So im extremely new to the entire DAP/ High res audio player landscape. The problem is while i do have some CDs from when i was in high school that i could rip i dont own physical media for most of my current favorite bands/ songs/ albums etc.

I was looking into the R4/ project ace bundle but i stopped myself from buying. Long and short of it is im having doubts on the increased quality of the music when streaming from Spotify. I watched a couple videos and everyone always raves about how amazing the sound quality is when using a DAP/ IEM. I guess its just had to believe that it can be that much better without hearing it myself. So i guess my main question is will there be a significant loss in quality when streaming from Spotify and am i better off just sticking to my phone/ bluetooth earbuds at that point?

As the title says, what apps are you guys using to play local music from SD cards?

For TIDAL / Spotify etc, the R4 is great…… however, finally moved my 15k song music library over to a micro SD card and my experience with this device has plummeted. Like a lot….

I have Poweramp pro from my android days, seems a bit better than Hiby Music, which crashes all the time. I have to restart the device just to get playback to work.

Also having issues with awful audio quality, this is using both my IEMs OKZ x HBB and my Meze Classic 99….. I am unable to use HiDef output on either Hiby Music or Poweramp…

It’s getting to the point I can no longer recommend this product to anyone, which suck as I was full of praises initially.

To also add, if I plug in my ifi Flask DAC into the R4 it sounds amazing…. But I should not be needing to use a 2nd DAC with a DAP that has a built in DAC… the reason I purchased it.

Hello r/Hiby community!

I just got my R4 recently after some recommendation from my friends and it's a really amazing product!

Anyways, I would like to seek some help regarding offline music from Spotify.

1. How do I get Spotify to save all the offline music on my SD card?

   • Is there a way to point Spotify app to install on SD card or have Spotify itself to save all the offline songs into it? Thinking the most hassle-free way of course.

Thanks!

I’ve just bought a HiBy R4 and am struggling to figure out how to download music onto it. Is there a way to download directly onto the device via WiFi, or do you have to upload files from a computer or do a wireless transfer from a smartphone? I listen on Tidal and am not sure how I’d extract tidal files onto my computer without using a dodgy website and likely getting audio quality compromise. Sorry if this has already been asked before