HiBy RS2: dual card slots, Darwin R2R, FIR, NOS, MQA 8x--news and impressions thread

[Nostoi]

No such option.

Thanks; shame but not the end of the world.

 

[linux4ever]

No delay for me when changing songs.
Switch gapless On and also might need a 'faster' card

I don't have any delay in the playing of the song. My point was about the album art taking a while to switch over. When song 1 has finished playing and it loads the next song song 2, it has a lag in changing the album art of song 1. I don't see this behavior on other daps with the same sd card.

 

[gLer]

@gLer wrote a wonderful review about the RS2 and I don't think he has posted a link on this thread yet:

https://theheadphonelist.com/review-hiby-rs2-r2r-to-go/

Let me know if I was asleep at the wheel

drftr

Thanks @drftr I did a couple of pages back:

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/hib...s-and-impressions-thread.963970/post-17155502

 

[TomKorn]

Hey guys, my big review of the tiny HiBy RS2 is now online HERE.



(P.S. If you're only interested in sound and comparisons, skips to pages 5 and 6)​

What a comprehensive review. Well done sir, well done!

 

[sekainohakaisha]

Thanks a lot guys,

Just one last question, can the RS2 read m3u8 playlist files? If yes then it will make life easier for me, if not then it's not a really big deal.

Seems like I'll be pulling the trigger on the RS2, just wish it has extra long battery life like the R5 Gen 2

Just in case anyone else is having this same question, I emailed hiby and they confirmed that the RS2 does support m3u playlist

 

[InvisibleInk]

Just in case anyone else is having this same question, I emailed hiby and they confirmed that the RS2 does support m3u playlist

Where in the file system are the playlists stored, and how can we access them directly in order to edit them with a text editor. That would be my question.

 

[sekainohakaisha]

Where in the file system are the playlists stored, and how can we access them directly in order to edit them with a text editor. That would be my question.

I'm guessing (and hoping at the same time) it could be similar to how it is done in my X1, that is by copying the m3u files to the root directory of the microSD.

 

[ttt123]

Where in the file system are the playlists stored, and how can we access them directly in order to edit them with a text editor. That would be my question.

I experimented, and got a Playlist.m3u saved on the RS6 to play on the RS2
- RS6 - playlists are on the MicroSD card /HibyMusic/Playlist
- RS2 - Playlists are on /playlist_data (RS2 has no internal memory, so you only see the MicroSD card space) . This is where I put the edited .m3u file

The format of the playlist on the RS6 is not the same as on the RS2.
RS2:
a:\Music\VARIOUS\2014 - Great Jazz Vocalists - 25 Hits\24. Stranger In Paradise.flac
a:\Music\ASIAN\00-Priscilla Ahn\Priscilla Ahn - 2011 - When You Grow Up-FLAC\07 - cry baby.flac
a:\Music\VARIOUS\Chie Ayado - Prayer (2011) PCM 24-96 WAV\14. Hallelujah [Solo Version].wav
RS6:
../../../Music/MUSIC-Test songs/NEIL DIAMOND/3.15. The Art Of Love.flac
../../../Music/ASIAN/G.E.M.鄧紫棋我是歌手1-10期无损音乐-FLAC/G.E.M. 邓紫棋 - If I Were A Boy.flac
../../../Music/MUSIC-Test songs/PRISCILLA AHN/Kaze.mp3

There is a trick when loading the Playlist on the RS2, to use the option "save both" for the new playlist file
From the successful experiment below, I would believe that standard .m3u files can be edited to match the format the RS2 uses, and loaded successfully onto the RS2

Instructions:
Playlists on the RS2 are in Root /playlist_data
Playlists are .m3u, and must be saved as Relative, and not Absolute.
- Absolute records the exact Drive path, and will not work on another DAP

- Edited a saved playlist from the RS6
- Changed the relative path from ../../.. to a:\
- Changed all the / to \ in the file

Copied it to RS2 /playlist_data Edit: (not /HibyMusic/Playlist which is on the RS6)
- did a Playlist/load
- when asked if (skip/overwrite/save both), chose save both on the new playlist. Choose "skip" for any existing playlist.
- this creates a new file and a copy. Open the copy file, and the songs are there.
The created file is empty

EDIT:
- delete the Playlist file that has no music in it
- do a load again on the new playlist file, and a new file without the "copy" at the end of the filename is created, which has the music in it.
- then delete the extra playlist with the "copy" at the end of the filename

 

[InvisibleInk]

I experimented, and got a Playlist.m3u saved on the RS6 to play on the RS2
- RS6 - playlists are on the MicroSD card /HibyMusic/Playlist
- RS2 - Playlists are on /playlist_data (RS2 has no internal memory, so you only see the MicroSD card space) . This is where I put the edited .m3u file


