Hi, Roselle. If you want to see something weird, go to www.gwmicro.com and
download their mp3 tutorial. It is around 195mb. Put it on a flash card
then try to play it with your bn media player. It won't work. It will tell
you as it told me that it did not support that sample size.
At 1/27/2004, you wrote:
Paul,
>From personal experience, I would have to agree with Jonathan that your
claim here is not true. I have yet to find a file, whose sample and bit
rates and the way it was converted suit the BN's Media Player, that is
too large to be played. The only problem related to size of MP3's will
be when you try to download it using Keyweb (in which case, you'll be
limited to 7 MB or less, depending on your remaining free space in the
Keysoft Systems Disk.
On the cf card inserted into my BN right now, I have two MP3 files larger
than 20 MB, one is 26.3 MB and the other 43.7 MB in size, both with 44.1
MHZ sample rate and 128 kbps bit rate, converted to this format with the
content starting at the very beginning of the file, and they play just
fine - no lock-ups, no delay in playing.
Doug Martin posted about the limitations of the Media Player shortly after
version 5.0 was released. I'm afraid I don't have a copy of that message
anymore and it was sent to the old BN list. Maybe someone has a
copy. But in effect, he wrote down the sample rates and bit rates of MP3
files that won't play on the BN, and in the case that these rates were
those playable on the BN, there was some header in the file before the
actual content which prevented the BN from playing.
These MP3 files I mentioned above were converted from the wave files I
originally created on my laptop. I used GoldWave for the conversion.
HTH,
Roselle
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>Sent by: Paul Henrichsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Hi, Everyone. I found that I can play a file as long as it is less than 20
>mb. I have three files; one around 19 mb, one at 27 mg and one at 29 mb.
>Only the 19 mb file will play.
>It is at only 40 KBPS; so, it doesn't seem to be a problem if I don't
>record at 128.
>Trying to play the other two just lock things up forcing a reset.
>There is no message of any kind telling you the file is too large or not
>the correct bit rate or anything; just a lock up and a reset.
>I think this needs to be looked at as one cannot always rip files that are
>smaller than 20 mb.
>I used easy cda extractor to extract an audio book that I have. I told it
>to extract it to 48 kbps and to do this disk at once.
>I know I could do it with 20 separate tracks, but I'd rather do one track
>so I don't have to keep loading in a new track every five minutes or less.
>Thanks.
>Paul Henrichsen
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