Cables are standard. I don't recall what the female connector end is called, but it's a standard USB extension cable type of connector, i.e. you can plug one end of the cable into the other. Perkins sells the cables on line, as ell as 4Gb NlS-style cartridges. I believe LS&S and APH also sell them. The cartridges need to be VFAT formatted. hth Janina Linux for blind general discussion writes: > Okay, I'v managed to find Perkins branded Digital Cartridges on > Amazon, but there doesn't seem to be any listings for the cables. Does > anyone know if the cartridges include the cables? Either way, I'm > tempted to pick up a 16GB cartridge as a stop gap for playing the > encrypted files if I can't figure out how to play them on my Blaze ET > or Linux PC, though considering how anemic 16GB is for storage this > day and age, I find myself wondering if my digital cartridge player > can play audiobooks stored on an SD card in a dongle-style reader > connected to the USB port on the side of the player. *Tries it with > the 256GB card from my Blaze ET.* Okay, its been beeping for a few > minutes and the pause, fast forward, and rewind buttons just play a > please wait message with no explanation. I can only assume its trying > to scan the SD card for compatible files. > > Given a suggestion to use a standard tape deck to rip two of a > cassette's four tracks at a time and do post processing to account for > tapes having non-standard formats, I've been searching for a suitable > one on Amazon, and while there are several rather affordable models > designed specifically for converting cassettes to digital files, it > isn't always clear which models are stand-alone, which rely on a PC > and specific drivers, and which should work with any recording device > with a line-in/microphone jack, and many sound like they're hardcoded > to output mp3, which I deem completely unacceptable in this age of > terabyte harddrives and 256GB memory cards, and even cutting record > time by more than half isn't worth lossy compression when I already > have a recording device with line-in and wav support, and there's no > mention of sample rate or bit depth on any of the product pages I've > checked. If anyone has any suggestions for cutting through the cruft, > it would be greatly appreciated. > > I've only ever used sox for concatenating flac files, but I understand > its one of the most versatile command line tools for manipulating > streamed audio. Can anyone provide instructions on how to do the > following tasks in sox or via another command line tool? > > -Reversing an audio stream in a way equivalent to playing an audio > cassette backwards. > -Altering the sample rate for playback without altering the samples > themselves. Also, am I correct that, if your analog source is playing > at double speed, you'd want to record at twice the target sample rate > before slowing the recording down? > -Splitting multi-channel files into single channels files or merging > single-channel files into multi-channel files. > -Trimming silence to a given length at the biginning/end of a stream > or splitting a stream into multiple files in the middle of internal > silence exceeding a certain length. > -Anything else that might be useful for the task at hand. > > Oh, and my digital cartridge player eventually finished whatever it > was doing, but still offered no explanation, not even a "no content > found" message. The contents of my SD card seems unaffected putting it > back in my Blaze ET. > > Sincerely, > > Jeffery Wright > President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa. > Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle. > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list