Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

2009-04-24 Thread G. McFarlane

Thanks again Tim.
I have things just as you have suggested. I shall persevere however - it 
would be worthwhile getting it to work.

Take care.
Gordon
- Original Message - 
From: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250


You should have it to spell, but it doesn't matter. Generating them on the 
Sansa perfectly fine. I do it all the
time. If you had a file called 1.mp3, there should also be a file named 
1.mp3.talk in the same folder where you have the file.


- Original Message - 
From: G. McFarlane g...@exponential.org.uk

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



HI Tim
Yes, I did generate the talks files. I also have set the Directories and 
Files to work with talks. Somehow or other it still doesn't speak them 
Was it wrong to generate them on the Sandisk itself? Should I have done 
it on the computer then transferred it to the player?
Alsshould I keep on the speaking directories and files with numbers or 
spelling? When I switch them off nothing gets spoken.

I'm sure I must be doing something wrong, but I haven't hit on what yet.
Gordon
- Original Message - 
From: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250


You need to do this for folder and file names. Settings -- General 
settings -- Voice -- use .talk clips for file names/use .talk clips 
for directories. You did generate them using voicebox, correct?


- Original Message - 
From: G. McFarlane g...@exponential.org.uk

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi Tim
I've set this up according to the instructions, I think, but still 
can't get the files to be spoken. I see the .talk files but they do not 
get spoken. I've also been into the settings and tried activating the 
'use talk files' with and without directory and file speaking with 
spelling.
Is there another setting to set or is there another file or language I 
need to put onto the root directory of the Sansa?

Thanks for any response.
Gordon
- Original Message - 
From: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



You need to download voicebox. You can get it from:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/VoiceHowto/voiceBox+.zip
After that, just read the documentation. Everything should become 
clear after that.


Feel free to contact me on or off list.


- Original Message - 
From: G. McFarlane g...@exponential.org.uk

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi John
Would you be able to describe how to make the files speak their names 
rather than spell them or just give a number which I believe is what 
Rock Box does to files and folders?
I believe there's a procedure to follow but can't seem to get to 
grips with this.

Thanks.
Gordon McFarlane
- Original Message - 
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com

To: pC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 3:26 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250





Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:20:16 -0400
To: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

Timothy,

Please tell me how I go about extracting the 
rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip file to the root of the player's drive. 
When I click on the filename on my desktop, it opens to a Rockbox 
folder.  When I click on that, it simply opens up a list of files. 
What do I do with this list of files?


Thanks,

John


At 09:10 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote:
To my knowledge, the rockbox utility - rbutilrq - is not accessible 
to VI users. I will be doing some testing on it later.


Since you use a Sansa E250, you need to download the following:
The rockbox firmware 
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip
The bootloader: 
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/sandisk-sansa/sansapatcher/win32/sansapatcher.exe
The voice file: 
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/sansae200-3.2-english.zip


After you have downloaded the above, do the following:
1. Make sure the hold switch is not on hold. Face the player so 
that the headphone jack is pointing away from you. The scrol wheel 
should be closest to you. Move the switch on the left of the 
headphone jack to the left if it is not already there. Connect your 
mp3 player to your PC.


2. make sure you can access the player. This is to ensure that the 
player is in MSC mode. It usually

Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

2009-04-23 Thread G. McFarlane

HI Tim
Yes, I did generate the talks files. I also have set the Directories and 
Files to work with talks. Somehow or other it still doesn't speak them Was 
it wrong to generate them on the Sandisk itself? Should I have done it on 
the computer then transferred it to the player?
Alsshould I keep on the speaking directories and files with numbers or 
spelling? When I switch them off nothing gets spoken.

I'm sure I must be doing something wrong, but I haven't hit on what yet.
Gordon
- Original Message - 
From: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250


You need to do this for folder and file names. Settings -- General 
settings -- Voice -- use .talk clips for file names/use .talk clips for 
directories. You did generate them using voicebox, correct?


- Original Message - 
From: G. McFarlane g...@exponential.org.uk

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi Tim
I've set this up according to the instructions, I think, but still can't 
get the files to be spoken. I see the .talk files but they do not get 
spoken. I've also been into the settings and tried activating the 'use 
talk files' with and without directory and file speaking with spelling.
Is there another setting to set or is there another file or language I 
need to put onto the root directory of the Sansa?

Thanks for any response.
Gordon
- Original Message - 
From: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



You need to download voicebox. You can get it from:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/VoiceHowto/voiceBox+.zip
After that, just read the documentation. Everything should become clear 
after that.


Feel free to contact me on or off list.


- Original Message - 
From: G. McFarlane g...@exponential.org.uk

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi John
Would you be able to describe how to make the files speak their names 
rather than spell them or just give a number which I believe is what 
Rock Box does to files and folders?
I believe there's a procedure to follow but can't seem to get to grips 
with this.

