[gui-talk] Downloading to NLS digital player

Sherri flmom2006 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 01:38:15 UTC 2009 

Also, there are very few digital books produced in the containers. I think 
there are 75 or something like that. I am Beta testing the digital 
cartridges. I think I will try  your thumb drive idea since I like reading 
with the digital talking book player as well.
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 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Downloading to NLS digital player


> Sherri,
>
> I have no idea what they mean by a "remote access." Sorry. No one ever 
> told
> me anything but what I learned to do, which is that I download a book into
> its own folder on my hard drive (it consists of a dozen or more files, so
> you need to keep it away from other such things). Then I plug an old thumb
> drive into my USB port and copy those files onto it. Then I properly
> disconnect the thumb drive from my computer (using the safely remove
> hardware option on my system tray list (Insert F11) in Win XP Home. then I
> plug the thumb drive into that port on the side of the player. Now the 
> book
> can be played using the player's controls.
>
> One thing to beware: So far as I know, the player's firmware (own internal
> programming) can't recognize different folders on a thumb drive. So you've
> got to make sure there aren't any other NLS book files of any kind on the
> thumb drive when you plug it into the player. They're supposed to update
> that part of the firmware, and I think eventually someone's supposed to
> start producing blank cartridges, which you'll then plug into your
> computer's USB drive with a commonly used type of cord for transferring
> files, and then you'll slip the cartridge you've just recorded onto into 
> the
> slot on the player. But both these things aren't happening yet. I mean
> neither of them is happening. So for now, it's the thumb drive routine for
> me.
>
> What do you mean by this other method you mention? I wasn't aware you 
> could
> transfer files directly from your computer onto the player. I didn't know 
> it
> had memory in which it could hold a book and play it. Is this what's meant
> by "remote access?" It wouldn't seem so, to me, but you never know with
> these expressions.
>
>
> would hhow, they're ethujb of tfold3er.Nowq the thumb drive
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 5:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Downloading to NLS digital player
>
>
> 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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