[access-uk] Re: Olympus Sonority
- From: "Jackie Brown" <jackieannbrown62@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:42:59 -0000
Hi Mike
I haven't installed the software that comes with the Olympus recorders
because I have heard it isn't particularly accessible. Mine comes up as a
mass storage device in Windows Explorer, and I am able to add or remove
files that way. If you have an additional micro SD card in the machine,
then the DM5 and one other removable drive is shown.
I don't know anything about the software, and what purpose it serves by
installing it.
Kind regards,
Jackie Brown
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Mike Ray
Sent: 10 November 2014 19:10
To: Access-UK
Subject: [access-uk] Olympus Sonority
Hello,
More gripes about the DM5, or in this case the Sonority software that
comes with it. Basically I don't think I have ever had the misfortune
to use a less intuitive piece of badly written software in my life.
Why do the authors of any kind of software to do with audio think it has
to break all the human interface standards that are out there?
I cannot get my DM5 to connect to Windows 7. Sometimes when I plug in
the USB it goes totally silent. I cannot find two of the options
mentioned in the manual. Basically my choices for USB settings are 'PC
connection', 'AC adaptor' or 'variable'. And at no time do I get the
quoted 'Storage' or 'composite' options presented to me.
So I cannot switch the thing into mass-storage device mode.
Also, 'initialization' of the micro SD card never seems to complete.
I have version 1.10 of the firmware, but of course without it being
connected I can't even update that.
This piece of kit is billed as being suitable for us blind folks but
it's a pity they forgot the principles of accessibility when they wrote
the rubbish software.
Mike
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Analyst/Programmer
Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
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