Have you ever wanted to listen to content from SAMNet while you're away from your PC? Now you can, if you have a
supported digital talking book player and a SAMNet subscription. Just connect your supported digital talking book
player to a PC running System Access - either from a key or installed on the computer, or open Internet Explorer and
visit www.satogo.com . Within minutes, you can transfer almost anything to your player, including described movies,
RSS feeds, podcasts, and email messages.
Bookport Plus: American Printing House for the Blind
BookSense and BookSense DS: HIMS, Inc.
Plextalk Pocket: Shinano Kenshi Corporation
Victor Reader Stream: Humanware
SAMNet if it is currently running, that your player has connected. Note that content may not be transfered directly
to an SD card using a card reader on the PC. 4. From within the SAMNet browser, find the content you want to transfer in exactly the same way you would if you
were going to listen to it on your PC. This could be a movie, the link to your new e-mail messages, an RSS feed, a
link to a particular podcast, and so on. 5. Do not press Enter as you normally would to open the content. Instead, press the Context key (immediately to the
left of the right Control key) or ShiftF10 to bring up a context menu. 6. Press the Down Arrow key until you encounter the menu item: Send to Digital Talking Book Player, where “Digital
Talking Book Player†is the name of the device you've connected. Press Enter, and the content will be transferred.
You will be notified when the transfer is complete. 7. To close the “Transfer Complete" window, press Enter on the Close button. 8. Turn your player off, and disconnect it from your PC. 9. Turn your player on, and enjoy your content.
When you transfer a movie to your player, you will find it in the same place you would typically find other talking
books. For example, on the Victor Reader Stream, this would be your Talking Books bookshelf. A synopsis and cast
list are included, read in your preferred SAMNet voice and at the speed you've set in SAMNet Preferences. You can
skip through this information quickly, if you like, by setting your player to move by level 1 headings and pressing
the appropriate navigation key to move forward through headings. For your convenience, there is also a level 1
heading every 30 minutes within each movie.
You should always use the same SD card when transfering content to your digital talking book player. If you switch
cards, you will no longer be able to play protected content on the first card. Also, you do not need to do anything
special to authorize your device to play this content; the SAMNet software takes care of that automatically.
If you want to transfer all articles in an RSS feed or section in your newspaper to your player, find that feed,
press the Context key or Shift+F10 and choose Send to Digital Talking Book Player, where the term “Digital Talking
Book Player†is replaced by the name of the device you've connected. To transfer a podcast episode or an individual
article, do the same thing when focused on the link to the specific episode or article you want to transfer. You
will find podcasts in the same place that you would typically find talking books or other materials that are not in
Daisy format. For example, on the Victor Reader Stream, this is the Other Books bookshelf. Articles you send to your
player will appear in the place where you would typically find text DAISY content. For example, on the Victor Reader
Stream, this is the Text bookshelf. Each article is saved as a separate HTML file. Note that Some players, such as
the BookSense from HIMS, have a Serotek folder specifically for content transferred from SAMNet.
You can transfer a single email message or all messages from a particular folder to your player, depending on the
link which has focus when you choose to do the transfer. Messages are stored as HTML files and are located in the
place where text DAISY content is usually stored.
You can send content from your Media Library to your digital talking book player. Open the media library, and choose
the option to browse the library. Next, find the playlist, folder or file you want to transfer, press the Context
key or Shift+F10, and choose Send to Digital Talking Book Player. You will find the content you've transfered in the
same place that music is typically stored on your unit. Note that you can use your home server to transfer music
from your Media Library to your player, even if you're away from home.
If your player is not connected to your PC, you can queue up material to send to it later. You do this by using the
Sync List. When you press the Context key or Shift+F10 while focused on a movie, podcast, etc, one of the choices on
the menu is Add to Sync List. Anything you can transfer to your digital talking book player when it is connected can
be added to the Sync List. Here's how to transfer the content from the sync list to your digital talking book
player.
is: “Sync With Digital Talking Book Player", where “Digital Talking Book Player†is the name of your connected
device. Below this option is a list of content you have added to your Sync List, with checkboxes beside each item.
These checkboxes can be used to delete an item from your list. Simply press the Spacebar to check the box, then tab
to the "delete button in the sync list. In addition, you can choose the Delete Protected Content option to remove
all protected content you have transfered to your player. 5. When you've removed any items from your sync list that you don't wish to transfer, press Enter on the Sync With
Digital Talking Book Player link. If you are transferring content from forums or RSS feeds, you may need to wait a
while for the next page to load. 6. The next page that loads contains three buttons: Edit Selections, Sync, and Back. You are also told how much data
you are about to send and how much free space is available. When you're ready to begin syncing, press Enter on the
Sync button. The content will be transferred to your digital talking book player. 7. Once the transfer is complete, press Enter on the Return to Sync List link, turn off your player, and disconnect
it. You can now play the content you have transferred. Once the transfer is complete, most items are deleted from
your sync list automatically. Feeds and e-mail folders are not, however, in case you want to transfer them again
later. If you do, they are refreshed so that you get the latest email messages and articles from your feeds. Old
articles are deleted during the sync.