vkalia
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^^ Yeah? I might just do that on my DX50 as well b/c I am getting mighty sick of having to spend hours fighting my DAP. Thanks for the tip.
Or you can wait for Rockbox. Playlist, tags, EQ and a lot more works perfectly on DX50.
Hi headwhacker,
Do you know if Rockbox support hi-res for DX50?
IIRC rockbox downsamples everything above 48/16.
Nope, it doesn't, yes, it downsamples (so if you're a heavy user of hi-res music and you do hear a difference over 44.1 or 48/16, Rockbox on DX50 may not be for you)
Or you can wait for Rockbox. Playlist, tags, EQ and a lot more works perfectly on DX50.
True. But the point is that we REALLY shouldn't have to.
Those features (from Rockbox) should ALL be built into the stock DAP firmware & UI by now...don't you think so?! They've had plenty of time to develop and refine the software/UI based solely on user feedback from the DX50, and most of the issues the DX90 still has really should have been eliminated JUST THROUGH COMMON SENSE.
Why should I pay good money for a product just to be frustrated? Why should the Sound Signature change with every firmware update, when "just maybe" I don't want it to, and we're not even given the option to choose to keep the original SS or switch to the newer option from WITHIN the UI?
In all honesty, iBasso should have released this DAP with a perfect, non-buggy UI and firmware from the start. Especially after all of the problems and frustrations of the DX50 release. I don't want to sound harsh, but is it really too much to expect to have a product that just works? I really don't understand how a company can get away with making their customers be the Guinea pigs, and now not just once, but twice in a row???
This is not a 1st generation product where you might expect some minor bugs here or there. This is their 3rd DAP! If it's not ready for primetime, wait to release it until everything works. And ***, do some THOROUGH testing of the units before even releasing it, and especially before releasing a new firmware that seems to break just as much as it fixed!
We should NOT be experiencing ANY of these problems! My circa 2000 Archos Jukebox 20GB PMP works better and more reliably!
I don't understand why iBasso (and Fiio, and others) doesn't just donate a couple of players to rockbox developers.
They should also ask the admins to direct the players to developers like mortalis and jhMikeS. Some developers have more interest in sound quality than others.
Rockbox is of the opinion that bits are bits and not that into the sound difference thing. They're all about functionality and options for increasing a devices viability for users but.... Rockbox codecs also don't play native HiDef. Probably not what many would want on a HiDef capable player. I liked Rockbox on a clip. Probably not so much on a DX90.
:standing applause:
I got banned from the X5 thread for making the same point about FiiO, but I will make the same statement here about iBasso as well: You guys need to get your act together.
Yes, it is complex, yes some bugs are going to happen. But we arent talking about some little known situation or some unexpected byproduct of some line of code. We are talking about very, very basic functionality - reading ID3 tags and building an indexed database from it. We arent talking about a huge mess of ID3 tags even - take something like:
Title
Artist
Date - blank
Comments - blank
Track No
Genre
Album Artist
Composer
Picture
Neither of these players can parse this. In this day and age? Esp when iBasso is using Android under the engine?