Well, I personally have Rockbox installed on an iRiver H10 for my hard drive based MP3 player. It has a 20GB capacity. I'd suggest looking at Rockbox and the MP3 players it supports if you're looking for more capacity. Remember though that Rockbox is a firmware replacement for your MP3 player, and it's open source. Furthermore, it wasn't designed specifically for the blind. I think they've made great strides lately in installing Rockbox to your MP3 player, but I wouldn't go into it assuming that it's going to work for you quite as easily or quickly as a self extracting Windows application. you may have to do a bit of reading, research and investigation, as well as some trial and error. Also, Rockbox has a lot of support for the open audio formats but not for the proprietary ones. I think they do support WMA, but you're not going to have any luck with Audible.com or Overdrive.com. Check out more information at Rockbox.org.
As far as MP3 players designed specifically for the blind, I've heard a lot of good things about the Victor Stream, although I don't have one myself. Dan Kerstetter wrote: > Actually, I have a Zenstone and was looking at the larger capacity Zen > model. I love the Zenstone as well. > > Thanks. > > Dan Kerstetter > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain > Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 9:39 PM > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Re: Portable MP3 Player Question > > Are you looking for a hardware MP3 player like an iPod or are you > looking for an MP3 player for your PC like Winamp or Windows Media > Player? I'm assuming the former. > > Are you looking for anything in particular, such as an off the shelf MP3 > player or something designed specifically for the blind? How much > capacity are you looking for? > > I personally recommend the 1GB Zen Stone from Creative. It doesn't have > a display, so it's totally accessible. You can also use Windows Explorer > to copy songs to it, so there's no issue with accessible software for > your PC. You can play books on it from Audible.com, Overdrive.com and I > assume other book providers. It costs around $35. > > On the downside, it only has 1GB of storage, although I heard you can > get the same model in a 2GB version now. It also only supports MP3 and > WMA (although not lossless WMA). > > I personally recommend the 1GB version, although if you can get the 2GB > model, that would work too. Creative has a few MP3 players called the > Zen Stone, like the Zen Stone Plus. These other players include an FM > radio, a voice recorder and they come with a display. I've heard some > blind people report on these lists that they've have trouble with > respect to accessibility with these models and others say they haven't > had any problems with them. > > Dan Kerstetter wrote: > >> I'm looking for a reasonably priced MP3 player so I can transfer music >> > from > >> my computer to the player. >> >> I would appreciate any recommendations. >> >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> Dan Kerstetter >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 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]
