Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
In addition to playing NLS books, the digital player also plays books from Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic. The entire 58,000 book RFBD collection is available digitally, unlike the NLS collection. Currently, registration and membership for downloadable books is free. If you are currently receiving services through NLS, verification of disability can be done without sending in medical paperwork. The RFBD books co-exist on my USB drive with the NLS books with no problem. It is necessary to install an RFBD activation key on the NLS player. I was advised by several end users to only purchase the Kingston Data Traveler model 101 or 102 for the NLS player. I am using a four-gigabyte version of the 102 series with absolutely no problems. Kelly On 3/14/10, glenna burgess earthmother...@twcny.rr.com wrote: I wonder if they shouldn't put that in th4e help file? Glenna - Original Message - From: Robert doc Wright godfea...@wrighthere.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 9:15 PM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Until the email I saw the other day I had no clue about an audio+podcasts folder. - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 9:54 PM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION So you didn't see the other folders and files in the Bookshelf? I know I've played MP3's that weren't in the Audio+Podcasts folder, but maybe this is the only folder that shows up in the Bookshelf. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 3/13/2010 8:32 PM, Robert doc Wright wrote: One thing I noticed today. I added a book from bard to my mp3 player. It had no problems finding the book. It ignored the other folders on the player. When I connected another player with just mp3 files it would then see the folders that were available. - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:33 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION This is indeed true according to the documentation, but I've had my DTBM play MP3's that were not in the Audio+Podcasts directory. I found this out when I plugged in the same flash stick into my DTBM that I was using to transfer files to my netbook, and I couldn't tell where it was getting those MP3's from. Note this may be an undocumented feature or a defect, so don't count on it. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com On 3/12/2010 12:08 PM, dennis wrote: if you want to play mp3's on it you need to have the files in a folder on the flash disc called audeo+podcasts. it won't read the names of the files it will number them. - Original Message - From: dan kysor danky...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:01 PM Subject: re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION you can play one book at a time on a memery stick type device. I am currently listening on the nls unit a mp3 book that is not nls formatted and it can qet quirky as it never seems to play the entire grouping of files but rather, goes through about 2 thirds the files. Not sure why this is but i end up having to delete the earlier chapters and the darn thing works! Not sure about stereo, havent check that out. Dan - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Date sent: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:38:34 -0500 Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello List members, I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. I have a few questions about it. For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? It has a monaural speaker built in to it. But I'm asking about its headphone jack. I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? Thinks in advance. My best regards. John. PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
Until the email I saw the other day I had no clue about an audio+podcasts folder. - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 9:54 PM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION So you didn't see the other folders and files in the Bookshelf? I know I've played MP3's that weren't in the Audio+Podcasts folder, but maybe this is the only folder that shows up in the Bookshelf. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 3/13/2010 8:32 PM, Robert doc Wright wrote: One thing I noticed today. I added a book from bard to my mp3 player. It had no problems finding the book. It ignored the other folders on the player. When I connected another player with just mp3 files it would then see the folders that were available. - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:33 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION This is indeed true according to the documentation, but I've had my DTBM play MP3's that were not in the Audio+Podcasts directory. I found this out when I plugged in the same flash stick into my DTBM that I was using to transfer files to my netbook, and I couldn't tell where it was getting those MP3's from. Note this may be an undocumented feature or a defect, so don't count on it. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com On 3/12/2010 12:08 PM, dennis wrote: if you want to play mp3's on it you need to have the files in a folder on the flash disc called audeo+podcasts. it won't read the names of the files it will number them. - Original Message - From: dan kysor danky...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:01 PM Subject: re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION you can play one book at a time on a memery stick type device. I am currently listening on the nls unit a mp3 book that is not nls formatted and it can qet quirky as it never seems to play the entire grouping of files but rather, goes through about 2 thirds the files. Not sure why this is but i end up having to delete the earlier chapters and the darn thing works! Not sure about stereo, havent check that out. Dan - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Date sent: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:38:34 -0500 Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello List members, I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. I have a few questions about it. For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? It has a monaural speaker built in to it. But I'm asking about its headphone jack. I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? Thinks in advance. My best regards. John. PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
I wonder if they shouldn't put that in th4e help file? Glenna - Original Message - From: Robert doc Wright godfea...@wrighthere.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 9:15 PM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Until the email I saw the other day I had no clue about an audio+podcasts folder. - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 9:54 PM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION So you didn't see the other folders and files in the Bookshelf? I know I've played MP3's that weren't in the Audio+Podcasts folder, but maybe this is the only folder that shows up in the Bookshelf. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 3/13/2010 8:32 PM, Robert doc Wright wrote: One thing I noticed today. I added a book from bard to my mp3 player. It had no problems finding the book. It ignored the other folders on the player. When I connected another player with just mp3 files it would then see the folders that were available. - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:33 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION This is indeed true according to the documentation, but I've had my DTBM play MP3's that were not in the Audio+Podcasts directory. I found this out when I plugged in the same flash stick into my DTBM that I was using to transfer files to my netbook, and I couldn't tell where it was getting those MP3's from. Note this may be an undocumented feature or a defect, so don't count on it. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com On 3/12/2010 12:08 PM, dennis wrote: if you want to play mp3's on it you need to have the files in a folder on the flash disc called audeo+podcasts. it won't read the names of the files it will number them. - Original Message - From: dan kysor danky...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:01 PM Subject: re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION you can play one book at a time on a memery stick type device. I am currently listening on the nls unit a mp3 book that is not nls formatted and it can qet quirky as it never seems to play the entire grouping of files but rather, goes through about 2 thirds the files. Not sure why this is but i end up having to delete the earlier chapters and the darn thing works! Not sure about stereo, havent check that out. Dan - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Date sent: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:38:34 -0500 Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello List members, I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. I have a few questions about it. For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? It has a monaural speaker built in to it. But I'm asking about its headphone jack. I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? Thinks in advance. My best regards. John. PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2746 - Release Date: 03/14/10 03:33:00 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
Hello Kevin, I have a San Disc 4 GB USB flash drive. I created a folder that's called, audio+podcast. I put mostly MP3 files in that folder. But when I plug that flash drive in to the player, it plays one of the audio files for a wile. But then, it stops and gives me a cartridge error message. But when I plug my wife's MP3 player in to it, the machine plays the files off of it without any problems. My question is, why does it act like that with my Sand Disc USB flash drive and not my wife's MP3 player? John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:27 PM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. The player will play 3gp, wav and mp3 files. I'm thinking of those three right off, I may be forgetting one, though. These files need to be in a folder called audio+podcasts which is on the root of the drive. You can put subfolders under this to organize them. The player won't announce the folders, but when you're in bookshelf mode you'll be able to navigate to them. As for playing files in stereo, this may or may not be true. I say this, because earlier firmware updates to the player didn't play files in stereo. You need to have version 2.1 or later of the firmware, and it will play files in stereo. To find out your player's version, with no media in it, press the sleep button ten times quickly until you hear the serial number being announced. Once this announcement starts, just wait, and you'll hear the version of your player's firmware announced. My player has version 2.1.3 of the firmware on it. To download NLS books for your player, you need to be signed up with the NLS site. To do this, go to https://nlsbard.loc.gov and click on the link on that page. Since you have an NLS player, you'll be able to get this service. It's nice to download books from the site, and anything you get on a cartridge from your library will be on the NLS site. By the way, you may want to call your local library and tell them you want digital books on cartridge sent to you. I had to do this for myself, and in fact I had to call them again to jolt things into action. I should be getting my first NLS book from my library any day now. There is an email list that is specificly set up for the NLS player. You can find out how to subscribe to it, as well as have some of your questions answered. Go to http://bardtalk.com If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
And don't forget that if you buy one of these cartridges, you also have to get the special cable so you can connect them to your USB port on your computer when transferring books or MP3 files to your NLS player. I think those cables are something like $3.75 or so. Michael -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Minor Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 4:38 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. I'm guessing here, but the San Disc drive may not be totally compatible with the NLS player. People have reported problems with this brand of drive. I tried hooking up an SD reader to my player, and it sort of worked. I was able to play part of an NLS book, but then the player would say I had reached the end of it. I didn't get a cartridge error, though. People have reported good results with the Kingston brand of flash drive, and I purchased a LEXAR 4 gig drive that works fine with the player. Keep in mind, however, that the player is mainly designed to work with the cartridges designed for it. You can get blank 2 gig cartridges from http://www.aph.org These are more expensive than flash drives, and they don't hold as much. I've decided to use them, because I know they work with the NLS player, and they fit into the front of it with little effort. If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
