RE: New products from Hims?
Thanks. I'm very sceptical myself concerning that firm, but the Blaze EZ is a product that interests me - especially why it for sale here yet. Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Clifford Blackwell Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 1:47 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: New products from Hims? There's a new model of the Blazee - Original Message (sp?) and a new braille display called the Beetle that will connect to several devices at the same time. There may be others of which I'm unaware. However, HIMS is somewhat out of favor with me for their habit of dropping support for legacy devices to the point of not supporting elements that helped form the basis for buying them in the first place. They claim economics and out dated hardware, but then they don't replace the old things in their product line. So if you buy something from them, be prepared for planned obsolessence.- From: Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 4:52 PM Subject: New products from Hims? Hi, I just read the Main Menu Newsletter for the next Main Menu show and they announce great new products from Hims, of which at a cursory glance I couldn't find anything on their site. Since I'm going to go to the SightCity tomorrow, Europes biggest exhibition for products for the blind and visually impaired, I was wondering, if anyone could enlighten me on what these great new products are so that I can ask about them. Thanks in advance Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 1:19 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: FetchTV Hi! Posted the below article on FetchTV a couple of weeks ago to another list, thought people here may be interested in the read. snip Just ordered this through Internode so taking the time to read up on the FetchTV service, there's plenty to read. Firstly, those who may be interested in the FetchTV service will be pleased to know that the Smart Apps - can't specifically comment on the iPhone version smile - seem to be particularly accessible. Second, a little sighted assistance seems to be required to go through the initial setup procedure which is screen based but once that's out of the way then you should be good to go. The User guide - whilst containing many helpful tips - is going to need some translation as it contains many diagrams so I'll undertake that project myself unless anyone else has done it smile. The FetchTV box can record up to 3 Free-to-Air shows at any one time or you can watch one whilst recording two others etc. You're able to access subscription channels through the FetchTv service though this really wasn't a requirement for me, they're there if I want them. You can watch Netflixh through your FetchTV but as yet I don't know just how accessible this would be and in any case, I have other accessible ways of watching Netflix already so its not a major concern. And finally, you can use your FetchTV box as a media server thus you can share all that you've recorded with your Windows PC, Mac or other devices such as your Blu-Ray player etc. I should have the FetchTV unit some time next week and hope to be able to tell you more about it then but I guess I should answer the question, why did I bother buying a FetchTV box? I had word that the Windows Media Center App is to be discontinued from Windows 10, no doubt Microsoft have there reasons. Its a pity as Windows Media Center is a perfectly accessible way to watch your favourite TV shows, look up items in the TV guide, Record your favourite shows and so on. snip -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves
New products from Hims?
Hi, I just read the Main Menu Newsletter for the next Main Menu show and they announce great new products from Hims, of which at a cursory glance I couldn't find anything on their site. Since I'm going to go to the SightCity tomorrow, Europes biggest exhibition for products for the blind and visually impaired, I was wondering, if anyone could enlighten me on what these great new products are so that I can ask about them. Thanks in advance Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 1:19 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: FetchTV Hi! Posted the below article on FetchTV a couple of weeks ago to another list, thought people here may be interested in the read. snip Just ordered this through Internode so taking the time to read up on the FetchTV service, there's plenty to read. Firstly, those who may be interested in the FetchTV service will be pleased to know that the Smart Apps - can't specifically comment on the iPhone version smile - seem to be particularly accessible. Second, a little sighted assistance seems to be required to go through the initial setup procedure which is screen based but once that's out of the way then you should be good to go. The User guide - whilst containing many helpful tips - is going to need some translation as it contains many diagrams so I'll undertake that project myself unless anyone else has done it smile. The FetchTV box can record up to 3 Free-to-Air shows at any one time or you can watch one whilst recording two others etc. You're able to access subscription channels through the FetchTv service though this really wasn't a requirement for me, they're there if I want them. You can watch Netflixh through your FetchTV but as yet I don't know just how accessible this would be and in any case, I have other accessible ways of watching Netflix already so its not a major concern. And finally, you can use your FetchTV box as a media server thus you can share all that you've recorded with your Windows PC, Mac or other devices such as your Blu-Ray player etc. I should have the FetchTV unit some time next week and hope to be able to tell you more about it then but I guess I should answer the question, why did I bother buying a FetchTV box? I had word that the Windows Media Center App is to be discontinued from Windows 10, no doubt Microsoft have there reasons. Its a pity as Windows Media Center is a perfectly accessible way to watch your favourite TV shows, look up items in the TV guide, Record your favourite shows and so on. snip -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves
RE: Video Recording From Your PC, What's Next?
Looking forward to reading about it from you. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 7:02 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Video Recording From Your PC, What's Next? Yep, morethan likely the software that came with that card may have presented some problems and the card may have had problems integrating with Windows Media Center, you could probably tell me more about that one, I've seen devices that take to Windows Media Center like a duck to water and others that will only work with the supplied software. I had an old Leadtek card 7 years ago I think it was and the software that came with it was reasonably useable though Windows Media Center is far more flexible than the Leadtek Siftware ever was. So I await the arrival of the FetchTV box with quite a bit of excitement. On 21/05/2015 2:55 PM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: It's a German maybe european thing, I don't know because I'm not using it myself, but its very accessible. I used to have a builtin card, but I never found it accessible. I think it was a Haupage TV card. And I know what you mean; it's a shame that Microsoft doesn't do the Mediacenter in Windows 10 anymore. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 6:38 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Video Recording From Your PC, What's Next? Okay, that's one way of doing things, I take it what you've outlined is a U.S. only thing right? FetchTV also does similar things to what you're talking about, I was specifically referring to Free-To-Air programming received with a TV Antenna. On 21/05/2015 2:12 PM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: I know that that's not what you're talking about, but we have an internet offer called Save-TV which for a mothly fee lets you record nearly any program available and stores the movies/shows for a month during which time you can download them in various formats. Obviously it's not the same, but a very good and useful alternative for nearly every program. Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 1:35 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Video Recording From Your PC, What's Next? Hi! I was very sad to learn that Microsoft have decided not to continue the development of Windows Media Centre which came as a standard part of Windows 7 Home Premium and above and was available as an optional extra for Windows 8.x, it won’t be available for Windows 10. So what does one do for video recording on a Windows computer. There’s only one option I know of and that’s XBMC however the last time I tired this with Windows 7 I couldn’t access it in any way shape or form, there might be ways to set it up so it can be controlled or accessed from the XBMC Controller Smart Phone Apps and that’s something I’m investigating. So - assuming all is lost for Windows - what now? It looks as though its time to place some faith in the FetchTV Set Top Box. The Smart Phone Apps are very accessible to the point where you can schedule programmes to be recorded from the TV guide. So what’s all this got to do with the Windows PC? The recordings you make can be accessed by our computer if you want to do things that way, you can play them with Windows Media Player, VLC or whatever. ** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind. -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves
RE: Video Recording From Your PC, What's Next?
It's a German maybe european thing, I don't know because I'm not using it myself, but its very accessible. I used to have a builtin card, but I never found it accessible. I think it was a Haupage TV card. And I know what you mean; it's a shame that Microsoft doesn't do the Mediacenter in Windows 10 anymore. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 6:38 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Video Recording From Your PC, What's Next? Okay, that's one way of doing things, I take it what you've outlined is a U.S. only thing right? FetchTV also does similar things to what you're talking about, I was specifically referring to Free-To-Air programming received with a TV Antenna. On 21/05/2015 2:12 PM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: I know that that's not what you're talking about, but we have an internet offer called Save-TV which for a mothly fee lets you record nearly any program available and stores the movies/shows for a month during which time you can download them in various formats. Obviously it's not the same, but a very good and useful alternative for nearly every program. Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 1:35 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Video Recording From Your PC, What's Next? Hi! I was very sad to learn that Microsoft have decided not to continue the development of Windows Media Centre which came as a standard part of Windows 7 Home Premium and above and was available as an optional extra for Windows 8.x, it won’t be available for Windows 10. So what does one do for video recording on a Windows computer. There’s only one option I know of and that’s XBMC however the last time I tired this with Windows 7 I couldn’t access it in any way shape or form, there might be ways to set it up so it can be controlled or accessed from the XBMC Controller Smart Phone Apps and that’s something I’m investigating. So - assuming all is lost for Windows - what now? It looks as though its time to place some faith in the FetchTV Set Top Box. The Smart Phone Apps are very accessible to the point where you can schedule programmes to be recorded from the TV guide. So what’s all this got to do with the Windows PC? The recordings you make can be accessed by our computer if you want to do things that way, you can play them with Windows Media Player, VLC or whatever. ** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind. -- ** Those who need help are those who are prepared to help themselves
RE: Video Recording From Your PC, What's Next?
I know that that's not what you're talking about, but we have an internet offer called Save-TV which for a mothly fee lets you record nearly any program available and stores the movies/shows for a month during which time you can download them in various formats. Obviously it's not the same, but a very good and useful alternative for nearly every program. Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 1:35 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Video Recording From Your PC, What's Next? Hi! I was very sad to learn that Microsoft have decided not to continue the development of Windows Media Centre which came as a standard part of Windows 7 Home Premium and above and was available as an optional extra for Windows 8.x, it won’t be available for Windows 10. So what does one do for video recording on a Windows computer. There’s only one option I know of and that’s XBMC however the last time I tired this with Windows 7 I couldn’t access it in any way shape or form, there might be ways to set it up so it can be controlled or accessed from the XBMC Controller Smart Phone Apps and that’s something I’m investigating. So - assuming all is lost for Windows - what now? It looks as though its time to place some faith in the FetchTV Set Top Box. The Smart Phone Apps are very accessible to the point where you can schedule programmes to be recorded from the TV guide. So what’s all this got to do with the Windows PC? The recordings you make can be accessed by our computer if you want to do things that way, you can play them with Windows Media Player, VLC or whatever. ** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
RE: Help needed - Same CD-DVD-Writers with different burning results?
The Burner was brandnew, but the problem had to do with bad blank CDs - and the problem is solved. But thanks anyway for all your help. I'll look into EAC anyhow, when I find the time. Thanks to you, Dane, I'll try if I'll get it to work this time - after all, it was about 12 years ago when I tried and gave up last. Smiles Take care and have a great day Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Gary Petraccaro Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:40 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Help needed - Same CD-DVD-Writers with different burning results? I've used many machines and not seen any which needed the features touted in EAC. I've done audiobooks and music cds both from Win98 on and I gues I've been lucky. Check out the equipment before you worry about software. I have seen equipment go bad. - Original Message - From: Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 8:04 AM Subject: RE: Help needed - Same CD-DVD-Writers with different burning results? Thanks everyone for your help! Dane, since you've been supplying us with quite a few helpful tutorials, may I ask, if you happen to have written up something on the setting up of EAC? I'd appreciate any help since I never really understood how to use that program propperly, which is why I got back to CDEx and Nero. Thanks in advance and take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Humberto Rodriguez Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 4:16 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Help needed - Same CD-DVD-Writers with different burning results? Hello Alexandra: Older CD players normally do not play MP3 files, newer ones do. CDs have large files with the file extension .cda and when you copy them with Exact Copy, they are copied to the blank CD in the same format. In format .cda, a song normally occupies over 30 Megs, sometimes 50 Megs or higher, so only 15 or 20 songs fit in a CD, for it has a capacity of 700Megs. When we use a program to rip songs from the CD, that normally refers to converting them to a different format. Format can be lossless as is the case of for instance, the files with extension .wav, which retain the same quality and also occupy lots of room. There are many audio file formats, including some less known that are also losseless and occupy about half the room of a .wav, but there is always the trade-off of where to play it. Normally when you rip songs from a CD, you convert them to the MP3 format, that is with file extensions .mp3. The MP3 files occupy much less space and thus you can fit many more in a CD, perhaps 100 or more songs in a single CD with a 700 Megs capacity. MP3 files also come in different qualities, depending on bitrate and sample rate. Most people say the CD quality is 128K bitrate and 44100 sample rate, but while the sound approaches the quality of a .cda it is not quite the same. It is a trade-off, but MP3 files are very common and play in all modern CD players. You could use higher bitrates, up to 320K and they will sound a little better still, with larger file size. In summary, when you copy or rip a CD, you must select Audio Cd or Data CD and the former refers to .cda files, the latter to the format of your choice, MP3 being the most common. Now, if you want to rip CDs into Data Cds in formats such as .wav or .mp3, the simplest program to do it is called Singe. It will do either CDs or DVDs automatically, it determines what it is from its size,and it is very easy to select the files to put in it and burnthem. It is available from the Jaws Users website, I believe. Regards, Humberto -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Alexandra Grünauer Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 6:16 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: Help needed - Same CD-DVD-Writers with different burning results? Hi List, I hope someone can help me how to solve this problem. I'm using the same CD-DVD-Burner on two different windows 7 machines with Nero Burning Rom to burn audio CDs. With one burner the CDs are fine, with the other the results won't play on many audio CD players, admittedly, they're older models, but from the one PC they play fine, from the other they don't. I'd appreciate any ideas concerning that problem. Thanks in advance. Take care Alexandra
RE: Listening to bbc radio on portable mp3-players
Cheers, Barry! Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Barry Chapman Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 2:29 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Listening to bbc radio on portable mp3-players Hi Alexandra, Try putting the following in your Plextalk. http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_radio2_mf_p Thanks, Barry Chapman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Alexandra Grünauer Sent: Sunday, 8 February 2015 1:37 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: Listening to bbc radio on portable mp3-players Hi everyone, I Today I wanted to tune into my favourite oldies programme on Radio two and discovered that the media stream is no longer supported. It's fine on the computer because the BBC Radio player is fairly accessible, but I used to listen to BBC on my Plextalk Pocket PTP1. Has anyone got any idea how to achieve that again? Thanks in advance and take care, Alexandra --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com
Listening to bbc radio on portable mp3-players
Hi everyone, I Today I wanted to tune into my favourite oldies programme on Radio two and discovered that the media stream is no longer supported. It's fine on the computer because the BBC Radio player is fairly accessible, but I used to listen to BBC on my Plextalk Pocket PTP1. Has anyone got any idea how to achieve that again? Thanks in advance and take care, Alexandra
RE: retrieving electronic copies of cd inserts from the net
I don't think that there's any way you could do that. And if it were possible they'd most certainly be graphics which only an ocr could read. But there is a way round that. There are plenty of sites that offer lyrics of all kinds. Just google. Admittedly, it's not quite what you want, but putting the Lyrics together might be a nice birthday or Christmas present. Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of André van Deventer Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 10:04 AM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: retrieving electronic copies of cd inserts from the net Hi all Is there any way to get elecrtronic copies of cd inserts on the internet. Let me illustrate by using an example: I have a specific cd by leonard cohen called new songs I happen to know that the lyrics of each song on the cd is contained in the cd insert together with a translation of a song in French also. My fiancée is hard of hearing and needs the lyrics of songs. So is there a way to retrieve these inserts from the net? Regards Andre
RE: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX
You're very welcome! Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Peter Scanlon Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 7:16 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX Works OK on my W7 64 bit. Thanks to whom ever posted this info. Very handy. From: Tom Kaufman Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 4:16 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX Okay...I checked this out; from what I'm seeing, it'll work with any system except for Windows 7 (says nothing about 8 or higher) so I can only assume this won't work on my machine as it is a Windows 7 64 bit machine! Is this correct? Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Alexandra Grünauer Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 3:29 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX Download the Player.exe from http://www.vuplayer.com/player.php Install it and agree to terms. Start the player. Insert a CD and wait till it's recognized. Pres control+p to export the information in the player.ini. Open CDEx and cancel the process of searching the data base. Press alt and navigate to the right to CDDB. Press arrow down till you find Read from player.ini and hit enter. The information should be there. I only very rarely have a CD that the combination of FreeCDDB and Gracenote don't cover. Good luck and get back to me, if you need any further help. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Don Ball Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 8:40 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX yes but how do you enter the grass note info in to your ripper or is there a seperate program you have to use for that? - Original Message - From: Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 2:28 PM Subject: RE: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX That's quite often the case with free CDDB which is why I complement it with GraceNote and it's Player.exe. Although I read that the latest version of CDEx also supports Music Brains. Haven't gotten round to try it though. Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 3:29 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX I'm guessing the answer is that nobody bothered to enter the songs into the database, although that seems nuts to me. You would sure as hell think it'd be in there if one cd is in there, but I suppose anything is possible. On 12/27/2014 12:16 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote: I could understand it maybe a little better if the whole boxed set was this way! Am wondering if something happened with the Freed server; all I know is it's telling me no match found! Tom Kaufman P.S. Forgot to mention...this is with Cdex beta 1..70 beta 2 if this is of any help! -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Friday, December 26, 2014 11:42 PM To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX Hello list: You may remember I came to you to ask for help with a similar problem a few months ago (I had a problem with a boxed set on Hank Williams (Cdex wouldn't tell me the track info) well I have something similar, only this time, it's doing fine with the first two CDs of another boxed set that the Bare Family folks put out a few years ago on George Jones) it did fine with the first two CDs, but with the third CD, Freed (or whatever it's called (will not give it any information! The question is, why won't it and is there a way to make it work? Could it be that I just need to wait and try again another time? This boxed set is a 5-CD boxed set; each CD has approximately thirty tracks.and I really don't want to have to do all of this manually! Thanks for any info you can pass along that would be helpful! Tom Kaufman
