Well, here's what I know. Rockbox will play lossless file formats, so if you're going to use Rockbox, you can use any MP3 player supported by Rockbox. Go to rockbox.org to get the current list of supported players.
The Zen Stone, which as far as I know, only comes in a 1GB or 2GB capacity, does not support Rockbox or lossless formats. I thought I remembered that the Toshiba Gigabyte supported lossless formats, and after checking the web, that is correct. It also supports Rockbox. I don't believe it's available anymore, but I'm sure you could still find used or refurbished models on the web. I don't know how accessible the native firmware is though; I've never heard of a blind person using the Gigabyte, unless they were using Rockbox. Just for grins, I did a search, using Yahoo!, on "lossless MP3 players" and the second hit was "MP3 players that play lossless music - CNET.com" at the URL http://www.cnet.com/4520-10166_1-6277508-1.html. On this web page it says: "I know where you're coming from; lossless files do sound better than lossy files such as MP3, WMA, or AAC. Except for the iPod Shuffle, all Apple iPods play back Apple lossless as well as uncompressed WAV and AIFF files. You will also find FLAC (an open-source lossless format) compatibility in the aging and hard-to-locate Rio Karma, as well as the Cowon iAudio M3 and X5. The only MP3 players that support WMA lossless are actually the Windows Mobile-powered Portable Media Centers. Check out this list of lossless-compatible players." The list being referred to above is at http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6450_7-5622801-1.html?tag=txt. Again, I don't know if any of these MP3 players are accessible with their native firmware or not. My hunch is that Rockbox will end up being the way to go. Good luck! DJ DOCTOR P wrote: > Hello everyone, > I'd rather have a portable media player that can play uncompressed audio > files. > I won't just be listening to it through a pare of headphones, I will be > listening to it through a very high quality portable sound system which I > will build for it myself. > To me, uncompressed audio files sound better then loscy MP3 files. > Which ipods play uncompressed audio files? > John. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "K. Gillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:04 PM > Subject: RE: A Question About IPods > > > >> Either does an IPOD. >> >> Do some Googling And please let us know what you find out? >> >> Cheers...Keit >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain >> Sent: May 14, 2008 6:19 PM >> To: PC Audio Discussion List >> Subject: Re: A Question About Ipods >> >> 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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