That is called the click wheel, and i have the same one on a 40GB 4G
iPod, though I've used it on the 30GB video iPod belonging to someone
else. It works fine. The iPod clicks for menu items, and the menus do
not wrap. You can easily set the menu items to click through the
headphones output as well. If you familiarize yourself with the menu
items you will be using, it is a simple task to move through them.
Pressing down on the top of the wheel moves you back a menu. Pressing
select in the center of the wheel selects the menu item. I'm not sure
how the myth was started that a blind person couldn't use an iPod with a
click wheel, but it has been remarkably persistent.
In the artists menu, the names are arranged in alphabetical order. With
a little practice you can become very fast at finding what you want,
because you can guess roughly where in the menu the artist you are
looking for is located. If I'm looking for George Michael and I click
into Elton John, I know i have only a little further to go, for
example. Artists are arranged by the first letter of the name, which
puts Elton in E and George in G.
william lomas wrote:
josh
which i pod do u have?
i am prepared to learn it, but i dont have the one with a wheel that
physically clicks. it is the one that you slide your hand around the
wheel, do you kno the one i mean?
thanks for any help you can give
will
On 6 Mar 2007, at 16:21, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
I've been using an iPod without RockBox or any other modifications
for years now. If you take a little time to learn the device, it is
quite simple to operate without speech. I rather expect that sooner
or later iPods will support speech access, but it is far from
necessary to use them. If you are not inclined to take the time to
learn how to use the iPod, that is one thing. But saying they are
wholly unuseable is totally inaccurate.
On Mar 6, 2007, at 08:01 , william lomas wrote:
hi all
i have a question for you all. if we buy all these albums and books
and movies now off the itunes store, how are we going to take them
on the road with us.
the i pods don't bother to support the playback of itunes music
files with rockbox, so aren't we wasting money buying all this
stuff, as we can't access the folders without speech support
really, so do you understand what i saying? smile
while i love itunes now, we cant play the stuff we are purchasing
on the move, accept on our computers
just my 2 cents worth
will
