Hi you wrote: Hi Evan,
If you have ever used a playlist in windows to play a folder full of files, then the way the Book Sense handles the media folder is not unusual. This may because the Book Sense is actually using Windows mobile as its operating system. **Wow I didn't know that! If I did, I likely wouldn't have urchased the BS. So, propriatory firmware does not speak well towards the possability of having the resume/bookmark feature modified to work on a folder with multiple fies after one leaves the folder. **Nore does it give me hope that the BS will see multiple files as one book like the Stream. You could also open a folder of music and press the 7 key for 2 seconds or longer to save the playlist. Now you can use the menu to go to the select playlist function and go to the last playlist in the list and press the OK button on it. If the firmware is working correctly, the list of music or files should begin to play and you can then use the right and left arrows to move between tracks. I say "if" because I found that in the beta versions of the firmware, the playlists will not play so I went back to version 1.0. **I find the playlist feature does work on my XT. Rod **Keith ----- Original Message ----- From: EVAN REESE To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 10:36 AM Subject: [GW-Booksense] Question About Moving Among Tracks Hey Guys, I really do like the Book Sense a lot, but there's one thing that seems a bit illogical to me: When I'm in the Music folder, I can't move among tracks with the left and right arrows. I have to be *on* the Music folder, not *in* it. When I'm inside the Music folder, I can up and down arrow to hear the titles of tracks when I'm not playing one. But when I hit Play, the left and right arrows just ding at me. I thought the machine was malfunctioning at first, but when I called GW Micro, Mike told me that that is how it's supposed to work. (I've read most of the manual, but either that was not clearly stated, or--more likely--I missed it, thinking that it would work the way I think it should.) I can only use the left and right arrow keys to move among tracks when I'm sitting *on* the Music folder, but not when I'm inside it. However, when I'm inside the Music folder, the up and down arrows give the various movement options, One Track, "Five Tracks, and First and Last Track. So if the up and down arrows give the movement options, shouldn't the left and right arrows move through the tracks according to the spoken options while inside the Music folder? That seems only logical to me. Why give the movement options in a situation when the user can't use them? It seems more reasonable to assume that when you choose a movement option inside the Music folder, then the Book Sense should move among the songs by that option when you hit the left or right arrow key. What do you all think? Am I the oddball here, or is this something they should alter? I understand that for reading books, you may not want to skip around from book to book the way you might with songs. But maybe some people would, I don't know. For music, though, the current setup seems slightly strange to me. Is the way the Booksense works the same way other devices work, such as Streams or I-Pods? Or do they work more the way I think the Book Sense should? If they all work the way the Book Sense currently does, then I guess I'll get used to it, although I think it is counterintuitive, as well as less useful. Is this something that has already been discussed here? Apologies if this is old ground. I'm completely new to portable devices of this kind, as if you couldn't tell from the above. <smile> Thanks for any feedback. Evan
