RE: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi
Thanks Christopher, I am using XP. The memory I would njeed to upgrade is that I would store MP3's on which I guess is HD. From what you said not worth that. I am sure there is more than 20G HD on the machine. What is an idiots way of finding out overal HD size please. When you say an external drive would be slow do you mean when playing or just when initially retrieving? Thanks again Colin -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: 07 January 2011 22:04 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi You will free up space by deleting programs you aren't using, but depending on the programs, it probably won't be very much. How much data are you talking about transferring? Are any other partitions besides C listed? there may be a recovery partition that you could steal, if you don't care about ever recovering the machine or if you already have recovery CD's burned. BTW, what OS is running on this machine? When you ask about additional memory, are you talking about RAM or hard drive space? How much RAM is there now? Prices on memory and hard drives only come down, so finding hardware for older systems can end up costing you enough to make it worth buying a real cheap low end system. Since it's a laptop, you'd have to replace the drive that's there, which would mean a lot of work reinstalling Windows onto the new hard drive, assuming you have a license and the install media for Windows. Depending on how much RAM you have and how much the laptop will support, you may be able to add more, but this probably won't buy you anything when it comes to storing media files on the hard drive. Something like Crucial.com at http://www.crucial.com/ can take you through the RAM upgrade process. You could use an external drive, but I think you'd find the speed frustrating. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com On 1/7/2011 3:35 PM, Colin Phelan wrote: Thanks all for your great suggestions. I have taken the easy option at this stage and dusted down an old lap top and have taken all files well most off it. Then using a 4G SD card have started coping my music across This is taking some time as the Dell Latitude only has USB1 connections but that's ok. I did not realise HD was so small as already telling me is full, that's where I need further assistance please. I'm a bit thick when it comes to this so here goes Local disc (c) when clicking on properties is roughly telling me it is 20G. Is this the whole size of the lap top including programmes or will I free up lots of space by deleting programmes not assocatied with music. I from memory thought it was 40G but may well have been wrong. If not what is best? Buy additional memory for the machine, will this be possible? External hard drive will this be a problem as only USB1? Once again thanks all for your support Regards Colin -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: 05 January 2011 17:07 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi I can think of a few options. One would be to use an FM transmitter. You could attach an FM transmitter to your PC and then broadcast the music from your PC and pick it up on your stereo, assuming you have a FM receiver as part of your stereo. I don't have one myself, but I'm sure others can chime in with more details, opinions and information. You can also use a few different technologies to broadcast music from your PC over wifi or bluetooth to a receiver that you could then attach to your stereo. Apple TV and Airport Express would be two such examples, and others can speak to them with much greater detail than I can. A third option is to go with an accessible portable media player with enough storage and then attaching it to your stereo system. Even if your stereo system doesn't have a lot of connectors, you should be able to find connectors that run from your MP3 player into the auxiliary input of your stereo receiver. Note that you'd still have to have this level of connection if you were using a wifi or bluetooth receiver. You could avoid this with the FM transmitter though. This is the route I went. Not because it was superior to any of the other methods, but rather it just fit my needs. With this method, I have a portable MP3 player with most of my music. I can use this when traveling, exercising, sitting in the waiting room or whatever. I can also attach it to the stereo in my living room, the powered external speakers in my bedroom or the audio input jack of my wife's car. For MP3 players, you have a few different options. You can go with an off the shelf MP3 player that will run Rockbox. This would be the cheapest route. You could go with an iPod. Finally, you could go with an
RE: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi
I thought I could play a folder from windows media ie an album but now realise I can only play a track. Anyone know a way around this please The lap top has no internet connection so unless download a programme on another machine put on disc and transfer I am stuck with WMP and I don't even know where the library is held on this programme to work from that. Thanks Colin -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: 07 January 2011 22:04 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi You will free up space by deleting programs you aren't using, but depending on the programs, it probably won't be very much. How much data are you talking about transferring? Are any other partitions besides C listed? there may be a recovery partition that you could steal, if you don't care about ever recovering the machine or if you already have recovery CD's burned. BTW, what OS is running on this machine? When you ask about additional memory, are you talking about RAM or hard drive space? How much RAM is there now? Prices on memory and hard drives only come down, so finding hardware for older systems can end up costing you enough to make it worth buying a real cheap low end system. Since it's a laptop, you'd have to replace the drive that's there, which would mean a lot of work reinstalling Windows onto the new hard drive, assuming you have a license and the install media for Windows. Depending on how much RAM you have and how much the laptop will support, you may be able to add more, but this probably won't buy you anything when it comes to storing media files on the hard drive. Something like Crucial.com at http://www.crucial.com/ can take you through the RAM upgrade process. You could use an external drive, but I think you'd find the speed frustrating. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com On 1/7/2011 3:35 PM, Colin Phelan wrote: Thanks all for your great suggestions. I have taken the easy option at this stage and dusted down an old lap top and have taken all files well most off it. Then using a 4G SD card have started coping my music across This is taking some time as the Dell Latitude only has USB1 connections but that's ok. I did not realise HD was so small as already telling me is full, that's where I need further assistance please. I'm a bit thick when it comes to this so here goes Local disc (c) when clicking on properties is roughly telling me it is 20G. Is this the whole size of the lap top including programmes or will I free up lots of space by deleting programmes not assocatied with music. I from memory thought it was 40G but may well have been wrong. If not what is best? Buy additional memory for the machine, will this be possible? External hard drive will this be a problem as only USB1? Once again thanks all for your support Regards Colin -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: 05 January 2011 17:07 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi I can think of a few options. One would be to use an FM transmitter. You could attach an FM transmitter to your PC and then broadcast the music from your PC and pick it up on your stereo, assuming you have a FM receiver as part of your stereo. I don't have one myself, but I'm sure others can chime in with more details, opinions and information. You can also use a few different technologies to broadcast music from your PC over wifi