BeoSound 5 Forum

Re: Up and Running

stefan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:31:53 GMT

My BM5 is connected to an airport station via ethernet. All computers in the house - mac minis and macbooks - are connected wireless to the airport station. BeoConnect and Beoplayer are installed on the (intel)macs. So I can use them as clients in mac- and in pc mode. I think you can connect your laptop and your BM5 to an ethernet hub....(?)

Stefan

Re: Up and Running

sorenfelden — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:12:55 GMT

Stefan, I guess that opting not to go wireless really means that the BS5/BM5 is not suited as a "companion" for a laptop (unless you are willing to disconnect the cable betweem the BS5/BM5 and the laptop when you want to work with the laptop in your lap)...?

Re: Up and Running

Puncher — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:25:07 GMT

TWG:

But there ARE preinstalled tunes on every Beosound 5?

Is Beoplayer 5.x required to copy the data? Doesn't it work simply via network transfer (e.g. with Apple Finder or Windows Explorer)?

Can any of the new owners confirm a pricedrop!?

I'm gonna rip it with iTunes as a standard wav-file in CD format: 44,1kHz, 16bit, Stereo. It's ten times bigger than the same file as MP3 but it is TRUE losless :-)

All lossless formats are truly lossless (otherwise they would be called something else). Feel free to rip as wav format if you wish but ripping in wma lossless or apple lossless will sound absolutely bit perfectly, identical and take up approximately half the space, enabling you to store alomst double the number of albums with no loss of quality.

Re: Up and Running

IngvarW — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:43:27 GMT

You choose if you want a copy of all music on the computer, When you rip music you can choose the target to be BM5 directly without having anything stored on the Beoplayer computer.

On the other hand you have all your photos on your computer i guess, at least before you send it over to the BM5. Brgds ingvar

Re: Up and Running

Seanie_230 — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:30:23 GMT

whats all this sync business do you have to keep a local copy of your music on your PC and sync is accross to your BM5.

that was you woudl need a 500GB drive on the computer just to keep up.

is this correct

at home i have all picks and music on the beomedia and back that up once a month (ish)

Re: Up and Running

stefan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:21:09 GMT

I wouldn`t go wireless with the BM5. It has a standby mode (power consumption 1.4W incl. BS5!), but this won`t work wireless. The cable you need will be delivered with the BM5.

Stefan

Re: Up and Running

sorenfelden — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:29:33 GMT

Okay, I'm going to embarass myself big time now; I have absolutely no idea what "home lan" or "ethernet" is - my laptop has got a cable that connects it to the internet that's all I know, and I know that I should probably purchase one of those wireless connections (although I would have absolutely no idea how to install that either). I guess my lack of knowledge means I should never attempt to install a BM5 myself? o)

Re: Up and Running

IngvarW — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:29:46 GMT

Yes but perhaps 20-30 tunes if i remember. i´m not at home at this point.

I guess you need Beoplayer 5 because there you can connect to BM5. I guess you can just copy files via your ethernet but i havent tried it.

I don´t exactly know my price, we made a special deal. Installation was included by the dealer but i did it myself for fun :-).

Just put in the files to Beoplayer och syncronise... brgds ingvar

Re: Up and Running

TWG — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:14:43 GMT

But there ARE preinstalled tunes on every Beosound 5?

Is Beoplayer 5.x required to copy the data? Doesn't it work simply via network transfer (e.g. with Apple Finder or Windows Explorer)?

Can any of the new owners confirm a pricedrop!?

I'm gonna rip it with iTunes as a standard wav-file in CD format: 44,1kHz, 16bit, Stereo. It's ten times bigger than the same file as MP3 but it is TRUE losless :-)

Re: Up and Running

IngvarW — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:10:55 GMT

In my BM5 there were not so many tunes, I haven´t checked how much of the harddrive that was occupied. I guess the operating system also will allocate place.

Yes you copy your music via the home lan/ethernet from a computer with Beoplayer 5.00.

500 GB shall be enough, depends a little on how high quality you load. With Beoplayer as the ripping software I think 500GB will accept many more CDs than 250. Somebody told me you can download music in even better quality, (and bigger files)

The other question about internetradio I cant answer but I can say that there is hundreds of preloaded stations.

Brgds Ingvar

Re: Up and Running

TWG — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:39:04 GMT

22GB preinstalled music? Wow, these are some days of listening ... :-)

Does every Beosound 5 come with music preinstalled?

Does anybody know if you can manualy(!) add internetradio stations?

How do you copy your music to the system? Via Lan/Ethernet?

I'm planning to re-rip my entire CD Collection to WAV (because this is REAL losless, it's like CD RAW-Data). Will it play wav files? I hope 500GB is enough for ca. 250 CDs.

Re: Up and Running

Mr10Percent — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:22:45 GMT

Thanks Ingvar,

However, I am up and running. A few issues with the numerous B&O idiosyncricities but all appear to be overcome.

I'm busy loading-up my music and it's bedtime here so I'll leave it run over-night.

Thanks again.

10%

Re: Up and Running

stefan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:11:15 GMT

I have a BS9000 too. So the BS5 is configured as "no audio master". That means in NMUSIC mode the sound is distributed via masterlink to my BV7 and link. I can`t use the digital output for my BL5s. Digital output is working in PC mode only. I hope, Beo is working on that too.

When I listen to lossless music, I can hear no difference to CD quality.

Stefan

Re: Up and Running

IngvarW — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:48:23 GMT

Stefan what do you think about the sound Quality? Have you compared it to other B&O stuff in your home? I earlier had a BS9000 and I think the BM5 quite easy outshine that one even if its not a bad product ofcourse. I haven´t done any serious listening in the shop so this was a good experience.

I have BL8000 connected.

Brgds Ingvar

Re: Up and Running

stefan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:41:15 GMT

Congratulatuons and good luck.

The BS5 customer configuration menu is: MODE - SETTINGS - right - left - right - left - GO.

Stefan