hello Mister Jim.
At this point it is not possible to create a folder directly from the Book
Port. You do need to use the PC, however you don't need the card reader.
When you want to send books to the Book Port and hook it up, the transfer
program automatically launches. Either tab to the Book Port contents or jump
there directly with alt+F. Now use the applications button and arrow down to
new folder. At that point you obviously just push enter, type the desired
folder name, and push enter again.
Now if you want to put your files in this folder, don't forget to enter so
the folder is opened, and then tab back to the contents of your computer.
You can jump directly there with alt+L.
At last you can start sending files away.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Denham" <jdenham@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 10:48 AM
Subject: [bookport] questions and comments from a new user
Hi All:
I just received my Book Port a couple of days ago and subsequently joined
this list. I am really enjoying the product (fell asleep listening to an
Audible title with it last night), but have some questions and comments.
Maybe these are things I just missed in the documentation, so apologies in
advance if these are obvious questions. I am running the 2.2 firmware.
First of all, is their a reason I can't change the volume on the fly when
listening to a voice memo? The volume controls seem to work fine when the
memo is not playing and the memo playback respects these settings, but
trying to increase or decrease the volume while a memo is actually playing
only produces a beep. Shouldn't these volume controls work the way they do
when listening to other audio files? Secondly, it would really be nice if
the settings menu had a setting that would disable Book Ports ability to
remember the last position in an audio file. While I realize this is
extremely helpful when listening to audio books, such as Audible or books in
the MP3 format, it is not so good for those of us who listen to MP3 music
files. I use the star and number keys to quickly skim through MP3 music
files in a particular folder of my flash card. I do this while the files
are playing as I don't want to have to stop and start constantly. If I just
listen to part of a song and move to the next song, the original song is
started at the point where I left it when I come back to it. This is
annoying as I like to always start songs from the beginning. As I say, I
know this feature of the product is very helpful in most situations and the
product is called book Port and not Music Port, but having the ability to
disable this feature would be extremely helpful. Finally, how does one
create a folder on the Flash card using only the Book Port? The
documentation mentions that files should be placed in folders to avoid to
many files in the root of the card, but no mention, that I could find, is
given to how to create folders using Book Port. Thus far, I've been doing
this with a pc and a card reader, but would really like the ability to
create folders when I am on the go. Is this possible?
Despite these questions, I am really enjoying the product and applaud APH's
development efforts.
Jim Denham E-mail: jdenham@xxxxxxxxx
