Fiio playlists
2017-Nov-20, Monday 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chebeFor the past while I've just been tending to the many needs of my technology.
For instance, I picked up a Fiio X1 (2nd gen) a while back. And, well. When it works, it does work beautifully. The sound is great, and it even responds to the media controls on my bluetooth headset. However, it doesn't always work. Good news is they are actively developing the firmware and respond promptly to support questions.
Still, every so often you'll run into something very non-intuitive. Like, playlists.
There is a Category > Playlists menu option. But the only way to get playlists in there is seemingly from the Now Playing screen, which would mean adding song by song. And the playlists are named; Playlist1, Playlist2, etc, with no means of editing.
To get more useful playlists you must create them externally, on your computer. They are basically just a txt file with .m3u extension. Though you may prefer to use a music player program. You may, or may not, need to add
But, in their limited function, they do work. So, um, okay?
For instance, I picked up a Fiio X1 (2nd gen) a while back. And, well. When it works, it does work beautifully. The sound is great, and it even responds to the media controls on my bluetooth headset. However, it doesn't always work. Good news is they are actively developing the firmware and respond promptly to support questions.
Still, every so often you'll run into something very non-intuitive. Like, playlists.
There is a Category > Playlists menu option. But the only way to get playlists in there is seemingly from the Now Playing screen, which would mean adding song by song. And the playlists are named; Playlist1, Playlist2, etc, with no means of editing.
To get more useful playlists you must create them externally, on your computer. They are basically just a txt file with .m3u extension. Though you may prefer to use a music player program. You may, or may not, need to add
#EXTM3U to the first line of each file. Then the songs are listed one per line, as relative paths, to the file-on-device. These playlists must be placed in the root directory of the player, and can only be accessed through the Browse Files menu option (not Category > Playlists).But, in their limited function, they do work. So, um, okay?
