[bookport] Re: Mark setting in MP3 files
- From: "David Allen" <wd8ldy@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:01:35 +1200
Hi Angie and list:
Welcome back! Yes, I have confirmed your advice on both counts after checking
the send audio files as music and resending the file.
Now I'll make much better use of marks.
Hope I haven't missed your podcast about the headphones that we discussed by
Email several weeks ago.
Cheers,
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: Angie Matney
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 6:49 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Mark setting in MP3 files
Hi Dave,
I too have been absent for a while, and yours is the first message I'm seeing
now that I've decided to try to read the list again! I think that if you do not
send these files to the Book Port as music, you will continue to experience
problems with the bookmarks. If you don't send audio files as music, the BP
transfer software tries to analyze the files for pauses, which it takes to be
the beginnings and ends of sentences, paragraphs, and pages. Someone can
correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that when you make a bookmark
in an audio file that has not been sent as music, the mark is placed at the
beginning of the first "unit" that the transfer software has created by
analyzing the files for pauses. I'd try sending one as music to see if this
gives the results you want--it always works for me. Also, you will find that it
will take much less time to send audio files to the BP if you send them as
music.
Hope this helps,
Angie
--Original Message Text---
From: David Allen
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:42:10 +1200
Hello list:
I've been absent for a while and regret that it has been something bothersome
that has been the main drive to get me back.
I was trying to set some marks in an MP3 file that is a radio show. When I
tried setting them, I found consistantly that the places that were marked
lagged the place I intended marked by several seconds. In fact, I validated one
case where the mark was 18 seconds before where I had intended. According to
the manual on my unit, file type makes no different in how marks are treated.
Admittedly, I have not checked the send file as music check box in the Bookport
transfer options. Would this cause marks to be set where I want them? I set a
mark in a text file (actually in the manual), and found that worked exactly as
the manual advises.
Any help on resolving this or correcting my understanding of it would be
appreciated.
Cheers,
Dave
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