[Electronics-Talk] Accessible MP3 Player

[Kyle Garcia]

The misunderstanding appears to be that the wrong person was addressed in
one email. There are multiple people with different MP3 players responding.

I am not familiar with the ones mentioned, but it sounds like the talking
one should be able to read all of the folders. Not being able to read songs
is a bit weird. Does it show them visually but not speak them? Either way
though with such a large library navigating it without a search feature
sounds quite tedious.







On Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 8:03 PM Christopher Chaltain via Electronics-Talk <
electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> I'm not familiar with the MP3 player being discussed here, but I had a
> tiny unit from Creative Labs that had no display and only buttons. I
> remember you could also skip from folder to folder, so if you had your
> music organized by albums or even artist and then albums, you could skip
> around fairly quickly. Obviously, once you get to tens of thousands of
> songs this won't be efficient, but it's the exact same interface a
> sighted person would have, so I would say this makes it accessible. I
> also remember the iPod Shuffle, which also had no display. None of these
> MP3 players were marketed to the blind, and as I said above, since we
> had the exact same interface any sighted person would have used then I
> think it does make it accessible although maybe not efficient for a
> blind or a sighted user.
>
>
> On 11/22/18 9:30 PM, Christopher Gilland via Electronics-Talk wrote:
> > No, I didn't misunderstand, but you said that unit was accessible. I'm
> > just not sure how when you have over 35,000 mp3's on a micro SD card,
> > it could be considered accessible, when you can't browse for the song
> > your looking for with any type of method more than hitting buttons for
> > next and previous songs. If I hit play at song 15, and need to get to
> > song 2900, do you have any clue how long that would take hititng next
> > next next next next next next next next next next, ahim, you get the
> > idea.
> >
> >
> > I appreciate the info. Don't misinterpret what I'm saying. I'm just
> > trying to understand how this is being classified as accessible, so I
> > can better see your logic. Is it because of the fact it has physical
> > push buttons and not a touch screen?
> >
> >
> > Chris.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11/21/2018 11:44 AM, Gerald Levy via Electronics-Talk wrote:
> >>
> >> I think you misunderstood.  The MP3 player I mentioned is a
> >> non-talking, no frills, cheapo model that a number of merchants sell
> >> on EBay for about $1. These units can only handle micro SD cards up
> >> to 8gb.  Someone else mentioned the talking MP3 player with Drop Box
> >> that Laz sells on his Accessible Electronics site, but I am not
> >> familiar with this unit, although I think the largest capacity SD
> >> card it can handle is 64 gb.  Maybe Laz can chime in and provide
> >> additional information. I am not aware of any accessible MP3 players
> >> that can accommodate 128 gb micro SD cards.
> >>
> >> Gerald
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Gilland via
> >> Electronics-Talk
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 10:51 AM
> >> To: Gerald Levy via Electronics-Talk
> >> Cc: Christopher Gilland
> >> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Accessible MP3 Player
> >>
> >> Gerald,
> >>
> >>
> >> I have a micro SD card with almost 100GB of music. This amounts to just
> >> over about 35 to 40 thousand songs, as the card is a 128GB. So yeah,
> >> it's almost completely full. Anyway, will this player allow you to
> >> browse by artist, song, or album? Also, you say it's accessible. How's
> >> the speech in it? Is it pretty natural sounding?
> >>
> >>
> >> Chris.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 11/21/2018 07:15 AM, Gerald Levy via Electronics-Talk wrote:
> >>>
> >>> If you can live without shuffle or random play mode, you can pick up
> >>> a totally accessible MP3 player on EBay forabout a buck.  No
> >>> kidding.  I have four of them.  It is about the size of a matchbook,
> >>> and has only a large, round play/stop button surrounded by a
> >>> concentric ring for up/down volume and left/right skip.  The right
> >>> side has a slide on/off swich and a 3.5 headphone jack.  The left
> >>> side has a port for connecting a micro USB cable and a slot for a
> >>> micro SD card,which you must buy separately for about $4. Of course,
> >>> you supply your own earbuds or headphones.  And it runs on a
> >>> rechargeable lithium ion battery whichprovides about 4 hours of
> >>> playing time.  If you absolutely must have shuffle mode, you will
> >>> have to pay much more for an accessible MP3 player with this
> >>> feature.  Below, is a link to one such MP3 player on EBay:
> >>>
> >>>
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mini-7-Colors-Mirror-Clip-USB-Digital-Mp3-Music-Player-Support-8GB-SD-TF-Card/382635468749?epid=8014445496&hash=item5916d9e7cd:g:3DYAAOSwcT5b8Qqj:rk:3:pf:0
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Gerald
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message----- From: Nicole Torcolini via Electronics-Talk
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 9:43 PM
> >>> To: electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
> >>> Cc: Nicole Torcolini
> >>> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] Accessible MP3 Player
> >>>
> >>>            I have a Victor Stream, but I don't use any of the functions
> >>> other than the MP3 player. What is a good accessible MP3 player? It
> >>> must be
> >>> able to play from a USB thumb drive and have a shuffle/random mode.
> >>> Other
> >>> than that, it does not need to be able to do anything else.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Nicole
> >>>
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