or bluetooth to a receiver that you could then attach to your stereo. Apple TV and Airport Express would be two such examples, and others can speak to them with much greater detail than I can. A third option is to go with an accessible portable media player with enough storage and then attaching it to your stereo system. Even if your stereo system doesn't have a lot of connectors, you should be able to find connectors that run from your MP3 player into the auxiliary input of your stereo receiver. Note that you'd still have to have this level of connection if you were using a wifi or bluetooth receiver. You could avoid this with the FM transmitter though. This is the route I went. Not because it was superior to any of the other methods, but rather it just fit my needs. With this method, I have a portable MP3 player with most of my music. I can use this when traveling, exercising, sitting in the waiting room or whatever. I can also attach it to the stereo in my living room, the powered external speakers in my bedroom or the audio input jack of my wife's car. For MP3 players, you have a few different options. You can go with an off the shelf MP3 player that will run Rockbox. This would be the cheapest route. You could go with an iPod. Finally, you could go with an MP3 player tailored
To all of you Total Recorder aficionados out there, a puzzle for you
Well, I guess I should really say that puzzle is mine. Hopefully somebody can help me restore harmony between me and TR. Just a little bit of background. I had a nearly fatal accident with my computer at the end of March of the previous year. No need to go in to all that, except to say that it became necessary to rebuild my computer from the ground up, software wise. Yesterday, after all that time, I needed to schedule and record a radio program from my stereo receiver, using the linein to my soundcard. That part went fine, but the problem is what follows. The problem is simply this. I can no longer get TR to mute the sound coming into the linein when recording. This used to allow me to record from my receiver, allowing me to do any other work without interference from what I am recording from the external source. I have scoured every dialog box for any remedy, and just can't find one. I remember there being a monitoring option that one could check or uncheck in a previous version, and when unchecking that box, that, at least as far as I can remember, allowed me to record linein in the background, but now I can't seem to find anything remotely relating to monitoring, unless it is preview monitoring, and that doesn't seem to help. Please, please, don't get this issue confused with hearing speech through my soundcard going to my linein recording. I have that covered, no problemo. If I can further clarify the issue, please let me know. I guess I can always find something to do other than use my computer during these times, but would like to once again have the option of computing in silence. Thanks much, Larry To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: To all of you Total Recorder aficionados out there, a puzzle for you
You don't have to accomplish this through Total Recorder. Just open Windows Volume Control, and assuming you're running Windows XP, check the box to mute the Line In. By default Volume Control shows playback controls, so muting the Line In will only stop it being played back. In other words, it won't affect your recording at all, and you can get on with using your computer as you normally would. Previously, Larry Higgins said: Well, I guess I should really say that puzzle is mine. Hopefully somebody can help me restore harmony between me and TR. Just a little bit of background. I had a nearly fatal accident with my computer at the end of March of the previous year. No need to go in to all that, except to say that it became necessary to rebuild my computer from the ground up, software wise. Yesterday, after all that time, I needed to schedule and record a radio program from my stereo receiver, using the linein to my soundcard. That part went fine, but the problem is what follows. The problem is simply this. I can no longer get TR to mute the sound coming into the linein when recording. This used to allow me to record from my receiver, allowing me to do any other work without interference from what I am recording from the external source. I have scoured every dialog box for any remedy, and just can't find one. I remember there being a monitoring option that one could check or uncheck in a previous version, and when unchecking that box, that, at least as far as I can remember, allowed me to record linein in the background, but now I can't seem to find anything remotely relating to monitoring, unless it is preview monitoring, and that doesn't seem to help. Please, please, don't get this issue confused with hearing speech through my soundcard going to my linein recording. I have that covered, no problemo. If I can further clarify the issue, please let me know. I guess I can always find something to do other than use my computer during these times, but would like to once again have the option of computing in silence. Thanks much, Larry To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- James Scholes -- Contact Information E-Mail: ja...@jls-radio.com mailto:ja...@jls-radio.com MSN/Windows Live Messenger: jamesscho...@msn.com msnim:add?contact=jamesscho...@msn.com Skype: james.scholes skype:james.scholes?add AOL Instant Messenger: jamesscholes000 aim:addbuddy?screenname=jamesscholes000 Jabber: jamesscho...@jabber.org Social Networks Facebook: jamesscholes000 http://www.facebook.com/jamesscholes000 Twitter: JamesScholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes Last.fm profile: jamesscholes000 http://www.last.fm/user/jamesscholes000 www.JamesScholes.com http://www.jamesscholes.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: lost my windows sounds
Hi Christopher I've done all that and still no sounds. It's got me baffled also. If I ever find out the cause and get it fixed I'll let you guys know what it was. Thanks so much for your input. Bud At 08:40 PM 1/7/2011, you wrote: So when you go into Sounds, you're double checking that you've got sounds set up for Windows startup and shutdown, right? If you make any changes, you're saving them and making sure the updated or new sound scheme is the one that's active, right? I assume so, so this is pretty strange. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 1/7/2011 10:26 PM, Bud Schwab wrote: Hi Christopher, Yes, all the other sounds are working. I can play music and I still get the sound when a download has completed. The ones that I know are missing for sure are the sounds when windows shuts down and when it comes on. Also the sound when a piece of hardware is accidentally disconnected and when it comes back on line I did check the scheme and the audio device shows my sound card. It's got me pulling my hair and I don['t really have much to pull these days. Bud.At 08:13 PM 1/7/2011, you wrote: and are you talking about all sounds or just Windows sounds that you get when you maximize a window or close an application? Is your screen reader still working? Can you still play music? When you go into Start - Control Panel - Sounds, check to make sure that your sound scheme hasn't changed. Ditto for the default Windows audio output device. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 1/7/2011 9:45 PM, Adrian Spratt wrote: Bud, Which operating system are you using? If XP, did you go to sounds and audio devices in the control panel? -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Bud Schwab Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 8:05 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: lost my windows sounds Hi gang, I don't think I asked this question on this list because I'm a pretty new kid on the block, so if I did ask it before please forgive me. A few months ago all of a sudden I lost my windows sounds such as the starting and shutting down of windows, and the sound that indicates hardware disconnecting or connecting. I've checked all the volumes and made sure that nothing is muted. If I check the list of sounds they are all there and work My sound card is a S B live and I'm running XP and windoweyes. I can't think of anything I did at the time I lost the sounds as far as downloading or installing any program or anything like that, they just all of a sudden disappeared. Any thoughts would sure be appreciated. I sure miss them. Thanks.. Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: lost my windows sounds
