Sonicorbiter - The Operating System

[robi20064]

6 hours ago, Kevin Nguyen said:

Not yet, bought from 3/26/2020, take forever and frustrated with current ups shipment or any postage service in general,

 

funny in the digital age, heh, but Sonore people still thinks difference!!! A $20 cheapo Chinese brand smart light can do firmware update via wifi. I don’t understand technical challenge in this 2020
 

 

Maybe you don't fully understand the difference between a smart light's and the rendu series' firmware. Very simply put, the functionality and the size of the software components is quite different for the two. Once you have 2.8 installed OTA updates will happen as they did before.

[robi20064]

2 hours ago, Kevin Nguyen said:

also, 2.7 Sonicorbiter OS is not perfect, there are bugs and playback issues.

manufacturers  should enable customer bug fix/improvement for free rather paying for $29 every new version. Someone said so cheap but still money

 

I don’t see any hifi brands charge money for fimrware update/bug fix/improvements, etc. in their products.

Except for a few who do provide updates for an extended period of time for free, they usually just abandon the hw revision and turn to the next one forcing you to make a decision on buying new hw as well. 

 

To my understanding, 2.8 was a complete Linux distro update behind the scenes. The only argument you can have with that is, why wouldn't Sonore make it available as a downloadable image for people who could flash their own SD cards with it. There can be different reasons for this, you shall ask them if this annoys you that much.

[robi20064]

3 hours ago, Kevin Nguyen said:

Well I am quite disagree with that, size of images is not a huge matter in this current Internet speed or storage. I don’t need to compare Sonicorbiter OS to giants like IOS or Android but just a direct competitor such as SOTM https://www.docs.sotm-audio.com/doku.php?id=en:eunhasu:burn_sdcard_image

if we think Sonicorbiter is more “advanced” than  Euhansu, it is clearly a lost point in this part.

 

just hesitation to enable a supporting model here from my understanding.  I believe many of us here are kind of early technology adopters who are willing to try new things such as optical network in highend audio. So give customer faster and more global-friendly software upgrade options and trust on people skills are also customer obsessions.

 

list me any common/highly appreciated software here such as Hqplayer, Roon, Tidal that require users to buy CD/MicroSD to get new versions, please

 

A matter of preference. Since this is a Sonore thread I don't want to talk about SOtM much, but as for myself I still prefer to pay a small amount for a big upgrade such as 2.8 (even if I have to buy it on a card) than receive OTA updates days after a software component was published (RAAT, NAA etc) rather than being able to flash my own card and than wait for weeks or months for the component updates to happen  (i.e. v3.6 of NAA in recent SOtM firmware versus the latest 4.1.1 in SO).