First I'd like to congratulate Fiio to finally be able to release the marvellous X3!
It sounds great (clean, powerful, noiseless, lots of headroom, ...) and I love the UI. In general anyway. Of course it can't be perfect right away, so I'd like to place a few suggestions:
Urgent:
- Menu structure under "Category/Artist" should first jump to a list of all albums by that artist.
Yes, already listed in the new feature in the new firmware.
- Menu structure under "Category/Genre/%<chosen genre>%" should show a list of albums (grouped by artist) of that genre.
Not sure what it should be , any DAPs carry this feature?
- Media library should respect the "Disc Number" tag, so an album with more than one disc would list the tracks correctly (i.e. Disc1-Track1, Disc1-Track2, ...Disc1-Track10, Disc2-Track1, ...). For now it seems it doesn't do that.
Yes, already listed in the new feature in the new firmware.
Important:
- Gapless sometimes doesn't work. Playing an album gaplessly (started under "Category", of course) may work fine for a few tracks and then suddenly a track-change occurs with a noticeable pause between tracks. Skipping back and repeating the same track change works then flawlessly. Not specific to a certain album or resolution (happens with 16/44.1 ... 24/192 at random).
Thanks, this bugs will be fixed in the future
- Starting playback with a new album, playlist from playing something else or from stop sometimes causes one or more noticeable clicks and pops (playback buffer set too low?)
Sorry, hard to solved this problem now. need time to figure out the real reason.
- Sorting the "Category/Album" list should not just work alphabetically, but for example be grouped by artist / sorted by year -> alphabet or alphabet only
Thanks, but need more feedback from other users, personally I think people have different idea about this.
Nice-to-have:
- Quick fade out/-in when going into seek, continue playing within a song, pause (let's say 100-200ms)
[size=14.44444465637207px]Thanks, but need more feedback from other users, personally I think people have different idea about this.[/size]
- Resume on power-on in pause mode, so the user would have to (re-)start playback
[size=14.44444465637207px]Thanks, but need more feedback from other users, personally I think people have different idea about this.[/size]
Wishful thinking:
- Intelligent/dynamic playlist(s). Based on Genre/Rating/Year/... with a memory for recently played tracks/artists (i.e. "don't play the same track twice within 24h and don't play tracks by the same artist within 10 songs" The user would only save the settings, so if the library content changes it would automatically adapt.
Sorry, it is a good idea but out of our ability right now.
I hope Fiio takes these suggestions under serious consideration, since I assume some of them wouldn't be too hard to implement
Thank you @Fiio in advance!