Thanks.
Gordon McFarlane
- Original Message - 
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com

To: pC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 3:26 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250





Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:20:16 -0400
To: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

Timothy,

Please tell me how I go about extracting the rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip 
file to the root of the player's drive.  When I click on the filename 
on my desktop, it opens to a Rockbox folder.  When I click on that, it 
simply opens up a list of files.  What do I do with this list of 
files?


Thanks,

John


At 09:10 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote:
To my knowledge, the rockbox utility - rbutilrq - is not accessible 
to VI users. I will be doing some testing on it later.


Since you use a Sansa E250, you need to download the following:
The rockbox firmware 
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip
The bootloader: 
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/sandisk-sansa/sansapatcher/win32/sansapatcher.exe
The voice file: 
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/sansae200-3.2-english.zip


After you have downloaded the above, do the following:
1. Make sure the hold switch is not on hold. Face the player so that 
the headphone jack is pointing away from you. The scrol wheel should 
be closest to you. Move the switch on the left of the headphone jack 
to the left if it is not already there. Connect your mp3 player to 
your PC.


2. make sure you can access the player. This is to ensure that the 
player is in MSC mode. It usually is already in MSC mode. To make 
sure, disconnect the player, have a sited person turn on the player, 
go to Settings -- USB Mode, and press select on MSC.


3. Extract the rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip file to the root of the 
player's drive.


4. Run the bootloader, and follow the instructions. It will first 
look for your player. Then you press I for install, followed by the 
enter key. After a few seconds, it will finish installing. It will 
say

[INFO] Bootloader installed successfully.
Press ENTER to exit sansapatcher
Press enter.

5. Extract the sansae200-3.2-english.zip file to the root of your 
player's directory.


6. Disconnect the player, and it should come up talking. Make sure 
you have headphones connected!


HTH,
Timothy


- Original Message - From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
To: Timothy

Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

2009-04-23 Thread Timothy
You should have it to spell, but it doesn't matter. Generating them on the 
Sansa perfectly fine. I do it all the
time. If you had a file called 1.mp3, there should also be a file named 
1.mp3.talk in the same folder where you have the file.


- Original Message - 
From: G. McFarlane g...@exponential.org.uk

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



HI Tim
Yes, I did generate the talks files. I also have set the Directories and 
Files to work with talks. Somehow or other it still doesn't speak them Was 
it wrong to generate them on the Sandisk itself? Should I have done it on 
the computer then transferred it to the player?
Alsshould I keep on the speaking directories and files with numbers or 
spelling? When I switch them off nothing gets spoken.

I'm sure I must be doing something wrong, but I haven't hit on what yet.
Gordon
- Original Message - 
From: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250


You need to do this for folder and file names. Settings -- General 
settings -- Voice -- use .talk clips for file names/use .talk clips for 
directories. You did generate them using voicebox, correct?


- Original Message - 
From: G. McFarlane g...@exponential.org.uk

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi Tim
I've set this up according to the instructions, I think, but still can't 
get the files to be spoken. I see the .talk files but they do not get 
spoken. I've also been into the settings and tried activating the 'use 
talk files' with and without directory and file speaking with spelling.
Is there another setting to set or is there another file or language I 
need to put onto the root directory of the Sansa?

Thanks for any response.
Gordon
- Original Message - 
From: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



You need to download voicebox. You can get it from:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/VoiceHowto/voiceBox+.zip
After that, just read the documentation. Everything should become clear 
after that.


Feel free to contact me on or off list.


- Original Message - 
From: G. McFarlane g...@exponential.org.uk

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi John
Would you be able to describe how to make the files speak their names 
rather than spell them or just give a number which I believe is what 
Rock Box does to files and folders?
I believe there's a procedure to follow but can't seem to get to grips 
with this.

Thanks.
Gordon McFarlane
- Original Message - 
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com

To: pC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 3:26 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250





Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:20:16 -0400
To: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

Timothy,

Please tell me how I go about extracting the 
rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip file to the root of the player's drive. 
When I click on the filename on my desktop, it opens to a Rockbox 
folder.  When I click on that, it simply opens up a list of files. 
What do I do with this list of files?


Thanks,

John


At 09:10 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote:
To my knowledge, the rockbox utility - rbutilrq - is not accessible 
to VI users. I will be doing some testing on it later.


Since you use a Sansa E250, you need to download the following:
The rockbox firmware 
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip
The bootloader: 
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/sandisk-sansa/sansapatcher/win32/sansapatcher.exe
The voice file: 
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/sansae200-3.2-english.zip


After you have downloaded the above, do the following:
1. Make sure the hold switch is not on hold. Face the player so that 
the headphone jack is pointing away from you. The scrol wheel should 
be closest to you. Move the switch on the left of the headphone jack 
to the left if it is not already there. Connect your mp3 player to 
your PC.


2. make sure you can access the player. This is to ensure that the 
player is in MSC mode. It usually is already in MSC mode. To make 
sure, disconnect the player, have a sited person turn on the player, 
go to Settings -- USB Mode, and press select on MSC.


