Hi Esther, Thank you for your thoughts and tips.
I'll be connecting it to my stereo through digital optical from time to time at least till I get m airport express up and running. The click wheel is wow sensative and jumpy. I did discover that my mp3s are not spoken but I should be able to fix that b tagging them properly. The are tagged but for some reason, the are not being picked up. The fun has begun though thanks to all the help on this list. ----- 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: Monday, September 22, 2008 7:07 PM Subject: Re: blank screen during nano setup: Hi David, On Sep 22, 2008, at 12:35 PM, David Poehlman wrote: > Hi Ester. Now, all we have to deal with is the language barrier. > it is > somehow set to simplified chinese but I did a restore and hope that > fixes > it. Even if you set the language to simplified Chinese, how were you able to tell which language was chosen? To set the language to English for a blank (restored or new) iPod Nano 4G, move your finger around the click wheel ALL the way counterclockwise. You will only be able to hear clicks if you move your finger clockwise around the wheel from this position, and when you move counterclockwise you will only hear clicks until you hit the limit. That is where you want to stop, and is the position for English (U.S.). Press the center of the iPod Nano 4G wheel to select this. I should have sent you my instructions to (one of the multiple list members named) Scott. After my iniitial set up, I ran a cable from the iPod Nano 4G to the LineIn jack on my MacBook (the port just behind the headphone jack, if you move along the left side of the MacBook from the front towards the back and the screen). I got the LineIn freebie from the Rogue Amoeba pages and ran the Nano output to my MacBook speakers. Made it easy to hear the churning noise when the Nano synced and when it downloaded the software update. (You have to crank up the volume on the speakers, and you set the Input from the Built-in Input: Line In and the Output to Default System Output, then press Pass Thru which is, I think, a button, but gets reported as a check box). Anyway, you can leave the iPod connected and charging, and play with its menus and listen to them spoken through the speakers of your Mac this way. Hope progress is being made. Cheers, Esther > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Esther" > Subject: Re: blank screen during nano setup: > > > Hi David, > > Sounds like iTunes has locked up your processor. Try using Command- > Option-Escape to Force Quit iTunes. You may have to wait before it > responds and you can press return. Keep the iPod connected, and start > up iTunes again. I'm guessing that your initial registration went > through, and that you will connect up OK and see the device pages > once you stop interacting with the source table and VO-right twice. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On Sep 22, 2008, at 10:43 AM, David Poehlman wrote: > >> Hi ester, no matter what I do, I get silent ITunes. In other words, >> vo >> speaks nothing. >> > > > >
