Re: iPod Nano and talking menus

2009-11-29 Thread Kevin Lloyd
om: "Jason Boston" To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" 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 who

RE: iPod Nano and talking menus

2009-11-28 Thread Christopher Chaltain
c-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 lib

RE: iPod Nano and talking menus

2009-11-28 Thread Jason Boston
M 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" To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 2:19 PM

Re: iPod Nano and talking menus

2009-11-27 Thread Jim Noseworthy
Dane: The Rockbox menues are simply voice clips generated by a different method than the file voice clips. Cheers. - Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 4:07 PM Subject: Re: iPod Nano and

Re: iPod Nano and talking menus

2009-11-27 Thread Dane Trethowan
iscussion List'" > Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 2:37 PM > Subject: RE: iPod Nano and talking menus > > >> I don't have an iPod Nano, but I always assumed it behaved similarly to >> Rockbox. The note below says "Rockbox uses TTS," but this isn't the

Re: iPod Nano and talking menus

2009-11-27 Thread Dane Trethowan
l Message - From: "Jason Boston" > To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" > 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 >> libr

Re: iPod Nano and talking menus

2009-11-27 Thread Jim Noseworthy
Hello: You are correct. Rockbox uses basically the same technology as the Nano: that is to say, voice clips. - Original Message - From: "Christopher Chaltain" To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 2:37 PM Subject: RE: iP

Re: iPod Nano and talking menus

2009-11-27 Thread Jim Noseworthy
Hi: I'm afraid that the Nano is library based. Cheers. - Original Message - From: "Jason Boston" To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 2:19 PM Subject: RE: iPod Nano and talking menus Can you select folders w

RE: iPod Nano and talking menus

2009-11-27 Thread Christopher Chaltain
series portable media players with Rockbox already installed. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com -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

Re: iPod Nano and talking menus

2009-11-27 Thread Dane Trethowan
king 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 > Subje

RE: iPod Nano and talking menus

2009-11-27 Thread Jason Boston
layer 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 Na

Re: iPod Nano and talking menus

2009-11-27 Thread Dane Trethowan
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 F