Shanling M0 - Smallest Hi-Res Portable Player - New Firmware V3.6
Aug 11, 2019 at 7:39 AM Post #5,446 of 6,413
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Great, I ordered one. Thank you :)

Took pictures now that it's morning...
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Aug 11, 2019 at 9:40 PM Post #5,449 of 6,413
I bought an M0 a couple of weeks ago, and have been using it a lot ever since. It's a seriously impressive piece of kit for the size!

However, I do have one significant gripe. Most of my music is in VBR AAC (converted from my lossless files using the Nero AAC encoder), and these files play perfectly gaplessly on my old iPod classic, my iPhone and my two Sony NW players. But even with the gapless playback option on the M0 switched on, lossy files aren't played back gaplessly; there is a noticeably glitch between tracks. It is admittedly not as bad as having gapless switched off, when you get around a second of silence between tracks, but describing the M0 as "gapless" really isn't true.

Given it is clearly possible to make AAC playback perfectly gapless - both Apple and Sony play it back gaplessly - do Shanling intend to improve gapless playback for lossy files in a future firmware update? Or is the current performance as good as I can hope for?

Still waiting for some fix from our software team :frowning2:

@Shanling is there any way from stopping the M0 from automatically powering on when plugging into charge? That combined with automatic connection to the last device as BT receiver and the screen auto-off, often means it starts to drain battery as soon as it is unplugged from the charger as there's no way to tell if the DAP is powered on or not just by looking at it. I have often Charged the M0, put it in my bag, went about my day, then try to power the M0 on for some music only to find I'm actually powering it off with almost no battery as it was on all day. This also needlessly accelerates the degradation of the battery itself. Unless it's a planned obsolescence, in which case...

Powering off just after plugging in (actually, after the booting process has completed) every time seems like an unnecessarily cumbersome process just to make sure it stays charged. I have auto-off enabled but that only works in DAP mode and not BT receiver mode.

Currently no way to prevent it from powering on.
 
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Aug 12, 2019 at 1:55 AM Post #5,452 of 6,413
... do Shanling intend to improve gapless playback for lossy files in a future firmware update? Or is the current performance as good as I can hope for?

With the limited succes @Shanling seems to have (lately) to get the attention of the 'software team', I am afraid your hope needs patience too.

Gapless playback is a 100% software feature. Most of the things requested (like my pet peeve the still missing replaygain) are completely doable without too much effort.

Edit: The more I listen for it, it feels like the current attempt at 'gapless' functionality is some form of fade-out/fade-in.
 
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Aug 12, 2019 at 2:43 AM Post #5,453 of 6,413
With the limited succes @Shanling seems to have (lately) to get the attention of the 'software team', I am afraid your hope needs patience too.

Gapless playback is a 100% software feature. Most of the things requested (like my pet peeve the still missing replaygain) are completely doable without too much effort.

Edit: The more I listen for it, it feels like the current attempt at 'gapless' functionality is some form of fade-out/fade-in.
@endgame4 yep, I'm waiting too but for gapless mp3 (it is possible indeed with mp3 since other players do it perfectly) and we are not the only ones. I just hope we'll be heared at least on a year or so...
 
Aug 14, 2019 at 10:12 PM Post #5,456 of 6,413
Shanling M0 Firmware V3.1

New Functions:

1. Added Album Artist browsing. Go to Playback menu to enable.

Note: All files must have Album Artist tag filled, otherwise they will be listed under “Unknown artist”.

Changes and fixes

1. Fixed problem with AAC Bluetooth, previously causing problems with some TWS earphones.

2. Fixed problem regarding connecting two units of M0 over Bluetooth.

3. Other bug fixes


Download from our website or from Google Drive

Personal note: I will be out of office until Monday, so if you encounter any problems or have any feedback, I will get to it on Monday. Thank you for understanding. - Frankie
 
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Aug 15, 2019 at 3:15 AM Post #5,457 of 6,413
Shanling M0 Firmware V3.1

New Functions:

1. Added Album Artist browsing. Go to Playback menu to enable.
Hurrah! Thank you Shanling. That's an important step forward.

Now just Genre-->Album Artist-->Albums-->Tracks to do.

Genre-->Tracks is no use to anyone.
 
Aug 15, 2019 at 3:37 AM Post #5,458 of 6,413
Shanling M0 Firmware V3.1

New Functions:

1. Added Album Artist browsing. Go to Playback menu to enable.

Note: All files must have Album Artist tag filled, otherwise they will be listed under “Unknown artist”.

Changes and fixes

1. Fixed problem with AAC Bluetooth, previously causing problems with some TWS earphones.

2. Fixed problem regarding connecting two units of M0 over Bluetooth.

3. Other bug fixes


Download from our website or from Google Drive

Personal note: I will be out of office until Monday, so if you encounter any problems or have any feedback, I will get to it on Monday. Thank you for understanding. - Frankie
thanks! didn't expect an update so soon. album artist is a very welcome feauture. now waiting for more important stuff :wink:
 
Aug 15, 2019 at 10:20 AM Post #5,459 of 6,413
Note: All files must have Album Artist tag filled, otherwise they will be listed under “Unknown artist”.
Why not fallback to artist? I mostly only have Album Artist set if Artist is not the same across the album. Not deliberately, just what I noticed when I flipped this on.
 
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Aug 15, 2019 at 10:22 AM Post #5,460 of 6,413
Why not fallback to artist? I mostly only have Album Artist set if Artist is not the same across the album. Not deliberately, just what I noticed when I flipped this on.
MediaMonkey is one example of an app to easily and automatically fix this.
 

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