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[blindipod] Re: For Carol, which iPod

From: "Spring Flower" <spring.flower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 14:27:47 -0000

Hi Brian,.

I too am looking to purchase a mp3 player of sorts.

Which music sites can you download from to put on an iriver then?

When you say they don't support audible content, is that spoken word files?

What sites can't you use other than napster and can you use napster tracks on an ipod?

Trace

----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Hartgen" <brian.hartgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 8:57 AM Subject: [blindipod] For Carol, which iPod

Hi
I was going to write the following yesterday when Carol originally raised
this subject, but unfortunately I was not able to.
Carol, the first thing really you or your husband need to think about is whether you actually need an iPod at all. In my view, the best mainstream player around for us as of today, from a file transfer and accessibility perspective, is the iRiver H340 with Rockbox installed. This as you probably know accommodates 40 GB of storage, it is easy to transfer files from a computer to the device using any screen-reader, and the fact that Rockbox is on the device means you get access to the menus. It also includes a separate charging unit so you are not dependent upon charging the player using USB connectivity.

You mentioned the ability to shuffle material. You can do this on the iRiver, and one of the effective ways of doing this is to create a playlist of lots of files using Winamp, transfer the .m3u file to the iRiver, and invoke the Shuffle option within Rockbox, again very very accessible. However you can for example ask Rockbox to shuffle the contents of an individual folder.

The iRiver, or more particularly Rockbox, does not support Audible content, so you should take that into consideration if you need to. In addition, the iRiver and/or Rockbox firmware does not support protected WMA files, such as those found on the Napster music site. But if you want to transfer MP3 or unprotected WMA files to the unit, this in my view is certainly the way you should go.

If it is an iPod you really want, presumably you either want this because of its physical size or because it can play music purchased from Apple's own music store or Audible content. The shuffle holds 512 MB or 1 GB as has already been stated, and both units are very available. You cannot install Rockbox on these units, however there is really no need as the layout is quite straightforward. iTunes is required. You receive it on a CD with the Shuffle, and you simply install it onto your PC. Unless you are particularly adept at using your screen-reader's review mode, such as the jaws cursor, you are probably going to want our jaws scripts for navigating iTunes.

If you want Rockbox on an iPod right now, you probably want to go for the new iPod Nano, but you are still quite limited in terms of the storage capacity. I understand that Rockbox at the moment does not work on some of the iPods with greater storage capacity, such as those which hold 30 or 60 GB of files.
So in summary, unless your file type needs are quite specific as outlined
above, my advice is to purchase one of the iRiver players supported by
Rockbox, probably the H320 or 40 as they are easier to acquire.
Brian Hartgen
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