Alison,
The app Voice Dream Reader allows you to download audio files as well as text
files and PDFs from Dropbox onto your iPhone or iPad and play them back. It is
fully accessible and remembers your position in every file. I regularly use it
for listening to books I download from RNIB Overdrive and find it excellent.
There is an option to adjust the playback speed which I find particularly
useful.
There are several podcasts about the app on the Applevis website if you want to
find out what it’s capable of.
Caroline.
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I’ll share this, Kevin, but when she wrote to me she did mention audio books.
If she sent a book to herself via Dropbox, could she only use it where she has
WIFI connection do you know?
Alison
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Hi Alison.
She could consider purchasing an iStick and using that instead. A 16GB iStick
can be had for £16.99 on Amazon at the moment. The accompanying app can be
downloaded for free from the app store.
Effectively, it is a memory stick that has a standard USB at one end and a
lightning at the other. A switch in the middle of the device exposes either of
the ends depending on whether you are connecting to computer or an i device.
The app is accessible and allows you to browse the iStick contents, navigate
around the folders and then has it’s own music player with fully accessible
controls to play, pause, forward, rewind and play tracks in shuffle mode.
One word of warning is that the iStick player won’t remember it’s place so it’s
no good for MP3 audiobooks unfortunately.
It’s not too bulky when inserted into an iPhone but it is an extra accessory to
carry around.
Regards.
Kevin
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Subject: [Bulk] [access-uk] copying files to an iPhone
My friend has recently acquired an iPhone. She doesn’t want to use Itunes to
manage her music. She has asked how she might copy an mp3 file from her
computer to her iPhone.
My thoughts were that she could do this via Dropbox. She has asked that if she
uses this method, would it mean that she could only play the files when she had
a WIFI connection? I’d think not as surely once she has accessed the file via
Dropbox, it will be on her iPhone wouldn’t it?
Alison
