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Answer» Can I somehow transfer my own text to an MP3 player? I have a device with e-book capability and I wondered if I could make text notes using this. The only info I can find refer to music, e-book, or video files. When you plug your mp3 player into a computer using a USB lead you should see it showing up as a drive letter, probably with folders under that drive letter. Some of these probably hold music albums. Possibly the mp3 player already has folders created for music, SPEECH notes, e-books etc. Check this out. what comes up when I connect the device is "Removable disk (E:)" with the option "open folder to view files", and this just shows what's already loaded. Why don't you copy a text file from your computer into there? That's what I was suggesting before. I have tried a text file - MS Word "rich text format" - and sent that to the device folder, but that is just listed there as a text document. I can't figure out any way of getting it on to my mp3. It's not at all IMPORTANT - I was curious to find out if it could be done. I've tried the voice recorder and spoken the note I wanted and that has worked fine.Quote from: silkie on July 07, 2013, 02:03:23 AM I have tried a text file - MS Word "rich text format" - and sent that to the device folder, but that is just listed there as a text document. I can't figure out any way of getting it on to my mp3. If it is in the folder, then it is in the mp3 player's file storage. It won't get transformed into an mp3 so you can hear the words. Some mp3 PLAYERS have an e-book feature where you can view the words of a text file on the mp3 player's screen. I thought that was what you wanted to do. That was what I wanted to do - to see the printed text on my device. Even though the file is listed in the device folder on my pc and both are connected there is no file listed in the e-book function on my player. I'll have a careful look at my User's Manual, I must be doing something wrong.Quote from: silkie on July 07, 2013, 03:10:40 AM That was what I wanted to do - to see the printed text on my device. Even though the file is listed in the device folder on my pc and both are connected there is no file listed in the e-book function on my player. I'll have a careful look at my User's Manual, I must be doing something wrong. I have a "Coby" mp3 player, a fairly cheap Chinese model, and it will show (plain text) .txt files and maybe certain others I believe. It is possible that your player will not read rich text format files. Also like many others my player has a folder structure on the internal storage - there are top level folders with names like PHOTO, VIDEO, MUSIC, VOICE, TEXT etc and you have to put files directly (or in subfolders) under the right top folder, if not the player may not see them and offer them to you to view or play. So yes, study the manual and any folder structure on the device. Possibly you could tell us the brand and model of your player? My mp3 player is Kubik Evo 8GB - very neat little device I've had for a couple of weeks and not yet very familiar with. It must be similar to the model you have, with the functions you quoted. Looking at the manual I see that the e-book option supports .txt format text, as you intimated, so I'll try to do something with that.Another thing to think about is that mp3 players have (so to speak) a little brain inside that keeps track of what media files are stored. When I add files to my Coby it needs to update its library before I can view or play them, it does this when you power it on. It detects that files have been added or REMOVED and offers to update the library (you have to select 'Yes' or 'No') but my previous 2 mp3 players did it automatically without asking. Whichever way, each player needs to be disconnected from the computer and powered up from cold otherwise new files are not seen. [update - I saw your reply - your player and mine look very similar, I wouldn't be surprised if they work very much the same] From a review I found: Quote The player comes with folders for Music, eBooks, Photos and Videos http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/portable-mp3-player/kubik-evo-8gb/1536784/ The screen is only 160 pixels by 128 so you are not going to see a lot of words at a time, and I can imagine that reading a whole novel would be a pain in the *censored*, but you can have fun trying. There are lots (thousands) of free e-books in text format around, a good place to start is Project Gutenberg. I read the review you sent the link for, and agree with everything said there. The e-book function is ludicrous with such a small screen (I also had "The Complete Works of Shakespeare"!), but although it has it's faults, it does me very well as I use it exclusively for audiobooks and some radio. I'll keep plugging away until I master the unhelpful controls. Thanks again for your comments. |
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