Re: new Mediaplayer available
Sean: It already is user-friendly to Blind folks. Cheers. - Original Message - From: sean waiting s...@waiting6415.freeserve.co.uk To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 5:12 PM Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Dear Friend is it going to be use friendly to blind people as well. all the best from sean waiting. - Original Message - From: Jim Noseworthy jim.nosewor...@rogers.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org; blindi...@freelists.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 6:34 PM Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Hello Folks: Let's get behind this one and offer the program author some suggestions. - Original Message - From: Marco Steinebach - Mardy supp...@mar-dy.com To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 11:42 AM Subject: new Mediaplayer available Hello to all, I think some of you may be interested in the following information: We, the Mar-Dy-Team, have created a new program, a mixture between Media player and playlistgenerator. This program is called MaPlEr. We have created it, because we are not happy about the usage of Windows Mediaplayer, and, as versions grow, the usage of Winamp too. So we tried to create a program, which can play the most popular sound files, has the ability to create and modify playlists, and has such features like adjusting the pitch, without changing the tempo and vice versa, adjusting the volume of music, without changing the volume of the screenreader, and so on. The link to our homepage is: www.mar-dy.com Here you can find more information about all the features, download MaPlEr and listen to an audio presentation which we did on BCT (www.blindcooltech.com). We would be very interested in feedback. What do you think of the program? Is it useful for you, what features would you like in future versions. And if you want to discuss with other users of MaPlEr, or just want to be informed of updates and so on, just send an empty email to mardysoftware-subscr...@as-2.de to subscribe to our software mailing list. Best regards to all of you Marco Steinebach (Germany) (Mar-dy-Team) Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.7.5/1696 - Release Date: 28/09/2008 13:30 Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: new Mediaplayer available
Hello to all, Just want to answer to questions for everyone: The price of MaPlEr is 7,00 Euro. This is around $10 US. The 700,00 Euro in our Audio presentation was just a joke. ;-) I'm blind myself and tried to do my best to make MaPlEr as userfriendly as possible. Have a nice time and best regards Marco (Mar-Dy-Team) Sean: It already is user-friendly to Blind folks. Cheers. - Original Message - From: sean waiting s...@waiting6415.freeserve.co.uk To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 5:12 PM Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Dear Friend is it going to be use friendly to blind people as well. all the best from sean waiting. - Original Message - From: Jim Noseworthy jim.nosewor...@rogers.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org; blindi...@freelists.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 6:34 PM Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Hello Folks: Let's get behind this one and offer the program author some suggestions. - Original Message - From: Marco Steinebach - Mardy supp...@mar-dy.com To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 11:42 AM Subject: new Mediaplayer available Hello to all, I think some of you may be interested in the following information: We, the Mar-Dy-Team, have created a new program, a mixture between Media player and playlistgenerator. This program is called MaPlEr. We have created it, because we are not happy about the usage of Windows Mediaplayer, and, as versions grow, the usage of Winamp too. So we tried to create a program, which can play the most popular sound files, has the ability to create and modify playlists, and has such features like adjusting the pitch, without changing the tempo and vice versa, adjusting the volume of music, without changing the volume of the screenreader, and so on. The link to our homepage is: www.mar-dy.com Here you can find more information about all the features, download MaPlEr and listen to an audio presentation which we did on BCT (www.blindcooltech.com). We would be very interested in feedback. What do you think of the program? Is it useful for you, what features would you like in future versions. And if you want to discuss with other users of MaPlEr, or just want to be informed of updates and so on, just send an empty email to mardysoftware-subscr...@as-2.de to subscribe to our software mailing list. Best regards to all of you Marco Steinebach (Germany) (Mar-dy-Team) Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.7.5/1696 - Release Date: 28/09/2008 13:30 Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: new Mediaplayer available
I use winamp for listening to streams, making playlists and ripping. Does this program have a ripper? If not is there a reason to move from Winamp to this one.? - Original Message - From: Marco Steinebach - Mardy supp...@mar-dy.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 11:12 PM Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Hello to all, Just want to answer to questions for everyone: The price of MaPlEr is 7,00 Euro. This is around $10 US. The 700,00 Euro in our Audio presentation was just a joke. ;-) I'm blind myself and tried to do my best to make MaPlEr as userfriendly as possible. Have a nice time and best regards Marco (Mar-Dy-Team) Sean: It already is user-friendly to Blind folks. Cheers. - Original Message - From: sean waiting s...@waiting6415.freeserve.co.uk To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 5:12 PM Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Dear Friend is it going to be use friendly to blind people as well. all the best from sean waiting. - Original Message - From: Jim Noseworthy jim.nosewor...@rogers.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org; blindi...@freelists.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 6:34 PM Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Hello Folks: Let's get behind this one and offer the program author some suggestions. - Original Message - From: Marco Steinebach - Mardy supp...@mar-dy.com To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 11:42 AM Subject: new Mediaplayer available Hello to all, I think some of you may be interested in the following information: We, the Mar-Dy-Team, have created a new program, a mixture between Media player and playlistgenerator. This program is called MaPlEr. We have created it, because we are not happy about the usage of Windows Mediaplayer, and, as versions grow, the usage of Winamp too. So we tried to create a program, which can play the most popular sound files, has the ability to create and modify playlists, and has such features like adjusting the pitch, without changing the tempo and vice versa, adjusting the volume of music, without changing the volume of the screenreader, and so on. The link to our homepage is: www.mar-dy.com Here you can find more information about all the features, download MaPlEr and listen to an audio presentation which we did on BCT (www.blindcooltech.com). We would be very interested in feedback. What do you think of the program? Is it useful for you, what features would you like in future versions. And if you want to discuss with other users of MaPlEr, or just want to be informed of updates and so on, just send an empty email to mardysoftware-subscr...@as-2.de to subscribe to our software mailing list. Best regards to all of you Marco Steinebach (Germany) (Mar-dy-Team) Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.7.5/1696 - Release Date: 28/09/2008 13:30 Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: new Mediaplayer available
