RE: Fairfax Radio NTS - News Talk Sport
I am curious which band do they use for DAB down there is it a distinct band or are they using something similar to IBOC (in band on channel) Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 07:35 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Fairfax Radio NTS - News Talk Sport For those in Australia, the new Fairfax Radio NTS - News Talk Sport - channel is now up and running providing comprehensive cricket coverage - including the Big Bash league I believe - as well as running highlights from across the Fairfax Radio Network. The station can be heard in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth on Digital Radio. ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 Fax +61397437954
Re: Fairfax Radio NTS - News Talk Sport
The band is in the 100-200MHZ range, not sure of the exact frequency, DAB+ is absolutely nothing to do with your IBOC/HD system. On 23 Dec 2013, at 2:44 am, Ray T. Mahorney mahorney@googlemail.com wrote: I am curious which band do they use for DAB down there is it a distinct band or are they using something similar to IBOC (in band on channel) Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 07:35 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Fairfax Radio NTS - News Talk Sport For those in Australia, the new Fairfax Radio NTS - News Talk Sport - channel is now up and running providing comprehensive cricket coverage - including the Big Bash league I believe - as well as running highlights from across the Fairfax Radio Network. The station can be heard in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth on Digital Radio. ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 Fax +61397437954
RE: Fairfax Radio NTS - News Talk Sport
I didn't figure it did Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 17:26 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Fairfax Radio NTS - News Talk Sport The band is in the 100-200MHZ range, not sure of the exact frequency, DAB+ is absolutely nothing to do with your IBOC/HD system. On 23 Dec 2013, at 2:44 am, Ray T. Mahorney mahorney@googlemail.com wrote: I am curious which band do they use for DAB down there is it a distinct band or are they using something similar to IBOC (in band on channel) Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 07:35 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Fairfax Radio NTS - News Talk Sport For those in Australia, the new Fairfax Radio NTS - News Talk Sport - channel is now up and running providing comprehensive cricket coverage - including the Big Bash league I believe - as well as running highlights from across the Fairfax Radio Network. The station can be heard in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth on Digital Radio. ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 Fax +61397437954
Accessibility of Spotiamp (new Winamp-style Spotify client for Windows)
Just in time for Winamp's untimely demise, Spotify has announced Spotiamp, a Spotify client for Windows built by one of its engineers. It's a small tribute to honour the great legacy of Winamp, the company says, and lets you play your music within the comfort of everybody's favorite jukebox app. - Source: The Verge http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/22/5235456/spotify-debuts-spotiamp-app-winamp-streaming Spotiamp Accessibility Screen reader: NVDA (Next branch) I extracted spotiamp.exe from the portable archive and ran it. When you first launch the app, the login dialog appears. This is completely accessible with labels for the two text fields (not that you'd need them). Your username and password (the latter encrypted) are stored in your config file (spotiamp.ini); you are not given an option to change this. Once you've successfully logged in, the Spotiamp main window is brought into focus. Screen and object view, as well as the NVDA OCR add-on, fail to get anything useful from this screen. According to the Spotiamp website, there is also a button in the main window to access your own Spotify playlists. I haven't found a way to accessibly activate this yet. There is a Winamp-style main menu, even if it is sloppily implemented. To access it with NVDA, use object navigation to find the System menu and right-click it. This contains the program's limited list of settings and reveals some hotkeys. From this menu and my own observations, here are the useful hotkeys that work in the program: Ctrl+L - Switch Account Ctrl+S - Search Z/X/C/V/Space/Arrow keys - Same functions as in Winamp Ctrl+P - Seems to hide (not toggle) the playlist view that opens when you perform a search Ctrl+V - Paste album/playlist/track URIs into the main window for playback The search dialog is accessible. It has tab auto-completion and thus you can't navigate to the Search (default) and Cancel buttons. These have hotkeys, however. The text which is filled in by auto-completion is read when Tab is pressed. Pasting Spotify track, album or artist URIs into this dialog results in a blank playlist*. *Update: You can paste URIs directly into the main window simply by pressing Ctrl+V. Pasting a track, album or playlist URI will play the content straight away, while artist URIs don't trigger any apparent change. The playlist view, as you would expect, displays the list of search results. Object navigation is again useless here. Screen review sees a list of partial track names and durations, but routing the mouse to one and left/right clicking does nothing. To start playback after performing a search, press Enter. It's probably best to close the playlist view with Ctrl+P after doing this. Some notes: If you perform a new search while a track is playing, but don't press enter in the playlist view, the results from that new search will be queued anyway and your current playlist replaced. Some hotkeys, as well as Alt+F4, do not work in the playlist view. First letter navigation doesn't work in the playlist view either. If you want to try Spotiamp for yourself or learn more about it, visit: http://spotiamp.com/ -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes
