Comments on: Interesting, but Ultimately Flawed Audio Player http://www.mymac.com/2012/02/interesting-but-ultimately-flawed-audio-player/ Publishing since 1995 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:50:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Fixx http://www.mymac.com/2012/02/interesting-but-ultimately-flawed-audio-player/comment-page-1/#comment-34608 Fixx Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:05:29 +0000 http://www.mymac.com/?p=14162#comment-34608 I think the display is NOT a problem in this device. While it could be bigger, I would use it like: walk in front of the player > select source/folder > forget it. I want a player which can play all day without me having to fiddle with it constantly.

I have no display attached to my music set up so HDMI out would not help me at all. There are a lot of “media players” available which CANNOT be used without a distplay/tv set. They are useless to me. I prefer standalone player.

There is however another fatal problem with Pioneer. It cannot play direct from HDD. You can plug a USB flash drive to the unit and it works fine, but you cannot plug a 2,5″ USB drive with your entire music collection to this device. It is not supported.

I wish there were some solution available. At the moment there seem to be no mp3/flac player available (unless you count some very expensive devices like Naim). Squeezebox Touch was almost ok, but it is discontinued. Maybe next year there will be a reciever which supports USB HDDs and can play music files. U wish.

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