Will this program render subtitles in files where the subtitles are text streams -- like Matroska -- will this program play such files -- extension mkv? Thanks. on Saturday 01/03/2009 Marco Steinebach - Mardy(supp...@mar-dy.com) wrote Hello to all, Just want to answer to questions for everyone: The price of MaPlEr is 7,00 Euro. This is around $10 US. The 700,00 Euro in our Audio presentation was just a joke. ;-) I'm blind myself and tried to do my best to make MaPlEr as userfriendly as possible. Have a nice time and best regards Marco (Mar-Dy-Team) Sean: It already is user-friendly to Blind folks. Cheers. - Original Message - From: sean waiting s...@waiting6415.freeserve.co.uk To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 5:12 PM Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Dear Friend is it going to be use friendly to blind people as well. all the best from sean waiting. - Original Message - From: Jim Noseworthy jim.nosewor...@rogers.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org; blindi...@freelists.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 6:34 PM Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Hello Folks: Let's get behind this one and offer the program author some suggestions. - Original Message - From: Marco Steinebach - Mardy supp...@mar-dy.com To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 11:42 AM Subject: new Mediaplayer available Hello to all, I think some of you may be interested in the following information: We, the Mar-Dy-Team, have created a new program, a mixture between Media player and playlistgenerator. This program is called MaPlEr. We have created it, because we are not happy about the usage of Windows Mediaplayer, and, as versions grow, the usage of Winamp too. So we tried to create a program, which can play the most popular sound files, has the ability to create and modify playlists, and has such features like adjusting the pitch, without changing the tempo and vice versa, adjusting the volume of music, without changing the volume of the screenreader, and so on. The link to our homepage is: www.mar-dy.com Here you can find more information about all the features, download MaPlEr and listen to an audio presentation which we did on BCT (www.blindcooltech.com). We would be very interested in feedback. What do you think of the program? Is it useful for you, what features would you like in future versions. And if you want to discuss with other users of MaPlEr, or just want to be informed of updates and so on, just send an empty email to mardysoftware-subscr...@as-2.de to subscribe to our software mailing list. Best regards to all of you Marco Steinebach (Germany) (Mar-dy-Team) Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.7.5/1696 - Release Date: 28/09/2008 13:30 Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: new Mediaplayer available
I use Foobar2000, its free, and if I add the SoundTouch plug-in, I have all the pitch, tempo and rate features that MaPlEr offers. -Original Message- From: Peter Scanlon sca...@tpg.com.au To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Date: Saturday, January 03, 2009 01:56:03 PM Subject: new Mediaplayer available I use winamp for listening to streams, making playlists and ripping. Does this program have a ripper? If not is there a reason to move from Winamp to this one.? - Original Message - From: Marco Steinebach - Mardy supp...@mar-dy.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 11:12 PM Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Hello to all, Just want to answer to questions for everyone: The price of MaPlEr is 7,00 Euro. This is around $10 US. The 700,00 Euro in our Audio presentation was just a joke. ;-) I'm blind myself and tried to do my best to make MaPlEr as userfriendly as possible. Have a nice time and best regards Marco (Mar-Dy-Team) Sean: It already is user-friendly to Blind folks. Cheers. - Original Message - From: sean waiting s...@waiting6415.freeserve.co.uk To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 5:12 PM Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Dear Friend is it going to be use friendly to blind people as well. all the best from sean waiting. - Original Message - From: Jim Noseworthy jim.nosewor...@rogers.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org; blindi...@freelists.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 6:34 PM Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Hello Folks: Let's get behind this one and offer the program author some suggestions. - Original Message - From: Marco Steinebach - Mardy supp...@mar-dy.com To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 11:42 AM Subject: new Mediaplayer available Hello to all, I think some of you may be interested in the following information: We, the Mar-Dy-Team, have created a new program, a mixture between Media player and playlistgenerator. This program is called MaPlEr. We have created it, because we are not happy about the usage of Windows Mediaplayer, and, as versions grow, the usage of Winamp too. So we tried to create a program, which can play the most popular sound files, has the ability to create and modify playlists, and has such features like adjusting the pitch, without changing the tempo and vice versa, adjusting the volume of music, without changing the volume of the screenreader, and so on. The link to our homepage is: www.mar-dy.com Here you can find more information about all the features, download MaPlEr and listen to an audio presentation which we did on BCT (www.blindcooltech.com). We would be very interested in feedback. What do you think of the program? Is it useful for you, what features would you like in future versions. And if you want to discuss with other users of MaPlEr, or just want to be informed of updates and so on, just send an empty email to mardysoftware-subscr...@as-2.de to subscribe to our software mailing list. Best regards to all of you Marco Steinebach (Germany) (Mar-dy-Team) Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.7.5/1696 - Release Date: 28/09/2008 13:30 Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org __ NOD32 3733 (20090102) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com -- Check out my radio and TeamTalk server! http://www.jls-radio.com -- James Scholes E-mail: ja...@jamesscholes.com MSN/Windows Live Messenger: jamesscho...@msn.com AIM: JamesScholes000 Skype: james.scholes Website: http://www.jamesscholes.com Blog:
5 new mp3 tutorials on Replay Converter 3.20
