RE: goldwave 5.7
what then do the scripts allow and where do they go as the file did not appear to be a self extractor. Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 04:48 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: goldwave 5.7 I haven't used Windows for quite some time so I'm not up to speed exactly on what Goldwave is doing or what the latest version is but I can say two things. Firstly, Goldwave is one of my favourite audio editors and accessibility is right up there thanks again to the developer for being prepared to support accessibility and to deal with any issues which have come along. Secondly, I've used the software with Window-Eyes and NVDA and have never needed any additional scripts, Apps or whatever, NVDA certainly doesn't offer any smile. The most accessible audio editor I've ever used under Windows is Studio Recorder from APH, that product is very much under represented in the Audio Editor discussions. On 8 Apr 2014, at 11:48 pm, Colin Howard co...@pobox.com wrote: Greetings, I have sent the scripts privately to Ray. Colin Howard, by the Lord's providence has lived at his present address near Fareham in Southern England, since February 1992. ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane
RE: Stereo AM
that sounds like the same attitude the FCC took we're not going to tell you how to do it but if you want to then have at it. It wasn't marketed very well over here either. Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 04:41 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Stereo AM Slight corrections required here smile. AM Stereo was Pushed for cars and I can tell you exactly which manufacturers were paid to put Stereo AM into their products as I was working in the car industry myself at the time, never seen so many sales brochures pertaining to one particular topic at any one time. So the manufacturers were Rover, Holden (GM) - in their Berlenia and Kellett Comodore models -, SAAB, Mercedes, Jagua, Nissan - in their Pintara and above - some rebadge Nissan cars sold by Ford, Reindriver. There are stations still broadcasting Stereo AM in Australia as I reported earlier, the one I know of is 2CA in Canberra. Stereo AM - as Barry says - never took off in Australia because the format really never had a chance to, unlike digital radio Stereo AM was never given any proper launch, all stations were told was that if they wanted to Broadcast in Stereo AM - and many did because of the financial squeeze being placed upon them by the new FM commercial stations - then they could go right ahead from February 1st 1985 and most stations were broadcasting in that format on or by that date. I know that many stations in the Melbourne area were broadcasting in this format long before February 1ST thus these stations had a head start in the game, they were able to Tweak the performance of the transmitter and equipment, experiment with the various methods of Stereo AM around at the time, gage listener feed back from myself and another person I know who I reckon were probably just about the only people who had AM Stereo sets in Melbourne at one stage of the game. The Stereo AM sets were far more expensive than other radios available and were low in stock thus consumers weren't interested, Why should I pay 5 times the price for a Stereo AM set when the FM one is cheaper and still receives AM which I don't really want to listen to anyway as it sounds dreadful on the radio I have. Then there was the court battle over which AM Stereo method should be used in Australia which - though finally resolved - didn't help matters, as mentioned earlier som manufacturers such as Sony took matters into their own hands. There were also interference issues though I never personally experienced any! in all my time of using Stereo AM sets, things were so bad in Sydney at one stage that Radio 2Uw and others wouldn't transmit in Stereo AM between 7 A.M. and 7 P.M.. Because of the expensive nature of a Stereo AM set other solutions were soon devised and they found their way onto the market. For example, you could buy a Stereo AM Converter which you tuned to the Stereo AM frequency and then the converter would transmit that received signal onto a predetermined frequency on the FM band for your car stereo to receive. The cheapest AM Stereo tuner I ever saw was one sold by radio shack, I saw it as low as $50 and it was amazingly simple but yet so amazingly affective and quality was very reasonable, I know many inghusiests still have these tuners to this day and most have had mods done on them of various kinds to make them even better. And finally, the other big problem with Stereo AM was the lack of self-contained systems such as Music Centers and the like featuring Stereo AM, Voxon was the only firm that marketed such devices. To my knowledge, the last AM Stereo unit ever made was by Sony in 1995 which marketed the 25th Anerversary Walkman model which had Am Stereo as part of it, I'm fortunate enough to own one of those sets. A new standard of Stereo AM was proposed but by the mid 90's manufacturers had given the whole idea away completely and this standard meant spending yet more money on completely new chips, I don't know the name of the standard proposed but I do know that the band width was far wider than what we had been used to up until this time. Many people dismiss Am Stereo as Rubbish but I certainly do not, with a good radio and a good signal Stereo AM sounded nearly as good - in fact some what better - than many processed FM singnals. As for music stations in Australia, there are still many that transmit on AM - in stereo or not - which still do very well: 2CH in Sydney, Magic 1278 and My MP in Melbourne, Magic 882 and 4KQ in Brisbane, Cruise 1323 in Adelaide and many other country stations, music will always be a part of AM radio in Australia because of the long distances AM is able to travel and be heard. On 8 Apr 2014, at 9:06 am, Barry Chapman ba...@bchapman.id.au wrote: This is true. However, AM stereo never really took off in Australia, other than for car
Re: Stereo AM
Dane, I note nobody has come back on the DropBox link I posted, details below: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7644179/A.%20M.%20stereo.zip file name: A. M. stereo.zip I would have thought somebody must have heard this, so why no comments? I am interested to know what happens when a little out of the strongest signal area? Does the stereo switch on and off with different signal strengths mostly due to fading? What is the lowest useable frequency? Did anybody try stereo a.m on long wave? Just a few thoughts.
