Audio files on Astak devices

[Robertb]

Originally Posted by citac

Thank you everyone for replying to my question.

I'm asking because a bunch of my friends have started recording their fiction (both fan and original), usually in m4b format because they can include covers with it. I don't have iTunes so I don't know whether remembering the position in a file depends on the software or the audio file itself. I often travel and since I can't read due to motion sickness, I listen to music and wondered if those files would be playable. It's not something I must have; I'm getting an ebook reader to read.

Dear citac:

Your motion sickness may be helped by the fact the Pocket PRO has Text-To-Speech (it reads to you and advances the pages automatically). This is particularly good for EPUB eBooks!! If you do a lot of traveling... try this.

Thank you for a fine post!

[citac]

Originally Posted by Robertb

Dear citac:

Your motion sickness may be helped by the fact the Pocket PRO has Text-To-Speech (it reads to you and advances the pages automatically). This is particularly good for EPUB eBooks!! If you do a lot of traveling... try this.

Thank you for a fine post!

Hm, I like that feature in theory, but what kind of quality is it? I mean, is it a computer type voice, or more naturally sounding?

[Stormchild]

Quite agree. I have a Diamond Rio500 (cant remember how old, 12 years?) that I use for portable music/audio books. It is not much bigger than an iPod, takes 1 AA battery that gives many hours life and it bookmarks both Audiobooks and music perfectly amongst many other functions. Playing MP3's on a Hanlin V5 or V3 reduces the battery life to as little as 5 hours. Why would you?

Ebook readers are for reading and you will love that.

[Stormchild]

It is a little basic but it works.

[citac]

Originally Posted by Stormchild

Quite agree. I have a Diamond Rio500 (cant remember how old, 12 years?) that I use for portable music/audio books. It is not much bigger than an iPod, takes 1 AA battery that gives many hours life and it bookmarks both Audiobooks and music perfectly amongst many other functions. Playing MP3's on a Hanlin V5 or V3 reduces the battery life to as little as 5 hours. Why would you?

Ebook readers are for reading and you will love that.

I didn't know that it reduces battery life that much. I guess I should stick to my player then, or try to find one that bookmarks the last position because the one I have doesn't. Thanks!

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Stormchild

Quite agree. I have a Diamond Rio500 (cant remember how old, 12 years?) that I use for portable music/audio books. It is not much bigger than an iPod, takes 1 AA battery that gives many hours life and it bookmarks both Audiobooks and music perfectly amongst many other functions. Playing MP3's on a Hanlin V5 or V3 reduces the battery life to as little as 5 hours. Why would you?

Ebook readers are for reading and you will love that.

Get some better headphones Setting Louder uses more battery.

I use Sony MDR V150, on the ear type and only used less than 2 bars (still flips 3-2) in an 8 hour work shift (with reading at Lunch break).

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by citac

Hm, interesting. I'll have to see how that's done.


That's perfectly fine. It would be nice to have, but is not a deal breaker.

Check out the ID3.org web site or see the metadata article in the wiki. I was wrong in that ID3 v2 tags are prepended (the old 1.1 tags are appended)

Dale

[Robertb]

Originally Posted by citac

Hm, I like that feature in theory, but what kind of quality is it? I mean, is it a computer type voice, or more naturally sounding?

Dear citac:

It works and works well. But it is a tiny bit like a machine voice as it is a machine after all. I try to stay clear of subjective appraisals as they instantly draw conflict.

For me, in my opinion, it is very easy to understand and listen to. Maybe a bit robotic... but easy enough to listen to.

[Javed]

Originally Posted by citac

Hm, I like that feature in theory, but what kind of quality is it? I mean, is it a computer type voice, or more naturally sounding?

Citac, hear it for yourself here. It is near the very bottom of the webpage.

[jusmee]

Originally Posted by AJ Starr

Some play by the order that the files are transferred to the device. I use Windows explorer and "drag and drop". When I Select the range of tracks, I noticed if I just "grabbed" somewhere in the middle of the selection, that would be the first tracks transferred, proceding to the end of the selection, then back to the beginning down to the one I had grabbed.
AJ

Yes, it's actually playing in the order they are stored in the File Allocation Table (FAT). I used to have a player that worked like this (simple ones often do), and I found there were utilities out there that let you sort/change the order in the table.