Replay Converter 3.20 is included when you buy Replay AV 8.52. I did 5 new mp3 tutorials on how to use Replay Converter 3.20 with JAWS. I zipped the files into a zip file and you can download them at: http://www.applian.com/Podcasts/replay-converter-320.zip Leslie has a coupon code where you can get $15 off Replay AV 8. Download tips Click the http: URL above. Choose save. Save file to your hard drive. After download is finished right click this file with your application's key. Choose 'extract all'. Choose next. Choose next again. Choose ok. The above are for Windows XP users. Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Replay AV 8 Coupon Code discount
For $15.00 off Replay AV - the coupon code is: RAVBB Website is http://www.applian.com Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
My thoughts on the Mapler media player
Hi There has been some discussion on the list about the new Mapler media player and playlist generator. I thought I would give my overview of how I found using the player from a user's perspective. Many media players are either fairly complex to use from a screen-reading standpoint or they require special plugins to achieve tasks which we as visually impaired people may like to do. Mapler is designed to make the playback of audio files and the creation of playlists easy while incorporating some unique features. As has been discussed, Mapler is an audio player and playlist generator produced by a small company in Germany. At least one of the developers is visually impaired, a fact derived from the podcast downloadable from the company web site which explains clearly how to use the program. All functions can be accessed using the keyboard or through the menu system. Because Mapler uses standard windows controls, no special scripts or screen-reader configuration files are required. It functions well with jaws, window-eyes or system access and I imagine all other screen-readers. Mapler costs 7 Euro if PayPal is used (about 10 dollars), or 11 Euro if an external company processes the credit card payment. Learning how to use Mapler is best achieved in my view using the podcast or by exploring the menus. The help topics are not accessible via the Help menu for some reason, but you can access them via the shortcut off the Programs menu, available from the Start menu. However, not all the files have been translated into English as some still remain in German. Having said that, Mapler is an incredibly easy player to use. For those people who do not want to learn how to use a complex media player,Mapler probably is for you. Advantages of using the Player: 1. It is easy to start, stop and pause the playing of a file, or move forward and backward it in predefined steps, such as five seconds, 30 seconds, or a minute at a time. 2. Files or folders can be added to create a playlist to hear the tracks immediately or the playlist can be saved with an .m3u extension. 3. One of the things I liked about Mapler was the ability to change the order of tracks in the playlist. Tracks can be rearranged by pressing Control+Up Arrow or Control+Down Arrow to move the selected track up or down in the playing order. Keystrokes also exist to move an item to the beginning or end of a playlist. 4. The volume of playback can be adjusted independently of the screen-reader. 5. The variable speed without pitch adjustment is particularly impressive. Many hardware and computer-based players often disturb the overall quality of the playback when audio is reproduced at high speed and I found accessing audio at a rapid rate using Mapler to be very easy on the ear. 6. There are a number of functions you can select when audio is being played, such as to repeat tracks, shuffle, continuously play, fade out or cross-fade. Parameters in the Settings menu allow you to control the cross-fade process. 7. A special sleep timer allows you to have the computer shut down or go into hybernation when the track or playlist has finished playing, or after a designated time period has elapsed. 8. One really cool feature is that you can pause and play the audio from within any application by pressing the Pause key on the computer keyboard, located on the top right of the qwerty keyboard. If for example you are located within Microsoft Word, and the Pause key is pressed once, the audio from Mapler is either paused or playback is resumed. If pressed twice quickly, focus is set to the Mapler window for any manipulation you may wish to do. When the Pause key is pressed twice quickly again, focus is reset back to the application you were previously using, very nice. 9. The supported file formats are audio CD, wav, MP3, MP4, OGG, WMA unprotected, AAC and FLAC. As a summary of the advantages of using Mapler, given this is version 1 I think this is going to be a fantastic program. It already has some great features. While some people may be a little scathing of specialist or accessible programs, undoubtedly there is a significant computer user base who can benefit from them. The only way in which the program will improve would be if people constructively submit feedback to the developers. Before I do that, let me write a few words about the demonstration copy of the program because the concept is quite interesting. All the functions of Mapler are available in the demo, and in fact if you just wanted to use it for creating playlists alone, you can do that forever without encountering any restriction. So in theory you could use it to create playlists with all the nice accessible features without incurring any costs, and transfer the playlist to your mobile phone or portable player. However the demo restrictions apply when you begin to play audio content. When you have played audio
Re: utorrent, need help getting started
hi does anyone no where u can get older vertions of utorrent from i am running the latest vertion but i don't find that it gives as much information with jaws from stewart tune in to http://laserhothits.servemp3.com:8130/listen.pls email stewartr...@sky.com msn stewart-r...@hotmail.co.uk skype stewartross - Original Message - From: nick danger danger...@verizon.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 8:33 PM Subject: Re: utorrent, need help getting started Hi don, in order to download torrents check out torrent sites like B T junkie.com, or mininova.oerg or you can do a google search on them. While you're on the sites you can browse through the different torrents that a available. Simply select the category you want to grab stuff from like tv shows. the different tv show torrents will be listed. select the download link and save it. Once you have it saved on your computer, open utorrent then from the file menu choose add torrent. Select the torrent you saved on your computer tab over to ok and the torrent will start downloading. When finished, itt will be saved in a downloads folder created by utorrent. This folder by default will be in the my documents folder. Hope this helps. Tony - Original Message - From: Donald L. Roberts donald_roberts...@yahoo.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 1:23 PM Subject: utorrent, need help getting started I am hopeful that someone on this list could give me some quick start help in learning this utorrent program. Although Window Eyes 7.01 is my screen reader of choice, I do have access to JFW 7 if that works better. Thanks in advance for any help. Don Roberts Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.1/1870 - Release Date: 12/31/2008 8:44 AM Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Free CD Burner?
