Hi Steve, do you know about Rockbox? It's alternative firmware for some MP3 players. I cancelled my H340 order, and bought an H140 instead in near new condition off Ebay, specifically because of Rockbox. This is also running on the h100 and h120 as well. I'm going to produce a comprehensive review of this for MosenExplosion.com but I may not get around to this until after Julia and I get back from new Zealand in the new year. But the nice thing about Rockbox, and the reason why I purchased this model, is that it all talks. All the menus talk, you can choose from a number of voice files including some AT&T Natural Voices. Note that the player isn't doing TTS, they are pre-recorded prompts, but to have full access to the player without having a cheat sheet was enough to do it for me.
Rockbox has some annoying limitations, for example no WMA support, however you can boot up in the original iriver firmware at any time if you want to. For a geeky open source project, the documentation is surprisingly good and understandable. Check it out at http://www.rockbox.org Jonathan Mosen Blog, podcast and radio show: http://www.MosenExplosion.com Ph: +1-925-566-9265. Mobile/SMS +1-806-252-6671 -----Original Message----- From: Steve Matzura [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 9 December 2005 3:52 p.m. To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: Hard Disk-based MP3 Player On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:12:51 -0600, you wrote: >Hey Nektarios, thanks for this, after reading a lot of manuals and >reviews, I ended up buying the Iriver H340 as well and am looking >forward to it. I have the older IHP120 and, once I find what I'm looking for to listen to, it's a fine machine. The one-button control is a bit of a bear, though. Press it once this way to go this direction, press twice to skip by file; press it once the other way to go in some other direction, click the center portion of the button to do some other thing ... madness. If I could just memorize what does what in which direction, I'd be OK, but what I think it should be and what it is are unfortunately two different things! Good luck with the 340. at least it'll have more buttons than the 120 does. _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
