Thanks for this. I at first tried getting this information from a
paused state in an NLS book and it doesn't work in that mode. But
you're right -- during playback hitting the zero key and then the up
arrow will give remaining time. However when I pressed the
play/pause button I couldn't resume playing. Finally discovered that
I then needed to hit the pound key to finish the information
section. Rather inelegant, but it kinda works.
At 09:18 AM 9/24/2009, richard turner wrote:
You can already get this in DAISY books.
Hold the 0 key for 2 seconds while playing or in the pause position in a book.
You will get a list of detailed information.
Use the arrow keys to hear each part. If all you want is the
remaining time, after you get the detailed
list, up arrow once and there it is.
In mp3 files, tapping the 0 key while a song or file so playing, you
will hear the title, time
elapsed, and total time, you'll have to do the math to get the
remaining time from that.
Richard
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:27:17 -0700, Bryan Bashin wrote:
>Raoul,
>
>Almost always when reading a book, listening to a podcast or even a
>Newsline newspaper I need to know how much time is left before I
>finish. Currently I can inquire and get a long list of headings and
>vaguely estimate that, say, 20 headings out of 100 left in a ten hour
>book means that maybe I have two hours left. Or not.
>
>This is not the most elegant way to get what most users want -- the
>knowledge in hours and minutes of how much time is left in the reading.
>
>I propose that a new keypress be dedicated to this feature. The unit
>could simply estimate the remaining time by taking the current
>reading rate and the file position and do a computation. The Book
>Courier did this and could always give at least the percentage of
>file complete, but the translation into hours and minutes would be
>particularly useful. Much more so than all the verbiage the BS now
>gives about numbers of headings of unknown length.
>
>Can this one make it onto the next release?
>
>
