[tjw321]

Yeah, I know it's unexpected, but there it is. I'm sure it's not a USB spec issue but an issue with the way the Mac is seeing the cards. The Mac mounts both cards but when I browse them both at the same time they are ejected automatically.

Running Mavericks on a recent MacBook Pro. Like I said earlier, it could be an OSX issue or a Fiio issue but I can work around it easily by simply browsing one card at a time.

I've browsed multiple partitions on a single card, and multiple drives on a single USB connection (via a hub) many times on my Mac. Generally I haven't had any problems, but OS X is fairly aggressive with it's timeouts. Maybe the X5 is just a little slow when using both cards at once (this is guess-work and speculation). I haven't had any issues with the X3, browsing internal memory and the card at the same time - not that I do it often. Maybe the internal memory is just fast enough to not trigger the timeout.

 

[JeremyLaurenson]

I can browse both cards at the same time with no problem, for me it seems like a random disconnect, and there is no system log entry about why it happens

 

[JeremyLaurenson]

For those who want to test with a Mac, my App is baked enough for testing - I synced 230+GB to two 128GB cards yesterday.
 

 
Short version:
Run the app.
Connect your X5
App detects DAP, copies over music and playlists, then ejects the DAP
 
 
Long version:
* Expects one or two drives: X5 TF1    and/or    X5 TF2
  (if you formatted using the X5, you're good to go. You can connect the cards to your Mac, or
   simply plug the X5 in as a USB Storage device)
* Auto detects iTunes Library
* Splits your music between two cards - you select which music lives on which card
* Copies any music in the playlist "Dapper Music" to the drives.
* Copies any playlists which start with the word Dapper.  Eg   Dapper Classical Music
* Copies any   folder.jpg   files over
* Copies changed or new files only (Based on file size)
* Options for auto-sync when the DAP (drives) are connected
* Option to auto eject the DAP drives when done.
* Multi threaded - will copy to both cards simultaneously.
 
Please give it a try and report back any issues
 
Download beta version here   Thread for discussion is here

 

[JeremyLaurenson]

Some input. Please hide roles you do not recognize in the navigation window, or at least allow us to hide "hidden
 Mac files.
 
On Mac OSX systems, there are a lot of hidden files - they all begin with a period/full stop:
 

[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)] [color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]$ ls -a /Volumes/X5 TF1 .Spotlight-V100 .Trashes ._.Trashes .disk .fseventsd[/color][/color]

 
If the devs can insert a simple line that says:
if(filename[0]=='.')exit;
it will make life a lot less messy.
 
Also, a full beta version of the iTunes Sync tool is up and will auto update from this point forward:
 
Download beta version here - Updated Jul 28, 2014

 

[stuartm]

Jeremy,
Your Mac app looks really cool.  I don't have Mac's unfortunately so I am eagerly awaiting a version I can use on my PC's with WMP

 

[stuartm]

Now that I have gotten someone to look into the ordering problem I am seeing with my WMA files on 2.07beta.  Here is the next thing I think is totally wrong.  If I use the All files interface to look for a particular song I want to play it is nearly useless.  If you download album directories from WMP then all the song files are of the form "track# space track title"  It appears that the all songs list is created from the file name and so it sorts into a form that makes it very difficult to locate a particular song since all the track 01 songs are listed followed by all the track 02 songs, etc.  This is useless for finding a particular song  unless you happen to know what track it was on the album.  The All songs list should be alphabetical by Track title only.

 

[Brooko]

  The All songs list should be alphabetical by Track title only.

 
Actually - most of us would prefer all Songs to be ordered by:
Artist > Album > Album Track
 
Has been quite a bit of discussion on this since release of the X5 - and this seems to be common consensus.

 

[stuartm]

   
Actually - most of us would prefer all Songs to be ordered by:
Artist > Album > Album Track
 
Has been quite a bit of discussion on this since release of the X5 - and this seems to be common consensus.

Hmm, Perhaps that has it's uses, I am looking from the perspective of trying to find a particular song to play and while I usually know the title, sometimes I don't remember the album or artist, especially when many of my albums are compilation albums.  Perhaps this could be something controlled via setting a mode flag of some sort.
Which brings up another deficiency.  To this point I have not found a way to just play a single song.  it always goes on to the next song in the particular album.  I often am not interested in hearing the next song in the list/album whatever.  It seems to me that the shortcut key could offer  the option of playing the album that is currently highlighted or if drilled down to a track that one track.  Note that for purposes of searching the music, the Artist>Album>Track seems to already be how the library works when I start from the play by category menu.

 

[stuartm]

   
Actually - most of us would prefer all Songs to be ordered by:
Artist > Album > Album Track
 
Has been quite a bit of discussion on this since release of the X5 - and this seems to be common consensus.

Note also that I am talking about the top level all songs list  in the play by category menu.  When going to artist selection , once an artist is selected I am fine with the all songs sublist in the selected artist list being sorted album > track.  I like the fact that there is a list of all songs by an artist.  but I think the list should also have all albums by that artist  so I can just select a desired album.  It sort of works that way now but seems to also list any compilation albums that the artist appears on. 

 

[CH23]

Actually - most of us would prefer all Songs to be ordered by:

Artist > Album > Album Track

Has been quite a bit of discussion on this since release of the X5 - and this seems to be common consensus.

Is that album by year?

 

[Brooko]

Yep - but if for instance I have (and I do have) six or seven Norah Jones albums, and I want an unbroken afternoon session with just her, me and a good book, ideal would be to select Norah Jones, select play all, and then have the X5 go through each album in track order (one after the other).
 
I can understand what you're after - I'm just not sure how practical it is for "the masses".
 
What would be better would be an actual search function - IE a filed where you could select all songs for actual characters.  But with the interface the X5 has - again, I'm not sure of the practicality of implementing this.  It's probably something for their next player - the android based X7 .......

 

[Brooko]

Is that album by year?

 
That would be my preference

 

[dustmos]

  Some input. Please hide roles you do not recognize in the navigation window, or at least allow us to hide "hidden
 Mac files.
 
On Mac OSX systems, there are a lot of hidden files - they all begin with a period/full stop:
 

[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)] [color=rgb(34, 34, 34)]$ ls -a /Volumes/X5 TF1 .Spotlight-V100 .Trashes ._.Trashes .disk .fseventsd[/color][/color]

 
If the devs can insert a simple line that says:
if(filename[0]=='.')exit;
it will make life a lot less messy.
 
Also, a full beta version of the iTunes Sync tool is up and will auto update from this point forward:
 
Download beta version here - Updated Jul 28, 2014

You could just submit a bug report to apple, since they are the ones responsible for the dot files

 

[x RELIC x]

Some input. Please hide roles you do not recognize in the navigation window, or at least allow us to hide "hidden

 Mac files.

On Mac OSX systems, there are a lot of hidden files - they all begin with a period/full stop:

[color=rgb(51,51,51)]
[CODE]$ ls -a /Volumes/X5 TF1
.Spotlight-V100
.Trashes
._.Trashes
.disk
.fseventsd

[/color][/code]


If the devs can insert a simple line that says:
if(filename[0]=='.')exit;
it will make life a lot less messy.

Also, a full beta version of the iTunes Sync tool is up and will auto update from this point forward:

Download beta version here - Updated Jul 28, 2014

I use Eject For Windows app to clear all of these files when I eject the cards. Works like a charm!

 

[JeremyLaurenson]

I use Eject For Windows app to clear all of these files when I eject the cards. Works like a charm!

Thanks, Relic
 
I just found the app and what they're doing, and incorporated it into Dapper. Schweet! No OSX Uglies