[gui-talk] Review of NLS player and digital downloads, etc.

Tue Jun 9 05:03:49 UTC 2009

I've heard that, too. Although I've never subscribed to RFB&D, so the 
addition of that capability isn't likely to affect me personally. BTW, I'm 
editing out that annoying "bulk" notification that's begun to appear in this 
subject line. I kind of wish everyone would do this so we don't have to keep 
listening to that. In my humble opinion and so forth, of course.
stbject . Althohgh
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
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Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Review of NLS player and digital 
downloads, etc.


Not yet, and the player isn't even out yet, except 5000 test machines
-- but they say ultimately it will be possible.

Dave

At 09:09 PM 6/7/2009, you wrote:
>Is it at all possible to play RFB&D books on NLS digital player?
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "tunecollector"
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>digitaldownloads, etc.
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>>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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>>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] [Bulk] Review of NLS player and digital
>>downloads,etc.
>>
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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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