[Reader-users] Hullo

[James Jolley]

Yes but the BookCourier is entirely different. It isn't strictly a PDA  
at all, it is a device for playing audible, tts and mp3 music files.  
It has been more or less discontinued now in favour of other things  
like the stream. Anyways, as to the Reader playing mp3s, not much  
chance of that I guess. It's not designed to do that. It is a reader  
and to be fair, it should stay that way as it is the most portable  
unit your going to get.

On 29 Oct 2007, at 10:25, Jacob Kruger wrote:

> Hi there.
>
> Although I did in fact get my KNFB Reader around July/August last  
> year in
> London, UK, for whatever reason, I only got around to looking into a  
> mailing
> list for 'users' around now, but anyway...
>
> FWIW, I live in South Africa, and I don't think there are many other  
> guys
> this side with the KNFB Reader, but that's not really relevant  
> unless you
> try something like getting it to read one of our other languages (I  
> think we
> literally have something like around 7 official languages).
>
> Anyway, I do keep an 'eye' on the website, so I have already carried  
> out the
> software upgrade to 3.8.1, and it is definitely somewhat better than  
> it was
> in the beginning, especially with regard to now being able to read
> alternative colour schemes, like average menus etc. - just still  
> wish it
> could read handwriting, but I know that's almost impossible.
>
> Now, my first question...
>
> Is there any way to get it to play MP3 files? Do they simply need to  
> be
> converted into some other format?  Do I just need to put them in some
> specific place on that memory card? Do I need to rename them into  
> something
> specific?  Do they need to be converted into a specific range of  
> quality
> rates (kbps)?
>
> I just think that it would be something nice to be able to use the  
> PDA for
> since it could actually read you the relevant file name etc. where  
> my normal
> MP3 player just starts automatically playing the songs.
>
> Anyway, I might just be being dilly asking something like this, but  
> anyway -
> the reason it popped up in my head recently is because a woman I was  
> helping
> to train on a PC had the BookCourier PDA, and she can play MP3s on  
> it as
> well as doing her own TTS stuff from text files etc.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Jacob Kruger
> Blind Biker
> Skype: BlindZA
> '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
>
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