I have received a box which probably contains a #tangara
initial #tangara thoughts:
- it's smaller than I expected in two dimensions, but also thicker. I've become very used to electronics that are huge thin slabs. feels very solid though. I could throw this at someone and it would probably hurt which is a desirable property for electronics
- volume buttons are really easy to press. that's probably going to be an issue throwing it in a pocket/purse? will wait until it actually happens
- torx screws, my beloved
- I read the whole manual including the boring legal stuff in the back so @jacqueline's effort was not in vain, you're welcome
- ooh that SD card cover thing is very clever. whichever one of you came up with that should be proud
- touchwheel is kind of jumpy and unresponsive. unsure if this is a tangara problem or a me problem, my phone's touchscreen also has trouble with my fingers sometimes, I may just have anti-capacitive fingers. turning the sensitivity way up helps somewhat
- thought the USB was broken, but no, I have found ANOTHER USB CABLE WITHOUT DATA LINES WHY DO I HAVE SO MANY OF THESE
begone ye accursed demon cable
@emily Those are the worst! Appropriate method of disposal!
@emily Nail it to the wall as a warning to the other cables.
@jacqueline bug report (because codeberg's being very slow while I'm trying to register): I am listening to a song and the screen says "no compatible media was found on your SD card" under the name of the song that is currently playing
@emily should be fixed in v1.0.2 or v1.1.0 depending on what i call it! out this friday!

@jacqueline fyi I have updated to latest git and it's still like that

I also opened a ticket for the other, more severe SD card problem I have: https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/tangara-fw/issues/121

Issues with SDXC cards? one specific SDXC card?

I have [this 512GB microSD card and adapter](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09X7C2GBC). It works in my laptop's builtin microSD slot. It came preformatted with a single exfat partition. The first time I used it, I copied one song to it to test, put it in the Tangara, and successfully played that son...

Codeberg.org
@emily oh huh still busted at head? that's weird then. you played the track from the file browser i assume?
@jacqueline hm, tried reproducing with a different file and it's not happening now, looking closer...
@emily it might be that the database was still indexing, but somehow things were in a state where you got the wrong error message?

@jacqueline I think that may be it. I got it momentarily again this time, then it fixed itself

wonder if the first song I tried was index-breaking in some way

@emily hey so long as it works eventually im all smiles over here

@jacqueline okay yeah originally broken song only shows it for a couple of seconds

weird but okay

@jacqueline swapped out the SD card for the 512GB one (which has, in the meantime, finished having a bunch of music rsync'ed to it) and saw "nope no media here" for a few seconds, then "indexing for the first time", which I had not seen at all until now

think the problem may actually be "it shows the wrong message for the first few seconds of indexing"

also it successfully picked up playback in the middle of a track when I removed and reinserted the SD card, which would not be that impressive except the file moved from the root of card A to a subdirectory of card B. neat!

@emily ohhh i think i know what's up there. we delay starting indexing for a couple of seconds after boot so that indexing doesn't preempt any other disk io needed for showing the ui. it's bit of a dirty fix, could be better.

@jacqueline earlier I managed to make it freeze and reset itself by trying to use the previous/next song controls on my bluetooth earbuds

but now I can't get it to happen again. I choose to believe you pushed an OTA update specifically to gaslight me because that's what I expect from software these days

@emily it’s a long con but it’s worth the fun

partner: "it's like an ipod and an old mp3 player had a baby"

me: "... what do you think an ipod is"

okay I think what's happening is she doesn't remember gen1 ipods and thinks they were always modern-smartphone-thickness
@emily i was sent these images recently
@jacqueline showed her this picture and she said she's "sorry about our elder millennial experiences"
@emily thank u i worked very hard on fcc statement

@emily @jacqueline

FYI, the switch on the right side isn't just a power switch, it's a key lock. If you're listening to something and switch it on, the screen turns off and the device won't respond to button presses until you unlock it again (but continues to play your music).

@emily @jacqueline this is a sidebar but usb cables without data lines ought to be criminalized
@emily @jacqueline mine lasted less than 24 hours. Cannot read SD card.
@thomsonny @jacqueline if it's the thing that happened to me where attempting usb storage mode breaks everything, power cycle (leaving it off long enough to actually shut off and not just sleep) should fix it
@thomsonny @emily @jacqueline sorry you've not had a good experience with it so far. we're aware of some issues with certain SD cards, we've just bought an assortment of the ones people have reported problems with, so hopefully we'll be able to figure out these issues.