device that was about $US400.   It still works well today accepting any new CD's ripped in WAV format, it is the Squeezebox Touch I was looking to replace with something a bit more upmarket with the Beosound 5.  I would have expected as a minimum B&O as a fix would have provided some basic software to scan the Beomaster 5 for any main stream audio format and generate the required tags to display.

But any advice is welcome and I will persevere as SO CLOSE!  At the moment the WAV files play, artwork comes up, can search by Cover, just battling with the tagging issue.  May try converting a WAV file to WMA or FLAC and try tagging that to see it it makes a difference.

For both the CXN (v1) and the Squeezebox Touch the CD's are simply ripped on a PC using Microsoft's standard Media Player and ripping to WAV lossless images.  Then simply copy across the ripped Album folder to the two external hard drives for the CXN and Logitech, plug them back into the respective Media Players.  The CXN simply reads the data directly from the Hard Drive, where the Logitech rescans the Hard Drive and rebuilds its own Music and Album Art library files.

Even though the CXN doesn't seem to build any internal library, it lets you search by Artist, Album, shows the Artwork and has a mobile APP to control it from your phone.  With built in Wolfson DAC's from an audiophile perspective it is an impressive device.  Why I didn't just buy a CXN, I already have one, just wanted something as a bit if Tech Art for the lounge.  The Beosound 5 is sexy, still like it and desperately want to get it working properly.  It only came with a wall mount, so busy building a table mount for it that will create more of a 'floating' look as opposed to the standard B&O table mount.

Hence for something the cost of the Beosound/Beomaster 5, this kind of basic functionality would have been expected as a minimum, especially considering that with the Beomaster 5, it's basically a Windows PC.

Carolpa wrote:

TWG wrote:

Which software do you use for tagging wav files?

EZ CD Audio Converter (ripping, converting, tagging)

EZ Meta Tag Editor or MP3tag (edit tags)

Thank you! Learned something new. :)