absolutely - I'm hoping that there will be software updated in future; life goes on...

Have you done a totall rescan of your musicfiles?

koning wrote:

Have you done a totall rescan of your musicfiles?

no; just uploaded new music files thinking that BM5 will recognize them an add to the MOTS library

Elmar 

Hi VANTAGE -

I do have the same impression when listening to the MOTS baased playlists. Do you know if your assessment has been officially confirmed by b&o already ?

If not, this might be something to bring forward - in my personal view in combination with the request to having this changed - so MOTS can chose indemendent from the file quality.

Hi,

I don't think this has ever been confirmed by B&O, I can only say that I have never experienced it otherwise: I know exactly which of my files are in high resolution, for example my Beatles collection purchased on USB-stick, and which are not (regular CDs that I have ripped). I experimented with MP3 at one stage, and it was the same, MOTS always stays "within the same category" (I have deleted these files since then, since BL5s don't like MP3, and so it should be ;-)

As for any further software development, I think we can forget it: the product has been discontinued for some time now, and there is enough development to do, it seems, on the Moment. Therefore, the only way to "mix" files of different quality is to create your own playlists using the colour buttons.

I hope this helps!

Vantage

Hello Jeff, 

I do have all my Cd's collection (about 1,800 Cd's) both in Beosound 5 and in iTunes (obviously in different formats), and I tried more times to compare the two systems.

The result is that iTunes generates playlists much better than BS5.

As you wrote, nobody of the two companies wants to talk about the algorythms used, but someone well-informed told me that the MOTS just utilize the BPM (this explains the really strange playlists it generates), and in my opinion not even the BPM are similar in the playlists. It looks mora a random.....

Interesting, thanks for the info. I've not known of anyone else who has the same music in both systems. I do know that if you look at the metadata on Apple iTunes tracks, beats per minute is one parameter. But it obviously knows genre as well, as it never mixes say Devo and Bach together, they music seems related at least more by genre, though harder rock can be mixed with more pop oriented rock. It also seems to stay fairly close to similar years as well.

Obviously both highly guard their algorithms, almost as well guarded as the secret formula for Coca Cola, or the 11 herbs and spices in Kentucky Fried Chicken!😁

Interesting, thanks for the info. I've not known of anyone else who has the same music in both systems. I do know that if you look at the metadata on Apple iTunes tracks, beats per minute is one parameter. But it obviously knows genre as well, as it never mixes say Devo and Bach together, they music seems related at least more by genre, though harder rock can be mixed with more pop oriented rock. It also seems to stay fairly close to similar years as well.

Obviously both highly guard their algorithms, almost as well guarded as the secret formula for Coca Cola, or the 11 herbs and spices in Kentucky Fried Chicken!😁

Life goes on, but till the date, no software update.... I understand that the head of B&O is actually more preoccupated to keep the company alive than other issues. But doing that, leaving the customer unsatisfied, I don't think they are doing their best for the company good.

Life goes on, but till the date, no software update.... I understand that the head of B&O is actually more preoccupated to keep the company alive than other issues. But doing that, leaving the customer unsatisfied, I don't think they are doing their best for the company good.