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["Jim Noseworthy" <jim.noseworthy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks:

Does anyone out there have an IRiver IFP series player talking with Rockbox?

Cheers.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lysander 
  To: blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 7:46 PM
  Subject: [blindipod] Re: Which IPOD to buy?


  An iPod Nano would probably meet your needs the most. However, I suspect 
you'll be out of luck on the radio and microphone. Personally I'm waiting till 
October to get one of the quarter-sized Shuffles that has no screen.
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Paul Hopewell 
    To: blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 2:02 AM
    Subject: [blindipod] Which IPOD to buy? 


    Hello, 
    I am planning to replace my Creative Muvo MP3 player with something more 
accessible. I would appreciate your suggestions on what to go for. I would 
ideally like something which will do the following in decreasing priority 
order: 
      1.. Be accessible either through Rockbox or through remembered sequences 
of key presses (my MuVo is not accessible as the menus wrapt from first item to 
last item and  vice versa and so it is impossible to reliably get to a known 
state) 
      2.. Play MP3 and audible format 3 
      3.. Have built in FM radio 
      4.. Have storage capacity of at least 1GB ideally on a memory card rather 
than a hard disk 
      5.. Not require Itunes 
      6.. Have built in microphone for recording voice files (I don't need any 
fancy voice editing functions) 
      7.. Be small in size 
    From what i have read on this forum it looks like the Apple IPODs mandate 
Itunes which is not very accessible, especially as I use Windoweyes rather than 
JAWS. I much prefer the Windows Explorer method of downloading files onto the 
IPOD. 
    The Iriver products look good, but there are a lot of models and I am 
unsure which ones are adequately accessible, support audible format 3,  and are 
easily obtainable in the UK.
    The Rockbox WEB site lists several other products as supported, but I have 
no knowledge of these. 
    I look forward to your advice. 
    Many thanks. 
      
    Paul Hopewell 
    hopewell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    www.hopewell.org.uk