Rmoser
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I have an X3 and a DX50 on order. Most likely I will only retain one of them. In my case, I have a 64GB card mostly full with album folders within artist folders and it appears to index and work properly. The amp is fine for listening to music on the move but line out to either my SR71 or Tomahawk sounds a bit better, particularly when I'm using my HD650. Not bad by any means.
But the reason I'm looking at alternatives is that I work in the computer industry. I'm very familiar with products shipping before they're ready or before entirely understanding the user community being targeted. While it's nice that FiiO is spending time resolving the issues but quite frankly, I didn't pay list price to be a beta tester and there's far too many problems for my taste. So we'll see how the DX50 works.
Rob
Well the problem is that the Fioo representative, James, won't explain what organizational structure does and does not work, nor will he commit to whether it will actually be addressed in firmware updates.
One person has posted that a file structure organized by artist and album works for him. Many more people have posted that it doesn't. If I could get one to try and return if it didn't work for me, then it would be a different story.
James has already said that the file structure browsing and indexing was designed for how most Chinese people listen to music. As far as I can tell that means throwing 5000 pop singles into one folder and hitting random play, or by using ID3 tags to organize by artist. Problem is that it doesn't handle ID3 tags correctly for all formats.
So it's a big mystery. The forum has a problem that when anyone asks a legitimate question or posts a valid concern, there are half a dozen members that are for want of a better term, are fIOo apologists. They jump in an effectively invalidate these posts by positing some barely satisfactory work around or by directly attacking the poster by dismissing the problem as being related to the way that he listens to music, or as a feature not being needed, or wrong in some way. One post even questioned whether the posters problem with the DB indexing was caused by unplugging the device from the computer in some undefined incorrect sequence
That X3 thread is really quite dysfunctional.
I have an X3 and a DX50 on order. Most likely I will only retain one of them. In my case, I have a 64GB card mostly full with album folders within artist folders and it appears to index and work properly. The amp is fine for listening to music on the move but line out to either my SR71 or Tomahawk sounds a bit better, particularly when I'm using my HD650. Not bad by any means.
But the reason I'm looking at alternatives is that I work in the computer industry. I'm very familiar with products shipping before they're ready or before entirely understanding the user community being targeted. While it's nice that FiiO is spending time resolving the issues but quite frankly, I didn't pay list price to be a beta tester and there's far too many problems for my taste. So we'll see how the DX50 works.
Rob