Waiting for my R5ii 2 to arrive! One of my concerns is Andriod 8.1 is a bit dated. Have you noticed any issues with compatibility with apps such as Qobuz and Tidal? Kinda concerned about support in the long run as I'm hoping to keep this dap for a long time.
The R5 ii works great with USB Audio Player Pro. The Qobuz native app works poorly, due to the old OS and slow chipset. Horrible to use. Tidal will be the same. The R5 ii works best for SD Card local library playback not streaming.
I was listening to mine all last night and gapless seems to be working on mine. That's odd. On the Pro saber I have gapless causes stuttering so I had to turn it off. Also, every song started with hittches, and it stuttered if you navigated the ui while listening. Luckily that's not a thing on this player. For me the artwork scrolling is almost non existent. The screen on this player is also worse than the pro saber. That's not as important as audio though. Just weird that they used a worse screen.
@PerputuallyCensored I actually listened to my music with gapless on and off and with it off I immediately got clicks when transitioning to other songs. That went away when turning it on. I listened to a lot of music too. 🫤
@@PerputuallyCensoredyou don't use flac? Old player only support m3u, this is a far bigger deal then gapless playback.. Oh sorry, just remembered.. You are the aiff only guy.. Forget I said anything.
@@PerputuallyCensored Right, I see.. It has so little importance to me, I couldn't imagine it being important to anyone... I have to stop doing that...
This is incredibly disappointing. I have the Hiby R3 Pro Saber, if they didn't fix the Gapless in the MK2, then I feel no need or desire to upgrade to the newer model.... they really need to fix this.
Perhaps the gapless issue will get resolved with the release of the R3 III next year.
thanks for the tip. I updated the firmware and gapless playback works.
Still doesn't for me.
Do have crossfade turned on? If you do, you won't have gapless.@@PerputuallyCensored
Awesome breakdown sir! 🔥🔥
Waiting for my R5ii 2 to arrive! One of my concerns is Andriod 8.1 is a bit dated. Have you noticed any issues with compatibility with apps such as Qobuz and Tidal? Kinda concerned about support in the long run as I'm hoping to keep this dap for a long time.
The R5 ii works great with USB Audio Player Pro. The Qobuz native app works poorly, due to the old OS and slow chipset. Horrible to use. Tidal will be the same. The R5 ii works best for SD Card local library playback not streaming.
Thanks for the quick reply. That is exactly what I feared I primarily use streaming, so that sucks... @@PerputuallyCensored
That's disappointing. Gapless is a must have feature.
I was listening to mine all last night and gapless seems to be working on mine. That's odd. On the Pro saber I have gapless causes stuttering so I had to turn it off. Also, every song started with hittches, and it stuttered if you navigated the ui while listening. Luckily that's not a thing on this player. For me the artwork scrolling is almost non existent. The screen on this player is also worse than the pro saber. That's not as important as audio though. Just weird that they used a worse screen.
What gapless stuff did you try specifically?
@PerputuallyCensored I actually listened to my music with gapless on and off and with it off I immediately got clicks when transitioning to other songs. That went away when turning it on. I listened to a lot of music too. 🫤
Thanks for the quick update, sorry if it's a stupid question, but is the R3 Gen II support cue files ?, I have all my music in flac/cue format.
I don't use cue files so I don't know. Consult Hiby directly to answer that.
@@PerputuallyCensoredyou don't use flac? Old player only support m3u, this is a far bigger deal then gapless playback.. Oh sorry, just remembered.. You are the aiff only guy.. Forget I said anything.
Mostly AIFF. I also have some FLACs.Doesn't matter to me now as I have sold it. Not doing gapless was a big deal for me.@@wahid-lg1kk
@@PerputuallyCensored Right, I see.. It has so little importance to me, I couldn't imagine it being important to anyone... I have to stop doing that...
To each his own@@wahid-lg1kk
This is incredibly disappointing. I have the Hiby R3 Pro Saber, if they didn't fix the Gapless in the MK2, then I feel no need or desire to upgrade to the newer model.... they really need to fix this.
It will do gapless with FLAC, for the most part.