HI,
No they can't. Soldered to the board apparently.
BDP1 is a perfect machine, but very limited in resources. Updating causes the playback to dropout or distort. Updating on startup is alright in the beginning of building a library, but takes longer when the library grows, though Chris has made the software speedup considerably compared to before.
Just as it can't handle the Bryston DB with large libraries, you'd better disable startup updating, and use one of the other supplied means to do so.
I find the update drive in Settings/Diskinformation to be very reliable. Clicking update in the upper left corner starts a general update of all attached drives, which is overkill mostly. Updating only a single album or song can be done nicely by enabling the 'Show missing files and folders' in MediaPlayer settings, and then click the + sign to the right of the missing files/folders.
Taking these minor nuisances into account, the BDP1 will still last a bit!
Cheers,
Marius
ps
Writing the above just made me realize that the 'Show missing files and folders' is a perfect example of the still very computerist interface many modern music-players have. We've talked at length on this board how that could be changed, should even, maybe?
Show missing
Album and tracks would be the preferred phrase i suppose.
(and let's not make it
Album and songs, which is an often seen focus on Pop-music, and seems to oversee the many customers that listen to other music, Classical for example. That have tracks not being songs...) Compare Default view, Song view, Artist view in Mediaplayer. And then listen to Mozart's 40th symphony. Ah, let's listen to the last song.... ;-(
Sorry.
BDP-1 unusable with "Enable Update at Start-up" checked ON with a db of about 8,000 songs using MM S2.24 2016-02-08.
While this feature is useful if you are continually adding to your digital library, the BDP-1 can't keep up after playing for a while and the audio drops out intermittently until the update is finished. I suspect that this is either a processor or memory limitation for the BDP-1. Can either/both be upgraded?