7.7

V7.7

• New Photos, Books (.txt and .epub), Videos, Podcasts and Audiobooks rows in Local Music, each shown when its folder is on the microSD card.
• Most Played opens your top 25 with the artist and play count, and Upload Scrobbles sends your listens to Last.fm or ListenBrainz over Wi-Fi.
• Holding Play/Pause on a row adds Favourites, Add to playlist, Shuffle and Go to album or artist.
• Artists, albums and songs sort without a leading The, A or An, so The Cure is under C.
• A newly opened list scrolls at once, and the screen redraws fully when it turns back on.
• Key Tone stays quiet while music plays or headphones or Bluetooth are connected, so it only clicks on the speaker when nothing is playing or plugged in.
• iPod: Now Playing has bigger rounded art and a slim accent progress bar.
• About shows the stock firmware version again, with the Q2 Pod version on its own row; the main download is now the iPod build, and the stock-UI build is called Stock.

SHA-256:

• Q2.Firmware.V7.7.zip: bc12ba3c5844a51fba03b7bb9e17808c1da6ed5ea234f1fe85738b10265cb565
• update.tar (V7.7I): 2ec53317d0f97e14b8a4be72cdf6cb9a2558c9348c2c38e5361aa88fd76394c8
• Q2.Firmware.V7.7-stock.zip: c92844e90852df7453aa2bd6e68f087ff1a160e927d3ccf96deada56eb66c216
• update.tar (V7.7S): e4c13a317e62281b813d93e9aa72a3af86f539a1aa8d4e60e1d81a27956f3a10

7.6R

V7.6R / V7.6I

• Play counts: a song counts once you have heard half of it, or 4 minutes.
• Most Played, the second row of Local Music, plays your 25 most played songs, most played first.
• Scrobbling: the same songs are logged to .scrobbler.log at the root of the microSD card, ready for any Last.fm or ListenBrainz .scrobbler.log uploader.
• Coverflow lists an album's tracks in album order (disc and track number, else file name) and without file extensions.
• iPod: Home shows its arrow only on the highlighted row.

SHA-256:

• Q2.Firmware.V7.6.zip: ee6124a14290f60f8f03a03f90c9e4c46c013fd2268eca3045287f872bf9e202
• update.tar (V7.6R): ff58436288067a47b728d0b211a166995e7a7c20eeb3f8b949a55b750950bf6b
• Q2.Firmware.V7.6-ipod.zip: 1cd9798bb27cccd06ba17432b6898c67659b025af6250312d4efa56bb758376d
• update.tar (V7.6I): e4b2fa6225fa79a2a69d568a80420b3edd3bdf0e4de07b731a108d8b880ad1e0

7.5R

V7.5R / V7.5I

• The equalizer's Preamp row opens a list: Auto sets just enough cut for your boosts and follows band edits, or pick +12 to -24 dB to keep a level of your own.
• A band's gain is picked with the wheel from -24 to +24 dB, and picking one turns the band on; the ten default bands are now one octave wide (Q 1.41), so they work as a 10-band graphic EQ.
• Frequency and Q open their own menu: tap the value to type one on the on-screen number keys, or step it with Raise and Lower.
• The equalizer now works on music above 48 kHz.
• DSD always plays without the equalizer, so its data reaches the DAC untouched.

SHA-256:

• Q2.Firmware.V7.5.zip: 683d54664b61bafa12630a029df002376affc85f9233567ef7de17a83274c141
• update.tar (V7.5R): 6f530f6b9313e44def089943818ca1f9188d08a00c7415014fb918292bea7d30
• Q2.Firmware.V7.5-ipod.zip: b0b13f4897798239d4d69b02935894f2c766379d899cc52dd8ea9c8ab944029d
• update.tar (V7.5I): 7e06a4e95aae96262c16b3f33f8099abc88d1eeb622ac89dc782bec1bb111ca0

7.4R

V7.4R / V7.4I

• Coverflow is wheel-only: touch no longer drags or taps the covers.

SHA-256:

• Q2.Firmware.V7.4.zip: a5f3bdb3e03f9bf1dda079fc496468589f491f462c09a5b4ef0e18c07f5e0dc8
• update.tar (V7.4R): c895209b59aae8a4f80e4f3ce645fe5b1e19a8651334300c75d155cdffe8449d
• Q2.Firmware.V7.4-ipod.zip: 5d9f5635785ec648322dc31f07cf04f44aec7f4fa18e5e4980b23fed5bd375b7
• update.tar (V7.4I): 963f720b6564fea722e1b944de3797b9567b8211f46ef0353da5a52f6eff9145

7.3R

V7.3R / V7.3I

• iPod: on Now Playing, a single press of the centre button turns the screen off, as on every other page.
• iPod: a quick double press switches the wheel between volume and scrubbing through the track.
• iPod: away from Now Playing, the volume panel sits exactly over Quick Settings' brightness bar instead of half over it.

SHA-256:

• Q2.Firmware.V7.3.zip: 76b5578d68c3a9cc1b2bb01ee135c1b90f2980c01dc541fd739aa916c2963f6d
• update.tar (V7.3R): 79fe9e64d5735cdce3e8dccc9b476f93a3376cbc3e0d44db56971bead24fdf9d
• Q2.Firmware.V7.3-ipod.zip: b5669decdedcd242756546709593b45d4c58fb77c466426a96200940d3e17431
• update.tar (V7.3I): ea83ade572af88b5b234e6eca511e4145821ec1a97db987c0466c647eb5faec5

7.2R

V7.2R / V7.2I

• iPod: away from Now Playing, the volume panel shows a rounded bar and just the number.
• The equalizer's Balance is one row that opens a list from L 12.0 dB through Centre to R 12.0 dB in 0.5 dB steps, starting on the current value, instead of two rows that stepped it 0.1 dB at a time.

