This application is great and free. When I first started working with the
Mac OS I contacted the developer about accessibility and he improved it the
next day and updated the version. I will post a blog entry on it as soon as
he and I can work out the interview. It was a great program to get my music
to my wife's and daughters Creative Zen M MP3 players and it really made me
smile and push forward with using the Mac. I say this because it was the
first problem that was solved with our Windows based players. I found the
solution for the interfacing software, the developer made it accessible and
off she wrote. Again it's a great app. Look out for more from this developer
at numpadplus.com/blog soon!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 2:50 PM
Subject: XNJB Accessible program to Manage and transfer music to
non-iPodplayers on the Mac [was Re: a very cool program]
Hi All,
I've retitled the subject line to expand the topic of this post to other
players. XNJB is program that supports use of non-iPod players on the
Mac and transfer of music. It was originally written as a way to support
the Creative Nomad line of players under Mac OS X, but has since been
extended to other players like Mike's Dell DJ. (I think the initials
represent "X" for Mac OS X, "N" for Nomad, and "J" and "B" for jukebox.)
The program is written in Cocoa, and provides an accessible interface. It
has been mentioned previously a few times on this list. I don't think
this works directly with music purchased from the Apple Store (even
non-DRM tracks) unless the player supports Apple's AAC format, but should
be fine for mp3 files and mp3 podcasts, as well as tracks that you've
re-encoded as mp3 files. At present, it also doesn't support Audible
audiobook files, either.
Just as a comment in view of recent threads about Audible audiobooks,
some Creative players (Zen Nano, Zen Nano Plus, MuVo players, Zen Neon,
Zen Stone Plus) may show up as devices the in iTunes source list (as
iPods do). These players support the USB mass storage device protocol,
so when connected they show up in Finder the way that USB memory sticks
and other external storage devices do. Music tracks can be transferred
to those devices by just copying files to the player. For Audible
content, it should be possible to just transfer files to players that
support Audible files (without using XNJB), and have them play provided
that the player is authorized (which you'd probably have to do under
Windows). However, if you already have an Audible account and supported
authorized player that you used under Windows, and it's one of the latter
types of Creative players that support USB mass storage, you can probably
continue to use it with iTunes on the Mac.
Cheers,
Esther
On Aug 28, 2008, at 8:12 PM, Mike's Western Account wrote:
hey all;
ok so me and sabrina were wanting to transfer some music from my
computer to her dell dj. I wanted to do this all by my self but couldn't
figure out what i should have had to do. Itunes didn't pick up dell dj,
but google helped me.
Introducing to you all the program that's accessible. The one program
that appears to be able to handle dell dj's, i bring you XNJB
http://www.wentnet.com/projects/xnjb/download.html
very self explanatory, but I'm going to work on a podcast this weekend
showing it to you. Plug your dj in, open the app, vo to "connect" and
hit connect. then in the "table" will be the songs on your dj (or any
other supported devise). Then there is a browser that you can use and
here's what you do. Find a folder or file (highlight it in the browser)
stop interacting with the browser and then vo to the "upload" button.
Press it and wait for it to do it's stuff.
Have something on your dell dj that your not sure how your going to get
to your mac? Curious as to what a song on a friend's dj sounds like?
Well find the song in the songs table, navigate in the internal browser
where you want to put the song from the devise to, and simply hit
"download" and there you go.
Note: if you highlight a folder in the browser and hit "upload" the
entire and all sub folders will be sent to your devise. Right to the
left of the connect button will be (the first number is total used
space, second number is space on the devise remaining.)
One more thing, it's open source.
anyways hope this helps someone
Mike
