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i used to have an ipod with a 500gb ssd, handling a large media library without any problems. after i've heard, that the echo nano also supports 512gb cards (probably just not tested to specs, therefore the official specs say 256GB). i've accepted, that only 8192 files can be indexed, so i've put all my music in a simple folder structure: first letter -> artist -> album -> track

no problems navigating to the desired track quite quickly, but whenever i start playback of an unindexed track, the ui freezes for almost 90 seconds. this is unacceptable and would probably also happen with 256GB cards when many files are present. same freeze happens when trying to exit the player while playing unindexed tracks.

i see, that this is a high-res audio player, but it would have been great to use it as a "normal", but modern mp3 player, that can handle large media libraries too.

maybe a "large library mode" could fix this issue by creating a chunked index on the sd card?

question to ppl, who have experience with snowsky products: does the manufacturer implement new features for updates when the community asks for them? otherwise i have to return the thing...

also completely useless: library refresh on each poweron even though the index is already full

fw version: 1.5.0

i already tried my best disassembling it, but the gpio header seems to be stuck in the bottom case.