Are you sure the player wasn't playing anything? Did you have a book
paused or something?
It could be a defective player. I would definitely report it to your
regional library. It may be addressed in a firmware update, and you may
not have to replace the player. Either way, NLS needs to know about it
if they're going to fix it.
I think the battery indicator is just an approximation. I only ever hear
it announce how many hours are left. I never hear anything about how
many minutes are left, so hearing that you only have an hour left means
you could have quite a bit less than that. I think the reason is shuts
itself off before the battery gets totally drained is to protect the
battery.
--
Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com
On 5/3/2010 4:54 PM, Adrian Spratt wrote:
Tom,
It sounds to me that there are two separate issues.
First, I've found that the NLS player's sleep option works by turning off
the machine after the designated time has elapsed. It does so
automatically. Otherwise, what would be the point? It's supposed to
accommodate people who fall asleep while reading and to save battery power.
Also, as you say, the machine is supposed to switch off regardless if not in
use for half an hour.
I think your machine must be defective.
If your machine does have a defect, what may be a more difficult question
arises. I believe NLS is still behind on its DTB shipments. You'd need to
check your NLS branch to find out what they can do concerning repair and
replacement.
-----Original Message-----
From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org]
On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 5:17 PM
To: PC audio discussion list.
Subject: Looking For Some Information Concerning NLS Player
Hello List: I realize that this isn't "Bard Talk (I'm not on that
list)..but I know that some of you use the NLS players..and maybe you can
tell me if you've run into this: I apparently forgot to turn my player off
last night! This shouldn't be a problem, since it's supposed to shut itself
off if not playing a book..right? Apparently not! Last night, I think it
still had fifteen hours left. But today when I started to listen to a book,
it informed me that it only had an hour! But it didn't even give me that
much; I had taken the player out to the porch so I could listen while I took
my walk on the treadmill (I had set the sleep timer for thirty
minutes)..well..I actually started about ten minutes before I took the
machine out there...I had been out on the porch, walking along and listening
to my book..when it suddenly said "battery low; player off!" And with that,
it stopped! So my question is: what's with the "thirty minutes" thing (is
it..or is it not..supposed to shut itself off if you stop playing a
book..but don't actually turn off the power? If you'd rather write me
offlist concerning this matter, my email is tomca...@comcast.net If you
choose to write me offlist, please put something in the subject line to
indicate that you are replying to my question concerning the NLS digital
player!
Thanks,
Tom Kaufman
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