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Post by ncred02 on Feb 13, 2014 0:41:10 GMT -5
best way to connect to umc-1 and would like to see on screen.
anyone have a hard drive in their audio setup?
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Post by geebo on Feb 13, 2014 8:03:59 GMT -5
best way to connect to umc-1 and would like to see on screen. anyone have a hard drive in their audio setup? 2TB connected to my Oppo 103 and works great. No way to connect to the UMC directly though. |
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Post by ncred02 on Feb 13, 2014 9:06:38 GMT -5
Does it read all the files? I tried that once with my OppO and it didn't read all of them for some reason. Maybe I didnt give it enough tim to load
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Post by kazoo on Feb 13, 2014 10:56:35 GMT -5
There is a few ways to do it but it has to go through something. I use a WD Live, which is a box to play movies on your TV and music, not too good for music. Not the quality but hard to navigate. All the new DVD players have a USB port on them that should read the HD. I have a Sony player that does it but I get a wierd skpping on the movie playback. Right now I am looking into a HTPC to do it all.
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Post by geebo on Feb 13, 2014 11:22:29 GMT -5
Does it read all the files? I tried that once with my OppO and it didn't read all of them for some reason. Maybe I didnt give it enough tim to load Most all music file types are supported including FLAC. Many video types as well. Navigation is not the best and is largely dependent on the directory structure you create on the drive. But it works well for me. |
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Post by Hair Nick on Feb 13, 2014 11:31:26 GMT -5
Does it read all the files? I tried that once with my OppO and it didn't read all of them for some reason. Maybe I didnt give it enough tim to load Also make sure you look up what format the drive is in. Fat32 would be the safest bet though you are limited on files larger than 4gb. |
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Post by KeithL on Feb 13, 2014 12:28:47 GMT -5
I connected an NTFS USB hard drive to my Oppo 93 and it worked fine for playing video and audio (note that the Oppo won't read all video formats, but it does handle quite a few of them). This was a Western Digital Passport 1 gB USB-powered drive formatted NTFS - which is how they ship nowadays. (FAT also has limitations on how big the total drive size can be.)
The only reason I stopped doing this was that, on a few occasions, the Oppo corrupted the hard drive (even though only reading it). Twice, videos I have watched mysteriously vanished afterwards, and once the entire drive became corrupted and had to be reformatted (the drive had been used a lot - before and after - with several computers - with no file corruption or odd behavior whatsoever, so it was presumably some sort of compatibility issue between it and the Oppo). At a guess, the Oppo opened the file system to read it, then failed to properly close it before powering down - which is bad.
I wouldn't discourage doing this - but now I do keep a separate "expendable" drive just for taking videos over to the Oppo to play.
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Post by autiger on Feb 13, 2014 14:23:49 GMT -5
I connected an NTFS USB hard drive to my Oppo 93 and it worked fine for playing video and audio (note that the Oppo won't read all video formats, but it does handle quite a few of them). This was a Western Digital Passport 1 gB USB-powered drive formatted NTFS - which is how they ship nowadays. (FAT also has limitations on how big the total drive size can be.) The only reason I stopped doing this was that, on a few occasions, the Oppo corrupted the hard drive (even though only reading it). Twice, videos I have watched mysteriously vanished afterwards, and once the entire drive became corrupted and had to be reformatted (the drive had been used a lot - before and after - with several computers - with no file corruption or odd behavior whatsoever, so it was presumably some sort of compatibility issue between it and the Oppo). At a guess, the Oppo opened the file system to read it, then failed to properly close it before powering down - which is bad. I wouldn't discourage doing this - but now I do keep a separate "expendable" drive just for taking videos over to the Oppo to play. Thanks Keith. I'm going to get the oppo when the xmc comes out (  ?  ) and I have a 1tb WD drive I was going to connect ( music, mainly flac) but will use a back up now from your experience. Thanks again. |
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Post by badsarge on Feb 13, 2014 20:51:31 GMT -5
Will it be possible to connect a 1TB HD via USB to the XMC-1 and have it play aiff?
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Post by creimes on Feb 19, 2014 10:06:00 GMT -5
Will it be possible to connect a 1TB HD via USB to the XMC-1 and have it play aiff? This is mentioned on the new XMC-1 page "Connect via USB or network for high-res audio from any Mac or PC, and for control of your entire system."Doesn't say what file types will be associated though, every CD I buy I rip it to iTunes as a WAV file so that way I will have less compatibility issues with other equipment, I try to use apple associated files the least I can. |
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Post by drtrey3 on Feb 19, 2014 10:16:43 GMT -5
I do not think that the Oppo works playing files for our types of users. Oh it will work, but the interface sucks with large music collections. And that is us, no? If I did not have my Squeezebox I would get an old computer and run jRiver to the pre-amp from that.
