[Nfb-krafters-korner] Help with BARD please

[Greg Williams]

Joyce,
Since a number of people are interested, I am replying to the list.
To use the NLS player:
There should have been a USB thumb drive sent with the unit.  If not, 
most drives should work; it needs to be empty.  Some drives come with 
system files on them that when you delete them, they re-appear; these 
won't work.  After downloading the book, select the .zip file you 
downloaded and bring up the context menu and go to "extract all".  
Follow the prompts and then copy the resulting folder to your USB thumb 
drive and insert it into the NLS player. You can do this for more than 
one book, and when you turn the player on, it should bring up the list 
of books.  There is no authorization or registration needed for the NLS 
player.
For the Victor Reader, if, like me, you never get around to deleting 
emails, look for emails from NLSAuthorization at humanware.com, and if you 
find them, they will give you instructions on authorizing the Victor 
Reader.  I don't know how to easily check whether it is authorized other 
than trying to play an NLS book.  Here is the link to their FAQ which 
has a section about NLS and just about everything else it seems: 
http://support.humanware.com/en-usa/support/victor_reader_stream_new_generation/victor_reader_stream_new_generation_faq
I don't have a Victor Reader, so I can only tell you what I remember 
from a couple of years ago.  I hope this helps.  Let me know if there 
are any other questions.
Greg



On 8/29/2013 4:43 PM, Blindhands at aol.com wrote:
> Ok, I am hanging my head in shame.  I never did go on BARD website  until
> today.
>   
> Now I don't know what to do.
>   
> I called my library for the blind and they told me I had registered and
> they told me my Victor Reader was there.
>   
> I did  this several years ago when I first got my Victor Reader  Stream.
> Honestly, I do not remember if I ever went on the BARD   website nor if I
> ever put in the id numbers for the player.
>   
> I did spend some time on the BARD website going thru the Q & A and over  on
> Humanware in the support section for Victor Reader and I even called up my
> local Blind library services and spoke to my librarian and her support
> person.
>   
> Now here is my questions that no one could answer and they told me to read
> all these files and I could not find the answers.
>   
>   
> 1. How can  I find out if my player is registered.  It doesn't  have any
> information like the players that are registered to be used on my  account.
> [Audible.com has a list for me].
> 2. Is my player that I got from NLS registered or do I have to do
> something?
> 3. What do I need to do to use my NLS player?
> 4.  I downloaded a book on my computer.  I can find it.  [I  don't
> understand why I couldn't download it to the Victor Reader stream], but do  I need
> to make a special folder on the Victor Reader memory card or which folder
> should transfer it into?
> 5. Do you have to select all the files that downloaded [the entire book]
> and copy and paste onto the flash card in Victor Reader?
> 6. Does anyone use a thumb drive to copy books and listen to on the NLS
> Player?  I need to find the thumb drive and they told me it should not be  any
> larger then 8 gigs or was it megs?
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
> Blindhands at AOL.com
> _______________________________________________
> Nfb-krafters-korner mailing list
> Nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Nfb-krafters-korner:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org/greg.williams.1978%40gmail.com