Yes, rockbox makes the nano a lot more user friendly. I have an ipod video 30 gb here, but its basically the same thing. And now that the new rockbox installer is out, no more of that going into the command prompt; its all done for you, and its very painless. voices can be found at: http://www.tbrn.net/rockbox the rockbox manual is very intuitive. They kater to us blind folks. You have speech output afor files, menu items (pretty much all of them, except perhaps an alarm- but who would use that). It gives you battery status information, etc. It lets you specifically set up sound settings. You get the option of choosing what the anti-skip buffer is- this basically is like a portable cd player, with hard drive based models that is. Since the nano is flash based, no real need for that here- a waiste of battery and it wouldn't work anyway. You can choose to shuffle, repeat, or repeat all, as well as shuffle repeat, and I'm not sure what else. Crossfading and fade in and fade out are all options too. You can even make .talk clips painlessly with the voicebox utility. Basically, while your ipod is plugged into the pc, you open this utility up, set a few very simple options such as voice directories or voice file names, and set it if you want it to notify you when it has finished. Now you choose the drive that your ipod reprisents (for me it is g, but it can be anything). Now press enter on run, I think the button is called- and, using your default sapi 5 voice, it will convert the spelled out names you'd usually here (for example, dog would be d, o, g, very annoying), to full speech. Of course if you don't have sapi 5 this might be an issue, however, I personally would use e speech. It is free and it doesn't sound half bad and, most of all, it can be quite quick if you have long file names. Its used in the open source screen reader NVDA, (nonvisual desktop access)if anyone cares to know.
hth! Have a good day from Tyler C. Wood! contact details: email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: the_conman283 system details: Hp pavillion dv5220CA notebook pc AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-37 2.0 GHZ, 1024 mb DDR ram, Fujitsu 100 gb 4500 RPM Hard Drive, connecsant AC-link audio ----- Original Message ----- From: "DJ DOCTOR P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 4:30 PM Subject: A Question About Ipods > Hello List Members, > I am thinking about getting an ipod. > The one that I have my mind sat on, is the Apple Nano 8 gig. > My question is, how user friendly is the Apple Nano for blind people? > And also, would Rock Box make it more user friendly for me? > Thanks in advance. > My best regards. > John. > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.23.11/1422 - Release Date: 5/8/2008 5:24 PM Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
