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Final observation on MP3. Rip your favorite complex piece of music to MP3 and FLAC. Try both. If you can’t hear a difference then stay with MP3
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Another request: I noticed that the M0 scales album cover art to full screen. Thus, all too often covers get cropped. This can look pretty ugly when the lettering is involved. Maybe you can make the scaling optional?
I have a question on playing music by folders. I assume that the folder tab shows top level folders and then the various layers of sub folders. For instance, my top level folders are classical, jazz, new age, etc. Then under classical the sub folders are by composer and then under each composer are the pieces of music folders, like Symphony No 4. With my phone or FiiO X3ii, the screen shows the top level, then when I click on classical it shows the composers, etc. Am I correct in assuming this is how the M0 works in folder view. I have it in my Amazon cart and are about to check out.
I know this an old post, but I have an m3u playlist that contains 495 songs on my M0. I use this playlist on other DAPs without any problems. On the M0, on shuffle or straight play, only the first 100 songs are played. The rest of the list is ignored. Is there a limit on m3u playlists that exists that I missed somewhere?
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Couldn't re-find this with a search, is the battery bug still in version 2.3 where the battery will show red but still have a ton of life?
One more, checked the manual and couldn't find this. What files trigger the 'HR' icon in currently playing? 24bit rips?
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Agreed. You cannot go back from lossey to lossless. Digital storage is cheap. If your spending the time to RIP. Do it once. The current crop of audio managers (mediamonkey, foobar.....u pick) makes it so easy to give you what you need for a given situation. I see way too many people stating they took the time to re-rip to get their library back to lossless. Do it right the first time and be done.
Well digital storage is cheap relatively speaking. If am spending $110.00 on a DAP chances are my budget is limited. To then turn around and spend $90 on a 400 GB seems counter intuitive. I mean if $200 is your budget for example then I would spend $150.00 to get a better DAP and get a smaller microsd card for say $40.00 which would get you maybe a 200 GB card. Once I have a card do I want to go and buy another card a few months later and retire a perfectly good card because I need more space. To me it makes more sense to do what I did, identify older tracks that won't suffer from compression convert them and save some space and save some money. Sure rip your CD's to flac like I did and then convert some music to mp3 or ogg which can be done quick and easy with a batch conversion. It might take 30 minutes out of your life but save money in the long run. When I start to entertain getting a new DAP I start a fund and add extra cash to when I can. If I then dip into that to buy a bigger card then it takes me longer to save up for another DAP.
Being married and running a business I can't just run out and drop $90 on bigger microsd card whenever I feel like it. If you have the disposable cash to do that more power to you but some people don't. To me compressing some tracks when needed makes more sense to me than dropping more funds on bigger and bigger cards. I understand the desire to not want to go lossy at all, and I thought that way when I was younger. But having listened to music for 40 years and selling audio gear for 15 years I am comfortable in the fact now that if you can't tell the difference then don't worry about compressing tracks if it makes sense to do it.
Okey I am done with the whole lossy vs lossless discussion and won't comment anymore about it.
Rather have fewer albums in the highest quality. Would a "better" dap, with only mp3 files, sound better than M0 with lossless files? Doubtful, unless spending hundreds more.
Well, if there was an app on our phone that made player management easy and intuitive with a big touchscreen and user friendly interface, using the M0 with big gig storage would make for an ideal solution. Just saying.its getting to the point where the card sizes are getting so large that to fill one completely and pop it in a small player becomes largely irrelevant, i mean from the point of view that there's so much music on there that you can get lost for days going through it all, and the devices like the M0 aren't really ideal for such huge amounts of music, for locating and sorting, and such, anyway.
Now there's a thought. What a great idea. Can use Bluetooth from the phone to control the shanling and keep SQ high by playing from source on the shanling via the sabre DAC. @Shanling - get on this immediatelyWell, if there was an app on our phone that made player management easy and intuitive with a big touchscreen and user friendly interface, using the M0 with big gig storage would make for an ideal solution. Just saying.
The one thing I was thinking was battery live on mp3 vs flac. So before I spend two days A / B testing anyone can ballpark playback time on a 320 MP3 vs a 24 bit Flac driving Koss Porta Pros (which seem to be low powered)?
the paint around the bezel of the screen obscures the edges of the artwork it cuts off about 18 pixels around the edge. I have fixed some artwork by adding a black 20 pixel border around artwork that has text cut off. So all of the artwork shows and the artwork border is covered by the paint. I used photoshop elements to add the border. A bit of a pain but it works in a pinch vs trying to get Shanling to mess with the scaler.
Sony definitely has a distinct sound that you won't mistake for any other DAP's.