Woo, what a milestone. This calls for a short celebration.πΎ It's nice to see the server doing well and healthy.
Yes, it has huge bezels around. The actual screen is tiny.
Someone out there probably had a whole lot of fun with this and only needed to "make it an ad" to justify someone else putting the money into printing and publishing.
Well, at least this one only goes for $60.
It's a DAP and a DAC rolled into one. It's a very versatile device and I do foresee having this in my life for the foreseeable future.
Hmm, I guess I'm a "normal user" then. I'm looking to be more intentional with my music consumption after all, else something with the ability to stream music would've been a better deal otherwise.
Besides, just browse by artist or genre. The Mini would happily organize your music into genres>artists>albums anyway. Unless you have literally hundreds of albums, it shouldn't be too big of a hassle I feel.
Here's an update. The DAC works wonders, though it doesn't apply any eq that you've set beforehand (for now). In other news, I found out I was compensating for bad mixing of certain songs with the Pop EQ. I am now back to no EQ.
I mean, I only connected my phone to the Mini to demo some new bandcamp music, and I was completely blown away by how open and large the instrument separation was. I thought the amazingness was due to Dolby atmos (it was off) or the phone's equalizer (it was also off) or even my headphones' DSP (my headphones was also off). It was none of that. I was simply getting it worse with the increased bass level of the EQ. The Ult Wear just muddies all the mids when the bass is out too strong, no matter where that tuning is coming from I've learned.
Tl;dr: this is an amazing device in terms of audio fidelity, with some understandable limitations that doesn't detract from it's wonderful audio quality. Sony's sound engineers should be ashamed for pushing the Ult in a direction it's not meant to be taking (lots of bass literally blowing everything else away). I think I now know why the Ult button is there, it's not a feature, it's a compromise.
Well, it doesn't have the charming iconic form factor of the ipod. But it works just as well for a single purpose audio player, and it has a lot of charm in its own way.
Yes. Do eet. There's even FOSS firmware for them now, in the form of rockbox.
I've got no issues whatsoever. But I did look up what to do before adding my SD card. The general consensus is that:
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.
Yeah, that would be great! It can't support rockbox due to CPU limitations though, so we'll likely have start from scratch, or at least make an overhaul for there to be OSS support for this.
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.
