I believe it is the other way around- I sent a wave file to it and it in fact converted it to mp3. I use the bookport as my portable mp3 player for all things audio, and it works just great. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 12:53 PM Subject: Re: bookport usability? > "Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 1 9 5 3 4 6" <paulmigs at migliorelli.org> > writes: > >> Howdy Kirk. Have you heard of any way to use bookport yet for the >> transfer software needed? Didn't know if it was something we could use >> yet since I gather the transferware is still win only, and I gather you >> need the ware and cannot simply put files on it? > > Hi Paul: I'll answer what I know of your questions here rather than > in the private mail you sent me. As I said in a previous message here > you can certainly use e-texts on the bookport providing you place them > in the notes directory. I have read two complete books this way and > it worked just great. It kept track of where I left off reading when > I stopped or moved to diferent files and it kept bookmarks I set. It > doesn't have quite as good of navigation control as if you had run it > through the transfer program but I didn't find that detracted at all > from my reading pleasure. If one wanted it would be easy enough to > process a file before loading it onto the unit by making each line be > sentence based and removing all of the blank lines and such. > > In your private mail you said that you believe the transfer program > convert the mp3 to .wav before downloading them. I don't know for > sure about that. My reading of the bookport manual didn't seem to > indicate that. It appears to me that it could play native mp3 with no > prior processing. If someone has a bookport that they have loaded > mp3s onto it would be an easy enough thing to check, just go to it > from my computer after connecting it and look through the > directories. In a way I hope it doesn't convert them before loading > them because if it does that means you won't be able to load a lot of > wave files on to the device before filling it. That of course depends > on how large of compact flash you have but still a 512mb cf could not > hold even one standard compact disk worth of audio. > > Kirk > > > -- > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
