[Shanling]

I bit the bullet and purchased an M3U. Already mentioned in the M3X thread that that units volume wheel stopped working and I wanted an upgrade anyway. Looking forward in receiving it. Ended up buying the green one
What tipped the scale was a podcast by Darko Audio on the M3U. Expect to receive it early next week, hopefully.

Now: I need to trim down the content on my 500Gb SD card because I need new music on there.. a daunting task.
I purchased a 1Tb brand new card, it didn't do anything - not showing up as a drive on the iMac, nor in the DAP..very strange. So I returned it and it got lost in the mail Instead of buying another one right away I will try and learn to control myself a bit, besides I will install Bandcamp & Tidal so I should have enough to listen to..

Will check right out of the box which firmware it runs on, can I just upgrade to the newest even it is would be a few versions back? Trust I can.

For cards, I have to really recommend purchasing only from 100% reliable sources. Go with your big electronic stores or photography shops. Never buy from Ebay or even Amazon. I get so often emails with people complaining about their 1TB or 2TB cards, just to find out they got fake.

I live in Shenzhen and it's so funny to see the amount of fake cards going around.

 

[Norbert de Jong]

Ah, it was an A brand (Sandisk) and not cheap at that. The shop is highly reliable, this time the postal services messed up big time.
I try to stay away from Amazon as much as possible to support my local stores anyway.

Thanks for the advice though, most appreciated.

 

[Norbert de Jong]

It has arrived safely, thanks to Audiophonics. I picked up a 1Tb sd card this morning locally (no more postal services for this stuff thank you) and I am now loading it up with music. Of course I put Tidal and Bandcamp on there as well...
Happy I remembered I needed the developer mode for USB debugging to make sure it read the sd card.

It looks gorgeous, the green really does do it justice.
For the time being I will just use the Shanling app even with the annoying non-gapless playback, but I like the interface and overall sound it offers. It builds the library quite fast and it doesn't require me to re-confirm my playstore login when I use it at the most inconvenient times.

Anyway, looking forward in spending manieth happy hours with this little gizmo.
For those interested: Inear wireless I use the Sennheiser Momentum true wireless 4, wired the Sennheiser IE300 with a balanced cable, Overear and wired Meze 99 classic w/balanced cable, Sennheiser HD660S w/balanced cable. All depending on the situation of course.

 

[Shanling]

Happy I remembered I needed the developer mode for USB debugging to make sure it read the sd card.

Can you please tell me why was that needed on your system? It should work just fine without it.

 

[FlacFan]

USB developer mode on for reading the SD card?
That makes no sense to me.

Cheers

 

[Norbert de Jong]

I am on a iMac and using a program to make android machines visible. If I plug in an android phone or Dap, it does not show up. I had the hardest time with the M3X getting it to show up, and although it I managed to make the M3U visible, the SD card simply wouldn't show.

Never mind that, I fixed it like this and it works just fine now.

 

[Shanling]

I am on a iMac and using a program to make android machines visible. If I plug in an android phone or Dap, it does not show up. I had the hardest time with the M3X getting it to show up, and although it I managed to make the M3U visible, the SD card simply wouldn't show.

Never mind that, I fixed it like this and it works just fine now.

Oh yeah, Apple thing, make sense.

 

[Norbert de Jong]

Yeah I love my iMac but it's not the most social kid on the playground...
Works like a charm now though, steadily transferring 500Gb of flac files..