The following is taken from the BT 6.1 manual. er. The KeySoft Media Player allows you to play music, readings and any other audio in MP3 format, on your BrailleNote BT. You can play just about any size of MP3 file from either the BrailleNote BT itself or a peripheral storage card or disk. When the track is playing, you can skip back and forward through it, stop, pause or resume the track as you wish. Other features include volume control that operates independently of speech, changing tasks with one keystroke and track information. This section describes the features and their uses in detail.
16.1.1 Loading MP3 files onto the BrailleNote BT. You can store MP3 files anywhere you would store any other file. However as they can be large files, they are best stored on an external storage card or disk. You can transfer MP3 files to your BrailleNote BT via ActiveSync, load them directly onto a storage card from a PC card writer, or download them directly off the Internet using the web browser on your BrailleNote BT. 16.1.2 How to play an MP3 file. Opening an MP3 file to play is the same as opening a file anywhere else in KeySoft. The steps are laid out below. In this procedure, it is assumed that you know how to select a drive, folder or file from a list. 1. To open the Media Player, either press M at the Main Menu, or press BACKSPACE with ENTER with M anywhere. 2. The BrailleNote BT will display one of the following two prompts: a) KeySoft prompts "Play media file in which folder? Press ENTER for (folder name)" where the folder name is "General" the first time you use the media player, and after that, it's the last folder accessed. Go to step 3. b) KeySoft prompts "Continue playing (file)?" where file is the last file you exited while it was playing. To start the track playing from the same point it was exited, press Y. To select a different file, press N and refer to a) above. 3. There are three possible actions at this point: a) If the folder you want was offered at the prompt, simply press ENTER and go to step 4. b) If you want a different folder on the same drive as the folder offered, press SPACE and select another folder, then go to step 4. c) If the folder you want is on a different drive or on a card, press BACKSPACE and select the drive or card from the drive list. Select a folder from the list of folders, and go to step 4. 4. KeySoft will prompt for a file name. Select a file from the list. The track will then start playing. 5. When the track has finished, KeySoft will prompt, "Play media file in which folder? Press ENTER for (folder name)" where folder name is the last folder accessed. At this point you can select another file, or exit the media player by pressing SPACE with E. 16.1.3 How to stop a track from playing. There are two different ways to interrupt a playing track - pause track and stop track. 16.1.3.1 Pause. To temporarily pause a track, press BACKSPACE with ENTER. The track will resume when you press either BACKSPACE with ENTER again, or SPACE with G. 16.1.3.2 Stop Track. To stop the track and select another, press SPACE with E. KeySoft will prompt, "Play media file in which folder? Press ENTER for (folder name)" where the folder name is the last folder accessed. 16.1.4 Skipping Through a Track. Sometimes you may want to skip through a track rather than listen to it straight through. There are two ways to do this. These operate while you are in the Media Player application, not while a media file is playing in the background of another task. 1. The Braille Display acts as a progress indicator for the track - once the track begins to play it will go blank except for a lower g (dots 2 3 5 6) indicator that moves evenly along the Braille display as the track progresses. So, for example, half way through the track, the indicator will be on cell 16 of a 32 cell display and cell 9 of an 18 cell display. As the Braille display represents the total length of the track, this will affect the rate and increments at which the indicator will move. For example, with a 5 minute track, it will move more slowly along the display than with a 3 minute track. You can use the Braille display to skip along the track in either direction, simply by pressing the touch cursor buttons. The indicator will skip to the position of the button, and the track will skip to that spot as well. There are also skip commands that use the keyboard. These skip commands skip forwards or backwards by either 1, 5 or ten percent of the total file. They are: Skip forward 1% SPACE with dot 6, Skip back 1% SPACE with dot 3, Skip forward 5% SPACE with dot 5, Skip back 5% SPACE with dot 2, Skip forward 10% SPACE with dot 4, Skip back 10% SPACE with dot 1, You can use these singly or repeatedly to skip through a track. 16.1.5 Restarting a Track. If you are part way into a track and want it to start from the beginning, press SPACE with dots 1 2 3. This is the same command as used elsewhere in KeySoft for returning to the beginning. 16.1.6 Volume Control. The media player volume controls are: Louder: ENTER with dots 4 6 Softer: ENTER with dots 1 3 They operate independently from the speech volume, so you can change the volume without changing the volume of the speech. 16.1.7 Information on your media file. There are two types of information available about your media file as it is playing - track information and elapsed time. 16.1.7.1 Track Information. You can check out file information while playing a media file. The list of information available in order is Title, Track Length, Sample rate and bit rate. Time is given as hh:mm:ss. For example: Title: Sample.mp3 Track length: 0:1:1 Sample rate: 44100 Hertz Bit rate: 128 kbps. To access this information, press SPACE with I. To pass from one item to the next, press either SPACE or ENTER. To go back to the previous item, press BACKSPACE. To exit from the information at any point, press SPACE with E. 16.1.7.2 Elapsed time. You can also find out the elapsed time, that is, how long the track has been playing and the total length of the track. To access this information, press SPACE with wh sign (dots 1 5 6). Time is given as hh:mm:ss. For example: "Elapsed time: 0:0:27 of 0:1:1"