I just used it today to burn a data cd. You just tab to different buttons and hit the spacebar. You have to use the JAWS cursor to find out the total size of all the files. It tells you the total size of a DVD rather than a cd so you have to know how much space is on a cd if that is what you are working with. If you have too much it will let you know. One thing I didn't like was when you delete an entry focus is lost. I use JAWS so every time I deleted an entry I had to open the window list and arrow down to the program and enter to get it back. Dean - Original Message - From: Jeff Samco jsa...@jps.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 1:47 PM Subject: Re: Free CD Burner? | Fred's Head Companion recently highlighted a CD/DVD Burner which was | free and has a very screen reader friendly interface. | You can read about it at | http://www.fredshead.info/2008/11/burning-data-to-dvd-in-windows-xp.html | I have briefly accessed the interface and it does appear to be very | accessible but haven't tried burning anything with it. | Let us know if anyone tries it out. | Jeff | | At 04:02 AM 1/2/2009, you wrote: | Is there a free cd burner that wil work with XP that anyone can suggest? I | have tried Deep Burner which I thought someone suggested but can't get it to | add files to be burned. If anyone is using this and could help it would be | apreciated. | | Thanks, | Dean | | | | | Jonathan Mosen List Founder | Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... | http://www.pc-audio.org | To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: | pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org | | No virus found in this incoming message. | Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com | Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.2/1872 - Release Date: | 1/2/2009 1:10 PM | | | | Jonathan Mosen List Founder | Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... | http://www.pc-audio.org | To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: | pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Free CD Burner?
thanks. I plan on checking this out for my home Pc. I have an old version of Roxio which messes up some music cd's. Dean - Original Message - From: dean martineau dea...@earthlink.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 9:49 AM Subject: RE: Free CD Burner? |I did a Tek Talk demonstration of the free Cd Burner xp. The demonstration | is found at | | http://accessibleworld.org/audio/download/202/tektalk-08-04-08-cd-burtner-xp | .mp3 | | The download link is here: | | http://cdburnerxp.se/downloadsetup.php | | Dean | -Original Message- | From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] | On Behalf Of Dean Masters | Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 4:03 AM | To: PC Audio | Subject: Free CD Burner? | | Is there a free cd burner that wil work with XP that anyone can suggest? I | have tried Deep Burner which I thought someone suggested but can't get it to | | add files to be burned. If anyone is using this and could help it would be | apreciated. | | Thanks, | Dean | | | | | Jonathan Mosen List Founder | Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... | http://www.pc-audio.org | To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: | pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org | | | | Jonathan Mosen List Founder | Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... | http://www.pc-audio.org | To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: | pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: utorrent, need help getting started
I'm using the latest version of uTorrent with JFW, and I never noticed that I got less information as I moved from release to release. I'm curious, what are you missing in the newer versions of uTorrent? It's probably that I just know as much about uTorrent as I need to download the occasional torrent, so I'm not noticing the features you're looking for. stewart ross wrote: hi does anyone no where u can get older vertions of utorrent from i am running the latest vertion but i don't find that it gives as much information with jaws from stewart tune in to http://laserhothits.servemp3.com:8130/listen.pls email stewartr...@sky.com msn stewart-r...@hotmail.co.uk skype stewartross - Original Message - From: nick danger danger...@verizon.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 8:33 PM Subject: Re: utorrent, need help getting started Hi don, in order to download torrents check out torrent sites like B T junkie.com, or mininova.oerg or you can do a google search on them. While you're on the sites you can browse through the different torrents that a available. Simply select the category you want to grab stuff from like tv shows. the different tv show torrents will be listed. select the download link and save it. Once you have it saved on your computer, open utorrent then from the file menu choose add torrent. Select the torrent you saved on your computer tab over to ok and the torrent will start downloading. When finished, itt will be saved in a downloads folder created by utorrent. This folder by default will be in the my documents folder. Hope this helps. Tony - Original Message - From: Donald L. Roberts donald_roberts...@yahoo.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 1:23 PM Subject: utorrent, need help getting started I am hopeful that someone on this list could give me some quick start help in learning this utorrent program. Although Window Eyes 7.01 is my screen reader of choice, I do have access to JFW 7 if that works better. Thanks in advance for any help. Don Roberts Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.1/1870 - Release Date: 12/31/2008 8:44 AM Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Christopher cchalt...@austin.rr.com Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: new Mediaplayer available
Marco! You're to be commended for making a media player that's user friendly to blind folks. - Original Message - From: Marco Steinebach - Mardy supp...@mar-dy.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 7:12 AM Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Hello to all, Just want to answer to questions for everyone: The price of MaPlEr is 7,00 Euro. This is around $10 US. The 700,00 Euro in our Audio presentation was just a joke. ;-) I'm blind myself and tried to do my best to make MaPlEr as userfriendly as possible. Have a nice time and best regards Marco (Mar-Dy-Team) Sean: It already is user-friendly to Blind folks. Cheers. - Original Message - From: sean waiting s...@waiting6415.freeserve.co.uk To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 5:12 PM Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Dear Friend is it going to be use friendly to blind people as well. all the best from sean waiting. - Original Message - From: Jim Noseworthy jim.nosewor...@rogers.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org; blindi...@freelists.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 6:34 PM Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Hello Folks: Let's get behind this one and offer the program author some suggestions. - Original Message - From: Marco Steinebach - Mardy supp...@mar-dy.com To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 11:42 AM Subject: new Mediaplayer available Hello to all, I think some of you may be interested in the following information: We, the Mar-Dy-Team, have created a new program, a mixture between Media player and playlistgenerator. This program is called MaPlEr. We have created it, because we are not happy about the usage of Windows Mediaplayer, and, as versions grow, the usage of Winamp too. So we tried to create a program, which can play the most popular sound files, has the ability to create and modify playlists, and has such features like adjusting the pitch, without changing the tempo and vice versa, adjusting the volume of music, without changing the volume of the screenreader, and so on. The link to our homepage is: www.mar-dy.com Here you can find more information about all the features, download MaPlEr and listen to an audio presentation which we did on BCT (www.blindcooltech.com). We would be very interested in feedback. What do you think of the program? Is it useful for you, what features would you like in future versions. And if you want to discuss with other users of MaPlEr, or just want to be informed of updates and so on, just send an empty email to mardysoftware-subscr...@as-2.de to subscribe to our software mailing list. Best regards to all of you Marco Steinebach (Germany) (Mar-dy-Team) Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.7.5/1696 - Release Date: 28/09/2008 13:30 Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
