Thanks for info and links. That could work just fine, a little curious about a player, I might want to play dvd-a disk as well, like on the Oppo. But for networking, my main objective, this would work I believe. But happy to hear any suggestions on dvd-a player as well as a network player to connect to my Drobo 5N.
You all did answer my initial question though, play music via network, just curious about more than that option as well.