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Everything you need to prepare an audio project and load it to the MegaVoice Herald audio player.
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  • Page 1 Your Audio Project Everything you need to prepare an audio project and load it to the MegaVoice Herald audio player. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 1 of 48...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Verifying the Intermediate Folder Structure ..................... 20 Building the 1 or 2 Level Folder Structure ......................21 Using the File Renaming Utility (optional) ......................22 Loading Audio Files to the Herald ..........................30 Connecting the Players ............................30 Loading the Audio using SaberCopy ........................31 Listen to the Message ............................
  • Page 3 Technical Support ..............................46 Troubleshooting ................................ 47 Troubleshooting continued… ..........................48 Resetting the player ............................48 Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 3 of 48...

  • Page 4: Table Of Figures

    Figure 4: Folder layout before/after renaming ......................29 Figure 5: USB connection diagram ..........................30 Figure 6: On/Off button............................... 37 Figure 7: Inserting a microSD card ..........................38 Figure 8: microSD USB adapter ........................... 40 Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 4 of 48...

  • Page 5: Glossary Of Terms

    Short press A quick press and release, a “click”. SLS cable A special USB data cable (available only from MegaVoice) used for programming MegaVoice players. The player memory can only be accessed using these cables. Unit A MegaVoice Herald player.

  • Page 6: Overview

    The MegaVoice Herald is designed to be less conspicuous and is powered by 2 AA batteries, making it ideal for creative access applications. The Herald may be ordered with or without an onboard speaker (located in the back of the unit).

  • Page 7: Folder Structure

    Folder Structure Structure Flexibility Herald is very flexible in its file structure and supports any of 3 levels of folders and files for organizing your audio messages:  3 levels: Section folders that contain Book folders that contain Chapters (audio files) ...

  • Page 8: Structure Limitations

    All folder and file names may be in free text; however it is important that the folders and files sort in the order the Herald should play them. o For guaranteed correct play order, MegaVoice recommends using a combination of a 3-digit prefix followed by free text.

  • Page 9: Relationship Between The Keypad And Folder Structure

    The Herald offers convenient navigation through hundreds of audio files. In order for this navigation to work, you need to decide how you want your files to be partitioned. Let’s get to know the Herald keypad and how the navigation buttons correlate to the required folder structure.

  • Page 10: Figure 2: Section/Book Control Buttons

    We group our songs in albums and the albums are grouped per artist. We have a very similar structure for the files on the Herald! Audio files are grouped into “Books” and Books are grouped into “Sections”. A typical Bible from the MegaVoice Audio Library is divided into 3 Sections in the following way: •...

  • Page 11: Building The Folder Structure

    BibleName-BookNumber-BookName-ChapterNumber Let’s take the English-NT-KJV audio message and prepare it for the Herald. In order to keep the example simple, please note that only select Book and Chapter files appear. We have the first 3 Chapters of the Books Matthew, Mark, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Jude and Revelation.
  • Page 12 So let’s create a new folder within our Audio Bibles folder and name it “MegaVoice”. From this point on, we will refer to the MegaVoice folder as the Audio Project Folder. We’ll copy the contents of the English-NT-KJV folder into it and make our changes there.

  • Page 13: Building A Full (3 Level) Structure

    The Section Folders Open the “MegaVoice” folder. Now we decide how we want to group our “Books” into Sections. In this example, we have only 6 Books: Matthew, Mark, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Jude and Revelation. We want 3 Sections where the first contains Matthew and Mark, the second contains 1 and 2 Corinthians and the third contains Jude and Revelation.
  • Page 14 Chapter files for 1 and 2 Corinthians to ”002-Section-1-and-2-Cor”. Move all the Chapter files for Jude and Revelation to “003-Section-Jude-Rev”. Once you do this, all that the “MegaVoice” folder should contain are the three Section folders. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx...

