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Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by hak8or »

GuiA wrote: post #126
edoo wrote: post #103

Pro tip: There are enough PCB shops now that small designs like this can just be done in free EDA software in minutes, 10 boards in your hand with a stencil 9 real days later for less than $50 shipped. The stencil lets you paste the board all at once, you place parts and hit it with a heat gun until everything sets. For audio stuff you get the advantage of keeping everything nice and tight with lower noise. I barely…

Any recommendations for the US? All the circuits I’ve ever made were breadboarded, this could be a fun direction to take.

Go with OSH park instead of China. Their support is gnebuinky amazing, and the service in general. Is 5 days for a 2 layer board with 5 dollars per square inch of design for 3 boards, and free shipping.

The company is active on Twitter and its founder is awesome based on interviews he gives with various electronic podcasts.

Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by peatmoss »

dextersgenius wrote: post #35

> _It turns out that all music players on Android actually play music using the Android-media-player-service._ This is inaccurate. Neutron music player bypasses Android's Media Player APIs and talks directly to your DAC and plays music without resampling (if the DAC supports it). Never had any audio popping or explosions using Neutron, and I've tried it on 6 different devices so far without any issues (LG G3, Nexus 6…

It seems like bypassing the APIs which might screw up the audio with downsampling, and something like this is what the OP needed:

https://www.audioquest.com/dacs/dragonfly/dragonfly-black

Edit: would work out of the box with the Eee PC he has as well.

Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by mirkules »

baxtr wrote: post #2

> Right now I'm absolutely astonished at how difficult it appears to be to just listen to music with a good pair of headphones. Is it not 2018? The media is full of talk about preposterously ambitious ideas such as AI and self-driving cars and yet I can't even listen to a fuck-damn music track? O_o I enjoyed reading this. The whole time I thought however: that’s not an issue on my Apple devices. Then I read: > If any…

I chuckled when I read:

> Although Android is Free Software, meaning I can modify the code, it would probably take me months to learn enough about music decoding and the Android-media-player-service to write a fix.

Followed by:

> APPLE IS A SYMBOL OF PRETENTIOUSNESS AND IGNORANCE - YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW HOW YOUR PHONE WORKS

So iPhone users don’t know how their phone works, but Android is awesome because it’s open source and the freedom you get with that but it’s too complicated to learn how it works.

Okay.

Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by rayrrr »

Everyone seems to be seeing this as an Android vs. iOS debate, but I see it as a smartphone vs. dedicated device debate. If you're serious enough about photography, you don't complain about your smartphone camera's limitations, you get yourself a DSLR and multiple lenses. So if you're this serious about music, why not get a dedicated device? Look at what companies like HiBy and Hidizs are doing. I have, and my ears haven't been this happy since the early aughts.

Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by mirkules »

pdimitar wrote: post #102
andrepd wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>But I still don't trust Google's binary blobs and the general baseband processor stuff so I stay away from Android. Why do you trust the Apple ones then? At least on android you can get rid of most Google code with Lineage + microg

> At least on android you can get rid of most Google code with Lineage + microg ...as far as we know. What about the baseband processor that has access to everything at any time? > Why do you trust the Apple ones then? Becase they took a stand and refused to introduce a security backdoor in the FBI San Bernardino case. And because iPhone hacks cost more on the net compared to Android ones. This to me indicates that i…

Also, compare OS updates: Android has significantly more critical security fixes than iOS, every single time.

Maybe it means they are finding more bugs and fixing them, or maybe it means Android is basically security Swiss cheese. my money is on the latter.

Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by alkonaut »

> YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW HOW YOUR PHONE WORKS

I know it does work.

Would I prefer to have a more open phone and computer? Sure. At the cost of having to ever tinker with it? No.

I just switched my home built raspberry + HiFiBerry with expensive speakers to a simple closed Sonos system for the exact same problem the author had with linux, audio hardware, noise. Having something that just works and I don’t have to care how is a blessing and in the future that is where I’ll put my money. Ignorance is bliss.

Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by vikingcaffiene »

gcp123 wrote: post #64

I’ll happily pay the “apple tax” so I can live my life and not have to deal with all the bullshit you did just to listen to some music. Good lord. I’d rather experience the world then mess around with the tech that’s supposed to be helping me live better.

> I’ll happily pay the “apple tax” so I can live my life and not have to deal with all the bullshit you did just to listen to some music.

This. All of this. The author calls apples products pretentious and berates anyone who owns one for not knowing how their phone works. You know what? I don't give a flying fk about knowing how my phone works. I have a million other things to worry about in this world. It doesn't make me pretentious to spend extra to have an experience I don't have to think about.

Re: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

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Post by icebraining »

notacoward wrote: post #29

Interesting point buried in here: since Android is open source, you could go in and fix the bug, but then because you're not running an official Android version you'd lose access to the Play Store and other services. Something's not really free if there's a penalty for doing it. Since freedom to run a modified version of software yourself is one of the four freedoms of free software, this highlights the difference be…

So if I make a proprietary application that only runs on, say, Ubuntu, does that mean GNU/Linux is no longer really free, since you can't replace your distro with Arch without losing access to my application?

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Post by jaifraic »

DanBC wrote: post #63
ricardobeat wrote: post #36

Could’ve spent $199 on an iPod, have high quality audio, load your own music, no “apple tax”. Coincidentally I was looking for something like an ipod shuffle this week and it’s become almost impossible to find, beyond some cheap thrift-store MP3 players.

> I was looking for something like an ipod shuffle this week and it’s become almost impossible to find, What's wrong with the Sandisk products? EG Clip Jam: https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Clip-Jam-MP3-Player/dp/B00V...

Ah, I miss my good ol' Sandisk Sansa Clip+. This device with rockbox firmware and a MicroSD-Card had an amazing interface, enough storage for lots of music, supporting FLAC and other lossless formats, all while being small, lightweight and providing high audio quality. For about 40 bucks.

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Post by dahart »

izacus wrote: post #128
gcp123 wrote: post #64

I’ll happily pay the “apple tax” so I can live my life and not have to deal with all the bullshit you did just to listen to some music. Good lord. I’d rather experience the world then mess around with the tech that’s supposed to be helping me live better.

Seriously, people, do you get paid for this marketing in every topic that doesn't directly concern Apple? You didn't even seem to read the article to understand it.

Try loading the article again, Ctrl+F Apple, read what's there, and then come back and re-read this thread.
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