[NovaRainbow]

I just pre-ordered my Tangara, and I'm planning on getting the Samsung PRO Plus 512 GB Full Size SDXC Card UHS-I to use with it. I've heard that Samsung cards fit well, and from reading here, it seems like full size SD cards are a bit more reliable than the MicroSDs with adaptors? I'll update everyone on here on how well it works once I get my hands on them.

[timixretroplays]

I have a SanDisk Extreme PRO 128gb SDXC full-size card. It works to play music from, but I have to pop it out and use a card reader on my PC to copy anything *to* it - attempting to copy stuff directly to it in the Tangara causes it to disappear and reappear as a disk.

It also doesn't fit the provided card slot cover - I think the little slot the provided cover relies on to fit isn't big enough. I'll probably print my own cover just to slot around the card.

[PetitDebardeurRose]

this seems helpful to everyone here: https://www.bahjeez.com/the-great-microsd-card-survey/

somebody tested almost every available SD card on the market for performance with lots of data

[wawtruttle]

i have a samsung pro plus 512 gb microsdxc card...or something along those lines. after putting music on it, it worked! hope it stays working

[emsho]

I'm using a SanDisk 1TB ExtremePRO card which structurally seems to work fine. (I'm having other issues which to my assumption are not connected to the card.)

[neckspike]

I have the Samsung Pro Ultimate 128GB (full size SD) and it's behaving fine so far. It didn't want to be recognized for a few minutes one time but after popping it in and out a few times it stopped acting up. The cover was too tight and starting to make the card crack so I took it off and I just put a piece of washi tape over the opening to keep dust and stuff out of the Tangara. I found I would sometimes unseat the the card by accident with the cover on, anyway. (it would press in just enough to engage the eject)

[facewizard]

SanDisk ExtremePRO 1TB mini card in an adapter, also working well with my Tangara. The slot cover fits the adapter well without cracking or interfering with the card, but it often seems to slip out slightly/work its way proud of the case over time even when I am not handling the tangara.

[Be]

I have implemented readahead buffering in https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/tang.../pulls/308. This should resolve stuttering for most SD cards. If you have an SD card that stutters with Tangara, I'd appreciate if you could test that pull request for a few hours of playback (stuttering might not show up right away).

After weeks of experimentation and investigation, I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that the combination of some SD cards and the Tangara hardware is just cursed and will never work without stuttering. I wrote a summary of my investigations on the bug tracker. TL;DR: if https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/tang.../pulls/308 doesn't fix stuttering for you, you probably just need a different SD card. It doesn't have to be the most expensive SD card with the fastest advertised speeds because Tangara doesn't come close to those speeds by 5 orders of magnitude. For me the problematic card is a Microcenter brand 512 GB card that I got several years ago. So my advice for buying an SD card for Tangara is just find one at a decent price that isn't some sketchy unbranded too-cheap-to-be-true thing.

My readahead buffering branch was finally merged in firmware version 2.0.0. The buffer size was reduced by 416 KB down to 1 MB after my branch was merged to accommodate custom themes with background images. If you still get stuttering with firmware version 2.0.0, you can try my branch which enlarges the readahead buffer back to 1440 KB. If you still get stuttering with that, your SD card is cursed and I recommend getting a different one.