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From: Alex Gibbons <alex_at_gibbons81.fsnet.co.uk> Date: 2006-03-21 · Page was last modified "Jan 10 2012"

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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:35:17 -0500
From: "Barrett, Don" <Don.Barrett@ed.gov>
Subject: RE: rockbox Digest, Vol 7, Issue 39
To: "Rockbox" <rockbox@cool.haxx.se>
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Yes, very, very nice!!!!!!!! 
Don Barrett
Section 508 Coordinator
U.S. Department of Education
(202)-205-8245
don.barrett@ed.gov
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From: rockbox-bounces@cool.haxx.se [mailto:rockbox-bounces@cool.haxx.se]
On Behalf Of James Teh
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 1:23 PM
To: Rockbox
Subject: Re: rockbox Digest, Vol 7, Issue 39
The latter - the Rockbox project is for everyone and the blind just
happened to benefit thanks to some very nice developers. :)
Jamie
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 12:09:33PM -0500, Barrett, Don wrote:
> This brings up the question that I was asked.  Is the Rockbox project 
> for the blind or is it for everyone and the blind just happen to also 
> benefit.  The individual who asked me thought that Rockbox was 
> primarily established to assist the blind MP3 player user, but I 
> didn't think that was the case.
> 
> 
> Don Barrett
> Section 508 Coordinator
> U.S. Department of Education
> (202)-205-8245
> don.barrett@ed.gov
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:03:09 +0100
From: "Rainer Jost" <rainer-jost@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: Problem with iRiver H300
To: "Rockbox" <rockbox@cool.haxx.se>
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Hi Jamie,
it is off.
Thanks for Your help.
Rainer
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:05:46 +0100
From: "Rainer Jost" <rainer-jost@t-online.de>
Subject: Question about play FM in Stereo on my iRiver H340
To: "Rockbox" <rockbox@cool.haxx.se>
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Hi guys,
my iRiver H340 is only playing in mono. What can I do to hear FM in stereo.
Thanks for Your help
Rainer
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:45:45 -0500
From: "Barrett, Don" <Don.Barrett@ed.gov>
Subject: RE: rockbox Digest, Vol 7, Issue 39
To: "Rockbox" <rockbox@cool.haxx.se>
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Thanks Mike; very helpful. 
Don Barrett
Section 508 Coordinator
U.S. Department of Education
(202)-205-8245
don.barrett@ed.gov
-----Original Message-----
From: rockbox-bounces@cool.haxx.se [mailto:rockbox-bounces@cool.haxx.se]
On Behalf Of Michael E. DiFebbo
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 12:28 PM
To: Rockbox
Subject: Re: rockbox Digest, Vol 7, Issue 39
There is a FAQ for blind users that is somewhat dated, but at least
touches on answers to some of your questions: 
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/BlindFAQ.  I would
characterize Rockbox's accessibility to the blind as a significant goal
of the project, though not the only goal.  As the FAQ indicates, "The
Rockbox team are justifiably proud of Rockbox's role in making ... the
vast majority of its features accessible to the blind ..."
Barrett, Don wrote:
> This brings up the question that I was asked.  Is the Rockbox project 
> for the blind or is it for everyone and the blind just happen to also 
> benefit.  The individual who asked me thought that Rockbox was 
> primarily established to assist the blind MP3 player user, but I 
> didn't think that was the case.
>
>
> Don Barrett
> Section 508 Coordinator
> U.S. Department of Education
> (202)-205-8245
> don.barrett@ed.gov
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rockbox-bounces@cool.haxx.se 
> [mailto:rockbox-bounces@cool.haxx.se]
> On Behalf Of Michael E. DiFebbo
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 12:02 PM
> To: Rockbox
> Subject: Re: rockbox Digest, Vol 7, Issue 39
>
> Alex Gibbons wrote:
>   
>> hi there
>>
>> thanks to everone who answeed my question, but I have a further 
>> question what is the point of having the software on the ipod video 
>> when it does not play video, I am a parshely sighted person who wants
>> to be able to take full
>>   
>>     
> If you want to watch video, you can simply boot to the iPod firmware.
> The point of having Rockbox on the iPod is that it is vastly superior 
> to the iPod firmware with respect to playing audio.  It also allows 
> you to use the iPod as a UMS device without being tied to iTunes.
>
> As to the fact that Rockbox doesn't support video on the iPod, be 
> patient.  Preglow and Linuxstb have worked pretty damn hard getting 
> Rockbox ported to iPod in the first place.  You can't expect 
> everything at once.
>
>
>
>   
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:58:41 +0100
From: Christoph Niedeggen <Niedeggen@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: A Devcon 2006 Story
To: rockbox@cool.haxx.se
Cc: rockbox-dev@cool.haxx.se
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Hi Devcon participants,
it's nice to hear that you had a great time at the Devcon 2006! At least 
we could watch this event on the webcam (and see what we missed!)
Daniel wrote that you might do some kind of summary of all the talks of 
the agenda items and publish it. That would be really interesting to 
read to the rest of us!!
> we also managed to discuss and deal with _all_ items on the agenda, and 
> most of them with a great and at least in my view satisfactory outcome.
I'm especially interested in the first topic on the agenda for the 
Archos: "PCM codec, recording framewalker, perhaps playback framewalker, 
late bitswap"
What's the outcome for this? Can we hope for an implementation of the 
PCM codec in the next future?
Thanks for your effort and commitment,
Christoph
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:14:04 -0500
From: "Barrett, Don" <Don.Barrett@ed.gov>
Subject: Please Clarify
To: "Rockbox" <rockbox@cool.haxx.se>
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One of the installation steps for the Ipod and Rockbox says as follows:
"To install (or upgrade) Rockbox you need to attach your iPod to your PC
via USB, ensure that iTunes is set up to allow you to access your ipod
as a disk,
and then unzip rockbox.zip to the top-level (root) folder on your iPod."
Being a blind guy, I didn't install Itunes, but instead attached the USB
cable to the Ipod and went into disk mode.  This allowed the computer to
see the Ipod as a disk drive and also then allowed me to use Winzip to
unzip the Rockbox software to the Ipod's main folder.  Did I cause a
problem by doing it this way?  In other words, is this ok or is Itunes
required to make it unzip properly as implied by the instructions.
Thanks for answering.
Don
Don Barrett
Section 508 Coordinator
U.S. Department of Education
(202)-205-8245
don.barrett@ed.gov
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