[Electronics-Talk] Question about the Blaze ET

[David Andrews]

Yes, people are free to answer.

Dave

At 07:43 PM 8/28/2018, you wrote:
>OK. Will you please allow answers just this once? I promise once I 
>get the answer, I'll refrane further.
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>Chris.
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>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.