- prev/next buttons work the opposite way as it would be logical for me. No way to change it in settings.
this indeed is highly annoying. especially as volume up is the upper button, while the upper button on the other side is previous song. very hard to get used to.
i also hate that the player will skip to the previous song if prev is pressed once. i almost never want to play the previous song but restart the current one.
finally, having the buttons on both sides of the player means its very inconvinient to controll the player from within a pocket because you will always have to reach around to the other side so you have to spin it or use the small finger wich just does not work. i have no idea why they build it this way. it makes no sense and there is no advantage.
- reading the database is very, very slow. No incremental update, so even when I change a couple of files, it reads/indexes all 7500 files. I can have my breakfast while it works
i think the update speed itself is decent, but indeed no incremental update is annoying.
- very weird read/display mistakes in tags.
- Some albums and/or songs with diacritic marks (ü, ö, í, ő, ň, etc) in the tag display Chines characters instead. But not always - in some others they display correctly. Retagging helps in some cases, in others no change It seems that the player is very sensitive about how the extended Latin characters are encoded in the tags - carefully re-tagging the culprits solved the problem. No other DAPs I have display this behaviour, though.
its very odd. i have a few german operas i spend a LOT of time on fixing the tags as 1: classical tags come pre-butchered 99% of the time and 2: the player will add some randome chinese letter butchering.
what i learned is that the player itself is capable of displaying tags correctly, it did show umlauts correctly after i used notepad++ to encode the cue to utf-8-bom. of course, re-encoding usually means that any special characters will be replaced by bull so the file then has to be fixed. this also only works for files that use cue sheets (like flac)
speaking about flac, there is another issue which highly annoys me and that is that the palyer will not use embedded cue sheets. which for me was a super big issue because its actually really hard to make cue sheets for compilations with a longer duration then 80 minutes because these nerds that invented flac still believe its 1980 and red book is holy. so their tools will refuse to work with anything that would not fit onto an audio cd even if redbook has no idea what flac is in the first place and no (sane) modern software gives a dry fart about redbook anyhow.
you can find information how to automize foobar2000 to create cue sheets here
aaanyway: yes the player has a few really annoying quirks and i would appriciate a better battery life. i was about to return it, but i simply have not found anything that did not have even bigger flaws.
after all, the player also has a lot of good sides too. the hardware is very sexy, it sounds great, the general feature set is great, the software is snappy and i did not have to sell my kidney to afford it.
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