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["Earle" <e.zwicker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How did you handle upgrading the firmware?
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael G. 
  To: blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 5:36 PM
  Subject: [blindipod] Re: Bot Rockbox going on Iriver


  Hi,

  Same here with my Iriver.  I didn't need any sighted assistance.  There was 
one tiny glitch where I could have went and asked for sighted assistance but I 
was able to get it working alright.  As far as the Iriveris concerned, that 
version of Rockbox installs a display theme by default that causes music to 
skip.  The problem is, the speech can't read the menu that lists the WPC 
themes.  Since there were only 3 WPC themes installed, I just took a guess and 
arrowed down to another theme and selected it.  Whichever theme it was I 
picked, it did the trick since my music doesn't skip anymore. Blind individuals 
won't have any problem installing Rockbox.  Just make sure to read all the 
documentation, follow directions and you should be alright.  Once you get the 
speech installed, you'll find the Rockbox interface to be very intuitive.

  Michael


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    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Ron 
    To: blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 4:03 PM
    Subject: [blindipod] Re: Bot Rockbox going on Iriver


    No sighted assistance is needed.  I have put rockbox on my Nano several 
times now. 


      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Earle 
      To: blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 2:35 PM
      Subject: [blindipod] Re: Bot Rockbox going on Iriver


      Did you need any sighted help to install rockbox?

      I heard that you need sighted help, for updating the firmware.
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      Earle, and Peterson, (The Prince)

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        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: Michael G. 
        To: blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
        Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 12:58 AM
        Subject: [blindipod] Bot Rockbox going on Iriver


        Hello Everyone,

        Well, after a whole lot of reading and a good deal of trial and error, 
I finally got Rockbox working on my new music player.  It kind of surprised me, 
but there is considerable online support for the Iriver H10 where Rockbox is 
concerned.  I was extremely pleased to find this kind of help and is what made 
my getting Rockbox to work possible.  It is so cool that I can now navigate the 
menus on a device like this and adjust the settings.  I haven't yet installed 
the voice clips so I still can't read the folders yet but I'll be getting to 
that soon.  But I'm extremely happy with what I have so far.  I was kind of 
disappointed though that the AT&T Natural Voices were no longer available to be 
used with Rockbox, but being able to use IBM Via Voice  speech was a pretty 
good alternative.  I can't distinguish it from Jaws speech at all.  I still 
wish they had the AT&T voices though.  Oh well.  The only other drawback with 
the most current version of Rockbox for the Iriver H10, is that it isn't able 
to access the FM tuner or the voice recorder but it is being worked on.  So 
hopefully it won't be too much longer before I'll have access to   those 
features too.  I also need to go back and read how to revert back to the 
original firmware if I want to.  I've tried it a couple of times but I haven't 
been able to get it to work.  According to the Rockbox info, I should still be 
able to use the original Iriver firmware if I want to.  All in all, I am very 
happy with Rockbox and my new music player.  I'm thinking of putting together 
an audio tutorial  explaining how to do the installation and putting it up on 
my web site.  I had to read information from Rockbox.Org and some other web 
sites to figure everything out and it was a bit confusing at times.  But I 
think I have a pretty good idea how to do this now.  If anyone is looking to 
buy a new music player and their not sure which one to get, the IRiver H10 is 
definitely a good option.  I got the 6gb model, but there is also a 5gb and 
20gb model available as well, all of which I found on Ebay at pretty good 
prices.  Thanks to everyone for your recommendations and help.

        Michael

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          ----- Original Message ----- 
          From: Woody Anna Dresner 
          To: blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
          Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 7:59 PM
          Subject: [blindipod] Re: voice box


          Hi Brian,

          When you run the scripts, nothing appears to happen - no program 
shows up on screen with a progress bar.  The Lame encoder appears on the 
taskbar now and then, but that's about it until you hear a beep and a dialog 
says it's done.  This took around 15 minutes, I think, when I did it the first 
time on my Nano, so it could take a very long time with the Video.  One way to 
confirm that something is happening is to use the Safely Remove Hardware option 
to try to remove the iPod; you should get a message that it can't be removed at 
this time.

          Another possibility is that your antivirus software could be getting 
in the way.  I have McAfee, and every time I run Voicebox, I have to click a 
choice that says "Run entire script this time."  If anyone knows how to tell 
McAfee to always allow this script, I'd love some help, as it's quite annoying.

          Be sure you're running the Apple firmware when you use Voicebox, as 
it will speed up the time it takes to label your files considerably.

          As for your other problem, talk MP3 Clip should be on the Voice 
Directories and Voice Files menus.  You might check to make sure you have the 
latest voice file, at
          http://steve-audio.net/rockbox/
          Be sure to run a CVS voice, not one from Rockbox release 2.5.  Good 
luck.

          Regards,
          Anna