  • Page 15: The Book Folders And Chapter Files

    Book, will need a folder named “002-Mark”. Now we will move the Chapter files to their respective “Book” folders. Highlight the Chapter files for Matthew (3 of them in our example) and move them to the “001-Matthew” folder. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 15 of 48...
  • Page 16 Highlight the Chapter files for Mark (3 of them) and move them to the “002-Mark” folder. Let’s repeat the above process for the next Section, “002-Section-1-and-2-Cor”. Because 1 Corinthians is the first Book in this Section, create folder “001-1-Corinthians”. And create “002-2-Corinthians” for the second Book. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 16 of 48...
  • Page 17 Again we will move the Chapter files to their respective “Book” folders. Highlight the Chapter files for 1 Corinthians (3 of them in our example) and move them to the “001-1-Corinthians” folder. Highlight the Chapter files for 2 Corinthians (3 of them) and move them to the “002-2-Corinthians” folder. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 17 of 48...
  • Page 18 And finally, repeat the process for the third Section, “003-Section-Jude-Rev”. Open the folder and create a Book folder for Jude, “001-Jude” and create a folder for Revelation, “002-Revelation”. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 18 of 48...
  • Page 19 Let’s move the Chapter files to their respective “Book” folders for Section 3. Highlight the (only) Chapter file for Jude and move it to the “001-Jude” folder. Highlight the Chapter files for Revelation (3 of them) and move them to the “002-Revelation” folder. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 19 of 48...

  • Page 20: Verifying The Intermediate Folder Structure

    Within our Audio Project Folder “MegaVoice” we should have our three Section folders. Within each Section folder, we should only have Book folders and they should be the Books relevant to that particular Section.

  • Page 21: Building The 1 Or 2 Level Folder Structure

    In the next example, we have a 2-level structure within the folder “2-Level-Books-Chapters”. It contains only Book sub-folders and each Book sub-folder contains only the audio files relevant to that book but no sub-folders. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 21 of 48...

  • Page 22: Using The File Renaming Utility (Optional)

    Using the File Renaming Utility (optional) Since the Herald supports free-text for the folders and files in the audio project folder, this section is optional. As long as the folders and files in your audio message sort exactly in the order you wish them to play, there is no need to rename any of them.
  • Page 23 The “Open” dialog appears. We can rename our folders in any order desired. Let’s start with the Book folders in each Section folder followed by the Section folders. Navigate to the \Audio Bibles\MegaVoice\ folder. Highlight the first Section folder “001-Section-Matthew-Mark” and click “Open”.
  • Page 24 In the selected Section folder, we should see the 2 Book folders, “001-Matthew” and “002-Mark”. Now let’s define the rules for how we want to rename all the relevant folders. Go to the “Add Operation” tab and click the “Remove” icon. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 24 of 48...
  • Page 25 Making sure we are still on the “Add Operation” tab, click the “Add counter” icon. The “Add Operation: Add sequence” dialog appears. Change the “Start” field to “1”. Leave the rest of the fields to default and click the “Add” button. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 25 of 48...
  • Page 26 Once you set that value and click anywhere else on the dialog, the “Before/After” display at the bottom of the dialog will show you the results. Click the “Add” button. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 26 of 48...
  • Page 27 “001-Matthew” folder will be renamed to “001” and “002-Mark” will be renamed to “002” – exactly what we want. Click on the “Home” tab, and then click the “Rename” icon. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 27 of 48...
  • Page 28 Because the utility remembers the renaming operations, all we need to do now is to select the next Section folder (002-Section-1-and-2-Cor) and simply click the “Rename” icon. Repeat this process for the remaining Section 003-Section-Jude-Rev and finally the Audio folder “MegaVoice” to rename the 3 Section folders. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx...

  • Page 29: Figure 4: Folder Layout Before/After Renaming

    Once we have renamed all the folders in the MegaVoice audio project folder… This… Should look like this. Figure 4: Folder layout before/after renaming We are now ready to load our audio project folder to the Herald. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 29 of 48...

  • Page 30: Loading Audio Files To The Herald

    Loading Audio Files to the Herald Connecting the Players To load your audio files to the Herald, it is recommended to use the Saber Copy software program provided by MegaVoice. You may program multiple players at a time, using either multiple USB ports on your PC/Mac or by using a USB expansion HUB.

