How to transfer own audio content to hörbert’s memory card or to an own memory card

A)I’m using hörbert’s included free memory card or one of the other pre-recorded SD card editions from hörbert.

Then you now have three different options for transferring your own audio content to the SD card:

1. Fastest option: Using your computer’s file manager. For this, you’ll need an internal or external SD card reader. You can find tips on buying an external SD card reader in this article
2. Without an SD card reader: Using your smartphone, tablet, or computer via a web interface called the so-called Browser Set Mode.
3. Using the hörbert software: For this, you’ll also need a computer and an SD card reader.

Please never use the hörbert software and the Browser Set Mode alternately; always choose one method. Otherwise, the content on your SD card may get mixed up, and hörbert might not play correctly anymore.

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Regarding 1. Via the file manager of your computer

• Connect hörbert’s SD card to your computer
• Open your file manager (e.g., Windows Explorer or macOS Finder)
• Click on the SD card drive
• You will find folders numbered 0 to 8 there.
• The folder numbers correspond to the coloured playlist buttons as follows:
  0 = dark purple, 1 = red, 2 = dark blue, 3 = light green, 4 = yellow, 5 = dove blue, 6 = light blue, 7 = orange, 8 = dark green
• For your hörbert with three buttons, only folders 1 = red, 6 = light blue, and 8 = dark green are relevant.
• Now copy the desired new audio files into the corresponding playlist folder 1, 6, or 8.
• You can also delete tracks from the folders that you no longer want to listen to.
• The audio files must be stored locally on your device and must not be located in a cloud.

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Regarding the playlist sequence: 

Basically, hörbert plays all newly added tracks via the file manager at the end of the playlist in alphabetical order.

If you want to change this, you can use the Browser Set Mode (see below) to drag the tracks to a different position in the playlist.

Regarding 2. Via Browser Set Mode

You can find a detailed guide on how to start the Browser Set Mode here: 

Browser Set Mode

Or watch our video on youtube Erklärvideo 

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• The Browser Set Mode should detect that you have a hörbert with 3 buttons or prompt you to select it.
  If this does not happen, you can switch to the 3-button version as follows:

  • In the menu, select GENERAL -> Advanced Settings -> Show Expert Menu.

  • Then you will find the EXPERT item in the main menu. Select it.

  • Open Browser Interface and choose 3 Buttons there.

  • Then select PLAYLISTS in the main menu.

  • Tap the coloured playlist button you want to edit and select Playlist Content.

  • Place the insertion point where you want to add a new audio file.

  • Click the blue FILE button, select an audio file from your device, and upload it.

• You can also change the position of the file by dragging the track using the small icon with the three stacked lines to a different spot in the playlist.

• hörbert applies any changes you make in the Browser Set Mode immediately, except when there is a separate save button, for example when adding a new radio URL or entering your home Wi-Fi data in the Wi-Fi menu.
  Exit the Browser Set Mode by clicking the Disconnect button or by pressing the SET button again on hörbert itself.
  After exiting Browser Set Mode, wait until hörbert starts playing, then enjoy the new audio content or switch it off.

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Regarding 3. With the hörbert app

You’ll find the hoerbert app costfree for download here: kostenfrei zum Download.

• After successfully installing the hörbert software on your computer, start the program and select the model without the toggle switch.
• Connect the SD card to your computer. The hörbert software will recognize the card and display its name.
• Now click on Read Card to the right of the card display.
• If asked whether files on the SD card should be converted for this hörbert model, please confirm with Yes. This process may take a few minutes because hörbert first creates a backup of the data on your device to prevent data loss.
• After that, the nine colorful hörbert buttons will show the number of tracks stored in each.
• In the hörbert software, go to the top menu under Extras > Advanced Functions, select Number of buttons: 3, and click Close.
• Then click on the desired coloured button and add a new file or URL via the content window using the plus sign.
• Confirm by clicking the green checkmark at the top right.
• Properly eject the SD card before disconnecting it from your computer and reinserting it into hörbert….

B) I am using a blank 4 GB card from the hörbert shop or my own third-party SD card between 4 and 512 GB.

Our blank 4 GB card from the hörbert webshop is already formatted in the correct FAT32 format.

Third-party SD cards must first be formatted to FAT32.

• You can format the card using your computer’s built-in tools, such as the respective disk utility, or with the hörbert software (see next section). If your disk utility does not show FAT32 as an option, you can also choose FAT, MSDOS FAT, or EXFAT.
• When you load the card into the hörbert software, the software automatically prepares the card for hörbert and creates the folder structure. The software detects unformatted or improperly formatted cards and will suggest formatting the card.
• You can then load files onto the card directly with the hörbert software.
• If you do not use the hörbert software, you must create the folder structure manually via your file manager.
• To do this, connect the SD card to your computer and create folders named 1, 6, and 8 in the root directory of the SD card.
  1 = red playlist, 6 = light blue playlist, 8 = dark green playlist.

• Now you can copy or drag your own audio content into the corresponding folders. The audio files must be stored locally on your device and must not be located in a cloud.. 

For the playback order, see above under point A).