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Thanks very much! Pretty much as I expected, but I will set iTunes to start taking in new music in a better format..... and who knows, I might get around to ripping a whole load of my more favoured CDs from source once again.... !

I see on iTunes I can 'enable' any of the following formats : AIFF WAV Apple Lossless But - as with original question - if I convert 'back' to these formats - will it improve the sound, or will it be asking a bit much of the now compressed file and essentially cause it to expose flaws etc ? Thanks !

Thanks for your reply Tyler - much appreciated and I have downloaded Twonky. Still not quite working, but I have asked a question in the Twonky Forum and hopefully they can get me over the line. Perhaps I could pick your brain a bit more though, and ask what is the best format to store music files on my PC ? In the past I have compressed them as much as possible to squeeze them on to an iPod, but I am now thinking I'd prefer to convert them to a better format in order that I get the most out of the Oppo. Perhaps 'the best format' is a bit like 'how long is a piece of string' ! But if you have any advice I'd appreciate it. I am talking about existing files I have which are currently in AAC and/or MP3 format. I think iTunes also has WAV available as an option - but I guess a question I have is whether the fact they have already been in a 'worse' format means they have already suffered some degradation and converting them 'up' to WAV won't be as good as if they had been in WAV form all along ? Thanks again for your help Ed

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I have an Oppo 95 and I have two main problems : 1) I can't get it to 'find' the music files on my computer and 2) I am fairly hopeless at solving problem 1. Can anyone help please ? At the audio end I think things are fine. The wi-fi dongle is connected to the Oppo - it locates and connects to my home wi-fi network OK. (a 64% signal strength which I am guessing is not great, but not the reason I can't get it to work). So, at the PC end I suspect I am just doing it wrong. The set-up: Its a windows XP system with music files stored in iTunes. The PC itself is NOT on wi-fi, but I do have a wi-fi dongle I can attach. (I have tried it with, and without, both to no effect). In Itunes I have enabled sharing which seems to have worked fine. I am not sure if I need to set up a 'Home Network' on my PC - or if simply having a wi-fi is what is required? I did set up a home-network, I think - including an instruction to share files and printers. Anyway, the long and short of all the above is that when I go to 'Home' on the Oppo and call up 'My Network' it has no options available there at all. Incidentally, on my wife's Mac, I have also enabled home sharing, but those files/folders are also not found. So, you can see that I indeed do not not what I am doing - and any help at all you can provide to let me know whether I am doing something major or minor wrong would be much appreciated. As a matter of interest, can you let me know whether the sound quality would be better/worse/the same if I simply copied all of the files onto an external drive and just connected direct to the Opp via USB ? Thanks very much for your jelp, Ed