Re: milestone311 testing
- From: Stephan Knecht <sknecht@xxxxxxxx>
- To: milestone311@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:02:38 +0200
Dear Jean,
My name is Stephan, I am the guy that did the software for your
Milestone 311. From what you describe, the following happened:
When you first put Milestone on the PC, it was set to internal
memory. So you see this internal, small memory of 28MB only, instead
of the SD card. Furthermore, it is correct that Milestone does not
react to key inputs while connected to a PC, since it cannot be that
two devices (the PC and the Milestone) have altering access to the
same memory media at the same time. Therefore, Milestone had to be
needed to be unplugged from the PC, switched to a mode where the
external memory becomes visible (e.g., MP3 player or "memory card
voice recorder"), and then put back on to the PC.
Actually, the M1 to M5 folders are those from the voice recorder -
either on the internal memory or on the SD card. Therefore, it is
possible to have two times M1 to M5, but on a different media. You
have the following 3 choices of putting your MP3 files:
1) Put them within any of the folders M1 to M5 on the internal
memory. If you put them in any folder (that you created yourself) in
the internal memory or in the root directory, they can't be accessed
by Milestone, since in the internal memory only the voice recorder is
active (and it works in those 5 folders only).
2) Put them within any of the folders M1 to M5 on the SD card. You
can access them in the "memory card voice recorder" mode.
3) Put them anywhere on the SD card. You can access them with the
"MP3 player" mode, throught navigation with the left, right, upper
and lower button.
Now, what makes me suspicious is that you say you have this squelchy
beep when connecting Milestone to the PC. Are the other messages
still ok? For instance, when you press the lower X button for about 3
seconds, does Milestone start to give out proper status messages? If
not, we need to reinstall the language package. This can easily done
by email - just tell me.
You cannot make an SD card unreadable by formatting it - be it with a
card reader or directly by Milestone.
And for the moment, you can forget about the "auto file" thing
(AUTONEXT.YES) described in the instruction manual. That comes later.
Please try again, with the insights from above. It must work.
Best regards,
Stephan
Am 21.06.2007 um 02:43 schrieb Jean Menzies:
It was so quiet, I wasn't sure if anyone was home. Smile.
Okay. I bought the Milestone last fall but admit I haven't had time to
really play with it. Now I want to start using it seriously, and my
first
attempt was to put an audio book composed of MP3 files onto an SD
card and
try and play it in the Milestone. But it didn't work. I used Windows
Explorer to copy the files to the SD card in a card reader, but I don't
think that was right. I couldn't seem to navigate to the SD card when
the
card was in the Milestone connected to the PC with the USB cable. I
saw the
m1 to m5 folders, but I thought that was the main memory.
I did reformat the SD card once it was in the card reader, so I don't
know
if that made it unreadable. And now when I plug the Milestone into
the PC I
don't get the device connect message but only hear a squelchy beep.
I'm not normally this stupid with devices. Honest. Smile.
How do I get back to square one and properly put a long book of MP)3
files
on an SD card? The manual talked about setting this up on the PC
first with
an auto file of some kind but I don't know what to do. Yes, I read the
manual twice.
Jean
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Baars" <derekbaars@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <milestone311@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: milestone311 testing
> This list is still functional. How can we help?
>
> On 6/20/07, Jean Menzies <jemenzies@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Just seeing if this list is actually alive. I'm a new member and need
>> some
>> help.
>> Jean
>>
>>
>
>
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