Not all albums are HiRes on Apple Music. Check the album or song label, it should be marked as Lossless which is 44.1, HiRes Lossless or Dolby for Spatial Audio. You will also need to change some settings in Music for it to download on the highest resolution. Also not all the songs in the...

That is my point, why it is advertised as a full MQA decoder on Amazon when it is not. Wonder how Fiio did it for the Q3-MQA and the BTR15. The UA4 is just a MQA Renderer, you guys need to change the description, it is not accurate.

I purchased the UA4 recently from Amazon as the description says it is a FULL MQA decoder. It turns out it is not. Too expensive for not being a MQA decoder. My Fiio Q3 MQA and BTR15 are doing full decoding from Foobar2000 (exclusive) output, but when I hook up the UA4 it stays in PCM...

Is @MrWalkman still around in 2024? I am using one of the modified firmware for the NW-A45 but having a lot of issues with Fiio BTR15 and UAC 2.0. It only works with Fiio BTR15 in UAC 1.0 mode, but the sound is horrible, lots of crackles and pops.

Finally, I found the UAC settings on the menu. Now it works, sort of....music now has crackle and pops, a song that is 192Khz/24bit shows as PCM 96K, but sounds horrible. Firmware is v3.5

Has anyone been able to use the BTR15 connected as USB DAC to a Sony Walkman NW-A45? Every time I connect it shows PCM 44.1K and then the screen switches back to the Phone Mode screen. Which mode should I use for Sony Players, PC Mode or Phone Mode? The Walkman works fine with a FIIO Q3-MQA...

I purchased one 3 months ago at Amazon.com to hook up a FIIO Q3 MQA to my NW-A45. But it looks like there are no local US sellers anymore. All sellers are from Japan and price is double of what I pay for:WMC-NWH10

The Sony NW-A45 is $148 in Amazon US right now for those still interested. Sold by Amazon.

That one is a tricky one. Check that the Album names artist name matches exactly among all discs. I think case sensitivity, extra space or comma or only one letter in different case does that. For example, if you have a title in one disc as The Wall Disc 1 and The Wall Disc 2, they will show...

Same thing happened to me, and it was really frustrating. Mine was formatted in a Fiio X3 2nd gen. Finally someone in this thread pointed me to this tool: https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ It fixed it and my card started working on the A45. Hope this help.

Yes , it is weird. As when it is plugged in volume up and down buttons don”t work. But now I enjoy more listening with my WH1000XM2 than wired. Sony has done a good job with LDAC.

So I purchased this for my A45: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sony-Walkman-MP3-Player-WM-Port-LOD-Line-Out-Dock-To-Headphone-Amplifier-Adapter/281118806230?epid=2178320636&hash=item4173fc90d6:g:oAUAAOSw~xFZjmcu If it is not LO then what iis it? I can feed the signal to my FIIO E11 fine. While this...

I don’t see a difference with other OS. Mount the SD card and either use vi or a bash command to create an empty m3u file.

When I do it externally I use foobar 2000 to create my playlists as copy and pasting is tedious as I have to find the nested folders structure to find the song I want. On foobar I just drag and drop the song to the playlist. The process of finding the song and adding it to the playlist one by...

On the NW-A45 an empty file with no tags works. When you add a song in the player a line with the #EXT tag is created.

I also have the WH1000XM2 and LDAC is excellent. I miss the control you have on iOS using the Sony Headphones App. I guess it is possible for Sony to enable those options in a future firmware on the NW-A45 as the options are there but for 2 specific earbuds models. I also had some artwork...

In Windows I just have to right click on an empty space in Windows Explorer and choose create Text Document, change the extension to m3u. On Mac, Finder don't have an option like that on the context menu, so I think you just have to open TextEdit, change the format of the document to Plain...

Compared to a FIIO this is really easy on the NW-A45. I don't use Sony Music Center but copy everything directly to the MicroSD Card. You can't CREATE playlists using the DAP. I usually have 2 methods: 1. Using a computer and foobar: Have the same file structure on my computer drive and use...

I ordered this one https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F112733138458 Should be here tomorrow or Wednesday.

Is yours a X1 or a X3. Mine is an X3, which format the SD card in FAT32. Issue is that I used Windows 10 to reformat the cards to exFat, but still they were not recognized by either the A45 or my Sony camera. Sony UI compared to Fiio is night and day, the only thing I miss is the line out to...

Yes it sounds weird, but the utility posted on the link by iLFuma did the trick for me. Now both cards are working and mounted correctly. Not sure what the Fiio X3 puts in the Track 0 of the card that make them unrecognized in Sony devices. Thank You all for your help.

Thank You . I will try. I think I found what the issue is. Both 128GB and 256GB cards were formatted with my Fiio X3 2nd gen. I took one of them and put it inside my Sony a6300 camera and immediately an error popped up "Unrecognizable Media". Now I need to find a utility that will restore...

I tried FAT32 and exFAT already, unless it has to be a special Sony format.

You are not reading what I just said. I know I need to format the card on the device. The 64gb works fine. The other 2 cards are not mounting. The option to mount the card is greyes out. If I try to format, I get no sd card mounted error.

So I just got mine from BH Photo and having problems already. I have 3 Sandisk cards, one 64gb, a 128gb and a 256gb. The A45 only mounts the 64gb and does not mount the 128gb or 256gb. Cards are good and readable from a computer. Upgraded to firmware 1.10 and still nothing. Think I will return it.