Thanks so much! :) I don't have access to windows at all, so I guess I'm out of luck as far as audible content goes? Everything else makes sense.
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower" Steve Jobs On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Ana G wrote: > 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.
