Do I need to plug a screen and keyboard into the Beomaster 5?

Harry1 wrote:

Do I need to plug a screen and keyboard into the Beomaster 5?

No.

I've had a little win...

By plugging cat6 from beosound 5 to my Orbi router the BeoMaster 5 comes up...  I tried this before but without beosound 5 connected and that didn't work. So i've worked out that Beosound 5 must be connected....

Now what do i do. 
When i click on beomaster 5 i get 404 URL not found.

I can't thank you all enough for the help you've been giving me...

I finally have it working

It's a bit of a dogs breakfast with the cat6 cable just running along the floor from the Beomaster 5 to the router but i just roll that up when i'm not usiing.
There were some security issues around some obselete something or other but google helped me with that and now it's all going..
Now i'm ripping my CD's in WMA lossless. No need to keep them on my computer so as soon as i've ripped them and moved them over to the BM5 i can delete them.

HOORAY..

Thanks for your help everyone.. it is very much appreciated.

Jarrod

Harry1 wrote:

Now i'm ripping my CD's in WMA lossless.

WMA lossless, although a nice format, is becoming less and less supported, whereas FLAC is generally supported.

If your BS5 doesn't support it, search for the codecs........ they are available out there.

Agree with Carolpa.

Choose FLAC as container when you rip.

MM

Thanks

Does flac sound better?

And what does the cd ripper nativley rip using just out of interest because i'm not using it.

Thanks

Jarrod

Cool. Thanks. 

ill switch to flax then

i asked about the cd ripper because I have all the music from the previous owner and he’s used the ripper. I think it sounds truly astounding.

despite the nature of the seemingly compressed files even though lossless this sounds truly high end and much smoother than my pioneer stable platter CD player. 

Hey Harry, feel your pain as going through exactly the same, yep, same thing, running cat cables to the BM5 then setting up a share to the BM5 hard drive.

It has been a journey, especially tracking down where to change the BM-USER password, but once all sorted it's easy copying music across.

But quick question, I see you are using WMA format, I take it you are getting all the tag data (Album and Artist)  as I've had no luck with WAV lossless files.  I'd already ripped all my music prior to WAV format which worked fine on two other media streaming devices, but WAV is proving difficult on the BM5 and not looking forward to having convert 8,000 odd tracks to another format.