[Reader-users] Hullo

[Jacob Kruger]

I knew those things.  Was just wondering if there were any possible 
workarounds.

Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Jolley" <james.jolley1 at btinternet.com>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] Hullo


> 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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