Hi. The cable that connects the cartridge to the computer can be purchased at your local computer store. You just need to buy an extension USB cable. Kevin Minor. kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
Yes, but I bet you pay more. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Minor Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 6:16 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi. The cable that connects the cartridge to the computer can be purchased at your local computer store. You just need to buy an extension USB cable. Kevin Minor. kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
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High Kevin, I was wondering where you could get those cartridges and how much they will cost. But ok, I understand that you can put NLS books on them. But how about music, can you put music files on those cartridges to as well? It looks like it will work on any computer using the USB interface, but how do you plug those cartridges in to your computer so you can put files on them? John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 5:37 AM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. I'm guessing here, but the San Disc drive may not be totally compatible with the NLS player. People have reported problems with this brand of drive. I tried hooking up an SD reader to my player, and it sort of worked. I was able to play part of an NLS book, but then the player would say I had reached the end of it. I didn't get a cartridge error, though. People have reported good results with the Kingston brand of flash drive, and I purchased a LEXAR 4 gig drive that works fine with the player. Keep in mind, however, that the player is mainly designed to work with the cartridges designed for it. You can get blank 2 gig cartridges from http://www.aph.org These are more expensive than flash drives, and they don't hold as much. I've decided to use them, because I know they work with the NLS player, and they fit into the front of it with little effort. If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
The cartridges come from the American Printing House for the Blind and I believe they're about $12.75. I recommend getting the cable meant to be used for these cartridges from the same place because I think they're less expensive there. I also recommend that you go to http://bardtalk.com and sign up on that e-mail list as I just did. On that list, specifically dedicated to NLS digital talking book machines, you will have access to all sorts of information. Michael Barber -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of DJ DOCTOR P Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 7:01 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION High Kevin, I was wondering where you could get those cartridges and how much they will cost. But ok, I understand that you can put NLS books on them. But how about music, can you put music files on those cartridges to as well? It looks like it will work on any computer using the USB interface, but how do you plug those cartridges in to your computer so you can put files on them? John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 5:37 AM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. I'm guessing here, but the San Disc drive may not be totally compatible with the NLS player. People have reported problems with this brand of drive. I tried hooking up an SD reader to my player, and it sort of worked. I was able to play part of an NLS book, but then the player would say I had reached the end of it. I didn't get a cartridge error, though. People have reported good results with the Kingston brand of flash drive, and I purchased a LEXAR 4 gig drive that works fine with the player. Keep in mind, however, that the player is mainly designed to work with the cartridges designed for it. You can get blank 2 gig cartridges from http://www.aph.org These are more expensive than flash drives, and they don't hold as much. I've decided to use them, because I know they work with the NLS player, and they fit into the front of it with little effort. If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
Hi John. First, you can put music onto the blank cartridges. They are essentially flash drives with a fancy case around them to fit into the NLS player, so anything you can put onto a flash drive, you can put on the cartridge. APH sells the cartridges for $11.95, if I remember correctly. You can order one by going to http://www.aph.org The site says they will be selling the cable to hook to your computer, but I didn't need the cable, since I already had one for my PC. The cartridge doesn't require a special cable for it. Most extension USB cables will work with the cartridge. The cartridge has a standard USB plug on it that plugs into the NLS player, so if you have one of those handy, you can hook the cartridge to your computer and transfer files to it. If you don't have this cable, you can order it when you get your cartridge. There are other places where you can get the blank cartridges, as well as the cable for it. To get a list of these places, go to http://bardtalk.com and click on the FAQ link. If you have more questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
I think this had to do with the power requirements of the particular thumb drive you are using. I believe that the NLS players don't like SanDisk flash drives at all, especially the U3 drives. - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 5:21 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello Kevin, I have a San Disc 4 GB USB flash drive. I created a folder that's called, audio+podcast. I put mostly MP3 files in that folder. But when I plug that flash drive in to the player, it plays one of the audio files for a wile. But then, it stops and gives me a cartridge error message. But when I plug my wife's MP3 player in to it, the machine plays the files off of it without any problems. My question is, why does it act like that with my Sand Disc USB flash drive and not my wife's MP3 player? John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:27 PM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. The player will play 3gp, wav and mp3 files. I'm thinking of those three right off, I may be forgetting one, though. These files need to be in a folder called audio+podcasts which is on the root of the drive. You can put subfolders under this to organize them. The player won't announce the folders, but when you're in bookshelf mode you'll be able to navigate to them. As for playing files in stereo, this may or may not be true. I say this, because earlier firmware updates to the player didn't play files in stereo. You need to have version 2.1 or later of the firmware, and it will play files in stereo. To find out your player's version, with no media in it, press the sleep button ten times quickly until you hear the serial number being announced. Once this announcement starts, just wait, and you'll hear the version of your player's firmware announced. My player has version 2.1.3 of the firmware on it. To download NLS books for your player, you need to be signed up with the NLS site. To do this, go to https://nlsbard.loc.gov and click on the link on that page. Since you have an NLS player, you'll be able to get this service. It's nice to download books from the site, and anything you get on a cartridge from your library will be on the NLS site. By the way, you may want to call your local library and tell them you want digital books on cartridge sent to you. I had to do this for myself, and in fact I had to call them again to jolt things into action. I should be getting my first NLS book from my library any day now. There is an email list that is specificly set up for the NLS player. You can find out how to subscribe to it, as well as have some of your questions answered. Go to http://bardtalk.com If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
if you don't have the cable, a USB extension cable will work, whether it be 6 feet, 10 feet or more! - Original Message - From: Michael D. Barber m.bar...@mchsi.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 7:02 AM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION And don't forget that if you buy one of these cartridges, you also have to get the special cable so you can connect them to your USB port on your computer when transferring books or MP3 files to your NLS player. I think those cables are something like $3.75 or so. Michael -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Minor Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 4:38 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. I'm guessing here, but the San Disc drive may not be totally compatible with the NLS player. People have reported problems with this brand of drive. I tried hooking up an SD reader to my player, and it sort of worked. I was able to play part of an NLS book, but then the player would say I had reached the end of it. I didn't get a cartridge error, though. People have reported good results with the Kingston brand of flash drive, and I purchased a LEXAR 4 gig drive that works fine with the player. Keep in mind, however, that the player is mainly designed to work with the cartridges designed for it. You can get blank 2 gig cartridges from http://www.aph.org These are more expensive than flash drives, and they don't hold as much. I've decided to use them, because I know they work with the NLS player, and they fit into the front of it with little effort. If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
You need a letter s after audio+podcast. earlier, DJ DOCTOR P, wrote: Hello Kevin, I have a San Disc 4 GB USB flash drive. I created a folder that's called, audio+podcast. I put mostly MP3 files in that folder. But when I plug that flash drive in to the player, it plays one of the audio files for a wile. But then, it stops and gives me a cartridge error message. But when I plug my wife's MP3 player in to it, the machine plays the files off of it without any problems. My question is, why does it act like that with my Sand Disc USB flash drive and not my wife's MP3 player? John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:27 PM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. The player will play 3gp, wav and mp3 files. I'm thinking of those three right off, I may be forgetting one, though. These files need to be in a folder called audio+podcasts which is on the root of the drive. You can put subfolders under this to organize them. The player won't announce the folders, but when you're in bookshelf mode you'll be able to navigate to them. As for playing files in stereo, this may or may not be true. I say this, because earlier firmware updates to the player didn't play files in stereo. You need to have version 2.1 or later of the firmware, and it will play files in stereo. To find out your player's version, with no media in it, press the sleep button ten times quickly until you hear the serial number being announced. Once this announcement starts, just wait, and you'll hear the version of your player's firmware announced. My player has version 2.1.3 of the firmware on it. To download NLS books for your player, you need to be signed up with the NLS site. To do this, go to https://nlsbard.loc.gov and click on the link on that page. Since you have an NLS player, you'll be able to get this service. It's nice to download books from the site, and anything you get on a cartridge from your library will be on the NLS site. By the way, you may want to call your local library and tell them you want digital books on cartridge sent to you. I had to do this for myself, and in fact I had to call them again to jolt things into action. I should be getting my first NLS book from my library any day now. There is an email list that is specificly set up for the NLS player. You can find out how to subscribe to it, as well as have some of your questions answered. Go to http://bardtalk.com If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org John Currently in Ocala, Florida Mostly Cloudy, 55°F Wind:SW-230° at 6mph Criminal Lawyer is a redundancy. Created by Weather Signature v1.31 http://www.weathersig.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
