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  1. NEW firmware, DSD gap less! WOW! Love Sony, very much, now HAP-Z1ES/HAP-S1 HDD Audio Player System Firmware Upgrade Article ID:588162(modified 15 Oct 2014) Applicable Models What does this download do? This firmware upgrade is currently available which provides the following benefits: Support FAT External HDD. Support Jacket picture display on track list for Playlists and Favorites. Support 32bit WAV playback. Support DSD gapless playback. Support manual edit for SensMe channels. Add Oversampling setting to select Normal/Precision mode (only for HAP-Z1ES).
  2. Regnad, May I know how do you transfer your music onto Z1? Do you use Sony's HAP music transfer software or simply using file explorer in Windows? I think I mixed them several times and this may cause some problem in the long run. I may have to try one more time from the scratch. Folder view is so much easier than album view for me.
  3. I understand your concern. I believe the internal storage is some solid state or maybe even a (EP)ROM, so it should last as long as the circuit board.
  4. Wow, I mean fantastic, the auto spelling is fatalistic though
  5. Could someone who already have several thousand files in your hard drive, verify if folder view works? Since I had the problem (folder view is either empty or have several hundreds same entry displayed on cell phone) , I can no longer make folder view works. I have tried rescan, delete and reformat whole disk and add files again, no luck. Frustrating. Other than this issue, Z1ES is a fatalistic player.
  6. The latest firmware supports folder view, which I really like to use. Until recently, after I copy 2 new albums into internal hard drive, it updated, shows everything fine in album view, but the folder view now says "NO Folder"!? I think the database somehow got corrupted, so I did a rescan for internal disk, took several hours, and same thing, everything is fine except folder view. BTW, external disk's folder view is OK. Anyone got the same problem? Any ideas?
  7. I rip my CD to flac/cue, separate cue sheet. And only copy flac files to Z1ES. I also tried couple of flac with embedded cue, no luck. So Z1ES will not support cue at least for now. So the whole CD flac become one album and only one track under the album. This is mostly fine for classics.
  8. Yes, unfortunately it's likely true. CPU may not be powerful enough inside Z1ES. I was told by Sony support, it supports 40,000 tracks. So what I am doing now, I just copy over full album image flacs, I listen to lots of classical music, so this isn't a big deal, it will hold 20+ thousands of albums as disk image. For pop music, 40,000 tracks is about 2-3000 albums maybe, not enough.
  9. I don't think Z1ES boots from internal hard drive, it boots from some SSD inside. Because after I install the new drive(indeed new drive, blank, NTFS formatted), booted properly but Z1ES no longer sees it, and I can't format it. I have to do factory reset from the settings, and after that, it formats the disk, and guess what? All sample music is copied to the new drive! So there is a separate storage on board with OS and sample data. The original 1TB drive is only for music and database.
  10. To my ear, I like the Z1ES very much. Especially DSD remastering rebook CD, it's amazing. I replaced internal hard drive to 2TB slim Seagate, and added a 4TB external USD WB my book. So with total 6TB of storage, Now my old Mytek DSD 128 and Antelope Gold (and mac mini) can be retired. Still, it will be better if Sony: 1. Support DLNA, so I can streaming; 2. Support embedded cue sheet or separate cue sheet; I have sent Sony above questions and see if they will improve the firmware.
  11. I have also tried this Ext for Windows | PARAGON Software Group - Ext2 / Ext3 / Ext4 for Windows 7 8 xp And, I confirm it will read/write on Windows too (mine is win7 with paragon). But it's also slow, as slow as transfer via network, about 20MB/s. But on my NAS box, it reaches 80-90MB/s.
  12. It's not Sony format. I confirm that it's extfs (ext4 likely, however I am not so sure), I format an external hard drive with Sony box, connects to Synology NAS USB3 port (basically a linux box), it can read write. This way the transfer will be much faster. Plug back to Sony, in settings, hit rescan-external drive, all music gets updated, no problem.
  13. Just want to mention that, the Sony software has an option to "explore" Z1ES's internal and external hard drive. When this feature is selected, it opens in explorer (or finder in Mac) like network mapped drive, and one can copy/delete music in file manager. It's still a pain that it don't support DLNA or similar. I am sure Sony can easily add the feature in firmware, however they may be reluctant to do so I guess.
  14. I think your are right. It's likely Sony-Z1ES the player has the gap problem even gapless was ON(AUTO) in the settings. I'd play more and see if there is a easier solution.
  15. My painful processes following: My finding of DSF individual tracks output from sacd_extract will not do gapless perfect, I use mac mini+myteck, or Sony Z1ES, both are supposed to be gapless, but I still hear gaps. I have quite a lot rips need gapless playback, so I'd rather have one big track. Unfortunately, sacd_extract only output DFF as whole disk track, I don't think DSF can. So the only way I found, is outputting a single DFF, using DFF2DSF coverts to DSF, tag by JRiver…when you have hundreds of rips, it's really painful. I don't know if there is a better method. I have tried couple of rips, although one DSF per disc is the best solution for me, I just don't have that much time to finish the process.
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