Please try the following after starting the hörbert software and inserting the SD card. In the software menu at the top, go to Extras -> Select destination manually. The card should then be selectable there.

If this is not possible, our development department has taken precautions:
You can simply select a file folder on your hard drive – and not your memory card. After that, the hörbert software works on the file folder as if it *were* a memory card. And if your memory card is usable with the card reader under your operating system and mounted correctly, you can simply copy the contents of this folder to the memory card afterwards. This feature is intended for when the memory card’s mount directory still doesn’t work for some reason, and when alternatives like “Sox” also fail.

The microphone is built into the hörbert model.

This allows you to record your own voice and play it back from hörbert’s colorful buttons.

When ordering a hörbert, we install it directly from the factory. It’s very small and sits on an equally small microphone board inside hörbert at the frontal underside. From the outside, only a small opening in the wood next to the hörbert logo is visible for this purpose.

To record speech with the microphone, two settings must first be made:

**1.** Choose on which of the colorful hörbert buttons voice recordings can be saved.
You may not want to allow voice recordings on every button. For example, if you have filled one of the buttons with connected audio plays and stories. The chapters in these stories should not be interrupted.
Therefore, the new hörbert software offers the possibility for you to set on your home computer in the hörbert software which playlists you want to allow voice recordings for. Start the hörbert software, select the new hörbert model, and scan the card. Open the button on which you want to allow the recordings.
Select “Allow voice recordings here” at the bottom of the window and close the button content window again with the green checkmark at the top right.
You can also set where recordings from Bluetooth streams or Internet radio should end up in the same way.

**2. Activate the microphone via the SET mode on your hörbert**

Here’s how:
1) Turn on hörbert. Press the small SET button inside hörbert. Now the front colorful buttons of hörbert are in SET mode.
2) Then activate the microphone function by pressing the corresponding dark green button at the front. The supplied SET template makes it easy for you to find the right button. Press once: on (single beep), press again: off (double beep).
3) Press the SET button again inside to save the setting. hörbert has now saved the setting and the microphone is active.

Now you can screw hörbert back together and switch it on.

To start a recording.
When you are in the allowed playlist, you can start a recording by pressing and holding the black button at the bottom left, and then simultaneously pressing the dark gray button at the bottom right. You can release the two buttons while speaking.

To stop a recording.
To stop the recording, press the black button again.

To discard a recording.
To discard the recording, stop the recording by pressing the power button and turning off hörbert.

Playing back a microphone recording.
A microphone recording is played back immediately after recording. It lands directly behind the title that was playing when the recording was started.

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Yes, since 12/2020 the hörbert software is also available for Linux (tested on Ubuntu >16.0.4) for download here:

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD

The publishers of our supplied content offer even more beautiful music and stories – in some cases even free of charge.

You can find the sources here: hörbert’s preregistered contents

In addition there are many contents which you can buy as MP3 download or M4a download and which really belong to you. In Amazon and iTunes you can find them under the category “”Music downloads””. There is not only music, but also stories to download.

You can find even more contents for your hörbert here on our website

The software is included on the memory card of any new hörbert and is available for download on our website.
As we cannot guarantee that the most recent software version is on the memory card, we recommend to download it from our website:

HOERBERT SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD

System requirements:

PC or Mac (Intel), operating system: Windows 10 or higher, or Mac OS X from version 10.14, Linux (tested on Ubuntu
>16.0.4)
Screen resolution at least 1024×768 pixels
At least 4 GB free hard disk space
At least 2 GB main memory (RAM)

hörbert’s software accepts audio files of the following formats: .m4a .mp3 .wav .cdda/.cda .ogg .flac. .aiff/.aif

Please note that the hoerbert software can’t transfer copy protected files or audio tracks! However, it even helps you to transfer music and audio books directly from compact disks to hörbert’s memory card, so you don’t have to be a computer nerd to put manager hörbert’s content.

A CD with copy protection can normally be identified by the corresponding IFPI copy protection logo. It’s a black circle with a white triangle. You can find it here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopierschutz

A tip: It is recommended to read a CD first with a program like iTunes and import it to your computer. Then the transfer to hörbert’s memory card is even faster. ITunes also has a good converter that brings the tracks into the optimal format (m4a or better still mp3). This is similarly convenient under Windows with the Media Player, but you have to set the mp3 format there, because the hörbert software does not read files with the extension.wma. After importing into iTunes, you can drag and drop songs directly from the iTunes library to the corresponding playlist window in the hörbert software using the hörbert software.

A software is necessary to conveniently arrange the tracks in the playlists and in the correct order, because if you would simply copy MP3 files to a memory card, the player would still not know in which order it should play them from which button. Another advantage is that you can also use files in OGG, WAV or FLAC format and directly from audio CDs as source material, or other common formats, which is not possible with most MP3 players. Instead of referring to hörbert as an MP3, Ogg, WAV and FLAC Player, only the term “MP3 Player” can be used as category or generic name. Otherwise you would not find our hörbert in any shop, because there is not even a category for “Audio-Player”, but at most “MP3-Player”. The term “universal audio player for children” would of course be quite correct. But we have to meet the potential customers looking for a player and limit ourselves here to the term “MP3 player” as a generic term, although hörbert can do much more.