Hi! Thanks for the responses. I now know that I'm best off to close the file I'm reading before switching cards; never had to even think about that with the stream, which I guess is what threw me off. Not sure if it matters, but the book I was reading on card 1 was an audible book, and the book on card 2 which I had to briefly find a quote in was an NLS book. My point is, I will only rarely even need to do this, but I guess I was just lucky enough to spot the bug if its safe to call it that. Missy
----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[email protected]> To: "Book Sense Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] a rather humorous booksense discovery: possibly a bug Hello. Rod's and Ron's observations on why this happens are correct. When you press play on a book or file and then listen to it, the BookSense loads it into memory. If you turn off the BookSense and switch cards, and then turn it on with another card, it looks like it's still keeping that previously loaded file in memory just like a PC would do. We made this better in version 2.0, but obviously not enough since this was discovered. In our experiment, we did something like the following. 1. Press play on an nls book on the SD card. 2. While the book is playing, turn off the BookSense. 3. While the BookSense is off, remove the SD card. 4. Turn on the BookSense. it will immediately switch to the flashdisk. 5. Insert the SD card and resume playing the book after playing it. If this is done, things work right. I thought we had tested switching sd cards, but as I said, this could have slipped. My recommendation is to switch cards while the BookSense is on so the card is read. Also, and this is just a personal opinion, if you know you will change cards, perhaps you will want to close the book or file you are listening to. All that being said, we will work harder to do more crossing of T's and dotting of I's so this is more fool-proof, I mean, full-proof, *smile*. . On 12/28/2009 11:29 AM, Rod Gowen wrote: > Hi Missy, > > It does not hurt to remove and/or change SD cards in the Book Sense > while it is powered up. In fact, when you do change a card while the > Book Sense is turned on, it does do a check of what is on the card. That > is why you will hear the "ding dong" doorbell sound as you insert a > different card into the unit. > > It is, however, a good policy to close any files that are open before > you remove a card, whether it be on the Book Sense or the computer. I > have been in the computer business since 1978 and can tell you that, > after XP arrived on the scene, I have never had any trouble with an > external drive or memory card as long as I remember to close any files > that are open on the drive or memory device that I want to remove from > the computer. With all files properly closed, I have never had a > corruption or any other problems with them when simply removed from the > SD card slot or USB port. > > I use several other MP3 players that have SD card slots and am always > swapping cards in them with the power on with no problems. > > I do agree though, that the Book Sense should have enough "sense" to > check the card that is in the unit each time it is turned on to make > sure of what it is looking at! It may add a few seconds to the boot up > time, but it would be worth it. > > Rod > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Missy Hoppe" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 5:04 AM > Subject: [GW-Booksense] a rather humorous booksense discovery: possibly > a bug > > > Hi, all. I've discovered something slightly humorous about the > booksense, but it's almost certainly a bug of some sort, and depending > on the user, it could actually lead to some confusion. > I have 2 32 gb sd cards: 1 for fantasy and/or childrens books, and the > other for horror, mystery, etc. I am currently listening to some books > on the horror/mystery card, but briefly needed to find a quote from a > book on the fantasy card. I've always thought it was safest to switch > cards with the device turned off. Kind of like safely remove hardware > when I use my card reader in windows for transferring files. > Anyway, I switched cards, and when booksense powered up, it still > thought it was reading "U is for Undertoe," the book on the book from > the card which was no longer present. Likewise, when I switched back to > the card which I was currently reading from and powered back up, it > thought that it was still in the Chronicles of Narnia. > I guess I'm saying all this to ask if I'm supposed to go against all > logic and switch cards while the booksense is powered on, or if in a > future firmware release, a feature can be added where booksense actually > takes a second to scan the card and determine which one it is. I realize > that it may be too much to ask for it to remember where you are on 2 > separate cards, but it should at least not tell you that you're in a > book that isn't even on the card that's currently inserted. > I'm not complaining about this per say. In my case, I only have the 2 > cards, and its fairly easy to keep them straight, but I think that this > little glitch could lead to massive confusion if people have multiple sd > cards, and I can't imagine it would be that difficult to have Booksense > check the card before announcing what the current file is. > I hope this makes a little sense. If you need me to try to explain it > better, I'll certainly give it a try. > Thank you very much for your time, and I hope that everyone is having a > great day! > Missy > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. 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