To whom are you responding and what do you base your judgment on?
PeterHans. Experience. Thought I'd share mine. (I have several SSD USB drives I was going to test, too, but the SD card seemed easier, and cheaper.)
If your SD card did not work with your WiiM Amp initially, it's definitely not because of the FAT32 filesystem.
No way of knowing that; could not find any documentation on formatting recommendations.
The card worked fine on W7 and W10 machines, would not recognize it on Wiim Amp.
I'll try reformating it back to FAT32 and try again, however.
I saw no performance difference between this SD/USB 'key' and other drives on both Windows machines, but could certainly be; it was offered as an evaluation copy, and seemed perfect for audio file 'subset' backups via sneakernet.
I also tested it with older smaller USB drives on Wiim, to be sure they worked similary, and the others seemed slow to me as well (initial indexing).
Next time I'll document total file size and migration times. In use for playback and selection, it seemed pretty snappy.
A re-scan after new contents have been added is way faster than the first scan in any case.
I'll check that out, Thanks!
The comment was based on a trial 2 GB trial load, of about 40 tracks, IRCC.
I am impressed with how well it displays, or finds, the album art, though that's another thing I need to test further.
If Wiim is using the tags (as I'd expected), then, since I enter most of my favorite tracks tags manually, that might explain some of the art related stuff I've seen so far (just a few hours of use so far.)
Wonder how it handles multiple image album art, or (!) pdf album notes. (I prefer to read liner notes while listening, though less easy to read on a small phone app.)
More experimenting to do on that.
Still, for non-critical listening, it's fine so far.
You might consider signing up to the WiiM forum as well.
I have used it. Not signed up yet, but will. Wiim Amp seems to have fewer threads, perhaps bc it's newer. Still looking around in there, too.
I finally turned off CEC in the Hisense U7N (2024), and that seems to have stopped the remote battling-volume control on the TV.
[Volume changes on either remote would cause the TV volume display to either slowly increase (or decrease, sometimes) and would slowly ramp to full....and back again.]
The 'ramp to full' was annoying, and dangerous....fortunately I'd had the max volume set low precisely bc of my lack of trust in the conjoined systems.
I'll capture a vid snippet of it later and send off to both vendors....assuming that turning CEC back on again will reproduce it.
It is also linked to Apple Home (ATV) which seemed to get into arguments over whether the TV is
on or not, randomly turning it on occassionally (usually in the middle of the night, at loud volumes)...not certain yet, but seems that turning CEC off may have 'fixed' that too.
I don't see much hope for your very special request, but you never know.
Being able to see the file extension type doesn't strike me as being 'special' at all.
The WiiM devices don't simply expose the filesystem on the USB storage device. Instead, they do run a customized instnace of the MiniDLNA media server
Good to know, thanks! Glad to hear it's using a SQL variant. (Retired Apps Dev PM.)
I got this amp because I wanted to test out earc/arc, as this new Hisense TV is reported to decode Atmos up to 7.1 channels on earc, and will be my first use of e-arc.
I'm considering a miniDSP FlexHTx for the big system, so this is a baby step towards learning more about what works and what doesn't before making that decision.
Anyway, many thanks for the knowlegable info; the Wiim purchase was mostly in response to Black Friday discounts, and didn't take the time to thoroughly investigate before hand.
It appears that Wiim is pretty good about documenting their features, and updates, and the software does seem well thought out and reasonably organized (actually
architected, rather than just a random pile of 'wants/needs' on a list somewere that turns into a menu structure).
They certainly are far more helpful/useful than Hisense seems to be, and can't say much better about their Google TV implementation.
Used primarily as a TV amp, it's really quite nice, especially for the price, and especially now the dueling volume control seems solved.
Thanks!
