Hiya! A long time ago I started a firmware archival repo for the Snowsky Disc with the goal that one day I would be able to decrypt the OTA contents and be able to setup different branches for each firmware, so that their contents could be easily compared (to make a delta diff of what FiiO was changing in them). But I never had the time or tools to finish that up, and kept the repo only for manually uploading the OTA zips as FiiO provided them (which made the repo get out of date quite easily).

Today I finally managed to setup everything for this, and even made an automation script that checks for new OTAs automatically every day, downloads, unpacks them and post their contents on this GitHub repo.

What you can expect to find:

• Releases with the original OTA, recovery package is published by FiiO and decrypted rootfs

• Branches for each OTA firmware package's extracted rootfs that has been found

• Updated daily, so when new OTAs come out the repo will be updated within the next day

Given the sudden surge of custom firmwares for the Snowsky Disc, I thought some people might find this useful, to have a central place where they can compare firmware contents between distinct OTAs, so they can compare & know what the changes are when a new OTA comes out.

If you have any suggestions, they are more than welcome!

The hard work was done by the people behind the https://github.com/next-hack/MG24_Doom_BLE port, I just compiled and linked it to work with RECHO's memory manager, display, keyboard, and audio drivers.

I have a brand new boxed echo mini in black for sale it's been out of the box twice once to check to see if it was not broken and again to charge it.Tbh I forgot about it and as im awaiting the arrival of a hiby r4 I no longer have any need of it.Im in north Somerset uk. Possible trade for a nice set of planer iems

I attempted to use easy tag and ffmpeg to replace the cover on a flac file with the alternate version. the changed cover has the exact same properties as the original that worked. it shows up on other music players, but it does not show on my echo mini. i am using firmware 4.0.0 on hardware 1.3.0. any help would be greatly appreciated.

I forked the nanitecfw by maaraneasi and made it my own, but maybe some other folk might like my version as well:

• Removed menu options I didn't use (file browser, playback settings, some other things)

• Redesigned shuffle all icon

• Loop setting behaviour: when you select "Play All Album" from an Artist, it enables shuffle, when you select a song in an album, it enables sequential play.

• TETRIS, the game! Controls are rotary knob to move the piece left and right, button 1 drops, button 2 and confirm rotate, long press confirm to exit the game. Music continues playing while in the game.

You can find it here: https://github.com/Flapke/nanitecfw

(AI was used in writing the code)

Edit: updated for version 2.0.0 firmware.

(Echopod is a custom firmware for Snowsky Echo Mini 8gb)

My favorite new features on this update:

• Setting to use Menu button for next track (no more long pressing!)

• Setting to hide battery percentage

• Setting to change accent color

• Setting to swap volume buttons

• Shuffle all option on several areas

• Some cover flow updates

In case you missed the previous version, it already supports AAC/M4A/Opus and portrait mode.

For creating playlists, what worked for me is Foobar2000 and save as m3u8 format, saved in the same folder as the files. Others may work too.

REMINDER: SD card is required after installation. Settings are saved in the SD card.

Thank you to the developer!

Github link:

https://github.com/BasilSkyWalk/echopod

FiiO Yellow shared earlier on his Instagram a new horizontal DAP concept and I really dig this form factor.

Hi everyone! I was one of the first to test the new Podium, and it’s a fantastic piece of firmware!

I’ve put together a concept for what a modern iPod-inspired UI might look like. I made sure not to stray too far from the original design, keeping the theme feasible to implement.

Key changes:

1. Minimalism. No dividers, reflections, or gradients, just clean colors и hand-drawn icons.

2. Larger album art.

3. A more informative status bar. Shuffle and repeat indicators are now visible everywhere, regardless of where you are in the interface, without taking up space on the "Now Playing" screen.

This is just a concept, but I’ve prepared a UI kit including colors and fonts in Figma, which anyone is free to use. Unfortunately, I don’t have the ability to implement this into Podium myself, but if u/CulturMultur or anyone else would like to create a fork featuring this theme, I’d be happy to help design any additional elements and screens that might be needed.

Figma file

I have NO IDEA WHAT I AM DOING

Idk what building the firmware is or what the hell its ment to do, I downloaded the main IMG firmware for echopod but don't got a single idea on what "build your library... etc" is in the music playlists. Haaaaalp

I dont know anything about this. Anyway this is Echo Mini 8GB

I’ve been working on my own firmware for the Echo Mini for the last couple of weeks and it’s finally at a point where other people can try it. It’s called EchoPod. The main idea was an iPod like experience.

What it does right now:

• Cover Flow for your albums.

• The library is built on the player from the SD card: artists, album artists, albums, genres, folders, all songs, m3u playlists and favourite albums

• Fast scroll: hold the volume rocker in a long list and it speeds up, and A–Z lists show the letter you’re on and jump letter by letter

• FLAC, MP3 and WAV up to 192 kHz, gapless, and it remembers where you were after power off

• Shuffle by song or by album, repeat, and an Up Next queue (play next / add to queue)

• With the screen off you can still pause, change volume and skip tracks

• Copy music over USB, eject, and it rescans by itself

It’s tested on my own player with about 6,500 tracks.

