2GB SD card compatible with the ilo256
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try a 2GB SD card in the ilo256...
Last week Newegg.com had a 2GB A-Data SD card on sale for $40, so I
said "What the hell" and ordered it. It arrived today, I ripped the
package open, got my ilo out and popped the card in. I pressed the
power button and crossed my fingers! I was fully expecting the ilo to
lock up cold, or nothing to happen at all. But the thing started up and
said "Creating Index" YES! IT WORKS! So I then pressed the menu
button and went to About > Storage and it said 0/950MB Ahh!! It can
only see 1GB of it! I was disappointed. But that didn't stop me from
loading 2GB of songs onto it anyway!
I loaded 210 songs (it came to about 1.90GB) onto the card, and powered
the ilo up. I waited about 7 minutes for it to index (!). And to my
surprise it found, indexed, and played every single one of them without
a hitch. I think 999 is the limit though. But I don't think anybody
will ever reach that limit, unless their songs are encoded at a
extremely low bitrate.
A couple of notes:
The transfer rate is incredibly slow. It clocks in at about 856KB/s,
while the on board memory transfers at around 4086KB/s. It takes a
while to fill the card up, but you shouldn't need to rotate songs very
often with all that space.
The ilo can't seem to read the ID3 tags on songs that are over the
950MB mark. It just shows the first two characters of the filename,
plus some random numbers. Kind of annoying, but I can live with it.
Erich Schroeder
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