New Oppo player for late 2012

*luvdunhill* · September 11, 2012

Licensing and patents

No licenses or payments are required to be able to stream or distribute content in AAC format.^[36] This reason alone makes AAC a much more attractive format to distribute content than MP3, particularly for streaming content (such as Internet radio).^[^{citation needed}^]

However, a patent license is required for all manufacturers or developers of AAC codecs.^[37] For this reason free and open source softwareimplementations such as FFmpeg and FAAC may be distributed in source form only, in order to avoid patent infringement. (See below under Products that support AAC, Software.)

key: source form only

grawk · September 11, 2012

Right. But this does AAC but doesn't do alac and aiff.

*luvdunhill* · September 11, 2012

Oh. I agree then it's backwards. Nice catch.

Dusty Chalk · September 12, 2012

According to Wiki, ALAC was rendered open-source in late 2011 (a year ago), so they may be basing their decision on old information.

*Eric5676* · September 13, 2012

If you have the patience, that AVS thread has basically gotten into a back and forth about AIFF and it's best for you all to read it for yourselves but long/short: There's ways to get around the problem and so forth so IMO...best read but others may come away different...I don't see a "deal breaker" situation here.

*Eric5676* · September 13, 2012

http://www.everythingaudionetwork.blogspot.com/2012/09/audiophile-player-preview-oppo-readies.html

*Eric5676* · September 16, 2012

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oppo.oremote.message&hl=en

Android app for Oppo players.

Confirmed: Ipad/iphone app in the works.

grawk · September 16, 2012

Do they pay you for the advertising? If not, you should approach them and offer your services.

*Eric5676* · September 16, 2012

Do they pay you for the advertising? If not, you should approach them and offer your services.

All I'm doing is occasionally skimming some forum posts and summing up the few nuggets in between arguments and nitpicking.

Dusty Chalk · September 16, 2012

Yeah, a couple of us encouraged him, showing our appreciation for not having to read the AVS forums posts.

*recstar24* · September 16, 2012

Yeah, a couple of us encouraged him, showing our appreciation for not having to read the AVS forums posts.

Yup. Thanks eric - I appreciate your taking the time. I would rather read it here than somewhere else.

*Eric5676* · September 16, 2012

Yup. Thanks eric - I appreciate your taking the time. I would rather read it here than somewhere else.

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/asset-whs-manual.html

Apparently this is useful for taking care of any format issues or conversion issues to get around any limitations. Legit, of course.

grawk · September 16, 2012

Or just play the music on your computer, and use the oppo as a dac.

*Eric5676* · September 16, 2012

Or just play the music on your computer, and use the oppo as a dac.

These sorts of simple, straight forward answers simply won't do on a forum like AVS.

What's wrong with you?

Dusty Chalk · September 17, 2012

Or we could hack the Oppo's OS...

Is that more like it?

grawk · September 17, 2012

So prior to my current job, I'd never have considered plugging a hard drive into a bluray player as being preferable to having a media server. That said, NOW I'd do it. Stupid "you can't bring a non-gov't owned computer, or anything with internet access to work" rule.

So yah, I'd love it if the oppo played alac from a usb connected hard drive. Someone make that happen, please. I'd spend the $1000 on the oppo, plus money on the headphone amp (why did I sell my g-lite?)..maybe if I bring in the mini and apogee, but turn off wifi they'll allow it?

*morphsci* · September 17, 2012

You may not even have to spend money on the headphone amp as the Oppo has one. Although quality is an unknown.

grawk · September 17, 2012

The VTGs are pretty easy on headphone amps, so maybe it's good enough.

/me starts budgeting. Or maybe I'll get the M4 I was promised ages ago?

Dusty Chalk · September 17, 2012

It depends on the facility, but most of the facilities that I've ever heard of won't let you take anything with wireless capability into the lab, unless it is defeatable. True story, albeit second-hand -- a certain person I know had to turn over their laptop to the security techs, so that they could take the internal wireless card out (obviously not the kind that's built into the motherboard). These days, that separation is a lot harder to find than you'd think.