I’ve already spent some time stepping away from streaming with another digital audio player, but the Snowsky Echo sits in a slightly different space. Where something like the Innioasis Y1 leans heavily into affordable nostalgia as a concept, the Echo feels more like an attempt to refine it, to
Oh wow. So that’s what it’s doing. I could see it was ignoring most metadata that other software would use, but never thought of that.
Great to have an answer, but a shame it’s such an incredibly stupid one!
Edit: With the help of a python script made by Claude I’ve made things better.
But even now that things are ordered correctly many albums ”start” at track 10 and finish with tracks 1-9, so I have to scroll back to go to track 1. Madness.