RE: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX
It works with Windows 7. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 6:16 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX Okay...I checked this out; from what I'm seeing, it'll work with any system except for Windows 7 (says nothing about 8 or higher) so I can only assume this won't work on my machine as it is a Windows 7 64 bit machine! Is this correct? Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Alexandra Grünauer Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 3:29 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX Download the Player.exe from http://www.vuplayer.com/player.php Install it and agree to terms. Start the player. Insert a CD and wait till it's recognized. Pres control+p to export the information in the player.ini. Open CDEx and cancel the process of searching the data base. Press alt and navigate to the right to CDDB. Press arrow down till you find Read from player.ini and hit enter. The information should be there. I only very rarely have a CD that the combination of FreeCDDB and Gracenote don't cover. Good luck and get back to me, if you need any further help. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Don Ball Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 8:40 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX yes but how do you enter the grass note info in to your ripper or is there a seperate program you have to use for that? - Original Message - From: Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 2:28 PM Subject: RE: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX That's quite often the case with free CDDB which is why I complement it with GraceNote and it's Player.exe. Although I read that the latest version of CDEx also supports Music Brains. Haven't gotten round to try it though. Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 3:29 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX I'm guessing the answer is that nobody bothered to enter the songs into the database, although that seems nuts to me. You would sure as hell think it'd be in there if one cd is in there, but I suppose anything is possible. On 12/27/2014 12:16 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote: I could understand it maybe a little better if the whole boxed set was this way! Am wondering if something happened with the Freed server; all I know is it's telling me no match found! Tom Kaufman P.S. Forgot to mention...this is with Cdex beta 1..70 beta 2 if this is of any help! -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Friday, December 26, 2014 11:42 PM To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX Hello list: You may remember I came to you to ask for help with a similar problem a few months ago (I had a problem with a boxed set on Hank Williams (Cdex wouldn't tell me the track info) well I have something similar, only this time, it's doing fine with the first two CDs of another boxed set that the Bare Family folks put out a few years ago on George Jones) it did fine with the first two CDs, but with the third CD, Freed (or whatever it's called (will not give it any information! The question is, why won't it and is there a way to make it work? Could it be that I just need to wait and try again another time? This boxed set is a 5-CD boxed set; each CD has approximately thirty tracks.and I really don't want to have to do all of this manually! Thanks for any info you can pass along that would be helpful! Tom Kaufman
RE: Podcatchers
There used to be Juice. Don't know, if that's still around. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Ketan Kothari Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 6:39 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Podcatchers Hi friends, I am using Windows 7 with NVDA/JAWS 15. Can anyone suggest a light programme for podcasts? I remember I had one Australian programme which was very light but am forgetting the name. Please do help. With best wishes, Ketan
RE: horus: the invisible made audio, please please read and share
They can't expect any fonding from blind people, since the video is purely visual. Having not read their site, I don't know what this Horus really does. If they'd really care to improve the quality of life of blind people, you'd think they'd at least take into consideration that blind people without those super glasses aren't able to read subtitles. To me the longlasting battery isn't as important as other features. Saving information and clearly putting it to something the device picks up, seems to me rather difficult. How do we know, i.e. who or what exactly we're looking at? It's also quite difficult, I find, with all the audio information we have to pick up already. I don't think that I'd want another additional information channel streaming into my brain. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Robert Godridge Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 4:11 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: horus: the invisible made audio, please please read and share No, it isn't. There's a video about it on youtube, it just sounds almost too good to be true. Just think of the difference it would make. Here's the video Horus - The invisible made audible - ENG: http://youtu.be/wpbOLRsBPM4 On 12/28/14, Gerardo Corripio gera1...@gmail.com wrote: Let's hope it's not a joke since here in Mexico, today is December 28, kind of in the US's equivalent of April Fools? El 28/12/2014 09:06 a.m., Robert Godridge escribió: here's a link to much more information on it etc, it really is incredible. http://crowdfunding.wcap.tim.it/projects/270/horuslng=2 On 12/28/14, Robert Godridgergodrid...@gmail.com wrote: guys, I was shown this earlier and I am absolutely amazed. Please read it, what do you think? http://horus.technology/en/the-project/ I don't know how much money they need but it must be done by the end of the month I think. What do you reckon? -- Enviado desde mi lap Gerardo J Corripio Flores Psicólogo, Terapéuta Reiki Saludos desde Tampico, Tamaulipas México RompiendoBarreras espacio de psicología/Superación Personal Sábados 10PM México http://radiogeneral.com ¡los esperamos!
RE: horus: the invisible made audio, please please read and share
Extremely good point! -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Peter Scanlon Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 9:41 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: horus: the invisible made audio, please please read and share But if your loved one is close enough for it to recognise, then both of you can communicate verbally to let you know who is who. P. , From: Robert Godridge Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 6:35 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: horus: the invisible made audio, please please read and share The video is mostly meant for sighted people, but do read the web sight it is much more detailed. You can save things on it I'm guessing, sinse it mentions being able to save the face of a loved one etc so I'm guessing that there are presets somewhere in there. The potential of this thing is enormous, you guys must realise that. No more wondering what something in a shop is with this as one tiny example. On 12/28/14, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: They can't expect any fonding from blind people, since the video is purely visual. Having not read their site, I don't know what this Horus really does. If they'd really care to improve the quality of life of blind people, you'd think they'd at least take into consideration that blind people without those super glasses aren't able to read subtitles. To me the longlasting battery isn't as important as other features. Saving information and clearly putting it to something the device picks up, seems to me rather difficult. How do we know, i.e. who or what exactly we're looking at? It's also quite difficult, I find, with all the audio information we have to pick up already. I don't think that I'd want another additional information channel streaming into my brain. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Robert Godridge Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 4:11 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: horus: the invisible made audio, please please read and share No, it isn't. There's a video about it on youtube, it just sounds almost too good to be true. Just think of the difference it would make. Here's the video Horus - The invisible made audible - ENG: http://youtu.be/wpbOLRsBPM4 On 12/28/14, Gerardo Corripio gera1...@gmail.com wrote: Let's hope it's not a joke since here in Mexico, today is December 28, kind of in the US's equivalent of April Fools? El 28/12/2014 09:06 a.m., Robert Godridge escribió: here's a link to much more information on it etc, it really is incredible. http://crowdfunding.wcap.tim.it/projects/270/horuslng=2 On 12/28/14, Robert Godridgergodrid...@gmail.com wrote: guys, I was shown this earlier and I am absolutely amazed. Please read it, what do you think? http://horus.technology/en/the-project/ I don't know how much money they need but it must be done by the end of the month I think. What do you reckon? -- Enviado desde mi lap Gerardo J Corripio Flores Psicólogo, Terapéuta Reiki Saludos desde Tampico, Tamaulipas México RompiendoBarreras espacio de psicología/Superación Personal Sábados 10PM México http://radiogeneral.com ¡los esperamos!
RE: horus: the invisible made audio, please please read and share
I assume to a person who's been blind from birth looking at a certain thing can only be achieved with a great amount of training, if at all. If people don't even think when doing a promotion video they most certainly don't have blind people in mind but only profit. I'd be very careful with your hopes, if I were you. This can only lead to disappointment. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Robert Godridge Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 8:36 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: horus: the invisible made audio, please please read and share The video is mostly meant for sighted people, but do read the web sight it is much more detailed. You can save things on it I'm guessing, sinse it mentions being able to save the face of a loved one etc so I'm guessing that there are presets somewhere in there. The potential of this thing is enormous, you guys must realise that. No more wondering what something in a shop is with this as one tiny example. On 12/28/14, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: They can't expect any fonding from blind people, since the video is purely visual. Having not read their site, I don't know what this Horus really does. If they'd really care to improve the quality of life of blind people, you'd think they'd at least take into consideration that blind people without those super glasses aren't able to read subtitles. To me the longlasting battery isn't as important as other features. Saving information and clearly putting it to something the device picks up, seems to me rather difficult. How do we know, i.e. who or what exactly we're looking at? It's also quite difficult, I find, with all the audio information we have to pick up already. I don't think that I'd want another additional information channel streaming into my brain. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Robert Godridge Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 4:11 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: horus: the invisible made audio, please please read and share No, it isn't. There's a video about it on youtube, it just sounds almost too good to be true. Just think of the difference it would make. Here's the video Horus - The invisible made audible - ENG: http://youtu.be/wpbOLRsBPM4 On 12/28/14, Gerardo Corripio gera1...@gmail.com wrote: Let's hope it's not a joke since here in Mexico, today is December 28, kind of in the US's equivalent of April Fools? El 28/12/2014 09:06 a.m., Robert Godridge escribió: here's a link to much more information on it etc, it really is incredible. http://crowdfunding.wcap.tim.it/projects/270/horuslng=2 On 12/28/14, Robert Godridgergodrid...@gmail.com wrote: guys, I was shown this earlier and I am absolutely amazed. Please read it, what do you think? http://horus.technology/en/the-project/ I don't know how much money they need but it must be done by the end of the month I think. What do you reckon? -- Enviado desde mi lap Gerardo J Corripio Flores Psicólogo, Terapéuta Reiki Saludos desde Tampico, Tamaulipas México RompiendoBarreras espacio de psicología/Superación Personal Sábados 10PM México http://radiogeneral.com ¡los esperamos!
RE: horus: the invisible made audio, please please read and share
There is such a thing as audio description which would be appropriate, I think. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Robert Godridge Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 10:58 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: horus: the invisible made audio, please please read and share What's wrong with making a youtube video? everything else is in text. the web page is text, the project sight is text, etc. What is wrong with a video so that sighted people can actually see the thing? and if they're trying to get it premoted that is because they need backing. I don't see anything wrong with that. I really think people should be told about this. On 12/28/14, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: I assume to a person who's been blind from birth looking at a certain thing can only be achieved with a great amount of training, if at all. If people don't even think when doing a promotion video they most certainly don't have blind people in mind but only profit. I'd be very careful with your hopes, if I were you. This can only lead to disappointment. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Robert Godridge Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 8:36 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: horus: the invisible made audio, please please read and share The video is mostly meant for sighted people, but do read the web sight it is much more detailed. You can save things on it I'm guessing, sinse it mentions being able to save the face of a loved one etc so I'm guessing that there are presets somewhere in there. The potential of this thing is enormous, you guys must realise that. No more wondering what something in a shop is with this as one tiny example. On 12/28/14, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: They can't expect any fonding from blind people, since the video is purely visual. Having not read their site, I don't know what this Horus really does. If they'd really care to improve the quality of life of blind people, you'd think they'd at least take into consideration that blind people without those super glasses aren't able to read subtitles. To me the longlasting battery isn't as important as other features. Saving information and clearly putting it to something the device picks up, seems to me rather difficult. How do we know, i.e. who or what exactly we're looking at? It's also quite difficult, I find, with all the audio information we have to pick up already. I don't think that I'd want another additional information channel streaming into my brain. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Robert Godridge Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 4:11 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: horus: the invisible made audio, please please read and share No, it isn't. There's a video about it on youtube, it just sounds almost too good to be true. Just think of the difference it would make. Here's the video Horus - The invisible made audible - ENG: http://youtu.be/wpbOLRsBPM4 On 12/28/14, Gerardo Corripio gera1...@gmail.com wrote: Let's hope it's not a joke since here in Mexico, today is December 28, kind of in the US's equivalent of April Fools? El 28/12/2014 09:06 a.m., Robert Godridge escribió: here's a link to much more information on it etc, it really is incredible. http://crowdfunding.wcap.tim.it/projects/270/horuslng=2 On 12/28/14, Robert Godridgergodrid...@gmail.com wrote: guys, I was shown this earlier and I am absolutely amazed. Please read it, what do you think? http://horus.technology/en/the-project/ I don't know how much money they need but it must be done by the end of the month I think. What do you reckon? -- Enviado desde mi lap Gerardo J Corripio Flores Psicólogo, Terapéuta Reiki Saludos desde Tampico, Tamaulipas México RompiendoBarreras espacio de psicología/Superación Personal Sábados 10PM México http://radiogeneral.com ¡los esperamos!
RE: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX
That's quite often the case with free CDDB which is why I complement it with GraceNote and it's Player.exe. Although I read that the latest version of CDEx also supports Music Brains. Haven't gotten round to try it though. Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 3:29 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX I'm guessing the answer is that nobody bothered to enter the songs into the database, although that seems nuts to me. You would sure as hell think it'd be in there if one cd is in there, but I suppose anything is possible. On 12/27/2014 12:16 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote: I could understand it maybe a little better if the whole boxed set was this way! Am wondering if something happened with the Freed server; all I know is it's telling me no match found! Tom Kaufman P.S. Forgot to mention...this is with Cdex beta 1..70 beta 2 if this is of any help! -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Friday, December 26, 2014 11:42 PM To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX Hello list: You may remember I came to you to ask for help with a similar problem a few months ago (I had a problem with a boxed set on Hank Williams (Cdex wouldn't tell me the track info) well I have something similar, only this time, it's doing fine with the first two CDs of another boxed set that the Bare Family folks put out a few years ago on George Jones) it did fine with the first two CDs, but with the third CD, Freed (or whatever it's called (will not give it any information! The question is, why won't it and is there a way to make it work? Could it be that I just need to wait and try again another time? This boxed set is a 5-CD boxed set; each CD has approximately thirty tracks.and I really don't want to have to do all of this manually! Thanks for any info you can pass along that would be helpful! Tom Kaufman
Jawsfriendly Version of Nero [was] RE: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX
I think I'm using Nero 10. I've never heard of a Jawsunfriendly version of Nero as long as you use Nero Burning Rom and not Nero Express, which I've always found very inconvenient to handle. Hope that helps. Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 3:29 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX I'm guessing the answer is that nobody bothered to enter the songs into the database, although that seems nuts to me. You would sure as hell think it'd be in there if one cd is in there, but I suppose anything is possible. On 12/27/2014 12:16 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote: I could understand it maybe a little better if the whole boxed set was this way! Am wondering if something happened with the Freed server; all I know is it's telling me no match found! Tom Kaufman P.S. Forgot to mention...this is with Cdex beta 1..70 beta 2 if this is of any help! -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Friday, December 26, 2014 11:42 PM To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX Hello list: You may remember I came to you to ask for help with a similar problem a few months ago (I had a problem with a boxed set on Hank Williams (Cdex wouldn't tell me the track info) well I have something similar, only this time, it's doing fine with the first two CDs of another boxed set that the Bare Family folks put out a few years ago on George Jones) it did fine with the first two CDs, but with the third CD, Freed (or whatever it's called (will not give it any information! The question is, why won't it and is there a way to make it work? Could it be that I just need to wait and try again another time? This boxed set is a 5-CD boxed set; each CD has approximately thirty tracks.and I really don't want to have to do all of this manually! Thanks for any info you can pass along that would be helpful! Tom Kaufman
RE: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX
As i said, it may well be that CDEx can't find the CD because no one has bothered to supply the data base with the necessary information. Try another Data Base. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 4:23 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX It doesn't seem like (at least to me) that ripping CDs with Windows Media is as cut and dried as it used to be with WMP 11; that's why I went back to Cdex! As I said before, it seems strange to me that CD 1 and CD 2 did just fine! But it's telling me no match found with CD 3! In case this helps, am running Jaws 16 on a Windows 7 Home premium 64 bit (if this matters at all) will try again later on today as it could be that there may have just been a problem with that Freed server or something? Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Don Ball Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 2:36 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX Windows media seems to find cds better than cdex or audio grabber. They seem to use a better data base. I like cdex but I can rip cds two at a time with windows media. Sometimes they all get it wrong however. I have never ripped with winamp but they seem to be able to find cd titles well to.
