I have a 32 GB card in mine Cheers Dave
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ana G Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 6:26 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Victor Stream The nice thing about a Victor Stream is that you can carry your entire audio library in one device. It plays specialized files from the NLS BARD site, Bookshare, and RFB&D (never tried RFB&D personally). It also plays files from commercial sources like audible, standard mp3 and wav, and now (with the additional soft pack) iTunes. You can, moreover, listen to text file formats like txt, rtf, and html. In theory, you can listen to contracted braille files, but I've found that to be a little glitchy in 3.0 and 3.1. finally, it's an easy-to-use voice recorder, not as good as, say, the Olympus, but the quality of the recording is very nice and serves my own needs perfectly. My own unit has lots of different file types on it, including music. Your other questions have been answered. When you insert a blank SD card into the Stream, Victor places the folder structure on the card. You then insert the card into your Mac's reader, and move files into the right folders: music into the music folder, BARD and Bookshare books into the digital Talking Books folder, rtf and html files into the text folder, etc. As far as Audible goes, the only thing you need Windows for is activating the device. The Stream itself with SD card inserted needs to be connected to the PC via USB cable for activation to take place. that's done once per SD card. After that, the card is permanently activated unless it becomes corrupt and needs to be formatted (i.e., erased), so you can forget all about Windows until you need a new card. I think people are right about the maximum capacity SD being 16 gb, but that's an awful lot of listening. I've got an 8 GB card, and I've got 40 BARD books, 9 audible books, 12 book-length text files, and a couple of albums worth of music on mine. Last, the Stream has some nice bookmarking features that make it useful for work. Bookmarks can be points to jump to, audio blocks to listen to, and brief voice recordings to refer to. that's all very handy when you're, say, reading a manual because you can essentially takes notes and refer to them quickly. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
