[nmatheis]

Just a reminder for anyone experiencing mysterious shut downs. Joe mentioned earlier that idle & sleep were swapped. I forgot and had mine shut down in the middle of a song.

Sounds like I need to change my settings!

But then again, I had it on shuffle all songs so I wouldn't expect it to be idle and sleep or shut down.

 

[subguy812]

  I have to listen at vol 60 - High Gain. With FW 2.1 I was at vol 28 Low Gain

What are you driving...what cans or IEM's?

 

[Stuff Jones]

I'm using the 128 GB card which works fine except on shuffle. Shuffle plays one album (out of about 400) about 50% of the time and plays 5 albums about 80% of the time. Anyone have this problem? It may not be related to the new 128 card but I didn't have it before.

 

[tjw321]

  I didn't have long to play with the new beta firmware, but in my brief time with it, I couldn't get the coax out to work. Has anyone else tried?

This was a false alarm. On my second attempt, when I had more time, it worked perfectly.
 
Other than the well-documented "low volume bug" the only issue I have is it isn't possible to do shuffle play on an artist, AFAICT, only an individual album. OTOH, before the huge improvements in the db handling in this beta, it wasn't possible for me to shuffle anything except a folder using "Browse Files". At least now I can shuffle by genre (which was the thing I wanted most). The only problem now is, I can see how bad my genre tags are!
 
This is a huge step forward. Well done to Fiio! Even the "cartoonish interface" (not my words) isn't as annoying as I thought it would be (not annoying at all, really). I think I still prefer a text-based one, but I can definitely live with this one.

 

[subguy812]

  I'm using the 128 GB card which works fine except on shuffle. Shuffle plays one album (out of about 400) about 50% of the time and plays 5 albums about 80% of the time. Anyone have this problem? It may not be related to the new 128 card but I didn't have it before.

huh

 

[h1f1add1cted]

Nice and great working for a beta firmware, GUI looks nice, slightly faster, gapless works for me now, EQ added.

 
But I miss only one thing, please tell how I can disable the cover view, with 2.10 I disabled this stuff, I don't want to see covers, the text with artist title is more than enough. Thanks

 

[tjw321]

 
huh

I think he is saying that the shuffle isn't as random as it should be. I haven't played with shuffle much yet, but I found something similar. The first three tracks all came from the same album, then I got one from a second album, then one from the first again, then one from the second again.

 

[Ophiel]

I'm not sure how to compare before and after, since I cant even match the previous volume i used and the volume now. There is definitely a change in sound though. but gapless is still not really gapless.

 

[Stuff Jones]

Is the sound quality change just for MP3s?

 

[Stuff Jones]

OK I'm trying the volume modded version with FLAC only. It seems a little more treble-y with a tighter low end and better separation. I'd like confirmation though that this isn't just expectation bias. 
 
Navigation is snappier. Menu appearance change is neutral to me, but the font thickness and color when playing songs should be adjusted to look less amatuer. I've got the black theme but I've got gold thin letters telling me track info. 
 
Anyway, nice to see Fiio not abandon us X3 owners.

 

[aangen]

  I'm using the 128 GB card which works fine except on shuffle. Shuffle plays one album (out of about 400) about 50% of the time and plays 5 albums about 80% of the time. Anyone have this problem? It may not be related to the new 128 card but I didn't have it before.

I'm not having this problem with either on my 128 GB cards. I use shuffle all when I use my X3 and it does appear random enough to me.

 

[AuxIn]

Is there a way to export the favorites from x3?
Is it saved as a playlist/textfile somewhere?
(would be nice to sort it out on the fiio, not on pc)

 

[peter123]

It is not just about micro-detail, the bass and treble were noticeably improved too. Highs are airier, with more definition and bass is more detailed and controled. I think that just now it is taking full advantage of the amplification section, since I no longer need the JDS Labs C5 to give that detailed/textured bass.

Ain't that typical. I got the E12 yesterday to help me out and now the player is better by itself. Poor me

 

[skalkman]

  I'm going to say I love everything about the new U.I. Well. Almost everything.

-Low volume (looks like I'm downloading that 120 volume mod!)
-During playback, browsing or performing any other function is very tedious due to I think maybe hardware limitations?
-Playback text is in an odd placement...

 
You could just use the normal firmware tools provided for unpacking the old firmware and just change the "max_vol" parameter in default.ini to something like 120 instead of the normal 60. Though 120 might be a bit over the top since for what i have gathered is that the "volume drop" is is something like 20 units so since the old max volume was 60 you could just bump it up to 80 and have everything like it was before. 

 

[skalkman]

I have my hands on an alpha firmware for the X3. Alas it really is an alpha feature-wise: no EQ, no high gain setting, some other menu items missing, system settings that are in Chinese no matter what language you select (and the language selection is also missing from the menu so the only way to select language is the language selection screen that comes up on the first boot-up after flashing). But it is using the new UI, and seems to be using the new mp3 decoding engine. And gapless really is gapless (tested with Pink Floyd's DSOTM, FLAC) Who knows, it might even play DSD

If anyone wants to try it, they can pm me for a download link. Please, no redistributing the alpha and only report bugs to me via pm.

Edit: just received an updated beta of the firmware with EQ (both software 5-band and hardware 2-band), complete menu in English (although I note that the tag for "idle power off" and "sleep" have been mixed up), language selection in menu... all in all I'd rate this as a solid "beta" worth trying out and I anticipate to be inundated by pm requests so here's a public link

:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wp5bs1j5gc06q0r/x3%20FW2.14beta.zip

Extract x3.fw into root folder of mSD card in X3 (that's formatted in FAT32), turn off X3, make sure X3 is adequately charged, hold down upper left menu button while pressing power key to start the update.

If things don't work out for you with the alpha here's the version 2.1 firmware to revert to
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d49q7vmdkhfeqjc/X3_FW2.1_EN.zip

I'm opening a new version of firmware for this in the bugzilla
https://app.devzing.com/FiiO/bugzilla/

although I anticipate this version to remain current for only a week or two at most

 
The beta does play DSD64!