RE: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX
Download the Player.exe from http://www.vuplayer.com/player.php Install it and agree to terms. Start the player. Insert a CD and wait till it's recognized. Pres control+p to export the information in the player.ini. Open CDEx and cancel the process of searching the data base. Press alt and navigate to the right to CDDB. Press arrow down till you find Read from player.ini and hit enter. The information should be there. I only very rarely have a CD that the combination of FreeCDDB and Gracenote don't cover. Good luck and get back to me, if you need any further help. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Don Ball Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 8:40 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX yes but how do you enter the grass note info in to your ripper or is there a seperate program you have to use for that? - Original Message - From: Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 2:28 PM Subject: RE: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX That's quite often the case with free CDDB which is why I complement it with GraceNote and it's Player.exe. Although I read that the latest version of CDEx also supports Music Brains. Haven't gotten round to try it though. Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 3:29 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX I'm guessing the answer is that nobody bothered to enter the songs into the database, although that seems nuts to me. You would sure as hell think it'd be in there if one cd is in there, but I suppose anything is possible. On 12/27/2014 12:16 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote: I could understand it maybe a little better if the whole boxed set was this way! Am wondering if something happened with the Freed server; all I know is it's telling me no match found! Tom Kaufman P.S. Forgot to mention...this is with Cdex beta 1..70 beta 2 if this is of any help! -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Friday, December 26, 2014 11:42 PM To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX Hello list: You may remember I came to you to ask for help with a similar problem a few months ago (I had a problem with a boxed set on Hank Williams (Cdex wouldn't tell me the track info) well I have something similar, only this time, it's doing fine with the first two CDs of another boxed set that the Bare Family folks put out a few years ago on George Jones) it did fine with the first two CDs, but with the third CD, Freed (or whatever it's called (will not give it any information! The question is, why won't it and is there a way to make it work? Could it be that I just need to wait and try again another time? This boxed set is a 5-CD boxed set; each CD has approximately thirty tracks.and I really don't want to have to do all of this manually! Thanks for any info you can pass along that would be helpful! Tom Kaufman
RE: CDex Version 1.75 is now Available
Hi Steve, Thanks for all the information on CDEx. Does anyone know why they release so many versions with such short intervals? There didn't used to be a new release for years and now they do one like every five minutes. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Steve Pattison Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 11:22 PM To: PC Audio Subject: CDex Version 1.75 is now Available Hi all, Version 1.75 of CDex is now available and it can be downloaded from http://cdexos.sourceforge.net Here are the changes in this version: -Added full CUE sheet creation support -Updated FLAC encoder to FLAC 1.3.1 -significant encoding speedup -improved compression levels -fixed heap write / read overflow vulnerability -Updated libvorbis encoder binaries -Updated libogg encoder binaries -Fixed crash in CUE sheet generation -Fixed writing FLAC CUE sheet -Fixed writing metadata to CUE sheets -Performance improvements -Bug fixes Regards Steve.
RE: Future Of The PC Audio List
I agree. No Google, please! As long as Google only claims to be accessible, which I haven't tried, with Google Chrome, I'm using it as little as possible. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of goshawk on horseback Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 3:29 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Future Of The PC Audio List yes, googlegroups has become more or less completely inaccessible for screenreader users, and it is extremely annoying. I run a group there, and doing any moderating has become just about impossible, but at the same time, for the same reasons, I can't get to anything which would give me any of the info I need to look at moving that group to a more accessible platform either. Simon - Original Message - From: Charles Krugman ckrug...@sbcglobal.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 12:18 AM Subject: Re: Future Of The PC Audio List Did Google groups get their accessibility issues resolved? I thought that at one point there were challenges for screen reader users who were moderatinhg or establishing groups using Googlegroups. Chuck -Original Message- From: Nick Giannak Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 2:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Future Of The PC Audio List Honestly, Tom? I actually think it has something to do with your reliance on Ultrahost more than anything else. I'd be more apt to have you host your list's email somewhere else, before resorting to Freelists. The domain is too good to waste as such. I can host pC-Audio on my DreamHost hosting plan, as i have unlimited domains and unlimited...well, everything. I won't charge you, and we can see how you like it that way. Alternatively, subscribe to Google Apps pro, host your domain there and use Google Groups on said domain, and have rock solid lists for as long as you like. But please...no freelists. On 12/2/2014 5:27 PM, Tom wrote: Ladies and gentlemen, The hosting for the pc audio list and the domain name will expire at the end of December. The list software has been problematic for over a year. Not sending messages to some people, not allowing some people to send messages to the list, bouncing messages to valid e-mail addresses, a lot of trash etc. I'm considering taking the list to free lists. I don't mind paying for the domain name and hosting of the list but the support just has not been very good. I'm open to thoughts and opinions. t...@pc-audio.org Thank you. Tom Dimeo
RE: Whats up?
Didn't get any of these. Maybe your email has been hacked? Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Anders Holmberg Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 10:43 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Whats up? Hi! I have since wednesday got subscription confirmations on a daily basis. But don't get any messages. So what is happening really? Is there something wrong with the list? Thanks. /A
RE: CDEX Version 1.71 is now Available
I'd warn everybody to use that version since there hasn't been any change that I noticed to the beta 4 version. The accessibility hasn't improved and you can't rip to wav files anymore because they come completely distorted. Also since Beta 2 there hasn't been a more recent version of Lame included. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Sousa Peaulo Casimiro Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:13 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: RE: CDEX Version 1.71 is now Available Thanks! Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 07:40:40 +1100 From: s...@internode.on.net To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: CDEX Version 1.71 is now Available Hi all, I don't use CDEX myself but for those who do version 1.71 is now the latest stable version and it can be downloaded from http://cdexos.sourceforge.net Here are the changes in this version: -Fix for configuration settings -Use special Windows folder ApplicationData -Encoder updates -Updated LAME to version 3.99.5 -Updated CD-ROM Drive offsets -Improvements to CDDB querying -Updated translations -Added new installer languages -Improvements to language files -Bug fixes Regards Steve. =
RE: CDEX Version 1.71 is now Available
Are you able to rip into wav? Would be interested because I can't do that on two different machines. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Jörgen Hansson Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 2:05 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: CDEX Version 1.71 is now Available hey alexandra! I tested it last night, and from what I can see, it works great for me on my laptop, smile, but thanks for the warning. Regards, Jörgen Hansson! tel: +46 703601296 Web: www.jorgenhansson.com Skype: djtropical4532 -Ursprungligt meddelande- From: Alexandra Grünauer Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 1:35 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: CDEX Version 1.71 is now Available I'd warn everybody to use that version since there hasn't been any change that I noticed to the beta 4 version. The accessibility hasn't improved and you can't rip to wav files anymore because they come completely distorted. Also since Beta 2 there hasn't been a more recent version of Lame included. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Sousa Peaulo Casimiro Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:13 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: RE: CDEX Version 1.71 is now Available Thanks! Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 07:40:40 +1100 From: s...@internode.on.net To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: CDEX Version 1.71 is now Available Hi all, I don't use CDEX myself but for those who do version 1.71 is now the latest stable version and it can be downloaded from http://cdexos.sourceforge.net Here are the changes in this version: -Fix for configuration settings -Use special Windows folder ApplicationData -Encoder updates -Updated LAME to version 3.99.5 -Updated CD-ROM Drive offsets -Improvements to CDDB querying -Updated translations -Added new installer languages -Improvements to language files -Bug fixes Regards Steve. =
RE: CDEX Version 1.71 is now Available
Interesting and - good for you! Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Jörgen Hansson Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 3:09 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: CDEX Version 1.71 is now Available hello there again! I just ripped a CD in to wav, and no distortion at all. Regards, Jörgen Hansson! tel: +46 703601296 Web: www.jorgenhansson.com Skype: djtropical4532 -Ursprungligt meddelande- From: Alexandra Grünauer Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 2:42 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: CDEX Version 1.71 is now Available Are you able to rip into wav? Would be interested because I can't do that on two different machines. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Jörgen Hansson Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 2:05 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: CDEX Version 1.71 is now Available hey alexandra! I tested it last night, and from what I can see, it works great for me on my laptop, smile, but thanks for the warning. Regards, Jörgen Hansson! tel: +46 703601296 Web: www.jorgenhansson.com Skype: djtropical4532 -Ursprungligt meddelande- From: Alexandra Grünauer Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 1:35 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: CDEX Version 1.71 is now Available I'd warn everybody to use that version since there hasn't been any change that I noticed to the beta 4 version. The accessibility hasn't improved and you can't rip to wav files anymore because they come completely distorted. Also since Beta 2 there hasn't been a more recent version of Lame included. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Sousa Peaulo Casimiro Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:13 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: RE: CDEX Version 1.71 is now Available Thanks! Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 07:40:40 +1100 From: s...@internode.on.net To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: CDEX Version 1.71 is now Available Hi all, I don't use CDEX myself but for those who do version 1.71 is now the latest stable version and it can be downloaded from http://cdexos.sourceforge.net Here are the changes in this version: -Fix for configuration settings -Use special Windows folder ApplicationData -Encoder updates -Updated LAME to version 3.99.5 -Updated CD-ROM Drive offsets -Improvements to CDDB querying -Updated translations -Added new installer languages -Improvements to language files -Bug fixes Regards Steve. =
RE: success! well, some what
I haven't got one, But isn't it possible with the JamBox to monitor or control it with the computer and can't you change the settings through there? -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Michael Amaro Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 8:07 AM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: success! well, some what Hello, Listers, I managed to put the jambox speaker in stereo via bluetooth. So I can now here the music on my laptop in stereo. How ever, when I turn off the jambox, and I turn it back on again. It goes back to mono audio. How can I keep it from doing this? Thanks Michael email/messenger mikeam...@earthlink.net Skype ID mikeameli JFK What kind of peace do I mean and what kind of a peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war, not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living and the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and build a better life for their children not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women not merely peace in our time but peace in all time. What do I need to do to keep it in stereo? So when I turn it on the next time it doesn't come in mono
RE: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
I was referring to the same thing. Smiles -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 7:11 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Yeah okay well I'm not quite sure what you mean by patchy Wireless? If you're talkign about celll coverage then you're one up on me and when I spoke about Wireless I was referring to Wi-Fi meaning the phone's Wi-Fi connectivity being able to connect to the Skyshare Hard Drive, nothing whatever to do with cell networks smile On 14/10/2014 3:51 PM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Got me there, but only when it comes to discussing IPhones. smiles back. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 6:38 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device No pleasing some people smile. On 14/10/2014 3:20 PM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: True, but what I meant was that you are dependent on them and they aren't as reliable as say a flash card or a cable connection. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 11:44 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device No one said anything was easy and having wireless connections active all the time? Well what's the point of having a mobile device if you don't? On 14 Oct 2014, at 4:02 am, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Yeah, but that still doesn't make things easy. It'll all remain more complicated with the IPhone than with other devices and, apart from that, you always have to have some kind of wireless connection that you have to set up and that kan be more easily interrupted than an sd drive for example. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which involves other ways of compromising. Smiles Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! Ive decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. This is - to a major extent - true if youre using say the iPhones Music Player App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially were referring to the same type
RE: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which involves other ways of compromising. Smiles Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! Ive decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. This is - to a major extent - true if youre using say the iPhones Music Player App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially were referring to the same type of problem but with different operating systems. The other annoyance with IOS is that - unless you have an adapter available from Apple - you cannot copy your music files from say your computer over a USB connection to a particular folder on your iPhone of your choosing but again, there are ways around that snag. Okay so its best not to focus on what cant be done and focus on what can be done so lets do that with IOS. The first App youll need is a Player and there are several good ones out there but for the sake of simplicity lets focus on two, oOplayer and File Browser, both do exactly what their names suggest. With both you can set up remote locations such as a Dropbox account, computer on a local or remote network, UPNP/DLNA device and so on, when configured you can then select what files you wish to hear or view. Now supposing you want to take your iPhone away from any network and want your favourite music to accompany you? No problem as both the aforementioned Apps will allow you to download your Music from a specific point - computer, Dropbox account etc - right to a folder on your iPhone where you can browse, play and manipulate your files to your hearts content. So this brings us to another possibly challenging topic, iPhones have only so much storage space so what if you have thousands upon thousands of files you wish to access at any one time or supposing your music collection is in a Lossless format that takes up a good deal of space? If this is the case then its time to look at a pocket sized hard drive with a built-in Wi-Fi network, I mentioned my Skyshare drive towards the end of last week and this drive has its own built-in Wi-Fi network which the iPhone can connect to. Once connected the Apps I mentioned earlier - oOplayer and File Browser - have direct access to the drive thus the content youve placed too the drive. The Skyshare drive on the surface looks like any other portable hard drive, it has a USB port on the back for connection to a computer with a USB 3.0 port for the copying and manipulation of content, you can also use the Wi-Fi abilities of the drive for copying/manipulating files though this process is considerably slower when compared to USB 3.0 or even 2.
