Technical data

3.2. Data management via computer
Before you can listen to your music files, text or book files, you have to load the content on
Milestone‘s SD card or the internal memory. You can copy the files from your computer to
Milestone 312 via the supplied USB cable and build your own folder structure to organize
your files. You find the description of how to do this here. Milestone 312 is completely open
to work with any folder structure. No restrictions in terms of folder names or subdirectory
levels apply.
3.2.1. M312 drives on your computer
Connect Milestone 312 physically to your PC, via the provided USB cable, as described
under “USB connection to the computer” in this manual. Milestone‘s memories appear as
additional drives on your PC in the same way as an USB memory stick. One drive has the
name “M312”. This is the 1GB internal memory (0.74 GB accessible for user). The other
one is the SD card plugged into your Milestone 312. Its name depends on the SD card. Be
aware that if no SD card is connected into your M312 and you create a connection to the
computer, only the internal memory will appear. Usually we use the external memory to
download files, because the internal memory is limited in space.
When you have finished the transfer, disconnect M312 or the SD card properly from your
computer, as you would also do with an USB stick.
3.2.2. Create a folder structure via computer
On the internal and on the external memory you can create free structures of folders and
subfolders to file your music, voice recordings etc. You can type a name for each folder for
quick identification. In addition, this is a neat way to help navigate through your structure
later on Milestone 312, because it can read and announce these names with its integrated
Text To Speech function.
If you have a sighted person who is helping you study this manual, an example of a folder
structure can be found in the picture below, or else this picture is explained in the following
paragraph.
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