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. 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] >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG. >> Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.14/1425 - Release Date: >> 5/9/2008 >> 12:38 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] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
