Hi David
Gonemad is new to me - do you, personally, tend to control it by voice
or by touch.
Andrew
On 12/10/2016 13:46, David Griffith wrote:
This is an update on the investigations I have been making into the
potential of this device to be a suitable Media Player for a Deaf
blind person.
There are a number of clarifications I need to make in relation to
what I have posted previously.
1. In part 1 of these reviews I was a little concerned as to the
rapidity of battery drain when I first received the device. This has,
am glad to say settled down over the last couple of days. I suspect
that the biggest factor in this may have been the turning off of the
vibrate feedback feature in Talkback settings. As I was investigating
the device I effectively had the device vibrating consistently over
several hours on Sunday. Since the vibrate feature has been cancelled
the device has seen a battery usage that is more appropriate. When I
picked up the device last night to experiment with its potential for
reading Mobi files it still had a battery level of 83% remaining. So
this seems much more reassuring.
2. In part 2 of my Review I criticised the Audible App for being
significantly quieter than other media apps on the device. I mentioned
at the time I needed to try more than one title for a fairer test. In
fact I discovered that for whatever reason the commencement of the
book I was testing was simply unsuitably quiet and as subsequent
chaptors loaded the volume returned to expected levels. I think I
would cautiously report that if anything the playback through Audible
on the Swift is not only equivalent to that on my iPhone SE but
probably slightly surpasses it. I was certainly able to listen to a
book called Cockroaches last night, even without hearing aid assistance.
However one aspect of the Android Audible app is definitely not as
easy as its iOS manifestation. Using the seek bar to adjust the speed
of narration was difficult even for my sighted wife. In the end we
only achieved the desired level of speed adjustment by her placing my
finger on the seek bar and my tapping and dragging with feedback from
her. I am not sure that if is due to an Andoid or App fault but as I
normally do not adjust narration speed, listening to Audible
consistently at 1.5, this one time use of sighted help has resolved
matters for me. Others may comment on how easy it is to learn to use
the seek bar. My big problem was that I could not consistently locate
it with Talkback. I am happy to report that no similar difficulties
existed with any of the other media apps I used so hopefully Audible
will sort this with an update.
3. Music
I reported only briefly on Music. I have now installed the GoneMad
Music player and I have to say that my experience of this so far is
excellent. I had transferred a significant amount of music from my PC
onto the SD card and had expected that there would be some process of
importation needed. Instead all the Music I transferred was
immediately available and visible on the Media Player when I opened
it. My experience of it so far is that it is completely accessible and
the volume output is absolutely great. You will not be straining to
hear with this app.
4. Locked Screen. It is inevitable that you will have to deal with
locked screens if you want to use this media device on the move.
However I was pleasantly surprised to hear that when I reviewed the
locked screen that not only the pllay pause, volume. skip forward and
skip backward buttons for the active media playing was available but
also any other app you had playing in the background
So there were pause and play button available not only for the Mobi
eBook Reading app I was testing but also the Audible App in the
background. You can even if you want start both playing at the same
time though why you would want to do this is perhaps not clear.
However what I thingk is the case is that you could load all your
media applications, Say Audible, Voicedream Reader, Music Player and
so on and be effectively be able to control all of them from the
locked screen without having to enter the device itself. I will
continue to investigate the potential of this feature. As far as I
have noticed this is not as immediately available on my iPone though
it may be that I need to investigate this further as I may have turned
Control Centre off my Locked screen to make the sometimes problematic
process of answering calls easier.
5. Update on Earphones/Headphones. In my earlier review I mentioned I
was using the JVC Gumy folding on ear headphones with good results.
Last night I experimented with using the earpones which came with the
Sandisk clip Talking Mp3 Player. I am pleased to say that the volume
feedback was even better than with the gumy. If anybody knows how to
source these earphones independently from buying the Sandisk Clip I
would be very interested to hear.
David Griffith
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