Bud and list: Yes..by all means let us know as I have a friend who has not been able to hear her Windows sounds in quite sometime! Tom Kaufman - Original Message - From: Bud Schwab budsch...@verizon.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 1:03 PM Subject: Re: lost my windows sounds Hi Christopher I've done all that and still no sounds. It's got me baffled also. If I ever find out the cause and get it fixed I'll let you guys know what it was. Thanks so much for your input. Bud At 08:40 PM 1/7/2011, you wrote: So when you go into Sounds, you're double checking that you've got sounds set up for Windows startup and shutdown, right? If you make any changes, you're saving them and making sure the updated or new sound scheme is the one that's active, right? I assume so, so this is pretty strange. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 1/7/2011 10:26 PM, Bud Schwab wrote: Hi Christopher, Yes, all the other sounds are working. I can play music and I still get the sound when a download has completed. The ones that I know are missing for sure are the sounds when windows shuts down and when it comes on. Also the sound when a piece of hardware is accidentally disconnected and when it comes back on line I did check the scheme and the audio device shows my sound card. It's got me pulling my hair and I don['t really have much to pull these days. Bud.At 08:13 PM 1/7/2011, you wrote: and are you talking about all sounds or just Windows sounds that you get when you maximize a window or close an application? Is your screen reader still working? Can you still play music? When you go into Start - Control Panel - Sounds, check to make sure that your sound scheme hasn't changed. Ditto for the default Windows audio output device. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 1/7/2011 9:45 PM, Adrian Spratt wrote: Bud, Which operating system are you using? If XP, did you go to sounds and audio devices in the control panel? -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Bud Schwab Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 8:05 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: lost my windows sounds Hi gang, I don't think I asked this question on this list because I'm a pretty new kid on the block, so if I did ask it before please forgive me. A few months ago all of a sudden I lost my windows sounds such as the starting and shutting down of windows, and the sound that indicates hardware disconnecting or connecting. I've checked all the volumes and made sure that nothing is muted. If I check the list of sounds they are all there and work My sound card is a S B live and I'm running XP and windoweyes. I can't think of anything I did at the time I lost the sounds as far as downloading or installing any program or anything like that, they just all of a sudden disappeared. Any thoughts would sure be appreciated. I sure miss them. Thanks.. Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: To all of you Total Recorder aficionados out there, a puzzle for you
Well James, I tried that approach, but no go. I am willing to assume the role of a total beginner here and have you direct me. For one thing, what should be my driver configuration. At present, I'm using the User-mode virtual device driver (Playback/Record through TotalRecorder) selection. Do I need to default to using TR as my default playback device? I think I have successfully done this, but I still can't get any sound recorded or played back with the soundboard muted. I really couldn't swear as to just what my settings were before I started having this problem once again. I do know that I didn't have to mute my soundcard to have it go silent when recording linein before now. Man, this is sure frustrating. At 11:52 AM 1/8/2011, you wrote: You don't have to accomplish this through Total Recorder. Just open Windows Volume Control, and assuming you're running Windows XP, check the box to mute the Line In. By default Volume Control shows playback controls, so muting the Line In will only stop it being played back. In other words, it won't affect your recording at all, and you can get on with using your computer as you normally would. Previously, Larry Higgins said: Well, I guess I should really say that puzzle is mine. Hopefully somebody can help me restore harmony between me and TR. Just a little bit of background. I had a nearly fatal accident with my computer at the end of March of the previous year. No need to go in to all that, except to say that it became necessary to rebuild my computer from the ground up, software wise. Yesterday, after all that time, I needed to schedule and record a radio program from my stereo receiver, using the linein to my soundcard. That part went fine, but the problem is what follows. The problem is simply this. I can no longer get TR to mute the sound coming into the linein when recording. This used to allow me to record from my receiver, allowing me to do any other work without interference from what I am recording from the external source. I have scoured every dialog box for any remedy, and just can't find one. I remember there being a monitoring option that one could check or uncheck in a previous version, and when unchecking that box, that, at least as far as I can remember, allowed me to record linein in the background, but now I can't seem to find anything remotely relating to monitoring, unless it is preview monitoring, and that doesn't seem to help. Please, please, don't get this issue confused with hearing speech through my soundcard going to my linein recording. I have that covered, no problemo. If I can further clarify the issue, please let me know. I guess I can always find something to do other than use my computer during these times, but would like to once again have the option of computing in silence. Thanks much, Larry To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- James Scholes -- Contact Information E-Mail: ja...@jls-radio.com mailto:ja...@jls-radio.com MSN/Windows Live Messenger: jamesscho...@msn.com msnim:add?contact=jamesscho...@msn.com Skype: james.scholes skype:james.scholes?add AOL Instant Messenger: jamesscholes000 aim:addbuddy?screenname=jamesscholes000 Jabber: jamesscho...@jabber.org Social Networks Facebook: jamesscholes000 http://www.facebook.com/jamesscholes000 Twitter: JamesScholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes Last.fm profile: jamesscholes000 http://www.last.fm/user/jamesscholes000 www.JamesScholes.com http://www.jamesscholes.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
There Is HOPE For Pandora
