Hi all, very much a newbie to this hi-res lark but have always loved my music. So I got my N3 for Xmas, I'd ordered it for myself as a Christmas pressie from my OH, as I knew this was the DAP I wanted after doing several weeks of research and reading from page 1 of this thread to about 200 odd (now finished reading it and up to date) - thanks to all of you for helping my decision and also loads of respect to Andy Kong and Cayin - I've never witnessed such customer interaction before through a forum, very impressive!
I was going to go with a Fiio - we bought our 12 yo son an M3 last Xmas - but then got my head turned by the Cowon Plenue D. Again, it was this forum that got me wondering a little - I think from memory it was perhaps a little buggy? - and also what with having to get some decent headphones (AKG Y-50's) it was a little more than I really wanted to spend. I think it was a couple of reviews I found from head-fi contributors that caught my eye with the N3 and finally got me to this point. I also managed to get one in a deal from AMP3 about a month ago.
Anyway, now I've got it, what do I think? Well I love it! Bearing in mind I've only ever listened to lossy files on my Sony NWZ player, an M3 and ALAC files on an iPhone 5S, but it does to my ears sounds beautiful, I'm hearing things I never heard before.!
I'm also pleased to say I've no pops and it plays as a DAC using the supplied USB cable off of the Windows laptop. I've downloaded EAC to my laptop and used a really good tutorial on YouTube, but I have a question I'm hoping you guys can help with? I have my album art, the tracks are tagged - artist, album, track number, track title, and frequency/bit rate - this scrolls when playing and shows up under Songs, but in the Music Category all it shows is unknown to everything I.e. Artist, album, genre etc. I'm assuming I've not set something up right; I've tried searching in the thread and Google but can't find an answer to this. Like I say, I am very new to this technology and terminology, so please go easy on me!