Well, just for grins, I moved all of the books on my blank NLS cartridge (which obviously isn't really blank) into the $DTB folder, and everything still worked, i.e. I had no trouble getting to each book and getting to my MP3's in the Audio+Podcasts folder. Therefore, I'm not sure what to tell you and why your player isn't working.
Also, I'm pretty sure I tried this, but I don't think you can get to the flash drive if you have a cartridge plugged in. What version of FW do you have on the player? You have to be on one of the last two releases to get the Bookshelf function. The latest release is 2.1.3. You can get to this on the standard player by hitting the sleep key 10 times with nothing plugged in. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Chaltain [mailto:chalt...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 2:43 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Revisiting nls digital player Well, I'm not sure what to say. I don't recall seeing any instructions that involve a $DTB folder on the NLS player. If I saw any such instructions, I either assumed the person knew what they were talking about, were talking about another player (such as the Victor Stream, which I don't have) or I just didn't pay too much attention since it was already working for me. BTW, I don't know that using a $DTB folder doesn't work. If you want to try what works for me you can. Otherwise, maybe someone else can help you. As I said before, I don't use a $DTB folder. Both on my blank NLS cartridge and my USB flash drive, I extract my BARD books directly into their root directories. This means I get one folder per book, and these folders are in the root directory. I also have an Audio+Podcasts folder in the root directory. I drop my MP3's into this folder. I have a standard player, so when I hold down the play/pause key I end up in my bookshelf, and I can use my forward and rewind keys to select the user's guide, any of the books I have and "Audio Files". It sounds like you have the advanced player, so you can get to the user's guide with the info key. If I select the "Audio Files" entry in my book shelf, I hear the first MP3 start to play. Now I can use the forward and rewind buttons to move through that MP3 file and jump to the next file in the folder. Like I said this works for me. I too am following instructions I got from another list, plus a little bit of trial and error. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com -----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dave McElroy WA6BEF Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 2:01 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Revisiting nls digital player I was following the inscructions from this list. Somebody said that if you wanted to play mp3's you had to create two folders, one being $dtb and the other audio+podcasts. So I did. The nls books showed up beautifully but the other is invisible. To get to the users guide on my machine, I must hold down the info key and it toggles into it. What I'm trying to do is to access an MP3 book I've put on the flash mem. -----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 10:26 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Revisiting nls digital player Well, I'm a tiny bit confused with what you're doing. For my DTBM from NLS, I extract each book I download from BARD into it's own folder in the root directory on the USB flash drive or blank NLS cartridge. Any MP3's go in the Audio+Podcasts folder, which is also in the root of the flash drive or Audio+NLS cartridge. Now when I hold down the play/pause key and go into the Bookshelf, I can go to any of the books I've downloaded, the user's guide or the Audio+Podcasts folder, which shows up as a single book. Each MP3 in that folder is like a different chapter in that book. I do not have a $DTB folder anywhere, which is why I'm thinking we may be talking about two different things and why I'm a bit confused. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com -----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dave McElroy WA6BEF Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 12:42 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Revisiting nls digital player Hmmm. Should I place the book as a sub folder under audio+podcasts? Wonder if that would make it show up? Maybe I'll try that. -----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of john schwery Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 5:02 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Revisiting nls digital player I don't know why you are having your problem but I can tell you that you named the audio+podcasts folder correctly. earlier, Dave McElroy WA6BEF, wrote: >Ok, what am I doing wrong? > >I have created two folders, the one being $dtb and the other audio+podcasts. >$dtb works great but I can't access the book on the other folder. Did >I name it improperly perhapse? The "bookshelf just shows the six books >I've gotten from the site. > >Thoughts? > >Many thanks. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
