I have a friend who has one of those sand disc drives and he removed the u3 stuff and the drive still won't work so stay away from those. I hear Kingston is good. The Data Traveler is the one you want.
*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 3/13/2010 at 5:30 PM David Tanner wrote: >It probably has something to do with the U3 software on the Sandisc >drives. > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "DJ DOCTOR P" <djdoct...@att.net> >To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 4:21 AM >Subject: Re: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION > > >> Hello Kevin, >> I have a San Disc 4 GB USB flash drive. >> I created a folder that's called, audio+podcast. >> I put mostly MP3 files in that folder. >> But when I plug that flash drive in to the player, it plays one of the >> audio files for a wile. >> But then, it stops and gives me a cartridge error message. >> But when I plug my wife's MP3 player in to it, the machine plays the >> files off of it without any problems. >> My question is, why does it act like that with my Sand Disc USB flash >> drive and not my wife's MP3 player? >> John. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Kevin Minor" <kmi...@windstream.net> >> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:27 PM >> Subject: RE: DIGITAL TALKING BOOK PLAYER QUESTION >> >> >>> Hi John. >>> >>> The player will play 3gp, wav and mp3 files. I'm thinking of those >three >>> right off, I may be forgetting one, though. These files need to be in a >>> folder called audio+podcasts which is on the root of the drive. You >can >>> put >>> subfolders under this to organize them. The player won't announce the >>> folders, but when you're in bookshelf mode you'll be able to navigate to >>> them. >>> >>> As for playing files in stereo, this may or may not be true. I say >this, >>> because earlier firmware updates to the player didn't play files in >>> stereo. >>> You need to have version 2.1 or later of the firmware, and it will play >>> files in stereo. To find out your player's version, with no media in >it, >>> press the sleep button ten times quickly until you hear the serial >number >>> being announced. Once this announcement starts, just wait, and you'll >>> hear >>> the version of your player's firmware announced. My player has version >>> 2.1.3 of the firmware on it. >>> >>> To download NLS books for your player, you need to be signed up with >the >>> NLS >>> site. To do this, go to >>> >>> https://nlsbard.loc.gov >>> >>> and click on the link on that page. Since you have an NLS player, >you'll >>> be >>> able to get this service. It's nice to download books from the site, >and >>> anything you get on a cartridge from your library will be on the NLS >>> site. >>> >>> By the way, you may want to call your local library and tell them you >>> want >>> digital books on cartridge sent to you. I had to do this for myself, >and >>> in >>> fact I had to call them again to jolt things into action. I should be >>> getting my first NLS book from my library any day now. >>> >>> There is an email list that is specificly set up for the NLS player. >You >>> can find out how to subscribe to it, as well as have some of your >>> questions >>> answered. Go to >>> >>> http://bardtalk.com >>> >>> If you have any other questions, let me know. >>> >>> Kevin Minor >>> kmi...@windstream.net >>> >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > > >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Please Join Me For djc's Jukebox Tuesday Afternoons from 1 to 3 Pm Eastern, And On Saturday Nights from 9 to midnight Eastern: http://legend-oldies.com Please feel free to follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/djc500 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
