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Oppo is NOT a a DLNA renderer, it's a DLNA Player, that means you can't control it with a third party DLNA Control Point like Plug Player on your iPad/iPhone, you need to use the own Oppo Control Point, that, as all Control Points of DLNA Players, is poor in features and only runs in the TV screen. Twonky in not a music player, it's a UPnP/DLNA Server. You’ll need to rip your CDs with a ripper software (try dBpoweramp) in a Win PC to your NAS and then stream to the Oppo, using the Oppo’s network feature. The NAS may come with Twonky, but it’d recommend Asset UPnP Server, installed in your Win PC or WHS NAS (HP, Lacie)

Wait, we're looking at solving that issue. We're working in a new version that will use MC17 from J River, However unless you use Video and Pictures from J River, you'll not lose anything by installing Sonata as you receive a full dBpoweramp software and J River features too.<br /> DigiBit team<br />

$30 is certainly a bit too much. The major Labels (and Apple) do control prices today not small distributors or web shops. The ideal scenario labels love is to sell us “forever” times the same recording, does it ring bells this history? Mono vinyl> stereo vinyl > 8 tracks > open reel >cassette > laser disc > mini disc > CD > DVD-A & SACD > MP3 download> 16-44.1 FLAC download > 24-96/176.4/192 FLAC download >…what’s next? Shouldn’t be more logical an upgrade or trade-in program for the same recording?, some hifi HW vendors do it, why not music labels? . I’d be very happy to donate my +4,000 recordings (I guess the third world would be happy to get them for free) if I could get the same albums in FLAC 16-44.1 at a reasonable price, say $2-3. Can you imagine the $ billions labels would get from this?, better $2-3 than nothing, which is the case today. But in the other hand, small labels and distributors are leading innovation, and I guess the production costs are not easy to cover with few hundreds? of downloads by our small audiophile community. If hi-rez downloads would be a very lucrative business I guess there would exist a dozen of HDtracks already and Apple, Amazon, etc. would offer it. When, and if ever, iTunes offer hi-rez downloads you’ll see prices plummeting, so business secret here, volume is required in any business to reduce prices. I don’t work for HDTracks nor for any music label or music distributor.

Devialet has introduced the most innovative piece of equipment in the last 10 years, they're trend setters. I hope they come up with more affordable products. No doubt wireless is the future; all giants (Intel, Apple, etc.) are working at it. I guess that active speakers will also boom when hi-rez wireless streaming become a reality. Audioengine has introduced a wireless 24bits -96 KHz RF DAC for $599, I tried it last week and it did play 24-96 from one room to another flawlessly.

David,<br /> Gracenote is a good database but it does not provide good results for classical. Also, as many CDs are fed by end users, it has a lot of inconsistencies; you may find the same album in the database because it was tagged differently by different users, example. The Beatles; Beatles, The; Beatles, etc. If iTunes was good enough TuneUp would not make such a good business fixing Gracenote’s metadata errors.<br /> GD3 and SonataDB are created by the companies behind, not end users, so they (we) follow a strict tagging set of rules, so, it'd be nearly impossible to find the same album in the database. Furthermore, neither iTunes nor Gracenote support extended fields for metadata. Just try to find any CD with a Style, Instrument or a Period tag.<br /> Regards<br /> DigiBit<br />

<br /> You're absolutely right, for classical it makes more sense to organize by composition instead of album but you can do that as well, just creating a new field called composition or work. Also, the search engine allows you to find any work isolated from any album. <br /> The source of the SonataDB database are ripped physical CDs, so we decided to tag as they're are in the CD is, but nothing prevent users to change that. Music labels continue to source their downloads from physical CDs and include the covert art of the whole CD, although most now offer the possibility to only buy tracks or a work. <br /> Digibit<br />

The beauty of JR MC is its ability to use multiple tags and display them, so you’ve manually tailored your tags as you like it. We had to choose some custom tags when ripping classical music, as we said, user can change, delete or add more. Regarding whether using covers or not, it’s a question of taste, most people prefer to view covers. The advantage of Sonata is that you don't have to worry about tagging for +40,000 classical CDs (growing every month). Not all people have the time and/or ability to manually tag all their collection. We have customers with over 20K classical CDs. <br /> DigiBit

Any combination of the 18 fields is possible for very accurate searches in very big collections.

