[gui-talk] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Review of NLS player and digitaldownloads, etc.

Mon Jun 8 02:09:29 UTC 2009

Is it at all possible to play RFB&D books on NLS digital player?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tunecollector" <tunecollector at sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Review of NLS player and 
digitaldownloads, etc.

> It was the ability to vary the playback speed that I was looking for.
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 4:55 PM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: [Bulk] Re: [gui-talk] [Bulk] Review of NLS player and digital
> downloads,etc.
>
> this device is a playback device, not a recording device. As I believe I
> said below, you can vary playback speed. You have no control over how the
> file you download to play on it is recorded, though. Hope that helps.
> plaback udevice ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "tunecollector" <tunecollector at sbcglobal.net>
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>
> Can you vary the speed of the recording?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 3:43 PM
> To: GUI-Talk
> Cc: Will Smith
> Subject: [Bulk] [gui-talk] Review of NLS player and digital downloads, 
> etc.
>
> Hi Will,
>
> I've already read enough on this device, both as a pre-recorded cartridge
> (really a sort of flash drive housed in a shell that looks something like 
> an
>
> audio cassette, except flatter, and also as downloaded files straight from
> the NLS Bard site via a thumb drive inserted into the USB port in the 
> unit's
>
> side, to be able to have an impression of the basic model digital reader.
>
> The sound, as you might easily guess, is impeccably clear. The reading
> quality of the two readers I've heard is fine, no better or worse than 
> many
> NlS readers, so that's neither here nor there. No complaints.
>
> And the usability is pretty darn nice. Even though this is the basic 
> model,
> and thus lacks what are probably more complex navigational controls, it's
> quite a lot better than a tape player, and better than playing an
> audible.com file on my own .mp3 player, too. Fast forward and rewind offer
> increments of speed and travel distance that are easily mastered. There 
> are
> controls to raise or lower the pitch in terms of relative treble and bass,
> one step at a time, which allows me to tailor the sound to my greatest 
> area
> of auditory comfort. I can also increase or decrease the playing speed by
> similar stepped increments without altering the voice pitch, which of 
> course
>
> is great. Naturally there's a volume stepper, up and down, and there's 
> also
> a sleep function to allow for auto turn-off without losing the place where
> it stops after a certain amount of time. And of course it always starts
> playing again wherever you've stopped it last time.
>
> All in all, a thumbs up from me. I'll be happier when I can begin to buy
> blank, recordable cartridges from one or two blind products companies, 
> soon
> they say, as that will relieve me of having to stick a thumb drive into 
> the
> side like a dart fired into a large animal. It's a vulnerable thing, 
> having
> the thumb drive protruding, and requires more careful handling than would 
> be
>
> necessary with just the cartridge inserted in its slot.
>
> the unit's smaller than a table top four track player, but dense and heavy
> so that it feels able to take a beating from careless users, if necessary,
> and feels solid to handle.
>
> I'm going to send this reply primarily to GUI-Talk, because there's
> something in your message that sounds as if you're referring to more than
> just yourself. So I'd like to have this casual review readable by others,
> also.
>
> Thanks again for your stalwart efforts with the Slate compilation. They
> certainly don't make it easy, do they. I still can't get to Slate with
> either my IE7 browser or, when I installed and tried it out, the current
> version of Firefox, either. I have never had such an experience, and used 
> to
>
> go to slate.com at will until sometime last fall when I started to get a
> page not found result every time I tried. I have no idea what happened.
>
> Hope my review helps.
> Joel
>
> P.S. I'm deleting the personal message to which I'm replying .)
>
>
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