Re: milestone311 testing
- From: Jean Menzies <jemenzies@xxxxxxx>
- To: milestone311@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:27:46 -0600
Stephen and Joe,
Thanks to you both for your advice and suggestions. Joe, I'm only going to
reply once, but my message is equally to you, and I appreciate the help from
both of you.
Thanks for explaining. Everything is working now, but I do have more
questions about folder structure and the use of the AUTONEXT.YES thing.
I reformated my SD card on the card reader and chose FAT this time instead
of FAT 32. Right now, all my files are in the route directory of the SD
card, so I gather they won't play one to the other automatically until I
figure out how to use AUTONEXT.YES.
Again, with the SD card, if I created folder names, say book title folders
with the files for separate books in each folder, Milestone won't speak
anything for those, but I could still navigate through them? Or might it be
better to have Milestone create the M1 to M5 folders on the SD card and put
separate items in respective folders that could then be labeled and voiced?
How do you format an SD card from Milestone to get
that folder structure?
And back to what I had done wrong, yeah, the internal memory was somehow
full. I hadn't switched to the MP3 player before connecting, and I had
thought I could navigate from Windows Explorer.
That squelching sound isn't there today. I don't know what that was all
about. Maybe due to improper disconnecting from the PC. I hadn't been using
the "safely remove hardware" thing. Never thought of that.
And on a different topic, what is the status of firmware upgrades in North
America? I can't figure out which version I have. I read in an old edition
of Access It about version 2.8 being released last fall around the time I
bought, with version 3.0 being tested.
Jean
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephan Knecht" <sknecht@xxxxxxxx>
To: <milestone311@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: milestone311 testing
> 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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