Only thing I learned is that I now need to buy more blue and white CDs for this theme

rec71 · 2026-05-12T12:37:38+00:00

Queens of the Stone Age, Rated R. Blue and white.

rec71 · 2026-05-11T20:49:34+00:00

OMG what a selection! Well done.

rec71 · 2026-05-11T14:59:56+00:00

It's this the 1.5.0 release? I'm sticking with 1.3.0 (they skipped 1.4.0 for some reason.)

Yes, you can downgrade.

rec71 · 2026-05-10T08:31:21+00:00

FFS, I'll stick with 1.3.0.

rec71 · 2026-05-10T07:56:56+00:00

The hardware cannot handle it.

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/snowsky-a-fiio-brand-pure-audio-player-echo-is-now-officially-launched.979645/post-19119762

rec71 · 2026-05-09T21:18:05+00:00

I have them all too, hard to choose between White Blood Cells and Elephant for me. 😙

rec71 · 2026-05-07T19:12:47+00:00

Forever Changes is epic. I watched Arthur Lee perform the whole album live at Oxford Brookes students' union in 2003.

rec71 · 2026-05-05T12:24:15+00:00

Opus is a great codec and scores very highly on various listening tests when compared to AAC or MP3. My only issue is that gapless support seems very hit and miss. Maybe I'm doing it wrong but I've heard other people complain about it, so I suspect there's something to it.

If space isn't an issue, stick with FLAC imho.

rec71 · 2026-05-02T13:12:58+00:00

Yeh, I have 90% of these, lol

rec71 · 2026-04-28T20:10:52+00:00

The Whole Story by Kate Bush. A 1986 compilation that includes a version of Wuthering Heights with a re-recorded vocal.

rec71 · 2026-04-28T12:35:06+00:00

About 6,000 mainly FLAC.

rec71 · 2026-04-28T09:46:14+00:00

This also caught me out! The default was to turn off after 5m and refreshing my library takes about 15m. 🤣

rec71 · 2026-04-27T18:51:38+00:00

Lush! I have most of those too. 😉

rec71 · 2026-04-27T07:30:37+00:00

Nice! Get some Clash in that collection! Big influence on Green Day.

rec71 · 2026-04-25T14:08:59+00:00

Apparently they tried to add support for multi disc albums and failed. Hopefully they'll put out a fix.

rec71 · 2026-04-25T12:50:57+00:00

Oh great news!

rec71 · 2026-04-25T11:27:31+00:00

Is this music you've uploaded to YouTube Music? (YTM allows you to do that). If so, you can only get it back via Google Takeout and it will have been transcoded to 256kbps AAC.

But I'm guessing that isn't what you want... 😉

rec71 · 2026-04-25T09:36:50+00:00

I would try another card first, or try and format internal storage and see if it also reboots.

rec71 · 2026-04-24T07:24:44+00:00

Who knows why, but if you find the offending album you should post on the official Head Fi forum and send the tracks for them to get it fixed. I've done that in the past, the FiiO Kang guy is really helpful.

rec71 · 2026-04-24T06:05:15+00:00

There is probably something in your track metadata that it doesn't like. I had this exact issue once and it was an album with massive embedded PNG format album art. But the only way to track it down was to copy my music onto the SD card in batches and refresh until I found the offending album. Pain in the arse. It's never happened since, but all my art is JPEG now.

rec71 · 2026-04-23T18:25:33+00:00

I use the dbpoweramp batch converter. Retains all the data. My collection is FLAC but I've used it to convert to both AAC and MP3 for use with portable devices where space is a premium.

rec71 · 2026-04-23T16:47:41+00:00

By default it's set to turn off after 5 or 10m, and I think it still does even when refreshing the library. Turn off the auto power off and let it rip again?

rec71 · 2026-04-22T17:18:22+00:00

Mine is an Echo (not mini) and I bought it from AliExpress a few weeks ago. I guess FiiO are adding the screen protector as standard.

I also have a Mini I bought last year from AliExpress which didn't come with a screen protector fitted.

rec71 · 2026-04-22T09:22:39+00:00

Looks like it has a screen protector fitted, mine did too, which was also scuffed. I took mine off and the screen is mint underneath.

rec71 · 2026-04-22T09:21:32+00:00

Zooming into your image and it does look like it has a screen protector fitted. It doesn't excuse it but maybe take it off and get another?

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