RE: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
Yeah, but that still doesn't make things easy. It'll all remain more complicated with the IPhone than with other devices and, apart from that, you always have to have some kind of wireless connection that you have to set up and that kan be more easily interrupted than an sd drive for example. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which involves other ways of compromising. Smiles Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! Ive decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. This is - to a major extent - true if youre using say the iPhones Music Player App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially were referring to the same type of problem but with different operating systems. The other annoyance with IOS is that - unless you have an adapter available from Apple - you cannot copy your music files from say your computer over a USB connection to a particular folder on your iPhone of your choosing but again, there are ways around that snag. Okay so its best not to focus on what cant be done and focus on what can be done so lets do that with IOS. The first App youll need is a Player and there are several good ones out there but for the sake of simplicity lets focus on two, oOplayer and File Browser, both do exactly what their names suggest. With both you can set up remote locations such as a Dropbox account, computer on a local or remote network, UPNP/DLNA device and so on, when configured you can then select what files you wish to hear or view. Now supposing you want to take your iPhone away from any network and want your favourite music to accompany you? No problem as both the aforementioned Apps will allow you to download your Music from a specific point - computer, Dropbox account etc - right to a folder on your iPhone where you can browse, play and manipulate your files to your hearts content. So this brings us to another possibly challenging topic, iPhones have only so much storage space so what if you have thousands upon thousands of files you wish to access at any one time or supposing your music collection is in a Lossless format that takes up a good deal of space? If this is the case then its time to look at a pocket sized hard drive with a built-in Wi-Fi network, I mentioned my Skyshare drive towards the end of last week
RE: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
True, but what I meant was that you are dependent on them and they aren't as reliable as say a flash card or a cable connection. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 11:44 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device No one said anything was easy and having wireless connections active all the time? Well what's the point of having a mobile device if you don't? On 14 Oct 2014, at 4:02 am, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Yeah, but that still doesn't make things easy. It'll all remain more complicated with the IPhone than with other devices and, apart from that, you always have to have some kind of wireless connection that you have to set up and that kan be more easily interrupted than an sd drive for example. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which involves other ways of compromising. Smiles Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! Ive decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. This is - to a major extent - true if youre using say the iPhones Music Player App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially were referring to the same type of problem but with different operating systems. The other annoyance with IOS is that - unless you have an adapter available from Apple - you cannot copy your music files from say your computer over a USB connection to a particular folder on your iPhone of your choosing but again, there are ways around that snag. Okay so its best not to focus on what cant be done and focus on what can be done so lets do that with IOS. The first App youll need is a Player and there are several good ones out there but for the sake of simplicity lets focus on two, oOplayer and File Browser, both do exactly what their names suggest. With both you can set up remote locations such as a Dropbox account, computer on a local or remote network, UPNP/DLNA device and so on, when configured you can then select what files you wish to hear or view. Now supposing you want to take your iPhone away from any network and want your favourite music to accompany you? No problem as both the aforementioned Apps will allow you to download your Music from
RE: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
Sorry, if I've missed this, but how large is it in sice? Is it an ssd drive or a - whatever the old spinning discs are called? How much storage space has it got? Thanks. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 3:02 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! The Skyshare HD connects directly to your Wi-Fi of your iPhone so let's run a scenario past the list so as better to explain how it all works. You're sitting on a park bench with iPhone and Skyshare drive in tow. You wish to listen to some music so you reach for your Skyshare and press the power button, hold for a second or so to make sure Drive is switched on, you'll feel the drive power up. Return the drive to your bag, pocket or whatever. Next unlock your iPhone and proceed to settings, go to Wi-Fi and select the Skyshare Wi-Fi network, enter a password where applicable and double-tap on join. Note that if you've previously joined your Skyshare drive's Wi-Fi, entered the Password and have Join Networks Automatically enabled under the Wi- Fi Settings of your iPhone then your iPhone will automatically join Skyshare as soon as it detects the Drive can be accessed. Next from your iPhone launch your favourite Player App, find Skyshare and open the Music folder, browse to the songs you want or use the buttons to select the songs you want and double-tap the selection, music starts playing in order that you may enjoy the outdoors in the sun, the wind, the rain or whatever smile. That's a very basic rundown of how the whoe setup works. As far as charging the drive? Yes, it takes about 2 hours to charge with the supplied AC adapter, it can be used whilst charging. When the drive is connected directly via its USB 3.0 connection to a computer no charging takes place. Hope this helps, I'll be happy to anser any further questions on this drive etc if required. On 14/10/2014 10:35 AM, Jeremy wrote: I'd probably normally not like having to always be attached to a wireless device, in order to stream my media from it, but the ability to have that wireless device run from a battery is pretty sweet. Is it possible to make a wireless connection to the hd directly, or does it require a router? Also, how about running/charging this little monster from a car's cigarette plug for power? Take care. On 10/13/2014 4:44 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: No one said anything was easy and having wireless connections active all the time? Well what's the point of having a mobile device if you don't? On 14 Oct 2014, at 4:02 am, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Yeah, but that still doesn't make things easy. It'll all remain more complicated with the IPhone than with other devices and, apart from that, you always have to have some kind of wireless connection that you have to set up and that kan be more easily interrupted than an sd drive for example. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so
Alarm Sound on my IPhone 4s working unreliably
Hope this isn't OT, but has to do with audio: I sometimes have the problem that my IPhone alarm doesn't go off, especially when it's charging. The swich for sound is turned on and the alarm is on, telling me when I check that it is turned to slumber. Does anyone know why this is happening? It is pretty annoying since I like the alarm, but find it unreliable. Any help would be appreciated a lot. Alexandra
RE: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device
Got me there, but only when it comes to discussing IPhones. smiles back. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 6:38 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device No pleasing some people smile. On 14/10/2014 3:20 PM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: True, but what I meant was that you are dependent on them and they aren't as reliable as say a flash card or a cable connection. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 11:44 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device No one said anything was easy and having wireless connections active all the time? Well what's the point of having a mobile device if you don't? On 14 Oct 2014, at 4:02 am, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Yeah, but that still doesn't make things easy. It'll all remain more complicated with the IPhone than with other devices and, apart from that, you always have to have some kind of wireless connection that you have to set up and that kan be more easily interrupted than an sd drive for example. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device There are wyas and means to do all sorts of things though some can get rather complex as you've said. I'm not an iTunes user by default though I do have an iTunes library of Favorites, that's in the Cloud and available on my iTunes match so any IOS or device with iTuens installed can take advantage of the Match so I may enjoy my collection at any time, so far so good. As I'm using FLAC files more regularly I had to find a third party solution as I detailed in my original eMail on this thread thus I got the Skyshare Drive and started playing with other Apps to get that music onto my iPhone or at least have access to it so I needen't bother with iTunes. On 14/10/2014 3:19 AM, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi Dane, I'm replying to your initial email on purpose because what you said is very interesting and of course true. The point for me isn't though that it isn't possible to play my files with the IPhone, but that it's more complicated or implies more knowledge of hardware and software than with, say, another mp3 player or mobile phone or smartphone. This I can just plug into my computer and copy the files to the device or I can insert large sd drives plus having the possibilities you mentioned, at least with a smartphone. So I think it's rather like this: If you compromise to playing music with a non-jailbreaked--or is it broken?--IPhone, you'll have to accept the more tedious ways of moving around things, i.e. buying an app here and a hard drive there. I for my part use the amazon cloud player which gives me enough music to listen to whenever I feel like doing so on the IPhone which I usually don't and play all the rest with my Plextalk Pocket, which involves other ways of compromising. Smiles Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 2:36 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Playing Your! Files On An IOS Device Hi! Ive decided to post an eMail on this subject for a variety of reasons, the main being that there seems to be a myth doing the rounds, the myth says that its impossible! to play third party content such as different audio file formats etc on an iPhone or other IOS devices. This is - to a major extent - true if youre using say the iPhones Music Player App. This - to me at least - is not a big issue as every operating system with its built-in features does have its limitations, you cannot - as far as I know - play FLAC files in Windows Media Player for example unless you use a third party plug-in so essentially were referring to the same type of problem but with different operating systems. The other annoyance with IOS is that - unless you have an adapter available from Apple - you cannot copy your music files from say your computer over a USB connection to a particular folder on your iPhone of your choosing but again, there are ways around that snag. Okay so its best not to focus on what cant be done and focus on what can be done so lets do that with IOS. The first App youll need is a Player and there are several good ones out there but for the sake of simplicity lets focus on two, oOplayer and File Browser, both do exactly what their names suggest. With both
RE: FLAC Files was Time To Purchase FLAC?
Dane, you're right with all you say about flac files. I'm a fan myself, but I'll stick to mp3 for my portable players because the Plextalk Pocket doesn't support Flac and the IPhone storage space is so unbelievably expensive! An Apple policy that I'll never be able to understand. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 4:29 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: FLAC Files was Time To Purchase FLAC? You're making things terribly and unecssarely complex and complicated. Yes that's right, just replace Windows Media Player on your Windows Machine with something that plays FLAC files and the same applies to your iPhone, Mac etc. In the case of iPhone and Mac no one says you have to use iTunes at all! I don't for playing audio files. If you do need to or want to use iTunes then no, you can't play FLAC files with iTunes however you can play Lossless AAC Audio with iTunes thus you could convert your FLAC collection, Monkeys Audio Collection or whatever, even rip your CD'S to a Lossless format for playback. though that's a step that I don't think most most will want to take, its just far easier getting a Third party player and playing the FLAC or whatever the audio is on your iPhone and enjoying. On 7 Oct 2014, at 1:21 pm, Kelly Pierce kellyt...@gmail.com wrote: Dane, The difference is the tight integration of the Apple ecosystem in the companys mobile platform. Windows is designed to be an agnostic multipurpose device. The included Windows Media Player can easily be substituted with another media player, like Winamp, that supports FLAC. By contrast, it is very difficult to load music files on the iPhone without using iTunes. Further, Apples headphones are integrated with the music app and the phone or tablet itself so audio input and output can be managed without touching the device. Third party apps have limited access to the controls on Apple headphones and cannot access the built-in equalizer in the music app. The equalizer on iOS allows iTunes Radio to sound so much better than Spotify, Pandora and the others, as they cannot access it. I fully support the notion that FLAC represents a significant improvement in sound quality and that increased memory and bandwidth diminish its limitations. Unfortunately, the time for universal adoption of FLAC is not now. Many have predicted for years the widespread adoption of mobile payments through sell phones using near Field Communications. The predictions never seem to materialize until now. With the iPhone 6 series, Apple finally added NFC and is rolling out a payment system. We will soon see if this technology is embraced or ignored. The quality of audio streaming is getting better without a doubt. Streaming cannot fully replace music loaded onto a mobile device though for the reasons listed earlier. Kelly On 10/6/14, Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Okay I accept that without question but you forgot to mention that a Windows nor a Mac computer can play FLAC files without third party software so what's the difference? Third Party software or Apps are available for IOS etc that will allow the playing of FLAC content as third party software is available for Windows and Mac to allow the playing of FLAC content. The point you raised is taken and a fair point indeed! this all means that MP3 and so on will be around for a great deal longer and I don't dispute that at all because its the truth. All I say is that MP3 and alike formats have their quality limitations and FLAC - along with other Lossless formats - is now a viable alternative given that storage is cheaper,, portable and mobile devices are coming with larger memory capacities and so on. Regarding streaming? Mp3 is being replaced by AAC and AAC+ which has a far better compression ratio, I have actually seen some FLAC streams and test a couple the BBC had experimented with quite some time ago, they worked well though quite a bit of band width is required but I'm sure that will come in time too just as the quality of streaming itself has improved out of sight over the last 20 years or so. Before I close, I did get one mobile device that could play FLAC right out of the box apart from those I've already mentioned and that was my Samsung Galaxy phone, the Playback of FLAC it seems is built-in to Android as it should be. On 7 Oct 2014, at 11:48 am, Kelly Pierce kellyt...@gmail.com wrote: Dane, Your analysis of the FLAC format omits the lack of support on Apple mobile devices. The iPhone and iPad and their iOS operating system stands as the most coveted and popular consumer technology in the world. Yet, FLAC files cannot be played on these devices or Apples media player, iTunes. With each passing year
RE: Free CD Ripping Program
Hi Dan, Could you say why you're not happy with CDEx? I don't think that there's a problem that couldn't be solved with CDEx. I'd recommend you use the 1.70 Beta 2 though because that doesn't have any flaws compared to the later versions of CDEx. Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dan Kerstetter Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2014 3:47 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Free CD Ripping Program I'm looking for a program for CD ripping. I have the latest versions of Express rip and CdEx and am not happy with the way either one works. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Dan
RE: youtube original
What's the file extension? -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Joe Bollard Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 12:31 AM To: pc- audio Subject: youtube original i've just downloaded a file from youtube, but it won't play, either in winamp or sound forge, sound forge doesn't even see it in the folder i've put it in, when i try to play it in winamp it just gives me the name of the file, then says stopped is it possible to change this file to an mp3 in some way? it's only a short file, i'm using mozilla firefox and free youtube to mp3 programme, any help will be really appreciated, god bless, travel safely, joe bollard.
IPhone cases [was] RE: Iphone 6 not impressed with the speaker.
It would help a lot, if you could change the subject line when changing a topic, please and thanks a lot! -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 7:07 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Iphone 6 not impressed with the speaker. Okay, we're talking iPhone cases now just in case anyone is wondering smile. The case I bought isn't a particular brand and nor does it have any particular or exciting features, its just a leather case. I have heard of other cases that actually have internal stereo speakers in them and - given the iPhone 6 is only 6.2MM thick - then there's plenty of room for such cases to grow in the market - pardon all the dreadful puns smile. -. On 2 Oct 2014, at 1:26 pm, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I hope otterbox releases their cases for the 6+ soon, I bought one from the Verizon store and its not bad, at least it has a real screen protector, but otterbox is better. Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Cases for iPhones are everywhere smile, I bought a leather case from the Apple Store. On 2 Oct 2014, at 9:33 am, Jamie Kelly otrja...@gmail.com wrote: Be interested to know where your case came from and the link? I found mainly plastic type cases at JB hifi. Jamie -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2014 8:50 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Iphone 6 not impressed with the speaker. Pretty much what I think too. I certainly wouldn't want to be listening through the internal speaker of any device such as an iPhone for no longer than is necessary and - if you're listening to iPhones as we have to do ti use them - then the Internal speakers just keep getting better for use with Voiceover but if you're planning to listen to Podcasts, read books and so on then it won't be long before you find the internal speaker to be an irritation. I have listened to Internet radio and so forth using the internal speaker of my iPhone 6, its a pleasing listen but I much prefer something like the Bose Slund Link Air, Mini or III to listen through if I'm going to listen to Internet radio. I'm typing this eMail on a Bluetooth keyboard whilst listening to feedback from Voiceover through the internal speaker and that's perfectly fine for me, introducing extra elements such as Bluetooth speakers whilst typing can cause problems such as delays in response to what you're typing from Voiceover etc though the modern Bluetooth devices with latter versions of Bluetooth seem to be a lot better in this regard. I'm expecting my leather case for my iPhone 6 to arrive today, will be interesting to see how Voiceover sounds on the iPhone 6 after its been put into its new home. Dane Trethowan's iPhone at +61400494862 has had the privlidge of delivering the above eMail to you. On 2 Oct 2014, at 8:28 am, John Gurd j.g...@ntlworld.com wrote: I got the iPhone 6. Having upgraded from the iPhone 5s, I personally think the speaker sounds a little better than in the 6. Anders, if you heard the 6 in a shop maybe you are comparing the sound of voice Over? In that case you would almost certainly have heard it as the lower quality compressed version rather than the high quality one which needs to be installed. In any case, is anyone seriously suggesting they would do any music listening from a phone speaker? That's just silly! (smiles). As for claiming to be able to tell the difference from uTube... I will say I've listened to some podcasts and books using Voice Dream with various voices on the iPhone 6 and it sounds fine, better than the 5S which I used extensively. But really, a pair of good quality headphones or a Bluetooth speaker is always preferable to any type of phone speaker - which is never going to be HiFi. John -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Brian Olesen Sent: 30 September 2014 17:59 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Iphone 6 not impressed with the speaker. Hi, To further improve the confusion there is more bass on an iphone 4S then on the 5 serious. :-) Brian -Oprindelig meddelelse- From: Jeremy Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 6:45 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Re: Iphone 6 not impressed with the speaker. Having listened to a youtube video on a comparison between the original 5, 6 and 6 plus, I can say that I definitely notice a difference. It's most noticeable between the 5 and 6, but even from the 6 and 6 plus, the plus does sound a little more clearer. Unfortunately, the microphone that the uploader was using wasn't super high quality, but it was certainly
RE: CdEx Data Base Question
What next button do you refer to? When I insert the CD, CDEx retreaves the data from the database FreeCDDB and I press F8 or F9 to extract the content. This must be set correctly in the options however. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dan Kerstetter Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:42 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: CdEx Data Base Question I want to use CdEx. In the settings, I've entered my email address in order to access the remote freedb DATA BASE; however, when I try ripping a CD and get the track names and press the next button, they disappear. Is there a step I'm missing? Just curious. Dan
RE: Cdex Data Base Question
But still, there would only be an ok and a cancel button. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 5:35 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Cdex Data Base Question Dan and list: I've used CDEX before and never had to tab anywhere; it may be that the particular CD you're working with is one that CDEX can't get (or the source that CDEX uses to get the track information) isn't able to come up with the info for this particular CD (had an experience like this with CDEX a few months ago) Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dan Kerstetter Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 11:22 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: CdEx Data Base Question I've been using this program for years and have never encountered this before. Perhaps I'll try it without pressing the next button. Thanks for the input. Dan -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Alexandra Grünauer Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 2:14 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: CdEx Data Base Question What next button do you refer to? When I insert the CD, CDEx retreaves the data from the database FreeCDDB and I press F8 or F9 to extract the content. This must be set correctly in the options however. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dan Kerstetter Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:42 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: CdEx Data Base Question I want to use CdEx. In the settings, I've entered my email address in order to access the remote freedb DATA BASE; however, when I try ripping a CD and get the track names and press the next button, they disappear. Is there a step I'm missing? Just curious. Dan
RE: CdEx Data Base Question
I don't even know what button you're all talking about. In my CDEx there is no next button. Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dan Kerstetter Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 5:22 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: CdEx Data Base Question I've been using this program for years and have never encountered this before. Perhaps I'll try it without pressing the next button. Thanks for the input. Dan -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Alexandra Grünauer Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 2:14 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: CdEx Data Base Question What next button do you refer to? When I insert the CD, CDEx retreaves the data from the database FreeCDDB and I press F8 or F9 to extract the content. This must be set correctly in the options however. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dan Kerstetter Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:42 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: CdEx Data Base Question I want to use CdEx. In the settings, I've entered my email address in order to access the remote freedb DATA BASE; however, when I try ripping a CD and get the track names and press the next button, they disappear. Is there a step I'm missing? Just curious. Dan
RE: CdEx Data Base Question
I'd never use the newer versions like 1.70 beta 4 or the 1.70 full version. I tested them on several machines and they don't rip to wav files properly. There's just a very distorted noise when you try to rip to wav. The older version uses the same lame engine and I don't see any improvement in handling the software since it hasn't become more or less screenreader friendly. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dan Kerstetter Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 1:53 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: CdEx Data Base Question I know what you mean. When I used older versions of the same program on my XP machine I never encountered this. I've only tried this with one CD using the latest downloaded version on a Windows 7 64 bit machine. To say the least, it is a bit strange. Thanks for the input. Dan -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Alexandra Grünauer Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 4:14 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: CdEx Data Base Question I don't even know what button you're all talking about. In my CDEx there is no next button. Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dan Kerstetter Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 5:22 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: CdEx Data Base Question I've been using this program for years and have never encountered this before. Perhaps I'll try it without pressing the next button. Thanks for the input. Dan -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Alexandra Grünauer Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 2:14 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: CdEx Data Base Question What next button do you refer to? When I insert the CD, CDEx retreaves the data from the database FreeCDDB and I press F8 or F9 to extract the content. This must be set correctly in the options however. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dan Kerstetter Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:42 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: CdEx Data Base Question I want to use CdEx. In the settings, I've entered my email address in order to access the remote freedb DATA BASE; however, when I try ripping a CD and get the track names and press the next button, they disappear. Is there a step I'm missing? Just curious. Dan
RE: re cdex for brian
Hi Brian, no, I use F8 and it rips into wave, but when you play the wave files, they are all distorted. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian parker Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 8:57 AM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: re cdex for brian Hello alexandra. at the moment on my two computers, i have 170 beta, 160, and 151. they are all set up for different conversions. i am surprised that you can't get the rip to wave work. you ar trying f10 i assume. it is strange that these later versions don't seem to be better than earlier versions. but i have noticed this with some other programmes. brian.