SHA-256:

• Q2.Firmware.V7.2.zip: f5e1433134e8f030bdab7f12726b85b44630f347ecc2980894ca3a826e656bda
• update.tar (V7.2R): 6c5859735edd4c8a750bd507f32e9306d37dfad1f136f8e5173491f6ae1ebdb9
• Q2.Firmware.V7.2-ipod.zip: 37ebec3b3eb1b144c2102bc1b181e26da6d02577bcf46a57ff8350eefa9077b5
• update.tar (V7.2I): 80b20533aa7e0516deb5abac18de7e467685ecdb21e98964360da6b4b7139b49

7.1R

V7.1R / V7.1I

• iPod: away from Now Playing, in Quick Settings or on a page without wheel navigation, the volume shows in a rounded panel near the bottom, with a white bar and "Volume 40", instead of stock's large slider.

SHA-256:

• Q2.Firmware.V7.1.zip: db54190a0a276c11cf03236152198184114cdf34c7e1cef863a5abbf5c1839c9
• update.tar (V7.1R): d0415dc3bcd7df09af30e20d32ac1f50cbc08b10458970bbb50a9e6419e8ffc8
• Q2.Firmware.V7.1-ipod.zip: 08cb1f8ef7d92ee9f723a3fff59aa85982f69c0d9d85fb0ec25748379ce01cff
• update.tar (V7.1I): d9e58fdde602edfac9b38a981fb69cfa3352f3e6e7409d703329ac5f7c0d6c6e

7.0R

V7.0R / V7.0I

• Shuffle Songs, the first row of Local Music, plays your whole library in shuffle from a random song.
• Coverflow opens on the album you last had in the middle, even after the player is powered off and on.
• Tracks of 20 minutes or more, such as mixes, audiobooks and podcasts, pick up where you left them when you play them again, even after a power-off; the last 32 are remembered.
• Seeking in a VBR MP3 now uses the file's own seek table, so it lands within about 1% of a long file instead of minutes off.
• iPod: turning the wheel on Now Playing shows the volume as a white bar in place of the progress bar, as on an iPod classic; the volume pop-up no longer dims the screen, on Now Playing or elsewhere.

SHA-256:

• Q2.Firmware.V7.0.zip: b36cfa5fcbc9da9ffca3ba054d6fcd32dac104c0c14734264fa77ff3a56bd96a
• update.tar (V7.0R): bd2985244e352f4d1a9bb7d9105e683478fbd01c98033e4ceffc0f8bb3042477
• Q2.Firmware.V7.0-ipod.zip: 3c06000354cbc083ff512ea1e8b5f6d74fa9e556fabd3ac3a4740c80b3ee6293
• update.tar (V7.0I): 6153e9289134899cc28ea58fa76b833106017dbc7457b86f3b129148acc58d00

6.9R

V6.9R / V6.9I

• Album covers load as you scroll with the wheel, as they do when you scroll by touch; before, they waited until the next touch scroll.

SHA-256:

• Q2.Firmware.V6.9.zip: 45ef7bf601cad2acf2fea60659518357523e4248f57fa64f0e7354b9ce784c0d
• update.tar (V6.9R): a1f7e90b3428c50494c6f744ef37e0b452ed0f68498a1e84db5e938f268a947f
• Q2.Firmware.V6.9-ipod.zip: b7189f8660b26fe0f6530a58448bef50e1ac61b434bfb81c0642e271f01b446c
• update.tar (V6.9I): e7d7e8dffe8e9a147347d2bce4c7fad0c32cc88d97b1354126082176c71c23dc

6.8R

V6.8R / V6.8I

• iPod: Display settings gains Battery: Icon, Percent, or Icon + Percent, which shows the level inside a horizontal battery that turns green while charging.
• A new Bluetooth codec badge such as AAC or LDAC shows for a second, then fades into the Bluetooth icon, which keeps the status bar tidy and leaves room for the percentage.
• In both releases a double press of the centre button has 200 ms instead of 180 to turn the screen off, so it is easier to hit; a single press opens a row 20 ms later.
• The parametric EQ takes up to 30 bands, and each band can apply to both channels or only the left or right.
• Balance corrects a left/right level mismatch in 0.1 dB steps by turning one side down.
• Equalizer APO presets with Channel: L, Channel: R and Channel: all sections import with each side's preamp, and blank OFF filter slots no longer stop an import.

SHA-256:

• Q2.Firmware.V6.8.zip: 178d4e5fae5bced69ec49fb4f411db9e7d907d8b1953a16c41501439c4b8c0ac
• update.tar (V6.8R): 95225823c71cef354423acde71a3d1a69511a0b4e82fe62eafbf436382a98462
• Q2.Firmware.V6.8-ipod.zip: 04524fa0a81a49330d52f7b414c59bfadff85c1772574b85abee41e040e4bbb5
• update.tar (V6.8I): 3ff4ae7a8417698288744fddf8c5f847f3c99802cc673aec2dced3b00969b5d0