Setup & User Manual

Download

Download your Free Trial and/or purchased playlists through the My Downloads section of your PlaySayer account, then unzip the playlist files on your computer.

Any standard portable digital music player device supports upload and playback of PlaySay.com’s Audio Image Flashcard files which use our patent pending leading edge technology. Your computer's music player with AAC file format support (i.e. iTunes (free), Quicktime (free), etc.) will also support playback of PlaySay.com’s Audio Image Flashcard files.

Any standard portable device with JPEG support will support upload and playback of PlaySay.com’s Image Flashcard files.

The amount of PlaySay.com's Audio Image Flashcard and/or Image Flashcard files you can have on your portable device mainly depends on your unique portable device’s storage capacity and file categorization of the files.

Audio Image Flashcards:

Manually select, drag, and drop any folder directly holding individual Audio Image Flashcard files (or the individual Audio Image Flashcard files themselves) into your intermediary digital file management program's Library on your computer. We highly recommend using iTunes (free) as your intermediary digital file management program for your computer and for whichever portable device you may be using.

Please make sure to first add/import the Audio Image Flaschards to your intermediary digital file management program's library before adding, uploading, dragging, syncing, etc. them to your portable device.

Just as for most enhanced podcast files, the embedded images within PlaySay.com’s Audio Image Flaschard files are currently stored/categorized by most Apple iPods in the “Other” category, which Apple recommends should not exceed ~ 400 MB (~ 300 Audio Image Flaschard files) to ensure proper device operation. Most users (aka PlaySayers) add/delete/replace PlaySay.com's Audio Image Flaschard files on their iPods until the “Other” category reaches ~ 400 MB, and at any time click “Restore” in iTunes to entirely refresh the "Other" category of their iPods to its original storage settings so that they can restart the process over again.

Image Flashcards:

Upload or sync any folder, sub-folder, or individual Image Flashcard files to your portable device through your intermediary digital file management program. We highly recommend using iTunes (free) as your intermediary digital file management program for whichever portable device you may be using.


Play


Audio Image Flashcards:


Language learning on the go has never been better with the many opportunities PlaySay.com's files provide. Skim down this manual for a brief, or simply watch the short video below.



Image Flashcards:


Language learning on the go has never been better with the many opportunities PlaySay.com's files provide. Skim down this manual for a brief, or simply watch the short video below.


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Skip

Audio Image Flashcards:

Simply press the skip button once on your portable device to 'flip' the Audio Image Flashcard in play, or press it twice to skip to the next Audio Image Flashcard.

Image Flashcards:

Simply press the skip button once on your portable device to 'flip' the Image Flashcard in play, or press it twice or three times to skip to the next Image Flashcard. Automatically have Image Flashcards flip and skip on your portable device by playing the Image Flashcards in a slideshow - we recommend setting the slideshow to play each slide for 5 seconds.

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Shuffle

Audio Image Flashcards:

Conveniently enable the shuffle feature on your portable device to have Audio Image Flashcards automatically shuffle for you as you learn them. No more manually shuffling, bending, and dropping your paper flashcards!

Image Flashcards:

Conveniently enable the shuffle feature on your portable device to have any "... COMBINED" Image Flashcards automatically shuffle for you as you learn them. No more manually shuffling, bending, and dropping your paper flashcards!

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Tag

Audio Image Flashcards:

Effortlessly tag any individual Audio Image Flashcard on your portable device by adding it to a ("on-the-go", "quick list", "go list", etc.) playlist. No more manually setting aside those separate 'unfamiliar', 'familiar', 'mastered', etc. stacks of paper flashcards!

Image Flashcards:

Some portable devices support tagging of Image Flashcards, and some do not. Those portable devices which do not support tagging of Image Flashcards will likely support it very soon. No more manually setting aside those separate 'unfamiliar', 'familiar', 'mastered', etc. stacks of paper flashcards!

Browse

Audio Image Flashcards:

Easily browse (and play) any Audio Image Flashcards playlist on your portable device by the following default categories available:

Album: Browse (and play) all entries of the Audio Image Flashcards playlist.

Genre: Browse (and play) 25 word groups of the Audio Image Flashcards playlist for the most efficient and practical learning.

Composer: Browse (and play) 25 word groups of the Audio Image Flashcards playlist by language direction (i.e. English - Japanese or Japanese - English).

Image Flashcards:

Easily browse (and play) any Image Flashcards playlist on your portable device by the following default categories (by storage folders) available:

*All Image Flashcards playlists come with multiple individual 25 word group folders for the most efficient and practical learning.

COMBINED: Browse (and play) all entries of the Image Flashcards playlist group folder with all speaker language and learning language components combined on each Image Flashcard (with shuffle turned on/off).

SPEAKER LANGUAGE - LEARNING LANGUAGE: Browse (and play) all entries of the Image Flashcards playlist group folder in the direction of speaker language - learning language (with shuffle turned off).

LEARNING LANGUAGE - SPEAKER LANGUAGE: Browse (and play) all entries of the Image Flashcards playlist group folder in the direction of learning language - speaker language (with shuffle turned off).

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Group

Audio Image Flashcards:

Efficiently group any of your individual Audio Image Flashcards or playlists through your portable device's intermediary digital file management program. We highly recommend using iTunes (free) as your intermediary digital file management program for whichever portable device you may be using.

Image Flashcards:

Efficiently group any of your individual Image Flashcards or playlists into folders of your own through your device's intermediary digital file management program. We highly recommend using iTunes (free) as your intermediary digital file management program for whichever portable device you may be using.

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Learn Settings

This will hold information about the Learn Settings of the Learning Room and iPhone App.

Optimized Learning

Learn any of your playlists online with Optimized Learning. The less you know a flashcard the more often it will show.

Playlist Management

This will hold information about Playlist Management on the website and the iPhone Application.