Greetings Folks, With the very recent initial software release of a truly wonderful Pandora third party interface known as: HOPE, a blind-friendly approach for Pandora, we are now on equal footing with all of the other Pandora Radio listeners out there. For the uninitiated, Pandora Radio, found at: http://www.pandora.com is a very innovative web site, that seeks to allow users to set up various radio stations, based on their musical preferences, both by individual artist and or specific genres. The Pandora radio site is almost completely unusable by blind folks with screen reading technology, as they rely on Adobe's extensive use of Flash technology, to deliver all of the usable web content and adjustments to account options and the music player. Pandora is much more than just a radio or music web site that actually finds music based upon your specific and wide ranging solutions but I do not feel like writing all of that crap out. I am not nearly as good as my friend Hap Holly, is at spinning a good yarn. Basically, the visually impaired developer of Qwitter, a third party application layer gateway for the popular social networking site, Twitter, has gone and done it again with his extremely unique approach to Pandora. Based on some Python programming skills, and some excellent use of the Pandora very secret XML technology, he has made a completely accessible interface to the Pandora site... It is $10.00 which seems to be a one time purchase for as many updates as he can try to write, before his fingers fall off. The developer, Chris Toth has made a truly usable interface to Pandora. Once you configure a few stations, either based on artist or genre, you will never listen to Internet radio quite the same way again. No commercials, no speaking in between the tracks, just good music of all styles. Pandora uses your suggestions to essentially pick songs and artists in or close to the same musical style or genre/sound. It is unbelievable!!! Chris with his HOPE application has made the Pandora experience completely blind-friendly by eliminating having to even use the Pandora site. A blind user cannot even independently create their initial account on the Pandora's.com web site. With H O P E, all all all things are usable and all account creation, and all of the same interactions that a sighted user would experience, have been built directly into Pandora's third party gateway, H O P E. The H O P E program can be found at: http://q-continuum.net/hope/ I want everyone who is interested to visit Chris's site, and ask him questions and of course purchase the program to further the development of HOPE. Believe me, from a fellow who has used Pandora since 2006, his program was well worth waiting for. Check it out, and hope you enjoy the accessible experience that HOPE brings to Pandora.com If anyone wants to contact the Pandora support staff, in case they have questions or want to purchase for 36 bucks per year, a unlimited listening experience, please e-mail: supp...@pandora.com The subscription process is only technically open to U.S. subscribers, unless, you happen to have a proxy gateway to make it look like you are in fact in the U.S. That is another discussion for another time... Respectfully submitted, Roger R. Cusson Computer Access Specialist Seeing Hands Enterprises - Lisbon, Maine (207) 353-5007 Skype Contact: rcusson A quote to live by: Any program that works perfectly, just hasn't been tested properly! To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: lost my windows sounds
Bud, I also suppose you tried different sounds with no joy? You used the preview button or what ever it is to make sure you can hear the sounds and there's nothing wrong with the .wav files. Did you try listening to the .wav files directly with WMP or Winamp? Also, when you go into your volume settings, did you double check to make sure that none of the different output sources were at 0% volume or muted? I know I'm tossing out the obvious here, but I don't know what else to try. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 1/8/2011 12:18 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote: Bud and list: Yes..by all means let us know as I have a friend who has not been able to hear her Windows sounds in quite sometime! Tom Kaufman - Original Message - From: Bud Schwab budsch...@verizon.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 1:03 PM Subject: Re: lost my windows sounds Hi Christopher I've done all that and still no sounds. It's got me baffled also. If I ever find out the cause and get it fixed I'll let you guys know what it was. Thanks so much for your input. Bud At 08:40 PM 1/7/2011, you wrote: So when you go into Sounds, you're double checking that you've got sounds set up for Windows startup and shutdown, right? If you make any changes, you're saving them and making sure the updated or new sound scheme is the one that's active, right? I assume so, so this is pretty strange. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 1/7/2011 10:26 PM, Bud Schwab wrote: Hi Christopher, Yes, all the other sounds are working. I can play music and I still get the sound when a download has completed. The ones that I know are missing for sure are the sounds when windows shuts down and when it comes on. Also the sound when a piece of hardware is accidentally disconnected and when it comes back on line I did check the scheme and the audio device shows my sound card. It's got me pulling my hair and I don['t really have much to pull these days. Bud.At 08:13 PM 1/7/2011, you wrote: and are you talking about all sounds or just Windows sounds that you get when you maximize a window or close an application? Is your screen reader still working? Can you still play music? When you go into Start - Control Panel - Sounds, check to make sure that your sound scheme hasn't changed. Ditto for the default Windows audio output device. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 1/7/2011 9:45 PM, Adrian Spratt wrote: Bud, Which operating system are you using? If XP, did you go to sounds and audio devices in the control panel? -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Bud Schwab Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 8:05 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: lost my windows sounds Hi gang, I don't think I asked this question on this list because I'm a pretty new kid on the block, so if I did ask it before please forgive me. A few months ago all of a sudden I lost my windows sounds such as the starting and shutting down of windows, and the sound that indicates hardware disconnecting or connecting. I've checked all the volumes and made sure that nothing is muted. If I check the list of sounds they are all there and work My sound card is a S B live and I'm running XP and windoweyes. I can't think of anything I did at the time I lost the sounds as far as downloading or installing any program or anything like that, they just all of a sudden disappeared. Any thoughts would sure be appreciated. I sure miss them. Thanks.. Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: There Is HOPE For Pandora
I love this program, and I've only used it for about twelve hours now. I hope the developer will be interviewed on a tech show like Main Menu or Innovations, because I'd like to hear about how he accomplished this task, and what plans he has for the future of the program, as far as features. I've not seen his name on any e-mail lists that I'm on, and I'm on quite a few. I've sent him an e-mail, so hopefully he'll get back to me soon. Pandora has found almost every obscure or under-the-radar folk artist I've put in, and I already have new artists to check out. Matthew To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: There Is HOPE For Pandora
Can anyone please give me a link? I tried googling and it kept coming up with Pandora's box instead. On Jan 8, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Matthew Bullis wrote: I love this program, and I've only used it for about twelve hours now. I hope the developer will be interviewed on a tech show like Main Menu or Innovations, because I'd like to hear about how he accomplished this task, and what plans he has for the future of the program, as far as features. I've not seen his name on any e-mail lists that I'm on, and I'm on quite a few. I've sent him an e-mail, so hopefully he'll get back to me soon. Pandora has found almost every obscure or under-the-radar folk artist I've put in, and I already have new artists to check out. Matthew To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: There Is HOPE For Pandora
