Glossary - Bryston BDP -1 Owner's Manual

GLOSSARY

AES/EBU:
This digital audio standard is also called AES3 and was
published as part of IEC 60958. It is used for carry-
ing digital audio signals between devices. Developed by
the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the European
Broadcasting Union (EBU) Several different physical con-
nectors are defined as part of the overall group of stan-
dards. A balanced connection (IEC 60958 Type I) uses 3
conductor, 110 ohm twisted pair cabling with a 3 pin XLR
connector (this is the variant used on the BDP-1 and other
Bryston products). See also SPDIF which is a variant of the
AES3 standard.
BONJOUR
Bonjour is a service discovery protocol. Bonjour locates
devices such as printers, the BDP-1 and other comput-
ers, and the services that those devices offer on a local
network using multicast Domain Name System service
records. It is available as freeware from Apple Inc. for
personal computers running Apple or Windows operating
systems. It is usually pre-installed on Apple computers but
may have to be installed on some Windows PC's.
MUSIC PLAYER MINION
Music Player Minion is a client for the Music Player
Daemon network music player. The purpose of MPD and
its clients is to allow music playback on one PC (such
as a home media server) to be controlled from another
over the network. Or, in this case, to allow control of
the BDP-1 from a networked computer. You'll will need
to enter the MPD host and port information in Settings.
As an add-on to the Firefox web browser, you must first
have Firefox installed before Music Player Minion can be
installed. Minion is available free off charge (as is Firefox)
from www.mozilla.com .
MPD (Music Player Daemon):
MPD is a server that plays music and provides a queue
and control for your music. It can can be controlled through
various clients locally and over the network with TCP. It is
a also music file decoder with various open source audio
input plug-ins and output plug-ins, using multiple outputs
simultaneously if requested. It is not a full featured music
player program. A version of MPD is build into the BDP-1
but is limited to decoder, queue and control functions. The
current installed version of MPD (0.15.8) supports the fol-
lowing audio file formats: mp3, mp2, ogg, oga, ogg, oga,
flac, wav, au, aiff, aif, aac, m4a, mp4, mpc, wv, sid, 16sv,
3g2, 3gp, 4xm, 8svx, aa3, aac, ac3, afc, aif, aifc, aiff, al,
alaw, amr, anim, apc, ape, asf, atrac, au, aud, avi, avm2,
avs, bap, bfi, c93, cak, cin, cmv, cpk, daud, dct, divx, dts,
dv, dvd, dxa, eac3, film, flac, flc, fli, fll, flx, flv, g726, gsm,
gxf, iss, m1v, m2v, m2t, m2ts, m4a, m4v, mad, mj2, mjpeg,
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mjpg, mka, mkv, mlp, mm, mmf, mov, mp+, mp1, mp2,
mp3, mp4, mpc, mpeg, mpg, mpga, mpp, mpu, mve, mvi,
mxf, nc, nsv, nut, nuv, oga, ogm, ogv, ogx, oma, ogg, omg,
psp, pva, qcp, qt, r3d, ra, ram, rl2, rm, rmvb, roq, rpl, rvc,
shn, smk, snd, sol, son, spx, str, swf, tgi, tgq, tgv, thp, ts,
tsp, tta, xa, xvid, uv, uv2, vb, vid, vob, voc, vp6, vmd, wav,
wma, wmv, wsaud, wsvga, wv, wve .
mPoD:
mPoD is a freeware application available from Apple Inc.
for iPod Touch, iPad and iPhone. MPoD is a remote con-
trol for MPD (Music Player Daemon). Note that MPoD is not
a stand-alone application: it will only work in combination
with MPD, and it doesn't play music itself. You can find
out more about MPD at http://www.musicpd.org. mPoD is
essentially a front end for MPD.
Thumb Drive:
USB flash memory storage device also referred to as a
flash drive, memory stick, USB stick, etc.
USB HDD:
Universal Serial Bus Hard Disk Drive. May be powered
directly from the USB port (sometimes referred to as self-
powered) or by an external power supply.
SPDIF:
Sony/Philips Digital Interface or Sony/Philips Digital
Interconnection Format. It is both a data link layer protocol
and a set of physical layer specifications for carrying digital
audio signals between devices and components over either
optical or electrical cable. The BDP-1 uses BNC connec-
tors which are intended to be used with 75 Ω coaxial cable.
SPDIF is essentially an unbalanced version of the AES/
EBU format.
FIREFOX
Firefox is a freeware web browser for personal comput-
ers available free of charge from Mozilla Corp. It must be
installed before the Music Player Minion add-on can be
downloaded and installed.
IP address
An Internet Protocol address (v4) is a 32 bit number usually
expressed as 4 bytes translated into decimal numbers (e.g.
255.255.255.255) used for both identification and address-
ing of devices and nodes on the network.
MAC Address
Media Access Control address is binary number used as a
unique identifier built into firmware or hardware. It is usually
shown as a group of 6 hexadecimal number separated by
colons (e.g. 01:23:45:67:89:AB). Each BPD-1 has its own
unique MAC address built into it.
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