[Electronics-Talk] Question about the Blaze ET

[David Andrews]

Well, assistive technology questions are not encouraged here -- but 
one every now and then won't hurt anything. I will also forward your 
message to dtb-talk.

Dave

At 04:14 PM 8/28/2018, you wrote:
>I hope, being this is a blindness related electronic, that it's OK 
>me asking this here. If not, then David, let me know, and I'll 
>scease further discussion on the matter, I promise.
>
>
>Currently, I own a Hims Blaze ET. Let me be very very clear, this is 
>the E t! as in tango. Not the E Z, as in zooloo. Sometimes, I call 
>it the Blaze alien. LOL! Just kidding. But no, in all seriousness, 
>here's my question.
>
>
>I know about hitting the number 6 from the main menu home screen to 
>open up podcasts. What I am trying to do is, I have quite a few 
>podcasts which I subscribe to. OK, I'm not my friend who has over 
>700 of them, LOL, but I do have a good amount. I can't recall how 
>much capassity internally the flash disk has on those units, but, I 
>have a 32GB SD card which I have in the unit.
>
>
>With things like the Bard app under Library Services, I see a way to 
>download by default to the SD card. I'm not, however, seeing such 
>option with the podcasts app. I'm just wondering if I'm missing 
>something obvious here. For me, though I own both an Android phone, 
>and also an iPhone, and am extremely proficient with both, it's way 
>easier for me doing podcasts on the Blaze. Not sure why, but it just 
>feels much easier for me. I'm just a bit nurvous, as I do like 
>archiving a fair amount of podcast eppisodes which I enjoy going 
>back and listening to periodically. I'm scared though that 
>eventually, I'm going to eat up all the space on my flash disk if I 
>keep things up at the rate I'm going.
>
>
>So, yeah, ultimately, is there a way by default that I can tell it 
>with podcasts to download to my SD card? I'm finding it incredibly 
>annoying having to manually go into the file manager, go to my flash 
>disk's podcasts folder, find the podcast, then the mp3 eppisode, cut 
>it, go back out to my sd card, go to its podcasts folder, find the 
>sub folder for that podcast needed, then manually paste that cut 
>file over there instead. That's just so much work! Surely, I'm 
>hoping there is a way easier way to do this.
>
>
>Yeah, I know, I could always plug the thing in to my PC and use data 
>transfer mode, and move the stuff quicker that way, but again, I 
>might not always be near a PC to do that.
>
>
>Does anyone on here have any suggestions for dealing with this more 
>efficiently?
>
>
>Chris.