Yeah, but for a lot of olks, all they want to do is access their books or
just have some music to listen to and not have to spend a lot of money or go
nuts hoping they don't end up messing with a lot of menus.  I know sighted
people like this as well!  Smile.

Peace,
Kathy



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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael S. Goren" <michael@mgor...>
To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-a...>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: The Creative Zen Stone MP3 player


> Only problem, is1 gig, now days, that isn't mucyh storage area.
> I have more than that on my cell phone.
> At 06:01 AM 05/28/2007, you wrote:
>>Brian, this sounds like incredibly good news!  As a person who works as a
>>library assistant, I'm always on the lookout for affordable easy to use
>>equipment for us blind folk who want to listen to audible books and music
>>without losing our minds!  Smile.  Much to my beloved husband's annoyance
>>(why do you need another one of these?), I will probably buy this and test
>>it out at our library.  This has got me jazzed, for sure!  Until we get
>>rid
>>of that annoying DRM, this could be the best answer yet!
>>
>>Peace,
>>Kathy
>>
>>
>>
>>Listen to Kathy and Fred on the Web at
>>
>>http://www.live365.com/stations/cityslackers/
>>
>>http://www.fredkate.libsyn.com
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Steve Pattison" <srp@inte...>
>>To: "PC Audio" <Pc-audio@pc-a...>; "Access-L" <access-l@acce...>
>>Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 10:31 PM
>>Subject: Fwd: The Creative Zen Stone MP3 player
>>
>>
>> >
>> >>From: Brian Hartgen Brian.Hartgen@tand...
>> >>
>> >>I wanted to let people know about a very affordable easy to use
>> >>portable
>> >>media player which Anna told me about and which I have just purchased.
>> >>It is called the Zen Stone player from Creative, and it costs 25 pounds
>> >>or 40 Us dollars.  The player was released on 3 May this year and so is
>> >>very new and is available just about everywhere you can think of
>> >>including retail outlets and Amazon.
>> >>
>> >>The player is extremely small indeed and weighs less than one ounce and
>> >>has no screen.  It has a mode switch on the side (for cycling between
>> >>some features such as repeat, play all or shuffle), and a typical
>> >>wheel:
>> >>up and down for volume, left and right to skip tracks or within a
>> >>track,
>> >>and play/stop in the centre.  The mode switch, if pressed and held,
>> >>will
>> >>allow you to skip to the next album or folder which is a nice feature.
>> >>The Zen Stone can accommodate up to 1 GB of storage.
>> >>
>> >>The great thing about this player is that no special software is
>> >>required to transfer regular WMA or MP3 files to it.  You can simply
>> >>copy and paste using Windows Explorer.  However, there is software
>> >>which
>> >>can be downloaded called Creative Media Light, which allows you to not
>> >>only rip tracks from audio CD, but in addition once the audio
>> >>extraction
>> >>has taken place, the music is automatically transferred to the player.
>> >>So for a person who does not want to get into the business of copying
>> >>music to the player, this could be very good.  There's a bit of
>> >>scripting needing to be done with that, but I intend to issue some free
>> >>JAWS scripts for this if I can get that particular item to work.  Apart
>> >>from that and one or two small issues of labelling buttons which I have
>> >>done, the software is quite usable.  The good thing about the software
>> >>is that when the player is connected to the computer for charging, the
>> >>status line will report the percentage of the charging process.
>> >>
>> >>Now to the final great feature.  This player will allow you to play DRM
>> >>Windows Media files and Audible content.  When playing Audible content
>> >>(up to format 3 only), and you stop playing the book and move to
>> >>another
>> >>folder, your position within the book is retained! I think that the
>> >>storage capacity of the player, and the fact that the quality of format
>> >>3 is quite listenable, makes the use of this format quite acceptable.
>> >>
>> >>If anyone would like to know more about the player please let me know.
>> >>But if you want something really simple on which to listen to music,
>> >>podcasts  and particularly Audible books, this is a very inexpensive
>> >>option.  If it does play DRM content, and I've no reason to doubt the
>> >>claims made by the manufacturers, then this kind of player could be the
>> >>start of people moving away from the iTunes music store (thank
>> >>goodness)
>> >>and to other music providers who offer DRM content.
>> >>
>> >>Brian Hartgen
>> >>More information about portable media devices can be obtained from the
>> >>Portable Player Portal.  Please visit
>> >>www.hartgen.org
>> >>and choose the Portable Player Portal link.
>> >>
>> >>E-MAIL:  brian@hart...
>> >>MSN:  brian@hart...
>> >>SKYPE:  brianhartgen
>> >>PHONE (UK):  0208-133-7186
>> >>PHONE (US):  213-985-3581
>> >
>> > Regards Steve
>> > Email:  srp@inte...
>> > Skype:  steve1963
>> > MSN Messenger:  internetuser383@hotm...
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