Hi Jason.
If you're music is organised into artist and album folders then the Ipod
would be fine for you. You can move from the music folder into either
artist, album, song or playlists. When in the artist folder you can browse
all albums by the artist or all songs and when selecting an album you can
see all of the tracks in that album.
Now if your collection is organised into folders other than artist and album
then you may be right in considering another option if you're not into
playlists.
Regards.
Kevin
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From: "Jason Boston" <jwb3...@cox.net>
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Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 4:34 PM
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
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[mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Jim Noseworthy
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 1:38 PM
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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>
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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.
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[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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