Thanks, appreciate your help on this one. The thing about hooking up my Mac via USB is 1, I don't have enough storage on my Mac to hold all my DSD files and 2, I can't seem to get the the receiver to accept the connection even if I did. I think I would need to install drivers in the Mac audio MIDI setup but I have no idea where I can get these. Nothing on the Sony or apple websites.
On the specs sheet for the Sony STR DN-1080 it shows that .dsf and .dsdiff files are compatible for DLNA, but then does have a caveat in small print. The thing is when I try and play a song in MC it instantly come up with the errors. Not on the receiver menu. This is what gave me a Columbo style hunch that it might have something to do with the settings in MC. And I've seen that the same thing was happening with Oppo. I also read that someone had a Sony STR-DN1050 and encountered the same problems but then got it to work. So I just wondered if there was anything else that I hadn't thought about?
Thanks
Supported music formats (*1)
MP3 (MPEG 1 Audio Layer-3):
.mp3
AAC/HE-AAC (*2):
.m4a, .aac
WMA9 Standard (*2):
.wma
LPCM:
.wav
FLAC:
.flac, .fla
DSF (*2):
.dsf
DSDIFF (*2)(*3):
.dff
AIFF (*2):
.aiff, .aif
ALAC:
.m4a
Vorbis
.ogg
Monkey’s Audio
.ape
*1 Compatibility with all encoding/writing software, recording devices and recording media cannot be guaranteed.
*2 The receiver may not play this file format on the home network server.
*3 The receiver does not play DST encoded files.