FreeLists / blindipod / [blindipod] Re: Questions about iPod accessibility

["Brian Giles" <briangiles7@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Geetha,
Some things that might help you.

1.  As you may know, the 4th generation iPod is now the 5th generation iPod,
commonly called the iPod Video.  I have one and love it.  I tried using
rockbox, but I prefer the normal iPod interface because of the ability to
browse your library in different ways, and the fact that you don't have to
reboot the iPod to play songs purchased from the iTunes Store, and I do that
a lot.  I don't have any vision at all and at least for me, the normal
interface isn't too hard to use once you get used to it.  It does take me a
little bit of searching to find a particular album I want to listen to, but
it actually took me longer to find a certain song with rockbox.  That's
probably just me, though.
Apple kind of re-released the video iPods in September.  They kept the 30GB
one but replaced the 60GB with an 80GB.  I could be wrong, but I believe
these, along with the aluminum iPod Nanos, don't work with rockbox.

2.  If you are a JAWS user, iTunes is awesome with the scripts for it.
TandT recommends that you use iTunes version 6, which thankfully they have a
link to download on their website.  However, if you have one of the newer
iPods I.E. the ones that came out in September 2006, you will need iTunes
7.0.  I tried using the iTunes scripts on a friend's computer with iTunes
7.0 once, and it really confused me, so I don't' think I'll upgrade until I
get another iPod.

3.  As far as the audio books, I have a few on my iPod that I've added to
iTunes and my iPod from CD's.  That is a good article, but I know of one
that I think is a bit more helpful.  I don't remember the link off hand, but
if you google something like iTunes and audio books you should find it.
It's something like aldablog on audio books.  I used the steps from this
site when I converted my audio books and it worked great.  One thing they
explain how to do is to combine all the tracks on each CD into one to make
it easier to manage, and they also tell you how to rename the tracks so that
you don't get disks of a book playing out of order although I haven't done
that yet.

HTH, 
Brian

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