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Speech Problems with 5Th Gen Ipod (30 GB)

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ryran:
The 7z format is open-source.. you can get the 7-zip program for windows here, from 7-zip.org. It of course does zip and rar 'n whatnot at least as well as the most popular archivers.

That really was just an fyi though.. since I had a minute, I went ahead and extracted those and updated the wiki page. Hope they work right and it was okay that I did that--if there are any problems, we can always revert the wiki.

Llorean:
Well, the most important question is what is the licensing on those files? Are they legally redistributable, and did you have permission to distribute them?

wesderby:
I unzipped them using PowerArchiver (after the trial, I'll likely download the 7-Zip program instead), and they show the "missing" menu items...However, still no speech on the "Database".  When I select "Database", I hear silence. If I scroll the wheel again, it says "Database", but if I select this, it just takes me back to the main menu.

As far as I know, I've initialized the database.  I selected "Initialize", but it didn't give me any verbal clues that it was doing anything, nor was there a "yes" or "no" option spoken, so I can only assume it worked.
If anyone has a clue as to what I might be doing wrong, I'd appreciate it...I don't mind using the file browse since I've set my file and directory system up pretty well, but sometimes the Database would be a better way to browse a collection as large as mine.
 don't know who develops those voice files at this tbrn.net, but they do a great job of keeping up to date...Unfortunately, I didn't see a way to keep up-to-date on when new files are added there, so I've added it to my favorites and plan to check it with every upgrade.

pixelma:
It really sounds like your database wasn't initialized successfully, otherwise you would get "artist", "album artist" voiced - even if it's not in your voice file it will at least be spelled if that is enabled.

Initializing the database can take a while depending on the size of your music collection but doesn't give spoken feedback of when it's done. But during the process the harddrive has to spin all the time, so you should be able to either feel it in your hands or hear when the drive stops if you hold it close to your ear. After the drive stops it will need a reboot to be able to use the database and the first bootup afterwards will take a bit longer than usual.

You can easily access the database settings when you hold "select" longer on the "Database" option in the main menu. The settings screen will appear as if it was a context menu and you can choose "Initialize now". After you'll hopefully got it working, I'd recommend to also set the database to "Load to RAM" (browsing it will be faster) and to "Auto Update" which will detect changes to your files. The latter will also need "dircache" though to work properly and quickly.

wesderby:

--- Quote from: pixelma on June 15, 2007, 05:32:04 AM ---It really sounds like your database wasn't initialized successfully, otherwise you would get "artist", "album artist" voiced - even if it's not in your voice file it will at least be spelled if that is enabled.

Initializing the database can take a while depending on the size of your music collection but doesn't give spoken feedback of when it's done. But during the process the harddrive has to spin all the time, so you should be able to either feel it in your hands or hear when the drive stops if you hold it close to your ear. After the drive stops it will need a reboot to be able to use the database and the first bootup afterwards will take a bit longer than usual.

You can easily access the database settings when you hold "select" longer on the "Database" option in the main menu. The settings screen will appear as if it was a context menu and you can choose "Initialize now". After you'll hopefully got it working, I'd recommend to also set the database to "Load to RAM" (browsing it will be faster) and to "Auto Update" which will detect changes to your files. The latter will also need "dircache" though to work properly and quickly.

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Great...Thanks.  I'll give this a try; I probably just didn't wait long enough for it to finish initializing.

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