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Re: SD technology & General Mac Compatibility

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:52:23 GMT

Use Disk Utility to erase the SD card, or use the BS4 to format the SD card. Moving a song to trash does not free up the disk space it was using, you have to format it again.

I have a Mac/B&O setup and don't have any SD card problems. I copy my CD's into iTunes at 320kbps Mp3 highest quality encoding then copy to SD card.

Re: SD technology & General Mac Compatibility

Dave — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:34:39 GMT

Ah joy! Thanks so much, that fixes that, still a shame about BS4 not being competent in recording onto SD.

Re: SD technology & General Mac Compatibility

beopaul — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:27:59 GMT

Regarding deleting files on your SD card, If you're dragging the files to the trash, are you emptying the trash as well? If you don't they'll probably still be sitting in a hidden trash folder. If you're using iTunes, this probably won't apply though.

-- Paul

Re: SD technology & General Mac Compatibility

Peter — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:14:22 GMT

I had my BS2 and Powermac G5 working together OK. A few foibles (not very good at differentiating albums!) but plays MP3s at high coding rates fine. I don't have it at present as it is on loan to someone with a similar problem! Is all your firmware up to date? I use iTunes with it obviously, not Beoplayer.

SD technology & General Mac Compatibility

Dave — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:55:06 GMT

Has anyone else had issues with B&O products' SD capabilities, and mac compatibility...?

No matter what I do, my Beosound 2 and our iMac will not work together. When I try and delete files, they disappear but some how still take up space on the SD card. It is frustrating that the last few things we have bought from B&O all encorporate SD technology, but it is not compatible with our home computer. The only option we have now for putting music onto the SD is through the Beosound 4 which encodes music very poorly, to the point where it is often excruciating to listen to (especially with classical music). And yet, there is no way of changing the bit-rate to something higher.

As well as this, I cannot see why a company such as B&O produces and releases software that is not compatible with Mac. I know that the popularity of Mac's is low amongst the broad population but I would expect that the popularity amongst people who expect and demand the best in AV equipment would be higher.

Is B&O aware of the problems that I and I'm sure other people are having with their human interface software. Why are they using SD, it makes owning a BS2 and BS4 very stressful!!

Has anybody else had problems like this?