The prolific RJ Cooper has released a very affordable switch adapted MP3 player:
This is a switch-adapted MP3 player that is also a 1 or 2 GB USB drive, all in one! For access by someone with a physical need, one switch input is power/play/pause and the other is to move through your songs.
For those paying attention, yes you’re right: this doesn’t have anything to do with Macs or OS X really. But finding a switch adapted MP3 player for only US$49 (1GB model) or US$69 (2GB model) seems so amazing that I just had to report it! And they should work fine with a Mac computer.
If you get one of these, when you plug it into your Mac computer it will show up as if it’s another hard drive. So you don’t use iTunes to get songs onto it like with an iPod, you use the Finder to copy the songs from your hard drive to the MP3 player drive. If your songs are in iTunes and you don’t know where they are in the Finder, then in iTunes right-click on a song name and select “Show in Finder” from the menu.
Oh, and your songs must be in MP3 format for them to be played on this drive. If your songs are in other formats, then you will need to convert them to MP3 format first. If anybody needs help with that, let me know – it’s an entire article by itself I think!
- Ricky Buchanan
Jake September 28, 2008 at 8:51 am
It is about time this came to market. I have been searching / hoping for this for some time for my friend. He has a real tough time now and this will make all the difference. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Ricky Buchanan September 30, 2008 at 2:39 pm
@Jake: I’d love to hear a review of how it is to use when you receive one! I’m thrilled to see it on the market too – hope it fulfills expectations.
Annie Keys October 1, 2008 at 7:19 am
Ricky, you should see if you can become an agent or whatever they call it for this product. What a great way for you to make money from something you believe in when you have people like the guy above, Jake, obviously going to buy it any way. Just a thought. Good luck.
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Ricky Buchanan October 2, 2008 at 2:38 pm
@Annie: Ohhh, I wish! It would be really cool if I could make money by referring sales to the companies, but on the other hand it wouldn’t be very unbiased. Can’t win, sometimes. I’m hoping to find other ways to make money from the blog though, to at least cover its costs.