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    Thread: Wired headphones w/ inline volume controls
Post: Wired headphones w/ inline volume controls

I've got a set of wired headphones with volume controls on the cable, but when I press those controls they don't adjust Tangara's volume. Is that a hardware limitation of the minijack receptacle used ...
sbszine Hardware 1 13 2026-01-16, 03:09 AM
    Thread: Install flatpak companion app on debian - is there a howto?
Post: RE: Install flatpak companion app on debian - is t...

The 0.4.3 flatpak is out of date now and won't install the current Tangara firmware. There is now a tangaracompanion-v0.5.2-linux-x86_64.flatpak you could try.
sbszine General 10 456 2025-12-22, 02:46 AM
    Thread: Carrying case recommendations for Tangara?
Post: RE: Carrying case recommendations for Tangara?

This is the listing I used (but it's the Australian store): https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B01ESLGIG6
sbszine Hardware 10 636 2025-12-15, 05:34 AM
    Thread: Carrying case recommendations for Tangara?
Post: RE: Carrying case recommendations for Tangara?

I found a good hard case! This one fits tangara perfectly, is lightweight, and has two zippers so you can run a headphone cable through it if you like. It has a sort of fabric finish also. Manufacture...
sbszine Hardware 10 636 2025-12-14, 10:00 PM
    Thread: Beetscasts - managing podcasts for Tangara
Post: RE: Beetscasts - managing podcasts for Tangara

Curl lets you spoof a desktop browser UA with the --user-agent switch, so you could have curl do the fetching part for you and see if that gets you past the headless download check.
sbszine General 3 12,283 2025-12-08, 04:58 AM
    Thread: Updating to firmware 1.50 bricks Tangara (Resolved)
Post: RE: Updating to firmware 1.50 bricks Tangara

villain Wrote: (2025-11-01, 01:25 PM) -- Hello, I'm also having this issue but I'm not super familiar with using the CLI. Could you explain in simple terms how to run the process that worked to fix t...
sbszine General 6 20,214 2025-11-02, 09:37 PM
    Thread: Updating to firmware 1.50 bricks Tangara (Resolved)
Post: RE: Updating to firmware 1.50 bricks Tangara

Ahhhh, I bet Generic.LC_COLLATE could be flashed manually too and get past this error. Yes, turns out it can! For anyone else in this situation, you can flash the tangara.bin and lua.bin files as n...
sbszine General 6 20,214 2025-10-20, 09:32 PM
  Exclamation Thread: Updating to firmware 1.50 bricks Tangara (Resolved)
Post: Updating to firmware 1.50 bricks Tangara (Resolved...

When I update to 1.50 from 1.41 I get this error: https://cf.geekdo-images.com/63NCrSeewd84-MGAvNd7yg__imagepage/img/wZQiqGYQwEylZuVjwfaEknOZEvg=/fit-in/900x600/filters:no_upscale():strip_icc()/pic...
sbszine General 6 20,214 2025-10-20, 06:00 AM
    Thread: running fw 1.0.0 suppose its time to upgrade
Post: RE: running fw 1.0.0 suppose its time to upgrade

I use Tangara Companion to do firmware updates and it's been reliable and painless. https://github.com/haileys/tangara-companion
sbszine General 2 569 2025-08-20, 12:48 AM
    Thread: How does podcast metadata work?
Post: RE: How does podcast metadata work?

Thanks, I'll add 'E01', 'E02' etc prefixes to the titles and se how that goes. [hr] Hmmm, that fixed the ordering but I also have three phantom episodes with the old names now! I think the database in...
sbszine General 2 13 2025-08-18, 02:30 AM
  Question Thread: How does podcast metadata work?
Post: How does podcast metadata work?

I've got a podcast where the episodes appear out of order in the Tangara menu. I don't think it's a bug as this podcast has very patchy, frequently contradictory metadata. I'm going to manually repair...
sbszine General 2 13 2025-08-18, 01:08 AM
    Thread: Can't get a full database scan
Post: RE: Can't get a full database scan

emsho Wrote: (2025-08-03, 02:50 PM) -- Thanks for the response. I will check it out. Edit: Ah. Having just watched the Beets intro clip I realize that this software is much too complicated for me....
sbszine General 9 88 2025-08-04, 12:11 AM
    Thread: SD-Card holder bent and eventually broke my card
Post: RE: SD-Card holder bent and eventually broke my ca...

I had a full size SanDisk card that was a tight fit, and in the end the only way to get it in safely was to slide it from the side of the holder in rather than pushing it in from the top. Samsung card...
sbszine General 5 33 2025-07-11, 12:26 AM
    Thread: Bluetooth with hearing aids
Post: RE: Bluetooth with hearing aids

Having a look at the chip doco (https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/esp32/api-guides/ble/ble-feature-support-status.html), it might be that the hearing aids used Bluetooth LE v5 adve...
sbszine General 2 291 2025-07-10, 01:10 AM
    Thread: Charging Tangara
Post: RE: Charging Tangara

jacqueline Wrote: (2025-06-06, 10:24 AM) -- The device needs to be on to charge at full speed, and it will keep itself on if it's plugged in. But plugging it in does not turn it on. Hopefully that ma...
sbszine General 2 41 2025-06-15, 11:46 PM
  Lightbulb Thread: Charging Tangara
Post: Charging Tangara

Foolish questions: does the Tangara power switch need to be in the on position while charging? How long does a full charge take?
sbszine General 2 41 2025-06-05, 10:15 PM
    Thread: Questions on Crowd Supply Edition
Post: RE: Questions on Crowd Supply Edition

It's shipped fully assembled and it's easy to update the firmware. The audio sounds great too. It's a bit more technical than something like an ipod though, e.g. playlists are something you need to cr...
sbszine General 3 322 2025-05-09, 02:06 AM
    Thread: Screen glitching on UI update if SD card inserted (resolved)
Post: RE: Screen glitching on UI update if SD card inser...

Have reproduced this with other cards so it may be something specific to my Tangara.
sbszine General 3 40 2025-04-24, 02:48 AM
    Thread: which memory cards are working for people?
Post: RE: which memory cards are working for people?

SanDisk Extreme 512GB full size 180 MB/s didn't work for me. Actually I had a hardware fault and when that was remedied, SanDisk Extreme 512GB full size 180 MB/s worked fine. Edit: Although it worke...
sbszine General 28 419 2025-04-22, 01:03 AM
    Thread: Screen glitching on UI update if SD card inserted (resolved)
Post: RE: Screen glitching on UI update if SD card inser...

Some more info: it stops glitching as soon as I unmount the card via the eject icon. So it's not the physical presence of the card, it's something about it being mounted. I'm in Sydney so I can get...
sbszine General 3 40 2025-04-18, 05:53 AM