Streaming help

[little wing]

Until about a month ago, I was happily streaming music from my PC to my Oppo 105. PC is about 4 years old and hardwired to the router. The Oppo is connected wireless. I was streaming WAV files to the Oppo with Windows Media Player and it worked perfectly. I know someone is going to asked these two questions, so I'll answer them upfront.

1 Why Windows Media Player? Because I have been using it for years without issue (although not for streaming before the Oppo) I was able to build playlists and stream those playlist to the Oppo, again without issue. (very handy and convenient) But I am open to change.

2 Why WAV files, they take up too much space? Windows Media player will not rip CDs in FLAC format, and the hard drive on my PC is over 900GB which is less then half full, so size of the files is not an issue.

I believe this all started with a Windows "update" about 3 weeks or a month ago. This happened once before and I was able to get it back. When I navigate to the network icon on the Oppo it Does Not See My PC. I have tried everything I know to get it back. Even called HP and several of their tech people connected to my PC and tried to get it back. Network streaming options, WMP streaming settings, Everything, No luck. Called netgear and opened a ticket, had them look at the router settings - all fine.

One of the tech guys at HP suggested I download Universal Media Server which I did. The Oppo did find that, But it plays shows the files in MP3, and when the music started playing I knew it was MP3. Completely inferior sound compared to lossless. I downlaoded some music in FLAC from HD tracks and it streams those files in FLAC which sounds great. But I have over 250 CDs ripped in WAV format.

Hope this isn't too long but wanted to give you a full picture.

Question 1 Does anybody know about universal media player and if it will stream WAV?

2 Is there is easy way to convert WAV to FLAC without re-ripping 250 CDs

3 Is there something better then WMP that will allow me to build playlists and stream to the Oppo?

Thanks for reading this...

 

[TLS Guy]

Until about a month ago, I was happily streaming music from my PC to my Oppo 105. PC is about 4 years old and hardwired to the router. The Oppo is connected wireless. I was streaming WAV files to the Oppo with Windows Media Player and it worked perfectly. I know someone is going to asked these two questions, so I'll answer them upfront.

1 Why Windows Media Player? Because I have been using it for years without issue (although not for streaming before the Oppo) I was able to build playlists and stream those playlist to the Oppo, again without issue. (very handy and convenient) But I am open to change.

2 Why WAV files, they take up too much space? Windows Media player will not rip CDs in FLAC format, and the hard drive on my PC is over 900GB which is less then half full, so size of the files is not an issue.

I believe this all started with a Windows "update" about 3 weeks or a month ago. This happened once before and I was able to get it back. When I navigate to the network icon on the Oppo it Does Not See My PC. I have tried everything I know to get it back. Even called HP and several of their tech people connected to my PC and tried to get it back. Network streaming options, WMP streaming settings, Everything, No luck. Called netgear and opened a ticket, had them look at the router settings - all fine.

One of the tech guys at HP suggested I download Universal Media Server which I did. The Oppo did find that, But it plays shows the files in MP3, and when the music started playing I knew it was MP3. Completely inferior sound compared to lossless. I downlaoded some music in FLAC from HD tracks and it streams those files in FLAC which sounds great. But I have over 250 CDs ripped in WAV format.

Hope this isn't too long but wanted to give you a full picture.

Question 1 Does anybody know about universal media player and if it will stream WAV?

2 Is there is easy way to convert WAV to FLAC without re-ripping 250 CDs

3 Is there something better then WMP that will allow me to build playlists and stream to the Oppo?

Thanks for reading this...

Microsoft have deep sixed media player. You need to use something else.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

streaming music over network to hardware is typically done using something called Upnp or DLNA
some relevant reading:
http://wiki.oppodigital.com/index.php?title=BDP-93_UPnP/DLNA_Media_Streaming_FAQ
1) foobar and foobar upnp should allow you to do that:
https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_upnp
2) yes - foobar can trasconver formats with optional and free codec pack
https://www.foobar2000.org/FAQ#converting_audio_files_to_different_file_formats
3) yes - see above

 

[TLS Guy]

streaming music over network to hardware is typically done using something called Upnp or DLNA
some relevant reading:
http://wiki.oppodigital.com/index.php?title=BDP-93_UPnP/DLNA_Media_Streaming_FAQ
1) foobar and foobar upnp should allow you to do that:
https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_upnp
2) yes - foobar can trasconver formats with optional and free codec pack
https://www.foobar2000.org/FAQ#converting_audio_files_to_different_file_formats
3) yes - see above

Now you have our best expert in this area to guide you.

 

[little wing]

Now you have our best expert in this area to guide you.

Much appreciated. I will try foobar.

 

[little wing]

streaming music over network to hardware is typically done using something called Upnp or DLNA
some relevant reading:
http://wiki.oppodigital.com/index.php?title=BDP-93_UPnP/DLNA_Media_Streaming_FAQ
1) foobar and foobar upnp should allow you to do that:
https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_upnp
2) yes - foobar can trasconver formats with optional and free codec pack
https://www.foobar2000.org/FAQ#converting_audio_files_to_different_file_formats
3) yes - see above

Just wanted to update you. I used your links and downloaded foobar and the component to stream. I managed to get my music files and playlist into Foobar and share, so now the Oppo 105 sees my files and I can stream uncompressed music to my system again. Thank you! I am still learning foobar. Can't seem to get album info (Cover art) in there yet, but I guess I'll figured it out.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

Just wanted to update you. I used your links and downloaded foobar and the component to stream. I managed to get my music files and playlist into Foobar and share, so now the Oppo 105 sees my files and I can stream uncompressed music to my system again. Thank you! I am still learning foobar. Can't seem to get album info (Cover art) in there yet, but I guess I'll figured it out.

try this tool - this should get toy the extra info for your music files including album art:
https://bitbucket.org/zoomorph/foo_discogs

 

[little wing]

try this tool - this should get toy the extra info for your music files including album art:
https://bitbucket.org/zoomorph/foo_discogs

Thanks once again - This also works. I am assuming that because the music is mostly in WAV format the album art will not show up on the Oppo. (No big deal) I can't seem to import my playlists into Foobar so I am just recreating them inside Foobar, and this is working fine. Not quite as easy as Windows Media Player but I think I'm getting the hang of it. I saw an option to convert to FLAC, but I need to do more research on that because it doesn't seem to work. I obviously came to right place for advise on this, you know your stuff. Thanks again..

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

this this guide:
http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/11/06/how-to-use-foobar2000-to-convert-audio-files/
see the part for flac - you'd need to download flac.exe separately here:
http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/flac/flac-1.3.1-win.zip

 

[little wing]

this this guide:
http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/11/06/how-to-use-foobar2000-to-convert-audio-files/
see the part for flac - you'd need to download flac.exe separately here:
http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/flac/flac-1.3.1-win.zip

I've noticed that my downloaded MP3s from Amazon are not visible in foobar. I'm looking at every menu and can't figure this out. Am i missing something or are downloaded MP3s a problem for foobar?

Thanks boredSysAdmin

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

just bsa,does amazon uses some soft of DRM for their files? I'm not sure - never had issue with foobar playing almost everything (one exception was WAV file with DTS soundtrack. For that I used VLC Player)

 

[little wing]

just bsa,does amazon uses some soft of DRM for their files? I'm not sure - never had issue with foobar playing almost everything (one exception was WAV file with DTS soundtrack. For that I used VLC Player)

Not sure- I'll keep exploring Foobar. Very good solution so far! Appreciate it!