3. Extract the rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip file to the root of the 
player's drive.


4. Run the bootloader, and follow the instructions. It will first 
look for your player. Then you press I for install

Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

2009-04-23 Thread Christopher Chaltain
Here's something else you can try. In voiceBox, uncheck the button that 
says Remove .wav files after processing. Now when you run voiceBox, 
it'll leave the .wav files behind which are an intermediate step in 
creating the voice clips. You can use any media player on your system to 
play these .wav files and make sure there's nothing wrong with them.


Timothy wrote:
You should have it to spell, but it doesn't matter. Generating them on 
the Sansa perfectly fine. I do it all the
time. If you had a file called 1.mp3, there should also be a file 
named 1.mp3.talk in the same folder where you have the file.


- Original Message - From: G. McFarlane 
g...@exponential.org.uk

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



HI Tim
Yes, I did generate the talks files. I also have set the Directories 
and Files to work with talks. Somehow or other it still doesn't speak 
them Was it wrong to generate them on the Sandisk itself? Should I 
have done it on the computer then transferred it to the player?
Alsshould I keep on the speaking directories and files with numbers 
or spelling? When I switch them off nothing gets spoken.

I'm sure I must be doing something wrong, but I haven't hit on what yet.
Gordon
- Original Message - From: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250


You need to do this for folder and file names. Settings -- General 
settings -- Voice -- use .talk clips for file names/use .talk 
clips for directories. You did generate them using voicebox, correct?


- Original Message - From: G. McFarlane 
g...@exponential.org.uk

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi Tim
I've set this up according to the instructions, I think, but still 
can't get the files to be spoken. I see the .talk files but they do 
not get spoken. I've also been into the settings and tried 
activating the 'use talk files' with and without directory and file 
speaking with spelling.
Is there another setting to set or is there another file or 
language I need to put onto the root directory of the Sansa?

Thanks for any response.
Gordon
- Original Message - From: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



You need to download voicebox. You can get it from:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/VoiceHowto/voiceBox+.zip
After that, just read the documentation. Everything should become 
clear after that.


Feel free to contact me on or off list.


- Original Message - From: G. McFarlane 
g...@exponential.org.uk

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi John
Would you be able to describe how to make the files speak their 
names rather than spell them or just give a number which I 
believe is what Rock Box does to files and folders?
I believe there's a procedure to follow but can't seem to get to 
grips with this.

Thanks.
Gordon McFarlane
- Original Message - From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
To: pC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 3:26 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250





Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:20:16 -0400
To: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

Timothy,

Please tell me how I go about extracting the 
rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip file to the root of the player's 
drive. When I click on the filename on my desktop, it opens to 
a Rockbox folder.  When I click on that, it simply opens up a 
list of files. What do I do with this list of files?


Thanks,

John


At 09:10 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote:
To my knowledge, the rockbox utility - rbutilrq - is not 
accessible to VI users. I will be doing some testing on it later.


Since you use a Sansa E250, you need to download the following:
The rockbox firmware 
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip
The bootloader: 
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/sandisk-sansa/sansapatcher/win32/sansapatcher.exe 

The voice file: 
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/sansae200-3.2-english.zip


After you have downloaded the above, do the following:
1. Make sure the hold switch is not on hold. Face the player 
so that the headphone jack is pointing away from you. The 
scrol wheel should be closest to you. Move the switch on the 
left of the headphone jack to the left if it is not already 
there. Connect your mp3 player to your PC.


2. make sure you can access the player. This is to ensure that 
the player is in MSC mode

Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

2009-04-22 Thread G. McFarlane

Hi Tim
I've set this up according to the instructions, I think, but still can't get 
the files to be spoken. I see the .talk files but they do not get spoken. 
I've also been into the settings and tried activating the 'use talk files' 
with and without directory and file speaking with spelling.
Is there another setting to set or is there another file or language I need 
to put onto the root directory of the Sansa?

Thanks for any response.
Gordon
- Original Message - 
From: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



You need to download voicebox. You can get it from:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/VoiceHowto/voiceBox+.zip
After that, just read the documentation. Everything should become clear 
after that.


Feel free to contact me on or off list.


- Original Message - 
From: G. McFarlane g...@exponential.org.uk

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi John
Would you be able to describe how to make the files speak their names 
rather than spell them or just give a number which I believe is what Rock 
Box does to files and folders?
I believe there's a procedure to follow but can't seem to get to grips 
with this.

Thanks.
Gordon McFarlane
- Original Message - 
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com

To: pC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 3:26 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250





Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:20:16 -0400
To: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

Timothy,

Please tell me how I go about extracting the rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip 
file to the root of the player's drive.  When I click on the filename on 
my desktop, it opens to a Rockbox folder.  When I click on that, it 
simply opens up a list of files.  What do I do with this list of files?


Thanks,

John


At 09:10 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote:
To my knowledge, the rockbox utility - rbutilrq - is not accessible to 
VI users. I will be doing some testing on it later.


