[access-uk] Re: THE BUG
- From: "Damon Rose" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:45:14 +0100
ahhh. Interesting. I've got an MP3 CD player that won't allow you to
skip through tracks either. It's hugely annoying.
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Ian Macrae
Sent: 30 March 2005 11:38
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: THE BUG
No Steve, the recordings are listed in a menu and given as
titles the date and channel from which they originated. Once you've
started playing one you can't then menu down and check out the next.
Another frustration is that you can't fast forward or rewind in
recordings. Nor can you bookmark other than by pausing the playback and
going back to it without, for example, going back to the live radio
option.
Cheers now.
Ian
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Nutt
Sent: 30 March 2005 11:10
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: THE BUG
Hi Ian,
An excellent post. One thing springs to mind though.
Is it easy without sight to step through recordings once you have made
them? For example, can you step through each recording like selecting a
station, or selecting a track on a CD player? I realise you wouldn't
know what the recording was, but could you play a bit of each recording,
then step to the next one without sight?
Thanks again for your thoughts.
All the best
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ian Macrae
Sent: 30 March 2005 09:34
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] THE BUG
Hi all,
As promised before Easter, here are some
thoughts on The Bug DAB receiver. Note this is not a full review, just
some comments which may help people to decide whether they want to get
one. None of this deals with technical specs or quality of output.
A number of the Bug's basic functions have
dedicated keys and single keystrokes. Spontaneous recording to the SD
card, for example is started and stopped by pressing the "Record"
button, above/right of the main on/off/nav switch. Similarly, pausing
the audio is started and stopped by the large pause button below the
on/of/nav switch. Rewinding the audio for up to five minutes requires a
press of the pause button followed by the bottom left button on the
Bug's head which stands above the body of the radio on a gooseneck stem.
Setting the ten presets follows Usual Pure
protocols. The Bug's head contains six buttons, three down either side.
These are presets 1 to 5 with the bottom right button being a shift. To
set presets 1 to 5, choose the channel and the button you want to
pre-set it too. Press and hold the button for a couple of seconds. If
you can see the screen or are with someone who can, a message is
displayed indicating that the station is stored. For presets 6 to 10,
follow the same procedure holding the shift key and one of the 5 presets
down simultaneously. When the radio is playing, the two sets of presets
can be toggled between using the shift key.
Damon asked whether it is accessible. The
answer is that it's as accessible as most DAB radios. But because it
has more functionality, it's more difficult to use easily with no sight.
I've found that I've used my paltry amount of sight and my LVA more with
the Bug than with any other DAB radio.
As I've said, spontaneous recording to the SD
card couldn't be simpler. But using the timed recording facility is
more complex and difficult. Indeed, I'd say that it's either very
difficult or impossible without one or more of the following: sight of
your own, sighted assistance, or a very good memory. In brief, you have
to access the radio's menus, then find the alarm setting option, find
the timed recording option in the submenu and then follow onscreen
prompts to set your timed recording. I'd be interested to hear whether
any totally blind people have managed to do this. Even using my sight,
I've messed up on a couple of occasions.
To conclude, there's no doubt that having the
ability to record to SD card is a great benefit. Personally I've not
used the rewind or pause facilities that much. It's also worth thinking
that Pure is already developing a personal with Bug functionality and
there are plans for a sonus version of that using the Ivox speech. The
main reasons for going for the Bug now would be that you like it's
unusual and rather whacky design (which I do), or you want to be able to
record to SD card absolutely now. Otherwise, I'd recommend waiting for
a Sonus equivalent which can't be that long coming.
Cheers now.
Ian
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