High Kevin, First, I want to start by saying, think you for all of the helpful information! But I have just one more question. I was just at the American Printing House website. They are sailing the 2 gb cartridges for 12.95 each. The USB cables, cost 5.95 each. Is 2 gb the only capacity of those cartridges? Or can you get them bigger then that? Thinks. John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:19 AM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. First, you can put music onto the blank cartridges. They are essentially flash drives with a fancy case around them to fit into the NLS player, so anything you can put onto a flash drive, you can put on the cartridge. APH sells the cartridges for $11.95, if I remember correctly. You can order one by going to http://www.aph.org The site says they will be selling the cable to hook to your computer, but I didn't need the cable, since I already had one for my PC. The cartridge doesn't require a special cable for it. Most extension USB cables will work with the cartridge. The cartridge has a standard USB plug on it that plugs into the NLS player, so if you have one of those handy, you can hook the cartridge to your computer and transfer files to it. If you don't have this cable, you can order it when you get your cartridge. There are other places where you can get the blank cartridges, as well as the cable for it. To get a list of these places, go to http://bardtalk.com and click on the FAQ link. If you have more questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
High John, What letter do you have to put there before audio+podcast? Thinks. John. - Original Message - From: john schwery sjschw...@embarqmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:10 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION You need a letter s after audio+podcast. earlier, DJ DOCTOR P, wrote: Hello Kevin, I have a San Disc 4 GB USB flash drive. I created a folder that's called, audio+podcast. I put mostly MP3 files in that folder. But when I plug that flash drive in to the player, it plays one of the audio files for a wile. But then, it stops and gives me a cartridge error message. But when I plug my wife's MP3 player in to it, the machine plays the files off of it without any problems. My question is, why does it act like that with my Sand Disc USB flash drive and not my wife's MP3 player? John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:27 PM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. The player will play 3gp, wav and mp3 files. I'm thinking of those three right off, I may be forgetting one, though. These files need to be in a folder called audio+podcasts which is on the root of the drive. You can put subfolders under this to organize them. The player won't announce the folders, but when you're in bookshelf mode you'll be able to navigate to them. As for playing files in stereo, this may or may not be true. I say this, because earlier firmware updates to the player didn't play files in stereo. You need to have version 2.1 or later of the firmware, and it will play files in stereo. To find out your player's version, with no media in it, press the sleep button ten times quickly until you hear the serial number being announced. Once this announcement starts, just wait, and you'll hear the version of your player's firmware announced. My player has version 2.1.3 of the firmware on it. To download NLS books for your player, you need to be signed up with the NLS site. To do this, go to https://nlsbard.loc.gov and click on the link on that page. Since you have an NLS player, you'll be able to get this service. It's nice to download books from the site, and anything you get on a cartridge from your library will be on the NLS site. By the way, you may want to call your local library and tell them you want digital books on cartridge sent to you. I had to do this for myself, and in fact I had to call them again to jolt things into action. I should be getting my first NLS book from my library any day now. There is an email list that is specificly set up for the NLS player. You can find out how to subscribe to it, as well as have some of your questions answered. Go to http://bardtalk.com If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org John Currently in Ocala, Florida Mostly Cloudy, 55°F Wind:SW-230° at 6mph Criminal Lawyer is a redundancy. Created by Weather Signature v1.31 . http://www.weathersig.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
Perkins also has the cartridges. earlier, Michael D. Barber, wrote: The cartridges come from the American Printing House for the Blind and I believe they're about $12.75. I recommend getting the cable meant to be used for these cartridges from the same place because I think they're less expensive there. I also recommend that you go to http://bardtalk.com and sign up on that e-mail list as I just did. On that list, specifically dedicated to NLS digital talking book machines, you will have access to all sorts of information. Michael Barber -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of DJ DOCTOR P Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 7:01 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION High Kevin, I was wondering where you could get those cartridges and how much they will cost. But ok, I understand that you can put NLS books on them. But how about music, can you put music files on those cartridges to as well? It looks like it will work on any computer using the USB interface, but how do you plug those cartridges in to your computer so you can put files on them? John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 5:37 AM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. I'm guessing here, but the San Disc drive may not be totally compatible with the NLS player. People have reported problems with this brand of drive. I tried hooking up an SD reader to my player, and it sort of worked. I was able to play part of an NLS book, but then the player would say I had reached the end of it. I didn't get a cartridge error, though. People have reported good results with the Kingston brand of flash drive, and I purchased a LEXAR 4 gig drive that works fine with the player. Keep in mind, however, that the player is mainly designed to work with the cartridges designed for it. You can get blank 2 gig cartridges from http://www.aph.org These are more expensive than flash drives, and they don't hold as much. I've decided to use them, because I know they work with the NLS player, and they fit into the front of it with little effort. If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org John Currently in Ocala, Florida Mostly Cloudy, 57°F Wind:WSW-250° at 9mph By the time they had diminished from 50 to eight, the other dwarves began to suspect Hungry. Created by Weather Signature v1.31 http://www.weathersig.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
John, ok, here is the correct folder name. audio+podcasts That is a u d i o plus sign p o d c a s t s 2 gig is the biggest so far on the cartridges. earlier, DJ DOCTOR P, wrote: High John, What letter do you have to put there before audio+podcast? Thinks. John. - Original Message - From: john schwery sjschw...@embarqmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:10 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION You need a letter s after audio+podcast. earlier, DJ DOCTOR P, wrote: Hello Kevin, I have a San Disc 4 GB USB flash drive. I created a folder that's called, audio+podcast. I put mostly MP3 files in that folder. But when I plug that flash drive in to the player, it plays one of the audio files for a wile. But then, it stops and gives me a cartridge error message. But when I plug my wife's MP3 player in to it, the machine plays the files off of it without any problems. My question is, why does it act like that with my Sand Disc USB flash drive and not my wife's MP3 player? John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:27 PM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. The player will play 3gp, wav and mp3 files. I'm thinking of those three right off, I may be forgetting one, though. These files need to be in a folder called audio+podcasts which is on the root of the drive. You can put subfolders under this to organize them. The player won't announce the folders, but when you're in bookshelf mode you'll be able to navigate to them. As for playing files in stereo, this may or may not be true. I say this, because earlier firmware updates to the player didn't play files in stereo. You need to have version 2.1 or later of the firmware, and it will play files in stereo. To find out your player's version, with no media in it, press the sleep button ten times quickly until you hear the serial number being announced. Once this announcement starts, just wait, and you'll hear the version of your player's firmware announced. My player has version 2.1.3 of the firmware on it. To download NLS books for your player, you need to be signed up with the NLS site. To do this, go to https://nlsbard.loc.gov and click on the link on that page. Since you have an NLS player, you'll be able to get this service. It's nice to download books from the site, and anything you get on a cartridge from your library will be on the NLS site. By the way, you may want to call your local library and tell them you want digital books on cartridge sent to you. I had to do this for myself, and in fact I had to call them again to jolt things into action. I should be getting my first NLS book from my library any day now. There is an email list that is specificly set up for the NLS player. You can find out how to subscribe to it, as well as have some of your questions answered. Go to http://bardtalk.com If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org John Currently in Ocala, Florida Mostly Cloudy, 55°F Wind:SW-230° at 6mph Criminal Lawyer is a redundancy. Created by Weather Signature v1.31 . http://www.weathersig.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org John Currently in Ocala, Florida Mostly Cloudy, 57°F Wind:WSW-250° at 9mph When all you have is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail. Created by Weather Signature v1.31 http://www.weathersig.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
I wouldn't assume that APH or any reseller catering to the blind is going to sell something for less than a general public can buy something. A quick search with Google showed me places where I could get a USB extension cable for $.69, $1.99 and $2.29, just to name a few. That being said, if I were to buy a blank NLS cartridge, and I didn't already have a USB extension cable (note that I already have a few just lying around because they came free with different MP3 players, USB sticks and so on) then I would just go ahead and order one from APH the same time I ordered the NLS cartridge. This would be for convenience though and not because the APH is able to sell these cheaper than a mainstream electronics supply store. Remember they're selling a 2G flash drive for $12.75, all be it in a special form factor for the NLS DTBM. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 3/13/2010 7:19 AM, Michael D. Barber wrote: The cartridges come from the American Printing House for the Blind and I believe they're about $12.75. I recommend getting the cable meant to be used for these cartridges from the same place because I think they're less expensive there. I also recommend that you go to http://bardtalk.com and sign up on that e-mail list as I just did. On that list, specifically dedicated to NLS digital talking book machines, you will have access to all sorts of information. Michael Barber -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of DJ DOCTOR P Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 7:01 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION High Kevin, I was wondering where you could get those cartridges and how much they will cost. But ok, I understand that you can put NLS books on them. But how about music, can you put music files on those cartridges to as well? It looks like it will work on any computer using the USB interface, but how do you plug those cartridges in to your computer so you can put files on them? John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minorkmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 5:37 AM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. I'm guessing here, but the San Disc drive may not be totally compatible with the NLS player. People have reported problems with this brand of drive. I tried hooking up an SD reader to my player, and it sort of worked. I was able to play part of an NLS book, but then the player would say I had reached the end of it. I didn't get a cartridge error, though. People have reported good results with the Kingston brand of flash drive, and I purchased a LEXAR 4 gig drive that works fine with the player. Keep in mind, however, that the player is mainly designed to work with the cartridges designed for it. You can get blank 2 gig cartridges from http://www.aph.org These are more expensive than flash drives, and they don't hold as much. I've decided to use them, because I know they work with the NLS player, and they fit into the front of it with little effort. If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
