Ah ok, well I have to admit, I didnt' spend allot of time playing
with the Nano and you're absolutely right, the Shuffle doesn't have
nor does it need a wheel as its extremely basic, it does what it says
it does, that is plays audio.
On 07/03/2007, at 3:32 AM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
I've looked at the nano, and the clickwheel appears to be the same on
them, but I'll find out from a friend of mine who owns one. The only
wheel that i know of that you don't run your finger along the edge to
move through menu items is the Shuffle, which has limited navigation
in any case.
Dane Trethowan wrote:
Ok I beg your pardon, I thought you were talking about something
entirely different, the wheel as seen on the Nano is different from
what you described.
On 07/03/2007, at 3:17 AM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
That is called the click wheel, and i have the same one on a 40GB
4G iPod, though I've used it on the 30GB video iPod belonging to
someone else. It works fine. The iPod clicks for menu items, and
the menus do not wrap. You can easily set the menu items to click
through the headphones output as well. If you familiarize yourself
with the menu items you will be using, it is a simple task to move
through them. Pressing down on the top of the wheel moves you back
a menu. Pressing select in the center of the wheel selects the
menu item. I'm not sure how the myth was started that a blind
person couldn't use an iPod with a click wheel, but it has been
remarkably persistent.
In the artists menu, the names are arranged in alphabetical order.
With a little practice you can become very fast at finding what you
want, because you can guess roughly where in the menu the artist
you are looking for is located. If I'm looking for George Michael
and I click into Elton John, I know i have only a little further to
go, for example. Artists are arranged by the first letter of the
name, which puts Elton in E and George in G.
william lomas wrote:
josh
which i pod do u have?
i am prepared to learn it, but i dont have the one with a wheel
that physically clicks. it is the one that you slide your hand
around the wheel, do you kno the one i mean?
thanks for any help you can give
will
On 6 Mar 2007, at 16:21, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
I've been using an iPod without RockBox or any other
modifications for years now. If you take a little time to learn
the device, it is quite simple to operate without speech. I
rather expect that sooner or later iPods will support speech
access, but it is far from necessary to use them. If you are not
inclined to take the time to learn how to use the iPod, that is
one thing. But saying they are wholly unuseable is totally
inaccurate.
On Mar 6, 2007, at 08:01 , william lomas wrote:
hi all
i have a question for you all. if we buy all these albums and
books and movies now off the itunes store, how are we going to
take them on the road with us.
the i pods don't bother to support the playback of itunes music
files with rockbox, so aren't we wasting money buying all this
stuff, as we can't access the folders without speech support
really, so do you understand what i saying? smile
while i love itunes now, we cant play the stuff we are
purchasing on the move, accept on our computers
just my 2 cents worth
will
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