[bookport] Re: ['bookport] Re: ('bookport) - MP3 now white noise
- From: "Sarah Cranston" <cranston.sarah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:05:23 -0500
Hi Julia,
I'm sure you tried this, but are you sure your batteries aren't going flat? I
have heard my BookPort make similar hissing and whistling noises when my
batteries were dying.
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[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Julia Cosgrove (Mrs.)
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 2:15 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.
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>[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?
>
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