High John, Are you saying that I should loose the letter T at the end of it? This is the way I named the folder: a u d i o pluss sign p o d c a s t. It this the way it goes? thinks. John. - Original Message - From: john schwery jschw...@embarqmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:41 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION John, ok, here is the correct folder name. audio+podcasts That is a u d i o plus sign p o d c a s t s 2 gig is the biggest so far on the cartridges. earlier, DJ DOCTOR P, wrote: High John, What letter do you have to put there before audio+podcast? Thinks. John. - Original Message - From: john schwery sjschw...@embarqmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:10 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION You need a letter s after audio+podcast. earlier, DJ DOCTOR P, wrote: Hello Kevin, I have a San Disc 4 GB USB flash drive. I created a folder that's called, audio+podcast. I put mostly MP3 files in that folder. But when I plug that flash drive in to the player, it plays one of the audio files for a wile. But then, it stops and gives me a cartridge error message. But when I plug my wife's MP3 player in to it, the machine plays the files off of it without any problems. My question is, why does it act like that with my Sand Disc USB flash drive and not my wife's MP3 player? John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:27 PM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. The player will play 3gp, wav and mp3 files. I'm thinking of those three right off, I may be forgetting one, though. These files need to be in a folder called audio+podcasts which is on the root of the drive. You can put subfolders under this to organize them. The player won't announce the folders, but when you're in bookshelf mode you'll be able to navigate to them. As for playing files in stereo, this may or may not be true. I say this, because earlier firmware updates to the player didn't play files in stereo. You need to have version 2.1 or later of the firmware, and it will play files in stereo. To find out your player's version, with no media in it, press the sleep button ten times quickly until you hear the serial number being announced. Once this announcement starts, just wait, and you'll hear the version of your player's firmware announced. My player has version 2.1.3 of the firmware on it. To download NLS books for your player, you need to be signed up with the NLS site. To do this, go to https://nlsbard.loc.gov and click on the link on that page. Since you have an NLS player, you'll be able to get this service. It's nice to download books from the site, and anything you get on a cartridge from your library will be on the NLS site. By the way, you may want to call your local library and tell them you want digital books on cartridge sent to you. I had to do this for myself, and in fact I had to call them again to jolt things into action. I should be getting my first NLS book from my library any day now. There is an email list that is specificly set up for the NLS player. You can find out how to subscribe to it, as well as have some of your questions answered. Go to http://bardtalk.com If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org John Currently in Ocala, Florida Mostly Cloudy, 55°F Wind:SW-230° at 6mph Criminal Lawyer is a redundancy. Created by Weather Signature v1.31 . http://www.weathersig.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org John Currently in Ocala, Florida Mostly Cloudy, 57°F Wind:WSW-250° at 9mph When all you have is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail. Created by Weather Signature v1.31 . http://www.weathersig.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
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Hi John. Currently, 2 gig is the biggest size available. I agree that this isn't very big, but remember that the player was mainly designed to play NLS books. A 2 gig cartridge will hold something like 180 hours of content. That's not a lot of books, but it isn't terrible. I've heard that the design of things was to make it possible to put a 4 gig cartridge in the player, and people have had larger flash drives work on the player. With this in mind, maybe the cartridges will be bigger in the future. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
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No, leave the letter t there and everything you already have. Just add the letter s to the end. Make it plural. It should look like this Audio+Podcasts. Note too that although this is how it's documented, I don't have any trouble with the NLS DTBM picking up my MP3 files no matter what folder they're in. This may be an undocumented feature or bug though, so I'd use the Audio+Podcasts directory to be safe. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 3/13/2010 7:56 AM, DJ DOCTOR P wrote: High John, Are you saying that I should loose the letter T at the end of it? This is the way I named the folder: a u d i o pluss sign p o d c a s t. It this the way it goes? thinks. John. - Original Message - From: john schwery jschw...@embarqmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:41 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION John, ok, here is the correct folder name. audio+podcasts That is a u d i o plus sign p o d c a s t s 2 gig is the biggest so far on the cartridges. earlier, DJ DOCTOR P, wrote: High John, What letter do you have to put there before audio+podcast? Thinks. John. - Original Message - From: john schwery sjschw...@embarqmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:10 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION You need a letter s after audio+podcast. earlier, DJ DOCTOR P, wrote: Hello Kevin, I have a San Disc 4 GB USB flash drive. I created a folder that's called, audio+podcast. I put mostly MP3 files in that folder. But when I plug that flash drive in to the player, it plays one of the audio files for a wile. But then, it stops and gives me a cartridge error message. But when I plug my wife's MP3 player in to it, the machine plays the files off of it without any problems. My question is, why does it act like that with my Sand Disc USB flash drive and not my wife's MP3 player? John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:27 PM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. The player will play 3gp, wav and mp3 files. I'm thinking of those three right off, I may be forgetting one, though. These files need to be in a folder called audio+podcasts which is on the root of the drive. You can put subfolders under this to organize them. The player won't announce the folders, but when you're in bookshelf mode you'll be able to navigate to them. As for playing files in stereo, this may or may not be true. I say this, because earlier firmware updates to the player didn't play files in stereo. You need to have version 2.1 or later of the firmware, and it will play files in stereo. To find out your player's version, with no media in it, press the sleep button ten times quickly until you hear the serial number being announced. Once this announcement starts, just wait, and you'll hear the version of your player's firmware announced. My player has version 2.1.3 of the firmware on it. To download NLS books for your player, you need to be signed up with the NLS site. To do this, go to https://nlsbard.loc.gov and click on the link on that page. Since you have an NLS player, you'll be able to get this service. It's nice to download books from the site, and anything you get on a cartridge from your library will be on the NLS site. By the way, you may want to call your local library and tell them you want digital books on cartridge sent to you. I had to do this for myself, and in fact I had to call them again to jolt things into action. I should be getting my first NLS book from my library any day now. There is an email list that is specificly set up for the NLS player. You can find out how to subscribe to it, as well as have some of your questions answered. Go to http://bardtalk.com If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org John Currently in Ocala, Florida Mostly Cloudy, 55°F Wind:SW-230° at 6mph Criminal Lawyer is a redundancy. Created by Weather Signature v1.31 . http://www.weathersig.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org John Currently in Ocala, Florida Mostly Cloudy, 57°F Wind:WSW-250° at 9mph When all you have is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail. Created by Weather Signature v1.31 . http://www.weathersig.com To unsubscribe from
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High John, Oh ok. in your earlier post, you left out the letter t. But I think I got it now, thinks. John. - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 9:02 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION No, leave the letter t there and everything you already have. Just add the letter s to the end. Make it plural. It should look like this Audio+Podcasts. Note too that although this is how it's documented, I don't have any trouble with the NLS DTBM picking up my MP3 files no matter what folder they're in. This may be an undocumented feature or bug though, so I'd use the Audio+Podcasts directory to be safe. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 3/13/2010 7:56 AM, DJ DOCTOR P wrote: High John, Are you saying that I should loose the letter T at the end of it? This is the way I named the folder: a u d i o pluss sign p o d c a s t. It this the way it goes? thinks. John. - Original Message - From: john schwery jschw...@embarqmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:41 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION John, ok, here is the correct folder name. audio+podcasts That is a u d i o plus sign p o d c a s t s 2 gig is the biggest so far on the cartridges. earlier, DJ DOCTOR P, wrote: High John, What letter do you have to put there before audio+podcast? Thinks. John. - Original Message - From: john schwery sjschw...@embarqmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:10 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION You need a letter s after audio+podcast. earlier, DJ DOCTOR P, wrote: Hello Kevin, I have a San Disc 4 GB USB flash drive. I created a folder that's called, audio+podcast. I put mostly MP3 files in that folder. But when I plug that flash drive in to the player, it plays one of the audio files for a wile. But then, it stops and gives me a cartridge error message. But when I plug my wife's MP3 player in to it, the machine plays the files off of it without any problems. My question is, why does it act like that with my Sand Disc USB flash drive and not my wife's MP3 player? John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:27 PM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. The player will play 3gp, wav and mp3 files. I'm thinking of those three right off, I may be forgetting one, though. These files need to be in a folder called audio+podcasts which is on the root of the drive. You can put subfolders under this to organize them. The player won't announce the folders, but when you're in bookshelf mode you'll be able to navigate to them. As for playing files in stereo, this may or may not be true. I say this, because earlier firmware updates to the player didn't play files in stereo. You need to have version 2.1 or later of the firmware, and it will play files in stereo. To find out your player's version, with no media in it, press the sleep button ten times quickly until you hear the serial number being announced. Once this announcement starts, just wait, and you'll hear the version of your player's firmware announced. My player has version 2.1.3 of the firmware on it. To download NLS books for your player, you need to be signed up with the NLS site. To do this, go to https://nlsbard.loc.gov and click on the link on that page. Since you have an NLS player, you'll be able to get this service. It's nice to download books from the site, and anything you get on a cartridge from your library will be on the NLS site. By the way, you may want to call your local library and tell them you want digital books on cartridge sent to you. I had to do this for myself, and in fact I had to call them again to jolt things into action. I should be getting my first NLS book from my library any day now. There is an email list that is specificly set up for the NLS player. You can find out how to subscribe to it, as well as have some of your questions answered. Go to http://bardtalk.com If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org John Currently in Ocala, Florida Mostly Cloudy, 55°F Wind:SW-230° at 6mph Criminal Lawyer is a redundancy. Created by Weather Signature v1.31 . http://www.weathersig.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
