I think I'd just put them in artist folders like A-G, H-L, M-R and S-Z if I had so many albums on a card that it took me too long to scroll through them all in one folder. I'd find it harder to remember what genre I'd classified the artist as if I wanted to find a particular one.
I'm afraid I do still have a problem. I just picked the package up from the post office and I have what looks like a brand new N3 as a replacement, which is nice, but again, it has been sent to me with the battery at 0%. I'm not sure whether you sent your Thai distributor a whole batch of N3s with flat batteries or whether they are just remarkably incompetent but I am not at all happy with the situation. If this is another unit with a battery that has been sitting around at 0% for weeks or months, its performance will already have deteriorated. I've ordered a fair amount of electronic devices with rechargeable batteries over the last few years and these two Cayin N3s are the only devices that have arrived with a completely flat battery. It's common knowledge that they shouldn't be stored empty so either this one has a problem too, and has drained whilst the unit was turned off, or you are not following standard industry practices.
Thanks, I will give it a try but it's not the play time that was the issue before, it was the fact it drained from 100% to 0% in about 5-6 days when I left it turned off. I understand that a single full discharge won't have much effect on the battery's lifetime or capacity but I am wondering what effect it might have if the battery has been stored at 0% for nearly a year, for example? Also, there must be a reason why it has arrived in this condition and I can only think of two possibilities: 1. Cayin ships some of their products with fully discharged batteries, which I think is unlikely, or 2. The battery cannot hold a charge and has therefore fully discharged like the battery in my previous unit, while the N3 was turned off, which I think is much more likely.You are right, new batteries come with a charge of about 50-75% from the factory, and for maximum lifetime they should be operated between 20% and 90% charging state, and should ideally be kept between 10-30°C.
I work in automotive future technologies and the industry learned a lot about battery technologies. We are talking about battery lifetime of 500.000 to 1.000.000 km now, AFTER the industry learned that it's crucial to keep the battery within that temperature also during storage. This was really a learning effect over the past years, and now electric cars have heating and cooling active all the time to keep batteries in that temperature range, also when parking.
A single full discharge at low current should not have any measurable impact on lifetime or capacity.
I'd fully charge it, then connect some headphones and set it shuffle and let it play.
After 10 hours it should be around 20% +/-, then you know you are ok.
As a nice side-effect you are burning in the player
Thanks again. I charged it to 100% and now I'm running it back down again. Once it reaches near 0% I'll give it another full charge and turn it off for a few days to see what happens. It's about the most boring thing I can think of doing with a new player (which is one of the reasons it took me so long to return it in the first place - I tried to convince myself there wasn't really a problem but I knew there was) but I'll have to do it and hope for the best.
Can someone please chime in on this? I´m thinking of getting the N3 to use for streaming music from external HDD to my home Hifi (as DAC, no PC) - This popping issue that everyones on about, would this still affect me?
