I have had the same problem with my new Bookport. I am waiting for an exchange from Hagger. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Cosgrove (Mrs.)" <j.cosgrove@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 8:15 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: ['bookport] Re: ('bookport) - MP3 now white noise > Hello Walt > > >I wonder if the Book Port volume was turned up too high. Normally, I > > This did occur to me. However, although the MP3s were a lot louder than the speech, they were not distorted. It was only after a while that this happened. I did try turning the volume down both on the keypad and in the settings but to no avail. I tried a .wav file too and this was also very distorted whistles and sounds, but the MP3s I would say were more like white noise. > > >wouldn't expect this to produce white noise so much as extremely > >distorted, extremely loud music through the system. Did the white noise > >occur even if the Book Port was not running; that is, if you stopped the > > When I stopped the file, the white noise stopped. > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Julia Cosgrove > >(Mrs.) > >Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 12:57 PM > >To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >Subject: [bookport] (bookport) - MP3 now white noise > > > >Hello > > > >I had my new Book Port in the middle of July for my birthday. It is a > >lovely machine. I loaded in quite a lot of files to read on holiday and > >also some MP3s. The stereo sound of the MP3s was good and very much > >surprised us. > > > >Unfortunately, one evening when I plugged the Book Port into a friend's > >speaker, the MP3s all changed to white noise. I did notice that, at the > >end of some of the files, where it fades out, the sound of the music was > >there although at half speed or something similar. Just before this, I > >had deleted some memo files and I wonder if this had something to do > >with it. > > > >I tried taking the batteries out for a few seconds but this did not > >work. I also tried reloading the MP3s, with music checkd or unchecked > >and also through IE but to no avail. This also seemed to affect my .doc > >files which would then not read. I have since reinstalled the .doc > >files which now work. > > > >Any suggestions? > > > >-- > >Julia Cosgrove (Mrs.)<j.cosgrove@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > >-- > >No virus found in this outgoing message. > >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > >Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.5/67 - Release Date: 09/08/05 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > >No virus found in this incoming message. > >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > >Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.5/67 - Release Date: 09/08/05 > > -- > Julia Cosgrove (Mrs.)<j.cosgrove@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.5/67 - Release Date: 09/08/05 > > >