i've noticed the same thing. - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Date sent: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:21:18 -0500 Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello Kevin, I have a San Disc 4 GB USB flash drive. I created a folder that's called, audio+podcast. I put mostly MP3 files in that folder. But when I plug that flash drive in to the player, it plays one of the audio files for a wile. But then, it stops and gives me a cartridge error message. But when I plug my wife's MP3 player in to it, the machine plays the files off of it without any problems. My question is, why does it act like that with my Sand Disc USB flash drive and not my wife's MP3 player? John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:27 PM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. The player will play 3gp, wav and mp3 files. I'm thinking of those three right off, I may be forgetting one, though. These files need to be in a folder called audio+podcasts which is on the root of the drive. You can put subfolders under this to organize them. The player won't announce the folders, but when you're in bookshelf mode you'll be able to navigate to them. As for playing files in stereo, this may or may not be true. I say this, because earlier firmware updates to the player didn't play files in stereo. You need to have version 2.1 or later of the firmware, and it will play files in stereo. To find out your player's version, with no media in it, press the sleep button ten times quickly until you hear the serial number being announced. Once this announcement starts, just wait, and you'll hear the version of your player's firmware announced. My player has version 2.1.3 of the firmware on it. To download NLS books for your player, you need to be signed up with the NLS site. To do this, go to https://nlsbard.loc.gov and click on the link on that page. Since you have an NLS player, you'll be able to get this service. It's nice to download books from the site, and anything you get on a cartridge from your library will be on the NLS site. By the way, you may want to call your local library and tell them you want digital books on cartridge sent to you. I had to do this for myself, and in fact I had to call them again to jolt things into action. I should be getting my first NLS book from my library any day now. There is an email list that is specificly set up for the NLS player. You can find out how to subscribe to it, as well as have some of your questions answered. Go to http://bardtalk.com If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
It probably has something to do with the U3 software on the Sandisc drives. - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 4:21 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello Kevin, I have a San Disc 4 GB USB flash drive. I created a folder that's called, audio+podcast. I put mostly MP3 files in that folder. But when I plug that flash drive in to the player, it plays one of the audio files for a wile. But then, it stops and gives me a cartridge error message. But when I plug my wife's MP3 player in to it, the machine plays the files off of it without any problems. My question is, why does it act like that with my Sand Disc USB flash drive and not my wife's MP3 player? John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:27 PM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. The player will play 3gp, wav and mp3 files. I'm thinking of those three right off, I may be forgetting one, though. These files need to be in a folder called audio+podcasts which is on the root of the drive. You can put subfolders under this to organize them. The player won't announce the folders, but when you're in bookshelf mode you'll be able to navigate to them. As for playing files in stereo, this may or may not be true. I say this, because earlier firmware updates to the player didn't play files in stereo. You need to have version 2.1 or later of the firmware, and it will play files in stereo. To find out your player's version, with no media in it, press the sleep button ten times quickly until you hear the serial number being announced. Once this announcement starts, just wait, and you'll hear the version of your player's firmware announced. My player has version 2.1.3 of the firmware on it. To download NLS books for your player, you need to be signed up with the NLS site. To do this, go to https://nlsbard.loc.gov and click on the link on that page. Since you have an NLS player, you'll be able to get this service. It's nice to download books from the site, and anything you get on a cartridge from your library will be on the NLS site. By the way, you may want to call your local library and tell them you want digital books on cartridge sent to you. I had to do this for myself, and in fact I had to call them again to jolt things into action. I should be getting my first NLS book from my library any day now. There is an email list that is specificly set up for the NLS player. You can find out how to subscribe to it, as well as have some of your questions answered. Go to http://bardtalk.com If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re[2]: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
I have a friend who has one of those sand disc drives and he removed the u3 stuff and the drive still won't work so stay away from those. I hear Kingston is good. The Data Traveler is the one you want. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 3/13/2010 at 5:30 PM David Tanner wrote: It probably has something to do with the U3 software on the Sandisc drives. - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 4:21 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello Kevin, I have a San Disc 4 GB USB flash drive. I created a folder that's called, audio+podcast. I put mostly MP3 files in that folder. But when I plug that flash drive in to the player, it plays one of the audio files for a wile. But then, it stops and gives me a cartridge error message. But when I plug my wife's MP3 player in to it, the machine plays the files off of it without any problems. My question is, why does it act like that with my Sand Disc USB flash drive and not my wife's MP3 player? John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:27 PM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. The player will play 3gp, wav and mp3 files. I'm thinking of those three right off, I may be forgetting one, though. These files need to be in a folder called audio+podcasts which is on the root of the drive. You can put subfolders under this to organize them. The player won't announce the folders, but when you're in bookshelf mode you'll be able to navigate to them. As for playing files in stereo, this may or may not be true. I say this, because earlier firmware updates to the player didn't play files in stereo. You need to have version 2.1 or later of the firmware, and it will play files in stereo. To find out your player's version, with no media in it, press the sleep button ten times quickly until you hear the serial number being announced. Once this announcement starts, just wait, and you'll hear the version of your player's firmware announced. My player has version 2.1.3 of the firmware on it. To download NLS books for your player, you need to be signed up with the NLS site. To do this, go to https://nlsbard.loc.gov and click on the link on that page. Since you have an NLS player, you'll be able to get this service. It's nice to download books from the site, and anything you get on a cartridge from your library will be on the NLS site. By the way, you may want to call your local library and tell them you want digital books on cartridge sent to you. I had to do this for myself, and in fact I had to call them again to jolt things into action. I should be getting my first NLS book from my library any day now. There is an email list that is specificly set up for the NLS player. You can find out how to subscribe to it, as well as have some of your questions answered. Go to http://bardtalk.com If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Please Join Me For djc's Jukebox Tuesday Afternoons from 1 to 3 Pm Eastern, And On Saturday Nights from 9 to midnight Eastern: http://legend-oldies.com Please feel free to follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/djc500 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Re[2]: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
the san disc drives do work nicely you do not need to worry about the u3 support in the drive just alt f 4 out of the screen and copy the contents to the drive. remember to go into the safely remove hardware wizzard though to remove the drive. - Original Message - From: djc dcoc...@comcast.net To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 6:08 PM Subject: Re[2]: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION I have a friend who has one of those sand disc drives and he removed the u3 stuff and the drive still won't work so stay away from those. I hear Kingston is good. The Data Traveler is the one you want. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 3/13/2010 at 5:30 PM David Tanner wrote: It probably has something to do with the U3 software on the Sandisc drives. - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 4:21 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello Kevin, I have a San Disc 4 GB USB flash drive. I created a folder that's called, audio+podcast. I put mostly MP3 files in that folder. But when I plug that flash drive in to the player, it plays one of the audio files for a wile. But then, it stops and gives me a cartridge error message. But when I plug my wife's MP3 player in to it, the machine plays the files off of it without any problems. My question is, why does it act like that with my Sand Disc USB flash drive and not my wife's MP3 player? John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:27 PM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. The player will play 3gp, wav and mp3 files. I'm thinking of those three right off, I may be forgetting one, though. These files need to be in a folder called audio+podcasts which is on the root of the drive. You can put subfolders under this to organize them. The player won't announce the folders, but when you're in bookshelf mode you'll be able to navigate to them. As for playing files in stereo, this may or may not be true. I say this, because earlier firmware updates to the player didn't play files in stereo. You need to have version 2.1 or later of the firmware, and it will play files in stereo. To find out your player's version, with no media in it, press the sleep button ten times quickly until you hear the serial number being announced. Once this announcement starts, just wait, and you'll hear the version of your player's firmware announced. My player has version 2.1.3 of the firmware on it. To download NLS books for your player, you need to be signed up with the NLS site. To do this, go to https://nlsbard.loc.gov and click on the link on that page. Since you have an NLS player, you'll be able to get this service. It's nice to download books from the site, and anything you get on a cartridge from your library will be on the NLS site. By the way, you may want to call your local library and tell them you want digital books on cartridge sent to you. I had to do this for myself, and in fact I had to call them again to jolt things into action. I should be getting my first NLS book from my library any day now. There is an email list that is specificly set up for the NLS player. You can find out how to subscribe to it, as well as have some of your questions answered. Go to http://bardtalk.com If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Please Join Me For djc's Jukebox Tuesday Afternoons from 1 to 3 Pm Eastern, And On Saturday Nights from 9 to midnight Eastern: http://legend-oldies.com Please feel free to follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/djc500 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
