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@BasilSkyWalk BasilSkyWalk released this 29 Oct 15:49
· 37 commits to main since this release
v0.4.0
120fad1

EchoPod 0.4.0, replacement firmware for the Snowsky (FiiO) Echo Mini 8 GB.

Use it at your own risk. EchoPod is early, has been tested on one player, and comes with no warranty. Read the known issues and make sure you could recover the player through maskrom before you install.

New

  • Chinese, Japanese and Korean names. Song, artist and album names in Korean, Simplified Chinese and Japanese no longer show as ? (#2). The player now has the 2,350 common Hangul syllables, the 6,763 hanzi of GB 2312, the kanji of JIS X 0208, kana and CJK punctuation, at both text sizes, drawn with Noto Sans CJK SC. Tested on the player with Korean, Chinese, Japanese and accented titles.
  • Traditional-only Chinese characters, emoji and other scripts (Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Cyrillic, Greek…) still show as ?.

Changed

  • Accented letters (é, ü, ñ…) now come from the same glyph packs instead of being built into the firmware's code. They look exactly as before.

When you update

  • Nothing to do: your library, settings and covers stay as they are.
  • The first time a screen shows a character, the player reads it from internal storage; after that it comes from memory.

Full notes: docs/release-notes.md.

Install

Follow the user guide. Already on EchoPod: copy HIFIEC90.IMG to the top level of the player's internal storage (ECHO MINI), eject both drives and unplug; the player installs it. From FiiO firmware 3.7.0, 3.9.0 or 4.0.0: copy HIFIEC90.IMG to the top level of the player's internal storage, eject, unplug, take the microSD card out and restart. Installing from Windows is the tested route.

Check the download first: the SHA-256 of HIFIEC90.IMG must match SHA256SUMS.txt.

Your music goes on the microSD card; EchoPod doesn't read music from internal storage.

The 512 MB Echo Mini is not supported.

Notes

  • echo-sync hasn't changed since 0.3.0: use the downloads from the 0.3.0 release.
  • This build uses pid.codes' shared test USB IDs (1209:0001 for storage, 1209:0002 for DAC mode) until an assigned product ID is available.
  • The CJK glyph packs are made from Noto Sans CJK SC 2.004, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
  • HIFIEC90.IMG is built from commit 120fad1.
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