Since you use a Sansa E250, you need to download the following:
The rockbox firmware 
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip
The bootloader: 
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/sandisk-sansa/sansapatcher/win32/sansapatcher.exe
The voice file: 
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/sansae200-3.2-english.zip


After you have downloaded the above, do the following:
1. Make sure the hold switch is not on hold. Face the player so that 
the headphone jack is pointing away from you. The scrol wheel should be 
closest to you. Move the switch on the left of the headphone jack to 
the left if it is not already there. Connect your mp3 player to your 
PC.


2. make sure you can access the player. This is to ensure that the 
player is in MSC mode. It usually is already in MSC mode. To make sure, 
disconnect the player, have a sited person turn on the player, go to 
Settings -- USB Mode, and press select on MSC.


3. Extract the rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip file to the root of the 
player's drive.


4. Run the bootloader, and follow the instructions. It will first look 
for your player. Then you press I for install, followed by the enter 
key. After a few seconds, it will finish installing. It will say

[INFO] Bootloader installed successfully.
Press ENTER to exit sansapatcher
Press enter.

5. Extract the sansae200-3.2-english.zip file to the root of your 
player's directory.


6. Disconnect the player, and it should come up talking. Make sure you 
have headphones connected!


HTH,
Timothy


- Original Message - From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
To: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi Timothy,

Thanks for the prompt reply.  I found a Sansa E250 with a 2gb micro SD 
card for under $40.  Since almost everything is accessible with 
RockBox, I'll pick it up tomorrow morning.  I already downloaded the 
latest RockBox to install onto the Sansa.  Anything I need to know to 
help me make the installation go smoothly to get everything working 
right?  The reason why I ask, the file I downloaded ended up being 
called rbutilqt-v1.2.zip.  Do you know if this is the right file to 
have downloaded?


Thank you,

John

At 07:27 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote:
I believe I was. I'm not sure on how to write the tutorial. I'm more 
of a question answer guy.


When you install rockbox on your Sansa E250 v1 mp3 player, everything 
will be acessible except for the games, and the recording screen. 
What I mean by accessible is, that it will not speak.


The recording screen is completely usable. It just takes a tiny bit 
of memorization. I use it almost every week. It can record both from 
the microphone

Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

2009-04-22 Thread Timothy
You need to do this for folder and file names. Settings -- General 
settings -- Voice -- use .talk clips for file names/use .talk clips for 
directories. You did generate them using voicebox, correct?


- Original Message - 
From: G. McFarlane g...@exponential.org.uk

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi Tim
I've set this up according to the instructions, I think, but still can't 
get the files to be spoken. I see the .talk files but they do not get 
spoken. I've also been into the settings and tried activating the 'use 
talk files' with and without directory and file speaking with spelling.
Is there another setting to set or is there another file or language I 
need to put onto the root directory of the Sansa?

Thanks for any response.
Gordon
- Original Message - 
From: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



You need to download voicebox. You can get it from:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/VoiceHowto/voiceBox+.zip
After that, just read the documentation. Everything should become clear 
after that.


Feel free to contact me on or off list.


- Original Message - 
From: G. McFarlane g...@exponential.org.uk

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi John
Would you be able to describe how to make the files speak their names 
rather than spell them or just give a number which I believe is what 
Rock Box does to files and folders?
I believe there's a procedure to follow but can't seem to get to grips 
with this.

Thanks.
Gordon McFarlane
- Original Message - 
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com

To: pC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 3:26 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250





Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:20:16 -0400
To: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

Timothy,

Please tell me how I go about extracting the rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip 
file to the root of the player's drive.  When I click on the filename 
on my desktop, it opens to a Rockbox folder.  When I click on that, it 
simply opens up a list of files.  What do I do with this list of files?


Thanks,

John


At 09:10 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote:
To my knowledge, the rockbox utility - rbutilrq - is not accessible to 
VI users. I will be doing some testing on it later.


Since you use a Sansa E250, you need to download the following:
The rockbox firmware 
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip
The bootloader: 
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/sandisk-sansa/sansapatcher/win32/sansapatcher.exe
The voice file: 
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/sansae200-3.2-english.zip


After you have downloaded the above, do the following:
1. Make sure the hold switch is not on hold. Face the player so that 
the headphone jack is pointing away from you. The scrol wheel should 
be closest to you. Move the switch on the left of the headphone jack 
to the left if it is not already there. Connect your mp3 player to 
your PC.


2. make sure you can access the player. This is to ensure that the 
player is in MSC mode. It usually is already in MSC mode. To make 
sure, disconnect the player, have a sited person turn on the player, 
go to Settings -- USB Mode, and press select on MSC.


3. Extract the rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip file to the root of the 
player's drive.


4. Run the bootloader, and follow the instructions. It will first look 
for your player. Then you press I for install, followed by the enter 
key. After a few seconds, it will finish installing. It will say

[INFO] Bootloader installed successfully.
Press ENTER to exit sansapatcher
Press enter.