One thing I noticed today. I added a book from bard to my mp3 player. It had no problems finding the book. It ignored the other folders on the player. When I connected another player with just mp3 files it would then see the folders that were available. - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:33 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION This is indeed true according to the documentation, but I've had my DTBM play MP3's that were not in the Audio+Podcasts directory. I found this out when I plugged in the same flash stick into my DTBM that I was using to transfer files to my netbook, and I couldn't tell where it was getting those MP3's from. Note this may be an undocumented feature or a defect, so don't count on it. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com On 3/12/2010 12:08 PM, dennis wrote: if you want to play mp3's on it you need to have the files in a folder on the flash disc called audeo+podcasts. it won't read the names of the files it will number them. - Original Message - From: dan kysor danky...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:01 PM Subject: re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION you can play one book at a time on a memery stick type device. I am currently listening on the nls unit a mp3 book that is not nls formatted and it can qet quirky as it never seems to play the entire grouping of files but rather, goes through about 2 thirds the files. Not sure why this is but i end up having to delete the earlier chapters and the darn thing works! Not sure about stereo, havent check that out. Dan - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Date sent: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:38:34 -0500 Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello List members, I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. I have a few questions about it. For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? It has a monaural speaker built in to it. But I'm asking about its headphone jack. I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? Thinks in advance. My best regards. John. PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
I found the cartridge and cable at the Perkins School for the Blind. https://secure2.convio.net/psb/site/Ecommerce/924349244?store_id=1101#ConfigForm - Original Message - From: Michael D. Barber m.bar...@mchsi.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 5:29 AM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Yes, but I bet you pay more. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Minor Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 6:16 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi. The cable that connects the cartridge to the computer can be purchased at your local computer store. You just need to buy an extension USB cable. Kevin Minor. kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Re[2]: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
But, if he is using a digital player from NLS then he doesn't have alt F4. He isn't talking about using a thumb drive on a computer!!! - Original Message - From: Sunshine sunsh...@abe.midco.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 7:55 PM Subject: Re: Re[2]: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION the san disc drives do work nicely you do not need to worry about the u3 support in the drive just alt f 4 out of the screen and copy the contents to the drive. remember to go into the safely remove hardware wizzard though to remove the drive. - Original Message - From: djc dcoc...@comcast.net To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 6:08 PM Subject: Re[2]: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION I have a friend who has one of those sand disc drives and he removed the u3 stuff and the drive still won't work so stay away from those. I hear Kingston is good. The Data Traveler is the one you want. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 3/13/2010 at 5:30 PM David Tanner wrote: It probably has something to do with the U3 software on the Sandisc drives. - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 4:21 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello Kevin, I have a San Disc 4 GB USB flash drive. I created a folder that's called, audio+podcast. I put mostly MP3 files in that folder. But when I plug that flash drive in to the player, it plays one of the audio files for a wile. But then, it stops and gives me a cartridge error message. But when I plug my wife's MP3 player in to it, the machine plays the files off of it without any problems. My question is, why does it act like that with my Sand Disc USB flash drive and not my wife's MP3 player? John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:27 PM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. The player will play 3gp, wav and mp3 files. I'm thinking of those three right off, I may be forgetting one, though. These files need to be in a folder called audio+podcasts which is on the root of the drive. You can put subfolders under this to organize them. The player won't announce the folders, but when you're in bookshelf mode you'll be able to navigate to them. As for playing files in stereo, this may or may not be true. I say this, because earlier firmware updates to the player didn't play files in stereo. You need to have version 2.1 or later of the firmware, and it will play files in stereo. To find out your player's version, with no media in it, press the sleep button ten times quickly until you hear the serial number being announced. Once this announcement starts, just wait, and you'll hear the version of your player's firmware announced. My player has version 2.1.3 of the firmware on it. To download NLS books for your player, you need to be signed up with the NLS site. To do this, go to https://nlsbard.loc.gov and click on the link on that page. Since you have an NLS player, you'll be able to get this service. It's nice to download books from the site, and anything you get on a cartridge from your library will be on the NLS site. By the way, you may want to call your local library and tell them you want digital books on cartridge sent to you. I had to do this for myself, and in fact I had to call them again to jolt things into action. I should be getting my first NLS book from my library any day now. There is an email list that is specificly set up for the NLS player. You can find out how to subscribe to it, as well as have some of your questions answered. Go to http://bardtalk.com If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Please Join Me For djc's Jukebox Tuesday Afternoons from 1 to 3 Pm Eastern, And On Saturday Nights from 9 to midnight Eastern: http://legend-oldies.com Please feel free to follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/djc500 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
So you didn't see the other folders and files in the Bookshelf? I know I've played MP3's that weren't in the Audio+Podcasts folder, but maybe this is the only folder that shows up in the Bookshelf. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 3/13/2010 8:32 PM, Robert doc Wright wrote: One thing I noticed today. I added a book from bard to my mp3 player. It had no problems finding the book. It ignored the other folders on the player. When I connected another player with just mp3 files it would then see the folders that were available. - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:33 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION This is indeed true according to the documentation, but I've had my DTBM play MP3's that were not in the Audio+Podcasts directory. I found this out when I plugged in the same flash stick into my DTBM that I was using to transfer files to my netbook, and I couldn't tell where it was getting those MP3's from. Note this may be an undocumented feature or a defect, so don't count on it. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com On 3/12/2010 12:08 PM, dennis wrote: if you want to play mp3's on it you need to have the files in a folder on the flash disc called audeo+podcasts. it won't read the names of the files it will number them. - Original Message - From: dan kysor danky...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:01 PM Subject: re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION you can play one book at a time on a memery stick type device. I am currently listening on the nls unit a mp3 book that is not nls formatted and it can qet quirky as it never seems to play the entire grouping of files but rather, goes through about 2 thirds the files. Not sure why this is but i end up having to delete the earlier chapters and the darn thing works! Not sure about stereo, havent check that out. Dan - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Date sent: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:38:34 -0500 Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello List members, I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. I have a few questions about it. For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? It has a monaural speaker built in to it. But I'm asking about its headphone jack. I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? Thinks in advance. My best regards. John. PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re[4]: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
Well my friend took his back because his claimed it couldn't recognize the cartridge So it could be a hit and miss with some of those. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 3/13/2010 at 7:55 PM Sunshine wrote: the san disc drives do work nicely you do not need to worry about the u3 support in the drive just alt f 4 out of the screen and copy the contents to the drive. remember to go into the safely remove hardware wizzard though to remove the drive. - Original Message - From: djc dcoc...@comcast.net To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 6:08 PM Subject: Re[2]: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION I have a friend who has one of those sand disc drives and he removed the u3 stuff and the drive still won't work so stay away from those. I hear Kingston is good. The Data Traveler is the one you want. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 3/13/2010 at 5:30 PM David Tanner wrote: It probably has something to do with the U3 software on the Sandisc drives. - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 4:21 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello Kevin, I have a San Disc 4 GB USB flash drive. I created a folder that's called, audio+podcast. I put mostly MP3 files in that folder. But when I plug that flash drive in to the player, it plays one of the audio files for a wile. But then, it stops and gives me a cartridge error message. But when I plug my wife's MP3 player in to it, the machine plays the files off of it without any problems. My question is, why does it act like that with my Sand Disc USB flash drive and not my wife's MP3 player? John. - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:27 PM Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hi John. The player will play 3gp, wav and mp3 files. I'm thinking of those three right off, I may be forgetting one, though. These files need to be in a folder called audio+podcasts which is on the root of the drive. You can put subfolders under this to organize them. The player won't announce the folders, but when you're in bookshelf mode you'll be able to navigate to them. As for playing files in stereo, this may or may not be true. I say this, because earlier firmware updates to the player didn't play files in stereo. You need to have version 2.1 or later of the firmware, and it will play files in stereo. To find out your player's version, with no media in it, press the sleep button ten times quickly until you hear the serial number being announced. Once this announcement starts, just wait, and you'll hear the version of your player's firmware announced. My player has version 2.1.3 of the firmware on it. To download NLS books for your player, you need to be signed up with the NLS site. To do this, go to https://nlsbard.loc.gov and click on the link on that page. Since you have an NLS player, you'll be able to get this service. It's nice to download books from the site, and anything you get on a cartridge from your library will be on the NLS site. By the way, you may want to call your local library and tell them you want digital books on cartridge sent to you. I had to do this for myself, and in fact I had to call them again to jolt things into action. I should be getting my first NLS book from my library any day now. There is an email list that is specificly set up for the NLS player. You can find out how to subscribe to it, as well as have some of your questions answered. Go to http://bardtalk.com If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Please Join Me For djc's Jukebox Tuesday Afternoons from 1 to 3 Pm Eastern, And On Saturday Nights from 9 to midnight Eastern: http://legend-oldies.com Please feel free to follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/djc500 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Please Join Me For djc's Jukebox Tuesday Afternoons from 1 to 3 Pm Eastern, And On Saturday Nights from 9 to midnight Eastern: http://legend-oldies.com Please feel free to follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/djc500 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