Trey
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Post by geebo on Feb 19, 2014 10:33:37 GMT -5
I do not think that the Oppo works playing files for our types of users. Oh it will work, but the interface sucks with large music collections. And that is us, no? If I did not have my Squeezebox I would get an old computer and run jRiver to the pre-amp from that. Trey Different strokes I guess. I have about 1.5TB of media on a 3TB drive connected to my 103 and have no difficulty at all and the quality is as good as it gets. Very convenient, too. After my son saw how it works, he bought a 103. |
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Post by jmilton on Feb 19, 2014 12:11:54 GMT -5
I do not think that the Oppo works playing files for our types of users. Oh it will work, but the interface sucks with large music collections. And that is us, no? If I did not have my Squeezebox I would get an old computer and run jRiver to the pre-amp from that. Trey Different strokes I guess. I have about 1.5TB of media on a 3TB drive connected to my 103 and have no difficulty at all and the quality is as good as it gets. Very convenient, too. After my son saw how it works, he bought a 103. I'll be getting an Olive One (1 TB) next month for a review. I too am looking for a better way of getting to my music on my Mac Mini other than the Oppo 103. It works O.K., -but it is not very elegant. |
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Post by Nodscene on Feb 19, 2014 12:12:22 GMT -5
You may be better off getting a media player. Either one that will stream or that also allows for a hard drive. You have the same Oppo that I do and I did find there were some formats it couldn't handle when trying to stream from it.
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Post by djoel on Feb 19, 2014 12:35:53 GMT -5
Yeah playing files via Oppo is a little cumbersome for me, while playing a certain song or album lets say it starts with a K once it's over you have to start from the beginning A, and climb back up! Other than that it's fine I guess.
If someone knows of another method via Oppo to avoid the above please post.
Thanks
Djoel
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Post by autiger on Feb 19, 2014 12:57:25 GMT -5
Wow I was thinking of doing exactly what you all have complained about - HD to oppo to XMC. Will have to rethink this since seeing all the complaints.
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Post by creimes on Feb 19, 2014 13:22:03 GMT -5
I have a 2TB Western Digital portable drive connected to my 103 playing MKV files(from Blu-ray rips) and have had no issues whatsoever with playback.
Chad
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Post by indyscammer on Feb 19, 2014 13:26:56 GMT -5
Oppo works...I do get frustrated when it does not remeber where you picked from in the list and the fact you do not get/see the album artwork. I will eventually build a small HTPC for these audio files so that I can just run JRiver as the engine. Now...if someone would create a small and inexpensive DLNA streamer that would operate as a renderer so that I could use JRiver over the wireless from my current PC...I would buy that instantly....(Hint  ) |
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Post by geebo on Feb 19, 2014 13:38:03 GMT -5
Oppo works...I do get frustrated when it does not remeber where you picked from in the list and the fact you do not get/see the album artwork. I will eventually build a small HTPC for these audio files so that I can just run JRiver as the engine. Now...if someone would create a small and inexpensive DLNA streamer that would operate as a renderer so that I could use JRiver over the wireless from my current PC...I would buy that instantly....(Hint ) I get album artwork just fine. Unless it's a format that doesn't support that like WAV. But FLACs and MP3s show it just fine. And I don't follow what you mean that it doesn't remember where you were in the list. |
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Post by indyscammer on Feb 19, 2014 13:41:03 GMT -5
Oppo works...I do get frustrated when it does not remeber where you picked from in the list and the fact you do not get/see the album artwork. I will eventually build a small HTPC for these audio files so that I can just run JRiver as the engine. Now...if someone would create a small and inexpensive DLNA streamer that would operate as a renderer so that I could use JRiver over the wireless from my current PC...I would buy that instantly....(Hint ) I get album artwork just fine. Unless it's a format that doesn't support that like WAV. But FLACs and MP3s show it just fine. And I don't follow what you mean that it doesn't remember where you were in the list. So I am using the Android app...perhaps you are right in front of the screen using the Oppo directly? I usually only stream to zone 2 which is outside. The JRiver app, GIZMO, will display album art if I am not mistaken. And one last thing...I have the BDP-93...not sure how much that matters either. |
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