Bryston BDP-1 & MinimServer

[simoncn]

(17-04-2015 22:44)audio_elf Wrote:  Please note: some of what follows is a combination of heresy and inferences so please take it for what you will...

The Bryston BDP-1 (and later BDP-2 and BDP-1 USB) has always been a low powered off the shelf industrial/embedded motherboard coupled with a tweaked sounds card to offer SPDIF and AES (where offered) a "audiophile" power supply and running a version of Linux and the MPd music player. Out of the box it was never going to be easy to auto mount a random share to access music so they stipulated a USB drive.

As time and developments came along they added the ability to mount a share off a NAS or PC as an alternative to a directly attached USB drive and the later BDP-2 added the ability to add an internal drive (iirc) as another alternative. Recently the open source community have come up with the ability to utilise MPd as a UPnP server and this has been incorporated into the main MPd programme (as of version 0.19 iirc).

Eloise

I don't think you have mentioned network streaming in this very helpful description. What capabilities does the current model range have for network streaming?