  • Page 31: Loading The Audio Using Sabercopy

    Using SaberCopy to Program MegaVoice Players. This example refers to the Envoy S player but the procedure is exactly the same for the Herald. The only difference would be that the microSD card reader also shows as a removable drive.
  • Page 32 “Destination Folder” field so that it is blank (as in the image below). This tells SaberCopy to duplicate the contents of the folder in the “source” to the “root” of each target player. This is the equivalent of specifying “*.*” for “all files”. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 32 of 48...
  • Page 33 It is always a good idea to verify the settings on each of the tabs to make sure they are what you want any time you begin a new project. 12. For the Envoy S players, we just need to make sure that “Target Device” is set to “Typical MegaVoice Player”.
  • Page 34 You can, however, change it to one of the available choices, but we strongly recommend first consulting MegaVoice technical support for optimum settings. 17. Under “Test and Copy Options”, we want to execute the “read/write test before copying”.
  • Page 35 25. Note that you could also click on the “Copy” button appearing in each player line (circled in green), but using “Copy All” is a bit more convenient when you want to load all of the connected/selected players and not just some of them. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 35 of 48...
  • Page 36 “Unmatched”. For details on researching “Unmatched” see Example 9 in the full SaberCopy User Guide. 28. Disconnect the players and test each to see that the audio plays as expected. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 36 of 48...

  • Page 37: Listen To The Message

    Listen to the Message Once SaberCopy has successfully loaded your audio to each Herald, disconnect each player from the computer. You can listen to the message by holding down the ON/OFF button for about 2 seconds and releasing. The player will turn on, beep and your message should begin to play automatically after about a second.

  • Page 38: Loading Audio Files To An Sd Card

    1. Using the SaberCopy program while the card is loaded in either the Herald’s card reader or a microSD card adapter 2. Using the File Explorer utility on your PC/Mac while the card is loaded in either the Herald’s card reader or a microSD card adapter 3.

  • Page 39: Loading The Sd Card Using Sabercopy

    Loading the SD card using SaberCopy When using an SLS USB cable, the challenge when using the Herald to load a microSD card is that both the onboard memory and microSD card reader show as “volumes”. The best way to distinguish the player from the microSD card reader is to connect the player first without a microSD card loaded.

  • Page 40: Loading The Sd Card Using File Explorer

    Loading the SD card using File Explorer If you connect a Herald player using the SLS micro-USB cable with an SD card loaded, both the on-board memory and SD card appear and show as Volumes. In the Windows example below, the player is identified as “NO NAME”...

  • Page 41: Listen To The Message On The Sd Card

    Listen to the message on the SD card Once the SD card is programmed, you can listen to the message on it by turning on the Herald player and then loading the SD card into the reader on the side of the player (see image in Loading audio files to an SD card above).

  • Page 42: The Bookmark

    You may briefly press the pause button to resume playback or turn the player off. The next time the Herald is turned on, playback will start from the beginning of the message. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 42 of 48...

  • Page 43: Warnings And Advisories

    If the batteries leak, dispose of them carefully in accordance with all local laws. Wash any skin or clothing exposed to battery liquid and avoid swallowing or contact with eyes. In the case of swallowing or contact with eyes, seek medical care immediately. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 43 of 48...

  • Page 44: Megavoice Limited Warranty

    YOU must provide proof of purchase of said PRODUCT by making available a dated itemized receipt, or invoice, (“PROOF OF PURCHASE”) to be eligible for this WARRANTY. 3. It is YOUR responsibility to return the defective MEGAVOICE PRODUCT to the organization that provided it to YOU (“PROVIDER”) together with a clear description of any alleged defect(s).
  • Page 45 (7) days after the expiration of the WARRANTY PERIOD. 8. MEGAVOICE’s limit of liability under the WARRANTY is the actual cash value of the PRODUCT at the time YOU return the PRODUCT for repair (e.g., the purchase price of the PRODUCT less a reasonable amount for usage).

  • Page 46: Technical Support

    Technical Support Request support from the MegaVoice web site: https://megavoice.com/audio-tools/request-support-for-loading-audio-content-on-audio-bibles/ Recommended (free) utilities by MegaVoice: http://megavoice.com/audio-tools/tools-and-utilities-for-loading-audio-content-on-audio-bibles/ Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 46 of 48...

  • Page 47: Troubleshooting

     Remove and replace the batteries USB port has not been initialized  Switch to a different USB port SLS cable may be faulty  Replace with a working SLS USB cable Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 47 of 48...

  • Page 48: Troubleshooting Continued

    If unsuccessful, reconnect to the computer with a USB cable and hold down the power button for another 10 seconds.  If unsuccessful, open the battery door and remove the batteries. Try to reload the player before replacing the batteries. Herald User Guide 20180601-10.docx Page 48 of 48...

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