5. Extract the sansae200-3.2-english.zip file to the root of your 
player's directory.


6. Disconnect the player, and it should come up talking. Make sure you 
have headphones connected!


HTH,
Timothy


- Original Message - From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
To: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi Timothy,

Thanks for the prompt reply.  I found a Sansa E250 with a 2gb micro 
SD card for under $40.  Since almost everything is accessible with 
RockBox, I'll pick it up tomorrow morning.  I already downloaded the 
latest RockBox to install onto the Sansa.  Anything I need to know to 
help me make the installation go smoothly to get everything working 
right?  The reason why I ask, the file I downloaded ended up being 
called rbutilqt-v1.2.zip.  Do you know if this is the right file to 
have downloaded?


Thank you,

John

At 07:27 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote:
I believe I was. I'm

Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

2009-04-19 Thread Christopher Chaltain
I'm not timothy, and I don't know how CDex came up in this thread, but 
CDex and VoiceBox are not the same thing. Voicebox will use the default 
voice you have set up in windows to create voice clips for your files 
and folders. If rockbox sees these voice clips it'll use them instead of 
numbering or spelling the files and folders on your Sansa.


The way I usually use voiceBox is to copy the music I want to over to my 
Sansa and then I bring up voicebox. I set the target to the directory I 
have created on my Sansa and then I click the run VoiceBox button. this 
will recursively go through the files and folders on the Sansa creating 
voice clips for the files and folders which don't currently have voice 
clips.


As timothy said, this program is very simple, straightforward and easy 
to use. If you download it, read the documentation and give it a try, I 
doubt you'll have any trouble with it.


Kenbu wrote:
Hello there Timothy;  I have cd ex, but don't know how to config it!  
Also, this Voice software, I think it is, does it do the same job as 
cd ex? TXS; Ken B

- Original Message - From: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



You need to download voicebox. You can get it from:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/VoiceHowto/voiceBox+.zip
After that, just read the documentation. Everything should become clear
after that.

Feel free to contact me on or off list.


- Original Message - From: G. McFarlane 
g...@exponential.org.uk

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi John
Would you be able to describe how to make the files speak their names
rather than spell them or just give a number which I believe is what 
Rock

Box does to files and folders?
I believe there's a procedure to follow but can't seem to get to grips
with this.
Thanks.
Gordon McFarlane
- Original Message - From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
To: pC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 3:26 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250





Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:20:16 -0400
To: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

Timothy,

Please tell me how I go about extracting the 
rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip
file to the root of the player's drive.  When I click on the 
filename on

my desktop, it opens to a Rockbox folder.  When I click on that, it
simply opens up a list of files.  What do I do with this list of 
files?


Thanks,

John


At 09:10 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote:
To my knowledge, the rockbox utility - rbutilrq - is not 
accessible to

VI users. I will be doing some testing on it later.

Since you use a Sansa E250, you need to download the following:
The rockbox firmware
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip
The bootloader:
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/sandisk-sansa/sansapatcher/win32/sansapatcher.exe 


The voice file:
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/sansae200-3.2-english.zip

After you have downloaded the above, do the following:
1. Make sure the hold switch is not on hold. Face the player so 
that the

headphone jack is pointing away from you. The scrol wheel should be
closest to you. Move the switch on the left of the headphone jack 
to the

left if it is not already there. Connect your mp3 player to your PC.

2. make sure you can access the player. This is to ensure that the
player is in MSC mode. It usually is already in MSC mode. To make 
sure,

disconnect the player, have a sited person turn on the player, go to
Settings -- USB Mode, and press select on MSC.

3. Extract the rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip file to the root of the
player's drive.

4. Run the bootloader, and follow the instructions. It will first 
look

for your player. Then you press I for install, followed by the enter
key. After a few seconds, it will finish installing. It will say
[INFO] Bootloader installed successfully.
Press ENTER to exit sansapatcher
Press enter.

5. Extract the sansae200-3.2-english.zip file to the root of your
player's directory.

6. Disconnect the player, and it should come up talking. Make 
sure you

have headphones connected!

HTH,
Timothy


- Original Message - From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
To: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi Timothy,

Thanks for the prompt reply.  I found a Sansa E250 with a 2gb 
micro SD

card for under $40.  Since almost everything is accessible with
RockBox, I'll pick it up tomorrow morning.  I already downloaded 
the
latest RockBox to install onto the Sansa.  Anything I need to 
know to

help me make the installation go smoothly to get everything working
right?  The reason why I ask, the file

Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

2009-04-18 Thread Timothy

You need to download voicebox. You can get it from:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/VoiceHowto/voiceBox+.zip
After that, just read the documentation. Everything should become clear 
after that.


Feel free to contact me on or off list.


- Original Message - 
From: G. McFarlane g...@exponential.org.uk

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi John
Would you be able to describe how to make the files speak their names 
rather than spell them or just give a number which I believe is what Rock 
Box does to files and folders?
I believe there's a procedure to follow but can't seem to get to grips 
with this.

