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Re: Beosound 5 Encore.... not until after summer !

Electrified — Thu, 12 May 2011 05:44:35 GMT

Sounds pretty simple. Thanks

Re: Beosound 5 Encore.... not until after summer !

Carolpa — Thu, 12 May 2011 04:52:35 GMT

the simplest way is to delete some files in the cgi-bin directory (as part of TwonkyServer) on the NAS.

the files: convert-jpeg.desc and jpeg-scale.desc

the other way is to change a setting in a XML (I don't know for now which file it was...... )

Re: Beosound 5 Encore.... not until after summer !

Electrified — Thu, 12 May 2011 02:37:21 GMT

Carolpa:

......a NAS is used alongside the BS5. I tweaked Twonkyserver, now I get the origial tag-enclosed resolution.

The downscaled 160*160 looked even horrible on therelative small screen of the BS5

Sounds good. So it is possible to circumvent this artificial limitation.

How did you do it?

Re: Beosound 5 Encore.... not until after summer !

Carolpa — Thu, 12 May 2011 01:01:16 GMT

DoubleU:

The big visual experience will be that if you're using a NAS to dump your ripped files, all your high resolution covers will be downscaled to 160 x 160. Just imagine how this looks on a 1024x768 display...

......a NAS is used alongside the BS5. I tweaked Twonkyserver, now I get the origial tag-enclosed resolution.

The downscaled 160*160 looked even horrible on the relative small screen of the BS5

Re: Beosound 5 Encore.... not until after summer !

DoubleU — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:58:34 GMT

Electrified:

You just set your NAS (or BM5 if that's the way you're doing it) as the drive to rip to. The computer doesn't care where it dumps the ripped file.

The big visual experience will be that if you're using a NAS to dump your ripped files, all your high resolution covers will be downscaled to 160 x 160. Just imagine how this looks on a 1024x768 display...

Re: Beosound 5 Encore.... not until after summer !

alenvprekrsku — Wed, 11 May 2011 09:44:00 GMT

steph:

Electrified and Stefan are right.

I own a Beosound 5 and i've chosen the BeoMaster 5 hard drive in Windows Media Player to rip the albums or tracks directly.

Fast and clever.

Use EAC!

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

Re: Beosound 5 Encore.... not until after summer !

steph — Wed, 11 May 2011 07:47:31 GMT

Electrified and Stefan are right.

I own a Beosound 5 and i've chosen the BeoMaster 5 hard drive in Windows Media Player to rip the albums or tracks directly.

Fast and clever.

Re: Beosound 5 Encore.... not until after summer !

Electrified — Wed, 11 May 2011 05:53:25 GMT

petermc:

That makes me very happy if a CD can be directly pushed onto the BS5 without first saving it on my laptop.

When the dealer showed me how to transfer music it was first saved on the laptop in Windows Media and then pushed onto the BS 5. He said it worked the same with iTunes. There was no mention of direct transfer without having to save it it first. The only reason I prefer to not to save music on my laptop is that it is a work supplied machine.

I am aware that the Olive is basically a 'computer'; what I mean is that with the BS5 it takes a computer to push the music onto another 'computer'. It would be good if the CD drive was built in for the sake of convenience.

In my situation it would be perfect.

Thanks for clarifying that you can direct transfer to a BS 5.

You just set your NAS (or BM5 if that's the way you're doing it) as the drive to rip to. The computer doesn't care where it dumps the ripped file.

Re: Beosound 5 Encore.... not until after summer !

petermc — Wed, 11 May 2011 03:59:43 GMT

That makes me very happy if a CD can be directly pushed onto the BS5 without first saving it on my laptop.

When the dealer showed me how to transfer music it was first saved on the laptop in Windows Media and then pushed onto the BS 5. He said it worked the same with iTunes. There was no mention of direct transfer without having to save it it first. The only reason I prefer to not to save music on my laptop is that it is a work supplied machine.

I am aware that the Olive is basically a 'computer'; what I mean is that with the BS5 it takes a computer to push the music onto another 'computer'. It would be good if the CD drive was built in for the sake of convenience.

In my situation it would be perfect.

Thanks for clarifying that you can direct transfer to a BS 5.

Peter

Re: Beosound 5 Encore.... not until after summer !

Electrified — Tue, 10 May 2011 08:05:14 GMT

I'm a bit miffed that it won't have a digital out*. On the other hand, the Encore should have a pretty reasonable and up-to-date DAC, which leaves me with the only "problem" of long stretches of analogue wires.

*I'd prefer a switchable (in software) AES/EBU-S/PDIF, but since I'm pretty sure that won't happen, I guess I could make do with a coaxial S/PDIF - or perhaps some small add-on/adaptor to take the signal from the beonetplug if at all possible and convert it to S/PDIF.

Damn delays.

Re: Beosound 5 Encore.... not until after summer !

stefan — Tue, 10 May 2011 07:09:55 GMT

petermc:

I think with the Olive it seems easier to get the music onto the hard drive. It seems to be a matter of loading the disc and hitting copy and it's done.

That`s exactly what I`m doing when I transfer music to my BS5 - just insert a CD and start COPY. But I have the choice between five CD drives for it, because there are three Mac Minis and two Mac books in our house, connected to the same network (Macbooks wireless) and equipped with Beoplayer. At least two of them are always running. No need to start up my BS5. Can`t be easier, I think...

petermc:

With the BS 5 the CD has to be copied onto a computer and then pushed onto the BS 5

Wrong. Music can be transfered directly from CD to BM5 - NO need to copy to a computer and then push to BM5 - as described above and in several other threads in BS5 forum.

petermc:

I'm not disputing the convenience of digital - I'd just like to be able to load music direct without the need for a computer.

Yes, my Macs are computers, BM5 is a computer - what is Olive?

Stefan

Re: Beosound 5 Encore.... not until after summer !

petermc — Tue, 10 May 2011 03:25:03 GMT

I think with the Olive it seems easier to get the music onto the hard drive. It seems to be a matter of loading the disc and hitting copy and it's done.

With the BS 5 the CD has to be copied onto a computer and then pushed onto the BS 5.

I'm not disputing the convenience of digital - I'd just like to be able to load music direct without the need for a computer.

Peter

Re: Beosound 5 Encore.... not until after summer !

mbee — Mon, 09 May 2011 03:42:07 GMT

petermc:
I think B&O need to realise that not everyone has their music loaded on a computer or they may not want to either.

I think that B&O are totally right about giving away that stupid mechanical thing of the past... Converting a CD to FLAC is a quick process, it has to be done one time for ever, instead of needing to search a disc everytime you want to play it.
I think that when you will make the jump, you will realise that CD is a thing of the past. Now you just see FLAC/MP3/AAC as a "computer thing", but with Beosound 5 Encore or things like that, it's not "computer" anymore.
But I have to agree that not everyone has their music loaded on their computer : now B&O has to follow the trend of subscription music and music servers such as Amazon Cloud/Spotify/Deezer...

Re: Beosound 5 Encore.... not until after summer !

petermc — Mon, 09 May 2011 03:29:36 GMT

On the plus side though the Olive does include a CD drive and a 2tb hard disc.

I think B&O need to realise that not everyone has their music loaded on a computer or they may not want to either.

Peter

Re: Beosound 5 Encore.... not until after summer !

jk1002 — Sun, 08 May 2011 11:49:14 GMT

http://www.olive.us/

The new Olive Audio thing is 5000$. And it doesn't have MOTS or Genius neither does it Apple Lossless.

Edit: That does not mean IMHO that B&O is off the hook for providing that.