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["Stephen Faill" <stephen.faill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi david.

you said in your message that you have a creative mp3 player.

can you tell me which one and how easy you find it to use?

does it have rockbox on it?

regards stephen
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David 
  To: blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 12:26 PM
  Subject: [blindipod] Re: a bit of advice


  Hi,

  As far as I can tell you are right.  I have an Ipod Shuffle which needs 
Itunes.  I also have a Creative MP3 player and a WS320M Recorder and player 
which need nothing except Windows Explorer.

  I don't know why so many people have gone for these Apple products because 
the company itself does nothing to make its software accessible.  I said on 
another list a couple of months ago that I would never have Apple products in 
the future and I haven't changed my mind.

  Regards

  David

  -----Original Message-----
  From: blindipod-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:blindipod-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Stephen Faill
  Sent: 08 January 2007 10:54
  To: blind ipod mailing list
  Subject: [blindipod] a bit of advice


  hello list.

  my friend came to my house with his goodmans mp3 player and we connected it 
to the pc using the u s b cable without the supplied software.

  we used windows explorer to access the player and copied and pasted some mp3 
files onto it.

  nice and easy, smile.

  my question is this...do all portable media devices except for the ipod range 
act like this?

  can they all be accessed through windows explorer without the need for any 
other 3rd party software installed?

  this was so easy to do and didn't cause me any problems to get the mp3's onto 
the player.
   i like the idea and simplicity of this as i know how compllicated the use of 
the ipod software is and was hoping someone on this list can advise me better 
on the choice of a player.

  regards.

  stephen