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sorehamstring

excitement for ios support for flx4 becomes disappointment

Rant

Ok I might be the issue here and I'm just doing it wrong, but so far this experience has functioned like ass.

First issue is just finding a relevant set of instructions to connect with bt or usb. This one is probably mostly on me but when the feature gets hyped so much it would make sense to have some easy to find and detailed instructions.

Next issue is once you get the deck connected with bt it asks if you want to update the firmware of the flx4. This is fine except it doesn't work and isn't supposed to, so why is it pretending like it will?

Next, ok you finally the controller updated. Then you learn that headphones don't work (maybe you could split 2 mono channel signal out of the phone?) becuase the audio all comes from the phone on bt, not the controller even for headphones.

Ok, lets wire it in. Oh, this only appears to work if you have the ios camera usb adapter. Using a straight lightning to usb3 doesn't work. I found this and multiple forum posts claim the same.

So I guess I need to get some adapters to take what was supposed to be a simplifed mobile setup into a janky set of adapters.

Then lastly is the amount of nagging the app does. Every time you rotate your phone it's gonna stop the music force you to got through multiple clicks to say 'no, don't upgrade my subscription'. Then a moment later your are going to get nagged about joining soundcloud.

I have hope it gets improved, but right now honestly it kinda sucks.

Posted Apr 1, 2023, 7:01 PM UTC

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