Bob,

What kind of thumb drives?  Some work well with the player and others do 
not.  NLS recommends Kingston data travelers.  At first, I tried what I had 
here.  Don't recall the brand but it didn't work.  So I bought a 2-gig data 
traveler and it works perfectly. I don't think it's imperative that the 
books be in separate folders as far as the machine is concerned. It's just 
that it makes deleting a book much easier that way.  As for the cartridge 
error, I think that's just the message you'd get with any storage device, 
cartridge or thumb drive.Lou
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Heiser" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: Good Old "QST" in Digital Form, Finally I'm in the 21ST 
Century.


> Hello Martain,
> I have a thumb drive for my N L S player it is an 8 gig drive.
> My friend bought a 16 gig thumb drive for his N L S player.
> He downloaded 3 N L S books, unzipped them and copied them to his thumb
> drive under a folder books.
> I wonder if the folder structure is the problem?
> Most of the time, when he puts the thumb drive in to the player, it does 
> not
> seem to see it as the player says Cartridge error as though there is not 
> a
> cartridge in the player.
> Have any ideas for the cartridge error message?
> Thank you.
> Bob Heiser
> K9BOB
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Martin McCormick" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 11:16 AM
> Subject: Good Old "QST" in Digital Form, Finally I'm in the 21ST Century.
>
>
>>I got a little box from my regional library last Friday
>> containing one of the NLS digital players. One of the librarians
>> there in Oklahoma City emailed me what I needed to sign up for
>> the NLS bard site and I got the authorization to download on
>> Monday.
>>
>> The February "QST" is apparently not ready for
>> distribution yet, but I did download "QST" for January which I
>> already had on tape to see what it is like and also to
>> demonstrate the new technology for my local  radio club. It all
>> worked beautifully. The audio is perfect for voice. This is the
>> cat's miaow, isn't it.
>>
>> I discovered that the NLS players remember your place in
>> more than one book. I had downloaded a different Talking Book
>> from bard and had read up to Chapter 4 in that book. I expected
>> to loose my place there when I not only removed the thumb drive
>> but removed the book that I had put on it and put in the "QST"
>> on the same drive.
>>
>> Last night, I removed the "QST" from the thumb drive and
>> replaced it with the other Talking Book again and discovered
>> that the player still rememberred it was at the beginning of
>> Chapter 4. Pretty neat!
>>
>> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
>> Systems Engineer
>> OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group