[gui-talk] Downloading to NLS digital player

Thu Aug 13 00:00:16 UTC 2009

Hi Joel, They say in the instructions for the NLS digital player that 
particular slot is to accommodate a remote access or something like that, 
but I wondered if you could just plug a thumb drive in there and just 
download to the player. I hadn't experimented with mine yet, because I also 
have a Victor Reader Stream.
Sherri
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] free daisy player


> Wayne,
>
> I have an NLS digital player and download files to play on it, using a 
> thumb
> drive stuck into the port on its side. Bad design flaw for those who don't
> care to use borrowed cartridges, but someday there will be blank 
> cartrridges
> (which are essentially flash drives in a plastic shell) we can buy to use
> instead of having to stick a thumb drive into the thing.
>
> anyway, I'm fine with the processs. No problem. I was trying to figure out
> what others were talking about. Thanks, though. No worries.
> cartrigges,digitia
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Wayne Merritt" <wcmerritt at gmail.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 3:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] free daisy player
>
>
> Joel: there's no extra steps needed to download or play files on an
> authorized digital talking book player other than what people have
> said here. So as not to get confused, you would go through a process
> on the NLS BARD site where you request a key (which is free, as in no
> cost to the user), and between nLS and the manufacturer of the player
> that you have, you will eventually get a key that you can use to
> authorize the player to play the digital talking books with. If anyone
> has paid $10 or $20 for an NLS key, then you paid too much since the
> key is FREE, written in all caps. Pardon me for shouting, but this
> fact has been stated numerous times by myself and other people.
> Honestly folks, I'm getting tired of deleting messages for a thread
> that has started to ware thin. Unless something different needs to be
> said, this will likely be the last one I reply to on this topic. So
> far,the only service where you would pay for a key to play material
> from is Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic. You could download
> material from the BARD site, but if you don't have an authorized NLS
> player, which includes the VR Strea, GW Micro's Booksense, the
> Plextalk Pocket, and/or the Icon/Braille Plus Mobile manager, or any
> other player that is authorized to play NLS content including the NLS
> new talking book machine, those files on your computer won't do you
> any good. If you only have the new NLS talking book machine, then
> there's nothing else you need do--except download and read to your
> heart's content.
>
> Sincerely and kind regards,
> Wayne
>
> On 8/12/09, Joel Deutsch <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com> wrote:
>> Key for NlS? what sort of key?I download files from the BARD online
>> catalogue and I don't need a key, just my ID and pass to log onto the
>> site.
>> Is there something different that happens if you aren't going to listen 
>> to
>> one of these files on your NLS digital player? You have to tell them
>> you're
>> to play it on your Stream,for example, and then in some way they "send"
>> you
>> a "key?" You can't hear the quotation marks around those two words, but
>> they're there. They indicate that I don't exactly know what's meant.
>> Thanks.
>> What happens? You send them the model number of your device, and they 
>> send
>> you a secret membership number that you have to type in somewhere before
>> you
>> can transfer the files (many of them, for these digital books, I mean 
>> just
>> for one book, might be more than a dozen files), and then they'll 
>> transfer
>> to your Stream and you can play them?
>>
>> Or? Someone please describe how this work. Maybe I'll win the lottery and
>> buy a Stream, and then I'll have to understand this stuff.
>>
>> thanks.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:08 PM
>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] free daisy player
>>
>>
>> I just checked my receipts and I didn't have to pay for the activation 
>> key
>> to download NLS books.  I did have to pay for the one I got from RFB And 
>> D
>> which cost $10.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Hoffman, Allen
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:09 PM
>> To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [gui-talk] free daisy player
>>
>> Lets b clear and accurate here.
>>
>> I did not have to pay extra for an NLS certificate.
>> I didn't pay for the update for the NLS certificate for my stream.
>> I don't pay for certificates for bard.loc.gov when downloading books for
>> my stream.
>>
>> Less clear or accurate:
>>
>>
>> The PDA from LevelStar has an NLS certificate also I think.
>> The Book Sense probably will also.
>>
>> PC-based readers don't have an NLS certificate at present for some
>> unfounded fears somewhere between NLS and publishing communities.  We
>> need to get to the root of this, and start working to a reasonable
>> solution.  I suppose the blindness community is not a favorite in some
>> publishing circles at present due to our insistence on access to
>> electronic materials, but NLS should be a driver for change of culture
>> in the publishing community as well as a service provider.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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