The Tecsun Pl880 Multi Band Radio, Already A Classic?
Hi! I know there are one or two people on this list who own the radi referred to in this eMail so I'd be interested in your thoughts. I think this radio is going to be a Classic model of radio, not so much for its performance - which on the hole is very good anyway - but for all the radios hidden features and qwirks which I seem to find on an almost daily basis thanks to taking the time to play about with the set and looking for feedback on the Net from other users. You can for example change the frequency range of the FM band and their's a choice of 3, 64-108, 76-108 and 87.5-108MHZ . The Long Wave band can be toggled on or off, if the Long Wave band is turned on you can get to it by pressing the Medium Wave button which toggles between Medium and Long Wave. The AM Step can be changed between 9 and 10KHZ which brings me to a nice qwirk in the software, on 9KHZ steps the radio will only have a frequency range of 522-1629KHZ even though Australia and many other countries now have an extended band up to 1710KHZ so how to listen to those stations above 1629KHZ? Just change the frequency step to 10KHZ, this means that - if you're in Australia - you can't use the main tuning knob to access frequencies in 9KHZ steps but you can enter them manually via the keypad, put them into memory or use the fine tuning knob. Here's a question for anyone else who owns one of these sets, what are the volume and tuning knobs made out of, metal or hard plastic? On my set the knobs are metal, someone else I know has a set and the knobs are plastic whilst another owner of this radio reports that the knobs on his are mettal and both these people live in North America, what on earth is going on? smile. ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane
Re: Using Music Brains with CDEx or another free ripping programme?[was] RE: Odd behaviour of cd.
cdex.sourceforge.net /A 7 apr 2014 kl. 19:58 skrev Peter Scanlon sca...@tpg.com.au: What is the latest version and where can I find it? -Original Message- From: Anders Holmberg Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 2:58 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Using Music Brains with CDEx or another free ripping programme?[was] RE: Odd behaviour of cd. Hi! THe newest beta of cdex does support musicbrainz. /A 7 apr 2014 kl. 18:45 skrev Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de: Hi Anders, with what programme do you use Music Brains? Thanks, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Anders Holmberg Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 6:39 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Odd behaviour of cd. Hi! No i haven't done that. I ended up ripping the book in Itunes on my mac and that worked like a charm. Sadly this isn't always the case. I guess one have to have more then one cd ripper. /A 6 apr 2014 kl. 17:47 skrev Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de: Hi Anders, have you tried reconnecting to the data base? Sometimes there is info which has do be deleted. Have you tried Gracenote? Another question: Do you use Music Brains with CDEx or is there another free way to access it and how? Thanks, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Anders Holmberg Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 5:16 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Odd behaviour of cd. Hi! This is so strange and i really do not understand it. I have a swedish audio book on cd here which i am trying to rip with cdex. When looking up info from freedb or musicbrainz it seems that its no problem. Evrything goes fine until the 14'th cd of 15. That cd can't be looked up because freedb refuses too connect to my computer. The last cd though works again. This is really odd. /A
Re: Stereo AM
I haven't had a listen to your file yet, I haven't had a chance. I should think that your question regarding the stereo signal would very much depend on the method of AM Stereo used. The method used in Australia had a 25HZ tone broadcast along with the signal thus - and yep it does work - so long as the 25HZ tone was received by the detector circuit on the AM Stereo radio then the radi could receive the Stereo AM signal. I listen to Radio 2CA in Canberra without any problems, Canberra is around 300 miles away from here. On 9 Apr 2014, at 7:49 pm, Colin Howard co...@pobox.com wrote: Dane, I note nobody has come back on the DropBox link I posted, details below: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7644179/A.%20M.%20stereo.zip file name: A. M. stereo.zip I would have thought somebody must have heard this, so why no comments? I am interested to know what happens when a little out of the strongest signal area? Does the stereo switch on and off with different signal strengths mostly due to fading? What is the lowest useable frequency? Did anybody try stereo a.m on long wave? Just a few thoughts. ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane
Re: goldwave 5.7
Ray, It is a .zip file, I've never received scripts as a self-extractor so far as I recall. I know where they go in WindoesXP Home and my versjion of Jaws, but cannot assist you with V15 and can't remembere what windows you have. -- 665: Neighbour of the Beast.