Thanks.
Gordon McFarlane
- Original Message - 
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com

To: pC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 3:26 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250





Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:20:16 -0400
To: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

Timothy,

Please tell me how I go about extracting the rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip 
file to the root of the player's drive.  When I click on the filename on 
my desktop, it opens to a Rockbox folder.  When I click on that, it 
simply opens up a list of files.  What do I do with this list of files?


Thanks,

John


At 09:10 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote:
To my knowledge, the rockbox utility - rbutilrq - is not accessible to 
VI users. I will be doing some testing on it later.


Since you use a Sansa E250, you need to download the following:
The rockbox firmware 
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip
The bootloader: 
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/sandisk-sansa/sansapatcher/win32/sansapatcher.exe
The voice file: 
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/sansae200-3.2-english.zip


After you have downloaded the above, do the following:
1. Make sure the hold switch is not on hold. Face the player so that the 
headphone jack is pointing away from you. The scrol wheel should be 
closest to you. Move the switch on the left of the headphone jack to the 
left if it is not already there. Connect your mp3 player to your PC.


2. make sure you can access the player. This is to ensure that the 
player is in MSC mode. It usually is already in MSC mode. To make sure, 
disconnect the player, have a sited person turn on the player, go to 
Settings -- USB Mode, and press select on MSC.


3. Extract the rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip file to the root of the 
player's drive.


4. Run the bootloader, and follow the instructions. It will first look 
for your player. Then you press I for install, followed by the enter 
key. After a few seconds, it will finish installing. It will say

[INFO] Bootloader installed successfully.
Press ENTER to exit sansapatcher
Press enter.

5. Extract the sansae200-3.2-english.zip file to the root of your 
player's directory.


6. Disconnect the player, and it should come up talking. Make sure you 
have headphones connected!


HTH,
Timothy


- Original Message - From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
To: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi Timothy,

Thanks for the prompt reply.  I found a Sansa E250 with a 2gb micro SD 
card for under $40.  Since almost everything is accessible with 
RockBox, I'll pick it up tomorrow morning.  I already downloaded the 
latest RockBox to install onto the Sansa.  Anything I need to know to 
help me make the installation go smoothly to get everything working 
right?  The reason why I ask, the file I downloaded ended up being 
called rbutilqt-v1.2.zip.  Do you know if this is the right file to 
have downloaded?


Thank you,

John

At 07:27 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote:
I believe I was. I'm not sure on how to write the tutorial. I'm more 
of a question answer guy.


When you install rockbox on your Sansa E250 v1 mp3 player, everything 
will be acessible except for the games, and the recording screen. What 
I mean by accessible is, that it will not speak.


The recording screen is completely usable. It just takes a tiny bit of 
memorization. I use it almost every week. It can record both from the 
microphone and from the FM radio. The only thing you cannot control 
with speech is the volume sliders on the record screen. You can, 
however change the bitrate, format, an record source.


Hope that answers your question.

If you can ask me spesefic questions, I'd probably be able to write up 
a tutorial eventually. Just ask away!


From,
Timothy

- Original Message - From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
To: tmthywy...@aol.com
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi Timothy,

Are you the gentleman who was willing to help a chap like myself get 
RockBox installed on my Sansa E250 version 1 MP3 player?


I

Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

2009-04-18 Thread Kenbu
Hello there Timothy;  I have cd ex, but don't know how to config it!  Also, 
this Voice software, I think it is, does it do the same job as cd ex? TXS; 
Ken B
- Original Message - 
From: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



You need to download voicebox. You can get it from:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/VoiceHowto/voiceBox+.zip
After that, just read the documentation. Everything should become clear
after that.

Feel free to contact me on or off list.


- Original Message - 
From: G. McFarlane g...@exponential.org.uk

To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi John
Would you be able to describe how to make the files speak their names
rather than spell them or just give a number which I believe is what Rock
Box does to files and folders?
I believe there's a procedure to follow but can't seem to get to grips
with this.
Thanks.
Gordon McFarlane
- Original Message - 
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com

To: pC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 3:26 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250





Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:20:16 -0400
To: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

Timothy,

Please tell me how I go about extracting the rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip
file to the root of the player's drive.  When I click on the filename on
my desktop, it opens to a Rockbox folder.  When I click on that, it
simply opens up a list of files.  What do I do with this list of files?

Thanks,

John


At 09:10 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote:

To my knowledge, the rockbox utility - rbutilrq - is not accessible to
VI users. I will be doing some testing on it later.

Since you use a Sansa E250, you need to download the following:
The rockbox firmware
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip
The bootloader:
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/sandisk-sansa/sansapatcher/win32/sansapatcher.exe
The voice file:
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/sansae200-3.2-english.zip

After you have downloaded the above, do the following:
1. Make sure the hold switch is not on hold. Face the player so that 
the

headphone jack is pointing away from you. The scrol wheel should be
closest to you. Move the switch on the left of the headphone jack to 
the

left if it is not already there. Connect your mp3 player to your PC.