RE: new Mediaplayer available
Hi What is this media player and where can it be found? Regards Adrien You can get me off list at: adriencollin...@aol.com or adrien_coll...@yahoo.co.uk Or adrien.coll...@orange.fr Speakon is a free fully self-voicing accessible multimedia program for the visually impaired, find out more by downloading the software from: http://www.a-technic.net/speakon.htm You can join the speakon user group by sending a blank e-mail to: speakon-subscr...@yahoogroups.com -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Gary Wood Sent: 03 January 2009 21:26 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Marco! You're to be commended for making a media player that's user friendly to blind folks. - Original Message - From: Marco Steinebach - Mardy supp...@mar-dy.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 7:12 AM Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Hello to all, Just want to answer to questions for everyone: The price of MaPlEr is 7,00 Euro. This is around $10 US. The 700,00 Euro in our Audio presentation was just a joke. ;-) I'm blind myself and tried to do my best to make MaPlEr as userfriendly as possible. Have a nice time and best regards Marco (Mar-Dy-Team) Sean: It already is user-friendly to Blind folks. Cheers. - Original Message - From: sean waiting s...@waiting6415.freeserve.co.uk To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 5:12 PM Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Dear Friend is it going to be use friendly to blind people as well. all the best from sean waiting. - Original Message - From: Jim Noseworthy jim.nosewor...@rogers.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org; blindi...@freelists.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 6:34 PM Subject: Re: new Mediaplayer available Hello Folks: Let's get behind this one and offer the program author some suggestions. - Original Message - From: Marco Steinebach - Mardy supp...@mar-dy.com To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 11:42 AM Subject: new Mediaplayer available Hello to all, I think some of you may be interested in the following information: We, the Mar-Dy-Team, have created a new program, a mixture between Media player and playlistgenerator. This program is called MaPlEr. We have created it, because we are not happy about the usage of Windows Mediaplayer, and, as versions grow, the usage of Winamp too. So we tried to create a program, which can play the most popular sound files, has the ability to create and modify playlists, and has such features like adjusting the pitch, without changing the tempo and vice versa, adjusting the volume of music, without changing the volume of the screenreader, and so on. The link to our homepage is: www.mar-dy.com Here you can find more information about all the features, download MaPlEr and listen to an audio presentation which we did on BCT (www.blindcooltech.com). We would be very interested in feedback. What do you think of the program? Is it useful for you, what features would you like in future versions. And if you want to discuss with other users of MaPlEr, or just want to be informed of updates and so on, just send an empty email to mardysoftware-subscr...@as-2.de to subscribe to our software mailing list. Best regards to all of you Marco Steinebach (Germany) (Mar-dy-Team) Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.7.5/1696 - Release Date: 28/09/2008 13:30 Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org
Re: Free CD Burner?
Hi Dean, If you press space on the files list time limits button you can change it to the length of a cd. - Original Message - From: Steve Robertson sroberts...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 3:53 PM Subject: Re: Free CD Burner? What are people using for copying cds these days? Thanks. Steve - Original Message - From: Dean Masters dwmast...@earthlink.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Free CD Burner? I just used it today to burn a data cd. You just tab to different buttons and hit the spacebar. You have to use the JAWS cursor to find out the total size of all the files. It tells you the total size of a DVD rather than a cd so you have to know how much space is on a cd if that is what you are working with. If you have too much it will let you know. One thing I didn't like was when you delete an entry focus is lost. I use JAWS so every time I deleted an entry I had to open the window list and arrow down to the program and enter to get it back. Dean - Original Message - From: Jeff Samco jsa...@jps.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 1:47 PM Subject: Re: Free CD Burner? | Fred's Head Companion recently highlighted a CD/DVD Burner which was | free and has a very screen reader friendly interface. | You can read about it at | http://www.fredshead.info/2008/11/burning-data-to-dvd-in-windows-xp.html | I have briefly accessed the interface and it does appear to be very | accessible but haven't tried burning anything with it. | Let us know if anyone tries it out. | Jeff | | At 04:02 AM 1/2/2009, you wrote: | Is there a free cd burner that wil work with XP that anyone can suggest? I | have tried Deep Burner which I thought someone suggested but can't get it to | add files to be burned. If anyone is using this and could help it would be | apreciated. | | Thanks, | Dean | | | | | Jonathan Mosen List Founder | Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... | http://www.pc-audio.org | To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: | pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org | | No virus found in this incoming message. | Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com | Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.2/1872 - Release Date: | 1/2/2009 1:10 PM | | | | Jonathan Mosen List Founder | Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... | http://www.pc-audio.org | To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: | pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3733 (20090102) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.2/1873 - Release Date: 1/3/2009 2:14 PM Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
best software for copying dvd's
