Innioases Y1
Bought an Innioases Y1 for a small kick-around audio player. After spending a couple days getting everything working, a micro-review…
Definitely worth $60. Navigation and operation is very much like the old iPods (if you liked the clickwheel).
Notes:
- Albums show tiny thumbnails, but that makes scrolling slow, so when trying to get to an album, it buffers your motion, and you either have to scroll slower, or stop periodically so it catches up. Too easy to zip past where you wanted to go. You can’t turn off album art, which would fix this. Scrolling by artist keeps up full-speed.
- It can play WAV files, but it can’t read the metadata, so you can’t easily find that WAV file you want. Albums imported in WAV don’t show up, ‘cause no metadata. I just had Media Center convert WAV to FLAC when syncing, problem solved.
- One navigation nit, if you’re playing a song, and want to see what’s next, and you go “up” one screen, if you go back to the song you were listening to, it restarts it. If you go all the way up, and use “Now Playing” it shows the song screen, but if you go “up” you go up to the main menu, not the album/playlist you’re listening to.
- It pairs with my Airpods, and thinks it’s playing, but there’s no audio. Works fine with the Google earbuds, and every non-Apple device I’ve tried.
- The built-in speaker is terrible. Find for checking things out, but you wouldn’t use it to listen to audio.
- Battery life seems really good so far, but then, I’ve been plugging it in to test sync and how it handled different files a lot.
- Screen is bright and legible. Text and images are naturally small, but even my old eyes can read it.
- Plays mp3, m4a, and flac files very well. All sound fine, and it grabs the metadata as well.
- Interface is fast, and easy to navigate/understand.
- It has a bunch of features for Audiobooks, but most of mine are from Audible, and it can’t play those.
- It’s really light, but the case seems very sturdy.
- The wired headphones that it comes with don’t suck.