Hello List members, I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. I have a few questions about it. For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? It has a monaural speaker built in to it. But I'm asking about its headphone jack. I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? Thinks in advance. My best regards. John. PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
I assume you are talking about the new NLS player. Get info at: www.bardtalk.com I think I knowe some of the answers but we in TN haven't been offered the new players yet. Dean - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:38 AM Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION | Hello List members, | I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. | I have a few questions about it. | For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. | What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? | I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? | It has a monaural speaker built in to it. | But I'm asking about its headphone jack. | I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. | But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. | Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? | Thinks in advance. | My best regards. | John. | PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? | To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: | pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
Hi John. I don't know about the headphone jack, but the player will play the NLS books downloaded from BARD. Best regards, Bob Hicks Access Technology Specialist Seeing Hand Association, Inc. 304-232-4810 b...@seeinghandassociation.com - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:38 AM Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello List members, I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. I have a few questions about it. For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? It has a monaural speaker built in to it. But I'm asking about its headphone jack. I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? Thinks in advance. My best regards. John. PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
They use an encrypted format for the books. The headphone jack is stereo. This will play mp3 and wave formats for audio. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 3/12/2010 at 11:38 AM DJ DOCTOR P wrote: Hello List members, I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. I have a few questions about it. For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? It has a monaural speaker built in to it. But I'm asking about its headphone jack. I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? Thinks in advance. My best regards. John. PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Please Join Me For djc's Jukebox Tuesday Afternoons from 1 to 3 Pm Eastern, And On Saturday Nights from 9 to midnight Eastern: http://legend-oldies.com Please feel free to follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/djc500 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
High Deane, This machine was sent to me by the Bureau Of Brail And Talking Book Library in Daytona Beach Florida. But looking at the paper work that came with it, it doesn't say if rather it's an NLS player or not. I listen to the user guide that's programmed in to it by default, it doesn't tell me anything either. My best regards. John. - Original Message - From: Dean Masters dwmast...@earthlink.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:23 PM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION I assume you are talking about the new NLS player. Get info at: www.bardtalk.com I think I knowe some of the answers but we in TN haven't been offered the new players yet. Dean - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:38 AM Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION | Hello List members, | I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. | I have a few questions about it. | For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. | What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? | I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? | It has a monaural speaker built in to it. | But I'm asking about its headphone jack. | I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. | But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. | Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? | Thinks in advance. | My best regards. | John. | PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? | To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: | pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
you can play one book at a time on a memery stick type device. I am currently listening on the nls unit a mp3 book that is not nls formatted and it can qet quirky as it never seems to play the entire grouping of files but rather, goes through about 2 thirds the files. Not sure why this is but i end up having to delete the earlier chapters and the darn thing works! Not sure about stereo, havent check that out. Dan - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Date sent: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:38:34 -0500 Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello List members, I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. I have a few questions about it. For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? It has a monaural speaker built in to it. But I'm asking about its headphone jack. I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? Thinks in advance. My best regards. John. PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
if you want to play mp3's on it you need to have the files in a folder on the flash disc called audeo+podcasts. it won't read the names of the files it will number them. - Original Message - From: dan kysor danky...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:01 PM Subject: re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION you can play one book at a time on a memery stick type device. I am currently listening on the nls unit a mp3 book that is not nls formatted and it can qet quirky as it never seems to play the entire grouping of files but rather, goes through about 2 thirds the files. Not sure why this is but i end up having to delete the earlier chapters and the darn thing works! Not sure about stereo, havent check that out. Dan - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Date sent: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:38:34 -0500 Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello List members, I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. I have a few questions about it. For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? It has a monaural speaker built in to it. But I'm asking about its headphone jack. I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? Thinks in advance. My best regards. John. PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
it is the nls player. I haven't tried headphones with mine yet. IIt will play mp3 and I believe wma files. - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 10:51 AM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION High Deane, This machine was sent to me by the Bureau Of Brail And Talking Book Library in Daytona Beach Florida. But looking at the paper work that came with it, it doesn't say if rather it's an NLS player or not. I listen to the user guide that's programmed in to it by default, it doesn't tell me anything either. My best regards. John. - Original Message - From: Dean Masters dwmast...@earthlink.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:23 PM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION I assume you are talking about the new NLS player. Get info at: www.bardtalk.com I think I knowe some of the answers but we in TN haven't been offered the new players yet. Dean - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:38 AM Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION | Hello List members, | I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. | I have a few questions about it. | For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. | What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? | I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? | It has a monaural speaker built in to it. | But I'm asking about its headphone jack. | I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. | But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. | Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? | Thinks in advance. | My best regards. | John. | PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? | To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: | pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION
YYou might check your files. I've played two whole books formatted in mp3 with no problems. - Original Message - From: dan kysor danky...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:01 AM Subject: re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION you can play one book at a time on a memery stick type device. I am currently listening on the nls unit a mp3 book that is not nls formatted and it can qet quirky as it never seems to play the entire grouping of files but rather, goes through about 2 thirds the files. Not sure why this is but i end up having to delete the earlier chapters and the darn thing works! Not sure about stereo, havent check that out. Dan - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Date sent: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:38:34 -0500 Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello List members, I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. I have a few questions about it. For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? It has a monaural speaker built in to it. But I'm asking about its headphone jack. I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? Thinks in advance. My best regards. John. PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
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I would assume that library in Daytona Beach is part of the NLS system. So it is probably a NLS player. so go to www.bardtalk.com to get info. Dean - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:51 PM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION | High Deane, | This machine was sent to me by the Bureau Of Brail And Talking Book Library | in Daytona Beach Florida. | But looking at the paper work that came with it, it doesn't say if rather | it's an NLS player or not. | I listen to the user guide that's programmed in to it by default, it doesn't | tell me anything either. | My best regards. | John. | - Original Message - | From: Dean Masters dwmast...@earthlink.net | To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org | Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:23 PM | Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION | | | I assume you are talking about the new NLS player. Get info at: | | www.bardtalk.com | | | I think I knowe some of the answers but we in TN haven't been offered the | new players yet. | | Dean | - Original Message - | From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net | To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org | Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:38 AM | Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION | | | | Hello List members, | | I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. | | I have a few questions about it. | | For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. | | What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this | machine to play them? | | I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? | | It has a monaural speaker built in to it. | | But I'm asking about its headphone jack. | | I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built | in to them before. | | But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in | stereo. | | Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do | this? | | Thinks in advance. | | My best regards. | | John. | | PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? | | To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: | | pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org | | | | To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: | pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org | | | To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: | pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
