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Oppo BDP-95 wireless question

8.19.13.19

Pondering an Oppo BDP-95. And was confused by this (from their website):

Wireless & Ethernet – Using the included wireless-N adapter or the
built-in RJ45 Ethernet port, users will be able to interact with BD-Live
content, watch instant streaming programs from provides such as Netflix,
Blockbuster etc., playback contents stored on their home network

(bold mine)

So what I'd like to do is get files (FLAC, primarily) that are stored on an external USB drive to play through the DAC in the Oppo. Can this be done? What else do I need. I have a laptop that connects to the drive, and a wireless router. Is there anything else I need to get the files to play through my stereo?

Also interested in other opinions on the player. I'm primarily interested in it for audio, but would love it if it could be the "gateway" player to get me motivated to start ripping all my CDs.

It will be used with an old Classe CAP-80 integrated and a pair of Audio Physic Tempo IIIs.

Thanks in advance.

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RE: Oppo BDP-95 wireless question - digilog5 09:38:10 07/23/12 (3)
If you need to use the Oppo wireless N usb dongle (setup is the same for wired ethernet) to stream remotely files to the oppo you will need to use a DLNA music server setup on your laptop. This can be done for example with the JRiver software. Unless of course you have a NAS or a router with a built in DLNA capability and you attach the harddrive to the router itself.

Basically, you install the music software (i.e JRiver) on your pc (assuming you have windows), connect the hard drive to your laptop with music in it, then activate the software's DLNA server function and tell it to form a DLNA database based on your music content in the external drive. As all this network is connected via your router, the DLNA music list will be visible to the oppo.

Then connect the Oppo to the Wifi (the dongle is based on Atheros 2.4GHz Wireless N), and then go to network. Your DLNA server will show up there and you can go in the folder tree and select/play your songs.

Alternatively, you can directly connect your external drive to the Oppo by usb or e-sata. oppo can be peculiar with some external drives. Search around for compatibility.

For the DLNA server in your PC, you need to select a setting that does not alter, decode or resample the files pushed from the server. This will mean that files are delivered as they are to the oppo and the oppo does all the decoding.

For all cases, you need to connect a monitor to the oppo to navigate through the menus. The navigation becomes slowish if you are streaming by wifi very high res. files say 24/192. With 24/96 is not bad at all.
- RE: Oppo BDP-95 wireless question - bgunn 09:45:16 07/23/12 (2)
  Thank you. That was very informative and exactly what I was looking for.
  
  I'm still a bit confused by this comment:
  
  > For all cases, you need to connect a monitor to the
  > oppo to navigate through the menus.
  
  The TV I use for video should take care of this, correct?
  
  I'm hoping I would only need to navigate the menu structure on the Oppo one time to make sure it's seeing the drive where my files are stored (or am I not understanding this step)?
  - RE: Oppo BDP-95 wireless question - digilog5 10:15:55 07/23/12 (1)
    Correct. You need to connect a TV or a small monitor so that you actually do two things:
    a) go to oppo network menu and select the auto-detected DLNA server
    b) from within the server, browse thru the songs in the DLNA list. Example - Say that you select the first song from a certain folder, then you can hit on the remote the "pure audio" button, which shuts down the video output and then you can turn-off your TV. The songs will continue playing one by one till the end of the folder you chose. At the end it will stop and then you'd need to turn on the TV (and reactive the video output from the oppo) to navigate to another folder and play something else. Its a bit of a hassle but I am used to it.
    
    I used to have an e-sata drive connected all the time to the Oppo93. Then I changed concept and I am streaming from Netgear ReadyNas (flac and wav files) wifi to Oppo93 with a W4S Dac2.
    The main differences are that if you connect directly a hard drive to the Oppo, everytime you turn on the oppo it will scan the drive to index the music which can take some time. On the other hand the DLNA index list, is done once and it is hosted in the DLNA server you are running in your notebook. Thus it is constant and immediately available when you turn things on.
    - RE: Oppo BDP-95 wireless question - bgunn 13:34:35 07/23/12 (0)
      Thanks again. I think I'm ready to take the plunge.
      
      I already have tons of live shows in FLAC that I can start streaming, and in the meantime, I'll have a reason to start rippiing CDs maybe eventually ending up with a dedicated music server/DAC.
RE: Oppo BDP-95 wireless question - mrjdub33@aol.com 08:10:32 07/22/12 (1)
You need to check out AVS forums and go to the Oppo 95 forum, there is a ton of info on the subject. What I can tell is that you can playback hires files via usb up to 192/24 wav or flac, however a small monitor or tv is necessary, the sound is to die for as I found out via a flash drive and some 192/24 (RR) recordings! I now plan to hook up an external drive to the 95!
- RE: Oppo BDP-95 wireless question - srl1 08:59:17 07/22/12 (0)
  Please report on your experience with a USB drive. For fun the other day I bought a flash drive, copied some of my hires files to it, and plugged it into my BDP-95 instead of my portable drive. It might have been just a different day, but the flash drive configuration sounded much better.

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