[Electronics-Talk] Question about the Blaze ET

Christopher Gilland clgilland07 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 29 00:43:20 UTC 2018


OK. Will you please allow answers just this once? I promise once I get 
the answer, I'll refrane further.


Chris.



On 08/28/2018 08:29 PM, David Andrews via Electronics-Talk wrote:
> 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.
>
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