Helpful Garmin Nuvi Hints

Helpful Garmin Nuvi Hints

Here is a small listing of some of the newer items posted
on the

GARMIN NUVI TRICKS, TIPS, WORK AROUNDS, HINTS, SECRETS &
IDEAS Web site during October



YES I CON -
----- Seeing Built In, Favorites, Custom & Other Icons

SEARCH ME? -
----- Web Site Search Engine Installed

MAPQUEST IMPROVES SOFTWARE -
----- Route Setting For Your N=FCvi Now Even Easier

POI LOADER, POI LOADER, EVERYWHERE -
----- Let's Get Rid Of Those Extra POI Loader Copies

DON'T MAKE A .WAV -
----- Now n=FCvi Series 200 Can Have Music, Sound & Voice
Alerts [Revised]

(7/8X5) LOIS, CAN YOU ASSIST ME WITH THIS LANE -
----- Seeing Your Lane Assists (Junction Views)

HONEY LEARNS YOUR INTENTIONS -
----- Tip For A Quick Way Of Seeing Your Route

CREATING ROUTES ON YOUR GARMIN -
----- Using MapQuest May Make It Easy [Notice Added]

AN ALTERNATE TECHNIQUE FOR PLACING CUSTOM POIs IN YOUR
N=DCVI -
----- Employing A Little Used Method

Go to the RECENT ADDITIONS section at:

http://bit.ly/garmin_gps_tricks

Gary Hayman

#yragnamyah

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:34:24 -0700, zydecogary wrote:


You might want to update that article to mention that sox will do all the
required conversions too, since you just installed as it as a requirement
anyway ;-)

Sox will convert pretty much any audio format to any audio format but
it's not pointy click. The upside of that is it's easy to write a batch
file to convert a whole block of sound files in one go.

It's an immensely powerful and versatile program but can be used as
simply as:

sox soundfile.mp3 soundfile.wav
...to do a conversion using the defaults, ie use the same sampling
options etc as the source file used originally

For the Nuvi 200 series, as detailed in your article:

sox soundfile.mp3 -r 44100 -b 16 -c 1 soundfile.wav
...should do it. (not tested yet)

On *nix, something like

for i in *.mp3; do
sox "$i" -r 44100 -b 16 -c 1 `echo $i|sed "s/.wav/.sln/"`
done

...will convert a directory full of mp3 to nuvi200 compliant wav files
and replace .mp3 with .wav in the destination file. I would imagine a
windows/dos batch file can do something similar.

From memory this might work:
for %%i in (*.mp3) do (
set j=%%i:mp3=wav%
sox %%i -r 44100 -b 16 -c 1 %%j.wav"
)
(not sure about set j=%%i:mp3=wav% to create the dest file name from the
src file name though.)

It's also possible to tell it to record sound and to auto split the
recording when a pre-defined period of silence occurs. That should be
great for recording an entire "voice" for a SatNav simply by setting it
going and pausing a second or so between each phrase as read from the
list of required phrases. (see the programm manual/readme files for info)

There's a whole stack of effects to play with too if you prefer a little
echo or reverb on the sounds.

--
You cannot simply assume someone is honest
just because they are not an MP.