Hi Gary, There is software downloadable from the Rockbox site that does exactly what the software for the nano is doing. IE, it scans the MP3 player for files, uses your default speech synthesiser to make recordings of the albums, folders and file names, and puts those recordings with a special file extension onto the Rockbox-enabled player. I know, as I've used it regularly. The only time Rockbox will spell the files out is if you don't use this utility.
That said, you can't play Audible or protected iTunes content on Rockbox. Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary King Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2008 12:27 p.m. To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Itunes 8 now accessible Jonathan, I probably won't be buying a new iPod Nano since I have an N82 with plenty of storage and several other players including my old iRiver H120 with Rockbox, but I'm glad that Apple finally produced an iPod we can use without any modification. It's also nice that the voice tagging of menus and songs is done automatically by iTunes once the feature is activated in the software. Rockbox is nice also, but there's no automated way of voice tagging songs, and we have to settle for the titles being spelled instead of spoken. Gary King [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Mosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:37 PM Subject: RE: Itunes 8 now accessible > Hi Stephen, I have not played with one so am going based on what I've > read, > but it appears that what happens is that when your nano is connected to > your > PC or Mac, a scan is made for all albums and songs on your nano. Using > your > default system voice, say RealSpeak Daniel in SAPI 5 as an example, files > are generated for every artist, song and album. These are then copied to > your Nano so that as you move through the menus, albums and tracks, you > can > hear what these tracks are. So this is quite different from having real > text > to speech on the device itself, and emulates what the guys at Rockbox gave > us quite some time ago, but is still commendable nonetheless. > > Jonathan > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Stephen Guerra > Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2008 8:18 a.m. > To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' > Subject: RE: Itunes 8 now accessible > > Jonathan, so, when you have the new Nano hooked up to your pc, it feeds > off > the TTS you are running and loads it on to the Nano, or am I way off. > > Does the Nano require you to install software to have speech? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Jonathan Mosen > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:56 PM > To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' > Subject: RE: Itunes 8 now accessible > > Alex and all, the new iPod Nanos are sort of accessible but do not use > text > to speech. They use the technique Rockbox has used for around 5 years, > where > they use your default system voice on your PC/Mac to create files that > live > on the nano to announce menus, albums and songs. > > In terms of iTunes in Windows, iTunes 8 has implemented extensive use of > Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA). Because of this, JAWS will be able > to > work well out of the box with iTunes once we enable MSAA support for > iTunes > in the next public beta of JAWS 10. I have just been testing this today > and > am able to use the iTunes Music Store, the Radio feature and many others. > Apple have done a good job here. > > Jonathan > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Alex Stone > Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2008 6:53 a.m. > To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' > Subject: RE: Itunes 8 now accessible > > Lauren, According to the Apple website the latest IPod is accessible, but > I > haven't seen one, so I don't know. > Cheers > Alex > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Lauren > Sent: 10 September 2008 19:11 > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Re: Itunes 8 now accessible > > If Itunes is accessible now, which Ipod is accessible as well? > > > Sincerely, > > Lauren > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dane Trethowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:33 AM > Subject: Itunes 8 now accessible > > >> Subject line says it all, both for Windows and Mac. >> >> >> -- >> Dane Trethowan >> From Melton Victoria Australia >> mailto:"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> phone (+61 3) 9005 8589 >> Fax (+61 3) 9743 7954 >> Mobile/SMS (+61 418) 773 532 >> MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> skype callto:grtdane12 >> >> ****************************** >> >> >> Jonathan Mosen List Founder >> Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Jonathan Mosen List Founder > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Jonathan Mosen List Founder > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Jonathan Mosen List Founder > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Jonathan Mosen List Founder > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Jonathan Mosen List Founder > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
