FiiO x Jade Audio JM21

[WheresWaldo]

An update on brute force solution to put all the files in alphabetical order on the microSD card. Other than taking a lot of time to get it done, it appears to have done nothing for the issues I have seen. To reiterate, If you are in the Album Artist view and select the play button on an artist it may or may not play them in order depending on when the album directory was written to the microSD. My brute force rewrite of the entire microSD placed them in name order so the initial playthrough was correct, but then before it moved to the next artist the playback order was messed up. When it proceeded to play the next artist it was even worse. My playback ended up like this:

Artist A with 3 albums, played all 3 albums in the correct order, then instead of going to Artist B it replayed the entire 2nd album of artist A, then it went to Artist B with 13 albums and played their 3rd album first. After album 3 was played then it jumped back to album 1. So basically it makes zero difference if your music library is written in the sequence you actually would like them to be played in. Plus if it did work you would have to do the whole process over and over every time you made substantial changes to the files on the microSD card.

In other words, at least for the JM21 and likely for any source device using FIIO Music, it really doesn't matter what order you write stuff to the microSD, without a playlist, it will play stuff in whatever order it wants to. This was a disappointing development.

Reseting the database or rescanning the Android Media Library does not change this behavior.

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Just tried a last ditch effort of clearing the media database. You must do this with ADB because there is no option in apps. the command to use is:

pm clear com.android.providers.media.module

after you attach to the device in either via USB or WiFi. It did not actually work! It might work on other audio apps like UAPP which uses that media database for some of its information. I don't know if FIIO Music uses it at all.

 

[Angel77lopez]

Downloaded (sideloaded) the Hiby music app on the JM21. Makes a big difference after some adjustments. The MSEB, Plugins, and Eq sure make a difference.

 

[Noamtasini]

Via Apk downloader?

 

[Vitor Valeri]

Via Apk downloader?

This comment has the download link: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/fiio-x-jade-audio-jm21.974694/post-18625418

 

[Noamtasini]

Thanks Vitor

 

[LostnAmerica]

Via Apk downloader?

Yeah, how to do that? First time android user…completely lost

 

[Vitor Valeri]

Yeah, how to do that? First time android user…completely lost

You download the file, open Google Files app and run the file. You will be asked for permission to install unknown files, so you confirm the decision and follow the flow.

 

[sunnysharp]

I just got my black JM21 recently and it's been great so far, however, I'm not sure if I'm missing a setting but in the FiiO Music app I can't find a way to change an artist' picture like in Poweramp? To be clear I mean the picture you see when you are in the Artist list view. It not only seems to default to one of the album covers (looks like for the grid view it defaults to the first album I put on the SD card for this artist) but if I change the view type (let's say, to a list instead of a grid) it shows a cover from another album. Same thing if I click into the artist itself to see their albums. Does anyone know if/how this can be changed?

 

[WheresWaldo]

I just got my black JM21 recently and it's been great so far, however, I'm not sure if I'm missing a setting but in the FiiO Music app I can't find a way to change an artist' picture like in Poweramp? To be clear I mean the picture you see when you are in the Artist list view. It not only seems to default to one of the album covers (looks like for the grid view it defaults to the first album I put on the SD card for this artist) but if I change the view type (let's say, to a list instead of a grid) it shows a cover from another album. Same thing if I click into the artist itself to see their albums. Does anyone know if/how this can be changed?

No it can't

 

[Ghost Of Lundy]

I have a stupid question and this is probable more of a Fiio Music App

When I play an album and it’s done it automatically plays the next album by alphabetical order.

Anyway to set it to play by release year.

It’s not A big deal I was just curious

 

[WheresWaldo]

I Ima mmmmmm aaaI have a stupid question and this is probable more of a Fiio Music App

When I play an album and it’s done it automatically plays the next album by alphabetical order.

Anyway to set it to play by release year.

It’s not A big deal I was just curious

While this may be true in your exact situation, in actuality FIIO Music plays album directories in the order they were copied to the microSD card. The only way I have been able to get it to play in year order is to make sure each subdirectory on the microSD starts with the year released. That way the alphabetical order would naturally place the albums in year order. To guarantee that they are in alphabetical/year order you might need to use a utility like FAT Sorter for the PC or FAT Drive Sorter for the Mac.

My own thoughts on this is that FIIO Music should play the albums in the order that you display them. You can display by several different criteria and the order you choose to display them should be the order they play. But, even with the way they do it now FIIO Music handles albums much better that Hiby music that only plays an artist in alphabetical order of the track title and not grouped by albums.

Of course you could always force most music playing apps to play in the order you want if they support playlists. In my case this is an unacceptable/unworkable solution with approximately 2800 albums in my portable library. I don't have the time to create all those playlists just to play albums in a way that FIIO Music can already display them.

 

[nekromantik]

anyone compared JM21 to Shanling M5 Ultra?