One of my pet peeves with UI/UX design both at work and home - why do UI designers make their non-touch interfaces look like they expect you to use it with a fat thumb instead of a scroll wheel or other pointer? The screen on a Sandisk Sansa M230 showed three songs, because the display was the...

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. I don't know what an SD memory extension is, and the AP80 has no native storage and all storage is on the SD card (which you stated earlier was 512 GB). I use an SD card reader connected to my computer via the USB port, not connecting the AP80 via...

Well, that should obviate any concerns about folder size then. I organize my AP80 card with Music/Album Artist/Album/Song structure and it works very well. Of course, I (like so many) use a USB card reader attached to my PC when doing large updates, rather than trust in the file handling of the...

Are you using subfolders, or are all the MP3 files in one directory? While exFAT has a ludicrously large file number limit, it's possible that there's an issue with the AP80 and files per folder - many of the current DAP models are quirky and fail to completely support standards in some way.

Oh, man. You are going to attract the "never reduce quality ever ever ever" crowd now. :)

Since the SDXC standard covers cards up to 2 TB and all 512 GB SD cards comply with the SDXC standard (or the nascent and rare SDUC standard), it's assumed that any device that can handle 512 GB cards should also be able to handle 2 TB cards (if they ever hit the market). Many manufacturers only...

It does not. Audiobook and podcast support was promised during the original AP80 campaign. After the first year or two, I begin to suspect it's not coming.

Podcast and audiobook was literally promised as a forthcoming feature during the initial Kickstarter campaign for the non-pro AP80. But, sure, reading a text file on a 2-inch screen is compelling.

Unfortunately, most major radio stations don't produce a standard PLS or M3U file to stream, and insist on using their own apps. But, that does open up a lot of off-the-beaten-path options.

Sounds like yet another USB-C port that isn't USB-C standards compliant.

My point is, that you said that it works with A charger, but not ANY charger, which seems like you're saying it is Green and also DEFINITELY not Green. Do you mean it only works with SOME chargers, or that it only works with the charger that it came with?

This is confusing. It only works with a charger, but does not work with any charger?

I didn't give anyone any money, because I'm not new at this, but it's interesting that someone created clone Hiby page and copied a bunch of their posts, just to try to lure people into a crappy music subscription service.

I got a message on Facebook from Hiby, telling me that I had won the R2 giveaway. I was directed to create an account on a music subscription service I'd never heard of, which had a free trial, and await an email within 12 hours. At the point where the free trial was about to flip into a...

Does anyone know what "internet radio streaming" means, specifically? Does it support the streams from Radio.com or Tunein.com or what? I'm sure the folks who still have fully-functioning ears are excited about Tidal, but I'd be happy to throw 91-XTRA on while I'm mowing the lawn.

While I've never had my AP80 not connect, I've had it fail to transmit, due to a mismatch in codecs. A surprising number of receivers (cars and headphones) fail to negotiate a highest-common standard. For example, if I have the AP80 set to AptX, but the car can only do SBC, what should happen is...

You are correct. I haven't used the AP60II in so long, I'd forgotten. It does have BT. I don't carry a smartphone, so the 2-way Bluetooth options are things I don't track. I do enjoy using a nice set of noise-cancelling headphones over BT, though. I don't remember a hiss, but I also never...

It sounds substantially the same to me (I have high frequency hearing loss, so your mileage may vary), but the interface is a bit more sluggish. Obviously, there's no touch screen on the AP60II, so the buttons are more important, and scrolling a long list takes quite a while (no acceleration on...

It's a good little player, but that's only $30 cheaper than some more modern devices.

Fortunately, the device is actually very good, and the firmware that exists is reasonably decent, other than a persistent bug with playlists being selected one lower than reality. The missing features are unfortunate, but as long as you don't expect them to appear, it's all good.

What makes them promise real audiobook and podcast features during the Kickstarter campaign and then ignore every future query about where those features are, for literally years?

You're not supposed to play hackey sack with it! :-)

It seems the old guard of music players (Sony being one of the last standing, after Creative, Rio, and others gave up) were more forgiving of metadata inconsistencies, and put some effort into handling errors gracefully. The current generation of DAP makers are catering almost exclusively to a...

Only 16000 tracks? ;-)

Probably a metadata tag is malformed or the Hiby software dislikes it. Check out the Hiby Music program for Windows - if there are tags Hiby dislikes, this will help: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/the-hiby-r3-the-new-double-dac-r3-pro-on-sale-now.872288/page-342#post-14756576