I'm finally giving up on the BDP-1. I unplugged it after being frustrated for months and having to do this dance.
Forget Roon, streaming services, fancy UI, etc. The BDP-1 with the current firmware cannot do what it was promised to do. The BDP-1 of today is NOT able to perform the SAME tasks that it was able to perform back when I purchased it around 2014/15.
I don't use streaming services with the BDP-1. I have Roon but don't use it with BDP-1. I don't have any database setup or additional processing going on. The only thing that I bought this machine and needed to do was to play my own local tracks off folder view. THAT'S IT!!! Now it can't even do that. My drives, network topology/devices, library size all haven't changed in years.
When I got the machine in 2015 I put songs on a hard drive, plugged it in, let BDP-1 take minutes to set up Manic Moose basic folder view and then that's it. It would continue to stay online and play music and access the browser "
http://bryston-bdp-1.local" without issues for days and weeks.
Now, the BDP-1 freezes daily. It constantly either freezes or stutters when going between folders, or the device won't even show up in the browser. The front buttons also stop responding half the time. It always requires restarts and that only buys you some time.
Bryston, please tell me how I can return to a firmware from 2015/2016.
I just want to be able to use basic folder view on Manic Moose with local library (no database required). Just barebones operation. I just want it to work and be reliable like it was back then. That was at least something that was promised even back in 2011 or whenever the BDP-1 first came out. Now it cannot even do fulfill its original purpose!
I use my computers for streaming and Roon. Forget bringing all that to Bryston, or Roon Core to BDPs itself (well past given on that pipe dream), just at least do your original job well, please!
Local files and basic folder view on BDP-1 with reliability...is this no longer a possibility? Bryston, please help.