2 gone
Well thanks for all the help on here, but at the end of the day, the 2go had 2go, I had it for another week or so but it was in too much danger of becoming a window bound projectile, so it’s gone. The story is basically this. Thanks to someone on here for suggesting I had the incorrect input which was the reason 2go/Hugo fell asleep fifteen minutes into SD card scanning. Of course I had the temerity to think that (near) 3 grands worth of hardware would be plug and play, silly me, but I can push a pretty colour button like anyone else so what the hell, though perhaps someone could slip a quiet note to the Chord design office. Anyway, happy days, I was up and scanning. So an hour or so later Go figure triumphantly tells me it’s found around 30,000 or so ”songs”, but no playlists (that’s right no playlists, I’m one of those weirdos who listens to “albums”, remember those?) Anyway, no problem it’s going to happily create playlists for me, which I actually don’t want but I’ll go with the flow. So 2/3 hours later ish (not sure because it was like 4 in the morning by then) I find I’m now the proud owner of a couple of thousand playlists, total joy, at least I was finally going to get to hear the 2go (at last). But alas I was too sanguine. After a bit of sleep (I do like some sometimes). I joyfully logged into Go figure expecting (not unreasonably) some action. But hang on a minute, it has to “fetch” the playlists. Well I was the best part of a sleepless night into this so I thought I can wait, and wait, and wait, and wait. EIGHTEEN HOURS later it was still “fetching” and I was still waiting. Restarted, still the same, restarted still the same……… you can guess the rest. And actually, that isn’t the bit that really p*ssed me off! The straw that broke the camel’s back was when I thought: okay, I can try again tomorrow, let’s just hook up to my trusty AK120 optical and enjoy a bit of music tonight. So I settle down as normal to a bit of well deserved joy and guess what? Second album in the Hugo dies! Yep. Hooked up to the 2go all day long and it never charges a milliamp. In fact i rather think it must have discharged. I’m a 5/6 hour stint when I get in the groove kind of guy and have NEVER had Hugo (1 or 2) die on me EVER. Too much for me I’m afraid, 2go was 2gone. I’m sure there’s hundreds of you out there loving streaming Roony or Cubey bus or some such with 2go and loving every second, but sadly, yours truely won’t be amongst them. My humble collection of a few thousand (mostly) CDs were obviously a bit too much (little) for such advanced technology. I even tried moving away from my 1tb SD to a more Fred Flintstoneish 64gb with just a few hundred “songs”, but Go figure just laughed at me. To be honest, a day or so is just a bit too long to scan in an SD card in anybody’s book. And I just had give out a wry smile as my (frankly archaic) AK120 scanned in my 1tb card in….. well I’m not sure how long it took, it just started playing straight away! Of course, if we were talking about ibasso or fiio or some such we’d all be rolling around in the isles now, but in the hallowed ground of Chord products, I get the distinct impression we’re not allowed to do that. Stay safe.
