[blindkid] Victor Reader Stream Question

[Amanda Winkler]

Here is some help from my husband.

Richard,
The $vrdtb and $vrmusic folders should be able to hold up to four levels of 
folders.  I'm not sure about the $vr other books folder.  In keeping with 
your example, you could create a Harry Potter folder in the $vrdtb folder 
and within that folder put the seven books each in it's own folder.  You 
would navigate the folder structure the same way you navigate heading levels 
in a daisy book using the 2 and 8 keys to choose your desired level and the 
4 and 6 keys to move between the books on that level.  To give another 
example, in my $vrmusic folder I have a John Mayor folder. Within that 
folder which represents an artist I have a Battle Studdies, folder, a 
Continuum folder and a Room For Squares folder which are all John Mayor 
albums.  Within each album folder are the tracks from that album.  To 
navigate I press 1 the bookshelf key multiple times until I get to music. I 
press play/pause to enter that bookshelf and again to stop the music.  At 
this point I use 2 or 8 to make sure I am on level one.  I use the 4 and 6 
keys to move at that level with the stream announcing things like jazz, John 
Mayor Lady Gaga and Roy Orbison.  All of these artists have folders which 
are at level 1.  When I get to John Mayor I press the 8 key and the Stream 
says "level two."  Now pressing 4 or 6 moves me between Battle Studies, 
Continuum and Room For Squares. When I am on the album that contains the 
track I want to hear I press the 8 key again to move to level 3 where in 
this example the 4 and 6 keys will move me from track to track with the 
stream announcing the file names of the individual tracks like 
"Gravity.mp3."
If i get on the John Mayor folder and keep pressing the 8 key, after the 
stream says "level 4," it will say "file."  In this mode pressing the 4 and 
6 keys will move through all of the songs regardless of what folder they are 
in as if there were no subfolders at all. Being on file rather than any of 
the levels could be your problem.

HTH
Kelly Hill Rehabilitation Technology Specialist Blindness Support Services 
Inc.




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From: "Richard Holloway" <rholloway at gopbc.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 9:39 PM
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Subject: [blindkid] Victor Reader Stream Question

> Are there any Victor Reader Stream users here who might be able to explain 
> to me the file structure for putting items into sub-folders to group them? 
> (Offline would be fine.)
>
> We have VR bookshelves with hundreds of items coming up in a single list 
> despite being grouped into sub-folders. I'm still waiting on a response 
> from Humanware, and I suspect there is something simple we're not doing. I 
> have tried starting the sub-folder names with $VR like the parent folders 
> and that is no help. I think the VR Streams have some great capacities, 
> but I have always found organizing files on them to be awkward.
>
> The manual says you can use sub-folders on most bookshelves. Am I 
> misunderstanding something? Should not sub-folders content appear in a 
> separate sub-list or group for a given bookshelf? (What would be the point 
> otherwise?)  No matter the level of the file, we're finding them all in 
> the same bookshelf list. These groups are just too much to manage in a 
> single list!
>
> Any suggestions would be really appreciated! Maybe there is a VR forum 
> somewhere?
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