[iFi audio]

a remarkable second coincidence, the bug disappears with a new mconnect update.

Now that's a borderline miracle right there

 

[TooFrank]

Does anybody have experience with pro idsd and micro sd cards? SQ? In the manual, it says up to 128 Gb is supported. Any experience with cards bigger than 128?

 

[iFi audio]

Does anybody have experience with pro idsd and micro sd cards? SQ? In the manual, it says up to 128 Gb is supported. Any experience with cards bigger than 128?

128 GB is the limit if I recall correctly.

 

[MikeyFresh]

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[h1f1add1cted]

Yeah reminds my of my old Sansa SandDisk Plus player ages ago released, which offical supported 32 GB SD cards, but works until today perfect with 512 GB SD cards, only the correct formatted FAT32 was required to able to work and read larger SD cards properly.

 

[iFi audio]

But that makes no sense at all, the SDXC spec is exactly the same for cards as small as 64GB, or as large as the (yet to be released) 2TB capacity. So the only plausible reason why an arbitrary cut-off of 128GB would exist is if

I'll double-check this, I might be wrong about that 128 GB cap. I'll ask internally.

iFi specifically chose to choke it off at that point via firmware for some unknown reason.

I see no reason why we would do this. There's always some logical explanation

 

[TooFrank]

Just for the record: on my pro idsd, I cannot stream tidal gapless via mconnect....
very annoying indeed...

 

[Sphere 57]

Just for the record: on my pro idsd, I cannot stream tidal gapless via mconnect....
very annoying indeed...

I haven't bothered with the Pro iDSD's onboard streamer since shortly after buying it. I've tried pairing it with a few different streamers. Even the cheapest of them (Yamaha WXC-50) provided a vastly improved user experience (but needed third party software such as mconnect for gapless). Expensive streaming transports like Auralic's Aries G1 improve sound quality as well.

 

[TooFrank]

I haven't bothered with the Pro iDSD's onboard streamer since shortly after buying it. I've tried pairing it with a few different streamers. Even the cheapest of them (Yamaha WXC-50) provided a vastly improved user experience (but needed third party software such as mconnect for gapless). Expensive streaming transports like Auralic's Aries G1 improve sound quality as well.

Thanks, fortunately streaming is not essential to me. Otherwise, with usb the sound is terrific....

 

[iFi audio]

Expensive streaming transports like Auralic's Aries G1 improve sound quality as well.

I agree. At our office we had SOtM sMS-200ultra and it was great!

 

[TooFrank]

I'll double-check this, I might be wrong about that 128 GB cap. I'll ask internally.



I see no reason why we would do this. There's always some logical explanation

this is from ifi home page. If you look closely, the sd card is 400 gb

 

[iFi audio]

this is from ifi home page. If you look closely, the sd card is 400 gb

It is indeed, tomorrow I should know more

 

[iFi audio]

But that makes no sense at all, the SDXC spec is exactly the same for cards as small as 64GB, or as large as the (yet to be released) 2TB capacity. So the only plausible reason why an arbitrary cut-off of 128GB would exist is if iFi specifically chose to choke it off at that point via firmware for some unknown reason.

Just to clarify, SDXC cards on Pro iDSD should be formatted to FAT32 and that's the only limiting factor. But from what I can tell, one can format a SDXC card to FAT32 and go beyond 32GB.

 

[MikeyFresh]

Just to clarify, SDXC cards on Pro iDSD should be formatted to FAT32 and that's the only limiting factor. But from what I can tell, one can format a SDXC card to FAT32 and go beyond 32GB.

The first part is clear, and I take that to mean no arbitrary limit was imposed via firmware, the only requirement is FAT32 formatting. That is an important distinction because FAT32 places a 4GB limitation on the size of any particular folder.

The second part is not clear, but I'll go ahead and clarify it for you, the SDXC spec starts at cards 64GB in size, so your example is invalid as 32GB cards are not SDXC (extended capacity), they are SDHC (high capacity). What you really should be saying is microSD cards need to be formatted FAT32, you can leave off the HC or XC distinction, and also note that most cards do ship FAT32 from the factory and thus require no reformatting at all.

 

[TooFrank]

The first part is clear, and I take that to mean no arbitrary limit was imposed via firmware, the only requirement is FAT32 formatting. That is an important distinction because FAT32 places a 4GB limitation on the size of any particular folder.

The second part is not clear, but I'll go ahead and clarify it for you, the SDXC spec starts at cards 64GB in size, so your example is invalid as 32GB cards are not SDXC (extended capacity), they are SDHC (high capacity). What you really should be saying is microSD cards need to be formatted FAT32, you can leave off the HC or XC distinction, and also note that most cards do ship FAT32 from the factory and thus require no reformatting at all.

Thanks, would that mean that for example microSD on 1TB could be used too?