CDEx for Brian
Hi Brian, I'm sorry that it took so long, but I finally got round to testing the full CDEx 1.70 version. And - it's a great disappointment! The problem that I can't rip CDs into wav files that occurred in 1.70 Beta 4 still exists, and you can't rip to ogg files, that is, unless you use your own encoder and set the path manually when you choose external ripper. I'll stick to 1.70 Beta 2 which has the ogg ripping feature still implied. I also with the full version wasn't able to access the data base Free CDDB which is still working with 1.70 Beta 2. So, I don't know what they've fixed from Beta 4. Also they still use the same lame encoder than with Beta 2. So there's absolutely no point to change to the full version from my point of view. I'd be interested in other experiences. It's a real shame that a program that used to be such a great option is developed backwards. Take care Alexandra
RE: re cdex170
Hi Brian, What beta version are you talking about? There are different ones. I haven't checked yet, but I'm sure you will still be able to convert ogg files. I'll install it next week and tell you all about it. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian parker Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 6:11 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: re cdex170 Hi, is the 170 version very diffent to the beta version. and does anyone know if it will convert ogg files. 151 used to do that, but later versions didn't know. brian.
RE: which program is good for showing track info on cds?
What database does it use? Thanks, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 7:20 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: which program is good for showing track info on cds? Okay...thanks for the info; wasn't sure of exactly what it did, other than give information! Sure wish Winamp still would let you automatically tag files! But guess that's gone now! Thanks again! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dean Masters Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 10:11 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: which program is good for showing track info on cds? I use it with JAWS 15 and windows 7 64 bit. It does not rip or do anything but give you the title and names of songs on the cd's. Then there are keystrokes so you can copy all the info so you can paste it elsewhere. Dean -Original Message- From: Brian Olesen Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 4:38 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: which program is good for showing track info on cds? hi, Thanks a bunch. Hope you've tested it regarding accessibility. Best regards Brian -Oprindelig meddelelse- From: Dean Masters Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 6:49 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: which program is good for showing track info on cds? Transrecord CD Info is a free program that will give you the info about a cd. You can get it from: http://transrecord-cd-info.software.informer.com/ Dean -Original Message- From: Brian Olesen Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 6:14 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: which program is good for showing track info on cds? Hi, Before winamp did a nice job showing which original cds were played on a computer by querying a database. But this facility is no longer available for winamp as the current owner haven’t payed the annually licence. So now I’m searching for a utility that will tell what cd is inserted, and the track names and so on. Do you know of a good program for handeling this? Best regards Brian
RE: CDEX Version 1.70 is Now Available
Thanks, Brian, looking forward to testing it. Hope they fixed the bug when ripping to wave. Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Brian Olesen Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 1:44 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: CDEX Version 1.70 is Now Available Hey, Here is the 32 bit version. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49764338/CDex-1.70-win32.exe -Oprindelig meddelelse- From: Laurence Taylor Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 1:33 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: CDEX Version 1.70 is Now Available On 06/07/2014 19:03, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Just tried downloading it and it said Page not found. Anybody that has had more luck? No problem here. -- rgds LAurence ...A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry. ---Taglines by Tagzilla (tagzilla.mozdev.org)
RE: CDEX Version 1.70 is Now Available
Just tried downloading it and it said Page not found. Anybody that has had more luck? Thanks, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 9:16 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: CDEX Version 1.70 is Now Available But it's apparently (from what I'm reading) still in beta! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Steve Pattison Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 2:25 AM To: PC Audio Subject: CDEX Version 1.70 is Now Available Hi all, CDEX version 1.70 has just been released and can be downloaded from http://cdexos.sourceforge.net I don't use it myself so I'm not able to answer any questions about the program. Regards Steve.
RE: CDEX Version 1.70 is Now Available
Thanks, but I had no problem getting to the page, only when I clicked download it said that the page could not be found. Could you or someone else, please put it in DropBox? Thanks in advance Alex -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Larry Higgins Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2014 9:45 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: RE: CDEX Version 1.70 is Now Available Alexandra, You might want to check and see that the line given for the URL wasn't cut off or split within the message. That can be a problem when placing such addresses within email messages. I had no problem getting to the specified page, and from there searching for the appropriate link. At 01:03 PM 7/6/2014, you wrote: Just tried downloading it and it said Page not found. Anybody that has had more luck? Thanks, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 9:16 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: CDEX Version 1.70 is Now Available But it's apparently (from what I'm reading) still in beta! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Steve Pattison Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 2:25 AM To: PC Audio Subject: CDEX Version 1.70 is Now Available Hi all, CDEX version 1.70 has just been released and can be downloaded from http://cdexos.sourceforge.net I don't use it myself so I'm not able to answer any questions about the program. Regards Steve.
RE: Text to MP3 converter
What languages does it support? Thanks, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Humberto Rodriguez Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 3:48 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Text to MP3 converter I did try it and it seems good, easy to change the voice and other parameters, accessible with Jaws. Humberto -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Petro Giannakopoulos Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 8:14 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Text to MP3 converter Found this one. Anyone willing to try this one? text to Mp3 converter http://download.cnet.com/Spesoft-Free-Text-To-MP3-Speaker/3000-2140_4-109218 37.html
RE: re text to mp3
Do I have to download this separately? What voices does it use? Thanks, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Sunshine Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 4:53 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: re text to mp3 Ok, using window eyes i am able to get to the buttons as well, also you will have to have lame exe and lamenc.dll in the folder before you can creat mp3s On 6/28/2014 8:55 AM, Humberto Rodriguez wrote: Using Jaws 15, I am able to tab to the controls. Humberto -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian parker Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 9:09 AM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: re text to mp3 hi, this is for anyone who is using this programme. i have installed this programme, but am having trouble in using it. it says load file., according to my sighted helper, on the screen, but using wineyes, i can't find it. so, if someone is using the programme and also using wineyes, please let me know how you are using it. brian.
RE: Ripping With CDEX:IsIt No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks?
CDEx never used GraceNote. You have to install Player.exe to get information from GraceNote that you can also export to CDEx. It is all described here: The url for information and download is: http://www.vuplayer.com/player.php Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Peter Scanlon Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 12:53 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Ripping With CDEX:IsIt No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? So if Winamp and CDex don't use Gracenote any more, which ripper/player does? -Original Message- From: Byron Stephens Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 8:34 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Ripping With CDEX:IsIt No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? It could be your firewall is blocking the connection or it's a cd that's not been referenced. - Original Message - From: Tom Kaufman tomca...@comcast.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 10:30 AM Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: IsIt No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? Okay...here;'s the latest: I uninstalled CDEX; then installed a later versionsame results! I DON'T UNDERSTAND! To the best of my knowledge, I am doing everything correctly (I have written my email where it's supposed to go) still..it says audio track 1; track 1...I must be stupid or something, for it seems to work for everybody else! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 1:14 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? I'm either down to that...or just trying to see what I can do with Windows Media; so far, no luck there as I cannot find something that says srip CD (I have a set of instructions that tell me that control-3 will put me where I need to be for ripping CDs with Windows Media. However I have been through all the tabs and there's absolutely nothing indicating to me that I can rip a CD with this program either! Totally frustrated! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Blackwell, Clifford Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 1:11 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? Maybe delete and reinstall? -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 11:47 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? Well I'm either not understanding something, or it's just plain not working; it _still_ gives me audio track 1...and on and on and on; not what I want! I don't understand why it used to work just fine, but now it's not! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 12:03 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? If it doesn't grab them automaticly, go to your cddb sub menu and arrow down to freedb batch query and press enter. I bet you that'll do the trick. On 6/24/2014 11:54 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote: Yup; that's what my CDEX used to do too! But that isn't what I found yesterday afternoon (it said audio track 1 01 (and so it went like that) I wouldn't think that the information on this particular CD boxed set would be hard to get info for! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 10:51 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? When i ripped my last couple of cds about a month ago I didn't even require the player program you guys are talking about. i just put the cd in the drive, launched CDEX and just like magic, there they were, the song titles properly in the right places. Then I just hit f9 and off it went, ripping to 320 k mp3. Nice and fast. On 6/24/2014 2:29 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote: So where do you get this player program from? I know it _did_ work not too terribly long ago, so I don't know what could be different! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Alexandra Grünauer Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 1:47 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? ...get a programme there that's called Player, download it, install it. This very blindfriendly program
RE: Ripping WithCDEX: IsItNo Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks?
1.72 is fine, too. The latest version, 1.74 has a totally different layout and there are problems when ripping to wav. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Walter Ramage Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 1:31 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Ripping WithCDEX: IsItNo Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? Hi. The version I'm using is 1.51, I don't know if there is a later version but this one works just fine. Walter. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: 25 June 2014 12:21 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Ripping WithCDEX: IsItNo Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? Hm, odd. Well, it hasn't worked for me for some time, either. I just figured it went the same way as winamp but I haven't looked into the matter. Has the programme been updated recently? - Original Message - From: Walter Ramage w...@blueyonder.co.uk To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 5:30 AM Subject: RE: Ripping WithCDEX: IsItNo Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? Hi. As I write this I'm using two different computers to rip my commercial CDs with CDEX and I am having no trouble, getting all the track and album info required. Don't know where you are getting your information. Walter. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: 24 June 2014 22:40 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Ripping With CDEX: IsItNo Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? Hello. Surprised this doesn't seem to have been brought up already but the thread is long and there are loads of messages so I might have missed it. I am going to guess that the reason this no longer works is that the gracenet database is no longer available to the programme. I believe a license fee had to be paid to use the service in the first place, and while I could be wrong about that, the database did change ownership recently, and both Winamp and CDex no longer have access to it. WInamp is no longer being updated as I'm sure everyone knows, and I don't think much is being done with Cdex either. So it's likely that, unless another solution presents itself, you will just have to manually input your track information, or use a different programme. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
RE: Ripping WithCDEX: IsItNo Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks?
I guess that there must be something wrong with your connection to the database. You might want to check the settings there or your router is blocking the connection? -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 1:21 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Ripping WithCDEX: IsItNo Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? Hm, odd. Well, it hasn't worked for me for some time, either. I just figured it went the same way as winamp but I haven't looked into the matter. Has the programme been updated recently? - Original Message - From: Walter Ramage w...@blueyonder.co.uk To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 5:30 AM Subject: RE: Ripping WithCDEX: IsItNo Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? Hi. As I write this I'm using two different computers to rip my commercial CDs with CDEX and I am having no trouble, getting all the track and album info required. Don't know where you are getting your information. Walter. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: 24 June 2014 22:40 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Ripping With CDEX: IsItNo Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? Hello. Surprised this doesn't seem to have been brought up already but the thread is long and there are loads of messages so I might have missed it. I am going to guess that the reason this no longer works is that the gracenet database is no longer available to the programme. I believe a license fee had to be paid to use the service in the first place, and while I could be wrong about that, the database did change ownership recently, and both Winamp and CDex no longer have access to it. WInamp is no longer being updated as I'm sure everyone knows, and I don't think much is being done with Cdex either. So it's likely that, unless another solution presents itself, you will just have to manually input your track information, or use a different programme. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks?
Hi all, I just googled it again and found out that the program I was referring to isn't by gracenote. The other facts that I described are still valid, as you can read on the homepage. The url for information and download is: http://www.vuplayer.com/player.php The program is free and, although not stated on the homepage, runs perfectly well on my windows 7 64 bit machines. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Robin Frost Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 1:42 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? Hi, I googled as well as visiting gracenote's official site and found no information regarding downloading this. Might you have a link at which more information could be found? thanks kindly for enlightening all of us. Robin -Original Message- From: Alexandra Grünauer Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 1:46 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible ToHave Cdex Title Tracks? ...get a programme there that's called Player, download it, install it. This very blindfriendly program will let you grab the information from Gracenote, then you could either rip to wav or ogg or export the information in the player.ini from which cdex is able to read it so you can also rip into whatever formats cdex supports, i.e. mp3. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 12:19 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? So what you're saying is, go to the Gracenote site and...and then what? Afraid it's just not sinking in! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Alexandra Grünauer Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 6:07 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? CDEx doesn't use Gracenote by default, you have to install a different program called player which you can find on the gracenote site and this will allow you to export information from Gracenote to CDEx and, yes, this still works fine. GraceNote is far better than FreeCDDB, but both still exist and Gracenote complements the former. Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 11:42 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? I ripped a cd just a few weeks ago using CDEX so yes, it is quite definitely possible to have it grab the track titles from gracenote. speaking of which the proper spelling of that for future reference is g r a c e n o t e. I'm guessing the cd collection being ripped wasn't available, some older titles and some audio books aren't referenced in there. so amazon or google may be your best bet for track titles, and you can always use something like mp3 tag to tag your files if that's important to you. On 6/23/2014 5:34 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote: Hello list: I decided to rerip a CD collection; my goal was to have it put the titles in for me, using Cdex. I have that Remote CDDB (or whatever that is) checked; still.it's giving me audio track 1 and so forth! I know that there has been an issue with Grassinite (sorry about wrong spelling) has this affected Cdex? Is it no longer possible to have Cdex put the titles of tracks in? If so, then I'll have to go back to using Windows Media.something I'm not real thrilled about as the current version isn't as cut and dried as Windows Media 11 was! Thanks for any info you can provide in advance! Tom Kaufman
RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks?
Have you made certain that the Data is in the FreeCDDB? Have yo u had better results with the CD at another time? Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the program CDEx?
RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks?
CDEx doesn't use Gracenote by default, you have to install a different program called player which you can find on the gracenote site and this will allow you to export information from Gracenote to CDEx and, yes, this still works fine. GraceNote is far better than FreeCDDB, but both still exist and Gracenote complements the former. Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 11:42 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? I ripped a cd just a few weeks ago using CDEX so yes, it is quite definitely possible to have it grab the track titles from gracenote. speaking of which the proper spelling of that for future reference is g r a c e n o t e. I'm guessing the cd collection being ripped wasn't available, some older titles and some audio books aren't referenced in there. so amazon or google may be your best bet for track titles, and you can always use something like mp3 tag to tag your files if that's important to you. On 6/23/2014 5:34 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote: Hello list: I decided to rerip a CD collection; my goal was to have it put the titles in for me, using Cdex. I have that Remote CDDB (or whatever that is) checked; still.it's giving me audio track 1 and so forth! I know that there has been an issue with Grassinite (sorry about wrong spelling) has this affected Cdex? Is it no longer possible to have Cdex put the titles of tracks in? If so, then I'll have to go back to using Windows Media.something I'm not real thrilled about as the current version isn't as cut and dried as Windows Media 11 was! Thanks for any info you can provide in advance! Tom Kaufman
RE: I Must Be Doing Something Wrong Here!