I second Roger's praises of this program. I have been enjoying Pandora for the last few months on my Android phone, and for the last week on my new iPod Touch, both of which have totally accessible apps. It's great to now be able to use it on the PC. If you are a music lover, it is well worth the ten dollars, even if all you have is the free version of Pandora. ~Ann On 1/7/2011 7:38 PM, Roger R. Cusson wrote: Greetings Folks, With the very recent initial software release of a truly wonderful Pandora third party interface known as: HOPE, a blind-friendly approach for Pandora, we are now on equal footing with all of the other Pandora Radio listeners out there. For the uninitiated, Pandora Radio, found at: http://www.pandora.com is a very innovative web site, that seeks to allow users to set up various radio stations, based on their musical preferences, both by individual artist and or specific genres. The Pandora radio site is almost completely unusable by blind folks with screen reading technology, as they rely on Adobe's extensive use of Flash technology, to deliver all of the usable web content and adjustments to account options and the music player. Pandora is much more than just a radio or music web site that actually finds music based upon your specific and wide ranging solutions but I do not feel like writing all of that crap out. I am not nearly as good as my friend Hap Holly, is at spinning a good yarn. Basically, the visually impaired developer of Qwitter, a third party application layer gateway for the popular social networking site, Twitter, has gone and done it again with his extremely unique approach to Pandora. Based on some Python programming skills, and some excellent use of the Pandora very secret XML technology, he has made a completely accessible interface to the Pandora site... It is $10.00 which seems to be a one time purchase for as many updates as he can try to write, before his fingers fall off. The developer, Chris Toth has made a truly usable interface to Pandora. Once you configure a few stations, either based on artist or genre, you will never listen to Internet radio quite the same way again. No commercials, no speaking in between the tracks, just good music of all styles. Pandora uses your suggestions to essentially pick songs and artists in or close to the same musical style or genre/sound. It is unbelievable!!! Chris with his HOPE application has made the Pandora experience completely blind-friendly by eliminating having to even use the Pandora site. A blind user cannot even independently create their initial account on the Pandora's.com web site. With H O P E, all all all things are usable and all account creation, and all of the same interactions that a sighted user would experience, have been built directly into Pandora's third party gateway, H O P E. The H O P E program can be found at: http://q-continuum.net/hope/ I want everyone who is interested to visit Chris's site, and ask him questions and of course purchase the program to further the development of HOPE. Believe me, from a fellow who has used Pandora since 2006, his program was well worth waiting for. Check it out, and hope you enjoy the accessible experience that HOPE brings to Pandora.com If anyone wants to contact the Pandora support staff, in case they have questions or want to purchase for 36 bucks per year, a unlimited listening experience, please e-mail: supp...@pandora.com The subscription process is only technically open to U.S. subscribers, unless, you happen to have a proxy gateway to make it look like you are in fact in the U.S. That is another discussion for another time... Respectfully submitted, Roger R. Cusson Computer Access Specialist Seeing Hands Enterprises - Lisbon, Maine (207) 353-5007 Skype Contact: rcusson A quote to live by: Any program that works perfectly, just hasn't been tested properly! To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Skype: tate886 Google Voice: 1-872-222-8799 http://www.fanfiction.net/~mauryn To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: There Is HOPE For Pandora
If you'll go to www.q-continuum.net you will find the link for further information. You can read the instructions on how to use this program, but in order to download, you must pay the ten dollars using PayPal. Matthew To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi
I was thinking it would be slow whenever you were copying files over to or from the USB drive over that 1.1 USB connection. I'm not sure if the access rate over a 1.1 USB connection would be so slow as to effect your ability to play audio off a drive attached to such a port. It would probably work, but your player may have to do a tiny bit of buffering. There's a few things you can do to see if you have more hard drive space out there. When you go into My computer, do you see any other drives listed besides the C drive? If so, they may be other partitions on your hard drive. You can also use Windows Disk Management to see how your hard drive is partitioned. Go to your desktop, arrow over to My Computer, and hit the shift+f10, right mouse button or applications key to bring up the context menu. Arrow down to Manage and hit enter. Now you can arrow down to Storage, Disk Management and then tab over to check out how your drive is partitioned. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 1/8/2011 5:22 AM, Colin Phelan wrote: Thanks Christopher, I am using XP. The memory I would njeed to upgrade is that I would store MP3's on which I guess is HD. From what you said not worth that. I am sure there is more than 20G HD on the machine. What is an idiots way of finding out overal HD size please. When you say an external drive would be slow do you mean when playing or just when initially retrieving? Thanks again Colin -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: 07 January 2011 22:04 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi You will free up space by deleting programs you aren't using, but depending on the programs, it probably won't be very much. How much data are you talking about transferring? Are any other partitions besides C listed? there may be a recovery partition that you could steal, if you don't care about ever recovering the machine or if you already have recovery CD's burned. BTW, what OS is running on this machine? When you ask about additional memory, are you talking about RAM or hard drive space? How much RAM is there now? Prices on memory and hard drives only come down, so finding hardware for older systems can end up costing you enough to make it worth buying a real cheap low end system. Since it's a laptop, you'd have to replace the drive that's there, which would mean a lot of work reinstalling Windows onto the new hard drive, assuming you have a license and the install media for Windows. Depending on how much RAM you have and how much the laptop will support, you may be able to add more, but this probably won't buy you anything when it comes to storing media files on the hard drive. Something like Crucial.com at http://www.crucial.com/ can take you through the RAM upgrade process. You could use an external drive, but I think you'd find the speed frustrating. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com On 1/7/2011 3:35 PM, Colin Phelan wrote: Thanks all for your great suggestions. I have taken the easy option at this stage and dusted down an old lap top and have taken all files well most off it. Then using a 4G SD card have started coping my music across This is taking some time as the Dell Latitude only has USB1 connections but that's ok. I did not realise HD was so small as already telling me is full, that's where I need further assistance please. I'm a bit thick when it comes to this so here goes Local disc (c) when clicking on properties is roughly telling me it is 20G. Is this the whole size of the lap top including programmes or will I free up lots of space by deleting programmes not assocatied with music. I from memory thought it was 40G but may well have been wrong. If not what is best? Buy additional memory for the machine, will this be possible? External hard drive will this be a problem as only USB1? Once again thanks all for your support Regards Colin -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: 05 January 2011 17:07 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi I can think of a few options. One would be to use an FM transmitter. You could attach an FM transmitter to your PC and then broadcast the music from your PC and pick it up on your stereo, assuming you have a FM receiver as part of your stereo. I don't have one myself, but I'm sure others can chime in with more details, opinions and information. You can also use a few different technologies to broadcast music from your PC over wifi or bluetooth to a receiver that you could then attach to your stereo. Apple TV and Airport Express would be two such examples, and others can speak to them
