Category: accessible Devices
Okay, does anyone have one of those little MP3 players that you download music from your computer to take with you? Well, I had one, a 2G Sandisc and couldn't get it to work. Also what kind of program do you need in the computer itself to find the music and to get it downloaded to the MP3 player? I signed up for Raphsody and it kept wanting me to drag and drop music on my player icon. Well, that doesn't work when you can't see icons. I am running a Windows XP system with JAWS 9.0 installed on it. Can anyone help? Send me a message through the mail here, if you know how, or post here, or send to chastitymorse@msn.com I am new and just figuring out the message sending process through this site to other members. Thanks
You don't need any special software to load music on that player. Just cut and paste your music files using windows explorer. If you're wanting to download stuff, I've found that Amazon music downloads work well. Good prices and the files are in mp3 format which plays on everything and is unprotected.
Hmmm! I use a 1.83 GB Zenstone Plus screenless MP3 player. and a Philipps 2 GB MP3 player with DAB radio combo. Just go in your music folder and copy and paste the files you want on to your MP3 player's drive. It should come up as a removable device in your list of drives when you plug it in, providing you're running Vista. Anything below that, it ain't so simple.
Jen.
Jen, if you read her first post, she is not running vista. I also wouldn't cut and paste, I'd copy and paste, as if something were to happen to your player, bye bye music if you cut and pasted. I had the 4 gig ipod nano 4th generation with the sapi support thanks to itunes, and itunes may not be the easiest program to use if your a new computer user, I loved that ipod. My iphone is the same way, just 32 gigs instead of 4. If you don't want to use itunes if you have an Ipod, you can go and pay $30 for XPlay, which will make your ipod show up as a removable drive.
I have a Zenstone MP3 player too and I love it.
Ah, thanks for pointing out that you should copy not cut. That's what I meant. My brain was not fully functioning when I wrote that earlier.
well, i have a Sand Disc player too. It is pretty good. i would recommend winamp to copy music to it or remove music from it for that matter. Go to
www.winamp.com
to download the program. Free download and pretty easy to use I think. and then Once you have the program installed do a control L to open the library and arrow down to portable devices and it should show up there for you and then just tab over to add or view what you have on the player. It works that way for my Sand Disc player and my ENV3 phone as well. let me know how it works for you.
Thanks everyone for the advice. I'm going to try some things and see if I can get this thing figured out. My mom got it for me for Easter so I can take it to dialysis with me instead of taking several CD's and a player. The thing's been driving me crazy and the program that opens up when I try to do anything with is real-player and that thing isn't that easy to use.
I'll let you know how things go.
Chas
I dont like Real Player iether. I find it to be confusing and not very accessible. So i agree with you on that.
Y not uninstall it then?
I think napster is supposed to be blind friendly free for the first 7 days after that is 1495 a month for unlimited downloads
I have an ipod nano 4th gen, and I love the spoken menus and track titles. iTunes has become very easy to use, (by easy I mean with the PC cursor of jaws, or with just about any screenreader with arrows). I have At&t crystal set as the voice, but any voice will do. I prefer using iTunes with the ipod nano, because it has the spoken menu option, which of cours,e will enable the device to speak. It is easy to transfer music from the iTunes library as well. HIghlight the title you wish to transfer, press control e, arrow until you hear copy, and press enter. Then, go down your source list, until you hear your ipod's name spoken, and press control E, arrow down until you hear paste, and press enter. I used to prefer the copy and paste methods of other players, but the Ipod has me sold. The m4a support without fiddling with tags alone, and the voice make it worth it.
Kim
well he will probably need real player for the rhopsody files but once they are downloaded to the harddrive you should be able to copy and paste them on to the player. i i much prefered that way with my sansa over using winamp. Also depending on which firmware version of the sansa player you have you may want to check www.rockbox.com to see if there is a rockbox firmware and voice for it to make it a talking mp3 player. If i am not mistaken the music files on napster are copy protected so you will have to varify that they play on the sansa player you have if you decide to check out napster. otherwise Amazon mp3 is copy protection free and should play on any device, the stuff from the iTunes store should play on most devices now that its copy protection free as well.
I use an IRiver with rockbox on it for speech. I also can copy and paste my stuff just fine.
Thanks for all the help. I'm still playing around with it, but I think I'm going to try I-Tunes and check out that rockbox thing. It would really help if I could get this thing to speak. I'd also like to download audio books to it.
As for real-player, I've it installed because there's a lot of sites that use it and most of the radio station sites on the net seem to use it over windows media player, which I have on here too. I have windows media player 11 and real-player 11 gold the free version. I don't like beta's because of possible bugs.
So far, though things are going well, the Sandisc is recognized and I've music selected and in a library folder. Now i'm just working on transfering it to the player.
Thanks again. I really appreciate it.
Chas
OK, totally unrelated question. X-play for some reason is not recognizing my Ipod, so I thought I'd try to use Itunes. Is there a list of keystrokes or something that would make using Itunes easier? Or should I just try to get into contact with whoever makes X-play and see what can be done there?
I believe that if you look under help, keyboard shourtcuts, you should find a list of keystrokes you can use.
Most players work like this. You connect the player to a USB port. Your computer should recognize that a new device has been connected and it will be recognized as a drive. So, let's say your computer has a C drive and if you have a DVD drive, that's D. It will see your player as drive E. Then all you need to do is go into Windows Explorer, or even just My Computer. Best place to put all your music if you're new is the My Music folder in My Documents. Then, you just pick your albums or single tracks, select them, and copy them over to this new drive. It may take a while, so have patience and don't cancel the operation or unplug your player in the middle of things or else your computer will complain and you won't get any or all of your tunes! Once it's done, then you go to an icon on the system tray called safely remove hardware. Look for that drive, usually seen as a USB Mass Storage device and tell Windows you want to stop it. Once that's done you can unplug it from your machine and start playing the tunes.
yeah and iTunes only syncs with iPods so you can't use it for syncing to the sansa. For audio books check out audible.
yah that is why i recommended winamp because it supports IPods and more. and also it might replace real player for playing online content for you as well because it plays WMA and allot of other file types as well.
Yes but if he is using the rhapsody music store that their player supports i believe they need real player for playing back that content.
My player says it works best with Raphsody, but I think it should work with most music sites. Also if I-tunes only supports the I-pods, then that explains why I couldn't get anything off that site. Does anyone know where I can download free music that isn't illegal? Also are there MP3 players that have speech on them to make it easier to go through the menus and playlists and stuff on the player itself?
Chastity
music purchased on iTunes will work on any player that plays mp3s they no longer have the restrictions on them. however you can only use iTunes to transfer files to an iPod if you want to transfer files you purchased from the iTunes store to a device other than the iPod then you will have to copy and paste. Some iPods and Sansa playrs can be made to have speach. otherwise if you want a talking mp3 player made speciffically for the blind , there is the victor reader, the booksence, the mildstone and a few others. and real player and rhapsody are own by the same company thats why you need real player to manage the files from your rhapsody subscription.
you could try mp3raid.com.
is mp3raid.com legal though?