[bookport] Re: non bookport files

  • From: Alex Parks <mehgcap@xxxxxxx>
  • To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:29:14 -0400

Yes you can. The BP will act as a card reader, though be aware that it is still using battery power when plugged in. Your BP will simply report "playing unfiltered files not supported" if you accidentally try to open a non-BP file, even on .exe files and such. HTH. 


Have a great day,
Alex


----- Original Message -----
From: "louis scrivani" <lscrivani2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:13:25 -0400
Subject: [bookport] non  bookport files



Hello,
Say I want to save a file and transfer it to my home
computer and I did not have a mem stick or anything other than the book port. could I use that memory card while it is in the bp, to transfer that file or files? 
   Thanks,
Louis



----- Original Message -----
From: Woody Anna Dresner
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 2:30 AM
Subject: [bookport] fixing MP3 files with Foobar2000




Hi,
I discovered something today I thought others might find 
interesting
about how to make some files transfer to the Book Port that 
wouldn't otherwise.
I wanted to transfer the March 14 Main Menu to the Book Port, the 
one

Larry Skutchan talked on, because I wanted to find some specific
information in the file, and I wanted to use the Book Port 
transfer

software because of its ability to distinguish sentences and
paragraphs. The file played in the Book Port if I copied it 
directly
to a CompactFlash card, but if I tried to use Book Port Transfer, 
the
transfer program crashed almost immediately. Since I knew the 
file

played, I thought something might be wrong with the header
information, so I decided to see whether Foobar2000 could fix
it.  This is a free program for playing MP3 and other music
formats. I downloaded it a few months ago to fix some AAC files 
so
they would play in Rockbox. So I selected the Main Menu program 
in
Foobar2000, pressed the Context key, and found a Utilities menu 
on
the context menu. One of the choices was to repair VBR headers. 
I

don't think the Main Menu program is VBR because it played on the
Book Port if I didn't use the transfer software, but it seemed 
the

closest choice to what I wanted to do, so I pressed Enter on
it.  Foobar2000 was soon done with the file, and I plugged in the
Book Port and transferred it to the Book Port with no problems. 
I

have no idea if this would help with navigation in VBR files.  It
might, because one of the things it does is make sure the actual 
file
length and the length reported in the headers matches exactly. 
So if

you have trouble with a particular file, try Foobar2000.  I don't
remember the URL, but it comes up right away on Google.



All the best,
Anna

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