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Oh..so if I ever get mine, this gives me something else to look forward to! Thanks for the info! Tom Kaufman To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
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You can have more than one book on the stick at a time. Hold down the power or play button until it beeps, then you can arrow left and right to the book you want to read. Best regards, Bob Hicks Access Technology Specialist Seeing Hand Association, Inc. 304-232-4810 b...@seeinghandassociation.com - Original Message - From: dan kysor danky...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 1:01 PM Subject: re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION you can play one book at a time on a memery stick type device. I am currently listening on the nls unit a mp3 book that is not nls formatted and it can qet quirky as it never seems to play the entire grouping of files but rather, goes through about 2 thirds the files. Not sure why this is but i end up having to delete the earlier chapters and the darn thing works! Not sure about stereo, havent check that out. Dan - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Date sent: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:38:34 -0500 Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello List members, I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. I have a few questions about it. For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? It has a monaural speaker built in to it. But I'm asking about its headphone jack. I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? Thinks in advance. My best regards. John. PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
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This is indeed true according to the documentation, but I've had my DTBM play MP3's that were not in the Audio+Podcasts directory. I found this out when I plugged in the same flash stick into my DTBM that I was using to transfer files to my netbook, and I couldn't tell where it was getting those MP3's from. Note this may be an undocumented feature or a defect, so don't count on it. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com On 3/12/2010 12:08 PM, dennis wrote: if you want to play mp3's on it you need to have the files in a folder on the flash disc called audeo+podcasts. it won't read the names of the files it will number them. - Original Message - From: dan kysor danky...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:01 PM Subject: re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION you can play one book at a time on a memery stick type device. I am currently listening on the nls unit a mp3 book that is not nls formatted and it can qet quirky as it never seems to play the entire grouping of files but rather, goes through about 2 thirds the files. Not sure why this is but i end up having to delete the earlier chapters and the darn thing works! Not sure about stereo, havent check that out. Dan - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Date sent: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:38:34 -0500 Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello List members, I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. I have a few questions about it. For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? It has a monaural speaker built in to it. But I'm asking about its headphone jack. I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? Thinks in advance. My best regards. John. PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
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John, yes, the headphone jack is stereo. earlier, Bob Hicks, wrote: Hi John. I don't know about the headphone jack, but the player will play the NLS books downloaded from BARD. Best regards, Bob Hicks Access Technology Specialist Seeing Hand Association, Inc. 304-232-4810 b...@seeinghandassociation.com - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:38 AM Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello List members, I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. I have a few questions about it. For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? It has a monaural speaker built in to it. But I'm asking about its headphone jack. I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? Thinks in advance. My best regards. John. PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org John Currently in Ocala, Florida Mostly Cloudy, 64°F Wind:S-170° at 6mph Many people die of thirst - but the Irish are born with one. Created by Weather Signature v1.31 http://www.weathersig.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
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where did you find this info? Dan - Original Message - From: dennis dennis.corneli...@trinitycounseling.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Date sent: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:08:06 -0600 Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION if you want to play mp3's on it you need to have the files in a folder on the flash disc called audeo+podcasts. it won't read the names of the files it will number them. - Original Message - From: dan kysor danky...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:01 PM Subject: re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION you can play one book at a time on a memery stick type device. I am currently listening on the nls unit a mp3 book that is not nls formatted and it can qet quirky as it never seems to play the entire grouping of files but rather, goes through about 2 thirds the files. Not sure why this is but i end up having to delete the earlier chapters and the darn thing works! Not sure about stereo, havent check that out. Dan - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Date sent: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:38:34 -0500 Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello List members, I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. I have a few questions about it. For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? It has a monaural speaker built in to it. But I'm asking about its headphone jack. I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? Thinks in advance. My best regards. John. PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
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Hi John. The player will play 3gp, wav and mp3 files. I'm thinking of those three right off, I may be forgetting one, though. These files need to be in a folder called audio+podcasts which is on the root of the drive. You can put subfolders under this to organize them. The player won't announce the folders, but when you're in bookshelf mode you'll be able to navigate to them. As for playing files in stereo, this may or may not be true. I say this, because earlier firmware updates to the player didn't play files in stereo. You need to have version 2.1 or later of the firmware, and it will play files in stereo. To find out your player's version, with no media in it, press the sleep button ten times quickly until you hear the serial number being announced. Once this announcement starts, just wait, and you'll hear the version of your player's firmware announced. My player has version 2.1.3 of the firmware on it. To download NLS books for your player, you need to be signed up with the NLS site. To do this, go to https://nlsbard.loc.gov and click on the link on that page. Since you have an NLS player, you'll be able to get this service. It's nice to download books from the site, and anything you get on a cartridge from your library will be on the NLS site. By the way, you may want to call your local library and tell them you want digital books on cartridge sent to you. I had to do this for myself, and in fact I had to call them again to jolt things into action. I should be getting my first NLS book from my library any day now. There is an email list that is specificly set up for the NLS player. You can find out how to subscribe to it, as well as have some of your questions answered. Go to http://bardtalk.com If you have any other questions, let me know. Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
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from a podcast but its in the documentation. - Original Message - From: dan kysor danky...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:50 PM Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION where did you find this info? Dan - Original Message - From: dennis dennis.corneli...@trinitycounseling.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Date sent: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:08:06 -0600 Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION if you want to play mp3's on it you need to have the files in a folder on the flash disc called audeo+podcasts. it won't read the names of the files it will number them. - Original Message - From: dan kysor danky...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:01 PM Subject: re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION you can play one book at a time on a memery stick type device. I am currently listening on the nls unit a mp3 book that is not nls formatted and it can qet quirky as it never seems to play the entire grouping of files but rather, goes through about 2 thirds the files. Not sure why this is but i end up having to delete the earlier chapters and the darn thing works! Not sure about stereo, havent check that out. Dan - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Date sent: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:38:34 -0500 Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello List members, I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. I have a few questions about it. For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? It has a monaural speaker built in to it. But I'm asking about its headphone jack. I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? Thinks in advance. My best regards. John. PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
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Go to HTTP://www.blindcooltech.com and find a recent podcast about the NLS player by Bryan Smart. It's superb and will give you more information than you ever wanted. Michael -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of DJ DOCTOR P Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 10:39 AM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello List members, I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. I have a few questions about it. For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? It has a monaural speaker built in to it. But I'm asking about its headphone jack. I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? Thinks in advance. My best regards. John. PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
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now that's real good info, thanks mike. Dan - Original Message - From: Michael D. Barber m.bar...@mchsi.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Date sent: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:45:49 -0600 Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Go to HTTP://www.blindcooltech.com and find a recent podcast about the NLS player by Bryan Smart. It's superb and will give you more information than you ever wanted. Michael -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of DJ DOCTOR P Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 10:39 AM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION Hello List members, I just received a new digital talking book player in the mail. I have a few questions about it. For starters, this machine can play files from a USB flash drive. What kind of format will those files need to be in an order for this machine to play them? I haven't tried this yet, but can this thing play in stereo? It has a monaural speaker built in to it. But I'm asking about its headphone jack. I have seen some digital playback equipment that had mono speakers built in to them before. But when you plug a pare of headphones in to them, the sound came out in stereo. Is this digital talking book player one of those machines that can do this? Thinks in advance. My best regards. John. PS. Where is a good website to download digital talking books? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
