# Accessible MP3 Players

Category: accessible Devices

## Post 1 by Heavy Metal Girl 85 (Zone BBS is my Life) on Saturday, 25-Nov-2006 11:54:51

I am looking into getting an MP3 player , but not sure which MP3 players out there are accessible to the blind and visually impaired. I have heard a lot of different answers as far as which ones people think are accessible. If anyone could please help me out, that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kat

## Post 2 by bozmagic (The rottie's your best friend if you want him/her to be, lol.) on Saturday, 25-Nov-2006 12:12:40

Hi Kat. Well, there is actually a talking MP3 player, Milestone 311, available from RNIB, which takes up to two hours of files, tracks and stuff, but you'll need a memory card like those cards you get with your digital camera if you need any more space. I'm not sure how good it is, I haven't seen it yet, but I know there's four tactile control buttons, it is a voice recorder and it's only the size of a credit card. The price however, is £180

## Post 3 by guitargod1 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Saturday, 25-Nov-2006 14:07:43

You can use rockbox with various mp3 players and this will add speech navigation etc. The site is: www.rockbox.org
They have info on compatible players. I'd say go for the I river H340 or perhaps the H320. but I'd wait and see if Apple will include speech on the new I pods. Supposedly that's happening. Or perhaps rockbox will work with the new generation I pods soon.

## Post 4 by motifated (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 25-Nov-2006 17:51:40

The Milestone referred to early is available in the States from Independent Living Aids.
Lou

## Post 5 by BB (move over school!) on Sunday, 26-Nov-2006 13:10:18

I have recently purchased an Apple Ipod shuffle. It is very easy to use and instead of using iTunes I use Xplay. The shuffle holds around 240 songs, has easy to use buttons and with Xplay is easy to load MP3s onto it. Plus it is inexpensive too.

## Post 6 by frequency (the music man) on Sunday, 26-Nov-2006 22:19:56

there isn't a whole lot of choices, but the rockbox software is great for the mp3 players it supports.

## Post 7 by Jesse (Hmm!) on Sunday, 26-Nov-2006 22:45:43

I love my iPod. It's one of the bricks, but it works well, and I don't use the Rockbox software on it.

## Post 8 by bharding (Generic Zoner) on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2006 19:45:39

I have an Iriver H120 running Rockbox. It's great and even does recording in full CD-quality wave files.

## Post 9 by data (Cheese flows through my veins!) on Thursday, 30-Nov-2006 5:08:48

I used the RockBox software about a year or so ago. The problem I had with it was that it was all digitized speech and it couldn't pronounce exact file names, only file numbers or spelling file names, which is really tedious! I assume this is still the case? I use a BookPort for my mp3 player. I plan on buying a MileStone mentioned above in the near future.

## Post 10 by eros (Newborn Zoner) on Saturday, 02-Dec-2006 10:23:17

I have an IRiver H340 running the Rockbox firmware. To get a great review go to www.blindcooltech.com, go to the archive section and look for iriver or rockbox. The rockbox does read filenames in full you just need to download a script from www.rockbox.org read the short read me file and run it. It's really straight forward. I would recommend the iriver, it's a bit chunky but its got loads of features. I heard the Arcos juke boxes are smaller, about the size of a cigarette box but they don't make them any more so you will have to look at eBay or something. If you have any questions just track me down and ask.

## Post 11 by krisme (Ancient Zoner) on Saturday, 02-Dec-2006 23:37:20

I've used several mp3 players, with varying success. Probably the most accessible one I've had so far is my Muvo, which only has a few buttons and is really easy to figure out. The only problem was that the model I got had very little disk space and couldn't hold as many songs as I wanted. I'm hopefully getting an IRiver h10 for Christmas and plan to put Rockbox on it, so that should work much better.

## Post 12 by The SHU interpreter (I just keep on posting!) on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2006 10:45:12

how does that look like? how many songs does the bigest model hold at the most?

## Post 13 by bubba (Account disabled) on Sunday, 06-May-2007 17:45:59

i have a mp3 player but i need a better one min is really bad i need a bigger one use.