Beosound 5 & Mac Mini

Hi guys have a Mac mini running with a beosystem 3 all working great I have a beosound 5 which I have taken all the music of and using the mac to supply music, what is the best software to run on mac. Twonky Media!!

Thanks Kai,

Does that mean the Bs5 is redundant now that storage and control of the music are by the Mac only running twonky?

Why did you migrate from Bs5 to a Mac solution?

What are the benefits to this?

Do you miss the Bs5?

Be very interested on your views on this transition.

No sorry I use the mac to store all my music and would like to use beosound 5 to see the mac as a media server, so I can view all info and play music from beosound 5. Just wondered what people's experience of this is and if twonky is the best one!!!

I wasn't aware a Bs5 could scan another device. Don't you mean the Bs5 ENCORE?

If this is possible, I want one ASAP!

Sorry to put it this way, but...

...of cource that is possible!!!

You can draw from any DLNA compatible server on your network.

The BM5 uses the installed Twonky Server, 

You can have a Twonky Server running on a MacMini, but I really don't see why?

OK - if you have the 500GB version, and you have more than the 500GB of music, you might switch to a 1TB MacMini.

Running a Twonky Server (or another good server) on a NAS would be a more usefull way - lots of space and the possibility to run the discs in raid would be good arguments for switching.

If I had a BS5/BM5 combo I would try the JRiver software (for Win and soon for Mac) and the LMS (Logitech Media Server) on a NAS. The Twonky Server works great - that is well known.

 

!!!Nowadays one might create a BM5 with a 64GB SSD (for the software) and let it draw from a good NAS.

This way the 'BM5 box' could be reduced to half (or less) of its actual size!!!

 

Greetings - and happy experimenting Millemissen

This definitely works with the BS5/BM5 as long as you're willing to make the BS5 the master audio device... and, in my case, give up FM radio and unripped CDs throughout the house (which I'm not)...  same with Spotify...  I really wish it were not this way...

Stan

If you say so, you probably have tested that!

On the other hand I don't see how the choice of the server to be used as music source should be connected to choosing the master or the slave role.

Greetings Millemissen

Hi guys

The reason I want to use the mac is that all music is purchased on the mac, thanks to a few answers I see on here I will put the twonky media manager on the mac, then I can see it on bsnd 5 :)