File Serving Vs Streaming
Hi Folks.
There appears to be some confusion regarding the Bryston BDP-1 Digital Player and digital streaming based on our new software allowing connection to a NAS (network attached storage).
People use the word "streaming" often when they mean simply ‘file serving’, like a NAS to a computer, or a hard drive to a computer. The Bryston approach is 'file-based' and the software player is looking for the file (.wav, .flac, etc).
With streaming music, it is a packet-ized flow of TCP/IP instructions (like Squeezebox). It is in packets and requires a handshake of sorts.
That is what UpnP servers do, like internet radio, so the BDP-1 will do streaming also but the main focus is accessing digital files stored on a Harddrive.
Therefore, NAS hard drive access is not technically streaming. It is starting to be an easy term to mis-use that somehow has become the way to describe "sending files" to software players.
So in the case of the BDP-1 Digital Player when you are connected to a NAS or an attached USB drive you are ‘accessing a file’ not ‘receiving packets’ of information from a source with a handshake.
james