Hi What is the best software for copying or writing to dvd? I have tried nero but it doesn't seem to work for me. Regards Adrien You can get me off list at: adriencollin...@aol.com or adrien_coll...@yahoo.co.uk Or adrien.coll...@orange.fr Speakon is a free fully self-voicing accessible multimedia program for the visually impaired, find out more by downloading the software from: http://www.a-technic.net/speakon.htm You can join the speakon user group by sending a blank e-mail to: speakon-subscr...@yahoogroups.com -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dean Masters Sent: 03 January 2009 18:42 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Free CD Burner? thanks. I plan on checking this out for my home Pc. I have an old version of Roxio which messes up some music cd's. Dean - Original Message - From: dean martineau dea...@earthlink.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 9:49 AM Subject: RE: Free CD Burner? |I did a Tek Talk demonstration of the free Cd Burner xp. The demonstration | is found at | | http://accessibleworld.org/audio/download/202/tektalk-08-04- 08-cd-burtner-xp | .mp3 | | The download link is here: | | http://cdburnerxp.se/downloadsetup.php | | Dean | -Original Message- | From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] | On Behalf Of Dean Masters | Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 4:03 AM | To: PC Audio | Subject: Free CD Burner? | | Is there a free cd burner that wil work with XP that anyone can suggest? I | have tried Deep Burner which I thought someone suggested but can't get it to | | add files to be burned. If anyone is using this and could help it would be | apreciated. | | Thanks, | Dean | | | | | Jonathan Mosen List Founder | Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... | http://www.pc-audio.org | To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: | pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org | | | | Jonathan Mosen List Founder | Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... | http://www.pc-audio.org | To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: | pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player
Hello Brian, There are two things that I would like to add. For starters, I haven't seen a media player that lets you record from the line and mike in jacks on your sound card. Audio editing would really be a nice touch too as well. And I would also like to have the ability of ripping and burning CD's too. John. - Original Message - From: Brian Hartgen br...@hartgen.org To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Cc: blindi...@freelists.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 12:46 PM Subject: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Hi There has been some discussion on the list about the new Mapler media player and playlist generator. I thought I would give my overview of how I found using the player from a user's perspective. Many media players are either fairly complex to use from a screen-reading standpoint or they require special plugins to achieve tasks which we as visually impaired people may like to do. Mapler is designed to make the playback of audio files and the creation of playlists easy while incorporating some unique features. As has been discussed, Mapler is an audio player and playlist generator produced by a small company in Germany. At least one of the developers is visually impaired, a fact derived from the podcast downloadable from the company web site which explains clearly how to use the program. All functions can be accessed using the keyboard or through the menu system. Because Mapler uses standard windows controls, no special scripts or screen-reader configuration files are required. It functions well with jaws, window-eyes or system access and I imagine all other screen-readers. Mapler costs 7 Euro if PayPal is used (about 10 dollars), or 11 Euro if an external company processes the credit card payment. Learning how to use Mapler is best achieved in my view using the podcast or by exploring the menus. The help topics are not accessible via the Help menu for some reason, but you can access them via the shortcut off the Programs menu, available from the Start menu. However, not all the files have been translated into English as some still remain in German. Having said that, Mapler is an incredibly easy player to use. For those people who do not want to learn how to use a complex media player,Mapler probably is for you. Advantages of using the Player: 1. It is easy to start, stop and pause the playing of a file, or move forward and backward it in predefined steps, such as five seconds, 30 seconds, or a minute at a time. 2. Files or folders can be added to create a playlist to hear the tracks immediately or the playlist can be saved with an .m3u extension. 3. One of the things I liked about Mapler was the ability to change the order of tracks in the playlist. Tracks can be rearranged by pressing Control+Up Arrow or Control+Down Arrow to move the selected track up or down in the playing order. Keystrokes also exist to move an item to the beginning or end of a playlist. 4. The volume of playback can be adjusted independently of the screen-reader. 5. The variable speed without pitch adjustment is particularly impressive. Many hardware and computer-based players often disturb the overall quality of the playback when audio is reproduced at high speed and I found accessing audio at a rapid rate using Mapler to be very easy on the ear. 6. There are a number of functions you can select when audio is being played, such as to repeat tracks, shuffle, continuously play, fade out or cross-fade. Parameters in the Settings menu allow you to control the cross-fade process. 7. A special sleep timer allows you to have the computer shut down or go into hybernation when the track or playlist has finished playing, or after a designated time period has elapsed. 8. One really cool feature is that you can pause and play the audio from within any application by pressing the Pause key on the computer keyboard, located on the top right of the qwerty keyboard. If for example you are located within Microsoft Word, and the Pause key is pressed once, the audio from Mapler is either paused or playback is resumed. If pressed twice quickly, focus is set to the Mapler window for any manipulation you may wish to do. When the Pause key is pressed twice quickly again, focus is reset back to the application you were previously using, very nice. 9. The supported file formats are audio CD, wav, MP3, MP4, OGG, WMA unprotected, AAC and FLAC. As a summary of the advantages of using Mapler, given this is version 1 I think this is going to be a fantastic program. It already has some great features. While some people may be a little scathing of specialist or accessible programs, undoubtedly there is a significant computer user base who can benefit from them. The only way in which the program will improve would be if people constructively submit feedback to the developers. Before I do that, let me write a few words about the
Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player
Actually I believe you can record from the line input with Winamp if you use the linerec input plug-in. It's a bit cumbersome because you'd have to have the output go to one of the disk writer plug-ins but I think it can be done. It's a lot easier with Goldwave though! - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@windstream.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 8:17 PM Subject: Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Hello Brian, There are two things that I would like to add. For starters, I haven't seen a media player that lets you record from the line and mike in jacks on your sound card. Audio editing would really be a nice touch too as well. And I would also like to have the ability of ripping and burning CD's too. John. - Original Message - From: Brian Hartgen br...@hartgen.org To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Cc: blindi...@freelists.