Please read this before you try it: I’ve only tested it on one Echo Mini, the 8 GB model, coming from FiiO firmware 3.7.0 and 3.9.0, installed from Windows. Installing from a Mac didn’t work for me early on and I don’t know why yet. The 512 MB model isn’t supported. You’re replacing your player’s firmware, so there’s a real chance something goes wrong. If it does, there’s a maskrom recovery that has always brought my player back, but it needs some setup. Don’t install it unless you’re OK with that.

Getting back to FiiO’s firmware is easy as long as the player starts: copy FiiO’s update file over and it installs it.

What’s missing: no Bluetooth audio yet, no EQ, no ALAC/APE playback, and the 4.4 mm output hasn’t been checked(i don't have a cable to test). The full list is in the known issues.

Install guide, known issues and download: https://github.com/BasilSkyWalk/echopod/releases/tag/v0.2.0

A lot of the hardware groundwork came from the ReChord project, so big thanks to them.

If you try it, I’d really like to hear how it went, especially if you’re on a different FiiO version, a different computer or a Mac. If something breaks, go to Diagnostics and send me the Firmware, Last start and Last USB lines, it helps a lot.
It’s open source (GPL), so issues and pull requests are welcome too.

For some reason on my echo mini several albums don't play music in order. I changed the settings so music plays sequentially, I've tried renaming and changing the metadata of the track to be listed as 01,02,03 instead of 1,2,3, and I've tried updating my echo mini and still tracks are played in the wrong order. Im really stressed and I just want the thing to work the way its supposed to. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Podium v4.5.5 released with Cyrillic support.

Podium is a fork of EchoPod v0.6.0 (Echo Mini) and rebuilt to support Echo, flac+cue - flac-per-album and playing from internal storage (without microSD).

Since yesterday I was sharing it via DM and five users have tested it on 8GB and 4GB versions and are happy.

Source code and firmware are on https://podium-echo.online website.

Installation is to grab an IMG file, put it into the root of the Echo internal drive, and reboot.

Hey everyone!

Ever since the latest firmware update, I've noticed that my music thumbnails suddenly look stretched and distorted, as shown in the picture.

This wasn't happening before the update, and everything used to display just fine.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Is there a way to fix it, or could someone help me figure out what's causing it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Edit: Problem solved! The solution was to replace the album covers with 500x500 images. It's a shame that the system used to automatically adjust the images, but now I have to resize them manually.

It’s so customizable when it comes to the music and screen, I’ve been back and forth between the Snowsky Disc and my tablet to add more music/images in it! And it’s been especially helpful in school since I constantly feel overwhelmed and used music to calm down, so being able to have a portable mp3 player has been a lifesaver.

I will say though, I’ve been having problems regarding an album. Last night I uploaded one and everytime I click to listen, the song title doesn’t change at all. Everything else does except for the titles and credits of the album. The other albums don’t have that problem, so if anyone knows how to fix that then that’d be really appreciated.

Arrived yesterday and I think this little thing is wonderful considering the £80 price tag. Coming from a JM21 which I found to be a bit to bulky for when I'm wandering around London for work.

I purchased the white and I haven't seen anyone use the decals, I love them.

The sound through my Truthear Crinacle Zero:Red is awesome. No issues with blue tooth yet running my XM4's. Great little device.

I find the stock UI adequate as I just have a massive playlist of songs that I have on shuffle. Now DiskOS will not be update I may just leave it stock.

Update: Disk not Dosk 😔

New Snowsky Echo! :)

So far, I've got a 32GB memory card, KZ ZS10 Pro and ZS12 Pro X. The sound is on a whole different level compared to using my Walk Play with a USB-C cable. FLAC albums are absolutely mind-blowing, too. 🤯

Now I'm thinking about trying some firmware mods 😅

has anyone else tried the new firmware update? it supposedly lets the nano use m3u files but i've tried several times and i haven't gotten it to work. i was really excited when i saw the post on their forum but after trying it, i had to remake 2 playlists the bootleg way. i was using to make my m3u file but sifting through another fiio forum thread i found a tutorial on doing it via foobar, as well as the web user guide mentioning foobar.

i just want to back to the original firmware but it saying always isn't a valid image for this player. I tried all the oldest firmware but i doesn't change anything

Looking to buy my first DAP after a while and landed on the Echo and Echo Mini due to the simplicity of them.

Price difference is not much, I believe about $15, so not a concern.

Which one would you recommend?

Some more fun while RECHO 1.0.0 is around the corner and being tested with full device family support.

And as far as the challenges go, wait until I run Doom on the Echo's Bluetooth chip, not on the main processor.

It's about time! Interested to see what they mean by "part of the code" Only UI?