Maybe you're not connected to the internet? You could also try uninstalling and reinstalling CDEx. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 3:19 AM To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: I Must Be Doing Something Wrong Here! Hello Again: More about ripping CDs: someone said that perhaps the CD I was trying to rip didn't have enough information (or something to that affect) to bear this out or disprove it, I decided to try another CD with CDEX (I'm getting the same results! In fact, I even got an error message; I also got no match so I obviously have done something wrong, but don't know what! Any ideas anyone? I keep hearing that CDEX _will_ give me the track titles; oh but you can't prove it by me! Tom Kaufman
RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks?
...get a programme there that's called Player, download it, install it. This very blindfriendly program will let you grab the information from Gracenote, then you could either rip to wav or ogg or export the information in the player.ini from which cdex is able to read it so you can also rip into whatever formats cdex supports, i.e. mp3. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 12:19 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? So what you're saying is, go to the Gracenote site and...and then what? Afraid it's just not sinking in! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Alexandra Grünauer Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 6:07 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? CDEx doesn't use Gracenote by default, you have to install a different program called player which you can find on the gracenote site and this will allow you to export information from Gracenote to CDEx and, yes, this still works fine. GraceNote is far better than FreeCDDB, but both still exist and Gracenote complements the former. Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 11:42 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks? I ripped a cd just a few weeks ago using CDEX so yes, it is quite definitely possible to have it grab the track titles from gracenote. speaking of which the proper spelling of that for future reference is g r a c e n o t e. I'm guessing the cd collection being ripped wasn't available, some older titles and some audio books aren't referenced in there. so amazon or google may be your best bet for track titles, and you can always use something like mp3 tag to tag your files if that's important to you. On 6/23/2014 5:34 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote: Hello list: I decided to rerip a CD collection; my goal was to have it put the titles in for me, using Cdex. I have that Remote CDDB (or whatever that is) checked; still.it's giving me audio track 1 and so forth! I know that there has been an issue with Grassinite (sorry about wrong spelling) has this affected Cdex? Is it no longer possible to have Cdex put the titles of tracks in? If so, then I'll have to go back to using Windows Media.something I'm not real thrilled about as the current version isn't as cut and dried as Windows Media 11 was! Thanks for any info you can provide in advance! Tom Kaufman
RE: a cd problem
Could either be the discs (so you could try discs of another brand) or the burner which would mean that you'd have to replace it in order to burn CDs that will play on your sony device. I assume that you've checked that it's not the Sony thing itself? Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Joe Giovanelli Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 12:09 AM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: a cd problem Hi, All, I recently started using a laptop to burn cd's. They play perfectly in a blue ray player and in a very cheap cd player. They won't play in my Sony Jukebox. I will very much appreciate your thoughts. Hopefully there's a remedy. Joe Giovanelli
RE: Webinar On Blaze Ez
Hi John, I had the chance to have a brief look at the Blaze EZ and found the webinar a good complement. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Brian Olesen Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2014 9:56 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Webinar On Blaze Ez Hi, Nice webenar. But the unit I've been told is a bit thick more then the double of a mobile phone. That isn't impressive at all. Best regards Brian -Oprindelig meddelelse- From: John Gurd Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2014 4:56 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Webinar On Blaze Ez I wasn't very impressed with the demo though. He only used the camera once briefly on a piece of mail. I would like to have heard it read a range of material. It made me suspicious that perhaps it isn't that good. In fact, later on he said it was very unforgiving regarding distance from the print. He played a bit of an audio book but I would like to have heard it read a text formatted book as well. He didn't demo the wifi or Bluetooth either although he told us about it. Overall, I feel much less inspired by the product now which is a shame. I'd be interested to know what others got out of it. John -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Alexandra Grünauer Sent: 13 June 2014 18:04 To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Webinar On Blaze Ez I thought so, too. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 11:50 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Webinar On Blaze Ez Nice stuff but there's a download link very visible on the page, just look for Download with your Screen Reader smile. Actually Hims Inc have set up a feature on that page I've never seen used before, I can't remember exactly what I did but I clicked on one of the links on that page and I was prompted then to sign into my Dropbox account, after the sign in was completed I was asked if I wanted to save the audio file to my Dropbox, how convenient is that! meant I had access to the file from all the computers and devices associated with my Dropbox account. More exciting news coming. On 13 Jun 2014, at 5:30 am, Petro Giannakopoulos petro...@clear.net wrote: Direct Download is at, https://www.dropbox.com/s/3z616g2k8sauop9/Webinar%20June%202014%20-%20 Blaze%20EZ%20Accessibility%20-%20Audio.mp3?dl=1 - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 3:15 PM Subject: Webinar On Blaze Ez Hi! If you missed the Webinar on 10 June then you can download an audio recording of it here. http://ow.ly/xWaTR Dane Trethowan's iPhone at +61400494862 has had the privlidge of delivering the above eMail to you. ** 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: Webinar On Blaze Ez
I thought so, too. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 11:50 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Webinar On Blaze Ez Nice stuff but there's a download link very visible on the page, just look for Download with your Screen Reader smile. Actually Hims Inc have set up a feature on that page I've never seen used before, I can't remember exactly what I did but I clicked on one of the links on that page and I was prompted then to sign into my Dropbox account, after the sign in was completed I was asked if I wanted to save the audio file to my Dropbox, how convenient is that! meant I had access to the file from all the computers and devices associated with my Dropbox account. More exciting news coming. On 13 Jun 2014, at 5:30 am, Petro Giannakopoulos petro...@clear.net wrote: Direct Download is at, https://www.dropbox.com/s/3z616g2k8sauop9/Webinar%20June%202014%20-%20 Blaze%20EZ%20Accessibility%20-%20Audio.mp3?dl=1 - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 3:15 PM Subject: Webinar On Blaze Ez Hi! If you missed the Webinar on 10 June then you can download an audio recording of it here. http://ow.ly/xWaTR Dane Trethowan's iPhone at +61400494862 has had the privlidge of delivering the above eMail to you. ** 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: possibly off topic
This is getting worse, these restrictions, I mean. In Germany I can't even listen to German stations online that broadcast only partially the world championship this year. I wonder where all this will lead to. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Joe Bollard Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 11:05 PM To: pc- audio Subject: possibly off topic hello friends, as a big soccer fan i'm following the world cup on bbc radio five live, living in the republic of ireland and listening on A M it's not easy listening, fading in and out, is there anywhere on line i can listen to the radio commentaries, one can listen on line in the UK but outside of that area, no way, any help will be gratefully appreciated, god bless, travel safely, joe bollard.
RE: Webinar On Blaze Ez
Thanks, Dane; I was already sorry to have missed it. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 9:15 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Webinar On Blaze Ez Hi! If you missed the Webinar on 10 June then you can download an audio recording of it here. http://ow.ly/xWaTR Dane Trethowan's iPhone at +61400494862 has had the privlidge of delivering the above eMail to you.
RE: 60 cycle hum/noise interference
This can also happen with the audio jacks. I had this problem and bought little adapters that you plug between the cable cable and the cable socket in the wall. The idea to get the company do something about it is good. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Frank Ventura Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 1:09 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: RE: 60 cycle hum/noise interference True but in this case I verified that I am using the audio out jacks. Frank -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Berrier Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 4:27 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: 60 cycle hum/noise interference You could also get very strong hum if you accidentally plugged into the video ports rather than audio on the TV. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Frank Ventura Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2014 8:57 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: RE: 60 cycle hum/noise interference Tim, thanks. I took a quick look at Amazon and there are many and I think some are specific to car stereo. I really can't tell which one is correct for my situation. Frank -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of tim cumings Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2014 8:41 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: 60 cycle hum/noise interference Frank check Amazon. On 6/8/2014 7:58 PM, Frank Ventura wrote: Hi all, when I plug the audio out (two rCA jacks) from my TV into my mixer I get a constant 60 cycle hum. I understand that a ground loop isolator might help this situation. Can anyone recommend one or point me in the direction of where I can buy one? Thanks Frank
Question about burning music from livedownloads.com to an audio CD
Hi List, I recently bought some live albums from livedownloads.com. One of the formats they offer is flac. To my experience flac files when burnt to an audio CD, don't leave a tiny gap between the songs which is one of the reasons why I prefer it - apart from it being a lossless format of course - to mp3. The flac files I bought from livedownloads.com, though when burnt to a CD, aren't seemless. although the gap is hardly audible, it's there. Since the music I bought is live music, I find that rather annoying. Although I didn't think it would help, I converted the files to wav - and it didn't do the trick either. Has anybody made similar experiences with music from that site or with other flac files? I've burnt many flac files to audio CD and have never experienced this before. Thanks for your help. Alexandra
RE: Question about burning music from livedownloads.com to an audio CD
Thanks for the idea. The point is that I paid more money for the flac files than I would have for the MP3 files and I don't get the full benefit of that format. I just wanted to check with this list before I email to the support, if they have that at all. So more advice is very welcome. Thanks Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Laurence Taylor Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 5:12 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Question about burning music from livedownloads.com to an audio CD On 04/06/2014 16:00, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: The flac files I bought from livedownloads.com, though when burnt to a CD, aren't seemless. although the gap is hardly audible, it's there. Since the music I bought is live music, I find that rather annoying. Although I didn't think it would help, I converted the files to wav - and it didn't do the trick either. It sounds like something that was done in the recording or digitising process. If the gap is in the file as supplied to you, the only solution is to open it with an audio editor (Audacity is free and works, others are better and more expensive) and cut out the silent portion. -- rgds LAurence ...Been there, done that, got the mouse mat. ---Taglines by Tagzilla (tagzilla.mozdev.org)
RE: is it worth upgrading to PowerDVD 14?
What about DVD Audio Extractor? You can play and watch DVDs with it. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of hamitcampos Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 4:45 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: is it worth upgrading to PowerDVD 14? 4K is a screen resolution. It's 3840 by 2160P. There are new TVs that will do it and PC monitors too. Sent from my iPhone On May 20, 2014, at 10:23 PM, randy tijerina rtijeri...@satx.rr.com wrote: what the living heck is 4k? At 08:29 PM 5/20/2014, you wrote: Oh yeah, another thing. Do you care about 4K? if not, who knows again. Dain's right. It depends on what you needed it for. I had to because of wanting to be cool and getting Win 8, and because I do play Blu-Ray disks. Also, I'm a home theater geek and though I can't see it, I do care about 4K. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 9:21 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: is it worth upgrading to PowerDVD 14? do you think its worth upgrading? I've not used the software before so can't comment, what does the upgrade offer you that the trial doesn't? On 21 May 2014, at 11:00 am, randy tijerina rtijeri...@satx.rr.com wrote: Friends, I'm using a trial version of PowerDVD9. it's very accessible. however, I'm wondering if it's worth spending my money on the full version or PowerDVD14? i'm using jaws15. ** 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
Seeing Assistant apps for half the price today
Hi List, just wanted to let you know that the apps called Seeing Assistant, which I entered in the search field of the app store are half the price or free anyway till the end of SightCity this evening. They have a light detector which is free, an app that tells you what color things are and a navigation system. I don't know how good they are, just downloading them, but they're not expensive. Alexandra
RE: Seeing Assistant apps for half the price today
Yes, it is. I just tested the color recognition, though and didn't find it that good because it recognized dark grey as black, but I didn't check with a sighted person yet and the apps aren't that expensive. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Cussick Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 1:24 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Seeing Assistant apps for half the price today Hi, I take it this is on Io's? thanks in advance. On 16/05/2014 11:15, Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi List, just wanted to let you know that the apps called Seeing Assistant, which I entered in the search field of the app store are half the price or free anyway till the end of SightCity this evening. They have a light detector which is free, an app that tells you what color things are and a navigation system. I don't know how good they are, just downloading them, but they're not expensive. Alexandra
RE: Voice Dream Reader App Discounted Until Sunday
Thanks, read the emails from latest backwards, that's why I repeated your statement. Was just wondering because US Dollars aren't a worldwide currency. Smiles. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 10:59 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Voice Dream Reader App Discounted Until Sunday Yep, world wide, would have stated had it been otherwise smile. On 8 May 2014, at 3:45 pm, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Is this offer world wide? Haven't had time to check yet, but sounds great, thanks, Dane. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 2:45 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Voice Dream Reader App Discounted Until Sunday Why not, a huge opportunity is presenting it self and I'm not just making a statement, The Voice Dream Reader App is truly flexible and powerful in what it does. On 8 May 2014, at 10:43 am, Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com wrote: Cool. I should check this out then. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 8:40 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Voice Dream Reader App Discounted Until Sunday Amen! Huge selection of voices at reasonable prices. You can read all manner of Daisy files and mp3 audio books. Best 10 bucks I spent on an app, and now its only $5! Mary On Thu, 8 May 2014 10:32:52 +1000, Dane Trethowan wrote: Hi! The Voice Dream Reader has been discussed on list before so - if you have an iPhone or other IOS device - now is your big opportunity to own one of the best Apps - in my view - ever developed for Visually Impaired people on the IOS platform. Until Sunday the App sells for 50% off on the iTunes Store. Sent from Dane's iPhone +613400494862 ** 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 ** 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: Voice Dream Reader App Discounted Until Sunday
I downloaded the app for 4.50 Euros. So the offer seems to be worldwide. For an additional voice I picked James, which I quite like for an US American voice. Thanks again, Dane, for telling us! Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 9:31 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Voice Dream Reader App Discounted Until Sunday I'm a bit slow with the downloading of App updates. I've just downloaded the latest Voice Dream Reader version and I notice in What's new that there is yet more support for extra voices, the amount available is well over the hundred mark, 2 new Australian English voices added, quite a few new U.S. and U.K. voices added etc. And before anyone asks, when you purchase the Voice Dream Reader App you'll be downloading the latest available version by default. Sent from Dane's iPhone +613400494862 On 9 May 2014, at 1:57 am, Adrian Spratt adr...@adrianspratt.com wrote: This link takes you to the purchase page on which there is a link to buy at the discounted price: http://www.applevis.com/apps/deals/ios-apps-dropped-price/voice-dream- reader -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 12:07 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Voice Dream Reader App Discounted Until Sunday Tip: download the Light version and it will allow you to upgrade once you run it. On 8 May 2014, at 2:03 pm, Fazil urdu...@telus.net wrote: I am trying to purchase this app but I can't find the paid version. Your help is much appreciated. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 5:45 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Voice Dream Reader App Discounted Until Sunday Why not, a huge opportunity is presenting it self and I'm not just making a statement, The Voice Dream Reader App is truly flexible and powerful in what it does. On 8 May 2014, at 10:43 am, Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com wrote: Cool. I should check this out then. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 8:40 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Voice Dream Reader App Discounted Until Sunday Amen! Huge selection of voices at reasonable prices. You can read all manner of Daisy files and mp3 audio books. Best 10 bucks I spent on an app, and now its only $5! Mary On Thu, 8 May 2014 10:32:52 +1000, Dane Trethowan wrote: Hi! The Voice Dream Reader has been discussed on list before so - if you have an iPhone or other IOS device - now is your big opportunity to own one of the best Apps - in my view - ever developed for Visually Impaired people on the IOS platform. Until Sunday the App sells for 50% off on the iTunes Store. Sent from Dane's iPhone +613400494862 ** 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 ** 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: Voice Dream Reader App Discounted Until Sunday
Is this offer world wide? Haven't had time to check yet, but sounds great, thanks, Dane. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 2:45 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Voice Dream Reader App Discounted Until Sunday Why not, a huge opportunity is presenting it self and I'm not just making a statement, The Voice Dream Reader App is truly flexible and powerful in what it does. On 8 May 2014, at 10:43 am, Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com wrote: Cool. I should check this out then. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 8:40 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Voice Dream Reader App Discounted Until Sunday Amen! Huge selection of voices at reasonable prices. You can read all manner of Daisy files and mp3 audio books. Best 10 bucks I spent on an app, and now its only $5! Mary On Thu, 8 May 2014 10:32:52 +1000, Dane Trethowan wrote: Hi! The Voice Dream Reader has been discussed on list before so - if you have an iPhone or other IOS device - now is your big opportunity to own one of the best Apps - in my view - ever developed for Visually Impaired people on the IOS platform. Until Sunday the App sells for 50% off on the iTunes Store. Sent from Dane's iPhone +613400494862 ** 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: Sparkle Radio
Thanks, Danke. I already like it! Take care, alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 10:18 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Sparkle Radio Another station people might want to listen to and perhaps become involved with. http://www.sparkle-radio.net ** 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: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR
Does anyone know if they'll show it at SightCity? Europe's biggest fare for visually impaired or blind? Thanks, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Anders Holmberg Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 8:03 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR Hello! Yes but not all have that money to buy such a device. Then it doesn't matter how worth it is to buy. /A 25 apr 2014 kl. 16:17 skrev Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net: Put simply, from my point of view, if its under a grand then such a device could be worth every cent, of course we're of the assumption that the product is of good quality build etc. On 25 Apr 2014, at 11:22 pm, Londa Peterson lpeter...@vrocp.org wrote: I just talked to someone from Hims. It's not quite ready for release yet, and they haven't decided on the price. That's why no price is yet posted. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 12:23 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR this looks pretty good. i don't know why they don't post the price. if the booksence is $499 on sale for $449, i can't imagine what they'll ask for on this one. On 4/24/2014 10:53 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Is it availlable in europe? /A 23 apr 2014 kl. 14:49 skrev Aidan aidan.smartt...@gmail.com: Thanks hammit, You rite, and it always take time to find out those spex. And my experience often with these companies is that they mostly don't deliver up to that standards. PlexTalk openly said they won't higher their bit rate or sampling rate of any of the recorders currently. So why would hims be different since they really did not go far enough with the booksense. The PlexTalk range record the best of them all, and even with them its not as nice as you would get with Olympus or zoom. I will do a podcast on the hv-e5 and will post a link here once it rich the blind geek zone. I got one up there already about the dm620. Its a player made in china with a nice design and support most formats in one device like nun of the other players. You can even play .dat video files. I don't think its available in the US yet, or at least I don't no. On 23/04/2014, Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com wrote: What's the HV-E5? -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Aidan Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 4:46 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR It sound ok, but we stil don't no if the recording quality is better, we don't no anything about the mic used, neither the mic pre amp. And if its like the booksense it will just plain sucks. I rather go for the hv-e5. It record much better, have better hardware and is much faster. Not even to mention how stable the firmware. That is one thing hims just cannot get rite, they need to use programmers who no what they doing. Sounds like many of them are stil in a learning stage or something. Its simply unexceptable that a device keep dying on you and half of the time its not the battery, or sometimes the battery goes flat, then if you charch again, it won't come on unless if you perform an hard reset. Is this going to be tru for this unit? I don't really care much about the OCR although I understand why its useful. The other thing that I'm really disappointed about for this unit, is that they used acapela speech. I mean yes I love acapela, but really, just because other people do it, they just follow along, don't try something else. I mean I just don't get it. But lets wait and see. On 23/04/2014, Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com wrote: This sounds cool. I see it'll play WMV and AVI files. Does it I wander have a monitor? The little spek table that followed didn't say so, but those are videos. So you would watch WMV or AVI files. I guess you could just listen if it's a song. Like I have a song called Christmass is creeppy and it's a vid. Though it's an N4V file. But it's the same point. It's a video. Very cool. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 7:01 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR Can't wait till this hits the market here, a I thought up till now was something you dreamed of smile, hope it performs as good as it sounds http://hims-inc.com/products/blaze-ez-daisy-multi-player-with-ocr / ** 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:
