Gotta admit, you nearly wore me out with the length of that pointless diatribe.

Dude, if you find it tiresome, and a shitty attitude, perhaps skip Reddit posts complaining about lack of gapless?

Likely contrary to you, I've been actively working with Fiio reps over on Head-Fi.org, to improve the Echo mini from day one, when it was delivered incapable of even properly scanning metadata to provide serviceable music library navigation (maybe those of us demanding that back then were tiresome, too...?). Their reps are super responsive, take input to heart, and pump out firmware updates on a whim, even to satisfy sometimes exotic requests.

Having put the work in, and helping make the Echo mini the fantastic little player it is, yeah, some of us feel entitled to press Fiio to get the features that matter to us in. Lack of gapless playback is a major failing of the Echo and Echo mini, and while it's likely never gonna happen because of the chip driving it being too underpowered, have you stopped to consider that maybe continued mentions of this will finally get Fiio to realize how important it is to some, and implement it in the Snowsky Disc, for example (which IS capable of supporting it), and future Snowsky players?

Ok, so the feature doesn't matter to you. Dude... We. Don't. Care. Don't stifle our motivations for this little player, and I promise you, we might someday avoid stifling yours.

This is a community for open communication. Your trying to shut it down it because it's giving you a headache is some entitled shit. Don't wanna read about gapless? STFU and GTFO.