thanks, Rockbox is alternative software for the archos players. Its supposed
to talk.
Sarai and Rosie, Proverbs 3:5,6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths."
----- Original Message -----
From: "rinty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4:48 PM
Subject: RE: accessible site to download mp3's
> The site for goldwave is www.goldwave.com.
>
> Also I've heard, that there's some way of getting the archos to talk.
>
> What is Rock Box?
>
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sarai and Rosie
> Sent: 26 May 2004 17:08
> To: PC audio discussion list.
> Subject: Re: accessible site to download mp3's
>
>
> Thanks!
> Where do I go to get goldwave and how much is it?
> As for the Archos, the manual is crap, so you have to ignore that.
> What I do
> is create my folders and put my music in them on the computer then go
> to my
> computer and click on my archos player, then paste the folders. The
> player
> shows up as another driver and its easy to transfer files. The
> folders are
> in alphabetical order so its easy to cycle through them with out
> sound. As
> for the songs in the folder, after a while, you can count and get to
> your
> favorite song, and if that doesn't work, then just switch tracks, like
> in a
> CD player. I love my Archos. The only drawback is its not as small as
> some
> players, but the sound is great!
> Thanks for all of the help.
> Sarai and Rosie, Proverbs 3:5,6 "Trust in the Lord with all your
> heart,
> And lean not on your own understanding;
> In all your ways acknowledge Him,
> And He shall direct your paths."
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "rinty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] Com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 3:12 AM
> Subject: RE: accessible site to download mp3's
>
>
> > Hi Sarah, one piece of advice re the archos, you can indeed play
> > audible books, I have a similar device and have converted the files
> > very successfully.
> >
> > 1. Download Goldwave, the sound editor, if you don't already have
> it.
> >
> > 2. Register it, as you're gunna want to keep it.
> >
> > 3. Install it.
> >
> > 4. Install the lame encoder if it's not already on your system, if
> > you've got anything like winamp, CDexe, and so on, then it will
> > already be there, and goldwave will find it.
> >
> > 5. Open the programme you will have an empty editing screen.
> >
> > 6. hit alt-f then go down to open. press "enter" and you'll have the
> > open file dialogue.
> >
> > 7. use the browser to find the directory where your audible files
> are
> > kept. Note: if you've still got the defaults set, it will be
> > C:\program files\audible\download\
> >
> > 8. Click on one of the files in there, (not in the in progress
> > directory) and the file will open. Note that this will take some
> > minutes, as the programme converts the file first to .wav format.
> >
> > 9. go back into the file menu, select save as, and change the name
> to
> > something which gets rid of all the extra crap that audible insert
> > into there file names. You don't need to put the .mp3 extension in.
> >
> > 10. tab through the dialogue until you get to file types. Select
> mp3
> > from the list that appears.
> >
> > 11. continue through the dialogue until you get to attributes. it
> may
> > be the next tab, but I can't check immediately as I don't have
> access
> > to it on this computer.
> >
> > 12. Select an appropriate sample rate and bit rate for your book.
> > I'd suggest that 22500 and 48KBS would be ample, though the
> equivalent
> > quality of MP3's isn't as good as .ogg files of the same bit-rate.
> If
> > it were .ogg, I'd suggest 35KBPS as being fine, however I don't
> think
> > the archos players will play ogg vorbis files. Basically have a
> play
> > and decide how low you're prepared to go. You might need to check
> that
> > your archos will play lower rate MP3 files, I've never used the
> > device.
> >
> > 13. click save, having first checked where the file will be saved
> to,
> > and changing that if necessary. I tend to save mp3's in my normal
> > audio books folder, and leave the audible books right where they
> are,
> > out of the way of anything else.
> >
> > 14. Presumably you can simply use windows explorer or my computer
> to
> > transfer the files to the archos.
> >
> > Question from a total, how the hell do you manage to navigate your
> way
> > round one of those hard disk MP3 players? I have the odyssey from
> > edigital, and whilst it has speech recognission for the file names,
> > unless the filenames are formatted correctly it doesn't work. Also
> > you can't browse, and there's no access to the menus. as I said,
> but
> > it's stayed in the cupboard since it nearly had an impromptu and
> hard
> > meeting with a wall. I just can't work out what I've selected,
> change
> > the menu options, or browse what's on the disk. I here these
> amazing
> > blind people ! grin, saying that they remember what's on their HD
> > player, but I'm sorry, my parents didn't pay for that upgrade at
> > birth, and it can't be fitted now I expect.
> >
> > Other listers will doubtless point out that you can add effects,
> edit
> > the sound file and so on, but I'm giving you a simple method to
> start.
> >
> > It's not essential to register immediately, as you can do 150
> commands
> > with the unregistered version per session, with an overall count of
> > 3000 commands before you have to register.
> >
> > HTH, and if you need any further help, I'm happy to do so.
> >
> > Rob and Nails
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sarai and Rosie
> > Sent: 26 May 2004 04:20
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: accessable site to download mp3's
> >
> >
> > Hi guys:
> > I finally have time to get back on this list. A while ago I asked
> for
> > accessible mp3 players. Well, after much help from this group, I
> > bought the
> > Archos mp3 player/recorder. I like it. One drawback is it can't play
> > books
> > from audible.com. Oh well, my question is I am looking for an
> > accessible and
> > legal site to download mp3's that I can put on my player. There are
> so
> > many
> > sites with software that you have to download that I'm not sure what
> > would
> > be the best. I don't want to crash my computer either. I use jaws
> and
> > Windows XP.
> > Thanks for the help,
> > Sarai and Rosie, Proverbs 3:5,6 "Trust in the Lord with all your
> > heart,
> > And lean not on your own understanding;
> > In all your ways acknowledge Him,
> > And He shall direct your paths."
> >
> >
> >
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