Right on. The clicker makes it work for me and I've been using one for 4
years. How do you get it to click through the headphones though?
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From: "Josh de Lioncourt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: itunes question
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