Very simple, you just go to Search menu and type : Bach BWV 232 and it will show you the tracks/albums containing the work BWV 232..<br /> <br /> The BWV or Opus numbers are in the tracks field and album field. You can also view all your collection by Composer/Bach/Album, or more complex: Composer/Bach/Instrument/Soloist/Album <br /> <br /> <br />

Hi Eloise,<br /> I usualy follow your interesting comments.<br /> <br /> My tagging expert will answer your first question in deep. But if you search by Soloist A, all albums and tracks where soloist A plays will be shown, alone or with other soloist/s. But if you want to isolate soloist A performances, you can use the field "Style" and then choose "Recital" and then "Soloist A", and then only the solo recitals of soloist A would show up.<br /> <br /> Second question: Sure! as good as any other player. The extended fields are generic to ANY genre, you can customize as many as you want and name it as you like. We have a customer that has used the 18 fields to tag his 5,000 CDs Jazz collection with fields he defined: Performance venue, jazz Style, year of recording, etc. <br /> The main advantage of classical is that if you rip any of CDs we have in our +40,000 SonataDB, the 18 fields will appear automatically as we defined, but you can edit and change any tag if you want to.<br />

No, only the SonataDB, one of the four databases we look up at, have the 18 fields tagged. GD3 have also added extended tags but generally not all the 18.<br /> <br /> For existing rips, you can import your ripped collection to the Sonata, but metadata will show as is, you'll have to add the extended fields manually with the integrated tagging tool.<br /> <br /> Yes, the metadata of the 18 fields is in the file, but you'd need a player that supports the 18 fields and allows the views of the 18 fields and that is compatible with the tagging standard we use. <br /> Example: you can't import the files to Mac iTunes. <br /> Only JR MC allows that, but not automatially as Sonata does. Furthermore, any NAS with Asset UPnP software from Illustrate can also serve the extended fields to any UPnP Control Point software, but you'd lack all the other nice features of Sonata/JR MC. <br /> <br /> Out of the 4 databases, SonataDB has priority when a classical CD is ripped, if not found, then it’ll look up in the other 3. <br /> Yes, you can manually pick any of the 4 databases results, but dBpoweramp ripper will automatically provide you’re the best metadata from the 4 databases; this unique feature is called Perfect Meta, that allows to pick the best metadata from the 4 databases or even combine the results from them. <br /> Tagging and metadata is an extremely complex issue. I recommend you download our manual and read the chapters dedicated to it. Most databases suffer the same problem, most of the entries are submitted by users, that would use different criteria for tagging, not our case (or GD3) that is only done by professionals always using the same tagging criteria, so assuring consistency on the metadata. <br /> <br />

We're currently based on MC16 but we plan a MC17 version in Q1. As we only offer the audio (music) module of JR MC, we may or may not charge for the upgrades, this would depend on the number and character of new features, we've not done any so far, so we'll decide when we release the MC17-based version.<br /> regards<br /> DigiBit

You can manually create more tags in JR MC as composer, but you'll not get our automatic tags coming from our SonataDB. Sonata will return you automatic tags and hi-res cover art as long as your classical CD is one of our current +40,000 CDs we have in SonataDB.<br /> Thanks.<br /> DigiBit

Your question is already answered in our forum, Sonata will automatically tag "any" CD (not just classical) that is contained in any of the 4 databases the Sonata ripper looks up. <br /> We don't have any capability as yet for automatic tagging of the extended metadata using the 18 fields, but this is something we're investigating.<br /> If you want to tag more fields, you can do that manually or re-rip your classical CDs again. There's an affordable and automatic solution, you can use a ripping robot that rips up to 100 CDs automatically, dBpoweramp provides a software working with it. You can also use a ripping service to rip your collection.<br /> regards<br /> DigiBit<br />

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