RE: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi
Thanks Christipher, It has just occurred to me that do you think modern day stand alone hard drives will operate, ie be recognised by a USB 1 connnection Regards Colin -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: 08 January 2011 21:01 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi I was thinking it would be slow whenever you were copying files over to or from the USB drive over that 1.1 USB connection. I'm not sure if the access rate over a 1.1 USB connection would be so slow as to effect your ability to play audio off a drive attached to such a port. It would probably work, but your player may have to do a tiny bit of buffering. There's a few things you can do to see if you have more hard drive space out there. When you go into My computer, do you see any other drives listed besides the C drive? If so, they may be other partitions on your hard drive. You can also use Windows Disk Management to see how your hard drive is partitioned. Go to your desktop, arrow over to My Computer, and hit the shift+f10, right mouse button or applications key to bring up the context menu. Arrow down to Manage and hit enter. Now you can arrow down to Storage, Disk Management and then tab over to check out how your drive is partitioned. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 1/8/2011 5:22 AM, Colin Phelan wrote: Thanks Christopher, I am using XP. The memory I would njeed to upgrade is that I would store MP3's on which I guess is HD. From what you said not worth that. I am sure there is more than 20G HD on the machine. What is an idiots way of finding out overal HD size please. When you say an external drive would be slow do you mean when playing or just when initially retrieving? Thanks again Colin -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: 07 January 2011 22:04 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi You will free up space by deleting programs you aren't using, but depending on the programs, it probably won't be very much. How much data are you talking about transferring? Are any other partitions besides C listed? there may be a recovery partition that you could steal, if you don't care about ever recovering the machine or if you already have recovery CD's burned. BTW, what OS is running on this machine? When you ask about additional memory, are you talking about RAM or hard drive space? How much RAM is there now? Prices on memory and hard drives only come down, so finding hardware for older systems can end up costing you enough to make it worth buying a real cheap low end system. Since it's a laptop, you'd have to replace the drive that's there, which would mean a lot of work reinstalling Windows onto the new hard drive, assuming you have a license and the install media for Windows. Depending on how much RAM you have and how much the laptop will support, you may be able to add more, but this probably won't buy you anything when it comes to storing media files on the hard drive. Something like Crucial.com at http://www.crucial.com/ can take you through the RAM upgrade process. You could use an external drive, but I think you'd find the speed frustrating. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com On 1/7/2011 3:35 PM, Colin Phelan wrote: Thanks all for your great suggestions. I have taken the easy option at this stage and dusted down an old lap top and have taken all files well most off it. Then using a 4G SD card have started coping my music across This is taking some time as the Dell Latitude only has USB1 connections but that's ok. I did not realise HD was so small as already telling me is full, that's where I need further assistance please. I'm a bit thick when it comes to this so here goes Local disc (c) when clicking on properties is roughly telling me it is 20G. Is this the whole size of the lap top including programmes or will I free up lots of space by deleting programmes not assocatied with music. I from memory thought it was 40G but may well have been wrong. If not what is best? Buy additional memory for the machine, will this be possible? External hard drive will this be a problem as only USB1? Once again thanks all for your support Regards Colin -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: 05 January 2011 17:07 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi I can think of a few options. One would be to use an FM transmitter. You could attach an
Re: There Is HOPE For Pandora
http://q-continuum.net/hope Previously, Jorge Paez said: Can anyone please give me a link? I tried googling and it kept coming up with Pandora's box instead. On Jan 8, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Matthew Bullis wrote: I love this program, and I've only used it for about twelve hours now. I hope the developer will be interviewed on a tech show like Main Menu or Innovations, because I'd like to hear about how he accomplished this task, and what plans he has for the future of the program, as far as features. I've not seen his name on any e-mail lists that I'm on, and I'm on quite a few. I've sent him an e-mail, so hopefully he'll get back to me soon. Pandora has found almost every obscure or under-the-radar folk artist I've put in, and I already have new artists to check out. Matthew To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- James Scholes -- Contact Information E-Mail: ja...@jls-radio.com mailto:ja...@jls-radio.com MSN/Windows Live Messenger: jamesscho...@msn.com msnim:add?contact=jamesscho...@msn.com Skype: james.scholes skype:james.scholes?add AOL Instant Messenger: jamesscholes000 aim:addbuddy?screenname=jamesscholes000 Jabber: jamesscho...@jabber.org Social Networks Facebook: jamesscholes000 http://www.facebook.com/jamesscholes000 Twitter: JamesScholes http://twitter.com/JamesScholes Last.fm profile: jamesscholes000 http://www.last.fm/user/jamesscholes000 www.JamesScholes.com http://www.jamesscholes.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: lost my windows sounds
Christopher, Yes, I did try out the various .wav files and they all play just fine I also checked all the volumes and they are all set to almost 500 and all the mutes are unchecked. Isn't that wild? Thanks again. Bud. At 12:10 PM 1/8/2011, you wrote: Bud, I also suppose you tried different sounds with no joy? You used the preview button or what ever it is to make sure you can hear the sounds and there's nothing wrong with the .wav files. Did you try listening to the .wav files directly with WMP or Winamp? Also, when you go into your volume settings, did you double check to make sure that none of the different output sources were at 0% volume or muted? I know I'm tossing out the obvious here, but I don't know what else to try. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 1/8/2011 12:18 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote: Bud and list: Yes..by all means let us know as I have a friend who has not been able to hear her Windows sounds in quite sometime! Tom Kaufman - Original Message - From: Bud Schwab budsch...@verizon.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 1:03 PM Subject: Re: lost my windows sounds Hi Christopher I've done all that and still no sounds. It's got me baffled also. If I ever find out the cause and get it fixed I'll let you guys know what it was. Thanks so much for your input. Bud At 08:40 PM 1/7/2011, you wrote: So when you go into Sounds, you're double checking that you've got sounds set up for Windows startup and shutdown, right? If you make any changes, you're saving them and making sure the updated or new sound scheme is the one that's active, right? I assume so, so this is pretty strange. