D'oh! you're right. I wasn't paying close enough attention, they
would be in the AUDIO BOOKS folder.
The basic point remains, as of now the BS has no way to remember what
file you were in. If this is important to you, the best workaround is
to create a single mp3 file per book.
Thanks Alan,
Jim
>> Hey Sandy,
>>
>> If you're reading a book with the document reader that has 74 mp3
>> files, and if you leave that book for another book in the document
>> reader, when you go back to the first book you will have a hard time
>> finding your place. The booksense will remember where you are in each
>> of your 74 mp3 files, but not which mp3 file you were in.
>>
>> Further, if each of your mp3 files is (say) 20 minutes long, and you
>> want to go backward 1 hour, the time step feature in the booksense
>> won't help you. It will only go as far back as the beginning of the
>> particular mp3 file you're reading.
>>
>> The stream will "stitch" the 74 mp3 files of your book together,
>> treating them as a single track, while allowing you to skip by track
>> if you wish. The stream remembers where you are in your book (not
>> just in a given file) and lets you move forward/backward seemless
>> across your mp3 files.
>>
>> These are the issues with mp3 books that we want fixed.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 02:28:09PM -0500, Sandy Licht wrote:
>> > You don't have to merge the tracks into one file. On my BookSense I
>> > currently have an audio book that contains 74 files. It would
be quite a
>> > job to merge them into 1 track.
>> >
>> > You would put your audio books in the Audio Book folder. This is a
>> > subfolder in the media player. The best way I have found to handle
>> > multitrack audio books is to create a folder with the book title as the
>> > folder name. Transfer the tracks to it. Then transfer the
folder to the
>> > BookSense Audio Books folder. For continuous reading, just navigate to
>> > that particular folder and press play.
>> > At 03:45 PM 9/2/2009 +1200, you wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> After reading the message below I would appreciate some clarification
>> >> from anyone. In order to listen to an MP3 book with the media player in
>> >> the audio books folder, does the book have to be one track? I do hope
>> >> not. As I do not have many DAISY books on hand I'll primarily be
>> >> listening to books via the media player and I would hate to have to
>> >> merge all the files from a book into one track. I'd prefer to leave
>> >> them in the audio books folder to keep things organized as I have a
>> >> bundle of files I wish to place in the music folder, and it would make
>> >> navigation easier if I keep things organized. Also I've just joined
>> >> this list as I haven't yet purchased a BookSense but I am considering
>> >> doing so. Are there any known bugs in the media player? Thanks a lot,
>> >> any honest answers will be very much appreciated.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Tanya
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> At 01:28 p.m. 2/09/2009, Terri Pannett wrote:
>> >>> Hi, List,
>> >>>
>> >>> Today, I decided to try an experiment. Many of you, (and the manual
>> >>> also), had told me I would need to copy the audiobooks I had ripped
>> >>> to mp3 files into the audiobooks folder. But I didn't. I copied a
>> >>> book into the music folder. All of the files were copied, except the
>> >>> playlist.m3u that was at the end of each folder. That was fine with
>> >>> me, because I didn't really need to copy those files. And guess
>> >>> what? The book played exactly the way I wanted it to! I could jump
>> >>> from track to track without any problem! And I didn't need to join
>> >>> the tracks into one big track!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "If your heart tells you a thing is right,
>> >> Tell your head to mind its own business."
>> >> Catherine Cookson
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Sandy Licht
>> > Turn right, then go straight!
>> >
>> > Jeremiah 29:11-14 (Amplified Bible)
>> >
>> > 11For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord,
>> > thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you
>> > hope in your final outcome.
>> >
>> > 12Then you will call upon Me, and you will come and pray
to Me, and I
>> > will hear and heed you.
>> >
>> > 13Then you will seek Me, inquire for, and require Me [as a vital
>> > necessity] and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.(A)
>> >
>> > 14I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will release you from
>> > captivity and gather you from all the nations and all the
places to which
>> > I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place
>> > from which I caused you to be carried away captive.
>> >
>
>
> Sandy Licht
> Turn right, then go straight!
>
> Jeremiah 29:11-14 (Amplified Bible)
>
> 11For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord,
> thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you
> hope in your final outcome.
>
> 12Then you will call upon Me, and you will come and pray to Me, and I
> will hear and heed you.
>
> 13Then you will seek Me, inquire for, and require Me [as a vital
> necessity] and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.(A)
>
> 14I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will release you from
> captivity and gather you from all the nations and all the places to which
> I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place
> from which I caused you to be carried away captive.
>
