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waltoly

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  1. You're not missing anything because there are no A-Z links on any of the pages, at least not on Android. You have to manually scroll through the lists.
  2. You do know that mp3 has a sampling frequency of 44.1. Right? So the fact that you're seeing 44.1 doesn't really mean much. It could be CD quality... or lower. But even if is CD quality, 44.1 is NOT high resolution. When you see 48, then that's an indication that the source is higher than CD quality. But 48 is just barely high resolution. It's the bottom step on the high resolution ladder.
  3. I'm guessing Tidal has a licensing fee that's beyond what Sony was willing to pass on to customers. Perhaps they can add that extra cost into the next model's price tag. I'm another who doesn't care about Tidal or streaming... and I'm glad Sony didn't put much emphasis into that technology. For me, it's hi-res or nothing. I value quality over quantity.
  4. Not aware of any way to access a file that contains favorites. Or playlists. So you cannot import, export, or edit such a list. It all has to be done one at a time through the interface. You can play favorites in random order. There's a hard-to-see button right next to the skip track forward button. It cycles through playing tracks in random order, or playing albums in random order. The button to the right of the random button is the track repeat button.
  5. In my opinion you should quit wasting your time and get rid of it now. That (very slight) noise will always be there as long as you have the internal hard-drive. Even if you were to replace it with an SSD you'd still hear the (even slighter) fan noise. This low level of noise doesn't happen to bother me because I exclusively use headphones with my Z1ES. But even without my headphones on, the noise it makes is very slight. Like what a quiet laptop would sound like. Also, the file transfer process might not be optimum, but at least you only have to do it once. This seems to be a small price to pay for an otherwise excellent sounding unit that has a pretty good user interface (when operated from a tablet.)
  6. Yes, it allows subfolders. If you use the music transfer app to keep the Sony automatically in sync with your computer then it exactly replicates the folder structure from your computer. Alternatively, you can manually transfer all your files and put them in any folder structure you want. You can't create folders from the remote app; you would do that while manually transferring files from your computer. For example, like while using Windows Explorer. You are correct, in the remote app the Folder view does NOT display album art. However, you do get to see album art while browsing Genres, Artists, Albums, Favorites, and Playlists. And what they call the "Full Browser" view in the tablet version of the app. As far as multiple album art images, I don't see how that would be possible. If a file has album art imbedded, then the app uses that for display everywhere. Whatever image you embed, then that is considered the album image and it would never look anywhere else for a second images.
  7. The Android app DOES allow you to edit multiple album tracks at once. After typing in your edits to the genre text and clicking OK in that little window, you then have to click the "Apply to All Tracks" button. Now the Save button is enabled. This also applies to editing album artist. Also note that when clicking the genre text to bring up that little edit window, you can also click the triangle at the right of the text line to bring up a pick list so you can choose from your list of existing genres. The Z1ES remote app has plenty of undocumented quirks that take time to learn -- just like all the other digital audio contraptions I've used.
  8. The remote app simply reads the genre tag of all your tracks and displays a list of genres it finds. So if you had a 100 tracks with a 100 different genres then you'd have 100 genres to choose from. Remove one of those tracks and you'd see a list of 99 genres. If you misspelled one then simply edit the genre tag for that track and the app will pick it up at the next scan. If you misspelled it on 10 tracks then you'd have to correct it on all 10 tracks.
  9. You've hit upon a weakness of the Z1ES: Playlists cannot be backed up. And another weakness: You cannot backup the metadata that you edit from within the remote player.
  10. The app is actually pretty nice and very functional... but it was NOT designed with classical music in mind: There are no Composer or Conductor tags. Plus, for some unknown reason they put in a limit of 100 playlists, of which I like to organize my classical music into. I can't figure out why they allow for thousands of folders and 20,000 tracks, but let you organize that into no more than 100 playlists. The solution, as you mentioned, is to first organize all your classical music into composer folders, and then create subfolders for each work.
  11. There was no need to manually reboot after the update on mine. The update process did what it was supposed to and left it in a read-to-use state.
  12. I've heard of a similar problem before and there were different explanations: 1) Specific music files that were a little corrupt (meaning, the meta data was not properly tagged, or 2) Having over 20,000 music files on the HDD.
  13. Looks like only one improvement in this release: Name: Firmware update v13814R for HAP-S1 / HAP-Z1ES Date released: 28-10-2014 Benefits and improvements: Improves the internet security when accessing network services
  14. It's interesting that the tablet version only runs in landscape mode and the phone version only runs in portrait mode. Can you force the phone version to be installed on a tablet? I don't know.
  15. 1. I have no real issues with the software -- other than its limitation of only 100 playlists. It's very stable. What issues are you referring to? There has been two firmware updates in the month that I have owned it. So that's a small indicator of Sony's continued work on the software. 1. Yes, gapless playback works as expected. It's pretty good. 2. DSF and DFF play the same. I think the main difference is that one supports metadata and the other doesn't. 3. Yes, display can be turned off. 4. There is one (very bright) blue light that turns on when the DSEE function is enabled for a track.
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