How to listen to Sheldon's messages

while away from your computer —

 

There’s a subject that I wish to address to all our listeners and readers. That subject is how to listen to the Sheldon Emry sermons while away from your computer.

 

Originally, when building the Sheldon Emry Memorial Library, we had to approach everything from a practical and economical standpoint.

 

As most of you are aware, cassette tapes are fast becoming obsolete. Even now it is almost impossible to buy an inexpensive tape player. Electronics is a fast evolving industry, with everything becoming smaller and solid-state. Even CD disc players are being replaced with more “modern” equipment.

 

Therefore, when we started digitizing Sheldon’s cassettes, we chose to put them on the internet in the form of MP3 files. This lets the listener have the option of either directly listening to their computer audio or saving to their own library that they can build on their hard-drive.

 

You can easily do this by making a file folder for each year covered by the tapes. Label them thusly:  Emry70 thru Emry85. You will have a total of 16 folders to download to.

 

Following the directions on the internet, simply download each tape into the folder for that year. When completed, the entire 16 years of Sheldon’s messages will occupy approximately 3.375 Gb of memory.

 

Now, how to listen to these messages while away from your computer:

 

Some will want to transfer to regular CD discs. While this can be done, it is a complicated way to go. It is impossible for us to do this for you.

 

You need to look at what’s available to you in the form of MP3 players. Check in your locality for stores that sell such items – such as WalMart, Radio Shack, Office Max, Staples, etc.

 

Buy over the counter where you can get instructions on using it and/or returning if it isn’t what you wanted. Also, don’t buy the cheap ones (around $25.00 each) Plan on spending around $100.00 or so for a name brand such as Sony. It should have a memory capacity of at least 4 Gb. They will attach to your computer via a USB port where they appear as another remote memory.

 

This means that this little device that you can drop into your shirt pocket will contain the entire 16 years of Sheldon’s messages! ! !

 

There’s another way for some of you that already own a CD “walkman” player that will accept the MP3 format.

 

With all the messages already on you own file and, assuming that your computer is equipped with a CD read/write drive, you can easily burn your own CD’s by choosing messages from your file and dropping them onto your disk burning program. With the typical CD having a capacity of 700 Mb, you can record 2 - 3 years of Sheldon's messages or, simply, have a disc for each year.

 

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