I have quite a few DAPs... I remember lots more teething problems on quite a few of them. I definitely believe that your "
so incomplete" comment is very unfair to Shanling. The M0 is a brilliant player, in an amazingly tiny footprint, which works very well for what I would think is a majority of users. Is it perfect? No. Can it be improved? Sure. But "so incomplete", at least to me, seems to imply that it has so many
real problems that it does not do even the bare minimum needed to function. And that is very much not the case here. All the "problems" that have already been fixed, and that I think Shanling is fixing in the future would seem to me to have more to do with improving functionality and ease of use for some/many users, rather than being real "problems" that compromise function. Unless one is unlucky and gets a faulty machine, of course... which can happen, and will be dealt with under warranty (and will certainly not make the person who just bought the new toy happy, given that it involves returning the player to the guys who originally sold it, but it's a fact of life that s**t can happen... it's how one deals with it that matters
).
@Shanling if and when that might be possible, one functionality improvement (which is not a
problem to fix
, but my personal desire for an improved functionality for my own usual use scenario) that I would very like to be implemented would be adding a further screen to the Now playing ones, in which you get a list of the files currently queued for playing, ordered by artist (or,even better, you could let the user order them by a selectable criteria - Ibasso has Title/Artist/Album/Added as their criteria, for example - me, I only ever use the artist option
, but I guess others may have different preferences). So, for instance, if one had selected open all and shuffle (not something you do with classical music
), this new screen would have a list of all files, ordered by artist (even if playing mode is different, like shuffle - so the order should be different that the order the actual list of files queued for playing will follow), and be at the specific song at that moment playing. If one had selected an album, a list of all songs of that album, still with the specific song playing at that moment highlighted. Some other DAPs do have this feature (most all Ibasso ones, for instance), and, me, I really find it useful. Would be great to also add it to your other players, but I understand how that might be even more complicated (I also have the M3s, but changing that firmware involves Hiby, so I guess it's less easy than introducing new features to the M0).