Here is something I just learned from the software update that is pretty cool, though it may have been obvious to everyone but me, using the free eyecon app and a BeoSound 8.
Activate "server" from expanded Settings (> < > < "go" "service settings" "music server" "yes") in BeoSound 5. Using the eyecon app (I had to actually delete the app and start it again, but my competence comes and goes), search for local servers. The BeoMaster 5 shows up as a source, and you can then access BeoMaster 5 via your iThing, or place it on the BeoSound 8 and have a not-so-rich person's link room with independent access to the BeoMaster. As they said on the chain gang, "smoke 'em if you got 'em".
One caveat; It only plays iThing eligible tracks, so my FLAC and WMA lossless files won't. I'll call it poetic justice.