That's exactly what players with Rockbox does. I have an Iriver h120 that I don't use much because I got the victor stream now, but it spun up for speaking.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Schmude" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:37 PM Subject: Re: what the point in that > > Well, flash memory is up to pretty good sizes right now. The iPods are > flash based, not solid state. In theory they could easily release a > 64gb flash iPod if they so chose at a relatively reasonable price > point. Now, if the iPods were solid state you'd be paying some pretty > good money for them. > The trouble with implementing speech on the classic, even should apple > keep it around, is that its hard drive would need to spin up every > time it wished to speak. It wouldn't be a problem in menus, but if you > pressed an option that required speech while music was actually > playing, odds are your hd would need to spin back up and you'd have a > delay of a few seconds before you heard anything. To add to this, > you'd drain your battery fairly quickly if you repeatedly spin up the > hard drive this way. > > > On Mar 11, 2009, at 13:16, Dean Wilcox wrote: > >> >> I heard the same a while back but they must replace it somehow? The >> solid state iPods like the Nano and Shuffle are great and small but >> the people with over 100 gigs in their library will want something >> similar. Myself I only have close to 40GB and I don't really know >> what kind of iPod I want any more. Since I've started using iTunes >> it makes more sence to use play lists seen as I like iTunes so much. >> >> At 15:20 11/03/2009, you wrote: >> >>> Seconded. I want a talking classic as much as the next music junkie, >>> but I doubt there'll ever be one, not in it's current form anyway. >>> >>> On 3/11/09, Jacob Schmude <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Wouldn't make sense, seeing as Apple has hinted the classic won't be >>>> around much longer. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mar 11, 2009, at 11:02, Dean Wilcox wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> A talking Iphone? Lets keep it simple for now and go for the iPod >>>>> clasic! >>>>> >>>>> At 14:32 11/03/2009, you wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> hmm, nice cheery outlook you've got there Will, lol. >>>>>> >>>>>> I should imagine the main thrust of this will be the playlist >>>>>> selection. 4gb of songs would be quite a hefty amount to flick >>>>>> through to try and locate a particular album. >>>>>> >>>>>> What struck me as interesting about this though is that the >>>>>> shuffle >>>>>> has no screen, so people who're going to take advantage of >>>>>> playlisting >>>>>> are relying solely on VO, just like us. If nothing else it's >>>>>> nice to >>>>>> see Apple openly putting some faith into a spoken interface. If >>>>>> this >>>>>> is a hit with the consumers, it could go a long way towards >>>>>> speeding >>>>>> up talking interfaces for their other products. >>>>>> >>>>>> *cough* iPhone? iPhone Mr Jobs? >>>>>> >>>>>> On 3/11/09, william lomas <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> hi apple now have a talking ipod shuffle. what is the point >>>>>>> in this? >>>>>>> if people can't even tell what song they are listening to that >>>>>>> crazy lol >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>>>>> Checked by AVG. >>>>>> Version: 7.5.557 / Virus Database: 270.11.9/1992 - Release Date: >>>>>> 3/9/2009 7:20 PM >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a >>>> thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot >>>> possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible >>>> to >>>> get at or repair. >>>> --Douglas Adams >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>> Checked by AVG. >>> Version: 7.5.557 / Virus Database: 270.11.9/1992 - Release Date: >>> 3/9/2009 7:20 PM >> >> >> >> > > > The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a > thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot > possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to > get at or repair. > --Douglas Adams > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
