[Blindtlk] Finally got my hands on digital NLS player

[Nickie Pearl]

Hi Joseph,  Sorry to hear you are having so much trouble with the player. 
There are discrepancies book to book when using the player.  For me the 
easiest way to go back and forth is to hold down the arrow buttons on the 
outside of the square pause play button.  These buttons will take you back 
and forth, 1 minute, 5 minute 15 minute...and some books go back 30 minutes. 
I am not a techy person, but I love the player for the sound and the ease of 
downloading books, just don't understand why they can not be consistent with 
formatting.

Have a great day!
Nickie

-----Original Message----- 
From: T. Joseph Carter
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 10:54 PM
To: Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: [Blindtlk] Finally got my hands on digital NLS player

So I finally got my hands on one of the NLS digital players.

I hate the thing already.

I'm not sure if the (actually a magazine) is the problem, or if it's
the player.  I've used DAISY players before, mostly with the
organization formerly known as RFB&D's books, and with Bookshare
books.  But I'd never bothered to sign up for BARD, because most of
the time what I played my books on was my computer, and you can't do
that with NLS books.

I finally signed up because apparently an iPhone app is in the works.

So the problem is that I've got the navigation menu set to navigate
by article.  Next.  Contents.  Okay, but I want to skip that.  Next.
End of book.  WHAT!?  Previous.  Play.  End of book.  WHAT!?  Go back
around to select article in the menu and start pressing previous and
hold it.  One article.  Five articles.  Ten, then twenty, then
thirty, beginning of book.  Okay, play.  End of book.  WHAT!?  I've
managed to get it to jump to various places (verified with the info
button), but only the front matter and table of contents play, and
then not even them all of the time.

Either this magazine is completely hosed, the player is completely
hosed, or this behaves like no other DAISY player I have ever seen,
ever, period.  And of course, because of the stupid ridiculous DRM, I
can't even begin to examine the thing myself to figure out where the
problem lies.

This wasn't the way to make a good first impression.  And since my
Victor Stream (which I had no trouble using) has grown legs, I don't
even have a point of comparison.

Joseph


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