u/moosigny

Nvidia shield HDMI out >

HDMI 2.0 Audio Extractor splitter (to TV and DAC) >

Optical out >

Schiit Bifrost first gen >

NAD 356BEE >

Paradigm SE3 Floorstanders

Most of my listening is spotify lossless on the shield and some network attached FLAC HD tracks

This all sounds pretty good, but curious if there's an obvious miss here. More than willing to buy a standalone streamer / DAC. The original bifrost is pretty old at this point?

Would something like a wiim ultra be a much better fit as a standalone option and can i use that to play my locally stored files as well?

thank you!

I'm at my wit's end. Have had a 1tb sandisk external ssd in a usb housing for years hosting HD music for the shield. i unplugged it to move stuff around and now when i plug it into either usb ports on the shield it's not showing up:

shield pro 2019

things i've already tried from various other threads:

1. rebooted and power cycled several times

2. usb debugging setting on / off

3. usb compatibility mode setting on / off

4. plugged the same ssd into a windows machine, works fine instantly.

5. plugged a separate smaller thumb drive into both usbs on the shield - shield saw it instantly and removed when i unplugged on both usb ports.

6. removed all the media from ssd, formatted exfat via the windows machine. works fine on the windows machine. still can't be seen on the shield.

what am i missing?