Re: Stereo AM
The recording is interesting. This recording does show AM stereo's capabilities, but I have heard better audio from receivers using a wider bandwidth, and of course this recording is getting some adjacent channel interference as well which would make a wider bandwidth less effective. While long distance stereo here in the United States was fun, its most useful application in my opinion was on strong and medium strength AM signals during the day where a wider bandwith is practical. That could really sound pretty good. How AM stereo is handled when a signal is weaker is really a function of the receiver being used. I found that less noise was added when a weak AM signal was in stereo than was the case with a weaker FM signal. Fading also affected the stereo image as was shown in this recording. Both the Sony Walkman style radio and my Carver tuner went into stereo at very low signal levels. In my experience here in the US, I cannot say that AM stereo caused additional interference. Stations that used a wider bandwidth for greater fidelity would, of course, cause more interference, and there was a tendency for AM stereo stations to want increased fidelity as well, but I didn't notice more interference from the stereo process itself, nothing like HD radio now. It is interesting that AM stereo is still being used in some areas. Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 10:49:05 +0100, Colin Howard wrote: Dane, I note nobody has come back on the DropBox link I posted, details below: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7644179/A.%20M.%20stereo.zip file name: A. M. stereo.zip I would have thought somebody must have heard this, so why no comments? I am interested to know what happens when a little out of the strongest signal area? Does the stereo switch on and off with different signal strengths mostly due to fading? What is the lowest useable frequency? Did anybody try stereo a.m on long wave? Just a few thoughts.
RE: goldwave 5.7
that machine is a 64 bit machine Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Colin Howard Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 17:22 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: goldwave 5.7 Ray, It is a .zip file, I've never received scripts as a self-extractor so far as I recall. I know where they go in WindoesXP Home and my versjion of Jaws, but cannot assist you with V15 and can't remembere what windows you have. -- 665: Neighbour of the Beast.
RE: questions about Radionomy
Hey Larry, Just got your email. Hmmm, it sounds like once someone starts using this service, even if it is considered free, they still have to have money in their pockets, because it sounds like the life of a station is based soley on how much money goes into Radionomy's pocket. Well, I guess it kind of makes sense when you really think about it. Good luck with the startup of your station. Hope everything goes well for you. Thanks for the info. Mike Rochester, NY. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Larry Naessens Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 5:49 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: questions about Radionomy Hey Mike. I looked into Radionomy several years ago. I'm calling on my memory to describe my experience with them, so I could be recalling small details inaccurately, but here's how I remember my experience with them. I found accessibility there to be a bit awkward, at least for me, but manageable. Their tech support answered questions promptly and helpfully. As I recall, at the time that I checked into it, they allowed free use of their service for six months. If, during that time, they were able to sell advertising on the station in question, then you could continue using the service for free. If they could not sell advertising after the six month period, you would need to pay to continue using the service. I believe I am correct in saying that they now own Shoutcast, which I will probably be using when I sign my own station on in a few weeks. Larry . On Apr 6, 2014, at 10:33 PM, Mike Bernard mbern6...@aol.com wrote: Hey everybody, I just found this free service online called Radionomy. Have any of you ever heard of it or used it? If so, I was just wondering, is it accessible? Is it something that a blind person could use? A friend of mine and I are producing radio shows in the form of podcasts and then he posts them online on his facebook page for everybody to listen to. If the podcasts are successful, we may decide to create a radio station later on in the future. So, I was just wondering about Radionomy and just wanted to see if anyone on the list has ever had any experience with it. Have a good one. Mike Rochester, NY. P.S. Oh and if you want to check out this service for yourselves, you can visit: http://www.radionomy.com/en/static/createradio
RE: goldwave 5.7
All you have to do is copy the files for the script into the following folder: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Freedom Scientific\JAWS\15.0\Settings\enu\ Regards, Humberto -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Ray T. Mahorney Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 2:23 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: goldwave 5.7 that machine is a 64 bit machine Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Colin Howard Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 17:22 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: goldwave 5.7 Ray, It is a .zip file, I've never received scripts as a self-extractor so far as I recall. I know where they go in WindoesXP Home and my versjion of Jaws, but cannot assist you with V15 and can't remembere what windows you have. -- 665: Neighbour of the Beast.
RE: goldwave 5.7
thought that might be the case Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Humberto Rodriguez Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 20:33 To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: goldwave 5.7 All you have to do is copy the files for the script into the following folder: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Freedom Scientific\JAWS\15.0\Settings\enu\ Regards, Humberto -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Ray T. Mahorney Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 2:23 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: goldwave 5.7 that machine is a 64 bit machine Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Colin Howard Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 17:22 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: goldwave 5.7 Ray, It is a .zip file, I've never received scripts as a self-extractor so far as I recall. I know where they go in WindoesXP Home and my versjion of Jaws, but cannot assist you with V15 and can't remembere what windows you have. -- 665: Neighbour of the Beast.
Stereo AM Confirmation
Hi! Okay, it seems that Australia used the Motoroller method for transmitting Stereo AM in the end after a battle in court over here, the U.S. apparently used the Magnavox method or the Haris method, nothing was tightly controlled by the FCC until it was far too late smile. ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane