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 12:46 PM Subject: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Hi There has been some discussion on the list about the new Mapler media player and playlist generator. I thought I would give my overview of how I found using the player from a user's perspective. Many media players are either fairly complex to use from a screen-reading standpoint or they require special plugins to achieve tasks which we as visually impaired people may like to do. Mapler is designed to make the playback of audio files and the creation of playlists easy while incorporating some unique features. As has been discussed, Mapler is an audio player and playlist generator produced by a small company in Germany. At least one of the developers is visually impaired, a fact derived from the podcast downloadable from the company web site which explains clearly how to use the program. All functions can be accessed using the keyboard or through the menu system. Because Mapler uses standard windows controls, no special scripts or screen-reader configuration files are required. It functions well with jaws, window-eyes or system access and I imagine all other screen-readers. Mapler costs 7 Euro if PayPal is used (about 10 dollars), or 11 Euro if an external company processes the credit card payment. Learning how to use Mapler is best achieved in my view using the podcast or by exploring the menus. The help topics are not accessible via the Help menu for some reason, but you can access them via the shortcut off the Programs menu, available from the Start menu. However, not all the files have been translated into English as some still remain in German. Having said that, Mapler is an incredibly easy player to use. For those people who do not want to learn how to use a complex media player,Mapler probably is for you. Advantages of using the Player: 1. It is easy to start, stop and pause the playing of a file, or move forward and backward it in predefined steps, such as five seconds, 30 seconds, or a minute at a time. 2. Files or folders can be added to create a playlist to hear the tracks immediately or the playlist can be saved with an .m3u extension. 3. One of the things I liked about Mapler was the ability to change the order of tracks in the playlist. Tracks can be rearranged by pressing Control+Up Arrow or Control+Down Arrow to move the selected track up or down in the playing order. Keystrokes also exist to move an item to the beginning or end of a playlist. 4. The volume of playback can be adjusted independently of the screen-reader. 5. The variable speed without pitch adjustment is particularly impressive. Many hardware and computer-based players often disturb the overall quality of the playback when audio is reproduced at high speed and I found accessing audio at a rapid rate using Mapler to be very easy on the ear. 6. There are a number of functions you can select when audio is being played, such as to repeat tracks, shuffle, continuously play, fade out or cross-fade. Parameters in the Settings menu allow you to control the cross-fade process. 7. A special sleep timer allows you to have the computer shut down or go into hybernation when the track or playlist has finished playing, or after a designated time period has elapsed. 8. One really cool feature is that you can pause and play the audio from within any application by pressing the Pause key on the computer keyboard, located on the top right of the qwerty keyboard. If for example you are located within Microsoft Word, and the Pause key is pressed once, the audio from Mapler is either paused or playback is resumed. If pressed twice quickly, focus is set to the Mapler window for any manipulation you may wish to do. When the Pause key is pressed twice quickly again, focus is reset back to the application you were previously using, very nice. 9. The supported file formats are audio CD, wav, MP3, MP4, OGG, WMA unprotected, AAC and FLAC. As a
Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player
High Dave, Where can I download this plug in for WINAMP? John. - Original Message - From: Dave McLean david.mcl...@cox.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 8:57 PM Subject: Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Actually I believe you can record from the line input with Winamp if you use the linerec input plug-in. It's a bit cumbersome because you'd have to have the output go to one of the disk writer plug-ins but I think it can be done. It's a lot easier with Goldwave though! - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@windstream.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 8:17 PM Subject: Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Hello Brian, There are two things that I would like to add. For starters, I haven't seen a media player that lets you record from the line and mike in jacks on your sound card. Audio editing would really be a nice touch too as well. And I would also like to have the ability of ripping and burning CD's too. John. - Original Message - From: Brian Hartgen br...@hartgen.org To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Cc: blindi...@freelists.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 12:46 PM Subject: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Hi There has been some discussion on the list about the new Mapler media player and playlist generator. I thought I would give my overview of how I found using the player from a user's perspective. Many media players are either fairly complex to use from a screen-reading standpoint or they require special plugins to achieve tasks which we as visually impaired people may like to do. Mapler is designed to make the playback of audio files and the creation of playlists easy while incorporating some unique features. As has been discussed, Mapler is an audio player and playlist generator produced by a small company in Germany. At least one of the developers is visually impaired, a fact derived from the podcast downloadable from the company web site which explains clearly how to use the program. All functions can be accessed using the keyboard or through the menu system. Because Mapler uses standard windows controls, no special scripts or screen-reader configuration files are required. It functions well with jaws, window-eyes or system access and I imagine all other screen-readers. Mapler costs 7 Euro if PayPal is used (about 10 dollars), or 11 Euro if an external company processes the credit card payment. Learning how to use Mapler is best achieved in my view using the podcast or by exploring the menus. The help topics are not accessible via the Help menu for some reason, but you can access them via the shortcut off the Programs menu, available from the Start menu. However, not all the files have been translated into English as some still remain in German. Having said that, Mapler is an incredibly easy player to use. For those people who do not want to learn how to use a complex media player,Mapler probably is for you. Advantages of using the Player: 1. It is easy to start, stop and pause the playing of a file, or move forward and backward it in predefined steps, such as five seconds, 30 seconds, or a minute at a time. 2. Files or folders can be added to create a playlist to hear the tracks immediately or the playlist can be saved with an .m3u extension. 3. One of the things I liked about Mapler was the ability to change the order of tracks in the playlist. Tracks can be rearranged by pressing Control+Up Arrow or Control+Down Arrow to move the selected track up or down in the playing order. Keystrokes also exist to move an item to the beginning or end of a playlist. 4. The volume of playback can be adjusted independently of the screen-reader. 5. The variable speed without pitch adjustment is particularly impressive. Many hardware and computer-based players often disturb the overall quality of the playback when audio is reproduced at high speed and I found accessing audio at a rapid rate using Mapler to be very easy on the ear. 6. There are a number of functions you can select when audio is being played, such as to repeat tracks, shuffle, continuously play, fade out or cross-fade. Parameters in the Settings menu allow you to control the cross-fade process. 7. A special sleep timer allows you to have the computer shut down or go into hybernation when the track or playlist has finished playing, or after a designated time period has elapsed. 8. One really cool feature is that you can pause and play the audio from within any application by pressing the Pause key on the computer keyboard, located on the top right of the qwerty keyboard. If for example you are located within Microsoft Word, and the Pause key is pressed once, the audio from Mapler is either paused or playback is resumed. If pressed twice quickly, focus is set to the Mapler
Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player
