Well, [re purchasing the missing songs] would certainly solve the problem, in a costlier way however. If you couldn’t find the original files anywhere on your hard drive, then you probably had no choice but to repurchase, unless you had backups of your music of course.
Tom Hesley
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You can use Winamp to copy music files to the iPod. However, if you want the voice prompts, then you must use iTunes to do this.
They’ve made many accessibility enhancements in version 8 of iTunes. It works much better these days with any screen reader that utilizes the MSAA interface. You may want to test out the latest version of iTunes (8.0.2) as it is vastly improved over earlier versions.
I haven’t used the iPod as a voice recorder yet, and so can’t speak as to how accessible this feature is. But I’d appreciate any information on good microphones that work well with this feature.
You can play AAC, Protected AAC, AIFF, M4A, M4P, M4V, MOV, MP3, MP4, and WAV media files. See Apple’s website for more details on the 4th generation Nano at:
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/ipod_nano?mco=MTE3MzA
While you can’t turn the volume limiter off, you can set it to maximum, which effectively removes it from the system. Just like turning it off. J
Tom Hesley
Well, these heaters didn’t save us any money. We just received a gas bill for $625. Yikes! However, in fairness to the heaters, let me list a few key facts:
• This bill was estimated; they didn’t actually read the meter last month but rather, they guessed at what it might read. They got it wrong; they underestimated our usage last month, so they billed us for the difference in this month’s statement, along with this month’s actual usage.
• To calculate your usage on an estimated bill, they consider the amount used last year, accounting for changes in average outside temperature between this and the previous year.
• It was eight degrees colder in January, 2009 than it was in January, 2008.
• Since the heaters are located in the basement, which is not insulated by the way, they had to work a little harder.
• Our primary heat (which is a 2004 vintage forced air gas furnace) is a high-efficiency model (91% efficient). The gas space heaters have a 99% efficiency rating. Some improvement, but not much really.
• We now enjoy a heated basement, which we didn’t have before.
• So, though the new gas heaters did way reduce the amount that the big furnace runs, they didn’t give any savings because we did not really replace a less efficient heat source with a more efficient one. So the gas heaters just took over making our heat, taking the load off of the main furnace. They don’t do it much better I’m afraid.
But what are nice with these gas space heaters, that we don’t get with the main furnace, are the warm floors on the first level, not to mention the heated basement space. That really takes the chill off throughout the house. Plus, our air is moister. So our noses don’t dry out and bleed as much, and static electricity is almost nonexistent when using these heaters. Now we do have to run the attic exhaust fan to keep the condensation in there down. But this only costs a few dollars a month in electricity, and it’ll probably cost even less once I install a humidistat on the fan later this year.
I’d say that though we didn’t get the money savings we’d hoped for, these heaters definitely improved the comfort level here in the house and keep us warm at much colder temperatures outside. Further, we have the added security that we’ll still get heat even during a power failure since these gas heaters require no electricity to operate. The main furnace however, does. So I’d highly recommend installing such units as a great do-it-yourself project. Just be sure to use black iron or galvanized pipe for all your gas runs, and dope all pipe fittings. Then, check them with soapy water for leaks once you apply the gas. 
Once you say yes, you’re given a “Browse For File” dialog box. You have to find the file on your hard drive using the buttons in this dialog, and then click the Open button in order for the iTunes library link to be updated. If you do this correctly, the song begins playing after you press the Open button and from then on, the song should play correctly when you select it in your library.
Tom Hesley
[Mentat],
There’s a list that I’m active on, which discusses iPods at length — especially the new 4th generation talking iPod. See the link below if interested: http://www.freelists.org/archive/blindipod
Also, there’s a podcast episode that demonstrates the talking iPod. It’s located at: http://www.hartgen.org/02-nano.mp3
Enjoy,
Tom
Also, if you rename a music file in Windows Explorer but do not update this in iTunes, you’ll get this error the next time you attempt to play the song with iTunes. This is akin to moving the file.
Tom Hesley
There is also the possibility that if you have your iTunes library stored on an external drive, and then you plug another removable drive into your computer, such as a Victor Reader Stream for example, the drive letter to your music may change without you realizing it.
Try verifying that the drive letter has not changed since you imported your music.
Tom Hesley
Did you actually resolve this problem? If so, how? If not by finding the file on your hard drive, and then updating the link in the iTunes library to it, in what way did you stop this error?
I’ve see this error many times myself, and in every case it was due to the music file being moved or deleted. I’ve fixed this by answering yes when iTunes asks me if I want to locate the file. When I did, the error disappeared.
Tom Hesley
If you moved or deleted the files for the songs in your iTunes library, you’ll get this message. You’ll also get it if you changed the drive letter of the hard drive where your music is located.
Tom Hesley