Hi Korin, Your second question is for someone at PDI, perhaps Jonathan Mosen, to answer, but I can answer your first.
In the next software release, you will be able to play wave and other files from the Media Player, instead of just MP3. However, at present, you can play some very short ones. This is undocumented. Move your wave files from whatever location they are at to the Windows folder of the KeySoft System Disk. Now, use the File Manager/Directory option to navigate to the Windows folder on the KeySoft System Disk. At the "List of Files" view, press [SPACE with X], [READ with X] to change to the "List of All, including Hidden, Files" view. Now, SPACE until you are on the wave file, press ENTER, and it will play. The wave files can only be half the size of the amount of free disk space on your KeySoft System Disk because there needs to be room to play the files. The amount of free disk space on that disk is typically around 6.5 megabytes, so the wave file can only be about 3 megabytes; you cannot play anything larger. To find out how much free disk space you have, use the File Manager/Directory option, and at the "Drive?" prompt, press SPACE until you reach the KeySoft System Disk; then, press [SPACE with I], [READ with I], and you'll be told how many characters are free. A megabyte is 1 million characters. If it's less than about 6 or 6.5 MB, clear cookies and temporary internet files. To do this, from the Main Menu, select a task other than KeyWeb, and once you are in the first prompt of that task, press [ENTER with BACKSPACE with I], [FUNCTION with 0] to switch to KeyWeb. The only purpose of selecting a task is to switch to KeyWeb, so you can access the Internet Options Menu. If you select KeyWeb from the Main Menu, you're presented with the Address Bar, where this menu, which contains the options for Internet File Management, cannot be accessed. You do not have to do anything in the other task; for instance, if you select KeyWord from the Main Menu, you can execute the command to switch to KeyWeb as soon as you are presented with the "KeyWord Menu". If, upon switching to KeyWeb, you are presented with the Address Bar, switch to another task, any task, with a hotkey (for instance, [ENTER with BACKSPACE with W], [FUNCTION with 4] for KeyWord), and switch back to KeyWeb, at which point you will be presented with a blank display; in other words, you won't hear anything spoken. If, on the other hand, you are presented with a Web page (whose title you will hear upon switching to KeyWeb) or a blank display upon the first time of switching, you do not need to switch tasks again. Once you are on a Web page or have a blank display, press [ENTER with M], [CONTROL with 2] for the Internet Options Menu, then I for "Internet File Management". In this menu, you have the option to "Clear cookies", "Clear temporary files", or "Erase browser history". When you clear the cookies and temp files, you will hear the word "cleared" spoken. If you are not looking at your Browser History too often, you can also erase this, although this won't free up space on the KS Disk due to the fact that the History database is stored in the Flash Disk. Remember, because the KS Disk is only meant for factory-installed files, you will lose these files upon a hard reset. If they are important, copy them to another location on either the Flash Disk or a Storage Card; this way, if you need to do a hard Reset, you can copy them back to the Windows folder of the KS Disk for when you need to play them. With the new Media Player, you should be able to play wave files as you do MP3's now, which means they can be larger, stored to the Flash Disk or a Storage Card, and actually played from the Media Player program itself. You can download files using KeyWeb which are sound files, but as the downloaded file is first downloaded to the Temp folder of the KeySoft System Disk, regardless of where you chose to download it, before it is transferred to your chosen location, this file cannot be larger than the amount of free space on the KS Disk, and if you attempt to download a file larger than this, it will not download. If you ever do not find a file you downloaded in your chosen location, and you were told the download was complete, you will have to search for the file in the /Windows/Profiles/Temporary Internet Files directory of the KeySoft System Disk. The file will be in one of the sub-directories of this directory, and you will have a name comprised of letters, numbers, and punctuation, something which is not the name you actually gave the file, so you will most likely have to open the files to find the one you downloaded. It's basically easier to just re-download the file if you don't find it. Remember, at present, only MP3 sound files can be played at present, but this will change with the next release. However, the BN will not be able to stream audio, which means it will not be able to play such files as the m3u format, but these files, when you open them, contain URL's to the locations of the files being streamed, which will probably be made possible to play in the next release, so that is a work around for the m3u format. FYI. HTH, Maria >----- Original Message ----- >From: Korin Trytko <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: braillenote list <[email protected] >Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:17:08 -0700 (PDT) >Subject: [Braillenote] playing wav files >another question, of course >Can i play wav files on the voicenote? I know there are some on the system >that are played in conjunction with program activities but is there a way for >me to play other wav files? >Also, will the bn related note takers be able to play sound files that are >incorporated into webcites some day? >thanks, more questions soon *grin* >Korin >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ?