It comes with Winamp I believe. If you go to the input section under plug-ins you should be able to find it. - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@windstream.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 9:11 PM Subject: Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player High Dave, Where can I download this plug in for WINAMP? John. - Original Message - From: Dave McLean david.mcl...@cox.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 8:57 PM Subject: Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Actually I believe you can record from the line input with Winamp if you use the linerec input plug-in. It's a bit cumbersome because you'd have to have the output go to one of the disk writer plug-ins but I think it can be done. It's a lot easier with Goldwave though! - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@windstream.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 8:17 PM Subject: Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Hello Brian, There are two things that I would like to add. For starters, I haven't seen a media player that lets you record from the line and mike in jacks on your sound card. Audio editing would really be a nice touch too as well. And I would also like to have the ability of ripping and burning CD's too. John. - Original Message - From: Brian Hartgen br...@hartgen.org To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Cc: blindi...@freelists.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 12:46 PM Subject: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Hi There has been some discussion on the list about the new Mapler media player and playlist generator. I thought I would give my overview of how I found using the player from a user's perspective. Many media players are either fairly complex to use from a screen-reading standpoint or they require special plugins to achieve tasks which we as visually impaired people may like to do. Mapler is designed to make the playback of audio files and the creation of playlists easy while incorporating some unique features. As has been discussed, Mapler is an audio player and playlist generator produced by a small company in Germany. At least one of the developers is visually impaired, a fact derived from the podcast downloadable from the company web site which explains clearly how to use the program. All functions can be accessed using the keyboard or through the menu system. Because Mapler uses standard windows controls, no special scripts or screen-reader configuration files are required. It functions well with jaws, window-eyes or system access and I imagine all other screen-readers. Mapler costs 7 Euro if PayPal is used (about 10 dollars), or 11 Euro if an external company processes the credit card payment. Learning how to use Mapler is best achieved in my view using the podcast or by exploring the menus. The help topics are not accessible via the Help menu for some reason, but you can access them via the shortcut off the Programs menu, available from the Start menu. However, not all the files have been translated into English as some still remain in German. Having said that, Mapler is an incredibly easy player to use. For those people who do not want to learn how to use a complex media player,Mapler probably is for you. Advantages of using the Player: 1. It is easy to start, stop and pause the playing of a file, or move forward and backward it in predefined steps, such as five seconds, 30 seconds, or a minute at a time. 2. Files or folders can be added to create a playlist to hear the tracks immediately or the playlist can be saved with an .m3u extension. 3. One of the things I liked about Mapler was the ability to change the order of tracks in the playlist. Tracks can be rearranged by pressing Control+Up Arrow or Control+Down Arrow to move the selected track up or down in the playing order. Keystrokes also exist to move an item to the beginning or end of a playlist. 4. The volume of playback can be adjusted independently of the screen-reader. 5. The variable speed without pitch adjustment is particularly impressive. Many hardware and computer-based players often disturb the overall quality of the playback when audio is reproduced at high speed and I found accessing audio at a rapid rate using Mapler to be very easy on the ear. 6. There are a number of functions you can select when audio is being played, such as to repeat tracks, shuffle, continuously play, fade out or cross-fade. Parameters in the Settings menu allow you to control the cross-fade process. 7. A special sleep timer allows you to have the computer shut down or go into hybernation when the track or playlist has finished playing, or after a designated time period has elapsed. 8. One really cool feature is that you can pause and play the audio from
Better Integration of Pandora and Squeezebox
Hello, I recall that the Pandora music service has been talked about a time or two on this list. I thought I'd share a couple items I found of note related to how the service integrates with the Squeezebox music player from Logitech when updating to the latest version of the Squeeze Center software used to power the Squeezebox. For those who are not familiar with Pandora or the Squeezebox a brief explanation. The Squeezebox is a music player that connects to your stereo or other hardware device to play streamed music. Streaming software known as Squeeze Center (formerly Slimserver) powers the combination. The Squeezebox itself is no more accessible than most other consumer electronics but the nice thing is that you can connect to the streaming software and control the unit from a computer, web-enabled cell phone or any other method you use to access web pages. Pandora is a music service built around the concept that there is a genealogy to music. Stations are based on similarities between artists and songs you indicate you enjoy and other music categorized by the folks at Pandora. Pandora offers free and subscription services. The subscription offers a larger number of stations and the ability to integrate with the Squeezebox so you can listen to Pandora away from the computer. Learn more about the Squeezebox and Pandora at http://www.slimdevices.com and http://www.pandora.com respectively. Anyway, in updating to the latest Squeeze Center software, I noticed a few new items related to Pandora. Most notably, it is now possible to delete Pandora stations from within the Squeeze Center web interface. Given that the main Pandora web pages do not use Flash in accessible fashions, I found my Pandora stations list growing with stations I no longer wanted to use with no way to delete them. While Pandora support was willing to delete stations on request via e-mail, I found this to be a bit inconvenient. Now when viewing Pandora stations through Squeeze Center, you have a delete station link. Activating that link deletes the station from your list of Pandora stations. Other notable integration points between Squeeze Center and Pandora include the ability to rename stations, the ability to add music to an existing station and the ability to vote thumb up or thumb down on the currently playing song from Pandora. In the case of voting, this was formerly possible using the Squeezebox remote and is part of how you refine Pandora stations over time. I'm a big fan of Pandora and use it frequently both through the Squeezebox and directly from Pandora's web pages. If I can answer any questions from folks who are trying to use this service let me know. The unfortunate thing is that as far as I know the first time you use Pandora with your own account, it still requires sighted assistance to sign in once per machine due to the way they are using Flash. Many other functions can be accomplished outside the Flash interface by starting at http://www.pandora.com/backstage. I use this frequently to edit stations and such. Happy listening, Kelly Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
