FiiO Releases X1 Firmware Version 1.5

Yellow

The following changes and improvements were made to firmware version 1.5 compared to 1.3:
1. Pressing the Back button from the Now Playing screen will now always take you to the folder / album / etc. from which the current song is selected.  This is true even after navigating to the main menu or powering the X1 off and back on;
2. Added Russian and Thai language UI support;
3. Removed the 5800 song limit of the media library;
4. Enabled gapless playback of single music files split by CUE sheets;
5. Fixed issue where CUE sheets containing tracks of identical titles could not be parsed properly;
6. Fixed issue where the genre tag of AAC files (.m4a) was read incorrectly;
7. Fixed issue where the X1 would not skip automatically through files of unsupported format if a whole series of such files are encountered in a row;
8. Fixed issue where blanks spaces in front of the album name of a song caused the genre name to be read incorrectly
9. Miscellaneous Chinese UI bugfix.

Download Address: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zv5hzxxrihs6uk3/X1-FW1.5.zip?dl=0
Upgrade Guide: http://www.fiio.me/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=40093&extra=

shitzu

So finally all those waiting eagerly for the X1 firmware, it is here. Look out for the point 3 above posted by Yellow.

jdkelley

SoundMan

Well this is a bummer.  Back to 1.3  Given that some playlists I have intentaully have duplicates placed and now 1.5 acts like those don't exist and no option to toggle this off.

Sample of this odd layout with .m3u playlists I use or spacers if one likes to call them that.
Album\Disk01\01.flac
Album\Disk01\02.flac
Album\Disk01\03.flac
Album\Disk01\04.flac
Album\Disk01\05.flac
Album\Playlist Cues\A.flac (only once seen in 1.5)
Album\Disk02\01.flac
Album\Disk02\02.flac
Album\Disk02\03.flac
Album\Disk02\04.flac
Album\Disk02\05.flac
Album\Playlist Cues\A.flac (not seen in 1.5 but seen in.1.3)
Album\Disk03\01.flac
Album\Disk03\02.flac
Album\Disk03\03.flac
Album\Disk03\04.flac
Album\Disk03\05.flac

ForSerious

Guess I don't understand your problem. I fully expect to have to remake all my playlists with this upgrade anyway.
Anyway this is super exciting! Now I can't wait til they come out with an update that marks play counts in the IDtag of the song you just played!

SoundMan

ForSerious replied at 2015-9-19 01:39
Guess I don't understand your problem.

It hides duplicates in playlists, so if you intentionally have them you'll only see the first one and not any other one and there is no way to turn it off.

oldmusicman

Thanx for the new firmware. But...

- The font during playing is still tiny
- there ist still mixed English-German text in the menus like "Gapless Wiedergabe"

Tatabanya

As told in another thread, after upgrading to FW 1.5 I can now see and play 12.804 files (mp3s lodged on a Sandisk 128GB, directly copied in the root directory without folders or playlists).

Can someone explain why many seem to meet a 10.000 song limit and others don't? I'd like to know if mine is a software anomaly...

Blaiszik

Tatabanya replied at 2015-9-19 22:10
As told in another thread, after upgrading to FW 1.5 I can now see and play 12.804 files (mp3s lodge ...

I put a little over 11k on mine although it was importing really slowly toward the end....like maybe a couple a second.

RebeccaSugar

Tatabanya replied at 2015-9-19 22:10
As told in another thread, after upgrading to FW 1.5 I can now see and play 12.804 files (mp3s lodge ...

Same here, the sound hasn't been fixed though, oh well, I'll have to live with it for now.

Now after it scans my 12,000+ songs, it gives a handling data promp and plays the music. Hooray.

I am now one semi-satisfied customer.

9lives

Tatabanya replied at 2015-9-19 22:10
As told in another thread, after upgrading to FW 1.5 I can now see and play 12.804 files (mp3s lodge ...

Just bought my first Fiio (X1) yesterday and have a little over 10,000 tracks (the only reason I've been hesitant about buying is because of the 5800 limit up till now). So it seems to be recognizing > 10,000 for me as well. I assume that the media lib would stall at 5800 on older firmwares.

samandhi

9lives replied at 2015-9-20 06:49
Just bought my first Fiio (X1) yesterday and have a little over 10,000 tracks (the only reason I'v ...

  It wouldn't stall, it simply would NOT scan further than 5800. So, you might be missing all songs from the letter "T" and beyond (for instance) because it scanned in alphabetical order.

shitzu

So the 10000 song limit brings in a new issue of songs after letter T missing while scanning.

I wonder if Fiio will be able to look into that since software limitation is the crux of the issue and mass demand of removal of 5800 song limit led to all this new problem

Deb1995

shitzu replied at 2015-9-20 11:53
So the 10000 song limit brings in a new issue of songs after letter T missing while scanning.

I w ...

I think the rockbox is the only one who can save us now?
They should allow the the rockbox mod for better future of X1(X3,X5).

samandhi

  Maybe I am being a tad ignorant here, but HAS there been official word that there IS in fact a 10,000 file limit? I don't recall seeing this anywhere (though, I admit I could have missed it).

Wojciech

samandhi replied at 2015-9-20 22:57
Maybe I am being a tad ignorant here, but HAS there been official word that there IS in fact a 10, ...

I think it started from here:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/781396/ ... 3-tags-into-folders
But from what I see it just slows down above 10000. It is not a real implemented limitation.

samandhi

  OIC, thanks for the link. I wasn't aware of that, but is some good reading...

  I have always had large slowdowns when using the Browse feature where a lot of songs are involved, but strictly talking about using category view it is mixed. I have the slowdowns on my X3II with less files, but odd as it may sound, my X5 gen 1 doesn't have the same slowdown issues (it still slows down some when browsing MANY files, and worse if they are lossless like flac), but for the most part, ALL songs will show up in a couple of seconds. I wonder if Fiio implemented better code in the newer gen devices, so they could save money and put lesser CPU's (and maybe less RAM too) in them?! This would make the "documented" features work the same, but anything that wasn't originally intended when the device was built, would slow it down tremendously.

  Just some food for conversation!

C.Holtheuer

Thanks for removing the 5.800 cap

Yellow

Some guys response that there is a little issue over 10000 songs. We don't find this issue in our tests. Pls be sure that your sd card is genuine and FAT32 format.