Hi paul,
I would suggest either the IRiver 320 or 340 model. It is accessible with
rockbox, and even without that, it's fairly easy to use in my opinion. It also
has built-in FM radio, from which you can easily record broadcasts. You can
also make voice or other recordings, either with the built-in microphone or
with an external one or from other devices. I know, you would prefer memory
cards instead of hard disk, but this is not possible. Also, I don't know if it
supports the Audible format, you talked about, since I've never tried any books
from there. Actually, I don't think, any of the iRiver models support external
memory cards. ITunes is not needed to use it. You just have to install the
driver that comes with the unit, so Windows will recognize it as a drive.
hTH
Susanne Pedersen
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Hopewell
To: blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 12:02 PM
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
