Caution
BETA. This is a test build, not the normal release.
If you just want Q2 Pod, install 1.7.6 (Latest) and skip this one.
- 1.8.0 is built on Shanling's own V1.34 beta firmware. Expect bugs.
- Network Update will not offer it. You only get it by downloading
update.tarfrom this page yourself. - Install at your own risk. It comes with no warranty of any kind. We are not responsible for any damage, data loss or a Q2 that won't start. By installing it you accept all of that risk.
- To go back, install 1.7.6's
update.tarthe same way. - Found a problem? Open an issue and say you're on 1.8.0 beta.
1.8.0
- System: Q2 Pod now runs on Shanling's stock firmware V1.34 instead of V1.32, with its newer kernel, drivers and player.
- Playback: Headphones Required, new in stock V1.34, is under Resume Songs. On, nothing starts playing until headphones, Bluetooth or a USB DAC is connected, and the queue isn't restored at start-up. Off by default.
- Playlists: a playlist's songs can be sorted by name, with stock V1.34's Sort. The order they were added in stays the default, and Edit Playlist always shows that order.
- Library: the album view (list or grid) and the order of Songs are now kept after a restart.
- USB: USB mode: Audio and DAC is now stock V1.34's own, which also takes a host that never reads the card, such as a Nintendo Switch 2.
- MQA: stock V1.34's player no longer decodes MQA, so MQA files play as ordinary FLAC whatever MQA is set to.
- Settings: stock V1.34's Wheel Function, Show Navigation Bar, Album Wall, Spectrum and VU aren't offered: Q2 Pod's wheel, themes and Cover Flow already do those jobs. About no longer shows stock V1.34's thanks text.
- View Queue: under Theme: Classic the song playing is in the same font as the rows around it. It used to be larger and lighter than the rest, with a wide gap after its ▶.
- Display: in Appearance, Status Bar is now the row under Theme, as it picks a theme's look for the bar. It used to sit under Battery.
- Settings: on Set date and time and the Sleep Timer, a Centre press followed at once by Next or Previous no longer acts as well. It used to move on a field after the button and, after Next near the last field, set the clock or the timer before you meant to.
- Cover Flow and Library: the large letter that shows while you spin quickly through a list no longer appears over an album's tracks, which are in track order, not alphabetical. It showed only on an album of more than 16 tracks.
- Videos: the picture no longer runs ahead of the sound when a video starts or after a seek. It used to skip a few frames, then stand still until the sound caught up.
- Streaming: a card app's icon larger than 128 pixels is no longer shown: its row shows the app's other icon, or the shared app icon. A very large icon could run the Q2 out of memory.
- Card apps: an app's request to keep the Q2 awake (
hold=1in its status file) now counts wherever the app writes it, such as after its QR code. It used to count only near the top of the file, where the App Store's apps put it. - System: fixed a restart seconds after waking from Standby with music playing. An on-screen message was closed a second time after it had already gone.
- Scrobbling: a listen the card has no room for is no longer half-written to
.scrobbler.log, where it spoiled the next listen too. A damaged line in the log no longer stops every later Upload Scrobbles, and a very large log is uploaded a megabyte at a time instead of being held in memory whole.
SHA-256:
- update.tar (V180I):
7a51b63d56399213fdf54df4772e0fd7dd5f92d8518428b026a9572844a490de