[Blindtlk] Accessible iPod

[T. Joseph Carter]

Book players with SD cards is an option, if you don’t mind carrying a 
deck of SD cards with you.  I wasn’t aware the BookSense did M4A 
files.  Supposedly the initial specs claimed the Victor Stream did as 
well, but in reality it didn’t and the specs were updated to reflect 
reality.  Dunno if the feature was ever actually implemented.

Still, none of this is the same as an integrated hard drive.  Well, 
except if you can find a suitable Compact Flash (CF) using player 
that will accommodate a MicroDrive the iPod Classic’s 160 GB drive is 
in that form factor.  Of course, hard drives tend to fail, and 
there’s no guarantee a given player will support a drive of the 
desired capacity.

Reinventing the iPod isn’t a trivial task, unfortunately.  There are 
good reasons why it’s become the standard in music players.  And the 
reason why iPods these days no longer use them is because they are 
and always were pretty fragile.  You don’t get as much capacity with 
flash storage, but you get somthing that is not subject to a head 
crash because someone’s jogging with it.

Joseph


On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 06:39:48PM -0500, Ron Poire wrote:
>How about the BookSense? The XT has four GB internal storage, but any 
>BookSense uses removable SD cards. It will play M4A files from 
>itunes. If you purchased 3 or more 32 GB SD cards, you would have 
>your 100+ GB capacity. If one card goes bad, you don't lose all your 
>music, only that which was on the bad card.
>
>Ron
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelby Carlson" 
><kelbycarlson at usfamily.net>
>To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 4:03 PM
>Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Accessible iPod
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>
>Are there any other high-capacity MP3 players with the ability to
>play iTunes files and that are accessible? (I have a lot of
>music, and the idea of converting all of the stuff in M4A to MP3
>is unappealing.)
>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "T.  Joseph Carter" <carter.tjoseph at gmail.com
>>To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
>>Date sent: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:00:06 -0500 (CDT)
>>Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Accessible iPod
>
>>The iPod Classic has not been updated in a long time, and I
>donâ?Tt
>>believe its last iteration actually did have accessibility
>features.
>>If it did, it was with bleeps, beeps, and generated track names
>on
>>your computer.  But I think it did not have that even.
>
>>The iPod touch only goes up to 64 GB at this time.  It may be
>revised
>>this fall, and if it is a capacity bump is a reasonable
>expectation.
>>Itâ?Ts possible thatâ?Ts not in the cards because of the Japan
>quake and
>>other manufacturers' problems, but I still expect itâ?Ts coming
>soon.
>
>>Joseph
>
>
>>On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 03:25:49PM -0500, Kelby Carlson wrote:
>>>Brief question for all.  I'm looking for an iPod with space of
>100 gb
>>>or above, which obviously doesn't cover something like the
>iTouch.
>>>Am I incorrect in assuming the iPods with very large space aren't
>>>accessible right now? Is there a way to make them accessible?
>
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