Millemissen wrote:

Hi MARKFS,

"START RADIO" - that is great news for MOTS-lovers - but again a 'no go' for album listeners!

"Playlists you make in iTunes..." What if you don't use iTunes? - And - What if you do not want to túrn on your PC/MAC to make a Playlist/a Playlist of the album on Spotify, you want to listen to.

The BM/BS5 allways was a big (not great!) jukebox - now it has become an even bigger jukebox...

...and has left the 'Album-listeners' standing in the rain.

Greetings Millemissen

It doesn't matter if you use iTunes or Spotify, you still have to turn on your PC/MAC to sync the music to the Beomaster. 

1) You can drag and drop the albums from iTunes to the BeoConnect APP

or

2) You can make playlists with albums in spotify and it is synced automatically. 

same problem for me. :(

beocenter 2 option 0 - beosaund 5   

does not work correctly after I open Spotify :(

I hope they have a solution to this problem

Search function and Spotify Radio announced for end of May.

Have some trust in the old Lady ;-)

And HOW is that supposed to work???

'Fiddling' with the wheel? Or via Beo5? Or via an updated App?

P.S. I have known "the old Lady" for more than 40 years - she was not always reliable when it comes to 'release-promises'.

Grrr! Millemissen

Razlaw wrote:

I believe the solution is to put the other audio unit in option 5. If it does not have option 5, it may be possible to have it updated to add option 5. I know that is possible with the Beosound 3000. Newer units already have option 5 available in them.

Sorry, no real solution, but a workaround for some situations ....

Changing the "A.OPT" on your audio master (eg a BeoSound 3000) to "5" disables the "master functionality"
The audio system then becomes a "link slave" where you can access it's sources (CD and Radio) only locally.
Distibution of these sources to other ML-rooms won't be possible when set to "A.Opt 5". 

We need a new A-Option for the old AudioMasters.

A new EPROM to replace the current!

Com' on B&O - do your job!

Grrr! Millemissen

Bang&Olufsens web is now updated with info about Spotify in BS5/BM5.

Regards Ingvar

I´m not a big listener and havent even filled up my 500 GB harddisk in the BS/BM5 even though I have had it since it arrived in the shop. I actually picked it from the deliverywan when the first batch came to my local B&O reseller. Since then I haven´t had any big problems at all and always been interested to follow the different updates.

This one with Spotify is a big step I think and a surprisingly good one. It´s fun to have a product that updates itself after lots of years of use and ownership. For me the investment still pays, you can say.

What will be the next big thing to come?

The least useable thing is the websurfing via TV, that really lacks of performance and userfriendlyness, I guess the BM5 is wrong platform for that.

Brgds Ingvar  

I just updated my BS5, ok, I must admit Spotify is a good feature for backbround listening. I like it and my Mrs she was amazed that our "oldfasioned" BS5 has Spotify :) It ads to it in a good way - still Im not a fan of this service. I like "my" music :)