I’ve already spent some time stepping away from streaming with another digital audio player, but the Snowsky Echo sits in a slightly different space. Where something like the Innioasis Y1 leans heavily into affordable nostalgia as a concept, the Echo feels more like an attempt to refine it, to
I both love and hate mine. The fundamental sound quality, size, weight and aesthetic is great. And I love an interface that means album artwork doesn’t matter.
Being a universal USB C DAC is great.
But the software quality control is horrendous. Every update introduces a new bug, you can’t update without wiping all your settings, and some albums won’t show the tracks in the right order no matter what I try.
Tracks are ordered by creation or modified timestamp iirc. There’s a script you can use that will go through your file list and update the timestamps based on filename order so they match.
(Thats the stupidest thing to sort on tho, idk why they did that)
We feel the same. It could be so much better than it is. It’s never clear why the order of files is why it is.