RE: Stereo AM
I think it's important if you want to broadcast long distance, especially in countries like the USA, Canada or Australia where there are people who don't live in the range of many FM stations. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Anders Holmberg Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 6:32 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Stereo AM Hi! But why in the world use AM at all? Just curious as i live in Sweden where we don't have much radio stations running. Those who run runb on fm. /A 6 apr 2014 kl. 05:20 skrev Barry Chapman ba...@bchapman.id.au: Hi Dane, From Wikipedia: C-QUAM is the method of AM stereo broadcasting used in Canada, the United States and most other countries. It was invented in 1977 by Norman Parker, Francis Hilbert and Yoshio Sakaie, and published in an IEEE journal. Using circuitry developed by Motorola, C-QUAM uses quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) to encode the stereo separation signal. Barry Chapman - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 12:46 PM Subject: Re: Stereo AM Now a question for you, is this the Motoroller standard? If so then yes, that's the main one used in Australia. On 6 Apr 2014, at 12:41 pm, Barry Chapman ba...@bchapman.id.au wrote: Yes, Australia used the C-QUAM standard for AM stereo. Barry Chapman - Original Message - From: Gary Schindler garys5...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 11:52 AM Subject: Re: Stereo AM Maybe the Melbourne station used SeQuam like the system that was adopted in the states. Stereo separation was pretty decent and most of the big gun radio stations in Pittsburgh broadcast in stereo 24 7. by the late 90's stereo AM went buy the wayside like HD AM is pretty much done around here now. If KDKA can't make a go or looses interest in the newest form of transmission, the others follow suit. - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 8:26 PM Subject: Re: Stereo AM I think I know the Sony Walkman Stereo AM Walkman you're referring to, its easily identifiable by the very large band switch on the face of the radio, I used to call that Walkman the Biscuit Radio as the band switch reminded me of a chocolate biscuit/cookie smile. The radio was okay though I thought the smaller Sangean Pocket model had the edge, far better sensitivity to start with though - knowing Sangean as I do - that's not at all surprising. I have a couple of Sony AM Stereo tuners though they had to be adjusted to get decent clarity out of them, they also exhibited an annoying trait, you could hear the 25HZ tone which tells the tuner that the signal is an AM Stereo signal. The other capable Stereo AM tuner I have here is one that I had built for me from the information supplied in the electronics magazine Silicon Chip back in 1987. What I like about Stereo AM is that it can be broadcast at any time and - if its done properly - the average consumer will not notice any interference or odd sound from their standard Mono AM radio, some of the AM Stereo signals I used to listen to did exhibit slight bass distortion on a Mono set but these signals usually sounded pretty poor when listening on an AM Stereo tuner. The Melbourne radio station 3UZ had by far the best Stereo AM sound I've ever heard - along with Canberra's 2CA -, I don't know what they were using on their transmitter but even the mono signal sounded clean and crisp. On 6 Apr 2014, at 5:32 am, Steve Jacobson steve.jacob...@visi.com wrote: I had a Carver TX11 tuner that received AM stereo and also a Sony pocket portable that did. There is no doubt that the current HD system on AM is quieter and better sounding, but one has to have such a perfect signal that I find it pretty annoying. In addition, stations that use HD on AM have to restrict their analog audio bandwidth. I actually prefer a noisier but more reliable AM stereo system as was used here in the US in the 1980's. Even more, that system did not interfere with adjacent stations as does the HD system does now. Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 13:09:27 -0400, Tom Kaufman wrote: In the 90s. WSM (Nashville, Tennessee) was in AM stereo; we had an AM stereo system in the car (a Lincoln Town Car) I remember riding home from a gig and would have the Grand Ole Opry on one night; if the station would come in just right, the stereo would kick in; it sounded great! But my first experience with hearing AM stereo (again it was with WSM) we had traveled to Nashville; we had a Lincoln Town
Using Music Brains with CDEx or another free ripping programme? [was] RE: Odd behaviour of cd.
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: Using Music Brains with CDEx or another free ripping programme? [was] RE: Odd behaviour of cd.
Thanks. Is that in the CDDB Menu or do I have to select something special. I'm not using the latest beta. The problem with the latest Beta is that it won't rip wav properly which is why I switched back to the second latest beta. Will try and see if that supports Music Brains, too. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Anders Holmberg Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 6:58 PM 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: CD Data And Information
That's because CDEx uses FreeCDDb as a default database, but with the additional programme Player it can read from the player.ini file and use Gracenote. Maybe there's a way of using Music Brains with CDEx? -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Evan Reese Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 10:47 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: CD Data And Information Well, other than Winamp, the only other ripper I tried was CDex. I've heard that it uses Gracenotes as Winamp does, but it didn't tag up my files as well as Winamp did. Evan - Original Message - From: Tom Kaufman tomca...@comcast.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 4:42 PM Subject: RE: CD Data And Information Hello Evan and list: So are there any advantages with ripping with Winamp, as opposed to other CD rippers such as Cdex, WMP and MP3 Ripper? BTW-I installed MP3 Ripper a little while ago, but don't see how to make it give title and artist and such! Besides, it still wouldn't rip the cut on the CD I've been working with; I suspect there's a problem with that track and probably is nothing I can do with it! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Evan Reese Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 3:55 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: CD Data And Information Someone please correct me if I am wrong about any of the following, but the Pro version costs $20, and as far as I know the only benefits are that you get unlimited ripping speed and mp3 ripping capability. If there are any other benefits, I don't know about them. Evan - Original Message - From: Tom Kaufman tomca...@comcast.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 1:50 PM Subject: RE: CD Data And Information How much does the pro version of Winamp cost? And what other perks do you get with the pro version of Winamp that you don't get with the free version? Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Peter Scanlon Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 1:29 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: CD Data And Information Yes, and it costs very little.e. -Original Message- From: Tom Kaufman Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 2:51 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: CD Data And Information I've never ripped CDs with Winamp! But don't you have to have the pro version to do this anyway? Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Evan Reese Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 11:21 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: CD Data And Information Most of the CDs I've ripped with Winamp are not ones you can find in mainstream stores, but Winamp was able to find the info for them. Gracenotes seems to know almost everything I throw at it, even obscure limited edition electronic music CDs. It's very seldom it doesn't know what a CD is, and I have a lot of stuff from genres that you won't find in mainstream stores. Nowadays though, I avoid buying physical CDs whenever I can and simply buy downloadable versions. I only buy physical CDs when I absolutely have to to get something I really want. Evan - Original Message - From: Peter Scanlon sca...@tpg.com.au To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 5:19 AM Subject: Re: CD Data And Information I think the reason I find that some of my CDs don't get found in the CD Databases is that they are not usually things available in mainstream retail stors. -Original Message- From: Dane Trethowan Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 7:53 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: CD Data And Information Yep, I use my iPhone but there's no reason why you can't use something else, I'm sure Barcode Reading pacages are available for Windows too. On 5 Apr 2014, at 7:21 pm, Peter Scanlon sca...@tpg.com.au wrote: can you explain that. How do you mena you look up the bar code? Do you use a device to do that? -Original Message- From: Dane Trethowan Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 7:12 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: CD Data And Information Sorry, forgot to mention in my last message how I get CD information, I just look up the barcode on the back of the CD, from that I get the information and I can manipulate as required, enter it into Music Brains or any other database, enter it into my Ripper directly etc. On 5 Apr 2014, at 7:04 pm, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Gracenote is still quite good, though, but thanks, Dane, for the hint. I'll check out Music Brains. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 9:35 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List
RE: Odd behaviour of cd.
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: Problem Ripping A CD
Gracenote is still quite good, though, but thanks, Dane, for the hint. I'll check out Music Brains. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 9:35 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Problem Ripping A CD Gracenote is past history mate, there are other database services for CD organisation around which do a better job. Once upon a not so long ago, Gracenote was good because every CD entry made into the database was checked but the Gracenote database wasn't free to use like it is now thus no checking is done any longer. The later CD ripping software such as Easy CD DA Extractor or Easy CD Converter - whatever its called these days -, Max and others use Music Brains. On 1 Apr 2014, at 8:05 am, Peter Scanlon sca...@tpg.com.au wrote: What are people recommending for best ripper which also accesses Grassnote CDDB ? -Original Message- From: Byron Stephens Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 7:56 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Problem Ripping A CD I would try a different ripper altogether like CDex or free mp3 ripper, google is your friend for that. I never ever use media player in fact I avoid it like the black death. - Original Message - From: Tom Kaufman tomca...@comcast.net To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 1:52 PM Subject: Problem Ripping A CD Hello List: Am currently trying to rip a CD that I bought the other night at a concert; am using Windows Media to rip the CD (the CD appears to be ripping) however it says pending for all of the tracks and has been a good while since it has changed! Does this mean that this CD cannot be ripped? I really am not sure of what is going on here! Am running the latest version of Jaws 15 with Windows 7; should I stop the rip and start over? Just would like to know what is taking so long! In older versions of Windows Media, if it wasn't going to rip, it would just pop the door open and that was that! Tom Kaufman ** 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: Problem Ripping A CD
Right you are, but it's much better than FreeCDDB. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 10:10 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Problem Ripping A CD One could argue that Gracenote is better than nothing, problems occur when wrong information is entered say the artist or title of a track is spelt wrongly, album name entered wrongly and so on and this happens all too readily I'm afraid. On 5 Apr 2014, at 7:04 pm, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Gracenote is still quite good, though, but thanks, Dane, for the hint. I'll check out Music Brains. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 9:35 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Problem Ripping A CD Gracenote is past history mate, there are other database services for CD organisation around which do a better job. Once upon a not so long ago, Gracenote was good because every CD entry made into the database was checked but the Gracenote database wasn't free to use like it is now thus no checking is done any longer. The later CD ripping software such as Easy CD DA Extractor or Easy CD Converter - whatever its called these days -, Max and others use Music Brains. On 1 Apr 2014, at 8:05 am, Peter Scanlon sca...@tpg.com.au wrote: What are people recommending for best ripper which also accesses Grassnote CDDB ? -Original Message- From: Byron Stephens Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 7:56 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Problem Ripping A CD I would try a different ripper altogether like CDex or free mp3 ripper, google is your friend for that. I never ever use media player in fact I avoid it like the black death. - Original Message - From: Tom Kaufman tomca...@comcast.net To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 1:52 PM Subject: Problem Ripping A CD Hello List: Am currently trying to rip a CD that I bought the other night at a concert; am using Windows Media to rip the CD (the CD appears to be ripping) however it says pending for all of the tracks and has been a good while since it has changed! Does this mean that this CD cannot be ripped? I really am not sure of what is going on here! Am running the latest version of Jaws 15 with Windows 7; should I stop the rip and start over? Just would like to know what is taking so long! In older versions of Windows Media, if it wasn't going to rip, it would just pop the door open and that was that! Tom Kaufman ** 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 ** 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
Hi Dane, Thanks for that information. I didn't know that there was stereo am. Could you please post the direct link because all I found via google was a guy introducing a stereo am tuner, announcing that he would play it and then stopping after a quite boring show of unwrapping the thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25tOtuERp2w Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 6:34 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Stereo AM Back to the glory days of radio smile. Actually we do have one radio station in Australia to my knowledge that does broadcast in AM Stereo to this day and that's 2CA Canberra, Here's a recording I found on Youtube of a station in the U.S. though I'm not sure when the content was actually aired, quite nice audio so - for those who have never heard stereo AM before - take a moment to enjoy. WCTC in AM Stereo on Denon TU-680NAB ** 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: Problem Ripping A CD
Sounds as if it were either schrachy or if your cd drive were a bit dusty. Wipe the CD and/or blow into your CD drive or have a sighted person check if the CD is schrached. Hope that helps. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 10:52 PM To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Problem Ripping A CD Hello List: Am currently trying to rip a CD that I bought the other night at a concert; am using Windows Media to rip the CD (the CD appears to be ripping) however it says pending for all of the tracks and has been a good while since it has changed! Does this mean that this CD cannot be ripped? I really am not sure of what is going on here! Am running the latest version of Jaws 15 with Windows 7; should I stop the rip and start over? Just would like to know what is taking so long! In older versions of Windows Media, if it wasn't going to rip, it would just pop the door open and that was that! Tom Kaufman
RE: Problem Ripping A CD
I couldn't agree more with you. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Byron Stephens Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 10:56 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Problem Ripping A CD I would try a different ripper altogether like CDex or free mp3 ripper, google is your friend for that. I never ever use media player in fact I avoid it like the black death. - Original Message - From: Tom Kaufman tomca...@comcast.net To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 1:52 PM Subject: Problem Ripping A CD Hello List: Am currently trying to rip a CD that I bought the other night at a concert; am using Windows Media to rip the CD (the CD appears to be ripping) however it says pending for all of the tracks and has been a good while since it has changed! Does this mean that this CD cannot be ripped? I really am not sure of what is going on here! Am running the latest version of Jaws 15 with Windows 7; should I stop the rip and start over? Just would like to know what is taking so long! In older versions of Windows Media, if it wasn't going to rip, it would just pop the door open and that was that! Tom Kaufman
RE: Problem Ripping A CD
CDEx in combination with the player.exe from gracenote. The player accesses the Gracenote CDDB and you can rip to wav and ogg and you can export the information into a player.ini, which CDEx can read from so you can also rip to mp3. Hope that helps. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Peter Scanlon Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 11:06 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Problem Ripping A CD What are people recommending for best ripper which also accesses Grassnote CDDB ? -Original Message- From: Byron Stephens Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 7:56 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Problem Ripping A CD I would try a different ripper altogether like CDex or free mp3 ripper, google is your friend for that. I never ever use media player in fact I avoid it like the black death. - Original Message - From: Tom Kaufman tomca...@comcast.net To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 1:52 PM Subject: Problem Ripping A CD Hello List: Am currently trying to rip a CD that I bought the other night at a concert; am using Windows Media to rip the CD (the CD appears to be ripping) however it says pending for all of the tracks and has been a good while since it has changed! Does this mean that this CD cannot be ripped? I really am not sure of what is going on here! Am running the latest version of Jaws 15 with Windows 7; should I stop the rip and start over? Just would like to know what is taking so long! In older versions of Windows Media, if it wasn't going to rip, it would just pop the door open and that was that! Tom Kaufman
RE: Eloquence for OSX
Hi James, Thanks for the information. That's a real shame! Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of James Scholes Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 1:44 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Eloquence for OSX Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Hi, has anyone tried the Eloquence on the IPhone and does it work? How do you install it? Eloquence is not available for your iPhone and it's very unlikely that it ever will be. Your Mac runs OS X, your iPhone runs iOS. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes
RE: internet radio URL
Hi, have a look at Mike's Radio World. Don't know the link right know, but you'll find it easily with google. You have to download the m3u or other playlist files which include the url, if you open them with an editor. With the Plextalk Pocket I just copy the play list files into a certain folder. Maybe that's the same with your DAISY players. Good luck, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Aidan Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 11:26 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: internet radio URL Well, I have the problem with a few stations. I want to put them in my victor stream, but I cannot find the direct URL. Stations like house frequency, tygerberg fm bosveld stereo just to name a few. Its fine to be able to listen with a program such as ITunes, but how to find that URL is the question. I no that once you have stations imported in ITunes then its quite easy to get the direct URL, but if you don't have it at all then I don't no. I see all the stations in tune in radio on the IPhone, but the app don't show the URL either, so I thought that on the pc side there might be an app that can somehow locate this. On 17/03/2014, Peter Scanlon sca...@tpg.com.au wrote: What is the station name? -Original Message- From: Aidan Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 7:39 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: internet radio URL Hi list, I hope this is not off topic, I want to no if there is a program wich can help me find the direct URL of a spisific station. I didn't ever use such programs and the only way I ever used web radio links on the pc was with total recorder and ITunes. Any help will be appreciated. -- Facebook: m.facebook.com/aidan.maher92 Skype: andries4451 Twitter: smarttalk7 Audioboo: www.audioboo.com/DjSpotlight -- Facebook: m.facebook.com/aidan.maher92 Skype: andries4451 Twitter: smarttalk7 Audioboo: www.audioboo.com/DjSpotlight
Eloquence for OSX
Hi, has anyone tried the Eloquence on the IPhone and does it work? How do you install it? Any help would be appreciated a lot! Thanks, Alexandra
RE: New Voice Synthesizer For Mac and OSX
Hi Dane, What great news! Have you already tested it? Can you use it with the IPhone, too and how? Does it have other languages than English? Thanks, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:46 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: New Voice Synthesizer For Mac and OSX Sorry about that, I didn't check the subject line before sending the original eMail and left everything to Chrome, bad mistake smile. On 11 Mar 2014, at 1:03 pm, Andrea Sherry sherr...@wideband.net.au wrote: And this is to do what? Andrea On 11/03/2014 12:31 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: http://allinaccess.com/software/ ** 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 -- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Carl Brad ** 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: Foobar?
