I apologize if I already posted this, but the Zen Stone is a real good option, I have one myself, but it's capacity is only a few GB, and it doesn't support lossless or uncompressed formats.
Valiant8086 (on laptop) wrote: > Hi. > If you're trying to use one with rockbox, go to http://rockbox.org and look > for information on which players rockbox supports. If you just want > something user friendly without needing rockbox you can try milestone 311 or > 12 coming soon, vi player, zen stone (a really good option), or you can even > use an olympus ds series recorder to play MP3, WMA and I think WAV files. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "DJ DOCTOR P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 4:10 PM > Subject: Re: A Question About Ipods > > > >> High Valiant8086 on laptop, >> Which one is? >> I am looking for one that is blind user friendly. >> I prefer an Ipod that can play uncompressed files. >> Does anyone have any suggestions? >> Thanks. >> John. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Valiant8086 (on laptop)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 9:09 PM >> Subject: Re: A Question About Ipods >> >> >> >>> Hi. >>> As far as I know, the last time I checked, the Nano was not supported by >>> rockbox. In fact, it specifically said it wasn't. >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "constantine (on laptop)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >>> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 8:47 PM >>> Subject: Re: A Question About Ipods >>> >>> >>> >>>> 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. 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