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RE: Oppo 105 to Sony Hapz-1ES?

Posted by PAR on March 30, 2016 at 07:48:18

In Reply to: Oppo 105 to Sony Hapz-1ES? posted by meicheng on March 28, 2016 at 14:20:47:

According to the Sony website you need to copy (rip not burn*) CDs to the HAPZ -1 via a PC on which you load their custom music transfer software. It makes no mention of direct copying. This is what they say:

" Your music, where you want it
Keep up to date with easy, wireless transfers

Enjoy all your music in one place. Download the HAP music transfer application to your PC to sync and copy all your tracks onto the HAP-Z1ES over Wi-Fi®. The next time you download a new track, it will automatically be transferred. Track names, album art, and more are checked against the online database, Gracenote, for accuracy."

When I read your query I immediately thought " how do you input the metadata ?" The music transfer software solves this by adding the metadata from Gracenote. I can see no way of adding correct metadata if you rip can directly from CD to the Sony's hard drive ( a process that they do not mention). It may or may not recognise track level data but text is not available on all CDs and can be limited in practice - a problem that can arise if you want to create playlists, for example ( if that can be done on this machine).

The other problem is a general one. Never rip a CD collection directly to a device from which you cannot back up. I have read the HAPZ-1 specification and nowhere does it mention any provison for backups. It assumes throughout that the music collection will be held on a PC or other external drive and that the Sony will automatically copy from it.

In any case you cannot transfer from CD directly to the Sony and have it then play the file as it does not support the CD data format:

"The HAP-Z1ES supports High-Resolution Audio formats such as DSD, FLAC, WAV and ALAC, as well as compressed formats like MP3, AAC, ATRAC and WMA"

So you must tansfer the CD format to one of these other formats first (what their music transfer software will do).

* NB: "burn" relates to the use of recordable optical media where heat is used to modify a dye layer on the disc to form the data record.

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