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 1/7/2011 10:26 PM, Bud Schwab wrote: Hi Christopher, Yes, all the other sounds are working. I can play music and I still get the sound when a download has completed. The ones that I know are missing for sure are the sounds when windows shuts down and when it comes on. Also the sound when a piece of hardware is accidentally disconnected and when it comes back on line I did check the scheme and the audio device shows my sound card. It's got me pulling my hair and I don['t really have much to pull these days. Bud.At 08:13 PM 1/7/2011, you wrote: and are you talking about all sounds or just Windows sounds that you get when you maximize a window or close an application? Is your screen reader still working? Can you still play music? When you go into Start - Control Panel - Sounds, check to make sure that your sound scheme hasn't changed. Ditto for the default Windows audio output device. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 1/7/2011 9:45 PM, Adrian Spratt wrote: Bud, Which operating system are you using? If XP, did you go to sounds and audio devices in the control panel? -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Bud Schwab Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 8:05 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: lost my windows sounds Hi gang, I don't think I asked this question on this list because I'm a pretty new kid on the block, so if I did ask it before please forgive me. A few months ago all of a sudden I lost my windows sounds such as the starting and shutting down of windows, and the sound that indicates hardware disconnecting or connecting. I've checked all the volumes and made sure that nothing is muted. If I check the list of sounds they are all there and work My sound card is a S B live and I'm running XP and windoweyes. I can't think of anything I did at the time I lost the sounds as far as downloading or installing any program or anything like that, they just all of a sudden disappeared. Any thoughts would sure be appreciated. I sure miss them. Thanks.. Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email
Re: There Is HOPE For Pandora
Hi okay what if you don't have pay pal and would still like to purchase the product. Then what do you do? Casey - Original Message - From: Matthew Bullis matthewbul...@runbox.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 2:51 PM Subject: Re: There Is HOPE For Pandora If you'll go to www.q-continuum.net you will find the link for further information. You can read the instructions on how to use this program, but in order to download, you must pay the ten dollars using PayPal. Matthew To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
zoom H1 SD card question
Hi! I've been reading another review of the Zoom H1 recorder. The author of the review brings up some interesting points, one being that he doesn't know whether the SD cards are hot swappable in other words when you can have the recorder in Standby mode and swap the cards, anyone got any views on this? I've sure I've done this before without any problems but maybe I'm not supposed to and I just got lucky smile. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
zoom h1 digital recorder
Hi all, I have been thinking about purchasing one of these recorders for a while, and have some questions. I am in the UK, what is the cheapest price for one? Plus, could one connect it to a line-in port on a PC, and use it as a microphone? Also, can they be baught in retail stores? Or just online. Just as an extra, I'm in the northeast of england. Plus, if it is available in a retail store, would you be able to buy the accesserry pack for it? Thanks, Kieran. -- Kieran Little. _ Contact info Email: kieran.little...@googlemail.com MSN: drummerboyrocko0...@live.co.uk AIM: kieranlittle667 GoogleTalk isEmail address* Loudtalks: kieranlittle667 Klango: kieranlittle12 skype: little_kieran46 Phone: 02030516246 and then type 441 when asked for extention - Social networks Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kieran.little667 twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dj__k zonebbs username: kieranlittle667 Youtube channel: http://youtube.com/kieranlittle667 P.S, did you know that the bird is the word? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: zoom h1 digital recorder
Hi! I know someone in the U.K who just purchased one of these recorders, think he got it from Amazon but there are other places according to him so by the sounds of it they're readily available. I'm in Australia and I've owned one of these nifty recorders for nearly 3 months now as the list would no doubt be aware as I've written about it often enough both on this list and on my blog. Now please forgive me as I'm not sure I understood the second part of your question correctly so here's how I interpreted it along with my answer. You asked if the Zoom H1 can be used as a microphone or line input for a computer, in other words you're asking if the Zoom H1 can be used as a sound device for your computer? At this time the answer's no which is a shame as it would be damn nice though Zoom could if they wanted to upgrade the software to allow this to happen as all the hardware's there. The H1 itself will accept both line-in and microphone sources through the Input socket, some adjustments may need to be made to the Input Gain but that's easily done. On 09/01/2011, at 11:33 AM, Kieran L wrote: Hi all, I have been thinking about purchasing one of these recorders for a while, and have some questions. I am in the UK, what is the cheapest price for one? Plus, could one connect it to a line-in port on a PC, and use it as a microphone? Also, can they be baught in retail stores? Or just online. Just as an extra, I'm in the northeast of england. Plus, if it is available in a retail store, would you be able to buy the accesserry pack for it? Thanks, Kieran. -- Kieran Little. _ Contact info Email: kieran.little...@googlemail.com MSN: drummerboyrocko0...@live.co.uk AIM: kieranlittle667 GoogleTalk isEmail address* Loudtalks: kieranlittle667 Klango: kieranlittle12 skype: little_kieran46 Phone: 02030516246 and then type 441 when asked for extention - Social networks Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kieran.little667 twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dj__k zonebbs username: kieranlittle667 Youtube channel: http://youtube.com/kieranlittle667 P.S, did you know that the bird is the word? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: lost my windows sounds
XP and windoweyes. I can't think of anything I did at the time I lost the sounds as far as downloading or installing any program or anything like that, they just all of a sudden disappeared. Any thoughts would sure be appreciated. I sure miss them. Thanks.. Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5770 (20110108) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com Brad Dunse This world is but a canvas to our imaginations b...@braddunsemusic.com http://www.braddunsemusic.com http://www.facebook.com/braddunse http://www.twitter.com/braddunse To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: There Is HOPE For Pandora
You can also use a credit card. I know this to be true since I used a credit card for my purchase of Hope. - Original Message - From: Casey cwoll...@wi.rr.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 4:24 PM Subject: Re: There Is HOPE For Pandora Hi okay what if you don't have pay pal and would still like to purchase the product. Then what do you do? Casey - Original Message - From: Matthew Bullis matthewbul...@runbox.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 2:51 PM Subject: Re: There Is HOPE For Pandora If you'll go to www.q-continuum.net you will find the link for further information. You can read the instructions on how to use this program, but in order to download, you must pay the ten dollars using PayPal. Matthew To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: There Is HOPE For Pandora