The format of the playlist on the RS6 is not the same as on the RS2.
There is a trick when loading the Playlist on the RS2, to take the option "save both"
From the successful experiment below, I would believe that standard .m3u files can be edited to match the format the RS2 uses, and loaded successfully onto the RS2

Instructions:
Playlists on the RS2 are in Root /playlist_data
Playlists are .m3u, and must be saved as Relative, and not Absolute.
- Absolute records the exact Drive path, and will not work on another DAP

- Edited a saved playlist from the RS6
- Changed the relative path from ../../.. to a:\
- Changed all the / to \ in the file

Copied it to RS2 /HibyMusic/Playlist
- did a Playlist/load
- when asked if (skip/overwrite/save both), chose save both
- this creates a new file and a copy. Open the copy file, and the songs are there.
The created file is empty

EDIT:
- delete the Playlist file that has no music in it
- do a load again, and a new file without the "copy" at the end of the filename is created, which has the music in it.
- then delete the extra playlist with the "copy",

Wow, that's quite a workaround. I wouldn't want to be the guy that wrote the instructions for that in the manual...

 

[sekainohakaisha]

I experimented, and got a Playlist.m3u saved on the RS6 to play on the RS2
- RS6 - playlists are on the MicroSD card /HibyMusic/Playlist
- RS2 - Playlists are on /playlist_data (RS2 has no internal memory, so you only see the MicroSD card space) . This is where I put the edited .m3u file


The format of the playlist on the RS6 is not the same as on the RS2.
There is a trick when loading the Playlist on the RS2, to take the option "save both"
From the successful experiment below, I would believe that standard .m3u files can be edited to match the format the RS2 uses, and loaded successfully onto the RS2

Instructions:
Playlists on the RS2 are in Root /playlist_data
Playlists are .m3u, and must be saved as Relative, and not Absolute.
- Absolute records the exact Drive path, and will not work on another DAP

- Edited a saved playlist from the RS6
- Changed the relative path from ../../.. to a:\
- Changed all the / to \ in the file

Copied it to RS2 /HibyMusic/Playlist
- did a Playlist/load
- when asked if (skip/overwrite/save both), chose save both
- this creates a new file and a copy. Open the copy file, and the songs are there.
The created file is empty

EDIT:
- delete the Playlist file that has no music in it
- do a load again, and a new file without the "copy" at the end of the filename is created, which has the music in it.
- then delete the extra playlist with the "copy",

Thanks for sharing this! I'm going to preorder the RS2 sometime later today

 

[nc8000]

Got my first listen last night with the Tansio Mirai Sands and first impression is good. Size and build seems fine as does the sound (obviously need some burn in first). Only problem is when browsing folders it can not show enough characters for me to distinguish albums as my folders are named <artist/composer> - <album title> and I can’t use the tag based library, partly because I have more tracks that it can handle, and partly because it lacks an artist level under genre which is how I normally browse on my Sony daps and in foobar on my computer (I go genre->artist->album). So I’ll probably have to sell it

 

[InvisibleInk]

Got my first listen last night with the Tansio Mirai Sands and first impression is good. Size and build seems fine as does the sound (obviously need some burn in first). Only problem is when browsing folders it can not show enough characters for me to distinguish albums as my folders are named <artist/composer> - <album title> and I can’t use the tag based library, partly because I have more tracks that it can handle, and partly because it lacks an artist level under genre which is how I normally browse on my Sony daps and in foobar on my computer (I go genre->artist->album). So I’ll probably have to sell it

Classical music record names can often be ridiculously long with challenging characters. Popular music and rock/metal don't usually suffer from this phenomenon.

 

[nc8000]

Classical music record names can often be ridiculously long with challenging characters. Popular music and rock/metal don't usually suffer from this phenomenon.

Indeed.

Also gapless playback does not work properly, there are noticeable gaps in some opera recordings I have played that are not present on my Sony daps. And yes I have enabled gapless in the settings though why there is a setting for this I don't understand. I'm still on 1.0 fw so this might have been fixed in newer fw releases

Edit: Well I could have sworn the gapless option had been turned on but it hadn't. It is now turned on and gapless playback now seems to work correct. I still don't get why this is even an option, to my mind it should always be on

 

[Polopol]

https://store.hiby.com/apps/help-center#hc-rs2-firmware-v104-update

 

[nc8000]

https://store.hiby.com/apps/help-center#hc-rs2-firmware-v104-update

Yes I know there are 2 newer fw but don't know if they fix gapless playback. Gapless is an essential feature for me and without it working flawlessly a source is a total no go for me.

Edit: Well I could have sworn the gapless option had been turned on but it hadn't. It is now turned on and gapless playback now seems to work correct. I still don't get why this is even an option, to my mind it should always be on