oppo BDP-105D

[Big Jake]

I recently upgraded my bluray player to the new oppo flagship model, the BDP-105D (Darbey edition). I had sold my oppo BDP-93 to my son a few months back and was limping along with a Sony BDP-S590. Nothing will make you appreciate your oppo more than to give it up and use something else for awhile.

But about the 105D, first thing I did after setup and familiarization was to get it signed on to my network, and then attempted to stream some of my music off my Asus PC. Immediately found out that even though the cheap little Sony would stream and play the WMA lossless files, the expensive new oppo would not. So I experimented with different file types and found that it will stream and play WAV lossless, so, looks like I delete all the music I had ripped and rerip it as WAV, if stream it to play it is what I'm going to do. But oppo states in their large manual that support for networking functions isn't supported as is other things are. I'm sure that what oppo wants you to do is to physically insert a disc into the player to listen to it that way to get the most out of what the machine can do for your music. I'm good with that. I plan to move all my CD's from the man cave out in the shop into the house home theater.

Which brings up the second thing, does anyone have any suggestions for good media storage, something that's strong, dependable? Aside from building one...

 

[rojo]

So is your Oppo streaming music via DLNA / uPnP? You could have your uPnP server transcode to wav on the fly. If you're just using Windows Media Player's built-in streaming, try MinimServer instead. It's worth the download for its library organization as well.

Otherwise, if your Oppo supports streaming FLAC or lossless M4A, I'd sooner transcode to one of those formats for the sake of storage and metadata.

for %I in (*.wma) do ffmpeg -i "%~fI" -map_metadata 0 -id3v2_version 3 "path\to\destination\%~nI.flac"

 

[Big Jake]

It's streaming using DLNA over my home network, CISCO Linksys EA4500 router, and straight from the music folder on my computer. The oppo will play videos I've stored and pics also.

I've had a hard time nailing down exactly what all file types the oppo does support, and it doesn't say in the manual either. But, some quick trial and error and I found it does support WAV lossless, as I did want it to play at least one common lossless file. Neither the Kenwood in my Tahoe or the Sony boom box will play the WAV lossless, so I'm stuck with regular WMA ripped at 192Kb for those.

 

[PENG]

I recently upgraded my bluray player to the new oppo flagship model, the BDP-105D (Darbey edition). I had sold my oppo BDP-93 to my son a few months back and was limping along with a Sony BDP-S590. Nothing will make you appreciate your oppo more than to give it up and use something else for awhile.

But about the 105D, first thing I did after setup and familiarization was to get it signed on to my network, and then attempted to stream some of my music off my Asus PC. Immediately found out that even though the cheap little Sony would stream and play the WMA lossless files, the expensive new oppo would not. So I experimented with different file types and found that it will stream and play WAV lossless, so, looks like I delete all the music I had ripped and rerip it as WAV, if stream it to play it is what I'm going to do. But oppo states in their large manual that support for networking functions isn't supported as is other things are. I'm sure that what oppo wants you to do is to physically insert a disc into the player to listen to it that way to get the most out of what the machine can do for your music. I'm good with that. I plan to move all my CD's from the man cave out in the shop into the house home theater.

Which brings up the second thing, does anyone have any suggestions for good media storage, something that's strong, dependable? Aside from building one...

I don't recall having any streaming issues with my 105, the 105D should be similar. When I have a moment I will try the WMA, but did you email Oppo about that?

For media storage I prefer the 128GB USB flash drives. I don't have trouble with USB hard drives either but theoretically I thought the flash drives, being solid states with no moving parts, ought to be better.

 

[Big Jake]

I don't recall having any streaming issues with my 105, the 105D should be similar. When I have a moment I will try the WMA, but did you email Oppo about that?

For media storage I prefer the 128GB USB flash drives. I don't have trouble with USB hard drives either but theoretically I thought the flash drives, being solid states with no moving parts, ought to be better.

It wasn't actually the streaming I had a problem with, that worked fine. It was that the oppo wouldn't decode WMA "lossless." A quick rip to a WAV lossless file and it had no problem with that. Long process to rerip everything but worth it in the end I believe. I'd have the same problem with a thumb drive if it had WMA lossless on it, the oppo wouldn't read it. Not a big problem though, since it's easy enough, just time consuming, to rerip everything WAV lossless.

Here's my new 105D, PENG...

 

[PENG]

It wasn't actually the streaming I had a problem with, that worked fine. It was that the oppo wouldn't decode WMA "lossless." A quick rip to a WAV lossless file and it had no problem with that. Long process to rerip everything but worth it in the end I believe. I'd have the same problem with a thumb drive if it had WMA lossless on it, the oppo wouldn't read it. Not a big problem though, since it's easy enough, just time consuming, to rerip everything WAV lossless.

Here's my new 105D, PENG...

Understood, I meant streaming wma. I have all sorts of files including wma on my server and don't recall anything that the 105 cannot play. I will double check later. I will try them on a flash drive as well and report back.

 

[Big Jake]

Understood, I meant streaming wma. I have all sorts of files including wma on my server and don't recall anything that the 105 cannot play. I will double check later. I will try them on a flash drive as well and report back.

OK... I'll tell ya what though, it WILL play regular WMA, just not WMA *lossless*. Don't know about WMA pro, or WMA variable bit rate either. Never ripped anything using that before. I just always preferred the lossless.

Cool you have your own server.

 

[PENG]

OK... I'll tell ya what though, it WILL play regular WMA, just not WMA *lossless*. Don't know about WMA pro, or WMA variable bit rate either. Never ripped anything using that before. I just always preferred the lossless.

Cool you have your own server.

That's what I found, won't play wma lossless. Actually I don't have any wma lossless, have to download them to try. So I learnt something new thanks to you. No I don't really have a server, it's just my desktop PC, a server only to me.

 

[Big Jake]

That's what I found, won't play wma lossless. Actually I don't have any wma lossless, have to download them to try. So I learnt something new thanks to you. No I don't really have a server, it's just my desktop PC, a server only to me.

It is a beautiful machine though and in my opinion worth every penny. I can see that what oppo really wants you to do is physically insert a disc to play your media so they can show off what their player can do for it. I'm good with that. I have all my CD's out in the man cave, but I plan on moving those into the home theater. I use streaming and digital storage to play music in the man cave, and play discs in the HT.

I've really outgrown my media storage too. Have any suggestions on good media racks with large storage?

 

[PENG]

It is a beautiful machine though and in my opinion worth every penny. I can see that what oppo really wants you to do is physically insert a disc to play your media so they can show off what their player can do for it. I'm good with that. I have all my CD's out in the man cave, but I plan on moving those into the home theater. I using streaming and digital storage to play music in the man cave, and play discs in the HT.

I've really outgrown my media storage too. Have any suggestions on good media racks with large storage?

Ironically I rarely use my 105 to play disc, may be a few times a year. I use it 99% for streaming and playing files off usb flash drives and almost exclusively stereo only. For media storage I simply use bookshelves for disc. Once I finish ripping my CDs my storage needs will be for DVDs, BRs, HDDVDs, DVDAs and SCADs only.