Listening to Music with your Springboard Lite.
NOTICE: PRC reminds you that MP3, WAV and WMA files fall under the jurisdiction of all copyright laws.
If you have sound files stored on a USB flash drive or a Secure Digital card, you can play them on the SpringBoard. Plug the flash drive or secure digital card into your SpringBoard, open the MP3 PLAYER MENU in the Toolbox and select the options you want. You can simply play all the songs on your flash drive or SD card; you can create playlists; you can skip and repeat songs; you can talk while the songs are playing; and many other options. In the following pages you will learn how to use the MP3 PLAYER MENU in order to listen to your songs.
In order to play music files on your SpringBoard, you must have an SD Card or USB flash drive with songs on them plugged into the SpringBoard. While music is playing, you may use the Springboard as you normally would.
Important Note: The maximum size for USB Flash Drives is 8GB (may need to be formatted as a FAT 32) and the maximum size for Secure Digital Cards is 2GB for Memory Transfers or playing sound files in PRC Devices. If trying to use a removeable disk larger than recommended, the device may not recognize the disk.
Go to the Toolbox and activate the MP3 PLAYER MENU.
Options
Repeat: OFF/1/AL
If this option is OFF, no songs will repeat. If ALL is selected, an entire playlist, or all the songs on a flash drive or SD card, will repeat. Select 1 to repeat the song that is currently playing. This song will repeat until you select Stop, Next or Previous.
Play Source: AUTO/Playlist/SD Card/USB Disk
This tells the SpringBoard where to find your songs. Select AUTO for most occasions.
AUTO The SpringBoard will play the current Playlist. If no Playlist is loaded, it will look for songs on the USB drive or SD card. If both are plugged into the SpringBoard, it will select the device that was plugged in last.
SB Card/USB Disk If you select this option, the SpringBoard will play every song on the card or disk.
Playlist SpringBoard will play the playlist that is currently loaded. If none is loaded, you will hear a beep, reminding you to load a Playlist.
Earphones Select this option if you have earphones plugged into the SpringBoard.
EQ Volume This equalizes the volume level between different sound files. It also lowers the sound volume when you want to speak while music is playing. This option is independent of the speech volume.
Bass & Treble: These options allow you to customize the bass and treble sound levels.
Play
The SpringBoards will play songs according to how the Play Source is set: AUTO/Playlist/SD Card/USB Disk. Unless you press Stop, music will continue to play until all the songs on the playlist have been played.. You can also pause a song by pressing Play while the song is playing.
Stop
Select this to stop listening to music.
Previous & Next:
Select Previous to listen to the song before the one currently playing.
Select Next to listen to the song that follows the one currently playing.
Playlist This option allows you to create one or more playlists. See the next page for further information.
Speech Break: Pause/Stop/OFF
This option controls what happens when you speak while a song is playing. If you select Pause, the music will pause while you speak.
When you stop speaking, the music will begin playing again. If you select Stop, the music will stop altogether. To listen to it, you must go back into the menu and select Play. If you select OFF, the music will continue to play while you speak. OFF means "no speech break".
There are three new insertable tools for listening to music: PLAY DRIVE, PLAY FILE and PLAY PLAYLIST. You can store each tool, along with a link to your songs, on your overlay using one of the storing menus. Note: You must have your play source inserted into the SpringBoard Lite before trying to store these tools.
PLAY DRIVE allows you to select either the USB flash drive or the SD card to listen to when both devices are plugged into your SpringBoard.
PLAY FILE allows you store a link to one song under a key or sequence.
PLAY PLAYLIST allows you store a link to an entire playlist under a key or sequence.
For example, you might have a song you are really crazy about at the moment. You could store the PLAY FILE tool, select the song you want to link to, and then activate the key or sequence you used on your overlay to hear the song as often as you wanted.