Music Flash Games

[Nayra Waddles]

myson wants to take music from a flash drive and put it in his iphone. We cannot seem to figure out how to do it. Tried using Itunes but all it wants to do is SYNC, is there a way to do it without syncing?

A few weeks ago I was shown a third party solution. It's a hardware adapter that is supported by an app in the App Store. Unfortunately, we are now at the mercy of my memory and ability to Google. From what I can recall it was called "i (hyphen) something." So far, I've tried to Google i-drive, i-disk and few variations. Google keeps removing the hyphen and returning unrelated junk.

These flash cards are well made and I like it the fact that it comes with 2 rings to hold the cards together. If they do a more advanced set of cards, it would be useful that includes notes with 2, 3, 4 & 5-ledger lines and more Italian music terms as well.

Thank you very much for the lovely and practical flashcards. My students were delighted with them, and I'm sure I'll be using them a lot and for a long time. I'd like to bring to your attention that there is a small typo on card D (F clef, bass clef, low octave). In case you need to reprint them, it might be useful to have notes from low G to 1 E, as these are often written in both clefs. Thank you again for the flashcards and for the many inspiring, fresh, and fun videos! I love them!

Muso Music Flash Cards were specially designed by music teachers from Muso Music Academy for beginner music students. We aspire to help children love music in a fun and serious way, all around the world.

I have a network receiver (Yamaha R-N602) where I play music from a flash drive. I've been using a 3 year old Toshiba USB 2.0 drive which sounds okay but not great. I thought I'd try a SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 drive I was using in my car and I thought it sounded quite different. The sound was clearer but also brighter and leaner. Thinking that the higher speed drive might have better sound quality I bought a SanDisk Ultra Fit which is rated at 150Mbps vs the Ultra's 100Mbps. I find the Ultra Fit to be a more balanced sound, not bright, warmish, with better bass (also has the same sonic difference in the car).

Another consideration is power usage. I was reading that SSD drives draw more power than a USB flash drive. Should I be optimising for speed which might indicate better tolerances, or optimising for power usage which might indicate lower noise on the power lines?

Been there, done that. The extreme low latency of a class 10 SDXC card will beat the pants off an ordinary SD card or SSD drive when it comes to clarity and transient details. I'm only using the SSD drives in my NAS as backup, all music play is from a 512gb SanDisk Extreme Pro USB3 attached to NAS. I found this true of streaming or direct attached drive, the difference being cleaner sound with a network drive using optical connection vs a Wireworld Starlight cable direct connection

The intended market use of the Extreme Pro series is for professional photographers, their preference is the Lexar USB3 card reader for better throughput and less wear and tear on the card contacts when they are added/removed vs other readers. Lexar also offers a modular system where you can buy a hub/stack that 4 readers can be plugged directly into, I'll probably get that in the next 90 days when I purchase a second 512gb card. They also support a thunderbolt connected version of the hub for Mac users. I do notice about a 10% improvement in throughput using the Lexar vs a budget USB3 adaptor. And the card hub stack matters to me as otherwise at some point in the future I'd have a messy arrangement of multiple dangling card readers to support a bigger library

You will never get the highest possible SQ from either method unless you at least improve the power supplied to the devices. Even an internal USB card with clean power instead of the noisy +5V SMPS derived power will help. A normal USB hub won't help that either. Those solutions were designed for photography and normal data, NOT Audio where timing is critical, and low Jitter is required . To get the best SQ from USB storage you need to use measures such as many other members have done using USB Regens, USB cables with improved separation between D+ and D- data wires, and the power leads etc..

How a Digital Audio file sounds, or a Digital Video file looks, is governed to a large extent by the Power Supply area. All that Identical Checksums gives is the possibility of REGENERATING the file to close to that of the original file.

We are talking about low current devices such as a USB memory stick here, not something that is going to draw more current than the maximum 500mA capabilities of the Regen. Devices such as a 256GB Imation pocket sized portable SSD which I have,also benefit from such measures, The Imation connects via a very short USB lead. When properly powered , both USB memory sticks and the Imation SSD sound quite similar with a much improved performance.

For best possible performance, the same setup for playing from the external Media player should be used. In other words, take the USB memory stick,Regen etc. along to the recipient device and plug it into it's USB port.

All reasons why I prefer an Ethernet network solution. I've played the power supply upgrade game before with NAS... makes only a little difference, bigger difference in using optical Ethernet isolation. PC solutions are a PITA to get right vs NAS for power supply.

First impressions compared to the SanDisk Extreme 64GB USB drive is that the sound is a bit more balanced. The USB drive seemed to focus on the top end a bit which could be a bit fatiguing, whereas the SD card with Lexar reader toned down the top end, and the overall sound was a tad warmer.

I still felt that the USB drive had an edge in one or two areas. In overall instrument separation and detail the USB drive sounded slightly better. The SD card sounded slightly muddier in the midrange. I also felt that the USB drive communicated the emotion of the music better. Having said that, overall the SD card probably sounded better.

I then swapped the USB 3.0 cable which came with Lexar SR2 with a 2ft AudioQuest Forest USB 2.0 cable. The midrange came further forward and was better at communicating emotion. The music felt slower again and also quieter, I needed to turn the volume up 1dB. It's worth restating the AudioQuest cable made a significant difference to the sound.

I've been trying to find an analogy to the improvement, the closest I can think of is the difference between an ordinary and a good telescope lens. An ordinary lens allows you to see details but there's always a limit to the clarity of the detail and some element of prismatic dispersion, color artifacts created because the different color frequencies are refracted to slightly different focus points. A good lens because of the better refractive material and greater precision of grinding/polish allows you to see finer details with exact color shades.

So net of all this is that it appears HD and SSD solutions as architected today have data delivery characteristics similar to a poor refractive index in glass optics, some kind of higher jitter impact on the data output clocking than SD card.

Imagine the possibilities if your card reader was supplied cleaner power. Do you have any information on how much current it actually requires to operate ? Perhaps a good USB card or an external low noise power supply could further improve it ?

I tried in a PC setup 5v DC from HDPlex to USB3 PCIe card, it was a minor benefit of less digital irritation, similar to what I experienced in running NAS with HD off of HDPlex 12v supply. Right now I'm running the FMC connected to the mRendu off the HDPlex 5V supply since the mRendu is optically isolated from all but the last FMC card.

At this point I think the USB to DAC connection is far more important than an LPS for a passive SDXC card on network attached storage. The PS Audio Lanrover looks intriguing, as it provides optical isolation, hoping that some members with the mRendu buy it and report in on whether the benefits heard on the network side with optical connections transfer to USB interconnection.

JRiver already has a play from memory feature, marginal improvement when used. As I've said before a 32gb class 10 SDXC card is cheap to do the comparison between SSD and SDXC card. The Aries has only USB 2.0 ports but that's not a big difference from USB 3 on the PCM files I've played.

Up to this point I thought the SD card had less prominent highs than the USB drive. The SD card was perhaps a little too subdued and the USB drive a little to edgy. However, I did miss some of the vibrance and connection with the music that the USB drive provided.

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