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Bang & Olufsen BEOSOUND 5 User Manual

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  • Page 1 BeoSound 5 Guide...
  • Page 2 Dear Customer This Guide contains additional information about your product and describes certain features and functions from the Getting Started in more detail. Among other things you can find information about settings, how to operate your product with a Bang & Olufsen remote control, and how to make your digital music available.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Menu overview, 4 Find an overview of display menus. Close-up operation, 6 How to use the physical controls of your music system. How to use Beo5 or Beo6, 7 How to operate your music system with a Beo5 or Beo6. Two-way communication, 8 How to use Beo6 for two-way communication How to use Beo4, 9...

  • Page 4: Menu Overview

    Menu overview N.MUSIC/CD/A.MEM COVERS ARTISTS ALBUMS TITLES FAVOURITES QUEUE N.RADIO/RADIO GENRES LANGUAGES COUNTRIES NAMES FAVOURITES A.AUX SETTINGS SOUND* VOLUME BALANCE BASS TREBLE LOUDNESS SPEAKER TYPE SYSTEM INFO AVAILABLE STORAGE SYSTEM SETTINGS LANGUAGE TIME ZONE MAINTENANCE CLEAN-UP* UPDATE SOFTWARE AUTOMATIC SOFTWARE UPDATE RESCAN MUSIC STORAGE* EJECT DISC* LATEST RELEASE INFORMATION...
  • Page 5 Menu overview – advanced Menus you use in the daily SYSTEM INFO BS5 CASE TEMP BM5 CASE TEMP operation of your BeoSound are BM5 HDD TEMP available when you use the pointer BM5 UPTIME and the wheel. SYSTEM SETTINGS POWER SAVING Additional menus used for DEBUG LOGGING advanced settings are “hidden”,...

  • Page 6: Close-Up Operation

    Close-up operation The music system is designed for close-up operation. You can browse in music and stations and make selections. GO button – used to confirm selections Press and hold GO to see the options you have when an item is selected Standby button Wheel –...

  • Page 7: How To Use Beo5 Or Beo6

    How to use Beo5 or Beo6 If you use Beo5 or Beo6, it must be configured for use with the music system. Contact your retailer. Soft button N. MUSIC Touch screen to select available sources Seed playing item for MOTS Back up through Beo5/Beo6 displays Living Room Bring up scene buttons...

  • Page 8: Two-Way Communication

    ALBUM or ARTIST. When you want to operate > Choose a letter to bring up a list of BeoSound 5 wirelessly with Beo6, you Albums or Artist starting with this letter. must wait for Beo6 to connect to the Albums and Artists are sorted wireless network.

  • Page 9: How To Use Beo4

    How to use Beo4 The music system can also be operated with the Beo4 remote control. The Beo4 display shows you the activated source or function N. MUSIC Switch on N.MUSIC. Press LIST to bring up N.MUSIC in the display N.

  • Page 10: Adjust Sound Settings

    Adjust sound settings Store your preferred sound Adjust volume, bass or treble settings. When you store a You can preset levels for sound volume, sound setting, your system starts bass, treble and balance. playing at this level every time The loudness feature compensates for you switch it on.

  • Page 11: Change Language And Time Zone

    Change language and time zone You can change the display You can change the display language of your music system to your liking. language of your music system DANSK at any time. DEUTSCH Change language … ENGLISH > Use the pointer to highlight MODE. Once a language is chosen, all LANGUAGE ENGLISH...

  • Page 12: The Maintenance Menu

    The maintenance menu From the menu, you can activate Clean-up function Manual software update the clean-up function to delete You use the clean-up function to delete You can choose to update software unwanted tracks from the tracks, albums or artists permanently manually or set the system to update internal hard disk.
  • Page 13 >> The maintenance menu Automatic software update Eject disc We recommend that you leave the If your music system is equipped with automatic software update setting the optional CD Ripping Device, you can CLEAN-UP use this function to eject a loaded disc. UPDATE SOFTWARE This may be useful if you have loaded a AUTOMATIC SOFTWARE UPDATE...

  • Page 14: Service Settings

    Service settings In the SERVICE SETTINGS menu, N.RADIO buffer Disable MOTS you can increase the internet If the sound seems to drop out when The MOTS function automatically uses radio buffer time and disable the you listen to internet radio, you can the last track in your play queue to MOTS function.

