Thanks, that's one of the deciding factors. It's easy for me to dump
folders on a rockbox enabled player since my whole audio library is
organized by folder instead of play lists. 

I don't care much for play lists, but that's a personal preference based
around the way I like to organize my files. 

Thanks for the info. I think I'll be looking for another rockbox
compatible player. 

Thanks,
Jason


-----Original Message-----
From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org
[mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Jim Noseworthy
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 1:38 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: iPod Nano and talking menus


Hi:

I'm afraid that the Nano is library based.

Cheers.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Boston" <jwb3...@cox.net>
To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 2:19 PM
Subject: RE: iPod Nano and talking menus


> Can you select folders within iPod to play instead of going through a 
> library? That's the feature I like best about rockbox. I can play all 
> the songs from a folder and it's sub-folders in order or shuffled. I'm

> hoping the same is basically true for iPod nano.
> 
> I am without a mp3 player right now and am looking for a good one to 
> buy that isn't too pricy.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org 
> [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan
> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 12:13 PM
> To: PC Audio Discussion List
> Subject: Re: iPod Nano and talking menus
> 
> 
> It doesn't compare because both are based on completely different 
> principles.
> 
> The Ipod Forth Generation nano uses voice tags whereas Rockbox uses 
> TTS. Each system has its advantages and disadvantages, for instance 
> you get the title, artist and so on of a particular song announced on 
> your Ipod Forth Generation word by word - example: Dean Martin - 
> Everybody Loves Somebody Sometimes whereas this information is spelt 
> out letter by letter.
> 
> You also have more options over what kind of speech you want, this is 
> set from the computer you're connecting the Ipod with whether that be 
> a Mac or Windows system, with Rockbox I found it very difficult to 
> find a good speech engine to my liking, I did find one in the end 
> though others were just too fast for my liking.
> 
> The only problem I've struck with the Ipod Forth Generation Nano is 
> that some of its applications such as time/date alarm and the like are

> completely unusable but again, that's what you expect to happen if 
> you're using voice tags, the menus all speak however.
> 
> We're up to the Ipod Fifth generation now and that unit has Voiceover 
> built-in to it so in other words, the Ipod Nano Fifth Generation has a

> Built-in Screen Reader so its completely customisable.  I don't know 
> even if you can buy an Ipod Nano Forth Generation now can you? I have 
> one here and I wouldn't give it up for quits I can tell you, well not 
> at least until I get my Iphone next week - if they haven't sold out in

> the meantime <smile> -'
> 
> 
> On 28/11/2009, at 4:50 AM, Jason Boston wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone had any experience with the talking menus in the 4th
>> generation iPod nanos? I'm curious how it compares to the 
>> accessibility of rockbox.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jason
>> 
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