User's Manual

BrailleNote Apex QT User Guide
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17 Media Center.
This Chapter covers the Media features offered in KeySoft. These include the Media Player and
audio recording functions.
17.1 Media Player.
The KeySoft Media Player allows you to play music, readings and any other audio in a range of
media formats, on your BrailleNote Apex QT.
The Media Player is accessed from the Media Center menu found on the Main Menu. Alternatively,
you can go directly to it from anywhere in KeySoft by pressing FUNCTION with M.
You can play just about any size of media file from either the BrailleNote QT itself or a storage
card or memory drive. When the track is playing, you can skip back and forward through it, stop,
pause or resume the track as you wish.
As well as playing single tracks, you can play M3U playlists, allowing you to listen to continuous
audio. And streaming audio off the internet is also possible.
Other features include volume control that operates independently of speech, changing tasks with
one keystroke, track information and the ability to listen to the audio track in the background while
performing other tasks in KeySoft.
This section describes the features and their uses in detail.
17.1.1 Supported File Types.
The Media Player can play media files with the following extensions: wma, wav, mp3, mpa, snd,
aif, aiff, aifc, wmv, au, wax, wmx, wvx and asx.
It can also play M3U playlist files. This is discussed more fully in 17.1.9 Playlist files.
17.1.2 Storing media files on the BrailleNote QT.
You can store media files anywhere you would store any other file. However as they can be large
files, you may find it most convenient to save them on a storage card.
You can transfer media files from a PC onto a storage card plugged into your BrailleNote QT via
ActiveSync or network client, load them directly onto a storage card using a card reader/writer, or
download them directly off the Internet using the web browser on your BrailleNote QT.
While it is possible to play a media file on the BrailleNote QT while it is still located on a network,
please be aware that the sound quality will be impacted by any variations in the network, just as it is
when using a PC based media player. A much better quality sound can be achieved by copying the
file to a storage card in one of the ways listed above.