[Joe Bloggs]

Quick question: Why is the L/R balance control greyed out when using the digital output? As someone who relies on a balance control for most playback, this drives me crazy. And limits me to devices with a working Rockbox port when using an external DAC.

I'm not aware of a single DAC on the market with a balance control, so why eliminate such a crucial feature from the transport?

Any chance of remedying this in a future firmware update?

Which digital output are you referring to--coax or usb?

 

[jj69]

Now that you mention it, I only tried with the USB to coax adapter so far. Does it work via USB?

 

[Joe Bloggs]

I'll have to check but the controls enabled / disabled does differ a bit between coax and usb if I recall correctly.

 

[jj69]

I'll have to check but the controls enabled / disabled does differ a bit between coax and usb if I recall correctly.

I just tried connecting to my Audio gd DAC via USB and I had the same result. Balance is greyed out and nonworking.

It would be great to have a useable balance control in both USB and coax mode!

 

[jj69]

Updated to 3.2 last night and now bluetooth connection no longer works at all.

All I get is: Playback failed Error -13

Is this a known issue?

 

[mikp]

Updated to 3.2 last night and now bluetooth connection no longer works at all.

All I get is: Playback failed Error -13

Is this a known issue?

yes

 

[jj69]

yes

What's the solution? Rollback?

 

[mikp]

What's the solution? Rollback?

yes, only option now.

 

[dissembled]

Firmware 3.2 Custom

3.2 International ver. (from Kickstarter);
3.2 Chinese ver. (from JD and so on, rename the file to r3.upt before updating)

Spoiler: Changes in custom FW

1. corrected translation (Russian and English),
2. replaced the font with a new one by XVortex,
3. customized both themes (some pictures, icons, their locations, etc. were replaced), increased font size in some places. Main screen in second theme is based on the Hexagon theme by Steven Van Geert (see FB HiBy thread),
4. repaired choosing colors sliders in the second theme,
5. added adb (Android Debug Bridge),
6. replaced the index page when connected to PC via Wi-Fi (now always in English), changed sort order (folders go first, then files, in order of names: at the beginning the numbers, then Latin, then Russian) and following file formats have been added: upt, txt, log, and t,
7. added a radio to the top bar and replaced the built-in chinese radio stations (40 stations now), others you can persanally add to radio.txt file and put it in the root of your sd card,
8. all binary files have been striped,
9. optimized all *png files,
10. removed unnecessary files and folders that are not used,
11. extended database limit to 65000 tracks,
12. automatically connecting to known Wi-Fi networks,
13. added automatically start playback after player is turning on (you should add in the root of sd card file key_settings.conf with "autoplay=1" line).

Last update: 31.05.2019

A playlist option containing recently added tracks has finally been added in the new update. Yes, yes, YES!

 

[dissembled]

All that's missing now is the ability to search for specific songs in the playlist/favorites menus! Right now, searching for a specific song in those categories is almost impossible because neither are alphabetized and there's no search option (the alphabet list located on the right side) like the one found in the all songs menu.

Please make it happen!

 

[surfgeorge]

I just tried connecting to my Audio gd DAC via USB and I had the same result. Balance is greyed out and nonworking.

It would be great to have a useable balance control in both USB and coax mode!

I use the R3 99% as digital source for the Mojo and the most important feature is unmanipulated, bit perfect output.
So it’s imperative to have the option that the DSP can be bypassed.

Please consider that use case in any decision about future upgrade

 

[Nolbert0]

So it’s imperative to have the option that the DSP can be bypassed.

Please consider that use case in any decision about future upgrade

Agreed. Option to bypass also means option to apply as well

 

[Scarpad]

Updating the firmware that supposedly gives the option of recently added to the database I realized my one issue with the R3 and I’m sure it’s true with other similar players, in that if you add one album and you have a good size database you have to wait thru a total SD card scan

 

[Squonk12]

A playlist option containing recently added tracks has finally been added in the new update. Yes, yes, YES!

Is this update not available via OTA yet? My R3 says it's current. ?

 

[dissembled]

Is this update not available via OTA yet? My R3 says it's current. ?

I updated the latest custom firmware via SD card, so I’m not certain myself.

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One negative thing about the recently added playlist is that sometimes it loads up the songs so slowly. All I see is the rotating icon for about a minute (or slightly less), so I do wish this would be rectified with a future update.