[Promotion-technology] reading CDs using new NLS digital player

[David Andrews]

Ed:

If you have the "Advanced" player, the Info key, will give you 
information about where you are in a book -- not as a percentage, but 
in time.  The info key is the left most key, in the row of five keys 
above the sleep crescent-shaped key.

The player will play MP3 files, so you can move them to a thumb or 
USB drive and play them.  You say you bought a 2 gig flash card.  If 
you bought a SD card, and card reader -- this will probably not work 
with the player.  You need a thumb or USB drive, not a card, and card reader.

Whether or not the player will access two or more books on the thumb 
drive depends on its firmware.  The original players could only 
handle one book per medium -- there was a firmware upgrade however, 
which will handle multiple books.  You will have to ask your Library 
if they updated the machine, or get the version number of firmware, I 
can't remember the keystrokes to do that, I think pressing sleep key 10 times.

Dave

At 02:34 PM 12/31/2009, Ed Meskys wrote:
>Last week I got my new digital player and a book, the 25th annual 
>Best SF of the Year edited by Gardner Dozois. The book is 44  hours 
>and I am about half done, as a guess. I play it about 70% faster 
>than recorded. I read the insttructions, which are not very 
>detailed, and wonder if it is possible to tell how far thru the book 
>I am? On my BookPort when I hit "#8" it tells me what percentage I 
>have finished.
>
>But the main reason for this posting...I need more detailed 
>instructions on how to copy CDs onto a USB-Flash-Card which I can 
>plug into the side of the reader.
>
>Today I bought a 2 gig flashCard at WallMart for $10. I got for 
>Christmas a book about C.S. Lewis (The Narnian) on 9 commercial CDs. 
>I have never "ripped" a CD and need to know how. What format does 
>the NLS digital reader require? And to play it, do I just plug it 
>into the side plug, remove the TB cartridge, and hit "play"?
>
>Can I have more than one item on a flashcard/thumbdirive?
>
>Finally, next week I will start to get AMERICA magazine from the 
>Xavier Society on MP-3 CDs. How do I put these on a flash card?
>
>Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>Ed Meskys