Nice. I almost got a Shanling a while ago, but went with the Fiio M5 instead (the tiny one that they stopped making). The one in the photo is a Hidizs AP80.
Do you like Shanling's interface? I find it's kind of hard to get to a specific album on the Hidizs. All it gives you is one long, scrolling list.
The UI gets finicky at the edges of the screen where I think they want gestures. Trips makes scrolling a bit of a pain since you may accidentally switch views. Iāve gotten used to it. The price to performance/features is nice tho.
If I could change two things it would be: a) properly release their source modifications to the Linux kernel for GPL compliance, b) support some of the native Linux kernel file systems like ext4, f2fs as they would allow better performance & I wouldnāt need to install exFAT drivers.
Finicky isnāt the right word in hindsight. If you tap the edge it takes you immediately to the current player which is a fast shortcut one would like to have, but given the size of the small screen, itās very easy to accidentally touch while scrolling, which if you have a large library can be very cumbersome to recover.
Other issues: certain files donāt seem to index correctly, but can be played via the file explorer instead of the main music part. Some of my Opus files donāt want to play despite the devices saying it has compatibility (tho I donāt know if my encoding was wrong or what).
Short question about the Q8, if you donāt mind: Is it possible to map the two halves of the space bar to different functions/key presses (using VIA)? Iād like to use one half for space and the other as a return key, if possible. Thanks!
I haven't tried VIA before. Looks like it allows you to do macros, which the QMK configurator can't. I'll check it out tomorrow and find out for sure if it works.
I just tried it, and yes, it works. I now have the left spacebar as tab and the right spacebar as space. I'm using a Mac, although I'm sure that doesn't make a difference.