2. make sure you can access the player. This is to ensure that the
player is in MSC mode. It usually is already in MSC mode. To make sure,
disconnect the player, have a sited person turn on the player, go to
Settings -- USB Mode, and press select on MSC.

3. Extract the rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip file to the root of the
player's drive.

4. Run the bootloader, and follow the instructions. It will first look
for your player. Then you press I for install, followed by the enter
key. After a few seconds, it will finish installing. It will say
[INFO] Bootloader installed successfully.
Press ENTER to exit sansapatcher
Press enter.

5. Extract the sansae200-3.2-english.zip file to the root of your
player's directory.

6. Disconnect the player, and it should come up talking. Make sure you
have headphones connected!

HTH,
Timothy


- Original Message - From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
To: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi Timothy,

Thanks for the prompt reply.  I found a Sansa E250 with a 2gb micro SD
card for under $40.  Since almost everything is accessible with
RockBox, I'll pick it up tomorrow morning.  I already downloaded the
latest RockBox to install onto the Sansa.  Anything I need to know to
help me make the installation go smoothly to get everything working
right?  The reason why I ask, the file I downloaded ended up being
called rbutilqt-v1.2.zip.  Do you know if this is the right file to
have downloaded?

Thank you,

John

At 07:27 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote:

I believe I was. I'm not sure on how to write the tutorial. I'm more
of a question answer guy.

When you install rockbox on your Sansa E250 v1 mp3 player, everything
will be acessible except for the games, and the recording screen. 
What

I mean by accessible is, that it will not speak.

The recording screen is completely usable. It just takes a tiny bit 
of

memorization. I use it almost every week. It can record both from the
microphone and from the FM radio. The only thing you cannot control
with speech is the volume sliders on the record screen. You can,
however change the bitrate, format, an record source.

Hope that answers your question.

If you can ask me spesefic questions, I'd probably be able to write 
up

a tutorial eventually. Just ask away!

From

Fwd: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

2009-04-17 Thread John Chilelli



Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:20:16 -0400
To: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

Timothy,

Please tell me how I go about extracting the 
rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip file to the root of the player's 
drive.  When I click on the filename on my desktop, it opens to a 
Rockbox folder.  When I click on that, it simply opens up a list of 
files.  What do I do with this list of files?


Thanks,

John


At 09:10 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote:
To my knowledge, the rockbox utility - rbutilrq - is not accessible 
to VI users. I will be doing some testing on it later.


Since you use a Sansa E250, you need to download the following:
The rockbox firmware 
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip
The bootloader: 
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/sandisk-sansa/sansapatcher/win32/sansapatcher.exe
The voice file: 
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/sansae200-3.2-english.zip


After you have downloaded the above, do the following:
1. Make sure the hold switch is not on hold. Face the player so 
that the headphone jack is pointing away from you. The scrol wheel 
should be closest to you. Move the switch on the left of the 
headphone jack to the left if it is not already there. Connect your 
mp3 player to your PC.


2. make sure you can access the player. This is to ensure that the 
player is in MSC mode. It usually is already in MSC mode. To make 
sure, disconnect the player, have a sited person turn on the 
player, go to Settings -- USB Mode, and press select on MSC.


3. Extract the rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip file to the root of the 
player's drive.


4. Run the bootloader, and follow the instructions. It will first 
look for your player. Then you press I for install, followed by the 
enter key. After a few seconds, it will finish installing. It will say

[INFO] Bootloader installed successfully.
Press ENTER to exit sansapatcher
Press enter.

5. Extract the sansae200-3.2-english.zip file to the root of your 
player's directory.


6. Disconnect the player, and it should come up talking. Make sure 
you have headphones connected!


HTH,
Timothy


- Original Message - From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
To: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi Timothy,

Thanks for the prompt reply.  I found a Sansa E250 with a 2gb 
micro SD card for under $40.  Since almost everything is 
accessible with RockBox, I'll pick it up tomorrow morning.  I 
already downloaded the latest RockBox to install onto the 
Sansa.  Anything I need to know to help me make the installation 
go smoothly to get everything working right?  The reason why I 
ask, the file I downloaded ended up being called 
rbutilqt-v1.2.zip.  Do you know if this is the right file to have downloaded?


Thank you,

John

At 07:27 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote:
I believe I was. I'm not sure on how to write the tutorial. I'm 
more of a question answer guy.


When you install rockbox on your Sansa E250 v1 mp3 player, 
everything will be acessible except for the games, and the 
recording screen. What I mean by accessible is, that it will not speak.


The recording screen is completely usable. It just takes a tiny 
bit of memorization. I use it almost every week. It can record 
both from the microphone and from the FM radio. The only thing 
you cannot control with speech is the volume sliders on the 
record screen. You can, however change the bitrate, format, an record source.


Hope that answers your question.

If you can ask me spesefic questions, I'd probably be able to 
write up a tutorial eventually. Just ask away!


