[access-uk] Re: Ipod or mp3 recommendations please

Andy.
I believe that three hours on the USB or wall-plug, if you have the adapter, amounts to 11 hours of playing. I may be wrong or a little bit out, but not by much. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 5:29 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ipod or mp3 recommendations pleaseh.
Just in addition to my last message about charging the Zen Stone, what kind 
of battery life does the player have from a single charge?

Thanks -

Andy
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 4:32 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ipod or mp3 recommendations please


| Hi all -
|
| Thanks to all that gave me feedback regarding the Zenstone players, and to | Andy for his offer. I understand they can be charged using a USB cable, am 
I
| right to think that the cable will be unique to the Zen Stone? I find that 
| the minin USB cables I have for 2 mobile phones are quite different, and
not
| interchangeable! I'm wondering then if I want to charge the Zen Stone away 
| from a PC, if I'll have to buy yet another wall plug to mini USB cable;
seem
| to be aquiring quite a lot of these things recently <smile> -
|
| Andy
| ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Andy" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
| To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 1:18 AM
| Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ipod or mp3 recommendations please
|
|
|| Hi Andy.
||
|| I own five Zenstone mp3 players.  I've distributed them amongst friends
in
|| my community, mostly elderly, and furnish them with books, movies and
| music,
|| and everyone finks them fantastic.
||
||
|| I'm actually listening to a book at this moment, which I started last
| night.
|| Occasionally, I have to turn the device off, to attend to other things,
| but
|| when I return, often after a couple of ours, the book or movie is opened 
| at
|| the space in which I closed it.
||
||
||
|| There are a couple of Zenstone players. I have four 1 gb players and one 
| 2
|| gb player, which happens to have two little round speakers on it.  This
| cost
|| about £39 and the 1 GB cost about £29, but all are fabulous machines. I 
| can
|| send you one to try out for a week or so if you are afraid to make a
|| purchase, so Andy just let me know and I'd be pleased to let you have a
go
|| with one.
|| I'd recommend the Zenstone as it's so simple and of course all you need
to
|| do to charge it up is plug it into your computer.
|| A few weeks ago Steve advised me that his personal MP3 player had 30 gb
of
|| memory and although I felt a little jealous, I realized that his device
| was
|| probably much more bulky and required batteries, whereas the Zenstone is 
| as
|| small as a slice of chocolate.
||
|| you can even pick them up second hand on the Re-Cycle list, as I've done 
| in
|| the past, for about £15.00, so I'd really recommend you look at this
| player
|| and give it a go.  I'm sure you will not be disappointed.
||
|| Very best wishes.
||
|| Andy.
||
||
||
||
||
|| The ----- Original Message ----- || From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
|| To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|| Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:21 PM
|| Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ipod or mp3 recommendations please
||
||
|| > Hi Steve - so then, is it only the Ipods with Itunes that retains the
|| > place
|| > in mp3 files? Are there really no small alternatives? -
|| >
|| > Andy
|| > ----- Original Message ----- || > From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
|| > To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|| > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:04 PM
|| > Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ipod or mp3 recommendations please
|| >
|| >
|| > | Hi Andy,
|| > |
|| > | No, they won't retain their place as far as I know.
|| > |
|| > | All the best
|| > |
|| > | Steve
|| > |
|| > | -----Original Message-----
|| > | From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
| Behalf
|| > Of
|| > | Andy Collins
|| > | Sent: Thursday 28 August 2008 18:49
|| > | To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
|| > | Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ipod or mp3 recommendations please
|| > |
|| > | Hi Steve - She won't be using Audible, but books already converted in 
| to
|| > MP3
|| > |
|| > | format -
|| > |
|| > | Andy
|| > | ----- Original Message ----- || > | From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
|| > | To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|| > | Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:41 PM
|| > | Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ipod or mp3 recommendations please
|| > |
|| > |
|| > || Hi Andy,
|| > ||
|| > || The Zenstone doesn't have a screen, but the Zen does.
|| > ||
|| > || They don't remember your place in a track, but they do in an audio
| book
|| > | from
|| > || Audible.
|| > ||
|| > || Yes, standard Mini USB to USB lead will do it, and you can just copy 
|| > and
|| > || paste.  That's just one thing I hate about Ipods, proprietory
| databases
|| > to
|| > || import your files to, rather than just playing what's there.
|| > ||
|| > || All the best
|| > ||
|| > || Steve
|| > ||
|| > || -----Original Message-----
|| > || From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
|| > Behalf
|| > | Of
|| > || Andy Collins
|| > || Sent: Thursday 28 August 2008 14:34
|| > || To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
|| > || Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ipod or mp3 recommendations please
|| > ||
|| > || Hi Steve - Sounds like the Zenstone is more the thing then; 2
| questions
|| > || about them if I may: Do they have a screen for a sighted user? and
| will
|| > | they
|| > ||
|| > || remember the position in an a book or music track? Oh, can't count
| can
|| > I,
|| > || here's a third question! Can they just be hooked up via USB cable to 
| a
|| > PC
|| > || for file transfer? -
|| > ||
|| > || Andy
|| > || ----- Original Message ----- || > || From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
|| > || To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
|| > || Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 1:04 PM
|| > || Subject: [access-uk] Re: Ipod or mp3 recommendations please
|| > ||
|| > ||
|| > ||| Hi Andy,
|| > |||
|| > ||| I would not recommend Ipods personally, since everything relies on 
|| > | Itunes.
|| > ||| You can't even copy MP3 files straight to the device without
Itunes.
|| > I
|| > ||| would recommend something like the Creative Zen 16 or 32GB.  Or
even
|| > the
|| > ||| Zenstone if you want smaller.  These players are very simple in
that
|| > you
|| > || can
|| > ||| just copy and paste files to them, and they will show up. I don't 
| see
|| > | the
|| > ||| attraction in Ipods at all, when there are much nicer devices.
|| > |||
|| > ||| All the best
|| > |||
|| > ||| Steve
|| > |||
|| > ||| -----Original Message-----
|| > ||| From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
|| > Behalf
|| > || Of
|| > ||| Andy Collins
|| > ||| Sent: Thursday 28 August 2008 11:49
|| > ||| To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
|| > ||| Subject: [access-uk] Ipod or mp3 recommendations please
|| > |||
|| > ||| Hi all -
|| > |||
|| > ||| I'm buying a gift for somebody sighted, and need some advice. I'm
|| > looking
|| > ||| for an easy to use MP3 player, it doesn't need huge capacity as it 
| is
|| > || mainly
|| > |||
|| > ||| for listening to books, and there fore must be able to retain it's 
|| > place
|| > ||| when turned off; it must also have USB connectivity for loading
| books
|| > on
|| > || to
|| > ||| it from a PC. Portability is important, so something like an Ipod. 
| Any
|| > ||| suggestion please? -
|| > |||
|| > ||| Andy
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