One option would be to get a Sansa e200 series from accessibleelectronics.com. These are the V1 versions and they come with Rockbox preloaded. Of course, you could save a few dollars getting one from eBay, but you'll need to make sure it's the V1 version.
I think they have a reasonably good port for the V2 now, but I think there's a few features missing. You may want to check on this and that might open up some more possibilities off of eBay. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com -----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Jason Boston Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 10:35 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: iPod Nano and talking menus 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 >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > > > ****************************** > > Dane Trethowan >>From Melton Victoria Australia > mailto:"grtd...@internode.on.net > Twitter: http://twitter.com/grtdane > blog: http://www.grtdane.wordpress.com > Phone United Kingdom > 02032874641 > Phone Australia > 0390058589 > Phone United States > 8159261869 > Fax: > +61 3 9743 7954x > MSN grtd...@dane-trethowan.net > skype:grtdane12 > > ****************************** > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
