Just curious - what drive types/drive capacities are you using?
And how do you backup your data?
My thought would be to get a 4-bay NAS drive for the FLAC-drive, using
RAID 5 for backup. But backing up the Oppo drive might require a
duplicate drive?
On Aug 2, 9:23 am, scolumbo <sacolu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I end up keeping both the FLAC's and the ISO. The FLAC's stay on my
> network drive for streaming purposes, and the ISO's reside on the hard
> drive attached to the Oppo. I like the flexibility of playing FLAC's
> using Twonky, especially the ability to easily select tracks by genre,
> artist, etc. or set up playlists. Also, one of the recent firmware
> revisions made selecting and retrieving FLAC files via Twonky very
> fast compared to the original firmware in the Oppo. The ISO is nice
> to have if you want to burn a backup copy to a disc or access the
> other material such as videos, etc. It requires more hard drive space
> to keep both the ISO and FLAC files, but each serves it's purpose.
>
> Be aware that there have been reports of some multi-bay enclosures not
> working with the Oppo. The Oppo also does not currently support hard
> drives larger than 2TB's. I have been in contact with Oppo and they
> are supposed to be investigating this and hopefully there will be a
> firmware update to support 3TB and larger hard drives in the future.
>
> On Aug 1, 9:52 pm, citysoundman <bobkirschn...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Thanks for the reply. BTW I see you are on The Hub, I am now a member
> > there.
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> > So since the Oppo doesn't support AOB's then that rules out the idea
> > of AOB streaming. Not a bad thing actually, since I realize that there
> > are many options that I am sorting through in order to figure out how
> > best to organize and play material. Knowing that the Oppo plays iso's
> > on attached storage might help me figure things out. But it seems that
> > Flac is really the most flexible file type - it can be streamed
> > easily, can hold multichannel and hi res media, and it doesn't take up
> > tons of storage.
>
> > So is the idea of keeping a "complete" Flac collection (ALL of my
> > audio, both hi res/multichannel and stereo CD audio) a good one? If
> > so, I guess I will be keeping multiple file types of the same album -
> > I want the iso's for backup/disc burning and the flacs for streaming/
> > playback. Or perhaps once I burn the DVD-A disc I can keep this as my
> > backup, have the flac for playback, and in theory I wouldn't need the
> > iso anymore...some food for thought.
>
> > I believe a 4-bay NAS device is next on my list.
>
> > On Aug 1, 5:28 pm, scolumbo <sacolu...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > I use Twonky to stream to my Oppo 93. Unfortunately, the Oppo supports
> > > the VOB container format, but not AOB. I have FLAC files ripped from
> > > most of my DVD-A's so they can be streamed via Twonky. No problem
> > > streaming multichannel or stereo FLAC files ripped from DVD-A's.
> > > However, since Oppo began supporting ISO's from attached storage, I
> > > now play my DVD-A ISO's on the Oppo from an attached hard drive. It's
> > > nice to have full menu control and access to any videos and the hi-rez
> > > stereo tracks from the ISO's. The hard drive attached to the Oppo
> > > also serves as a back-up to the ISO's on my PC hard drive. The only
> > > hassle is disconnecting the attached hard drive and lugging it the PC
> > > to synch/add files. There is currently no way to stream ISO's via
> > > DLNA, supposedly because the DLNA protocol doesn't support it.
>
> > > On Aug 1, 1:27 am, citysoundman <bobkirschn...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > I have a bunch of DVD-A discs stored as .iso files. I mount them on my
> > > > desktop (Mac), and I would like to stream the hi res DVD-A files
> > > > (Audio Object Files, or AOB's) to my Oppo BDP-93. Currently I am using
> > > > Twonky, and I can only stream the VOB Dolby Surround files in the
> > > > VIDEO_TS folder, not the AOB files in the AUDIO_TS folder. It seems
> > > > that Twonky does not support AOB streaming.
>
> > > > Is it possible to stream the AOB files? Or is it standard practice to
> > > > convert the files to Flac and stream them as Flac? I would love to be
> > > > able to stream the AOB's if possible.
>
> > > > Thanks in advance!
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