beoandy wrote:

b&o recommends to buy a beosound mk2 essence to hook up to the beosound5 with a usb-Behringer UCA222.

beoandy wrote:

Bad news: There was a newsletter last week or so to all dealers. Spotify will removed from all b&o products till may 2017. (i think the spotify connect feature will be remain because b&o recommends to buy a beosound mk2 essence to hook up to the beosound5 with a usb-Behringer UCA222. (info from beo”care”)

I agree that if it doesn't work, they should fix it.  I didn't expect the "fix" to be remove it, but I guess I can understand there are probably support issues with the BS5 and the old Windows OS that it runs.  

Spotify connect *must* remain as this is the main reason I bought my Essence.

Stan

I don't really understand why. I adjusted the playlists the other day, and then it did not work on BS5 anymore.

Removing account and adding it again fixed it. Very strange behaviour.

I do not understand their communication ....
I reported the spotify problem @beocare   already several times and every time I receive the answer that their developers will investigate the problem.
Never received an answer that it will not be supported anymore ... (even last week..)
I've sent emails to Spotify support also, but no real answer either ... (they will investigate ...)
I do not understand the relationship between spotify and B&O... If you make an (expensive)  product you need a bullet proof  contract with  the other party for several years I think.. ? at least 10 years ?
The BS5/BM5 is maybe not the newest system by B&O but it still looks great (even it works with XP embedded it is stable now).
My feeling is the BS5/BM5 has still better looks than the Moment.....( but that is maybe personal)
Also we should not care what system it is running on, that's B&O's problem.... it should just work ..

Also I have problems to be pushed by vendors to use  my smartphone/tablet   as a "music system". This is not the same for me than a dedicated system.
And if you need to change to the Moment or to a Essence .. how long will it be supported by the other vendors like Deezer, Spotify etc ... there is no standard for streaming ...
This is changing the lifte time for a product drastically...  We are now even in a more "throw it away world" than before.
My BS9000 is still working perfectly, I have 2 beograms, they still work perfect, even they are more than 30 years old. Because they are based on standards.
What could we do with a today's product in 20 years from now ... nothing i guess..... Ok technology is changing quickly, but after a certain period it should stabalize and vendors should agree on a standard. 
Look at the audio file format type.. we have .. mp3, flac, wav  etc etc etc ... We' ve seen lots of audio file formats but still no consensus between vendors...
Finally they seem to agree on a charging connector  standard .;-) .. maybe something similar has to be done for streaming ... technically I beieive it should be possible. I'm a techie and i do not see any problem it should be possible to develop a standard for making a connector for streaming services. It could be like the 7 layer OSI model  for networks ... a standard for streaming music :-) 

nico

This is unfortunately the way of the "cloud".  Any streaming/cloud product now depends on an external service on which you have no control.  Maybe enough people will get screwed over enough, and people will force laws to enforce a minimum service life, but I'm not holding my breath.  Even with a 7 layer OSI standard, you'd still need "metadata" exchange frameworks (for finding songs, etc.), and in today's fast moving world "ain't nobody got time for that".

No problem here, still up and running

Peter

Today again work Spotify fine....until yesterday no new releases and top albums.

Mine is working, including new releases, playlist and favourite.

Peter