I'm not sure that the fact you're looking at longer playing audio would change the parameters you're looking for. It may be that that longer playing audio is captured at a lower bit rate, so actually takes up less space. If you have these shows already downloaded to your PC, you can take a look at them and see how big they are and then calculate how much space you need, based on how frequently you'd want to update them on your MP3 player.
Right now I use a 128MB Nomad MuVo from Creative to listen to audio books from Overdrive and Audible. Although it would be nice if it were a bit bigger, these are usually things I don't need to keep around forever, especially with the books from Overdrive, which expire in two weeks. Copying a new book over to my MuVo every few days, at most, is no big deal. I use my 20GB iRiver to store my music. This works out, since I generally want to keep my music around for a while and have a large selection of music to choose from when I'm listening to music without having to copy it over to a small compact flash based MP3 player every time. I'm guessing that you'd still want a 1GB or 2GB compact flash based MP3 player. I'm not sure what's accessible out there right now, but the MuVo Mix from Creative would fit the bill. Once again, Creative doesn't distribute them any more, but you could still find them I'm sure. The iPod Shuffle is accessible, but the trick is getting the music onto the Shuffle. I think there are JAWS scripts and 3rd party applications that can help with this. There are also products made specifically for the blind, like the Bookport, which will work, but they tend to be a bit more expensive. As I'm rambling on, I think someone also suggested the recorders from Olympis, which sound like they would be a good option as well. Hopefully others will chime in soon. Good luck with whatever you decide. Mike Pietruk wrote: > Christopher > > Thanks for all that info. I am looking for something similar to Dan > except, in my case, what I need is something that has a large enough > capacity that it can handle podcasts and other downloaded audio shows for > listening in the car. > So ideally it would be something that either my sighted wife or I could > transfer shows from a pc to it and that either one of us could handle in > the car. > The Iriver, given its capacities, sounds as if this may be what we are > after. > I'll be awaiting others comments here and elsewhere. > I realize that most folks get these players for music; but > neither my wife or I are much into that. > Does this facttttt that we are looking for playing back longer time audio > podcasts rather than 3-4 minutes of music cuts change the parameters at > all? > > > > > 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]
