I wonder if it even supports Rockbox? I can see now why the 140's and 120's are starting to get inflated prices. What I don't understand is what Rockbox does for sighted people that don't need speech besides the proudness factor of modifying something with open source software.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Samco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 8:29 PM Subject: Re: Is there such a thing as a blind friendly playerthatplaysbothRAXand Wma/drm files? > Brent, > > I did not put the Rock Box firmware on my iRiver T30 flash player. > The firmware is directly from iRiver and is for providing USB mass > storage capability rather than having to use the Microsoft Media > Player transfer protocol. And, yes, you can reinstall the original > iRiver firmware and get the DRM file capability back. > > Jeff > > > > At 07:28 PM 10/22/2006, you wrote: >>Does putting the DRM-capable firmware back get the capability back? Or >>does >>the Rockbox site really mean permanent when they say that flashing their >>software to a 3x series Iriver destroys DRM capability in the sense that >>reverting back won't restore that ability. >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Jeff Samco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >>Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 9:26 PM >>Subject: RE: Is there such a thing as a blind friendly player >>thatplaysbothRAXand Wma/drm files? >> >> >> > Rick, >> > >> > I do not use any DRM files so won't be able to comment on this. >> > However, when I next off-load some files I will locate a very large >> > MP3 file and see how it works with the resume feature. How large of >> > an MP3 file do you recommend using for this test? >> > Other than the resume feature, there is no bookmarking feature I am >> > aware of. By the way, I immediately replaced the original firmware >> > which required Windows Media Player transfer protocol, with iRiver's >> > USB mass storage capable firmware. That removes any capability of >> > loading DRM files. I'll post on the above in a few days. >> > >> > Jeff >> > >> > >> > At 02:38 PM 10/21/2006, you wrote: >> >>Jeff, >> >> >> >>How does this player handle large DRM files in terms of bookmarking, >> >>and >> >>bookmarking in general on other file types? Thanks. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>--Warmest regards, >> >> >> >>--Rick Alfaro >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >> >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>On Behalf Of Jeff Samco >> >>Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 12:58 AM >> >>To: PC audio discussion list. >> >>Subject: RE: Is there such a thing as a blind friendly player thatplays >> >>bothRAXand Wma/drm files? >> >> >> >>Well, not sure what you want a player to do besides the basics. I have >> >>previously used an iRiver flash player, ifp 795, and just 2 days ago >> >>got >> >>the >> >>newer version, T30 512 MB flash player. Both have predictable menus >> >>which, >> >>if you are good at memorizing the features you want, you can use it >> >>pretty >> >>effectively. I got one of my kids to change the settings I prefer to >> >>always >> >>stay the same. But, the feature I most enjoy is the playback speed >> >>adjustment. It goes from 0% to 50 percent in 10 percent incriments. It >> >>is >> >>easy to memorize the sequence of buttons. The features I like changed >> >>are: >> >>Fast forward and rewind speed increased from 1x to 6x. >> >>Study mode turned on: this changes the forward and rewind buttons so >> >>that >> >>tapping it will not change tracks but will move ahead or back a set >> >>number >> >>of seconds, like 3 or 10 seconds. >> >>Auto power shut off time increased to a longer time period. >> >> >> >>Hope this helps, >> >>Jeff >> >> >> >> >> >>At 06:57 AM 10/20/2006, you wrote: >> >> >Well, I'd just like to find a reasonably priced, and reasonably blind >> >> >friendly portable mp3 player that uses direct plug n play for hooking >> >> >up to a pc, rather than proprietory software. I don't care if it >> >> >plays >> >> >RA, or wma really, since I do everything in mp3, although, if it does >> >> >ogg, I guess I won't complain, but, not something I'd expect for a >> >> >reasonably priced player. 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