Pono’s mission is to provide the best possible listening experience of your favorite digital music. The PonoPlayer transports you to a sublime musical experience, from the most delicate passages of a string quartet to the thunderous power of a heavy metal band. This portable audio player uses circuitry taken straight from Ayre’s own top-of-the-line products, costing tens of thousands of dollars, for unparalleled sound quality and unrivaled listening pleasure. Pono supports playback of high-fidelity audio of up to 192kHz/24 bit resolution.
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What's going on with Xstream streaming? WAITING STILL.
SILTECH
Cheers.
the new pono software just hangs when it searches for music. Does anyone have a fix for this? I like my player, but since the new software i just have a paperweight, and its getting extremely frustrating...
I think Mag Lev is considering given us a better tonearm and cartridge for no extra money. Below is a part I copied and pasted here from Mags last update. From Mag--As you all know, we have mechanisms connected to our tonearm, but are seriously considering of giving you guys a better quality tonearm to begin with as well as a better cartridge. The specifics are yet to be determined with our suppliers.
Can't wait for the Mag Lev turntable.
My new black Pono is now all loaded and ready to go. I have just ordered some more balanced cables from surfcables.com. They are in limited supply so I thought I would just future proof my options as they won't be making any more.
It looks like our MagLev turntable will have the option of an arm and cartridge upgrade - Perfect.
I have just scored an original LP of 'Get yer ya-ya's out' - the CD was a compressed remaster & sounded terrible so the LP is the only way to go for this one.
Cheers.
I'm still using my limited edition Pono player on home unit in XLR balanced mode. Siltech
The Micro SD problem solved! 4 counterfeit disks ! What fooled me was that the computer read it as high capacity when it wasn't there.
I used a SanDisk Extreme Pro which was really fast to load.
Thanks for all your help.
Cheers
these weren't even my concerns, initially. was mainly put off by the unsecured site for c/c transaction to pay for premium d/l speed. but an unsecured P2P site is far worse. I'd say you have been very lucky. so far.
1. Have you formatted the mSD card with the official SD Association format tool? There are security features that must be retained for the card to work properly. https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ 2. Have you tried doing the sideload in smaller than 50gb steps? I usually do an album at a time.
3. Did the cards ever work properly? There are a lot of fake hi capacity cards. Counterfeits are every where. 4. You aren't using PonoMusic World, PonoMusic Vault, or any other proprietary program for side loading ? I just did a new 64gb card. Wanted one for super sound quality so all albums were hi res and in WAV. Used W7 i5 Dell laptop. Used a mSD card adapter into SD slot. Some albums came from laptop's internal hard drive. Most from external hard drives. Took less than 4 hours to make card. Could have been a little quicker if I weren't futzing around to make sure I didn't have same song on PonoPlayer's internal memory. I always leave 10% memory blank. It is supoosed to help computer and Pono work properly. If none of this works try the Pono community . Also Computer Audiophile or AudioAsylum forums. Let us know what works,
I am having real issues side loading my FLAC files onto a MicroSD card. I thought it was a Pono issue but the same happens without Pono.
I have 2 computers Mac OSX 10.11.6 & Windows 7.
128GB Micro SD Card - Format exFAT.
I adjusted both computer settings so that they never sleep.
MAC: Files on USB Stick . Insert Micro SD via adaptor & Copy & paste 50GB file - takes 12 hours.
Then I immediately copy & paste file to desktop from SD File. 50GB.
The SD file only has 30GB of data - All the albums are there but for 2/3 of them opening the album shows there are no songs. I have tried copying and pasting missing songs from 1 album and it worked. Then I remove the SD card from the computer and re-insert. Now there is 10GB of data and it will not allow me to copy & paste any more songs. Reinserting the SD card again and it is on longer recognised by the computer.
PC: Same as the Mac. I have tried cmd & chkdsk d/f but no joy. Recovery software is to recover the data to a different device, not the same one. The PC recognised the SD card in the drive but access is now denied.
I can reformat the disk .All the data is now lost. Repeat the process and same result. I have tried numerous cards ( 64 GB & 128GB )and 2 computers.
I am now totally lost . Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
( in whatever "who knew?" form that new life may take ;)
Download the Chrome extension Hola VPN . It tells Hdtracks that you are from the US and they are happy to take your money. As posted by Doug previously NY Hi Res is available to us all from the NY website much cheaper.
Cheers
Oh well...
http://www.noise11.com/news/r-i-p-pono-neil-young-kills-off-his-digital-player-20170423
You can download from many sites, transfer to micro sd card to play on Pono. Now as Doug mentioned, service appears available, if needed. It may be a little annoying getting the music on the Pono player, but the sonics are 2nd to none. Voted and named "Product Of The Year" by Stereophile. I love Sony but doubt the sonics will be anywhere Pono player. Pono and Ayre together, make Sonic Bliss, and all the nayers no it. If your not happy and think Sony is sonically better, then why not sell your player. DOUG, YOUR THE BEST. SILTECH
Just wanted to add a couple of comments based on some of the responses. The Xstream service includes the ability to buy hi-res downloads. And service for players continues to be available by contacting me at phil@ponomusic.com. Thanks.
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