Playing My Flac Files through my Hi Fi

[dexxas]

I bought a pionner blue ray player. specificly To play Flac files from my portable drives. The player worked fine. Then started freezing up then would not turn on without pulling the mains plug out the back and rebooting it. Finaly the HDMI port gave up. When the player was working it supported the 1TB drive i had plugged in gave no not compatable or nasty error messages. To be honest I loved it. But my only gripe was apart from above of course was scrolling Through hundreds of folders to play the music you want got labourouse.

My question on a home Hi fi What device can i use to play my 1TB portable hard drive through My Roksan equipment I have a Dac.

I since bought a panosonic DMB-DBT130 Blue -Ray It does what it says on the box its no where near the class of the Pionner. The pionner display when playing the files told you all you need to know about the song artist file type and time on the screen all the time the song was playing. The Panosonic funny about what you plug into it and needs a £30 Dong to connect to the internet. Which the pioneer didnt.

 

[splasher]

Presumably you have a computer to get the files onto the drive in the first place. TCould you use the computer (pc or mac) to play your files through the DAC?

 

[The_Lhc]

Would have to question why you're buying blu-ray players to play audio files, there are any number of capable network audio players available that will stream from a NAS drive. Get the right tool for the job.

 

[Al ears]

Would have to question why you're buying blu-ray players to play audio files, there are any number of capable network audio players available that will stream from a NAS drive. Get the right tool for the job.

Perhaps he has the right tool. Network audio players are simply that. Which is why I utilise an Oppo 105eu

I stream infrequently but also use my Oppo as a silver disc player in my system and as a blue ray player to attached TV.

It's a multitool

 

[The_Lhc]

Would have to question why you're buying blu-ray players to play audio files, there are any number of capable network audio players available that will stream from a NAS drive. Get the right tool for the job.

Perhaps he has the right tool. Network audio players are simply that. Which is why I utilise an Oppo 105eu

I stream infrequently but also use my Oppo as a silver disc player in my system and as a blue ray player to attached TV.

It's a multitool  

If he's complaining of laboriously searching through folders then he's not using the right tool, that description doesn't ring true with my experience of music streaming.

 

[splasher]

Technics do a very good app (I can only vouch for the iOS version) and it works with every upnp device I've tried it with including Panasonic bluray players. If it's just the user interface that's the issue, it could be worth a try.

 

[RobinKidderminster]

WD TV Live. Works great for flac, pics and video. And any USB HDD or USB stick.