Naim Uniti Core 2.5 Firmware update coming soon
20 December 2017
Naim Audio Uniti Core owners, keep your eye on your Naim App over the next few days – there is a significant firmware update coming soon and it’s a biggie, including fundamental usability improvements and major bug fixes. Here’s what’s new:
Ripping: The ripping monitor now gives detailed error reporting on read errors on a track by track basis * Detailed rip results are stored with each CD which allows the app to show error information for all ripped albums * Detailed feedback for ripping problems * If a CD fails to rip, the eject button LED flashes repeatedly to let the user know the CD has not been imported. The user has to press eject to retrieve the CD * Home screen “More…” link now has an option to view albums that are ripped with errors * When a CD has finished ripping, the ripping monitor retains the results (even if the app is closed when the CD finishes the rip), allowing you to check the result of the rip * If tracks fail to rip due to too many errors, the track is discarded and proceeds to the next track * FLAC files are now tagged with all available descriptions, composers and conductors for a track
Metadata: Composer and conductor tags now read when scanning music into the downloads folder, network or USB drives.
Improved Features: Faster and more reliable shared network discovery * Improved disc formatting, reliability and user feedback * Formatting – accurate progress reporting for NTFS and HFS+ * Modifications to changes in Downloads folder picked up quicker * Firmware update more robust under poor internet conditions * Faster encoding to FLAC during rip * Improved: Database retention of data of absent music stores and flushing of data of transient USB devices – faster database response when file systems come and go.
Fixed Issues:
Better error handling when importing to a full music store * Units occasionally crashed when generating audio signature for some files * Units occasionally crashed when large PNG images were embedded into FLAC files * Units occasionally crashed when deleting files which had already been moved * Some units sometimes abandoned the rip if target store becomes unavailable (e.g. when trying to re-initialise the disk) * Ripping – Prevent entry into standby during active rip * Power – Some units would occasionally switch back on 6 seconds after entering standby * Problems reading metadata from some FLAC files with unusually high number of metadata blocks * FreeDB multi-line track titles are now supported * Occasional incorrect metadata on imported albums (was dependent on what order files were copied into the Downloads folder) * Zero length comments in FLAC not handled correctly * Various fixes to background scanning of music collections * Restrict dimensions of cover art to prevent out of memory condition (2500 x 2500) * Housekeeper now deletes artist folders with no content * Units occasionally reported the incorrect device label for some USB drives * Some network shares would fail to index * Incorrect reporting of network shares as read only
Playback: SPDIF output disabled after 5 seconds of inactivity * Next track command occasionally froze playback counter until end of track * Previous track command now works when playback is paused. PREV/NEXT will resume paused playback * Increased SPDIF silent gap on a clock/format change