When reading the FAQ on the website, sadly not linkable as it’s in the website section where you’re logged in, I saw a sentence describing the mp3 formats for “geeks”: mono, 64 kbps, 16 khz, constant bitrate. I had some connection issues and couldn’t even get a few conversions, and besides, some of the tracks (from our local kid theater, unsurprisingly currently closed) I wanted to use were a bit bigger than 100Mb. You are limited to 5 conversions a day, of files up to 100Mb. You can buy new tracks from the company’s website, record your own tracks in their studio, and upload your local stories to the website for then getting them as compatible mp3. When you shake the cube three times with e.g. the lion face facing upwards, it plays a random track from the LION folder.Īs a side note, something that’s fascinating to me is that the settings of the cube, like the maximal volume, are to be tweaked via a text file called settings.txt! Not even reglages.txt! Furthermore, your storyteller’s ID (needed to register the device on the company’s website) is stored as a text filename. There is a folder for each face of the cube. The interface of the storyteller is the file system, which is rather intuitive to me. ![]() ![]() The storyteller can be plugged into a computer like an USB key, using its specific red cable. Official guidance on how to convert audio files on the Conteuse merveilleuse In this post I shall explain how I, a cool anti-mom, used R, in particular the av package, instead. According to the anti-manual 1, to add a mp3 or wav file you own, you first need to convert it to the storyteller’s expected format by using the company’s online converter, la moulinette (the mill). Very handy, as we had e.g. CDs that came with magazines. La conteuse merveilleuse comes with pre-loaded songs and stories, but you can also add your own. It is basically a pretty cube that you shake to make it play tracks. My kids got a cool electronic storyteller as a gift.
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