Long time Bryston digital player owner here; I would say many Bryston owners do not use their own web app except for updates and admin functions. Since Bryston uses MPD database, there are several generic MPD music players that work well for your own attached music (I use Rigelian which is excellent). However if you want to use streamed sources like Tidal, you are stuck with the Bryston Manic Moose.
Superb Bryston BDA-3.14
My new Bryston BDA-3.14 was delivered today.
Bryston assured me that the product is compatible with OSX.
Imagine my surprise when I tried to mount an Apple share using the ‘User Friendly’ NAS Setup system only to get the message “apple error” pop up on browser.
Having twenty years experience managing Linux systems I decided to establish an ssh session to have a look at the perfectly setup Debian system.
Well, well, well the 16 year old at Bryston done got forgotten to install the afpfs and afpcmd binaries. Gosh darn Bryston, how did that happen?
The apache log is riddled with PHP errors so it’s not surprising nothing shows up on the beautifully crafted interface when searching for “The Beatles”, no that’s a bit unfair some sort of list pops up 35 seconds later, if you are lucky
Here’s some advice Bryston: just stick to making audio equipment.
So many articles wax poetic about the Manic Moose interface, what a compete and utter joke this is compared to a professionally written software package like Audirvana.
The only saving grace is the DAC itself, but if you cannot navigate easily to the music you want to listen to it’s completely pointless.