Steve at Sounds Heavenly wrote:

Hi Duels,

The other option is to plug the Behringer USB adapter into a computer and use it as an external sound card. The Beolab 18s can then connect to the minijack or RCA outputs of the Behringer, controlled from your computer.....

Kind regards, Steve.

Steve.

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Hi Duels,

I started out using a similar Behringer USB device (the Xenyx 302USB mixer) as an input to my Beosound 9000, then I also found that I used streaming services more than CDs, so Lee kindly arranged to sell the 9000 for me and I now have my Penta 3 and Beolab 3000 speakers connected directly to the Benringer.  The sound is superb and easy to control via my PC or the physical volume dials on the USB adapter.

Kind regards, Steve.

Hello,

My B&O dealer in Belgium informed me last week that B&O offers a price reduction of 20% on

• Beosound Moment
• Beosound Core

for customers that own a Beosound 5 as compensation for the loss of Spotify functionality.

I think I will go for the Beosound Core.

Luc

Hey,

I cannot accept an offer like this. This is the margin a dealer has on B&O equipment (before bonus). So they don't do any effort at all. 40% would be more acceptable as you still will not have the comfort of use as you had before. 

I also refuse to pay 500euro to get a (lesser) function than something which worked perfectly until two months.

my current best solution is that i connected a chromcast (without hassle and the bad sound of the behringer) directly to my Bv7-40 (programmed as DTV2) so in my link rooms I press DTV2 and on my linktv's A-DTV2 (provided that this port is not used locally for anything else). And what is important this works even when someone is watching the BV7-40 or is off.

kr

Hello,

Everybody here seem to have forget this post : /forum/imported-unmapped/spotify-connect-player-for-bs5

I had never use Spotify function in Beosound 5, I put spotify directly in Windows on the Beomaster 5 and can use my smartphone or either to control realy much easely has you did before.

No need Chromecast or what else !!

The whole point of Spotify on the BeoSound was that you had a deep integration with the BeoSound 5 interface. The BeoSound Moment gives ever better integration of Deezer.

As of now, Spotify is dead to me. I'm quite happy with Deezer. I've used the Spotizr app recommended in the BeoSound Moment setup to transfer all of my Spotify playlists over to Deezer. It was amazingly easy to do this. Just a few quick clicks. Over 95% of my playlist music was successfully transferred to Deezer. I'll be canceling my Spotify account now.

Remy wrote:

I've heard from a local B&O dealer, that B&O is busy with testing some new software for the BS5.

That was 2 months ago, he had a BS5 with the Beta-version running, but could not (not allowed to) tell me more about the changes.

Fingers crossed, hope good news will follow soon.

Prices of BS5 systems are dropping verry hard. A secondlife dealer only gives me 600-650 euro's for my BS5 system

Hi,

I might have some news on this. Few months ago my B&O dealer said that they would provide a chrome cast and something else for free to be able to use spotify connect. 

Then it went silent for a loong time and I contacted them again some weeks ago and they told me they were still testing a solution.

Today they called me that they are ready to install the solution on the 12th. I asked if this was the chrome cast solution and they said 'no, that was crap, the sound quality of this other module was very bad' and they got no support from B&O.

This would be an application, still using AUX; but i had to agree that there will be no support on this application should spotify 'change something again'. So i wonder if this is the solution that's mentioned here.