From,
Timothy

- Original Message - From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
To: tmthywy...@aol.com
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi Timothy,

Are you the gentleman who was willing to help a chap like myself 
get RockBox installed on my Sansa E250 version 1 MP3 player?


I was also wondering just how accessible RockBox makes the E250 
once installed on the unit?


Thank you,

John

At 08:51 AM 2/15/2009, you wrote:
Yes it will. All Sansa c200, e200 and e200R series will work 
with rockbox.


You can find more info at:
www.rockbox.org

- Original Message -
From: Julio jmoro...@ca.rr.com
To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 4:16 AM
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-270


have you herd of the Sansa e 250 and will that one work with rock box?
- Original Message -
From: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-270


 Yes. I have a Sansa-E270 with rockbox 3.0 on it. The voice I
have  loaded
 for
 the menus and everything is Acapella Heather American English.
I also  have
 VW Kate for V 3.0. I can give you instructions on how to
install

Re: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

2009-04-17 Thread G. McFarlane

Hi John
Would you be able to describe how to make the files speak their names rather 
than spell them or just give a number which I believe is what Rock Box does 
to files and folders?
I believe there's a procedure to follow but can't seem to get to grips with 
this.

Thanks.
Gordon McFarlane
- Original Message - 
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com

To: pC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 3:26 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250





Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:20:16 -0400
To: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250

Timothy,

Please tell me how I go about extracting the rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip 
file to the root of the player's drive.  When I click on the filename on 
my desktop, it opens to a Rockbox folder.  When I click on that, it simply 
opens up a list of files.  What do I do with this list of files?


Thanks,

John


At 09:10 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote:
To my knowledge, the rockbox utility - rbutilrq - is not accessible to VI 
users. I will be doing some testing on it later.


Since you use a Sansa E250, you need to download the following:
The rockbox firmware 
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip
The bootloader: 
http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/sandisk-sansa/sansapatcher/win32/sansapatcher.exe
The voice file: 
http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.2/sansae200-3.2-english.zip


After you have downloaded the above, do the following:
1. Make sure the hold switch is not on hold. Face the player so that the 
headphone jack is pointing away from you. The scrol wheel should be 
closest to you. Move the switch on the left of the headphone jack to the 
left if it is not already there. Connect your mp3 player to your PC.


2. make sure you can access the player. This is to ensure that the player 
is in MSC mode. It usually is already in MSC mode. To make sure, 
disconnect the player, have a sited person turn on the player, go to 
Settings -- USB Mode, and press select on MSC.


3. Extract the rockbox-sansae200-3.2.zip file to the root of the player's 
drive.


4. Run the bootloader, and follow the instructions. It will first look 
for your player. Then you press I for install, followed by the enter key. 
After a few seconds, it will finish installing. It will say

[INFO] Bootloader installed successfully.
Press ENTER to exit sansapatcher
Press enter.

5. Extract the sansae200-3.2-english.zip file to the root of your 
player's directory.


6. Disconnect the player, and it should come up talking. Make sure you 
have headphones connected!


HTH,
Timothy


- Original Message - From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
To: Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi Timothy,

Thanks for the prompt reply.  I found a Sansa E250 with a 2gb micro SD 
card for under $40.  Since almost everything is accessible with RockBox, 
I'll pick it up tomorrow morning.  I already downloaded the latest 
RockBox to install onto the Sansa.  Anything I need to know to help me 
make the installation go smoothly to get everything working right?  The 
reason why I ask, the file I downloaded ended up being called 
rbutilqt-v1.2.zip.  Do you know if this is the right file to have 
downloaded?


Thank you,

John

At 07:27 PM 4/13/2009, you wrote:
I believe I was. I'm not sure on how to write the tutorial. I'm more of 
a question answer guy.


When you install rockbox on your Sansa E250 v1 mp3 player, everything 
will be acessible except for the games, and the recording screen. What 
I mean by accessible is, that it will not speak.


The recording screen is completely usable. It just takes a tiny bit of 
memorization. I use it almost every week. It can record both from the 
microphone and from the FM radio. The only thing you cannot control 
with speech is the volume sliders on the record screen. You can, 
however change the bitrate, format, an record source.


Hope that answers your question.

If you can ask me spesefic questions, I'd probably be able to write up 
a tutorial eventually. Just ask away!


From,
Timothy

- Original Message - From: John Chilelli j...@neo.rr.com
To: tmthywy...@aol.com
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa-E250



Hi Timothy,

Are you the gentleman who was willing to help a chap like myself get 
RockBox installed on my Sansa E250 version 1 MP3 player?


I was also wondering just how accessible RockBox makes the E250 once 
installed on the unit?


Thank you,

John

At 08:51 AM 2/15/2009, you wrote:
Yes it will. All Sansa c200, e200 and e200R series will work with 
rockbox.


You can find more info at:
www.rockbox.org

- Original Message -
From: Julio jmoro...@ca.rr.com
To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 4:16 AM
Subject: Re: Working with the Sandisk Sansa