Well it seems I've inherritted a muvo and while it's capacity is limited, I really like it's ease of use. Eventually I would like to buy something with greater capactiy, but since all I desire in an Mp3 player is a divice for listening to music, I suspect something will happen along, as long as it doesn't require a file manager for transferring files. My friend has one from Sony and the program used, something called sonic stage is rather messy with Jaws.
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: Sunday, April 08, 2007 12:39 AM Subject: Re: Information and help needed regarding MP3 players > Well, the sighted help I was referring to was pretty minimal. I needed > it mostly to get familiar with the player and then when I'd gotten > myself in trouble loading some new firmware on it. Others may disagree, > but IMHO, if you're gonna play with the Rockbox firmware then you need > to be willing to spend some time reading up on what to do, be prepared > to experiment with it a bit and be patient and persistent! Knowing a > little bit about electronics, at least the terms used, would also help. > I don't want to scare anyone off, but you can't go into it thinking > it'll work right out of the box, or you'll probably be pretty > disappointed and frustrated. If you do get it all working, it is pretty > sweet! > > Dan Murphy wrote: > > 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] > > > > > > > > -- > 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]
