[nabs-l] VR Stream pros and cons

[Jessica Raichle]

I got my Stream a little over a year ago and love it. However, I noticed 
that music does not play very loudly on it even at the highest volume, and 
that's saying a lot since I don't like music played very loudly.  I find 
that to try and listen to music in any setting with any noise at all around 
is difficult.  But the talking books play absolutely wonderfully!  And I do 
use it with a pair of speakers to listen to music.
Jessica
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From: "Jess" <jessica.trask.reagan at gmail.com>
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> Ashley,
>>From following this thread. Yes the Humanware Companion Software does come
> with the VR Stream. Because from my understanding it transfers the files 
> between the VR Stream and the computer.
> Jessica
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> From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
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> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 6:43 PM
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>> Chelse,
>> Thanks for this information.  Good to know about the download process.  I 
>> do have web braille.
>> Does Human ware stream come with the VR stream unit?  What does it do?
>>
>> Ashley
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Chelsea Cook" <astrochem119 at gmail.com>
>> To: <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 12:24 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] VR Stream pros and cons
>>
>>
>>> Ashley,
>>>
>>>  I love my Stream! At first I was reluctant to get one, but then I found 
>>> out what it can do.  I use it all the time for reading books from NLS 
>>> and RFBD.  It is easy to get authorization keys from these places.  If 
>>> you have a Web Braille account or are affiliated with your library, you 
>>> should be able to complete an application for the new download site. 
>>> With RFBD, go to your My Account on the online version and select 
>>> "Authorize New Player." Then you just type in the serial number.  I 
>>> don't use it for recording as much now, but that may change.
>>>  There is a program that comes with it called HumanWare Stream 
>>> Companion. This makes your talking books from NLS easy to transfer. 
>>> RFBD is more tedious, but I'm trying to see if there's an easier way to 
>>> do it.  You can create bookmarks and transfer notes (recordings), to 
>>> your computer with this program.  I've never tried playlists, but I love 
>>> the Random music feature, similar to the concept of the IPod shuffle. 
>>> You can't navigate by song title and artist, per se, but if you know how 
>>> your music structure is laid out, you can find a specific song by 
>>> knowing its file and folder coordinates.  The Stream will accept those. 
>>> The only other problem I face sometimes is with the NLS books, you can't 
>>> do page navigation.  It doesn't support Word documents yet.  Only t x t, 
>>> b r f, and Html.  You can do word searches in these documents, and it 
>>> makes it easier if you know how to text because it uses those same 
>>> conventions for numbers.  I haven't had the practice yet.
>>>  Overall: If you're in college and use NLS and RFBD for most of your 
>>> reading, it's an excellent, all-in-one device.  You can put up to a 16 
>>> gig HC SD.  card in it (I hear it has issues with anything higher), as 
>>> well as USB flash drives.
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Chelsea
>>> "I ask you to look both ways.  For the road to a knowledge of the stars 
>>> leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been 
>>> reached through the stars."
>>> Sir Arthur Eddington, British astrophysicist (1882-1944), Stars and 
>>> Atoms (1928), Lecture 1
>>>
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