In this audio post, recorded on the Plextalk PTR2, I discuss DAISY books on the Nokia N91 mobile phone, together with an excellent article from Access World concerning downloadable music, written by Janet Ingber.
Archive for July, 2006
Problem Regarding iPod Update
July 5, 2006Anna Dresner reports to the Blind iPod mailing list the following piece of news concerning the iPod Updater latest release of 28 June.
I have some good news and some bad news regarding the June 28 iPod update.
If you have a Shuffle, go get it right away. It fixes several bugs. Some
iTunes music files that wouldn’t rewind or fast forward before now do, and
Format 4 Audible books which wouldn’t play in the Shuffle now do. I haven’t
had a chance to find out whether the Audible bookmarking problems have been
resolved, but this seems to be an improvement.
If you use an iPod with Rockbox, however, you may have problems. If I have
the Rockbox bootloader installed, no music in the iTunes database on my iPod
will play when the Apple firmware is running. If I uninstall the
bootloader, however, this content will play. If you don’t have any
protected content, like Audible books or iTunes music store tracks, you
should be able to use this firmware without problems. but if you do, you’ll
have to install the bootloader to play content in Rockbox and uninstall to
play protected content. I have reported this to the Rockbox list; I hope
there will be a fix soon.
iTunes 6.0.5
July 5, 2006iTunes version 6.0.5 has been released and I am pleased to report that, with the testing I have done, there appear to be no difficulties in relation to the JAWS scripts.
Installing Rockbox on an iPod Audio Presentation
July 1, 2006I have placed on my web site an audio presentation concerning how to install Rockbox onto an iPod. I do receive a number of enquiries about how to do this.
During the presentation, I work through which files you need to download and how to install Rockbox as a visually impaired person using a screen-reader.
