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Welcome to the Single Purpose Devices community on the Fediverse!

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submitted 1 year ago by AppleStrudel@reddthat.com to c/singlepurpose@lemmy.world

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This thing is amazing! I barely used my phone at all in the morning and all through the afternoon as I went about my business. I got sucked in for the evening onwards, but baby steps.

... I'll need to download more music, and get a bigger SD card. I've already played and replayed every single one of them I had loaded onto my Echo Mini these past 2 days.

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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

What a cute little device!!

Just looked it up (it's like $70 rn on the bezos site for anyone curious) and was surprised to see bad reviews- have you had any issues with it not being able to handle mp3s on the SD card, or the SD card not working properly?

Edit: wait... There are two seperate listings, one with 5 good reviews, but the other listing has more reviews but they aren't great... And some of the prices are cheaper for certain colors on the newer listings with less reviews... Weird.

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[–] AppleStrudel@reddthat.com [S] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've got no issues whatsoever. But I did look up what to do before adding my SD card. The general consensus is that:

You should update the firmware when you receive it new out of the box, by connecting it as a usb device and dropping the latest firmware .iso into the root directory. I restarted the device after and it started flashing the firmware all by itself. FIIO had been very active on the firmware updates, fixing a lot of things in the process. I remembered the firmware being 1.3(?) on it before I updated it to 2.4 (yes, very active).
You need to format the SD card on the actual device before use, and do it twice. I did that with a reboot in between just in case.
Always eject the device/SD card properly. The Mini doesn't handle corrupted audio files elegantly and would crash from what I've read. I never had an issue as I do unmount my SD card/Mini before unplugging from my phone. As an additional precaution, I would also turn the Mini off before ejecting the SD card from the device.

Edit: Remeber to refresh the media library every time you add, remove, or change any audio files. The Mini doesn't do it automatically, which does make sense. The CPU is slow enough that the media refresh can potentially be a multi minute affair. I had to wait about 30 seconds for my meager library of around 11GB to load. Not to worry otherwise though, the UI itself is super responsive so far. Just speculation, but I suppose some of the potential crashes may have happened when someone tried playing a missing file.

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