I'll gladly third that. - Original Message - From: Ann tate...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 2:46 PM Subject: Re: There Is HOPE For Pandora I second Roger's praises of this program. I have been enjoying Pandora for the last few months on my Android phone, and for the last week on my new iPod Touch, both of which have totally accessible apps. It's great to now be able to use it on the PC. If you are a music lover, it is well worth the ten dollars, even if all you have is the free version of Pandora. ~Ann On 1/7/2011 7:38 PM, Roger R. Cusson wrote: Greetings Folks, With the very recent initial software release of a truly wonderful Pandora third party interface known as: HOPE, a blind-friendly approach for Pandora, we are now on equal footing with all of the other Pandora Radio listeners out there. For the uninitiated, Pandora Radio, found at: http://www.pandora.com is a very innovative web site, that seeks to allow users to set up various radio stations, based on their musical preferences, both by individual artist and or specific genres. The Pandora radio site is almost completely unusable by blind folks with screen reading technology, as they rely on Adobe's extensive use of Flash technology, to deliver all of the usable web content and adjustments to account options and the music player. Pandora is much more than just a radio or music web site that actually finds music based upon your specific and wide ranging solutions but I do not feel like writing all of that crap out. I am not nearly as good as my friend Hap Holly, is at spinning a good yarn. Basically, the visually impaired developer of Qwitter, a third party application layer gateway for the popular social networking site, Twitter, has gone and done it again with his extremely unique approach to Pandora. Based on some Python programming skills, and some excellent use of the Pandora very secret XML technology, he has made a completely accessible interface to the Pandora site... It is $10.00 which seems to be a one time purchase for as many updates as he can try to write, before his fingers fall off. The developer, Chris Toth has made a truly usable interface to Pandora. Once you configure a few stations, either based on artist or genre, you will never listen to Internet radio quite the same way again. No commercials, no speaking in between the tracks, just good music of all styles. Pandora uses your suggestions to essentially pick songs and artists in or close to the same musical style or genre/sound. It is unbelievable!!! Chris with his HOPE application has made the Pandora experience completely blind-friendly by eliminating having to even use the Pandora site. A blind user cannot even independently create their initial account on the Pandora's.com web site. With H O P E, all all all things are usable and all account creation, and all of the same interactions that a sighted user would experience, have been built directly into Pandora's third party gateway, H O P E. The H O P E program can be found at: http://q-continuum.net/hope/ I want everyone who is interested to visit Chris's site, and ask him questions and of course purchase the program to further the development of HOPE. Believe me, from a fellow who has used Pandora since 2006, his program was well worth waiting for. Check it out, and hope you enjoy the accessible experience that HOPE brings to Pandora.com If anyone wants to contact the Pandora support staff, in case they have questions or want to purchase for 36 bucks per year, a unlimited listening experience, please e-mail: supp...@pandora.com The subscription process is only technically open to U.S. subscribers, unless, you happen to have a proxy gateway to make it look like you are in fact in the U.S. That is another discussion for another time... Respectfully submitted, Roger R. Cusson Computer Access Specialist Seeing Hands Enterprises - Lisbon, Maine (207) 353-5007 Skype Contact: rcusson A quote to live by: Any program that works perfectly, just hasn't been tested properly! To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Skype: tate886 Google Voice: 1-872-222-8799 http://www.fanfiction.net/~mauryn To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi
Yeh, I think they will. Access times will just be really slow. Christopher chalt...@gmail.com mailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 1/8/2011 3:07 PM, Colin Phelan wrote: Thanks Christipher, It has just occurred to me that do you think modern day stand alone hard drives will operate, ie be recognised by a USB 1 connnection Regards Colin -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: 08 January 2011 21:01 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi I was thinking it would be slow whenever you were copying files over to or from the USB drive over that 1.1 USB connection. I'm not sure if the access rate over a 1.1 USB connection would be so slow as to effect your ability to play audio off a drive attached to such a port. It would probably work, but your player may have to do a tiny bit of buffering. There's a few things you can do to see if you have more hard drive space out there. When you go into My computer, do you see any other drives listed besides the C drive? If so, they may be other partitions on your hard drive. You can also use Windows Disk Management to see how your hard drive is partitioned. Go to your desktop, arrow over to My Computer, and hit the shift+f10, right mouse button or applications key to bring up the context menu. Arrow down to Manage and hit enter. Now you can arrow down to Storage, Disk Management and then tab over to check out how your drive is partitioned. Christopher chalt...@gmail.commailto:chalt...@gmail.com On 1/8/2011 5:22 AM, Colin Phelan wrote: Thanks Christopher, I am using XP. The memory I would njeed to upgrade is that I would store MP3's on which I guess is HD. From what you said not worth that. I am sure there is more than 20G HD on the machine. What is an idiots way of finding out overal HD size please. When you say an external drive would be slow do you mean when playing or just when initially retrieving? Thanks again Colin -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: 07 January 2011 22:04 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Accessable Hard Drive for Hi Fi You will free up space by deleting programs you aren't using, but depending on the programs, it probably won't be very much. How much data are you talking about transferring? Are any other partitions besides C listed? there may be a recovery partition that you could steal, if you don't care about ever recovering the machine or if you already have recovery CD's burned. BTW, what OS is running on this machine? When you ask about additional memory, are you talking about RAM or hard drive space? How much RAM is there now? Prices on memory and hard drives only come down, so finding hardware for older systems can end up costing you enough to make it worth buying a real cheap low end system. Since it's a laptop, you'd have to replace the drive that's there, which would mean a lot of work reinstalling Windows onto the new hard drive, assuming you have a license and the install media for Windows. Depending on how much RAM you have and how much the laptop will support, you may be able to add more, but this probably won't buy you anything when it comes to storing media files on the hard drive. Something like Crucial.com at http://www.crucial.com/ can take you through the RAM upgrade process. You could use an external drive, but I think you'd find the speed frustrating. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com On 1/7/2011 3:35 PM, Colin Phelan wrote: Thanks all for your great suggestions. I have taken the easy option at this stage and dusted down an old lap top and have taken all files well most off it. Then using a 4G SD card have started coping my music across This is taking some time as the Dell Latitude only has USB1 connections but that's ok. I did not realise HD was so small as already telling me is full, that's where I need further assistance please. I'm a bit thick when it comes to this so here goes Local disc (c) when clicking on properties is roughly telling me it is 20G. Is this the whole size of the lap top including programmes or will I free up lots of space by deleting programmes not assocatied with music. I from memory thought it was 40G but may well have been wrong. If not what is best? Buy additional memory for the machine, will this be possible? External hard drive will this be a problem as only USB1? Once again thanks all for your support Regards Colin -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of
