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["Geetha Shamanna" <geetha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brett,

Ever since you mentioned that iPods can play ogg files, I made up my mind to 
buy the iPod model that supports ogg format with Rockbox. However, I am 
totally new to the world of iPods and this generation jargon is confusing to 
me. The Rockbox site does mention some iPod models; however, I would like to 
know which of them play ogg files.

Any Rockbox experts on this list willing to have a short chat with me over 
Skype on this subject?
I need to make a decision by this weekend, so all responses are highly 
appreciated.

Thanks for your patience.
Geetha
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brett" <brett06@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 4:29 PM
Subject: [blindipod] Re: Questions about iPod accessibility


Hi,

I am using a iPod NANO, if you look at one of these, you need to be sure
it's the first generation, as Rockbox doesn't work with the second gen
NANO's. Off the top of my head, I can't remember all the things Rockbox
supports, probably best to look at www.rockbox to see what they are
currently supporting. They support a couple of other brands as well, not
just iPods. another cool thing with Rockbox, if your like me and will be
reading audio books on it, is that you can speed up the naration. It is like
the old variable speed players, where it does make the voice more squeeky
the faster you go, but it's better than listening to a book at normal speed,
well at least for me.

Hope this helps,
Brett.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geetha Shamanna" <geetha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 1:23 AM
Subject: [blindipod] Re: Questions about iPod accessibility


> Hi Brett,
>
> This is very interesting indeed.
> Do you mean that if I buy an iPod on which Rockbox can be installed, I
> would
> not have to convert my ogg files into the audio file format in order to
> play
> it on the iPod?
> If so, and if it plays both ogg and MP3 formats, I would certainly prefer
> having a Rockbox-compatible iPod.
> By the way, on which of the iPods can Rockbox be installed? Shuffle and
> Nano
> are ruled out I guess.
>
> Also, do you already use an iPod with Rockbox which plays ogg files?
>
> Many thanks.
> Geetha
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brett" <brett06@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 2:26 PM
> Subject: [blindipod] Re: Questions about iPod accessibility
>
>
> Hi,
>
> iPods natively don't play OGG files, but if you put rockbox on your iPod,
> it
> then will play ogg files. So if ogg is a priority for you, you will want
> to
> get an iPod that you can install rockbox on, that way you won't have to
> convert your files.
>
> Hope this helps,
> brett.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Geetha Shamanna" <geetha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 2:01 AM
> Subject: [blindipod] Re: Questions about iPod accessibility
>
>
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> Many thanks for this very useful information.
>>
>> I am completely new to the world of iPods, so much so that I still do not
>> have an iPod of my own.
>> I would however like to buy one very soon, which is why I am doing all
>> this
>> research.
>> Which iPod model would you recommend?
>>
>> Also, I am not much of a music fan, and would be using my iPod almost
>> exclusively for listening to audio books.
>> Does iPod Shuffle play audio books?
>> Finally, do any of the iPods play ogg files, or should the files always
>> be
>> converted to mp3 or audio book format?
>>
>> Thanks again to you and everyone who wrote for patiently answering my
>> questions.
>>
>> Geetha
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Brian Giles" <briangiles7@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 8:20 PM
>> Subject: [blindipod] Re: Questions about iPod accessibility
>>
>>
>> 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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