David Fell

That was a hopeful tip, perked me right up, as I've only been using the front port. But alas, switching sides has not made a difference. Thanks for the suggestion though. The quest continues.

Thanks. Just ordered it as I'm having trouble finding a smallish drive. But it won't be here until Tuesday, so I'll keep looking.

Yes, that's what I had discovered. Drives are FAT32, still not working.

It's a kind offer, but I am in Chicago. Thanks for offering!

Actually, my sources tell me that the maximum file size is 4GB, and the maximum partition size is 2TB. I have been shopping for USB sticks twice. First store ONLY had 64GB; second store had nothing smaller than 16. If I can find a smaller one, I'll try it! BTW, I found since my previous post that MacOS can format Fat32, it's just labeled MSDOS FAT. Reformatting, reinstalling the autorun folder, has not helped. And I sure wish spellcheck would stop changing autorun to outrun.

As of a moment ago; I have tried 3 USB thumb drives. One was 64GB and USB 3.0, the others were 16GB and 32GB, USB 2. So far no luck. All drives have been formatted FAT32 from the factory. I would try reformatting them, but FAT32 is grayed out in Apple's Disk Utility. All drives were from Sandisk, will try to scrounge something else up tomorrow.

Ok, there's something new to try. I didn't have any thumb drives lying around when I started this quest; so I bought one at Office Depot; I wanted a 32GB but they didn't have any, so I got a 64GB. I confirmed it is FAT32 formatted. But I will locate another thumb drive or two tomorrow. Thanks everyone for being so helpful!

Yes, I have been doing that since my very first attempt. I believe it is the reason why the drawer opens when I turn the player on. I inhibited the autoplay feature before I tried.

Thank you, it's good to be on the right track. I am not sure how to go about installing the software onto the BDP-80FD. Installing onto the player isn't mentioned in the Mac instructions that were on page 6 of this thread. There are now 105 pages here, and I started rereading from page 1 earlier this morning, hoping to find what I'm missing. What do I need to do other than have the USB stick with the autorun file inserted into the BPD-80FD?

Perhaps that's the step I'm missing; I don't see it on the Mac instructions; other than to have the USB stick with the files at the root level inserted into the USB port on the front of the BDP-80FD. Do you mean something else, and if so, how do I accomplish this?

I didn’t at first. I started by simply following the instructions. That took a short time. Specifying the port is just one of a large number of things I’ve tried over the past half day to try to make it work.

No question is dumb when I'm asking for help! Yes, the autorun folder is on a USB drive, containing the three files it's supposed to. The Pioneer seems to execute the code well enough to know it's supposed to open the drawer and await a disc, which I happily supply and close the drawer with the open/close button on the front panel. The Pioneer is definitely on the network. Not only can I ping it, I can use its internal browser to watch YouTube videos. I have noticed that when I run ISO2DSD, it fails instantly; unless either: The Pioneer is powered off The Pioneer is set to a different IP address than specified in ISO2DSD In either of those cases, it takes a minute or so to time out, but I end up with the same error message, libsacdread: Can't open 192.168.1.16:2002 for reading (or whatever IP address I'm trying)

Good suggestion. I had already changed it from the default 12, and am using 192.168.1.60 on the BPD-80FD setup screen. I also reserved that address on my router and pointed it at the BDP-80FD's MAC address. New thing I tried adding this morning: I went to my port forwarding setup and tried adding port forwarding for port 2002; but it didn't make any difference. Deleted my added port forwarding. Spent about four hours on this last night fiddling with settings. Its the reason I bought the player. What else can I try?

I hadn't, but just did: 43 packets transmitted, 43 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.296/6.492/171.386/25.448 ms

trying to delete an accidental double post, can't see how!