[James Tanner]

That's one of the great things about this hobby    I call it the Double EE.
Engineering vs Experience   

James

[scb]

HI James,

On the Mac both XLD and MAX support uncompressed FLAC encoding. They're getting better with each update, especially in finding correct Album Art, and convenience.

Cheers,
Marius

I didn't realize people actually used uncompressed FLAC.  I suppose I can add it to the next version of xACT

[scb]

Apple lossless will work OK but the others are just faster and Wave sounds best.

james

While I may not agree, I am curious about this question:

Do you find wave better than aiff?

[James Tanner]

While I may not agree, I am curious about this question:

Do you find wave better than aiff?

Hi

I am playing with that now and so far I statistically can not tell the difference.

James

[scb]

Hi

I am playing with that now and so far I statistically can not tell the difference.

James

I would expect that (I hoped that), since Wav and Aiff have the same data, just different byte order. 

Thanks for humoring me

[unincognito]

I didn't find that improved the sound that much...try dense concrete with three spikes sitting on an platform of Dalbergia melanoxylon wood.

Steve

Funny you should mention that as I have tried it but the wood just causes the electrons to move slower causing jitter, it's no good.  I mean you can't actually measure it, but a sensitive enough ear can tell the difference.

Chris

[jjc1]

James, what USB ports should be used for 64GB thumb drives? Back or front?

[James Tanner]

James, what USB ports should be used for 64GB thumb drives? Back or front?

Does not matter.

James

[SGK]

There are couple of things to consider.

1. The more sub folders you have, the more time (slowest) the scanning and indexing process will take.
2. MPD does NOT "arrange" the structure of files. It is up to the application you use to display them according to your preferences.

I use the following:

Artist - Album

For example:

The Doors - Morrison Hotel
The Doors - Strange Days
The Doors - The Soft Parade

Songs are arranged in the following way:

01 - Tell All the People.flac
02 - Touch Me.flac
03 - Shaman's Blues.falc

If you need to copy an album, you just copy the relevant folder.

I would have expected the browsing software/controller to be able to identify albums even when there is just one folder full of songs (from various albums).  Is this not the case? I guess having a degree of subfolders makes it easier to manage removing albums...

[srb]

Most players will read file tag information to get Artist and Album names whether the song files are all in one folder or are in subfolders.  However, because standard WAV files don't contain these tags, organizing song files within an Artist > Album subfolder hierarchy will allow most players to correctly group Artists and Albums for WAV files without metadata.  It's just an all around good sense organizational convention.
 
Steve

[adol290]

James,

Have the BDP-2's started to ship yet?

[James Tanner]

James,

Have the BDP-2's started to ship yet?

The new BDA-2 DAC started shipping this past week and the BDP-2 Player will start end of next week.

james

[louis m]

james,

will any external hard drives, whether connected by usb, esata, or nas, still need to be formatted as fat32? i would really like to be able to use hd's with greater than 2 tb capacity.

thanks,

louis

[James Tanner]

james,

will any external hard drives, whether connected by usb, esata, or nas, still need to be formatted as fat32? i would really like to be able to use hd's with greater than 2 tb capacity.

thanks,

louis

No problem - you can format to NTFS as well.

james

[adol290]

James,

To install a SSD within the BDP-2, it should not be a difficult task, say for someone who is
 familiar with building PC's from the ground up.

Open the box, screw the drive in its slot, connect 2 cables,  close the box.

I assume we would have to buy the cables, as they would not be in the box.

[James Tanner]

James,

To install a SSD within the BDP-2, it should not be a difficult task, say for someone who is
 familiar with building PC's from the ground up.

Open the box, screw the drive in its slot, connect 2 cables,  close the box.

I assume we would have to buy the cables, as they would not be in the box.

The 4 screws are already in the box and the cable is attached to the mother board for you.

james

[louis m]

No problem - you can format to NTFS as well.

james

thanks james,

installed paragon ntfs on my mac and will try reformatting a 3 tb drive tonight.

louis

[zuluwarrior0760]

James,
on the BDP2, would someone be easily able to import songs from thumbdrives to an
internal SSD 2.5" drive?  or can that only be done over the network via a computer?

Thanks

[unincognito]

Please keep in mind the bdp-2's internal drive is limited to a 2.5" drive due to space, noise and heat

Cheers
Chris

[James Tanner]

James,
on the BDP2, would someone be easily able to import songs from thumbdrives to an
internal SSD 2.5" drive?  or can that only be done over the network via a computer?

Thanks

Only over the network.

James