Well, the sighted help I was referring to was pretty minimal. I needed it mostly to get familiar with the player and then when I'd gotten myself in trouble loading some new firmware on it. Others may disagree, but IMHO, if you're gonna play with the Rockbox firmware then you need to be willing to spend some time reading up on what to do, be prepared to experiment with it a bit and be patient and persistent! Knowing a little bit about electronics, at least the terms used, would also help. I don't want to scare anyone off, but you can't go into it thinking it'll work right out of the box, or you'll probably be pretty disappointed and frustrated. If you do get it all working, it is pretty sweet!
Dan Murphy wrote: > Actually I was thinking more along the lines of one of the smaller flash > players with 1 or 2 GB, although the iriver one sounds interesting. Our > access to sighted help is somewhat tenuous since the person who could help > us is a partial who gets headaches when looking at the screen too long. > As I said before, I would be happy with a machine that I could simply hook > up to the Usb port on the PC and just drag files into it and as long as I > know where the basic navigation keys on the player are that would be fine. > > dan Murphy > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > AIM:mweeby2000 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christopher Chaltain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list." <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 2:25 AM > Subject: Re: Information and help needed regarding MP3 players > > > >> I'm not familiar with the Sony series you mentioned, but what kind of >> MP3 player are you looking for? Are you looking for a compact flash >> based MP3 player that has maybe 1GB or 2GM of storage, or are you >> looking for a hard drive based player that has 20GB, 40GB or more of >> storage? >> >> With the compact flash based player you have several choices. The one >> that I'm familiar with is the Nomad MuVo from Creative. Unfortunately, >> Creative doesn't distribute it anymore, but you might find one on the >> web somewhere. It doesn't have a display and just a few buttons to >> adjust the volumen and volume and skip from song to song. There are a >> few other similar options on the market, like the iPod Shuffle. The >> nice thing about the MuVo that I have is that it doesn't come with any >> software, it's just a UMS device on your computer and you can use >> Windows Explorer to move MP3's over to it. It also plays WMA and DRM >> files, so you can use it with Audible and Overdrive. >> >> In the area of a harddrive based MP3 player, I recently just got myself >> an iRiver H10 20GB MP3 player and I loaded the Rockbox firmware on it. >> You may need some patience and sighted help to get this working, but if >> you do, you end up with a device that has spoken menus and even spoken >> song titles, although it doesn't have TTS built into it. You can still >> get the iRiver H10 on line, in a 5GB, 6GB and 20GB version. I got mine >> recently from woot.com for $99. >> >> Sorry I don't have information on any newer players, but I'm just >> sharing my personal experience and remember, these are just my >> opinions. If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask! >> >> Dan Murphy wrote: >> >>> Hi all. I have recently been tempted to look into some kind of mp3 >>> > player > >>> that is evenminimally usable. >>> A friend of mine recently purchased a Sony NWE series unit and it's >>> > very > >>> nice to look at but the file management software that comes with it >>> doesn't get along well at all with Jaws 5.10. >>> As I am very new to all this I haven't paid much attention to all the >>> messages on here about the various players and their levels of >>> > usability > >>> for blind people, so I need to do some catching up. I'm not >>> > interested in > >>> the apple product line since I understand their music format is >>> > totally > >>> proprietary, and I would mostly be using it to listen to my own stuff >>> > that > >>> I have recorded. I also don't need something with a radio built in >>> > since > >>> I own several AM/FM radios that work fine with headphones and can be >>> > used > >>> for that purpose. >>> also I wouldn't mind just being able to forward and rewind through the >>> songs, because I really don't want to have to spend a lot of money, >>> > and > >>> anyway, I would just have them all arranged in one folder. >>> I quite liked the look of the Sony, it was very nice and small, and >>> > the > >>> buttons seemed accessible enough, but I was mostly trying to see if I >>> could get the software to work even slightly with Jaws, and so I >>> > really > >>> didn't learn too much about the player itself. >>> any suggestions, comments, pointers are welcome. >>> thanks in advance. >>> >>> Dan Murphy >>> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> AIM:mweeby2000 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >>> http://www.pc-audio.org >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> Christopher >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >> Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Christopher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
