[bookport] Re: Bookport equivalent of Blue Screen of Death
- From: "ROB MEREDITH" <rmeredith@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:55:25 -0400
Reed:
It appears that this is simply a case of too many files in one folder
under FAT32. You list 28 files. When sending through Book Port Transfer,
you actually wind up with 3 files for each source file in the case of
audio files. So, you wind up with a minimum of 85 files in that folder,
including a machine-specific file called lastfile._AA.
The other complication is that your file names aren't particularrly
short. Of course we have all seen longer file names, but the name length
plays a role here.
I recommend the following:
1. Delete the Podcasts folder from the Book Port.
2. Recreate the folder.
3. Copy the MP3 files directly, bypassing Book Port Transfer.
This should work better for two reasons:
1. You have slightly shorter file names, as the ._dd and ._ix
extensions have been dropped.
2. You are creating one file for each source file, at least initially.
(When you play each of these files, a corresponding ._AA file will be
created, and this will slow things down a little.) But, you will never
have more than 2 files for each source file.
You will still get good navigation equivalent to using the Send As
Music option.
If you don't like either of these solutions, you will have to do one of
two things:
1. Shorten the names of the source files substantially. Remember 8.3
file names?
2. Just put less files in each folder. Maybe 10 or so would work in
this case.
I don't think this is related to the other problems reported with using
Auto File Advance, but it may be. I really don't know, as I have not
been able to reproduce the other problem.
Rob Meredith
>>> Reed.Poynter@xxxxxxxxx 04/07/06 04:02PM >>>
Hi Rob,
This might be related. I have a 4 gig Sandisk card with more than 2
gig
used.
I recently downloaded a bunch of podcasts from the BlindCoolTech site
and
saved them in a podcasts folder on my hard drive. In most cases, when
doing
the transfer, I removed the BCT### prefix on the filenames. The
files
saved are (listed by filename):
AigoA208Review.mp3
bct439GoldWaveBasics.mp3
bct441MilestoneRecorder.mp3
BookPort22.mp3
BreakfastWithClarance.mp3
BreakfastWithJanina.mp3
BreakfastWithMarc.mp3
ClickerReview.mp3
CliftonWalkingTour.mp3
CSUNKeynote.mp3
CSUNWrapup.mp3
DeGunkingWindowsPart1.mp3
HolidayInDevonTheWestCountryOfEngland.mp3
IconDemo.mp3
InexpensivePhantomPoweredMicrophones.mp3
InteractiveLocalization.mp3
JavaAndGNOME.mp3
MilestoneRecorderTechnicalReview1.mp3
MilestoneUnprocessedFile.mp3
MZRH10MinidiskRecorderReviewPart1.mp3
NewList.mp3
PGPAndEmail.mp3
PlaybackMarch2006.mp3
Security.mp3
SkypeUnites.mp3
ThanksButNoThanks.mp3
TheDarkSide.mp3
ThreeInOne.mp3
I then fired up BP Transfer and copied them all to my podcasts
(e:\PodCasts)
folder on my BookPort. Within BP Transfer, I used control+A to select
all of
the files in the Podcasts folder on the pc, selected the Podcasts
folder as
the destination on the BookPort and checked Send Audio as Music. Send
filename as title is not checked.
When, in BP Transfer, I look at the files in the PodCasts folder, they
are
listed as follows:
CSUNKeynote.mp3
CSUNWrapup.mp3
DeGunkingWindowsPart1.mp3
HolidayInDevonTheWestCountryOfEngland.mp3
IconDemo.mp3
InexpensivePhantomPoweredMicrophones.mp3
InteractiveLocalization.mp3
JavaAndGNOME.mp3
MilestoneRecorderTechnicalReview1.mp3
MilestoneUnprocessedFile.mp3
MZRH10MinidiskRecorderReviewPart1.mp3
NewList.mp3
PGPAndEmail.mp3
PlaybackMarch2006.mp3
Security.mp3
SkypeUnites.mp3
ThanksButNoThanks.mp3
TheDarkSide.mp3
ThreeInOne.mp3
AigoA208Review.mp3
bct439GoldWaveBasics.mp3
bct441MilestoneRecorder.mp3
BookPort22.mp3
BreakfastWithClarance.mp3
BreakfastWithJanina.mp3
BreakfastWithMarc.mp3
ClickerReview.mp3
CliftonWalkingTour.mp3
Note that the files are listed on the BP in the same order as they are
listed on the pc; except that the first 9 files appearing in the pc
list are
at the end of the BP list (after ThreeInOne.mp3).
When I use the next File (#) key to move through these files on the BP,
the
BP goes off to lala land on the file after ThreeInOne.mp3. If I try to
play
the next file, the BP is hung and I hear part of an error message that
starts with "audio". If I hit something else like D and F, it will
sometimes
recover after a few seconds and other times it will not.
The first time I encountered the problem and couldn't figure what was
going
on, I backed-up all of the BP files on to my pc, reformated the card on
the
BP and copied the files back using Windows Explorer. The problem was
still
there.
So, this morning, using Windows explorer, I deleted all of the
podcasts
files on the BP and using the latest BP transfer, sent them again to
the BP
with the same settings as listed above. The problem is still there.
The BP
gets stuck after the same ThreeInOne.mp3 file.
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