  • Page 15: Optional Cd Ripping Device

    >> Service settings CD Ripping Device start up Auto-rip Auto-play The CD Ripping Device is set to start up When the optional CD Ripping Device is When you rip an audio CD, you can set when you operate the BeoSound 5 close connected, you can set it up to start the system up to play the CD as soon as up, either by turning the wheel, moving...
  • Page 16 >> Service settings Music storage Music server Rebuild music server If you use a NAS as music storage, you In a setup with, for example, the This option is only available if the must set up BeoSound 5 for it. From the BeoSound 5 Encore also, you can set the internal hard disk is used as music server.

  • Page 17: Network Setup

    For the most INTERNET reliable network connection Bang & Olufsen recommends making a wired connection. BEOSOUND 5 Bang & Olufsen also recommends ENCORE EXISTING ROUTER the use of a separate router and BEOMASTER 5 access point –...
  • Page 18 >> Network setup Host name, IP address and client password In some cases you need information To change network settings … about the host name, IP address and > Use the pointer to highlight MODE. client password of your BeoSound 5 > Turn the wheel to select SETTINGS. setup, for example, if your router has >...

  • Page 19: How To Make Music Available

    INTERNET sources you wish to use available. Your music system has multiple sources for your music BEOSOUND 5 ENCORE experience – internet radio, EXISTING ROUTER BEOMASTER 5 music from a source connected to BeoMaster 5 via line-in...
  • Page 20 >> How to make music available Play internet radio To listen to radio, the music system must Activate internet radio … be connected to the internet and you > Use the pointer to highlight MODE. must register through the BeoConnect > Turn the wheel to select N.RADIO and software.
  • Page 21 >> How to make music available Play music from N.MUSIC source Your music system allows you to access Activate N.MUSIC … Music storage … your digital music storage on your > Use the pointer to highlight MODE. From the factory, your music system is network.
  • Page 22 >> How to make music available When connecting to a new music Bang & Olufsen have tested and verified storage for the first time, the following your music system on several high-end NAS applies: devices. To obtain the best possible – Your music system requires some time to performance only the verified NAS devices are recommended.
  • Page 23 BEOMASTER 5 accessory. Further options are available for listening to music from external devices, BEOSOUND 5 contact your Bang & Olufsen retailer for more information. This type of connection can only be used when BeoSound 5 AUDIO MASTER The music device you connect is the source Activate A.AUX source …...
  • Page 24 ‘control’ over BeoSound 5 is taken by the external device. This means that if the BEOSOUND 5 external device selects BeoSound 5 as output source while you are listening to, The music device you connect appears as the Activate A.AUX source …...

  • Page 25: Create Coloured Lists And Numbered Favourites

    Create coloured lists and numbered favourites You can make your personal Numbered favourites Coloured lists playlists. The four colours red, Each of the four coloured lists is a Each numbered favourite can contain green, yellow and blue are playlist which can contain several tracks, either one radio station or one track.

  • Page 26: Mots

    MOTS MOTS allows you to continuously One source at the time listen to similar music. The MOTS MOTS uses the music source currently feature measures music similarity selected to generate a play queue. on many different parameters MOTS uses only one source at the time. such as sound, dynamics and rhythmic aspects, to be able to Note MOTS play queues can only be...

  • Page 27: The Roles Menu

    The Roles menu You music system can take part Activate Play Timer in a Timer programmed on an To use the speakers connected to your audio or video master in your link music system, you must activate the Play setup. Timer in BeoSound 5.
  • Page 28 >> The Roles menu Audio master AM Option Option 0 Option 2 The setting in the AUDIO MASTER menu When BeoSound 5 is set up as the audio determines if the BeoSound 5 acts as master, Option programming must be audio master in your setup. The setting made as well affects the “role”...

  • Page 29: Source Names

    >> The Roles menu Change source names Delay For easier access to the N.MUSIC source To ensure that a connected television is by remote control, you can set the ready to play music from the music system to activate the N.MUSIC source system, a delay can be set.

  • Page 30: Change Start-Up Time

    Change start-up time If you want to make your music You can shorten the start-up time by changing the setting in the POWER system start up faster, you can SAVING menu to OFF. shorten the start-up time, however this increases the Change default power consumption …...

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