Hi James, Thanks for these very helpful hints. I've got three more questions, though: Is it possible, like in Winamp, to set a hotkey to jump to a certain time, like pressing ctrl+j in Winamp? I'd also like to know weather there are keys for moving forward and backward in a track, which would be the left and right arrow key in Winamp. And another question: Is it possible to save the settings i.e. the assigned short keys and load them into another version of Foobar on another machine? Thanks and take care, Alexandra Thanks -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of James Scholes Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 6:04 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Foobar? Casey wrote: Hi can someone please post how to make hot key or short cut keys for foobar. Open the Preferences dialog with Control+P. Press K to get to Keyboard Shortcuts in the tree view. You'll then see the following controls: - A list of defined hotkeys and their actions; - Add/Remove buttons; - a tree view of actions you can assign hotkeys to divided into categories plus an edit field to filter these actions; - a hotkey field where you press the keys you want to be assigned; and - a Global hotkey check box which controls whether the hotkey should take effect when outside the foobar2000 window. To add a new hotkey, for example X to play as in Winamp: 1. Activate the Add new button. 2. Shift+Tab back to the list of defined hotkeys and you should be focussed on the new entry you've just added. Depending on which screen reader you're using, you should hear something like: not set; Global: no; Type: not set; Action: not set Every time you press the Add new button, the newly added unassigned entry is focussed automatically in the list so you don't need to repeat this step for every ke you add once you've got to grips with the layout of the Keyboard Shortcuts screen. 3. Tab past the Add/Remove buttons and the filter box and in the tree view of assignable actions, navigate to: [main] Playback. Alternatively you can type playback in the filter box and then select Play. 4. Tab once to the hotkey field this field isn't correctly labelled so you will actually hear a description of the chosen action, in this case the description will be: Starts playback. 5. Press the letter X. 6. Activate the OK button to close Preferences or the Apply button if you want to add more hotkeys. 7. When you've added all the hotkeys you want, add something to your playlist and try them out. Hint: there are a lot of actions by default, and any plug-ins you install can also add actions to foobar2000. This allows you to create a very powerful keyboard layout. For example, unlike in Winamp, you can add different hotkeys to jump back and forward by different lengths of time. One other thing to keep in mind: Unlike Winamp, foobar2000 actually has a pretty standard, accessible user interface, and you will need to use the arrow keys to navigate your playlists, the media library if you choose to use it, etc. Thus, it's best not to assign any actions to these. HTH. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes
RE: re foobar for alexandra
Hi Brian, Thanks for the information. I'm looking for an accessible player for a student of mine which is accessible with key strokes. I'll give it a try. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian parker Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 8:37 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: re foobar for alexandra Hi alexandra, i don't know of any way to jump to a particular position, but if you have a file playing, the left and right arrows will move you forward and back the file. be careful, if you get to the end of the file, you can't go back with the arrow keys, but will have to start again with letter c. brian.
RE: Foobar?
Hi James, Sounds great! Thanks! Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of James Scholes Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 8:52 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Foobar? Alexandra Grünauer wrote: Is it possible, like in Winamp, to set a hotkey to jump to a certain time, like pressing ctrl+j in Winamp? foobar2000 doesn't have this functionality built in by default, however you can install the Seekbox plug-in and assign a keyboard shortcut to it. Get it from: http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_seek_box I'd also like to know weather there are keys for moving forward and backward in a track, which would be the left and right arrow key in Winamp. foobar makes no assumptions about what keyboard shorrtcuts you may and may not want, so the only ones it ships with as standard are things like Control+O to open a file. You can follow my instructions to add whichever hotkeys you would like; take a look through the tree view of assignable actions to learn what is possible. To quickly answer your question, yes, you can assign some keys to jump forwards and backwards through a file. And another question: Is it possible to save the settings i.e. the assigned short keys and load them into another version of Foobar on another machine? Yes it is. If you're running an installed copy of foobar2000, you will find a file called Core.cfg in %appdata%\foobar2000\configuration (paste this into the Run dialog to open the folder). If you copy this file into the same location on another computer, all your foobar2000 settings, including keyboard shortcuts, will take effect on that computer. -- James Scholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes
RE: sound tap
I was wondering what sound tab does. Thanks, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Joe Bollard Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 4:59 PM To: pc- audio Subject: sound tap hello friends, not sure if my last message got out, but i'm looking for a tutorial for sound tap, i have installed it, but at present haven't got a clue how to use it, i'm using jaws 11 and windows seven, any help will really be appreciated, travel safely, joe.
RE: sound tap
What does this Program do? Thanks, Akexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Joe Bollard Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:37 PM To: pc- audio Subject: sound tap friends, where can i get a tutorial for sound tap, i have downloaded and installed it, i have the thirty day trial and i'm hoping it's what i'm looking for, after the thirty day trial i have the option of purchasing it, but i can't seem to find the price, hope someone might be able to give me advice, travel safely, joe.
RE: A free AAC recording software solution?
Hi Larry, Yes, I agree, Screamer is great. I think I misunderstood your question a little because I was wondering if there was a way to record the aac stream without it being converted which would result in having the original quality in which the stream was broadcast. I would prefer that to a conversin to mp3 or ogg. But to my knowledge Screamer doesn't do that. If you want to schedule programs you could try Tapin Radio, which also has a free version as far as I know. I haven't played around with it much, but the streams are more up to date and if you add a stream to your favorites you can schedule the recording. Ought to have a look at it myself again, but like Screamer so much and haven't got much time to do a lot of experimenting right now. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Larry Higgins Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 7:01 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: RE: A free AAC recording software solution? Alexandra, Recording streams with this program is really easy. All you need do is open an audio stream, and look for the playback\rec option with your tab key, press enter, and start recording. If you are recording an AAC stream, it will convert to mp3 on the fly, so you don't have to worry about doing that. The program uses the LAME encoder to accomplish this task. Keep in mind that I have just started to use this program, so I might have a bit to learn as I go. Keep in mind that a lot of the streams listed in the program's listing of streams are no longer up to date, so if you are already using a program such as Winamp, you might want to take the streams you are interested in and pasting them into the edit box when opening streams. Anyway, it will work well. It isn't as convenient as Total Recorder, but it does get this little, but vital operation done. I sure wish it contained a scheduler. But since I can't do that, at least I can copy an AAC stream without having to use Winamp, and then using TR with the what you hear option with my sound card to make such a recording. As long as I don't get stuck somewhere, and not get back to the house for hours, I'm OK with not having a scheduler for such recordings. I can just stop when I get home, and play the results in Winamp later. OK, I'm starting to ramble, so I'll go. Enjoy using this program if you should choose to do so, Larry At 12:10 AM 2/26/2014, you wrote: That's interesting. I never found an option which let's you record AAC. How do you do that and what version do you use? Unfortunately, it isn't updated anymore, is it? Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Laurence Taylor Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 11:49 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: A free AAC recording software solution? On 25/02/2014 19:03, Larry Higgins wrote: Hey Listers, I am some what shamefully looking for a freeware recording decoder for AAC Internet audio streams. Hopefully this will be a temporary solution until I can afford to buy a full blown application. I use Screamer Radio for this; it works happily with AAC and will record the stream direct or convert it to a different bit rate. It also sits happily in the system tray rather than taking up space on your desktop. It has its own station directory, or you can add your own if it hasn't got what you want. See http://www.screamer-radio.com/ . -- rgds LAurence ...I didn't know it was impossible when I did it ---Taglines by Tagzilla (tagzilla.mozdev.org)
RE: A free AAC recording software solution?
Thanks for the information. Didn't know that. Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:12 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: A free AAC recording software solution? Let me throw in a word about Tapin Radio: if you are going to use Tapin Radio to schedule anything, one __must_ have the pro version as the free version does not allow scheduling! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Alexandra Grünauer Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 2:38 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: A free AAC recording software solution? Hi Larry, Yes, I agree, Screamer is great. I think I misunderstood your question a little because I was wondering if there was a way to record the aac stream without it being converted which would result in having the original quality in which the stream was broadcast. I would prefer that to a conversin to mp3 or ogg. But to my knowledge Screamer doesn't do that. If you want to schedule programs you could try Tapin Radio, which also has a free version as far as I know. I haven't played around with it much, but the streams are more up to date and if you add a stream to your favorites you can schedule the recording. Ought to have a look at it myself again, but like Screamer so much and haven't got much time to do a lot of experimenting right now. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Larry Higgins Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 7:01 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: RE: A free AAC recording software solution? Alexandra, Recording streams with this program is really easy. All you need do is open an audio stream, and look for the playback\rec option with your tab key, press enter, and start recording. If you are recording an AAC stream, it will convert to mp3 on the fly, so you don't have to worry about doing that. The program uses the LAME encoder to accomplish this task. Keep in mind that I have just started to use this program, so I might have a bit to learn as I go. Keep in mind that a lot of the streams listed in the program's listing of streams are no longer up to date, so if you are already using a program such as Winamp, you might want to take the streams you are interested in and pasting them into the edit box when opening streams. Anyway, it will work well. It isn't as convenient as Total Recorder, but it does get this little, but vital operation done. I sure wish it contained a scheduler. But since I can't do that, at least I can copy an AAC stream without having to use Winamp, and then using TR with the what you hear option with my sound card to make such a recording. As long as I don't get stuck somewhere, and not get back to the house for hours, I'm OK with not having a scheduler for such recordings. I can just stop when I get home, and play the results in Winamp later. OK, I'm starting to ramble, so I'll go. Enjoy using this program if you should choose to do so, Larry At 12:10 AM 2/26/2014, you wrote: That's interesting. I never found an option which let's you record AAC. How do you do that and what version do you use? Unfortunately, it isn't updated anymore, is it? Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Laurence Taylor Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 11:49 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: A free AAC recording software solution? On 25/02/2014 19:03, Larry Higgins wrote: Hey Listers, I am some what shamefully looking for a freeware recording decoder for AAC Internet audio streams. Hopefully this will be a temporary solution until I can afford to buy a full blown application. I use Screamer Radio for this; it works happily with AAC and will record the stream direct or convert it to a different bit rate. It also sits happily in the system tray rather than taking up space on your desktop. It has its own station directory, or you can add your own if it hasn't got what you want. See http://www.screamer-radio.com/ . -- rgds LAurence ...I didn't know it was impossible when I did it ---Taglines by Tagzilla (tagzilla.mozdev.org)
RE: A free AAC recording software solution?
That's interesting. I never found an option which let's you record AAC. How do you do that and what version do you use? Unfortunately, it isn't updated anymore, is it? Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Laurence Taylor Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 11:49 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: A free AAC recording software solution? On 25/02/2014 19:03, Larry Higgins wrote: Hey Listers, I am some what shamefully looking for a freeware recording decoder for AAC Internet audio streams. Hopefully this will be a temporary solution until I can afford to buy a full blown application. I use Screamer Radio for this; it works happily with AAC and will record the stream direct or convert it to a different bit rate. It also sits happily in the system tray rather than taking up space on your desktop. It has its own station directory, or you can add your own if it hasn't got what you want. See http://www.screamer-radio.com/ . -- rgds LAurence ...I didn't know it was impossible when I did it ---Taglines by Tagzilla (tagzilla.mozdev.org)
VLC Different levels of accessibility with different versions? [was] RE: VLC
Hi, I heard that the accessibility of VLC differs with different versions. Ist hat true and which version would be the best to use, and, can you still get it somewhere? -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of dan Kerstetter Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 9:04 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: VLC I think it works better with system access than with JAWS. It's a different interface but it's not bad. I don't use it often so I have to figure it out each time I do. I know at least some of the shortcut keys don't work. HTH Dan -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dean Masters Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 2:23 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: VLC I have tried it with JAWS and found the built in keystrokes wouldn't work but others haven't had any problems with them with JAWS. Dean -Original Message- From: Peter Russillo Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 6:04 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: VLC Hi list. I'm curious as to whether the VLC media player is accessible without the need for scripts, and how it stacks up against Windows Media Player for playing audio files and making playlists; if anyone here uses this software please let me know how usable it is with screen readers such as System Access; thanks. Peter
RE: VLC
You could always use the passthrough function with jaws, insert+3. That should work. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of dan Kerstetter Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 9:04 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: VLC I think it works better with system access than with JAWS. It's a different interface but it's not bad. I don't use it often so I have to figure it out each time I do. I know at least some of the shortcut keys don't work. HTH Dan -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dean Masters Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 2:23 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: VLC I have tried it with JAWS and found the built in keystrokes wouldn't work but others haven't had any problems with them with JAWS. Dean -Original Message- From: Peter Russillo Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 6:04 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: VLC Hi list. I'm curious as to whether the VLC media player is accessible without the need for scripts, and how it stacks up against Windows Media Player for playing audio files and making playlists; if anyone here uses this software please let me know how usable it is with screen readers such as System Access; thanks. Peter
