I regret so much buying FiiO M7, android version player. It loads with slogan "born for music", more like still born. Fucking FiiO Music app is such a shit player, I can't even. And on website they say "you can install third party players, but beware it could slowdown system". Really? I don't think it's even possible, do your fucking player go slower than it is. FiiO Music uses utter garbage instead UI. Click on artist? Yeah, here is your 300 songs of this artist, in random order, do whatever (I mean, you can play all or start from single song, but can't select couple albums). In album view you can't queue album to already playing queue, player doesn't have album shuffle, only shuffle whole playlist, just fuck you piece of garbage. Oh, it can play music by folders, but.. you get it, right? It's total dog shit as well. To play another album, I have to go to "local music > SD card > navigate through file hierarchy AGAIN, and you can't even fucking QUEUE next album.
Oh, and because it is an android, it eats battery in one day
2/10, won't buy ANYTHING from this company ever again
ps open source player like Auxio or Vanilla Player beats this shit player FiiO Music as Mike Tyson would beat me (with my hands strapped to my ass)
Well, after letting steam out, I think I was not completely honest. Hardware on this player is very good (not CPU though, audio), it has a lot of BT codecs, can DAC sound into USB socket, so if someone would adapt LineageOS or even make some custom firmware (there is one on xda). Potentially I could tether player to computer, install AntennaPod on it and have music and podcasts on one device, thus I could leave my phone home on hikes.
Fun part that I already (probably, can't remember) tried to do something, because when I went to unlock developer's menu and on stage when you have to click 7 times on kernel version big brother gently tapped me on shoulder and said something like "no need, brother, you already granted permission to install whatever".
Basically, Android is such overkill for that player, so much useless stuff for a music player, I wonder when it gonna get out of style to solve programming issues with throwing in more CPU powers instead of working on optimizing code.
Anyway, rant is over, now I'm thinking on reorganizing apps or even maybe build custom android with throwing away half of code, I don't need security features, all I want is be able to run one! single! app for playing music and it be able to read SD card
Holy shit, with Auxio instead of FiiO Music I can stand this device again! Opensource saves the day! Again!
Rejoice! Praise FOSS!
