Well, I have also formed the opinion that there is no point in using a streamer: a good computer can do the job, or even a good tablet. And since everyone has got a computer... Wherever I read, streamers (of any brand) are always giving software problems, and they all become obsolete in a...

Thank you @MrFufty ! I must try one of these days, as I think I will also give a chance to Tidal (given the new prices). Ahahaha... Yes... The mythical improvements expected by their "Software Team" are late this time. I formed the opinion that Shanling's promises deserve no credit at all, nor...

Hi @mr. Futty, Sorry for my late reply. First of all: thanks a lot for sharing. Probably because of my poor English, or because I don't know UAPP, and the other apps mentioned earlier by PenguinHeadphoner, I'm not confident to have fully understood your workaround. Let me recap my...

@Shanling Amazon App version 24.1.1 OTA (#100114) is regularly working on my Samsung S22 (Android 14). Just in case you are wondering, version 9.5.2.2478 is regularly working on my mid 2015 MacBook 15" (MacOs Monterey 12.7.2). No problem with both in playing music with a Prime subscription. Rgds

Why not? My personal opinion is: - Other manufacturers launched similar Android products later on the market with newer versions of Android and a wider choice of processors to support it, not to mention a longer experience. These machines, however, do not necessarily sound better tan the...

Have you got a Prime subscription or a Music Unlimited subscription? I suspect that the latter works regularly with the EM5, while, with Prime, there is a software problem. If you have a Prime subscription and no problem, then there is something wrong with my specific machine. However, my EM5...

@ Shanling Update and more detailed information about Amazon App not working on EM5 with an Amazon Prime Subscription. The app actually works with "podcast" only. If I try to select "music", a message appears that my app is not updated (picture enclosed). Literally, the message translated from...

... And so? Thank you @Shanling

1) Thank you. 2) Yes I did, as reported above in one of my previous posts. Rgds

The "norm" is that Amazon Music app works perfectly with my Prime subscription on any device I have (MacBook, Ipad, PC, Samsung Phone etc.), except Shanling EM5. Detail "Amazon Music provides Prime members with access to 100 million songs ad-free, the largest catalog of ad-free top podcasts...

@scorlibrian Your last clarification makes your point of view less equilibrated to my eyes. You are not only justifying the company's representative in the community, you are justifying a company's behavior which is not acceptable from any reasonable standpoint: selling things pretending they...

Thank you for your balanced pov. Just to be clear. My first post in this thread started "I'm a reasonably happy owner of a Shanling EM5"... Now... I have nothing against our kind Shanling account and I don't like to argue. Really, I don't like. I'm just pointing out that my Shanling EM5's...

@Shanling The power of what, please? Do you mean the power of the customer service dep't, or the power of Shanling Co.? ... Did you run out of good software engineers in your Country? If something doesn't work, it should be changed. We are not talking about sound, we are talking about software...

... While waiting for the end game DAC/AMP, ... and very (very) close to throw the bloody streamer out of the window... I have been listening my vinyl collection with my 1988 Thorens TD166, class A-B British amp and loudspeakers. Wine was from my Country, sorry. What do they know in Shenzen...

Did you put the coins in the vendor machine? :darthsmile: Again, throw the bloody all in one streamers in the garbage and use a tablet or a computer with a proper DAC/AMP. As an expert told me, I won't say his name, because he is an official Shanling distributor: "just connect your Ipad to your...

@Shanling The user interface is now working, but if you try to press "play" the song doesn't start and you get no sound. Please note that I have a "Prime" subscription which offers limited features, similar to Spotify free. So you expect that the application works but that you have limited...

Oh, well, beauty is subjective... I should have eared the ad: "Designed to be listened, not watched!" :darthsmile: Ciao

Well, the sound is good, but not as good to justify the choice of an EM5 nowadays. Too many competitors released much more reliable machines with the same features, or comparable, in the last few months and for competitive prices, although it must be said that the hardware design of the EM5 is...

@Shanling Some suggestions for future improvement: - make the eq feature available also for the music played via streaming services - make the vu-meter feature available also for the music played via streaming services - make the wireless projection responsive and available for vertical...

Ok. Firmware updated via pendrive and factory reset done. The procedure was easy, relatively fast and went smoothly. Honestly speaking, though, I do not see significant differences in the Eddict player wireless projection compared to before, but it seems effectively a little bit more stable...

... Having read above, I'm bloody scared to update my EM5. Can you believe it? Dear @Shanling, you should do a soul-searching and review your QC. The big question is: - will I ever update the firmware to something more reliable? - will I keep the old firmware and go on swearing for every bug? -...

My mistake. It is version 1.6. Gonna make the update soon. Ciao

Ok. Version 1.61 available on the air. Wondering if this time it's worth using the pendrive update instead of OTA.... Waiting the procedure online is a bit frightening, since it takes few minutes. Is any reason to choose one way instead the other? However, at the moment, I cannot find the...

Ok. We are all waiting for the next firmware upgrade. But I'm seriously starting to think that the processor inside the machine, in order to contain the cost of production and hence the market price, is too weak to manage the EM5 several features and functions. Most of EM5 flaws reported, and...

The main reason why I have not returned the EM5 when I experienced all the software bugs in the first few days of listening, aside from the good sound, was that the Shanling is one of the very few devices on the market to have Apple Music application natively installed, and Apple Music is what...