RE: editing a CD in the plex and converting it to mp3
- From: "frank cuta" <cuta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ptr1-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 10:31:50 -0700
Once you have backed up the CD to flash you have both daisy and mp3. It
is somewhat confusing but daisy uses mp3 files in conjunction with
other "book-keeping" files to create each daisy book. As Dean alludes
to you just need to get the material onto your hard drive and rename
it something more useful. When a daisy book is created a new folder
name is created such as book 5. In this folder you will find the mp3
files as Dean describes along with other book-keeping files that turn
the collection of mp3 files into a daisy book. After doing a lot of
editing on the ptr1 you will find that many of these mp3 files are the
results of your editing as it appears that editing on the ptr1 never
actually modifies the original it just creates more mp3 files. For this
reason I suggest that you consider performing your editing after you get
the mp3 files on to your computer.
If you have a laptop computer available the easiest way to transfer the
files
from the ptr1 to the computer is to just pop out the pcmcia flash drive
and pop it into your laptop then perform the copying that Dean
describes directly from the flash drive to your hard drive.
By the way I am speaking strictly from experience not from authority
since I actually have no real understanding of how daisy uses these mp3
files. I just know that this seems to work.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
This may not be totally responsive, but here's what I've figured out so
far.
Make a recording, save it to flash, and load it into the PTS program,
perhaps after having saved it to the hard drive. Once the file is
fixed, assuming you recorded the file in mp3, you will have a series
of mp3 files in the folder.
this part requires a small amount of computer competence. Assuming
you're running windows xp, from the start menu, type run, then in
that dialog, type cmd and hit enter.
this puts you on the command line. the trick is to save the folder
of mp3 files so you know where they are and can navigate there using
the cd command. The easiest thing to do is to put them into the root
folder, then type the three characters cd\ to navigate there. Then
use the cd command to navigate into the folder containing all the mp3
files. We'll assume the files are all prefixed with the prefix
a00000, then a number. then the extension .mp3.
Once there, type this command:
copy /b *.mp3 goodname.mp3, where you can obviously use your own name
for goodname. this will create one mp3 file with your file from the
PTR.
I don't think there's a much easier way to achieve this, so I hope
this is helpful.
Dean
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