I took advantage of the recent sale and bought a pair of Balances. I really like them, and I can now, at times, hear a bothersome difference between lossless and Spotify. No, I'm not going to claim it's a life a changing difference, but it's enough that it's noticeable to me on certain well recorded music. Therefore, I've been listening to more lossless music stored on my BM5 via DLNA than Spotify.
I've run into two problems that maybe someone can help me with.
- Some songs don't play to completion. It is often just the 1st 10 seconds. This occurs on both the Balances and older, non-Mozart devices (and a VLC app on my phone). Does anyone know how to rebuild the music server metadata on the BS5/BM5? These same tracks play fine played directly using the BS5 so the media files must be OK. It's consistent behavior so I don't think it's a networking issue. That makes me think DLNA has bad metadata.
- The Balances will only play a single song, then stop. If I'm watching the app, it shows the cover art of the song that is finishing, then shows the Balance picture. If I hit "play" again in the app, the next song will play (and its cover art will display). It's annoying, but I've found a workaround: I play the album with an older device (muted), then network link the Balances to it. I'm assuming this is just a limitation of Mozart, but I haven't heard anyone else complain about it so maybe it is peculiar to my setup. Then again, I don't see DLNA as a supported source on the B&O website so maybe I'm lucky it's working this much? Thoughts?
