I have the Node 2i. I already had my CD's ripped by dbpoweramp to WAV and placed on my NAS. The Node2i had no problem finding the drive and adding my library. It's almost impossible to run a wire in my house unless I run it outside so I run everything wireless, never had a glitch or problem with playback. I guess it depends what you are comfortable with.
Advice Needed: Bluesound Node vs Vault
I'd like to ask for some advice/feedback for anyone knowledgeable about the Bluesound Node and Vault. I'm trying to decide between the two and I can't understand why the Vault costs what it does. From my point of view (please correct me), you pay $700 more for the Vault to get a CD ripper and a 2TB hard drive (which costs $65 on Amazon), and LOSE wifi support. I get that it can be more convenient to stick CDs into the Vault to rip them, but outside of that why would I (or anyone) not just buy the Node and rip my CDs using my computer? There are pretty simple ways using software to get a bit perfect rip using a computer. If the Vault was $200 more I could see it, but I'm totally lost why that product has a $700 markup over a Node. Thanks in advance for any feedback!
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The only other thing I can think of is the update might have gotten corrupted during download and locked it up and it thinks its still updating flashing green/ red, did you try downloading the manual update and perform it by usb stick to overwrite. Might also be a problem with the newest update and vault 2. |
For future reference since you seem to have yours working for the vault 2 the page is https://www.bluesound.com/products/vault-2/attachment/v510_usb_stick_3-2-6/ You have to fill out your information and they will email you a link to the download page. Looks like a network problem might try removing the NAS from the vault , adding it back and let the vault find it again ? Does the Node play from the NAS? Bluesound uses SMB not DLNA I think Oppo uses DLNA |
I have my hard drive attached to a NAS server with usb and the HDD is configured as a file share and I have never had any problem with my Node2i finding the library and playing from it. IF the NAS is running a DLNA UPNP server the Bluesound will configure the drives as shares so you might have some kind of protocol problem that the Bluesound needs to start over like it was first set up. Just a thought, something to try. |