[senit] simple switch music ...?

Following on from the DVD question - but simpler - I expect that many

There is the switch accessible CD 
player from Liberator,
But I think it is only stop/start 
using a switch, not timed.
I don't know if you can use one of 
the battery switch timers with them.
Timed cd playing (switch plays a cd 
for a certain time and then pauses 
waiting until the next switch press) 
I think requires a computer.

The CD special which was written by 
Jim Luther does work ok, however you 
do have to watch out for the restart 
time on CDs.
On the tests I've done with it it 
does seem to pause the music ok but 
the cd seems to take some time to 
start up again so there is can be a 
pause in the music after the switch 
press.

Chris Hopkins wrote a switch 
accessible CD player in Opus which 
we use generally around school.
It allows one switch timed (you can 
alter the timing), one switch hold 
or one switch, one switch latched. 
It has some basic animations that 
you can add to.
So far it has worked well for timed 
CD playing.

We generally use it for pupils to 
switch their story CDs.

Richard Walter
Meldreth Manor School

sally millar wrote:
> Following on from the DVD question - but simpler - I expect that many 
> like me are frustrated by the fact that nowadays the trusty PowerLink 
> does not work with the fancy new CD players or anything that has a  
> 'standby' mode   (but only with old fashioned simple tape players or 
> other simple devices that are either OFF or ON).
> What solutions have people found for switch users to play music ?  (I 
> know you can do a lot on computer but I find this is too complicated for 
> most homes and busy classroom assistants - apart from being an expensive 
> sledge hammer to crack a nut....)
> BTW Has anyone tried these?
> on http://www.oatsoft.org/Software/cdspecial/ and 
> http://www.oatsoft.org/Software/mymediaplayer-mmp
> 
> Is it time we started hassling the suppliers to address this issue, for 
> our pupils with the most severe and complex support needs?
> 
> Also I am frustrated by the fact that the companies  who used to make 
> and sell switch adapted toys and devices (like Liberator) have now 
> stopped doing so (fallen foul of  EU safety regulations, again, I 
> guess). Given that all this was simple many years ago, we seem to be 
> going backwards not forwards...sigh....
> any ideas?
> Sally Millar