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Re: Is BeoConnect the only way to get Musik onto his BM 5 Beomaster ?

Daniel — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:25:58 GMT

Daniel:

Stan:

Depends on the format that you imported them into iTunes. If you used Apple Lossless, then these cannot be played by BM5. If you used AAC or MP3, then yes, that's about all there is to it. If you used FLAC, then, last time I tried (a few months ago), BeoConnect didn't like those so I had to transfer using Finder. The artwork comes automatically.

How do I check this? I just insert the CD, iTunes start and ask me if I wan't to import and I accept. No questions about format.

Found it, luckily it was set to use AAC.

Re: Is BeoConnect the only way to get Musik onto his BM 5 Beomaster ?

Daniel — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:12:10 GMT

Stan:

Depends on the format that you imported them into iTunes. If you used Apple Lossless, then these cannot be played by BM5. If you used AAC or MP3, then yes, that's about all there is to it. If you used FLAC, then, last time I tried (a few months ago), BeoConnect didn't like those so I had to transfer using Finder. The artwork comes automatically.

How do I check this? I just insert the CD, iTunes start and ask me if I wan't to import and I accept. No questions about format.

Re: Is BeoConnect the only way to get Musik onto his BM 5 Beomaster ?

Stan — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:01:17 GMT

Depends on the format that you imported them into iTunes. If you used Apple Lossless, then these cannot be played by BM5. If you used AAC or MP3, then yes, that's about all there is to it. If you used FLAC, then, last time I tried (a few months ago), BeoConnect didn't like those so I had to transfer using Finder. The artwork comes automatically.

Re: Is BeoConnect the only way to get Musik onto his BM 5 Beomaster ?

Daniel — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:33:47 GMT

I have imported all my CDs (500+) to iTunes. Thinking of getting a BS5. Can I just connect the MacBook to BM5 and send them over? Will this include album covers?

Re: Is BeoConnect the only way to get Musik onto his BM 5 Beomaster ?

koning — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:41:47 GMT

alenvprekrsku:

Hi Everybody,

I would like to apologise to all my forum-colleagues and B&O, off course. It wasn´t BeoMaster’s 5 fault, but my music files were very unordered.

To play this music files and to get the artwork properly on display, it was necessary to arrange ID-tags for each song separately and for whole album.

My BeoSound 5/ BeoMaster 5 combo works just perfect, now.

I have solved the reproduction of Hi-Res 24/96 FLAC with conversion to WAV 24/96 format.

I am very happy to inform you now about my positive experience, about excellent sound reproduction, fast response and ...garnish in my living room.

My apologies again and best regards to all.

Alen

Oke',

For this time we forgive you,don't let it happen again

Re: Is BeoConnect the only way to get Musik onto his BM 5 Beomaster ?

symmes — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:10:55 GMT

alenvprekrsku:

I have solved the reproduction of Hi-Res 24/96 FLAC with conversion to WAV 24/96 format.

I went on HD Tracks Saturday, downloaded the 24/96 FLAC free sampler, and transfered the files to BM5 using BeoConnect. They worked perfectly with no conversion required. As stated, the artwork tags require fiddling. These tracks do sound very good, and recommend at least trying out the sampler.

Re: Is BeoConnect the only way to get Musik onto his BM 5 Beomaster ?

alenvprekrsku — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 04:12:05 GMT

Hi Everybody,

I would like to apologise to all my forum-colleagues and B&O, off course. It wasn´t BeoMaster’s 5 fault, but my music files were very unordered.

To play this music files and to get the artwork properly on display, it was necessary to arrange ID-tags for each song separately and for whole album.

My BeoSound 5/ BeoMaster 5 combo works just perfect, now.

I have solved the reproduction of Hi-Res 24/96 FLAC with conversion to WAV 24/96 format.

I am very happy to inform you now about my positive experience, about excellent sound reproduction, fast response and ...garnish in my living room.

My apologies again and best regards to all.

Alen

Re: Is BeoConnect the only way to get Musik onto his BM 5 Beomaster ?

alenvprekrsku — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:41:37 GMT

BM 5 is kind of a computer, right? How to prepare him to play Hi-Res FLAC's from internal HDD and external USB HDD drives. BM 5, a 5k€ computer can't do what 300€ notebook can? B&O is laying that we have full FLAC support. Why don't they honestly write down that we do not have full Hi-Res FLAC support for it.

My Hi-Res FLAC files are legaly bought on HD-tracs!

Re: Is BeoConnect the only way to get Musik onto his BM 5 Beomaster ?

alenvprekrsku — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:06:15 GMT

BM/BS 5 have a problem with Hi-Res 24/96 FLAC-s! Some of them I can not transfer at all to BM 5. Then again some I can without a problem. What could be an issue. Is it bad support for FLAC from B&O. It's sucha pitty to downgraid Hi-Res material to mp3, WMA or WAV! Any chance they will hotfix the software or something?

Thanks A.

Re: Is BeoConnect the only way to get Musik onto his BM 5 Beomaster ?

koning — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:01:32 GMT

I rip my own cd's with a free program named Exact audio copy.

For the covers I use Mp3tag V2.48.

Re: Is BeoConnect the only way to get Musik onto his BM 5 Beomaster ?

alenvprekrsku — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 05:24:20 GMT

Anyone of you guys using FLAC files in BM/BS 5 combination?

Are you also using 24/96 Hi-Res files with them?

What level of compresion you sugest?
And finaly, how to put them in BM?

Thanks A.

Re: Is BeoConnect the only way to get Musik onto his BM 5 Beomaster ?

tournedos — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 06:16:19 GMT

koning:

johnnielse:

My BM5 pops up as a network drive in Mac OSX (called BMSHARES). I just plug all devices in the router with cables and start transferring. That is pretty fast..

55G in 3hours....I don't call that fast

That's five megabytes per second, or a pretty good saturation for a 100 Mbit/s network, given that the data actually comes from somewhere and is being stored somewhere else, instead of just a dummy transfer for a benchmark...

Re: Is BeoConnect the only way to get Musik onto his BM 5 Beomaster ?

alenvprekrsku — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:31:19 GMT

An interesting topic! I also have BS 5/BM 5 combo. I have 3TB FLAC files on USB HDD. Some of them I transfer into BM via Wi-Fi. My BM5 pops up as a network drive in MS W7 (called BM-Share$). Some songs, albums and covers cannot be seen and heard and I'm not sure why. Should I use cable? What is the easiest way to transfer FLAC files?
Thank you in advance!

Alen

Re: Is BeoConnect the only way to get Musik onto his BM 5 Beomaster ?

koning — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:41:17 GMT

johnnielse:

My BM5 pops up as a network drive in Mac OSX (called BMSHARES). I just plug all devices in the router with cables and start transferring. That is pretty fast..

55G in 3hours....I don't call that fast

Re: Is BeoConnect the only way to get Musik onto his BM 5 Beomaster ?

johnnielse — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:33:44 GMT

My BM5 pops up as a network drive in Mac OSX (called BMSHARES). I just plug all devices in the router with cables and start transferring. That is pretty fast..