Actually I was thinking more along the lines of one of the smaller flash players with 1 or 2 GB, although the iriver one sounds interesting. Our access to sighted help is somewhat tenuous since the person who could help us is a partial who gets headaches when looking at the screen too long. As I said before, I would be happy with a machine that I could simply hook up to the Usb port on the PC and just drag files into it and as long as I know where the basic navigation keys on the player are that would be fine.
dan Murphy mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM:mweeby2000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Chaltain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list." <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 2:25 AM Subject: Re: Information and help needed regarding MP3 players > I'm not familiar with the Sony series you mentioned, but what kind of > MP3 player are you looking for? Are you looking for a compact flash > based MP3 player that has maybe 1GB or 2GM of storage, or are you > looking for a hard drive based player that has 20GB, 40GB or more of > storage? > > With the compact flash based player you have several choices. The one > that I'm familiar with is the Nomad MuVo from Creative. Unfortunately, > Creative doesn't distribute it anymore, but you might find one on the > web somewhere. It doesn't have a display and just a few buttons to > adjust the volumen and volume and skip from song to song. There are a > few other similar options on the market, like the iPod Shuffle. The > nice thing about the MuVo that I have is that it doesn't come with any > software, it's just a UMS device on your computer and you can use > Windows Explorer to move MP3's over to it. It also plays WMA and DRM > files, so you can use it with Audible and Overdrive. > > In the area of a harddrive based MP3 player, I recently just got myself > an iRiver H10 20GB MP3 player and I loaded the Rockbox firmware on it. > You may need some patience and sighted help to get this working, but if > you do, you end up with a device that has spoken menus and even spoken > song titles, although it doesn't have TTS built into it. You can still > get the iRiver H10 on line, in a 5GB, 6GB and 20GB version. I got mine > recently from woot.com for $99. > > Sorry I don't have information on any newer players, but I'm just > sharing my personal experience and remember, these are just my > opinions. If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask! > > Dan Murphy wrote: > > Hi all. I have recently been tempted to look into some kind of mp3 player > > that is evenminimally usable. > > A friend of mine recently purchased a Sony NWE series unit and it's very > > nice to look at but the file management software that comes with it > > doesn't get along well at all with Jaws 5.10. > > As I am very new to all this I haven't paid much attention to all the > > messages on here about the various players and their levels of usability > > for blind people, so I need to do some catching up. I'm not interested in > > the apple product line since I understand their music format is totally > > proprietary, and I would mostly be using it to listen to my own stuff that > > I have recorded. I also don't need something with a radio built in since > > I own several AM/FM radios that work fine with headphones and can be used > > for that purpose. > > also I wouldn't mind just being able to forward and rewind through the > > songs, because I really don't want to have to spend a lot of money, and > > anyway, I would just have them all arranged in one folder. > > I quite liked the look of the Sony, it was very nice and small, and the > > buttons seemed accessible enough, but I was mostly trying to see if I > > could get the software to work even slightly with Jaws, and so I really > > didn't learn too much about the player itself. > > any suggestions, comments, pointers are welcome. > > thanks in advance. > > > > Dan Murphy > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > AIM:mweeby2000 > > > > > > > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > Christopher > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
