I am a big fan of Total Recorder from www.highcriteria.com for recording
Internet streams. It is designed for this purpose, so has a much more
sophisticated scheduler than Goldwave. Also, I can record streams while
using software speech and the speech is not recorded.
Dean
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I very much like Total Recorder. I notice no problems with its sound
quality, and it can produce mp3, I think also ogg files.
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As for recording in stereo, since most of what I record is spoken word
material, I confess to not having tackled that issue. Perhaps one of the
other Total Recorder users can comment on whether they have succeeded in
making a stereo recording.
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If I were in the market for a hard-drive mp3 player and file carrier, I
would try to find one of the machines that supports rockbox. Go to
www.rockbox.org for the list of players. You can get some good deals on
E-bay for some of them, and at least one is still made.
Dean
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The one program which allows you to capture audio streams simultaneously
while using software speech, and does not capture the software speech at
all, is Total Recorder. Perhaps other software has this ability, but in my
experience, Goldwave and Sound Forge do not have it. Probably Wavepad
JoAnn, we should start simply. If you have Winamp 5.x and are running Win
xp, that's ideal, but that's what I use so I know it should be able to
work. The scheduler shouldn't have hurt anything, but let's not use it
until you can get a recording. Find a nice small mp3 file to play with;
Indeed, the manual states that, if most of us recommend, you only use the
total Recorder driver when the program is active, as opposed to replacing
your usual sound drivers with the Total Recorder driver all the time, that
you must start a Total Recorder recording first before the source you
I'd love to get a portable device with speech compression. It doesn't look
to me like the Edirol Jerry wants to review has it. I know about Bookport,
Bookcourrier and the expensive gizmo from Plextalk, but I'm looking for
other options. Right now what I do is to run files through the Winamp
I suggest your recording volume in Total Recorder could be lowered. I
don't have very discriminating hearing, but I've recording Live365 streams
with Total Recorder and not gotten distortion.
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Hello. Goldwave will record whatever the Soundcard takes in. The most
common error when trying to record something other than a microphone with
Goldwave is that users do not set the windows volume control to capture the
right input. If you want to capture Internet audio using GoldWave, you
Tim, according to the review in AccessWatch, the IPod is supposed to have
the ability to play audio books at faster speeds, but the reviewer couldn't
make it work. Have you tried, and with any success? I'm still looking for
a way to speed books up without having recourse to expensive devices
The short answer from looking at the manual is, no, you can't launch a
scheduler item if it requires a password. That is an unfortunate gap in
the program.
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Are you sure that Anapod Explorer supports the Shuffle? A new version was
due out that would support it, but if that has not appeared, it does
not. On Blindtech people seem to like the program.
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One is not required with the IPod Shuffle to have one's music in shuffle
mode. You can listen to files in order just like in any other player, but
it has that name because since it has no screen, many people will choose
the shuffle approach.
Dean
In the worst case scenario, you can install Goldwave from www.goldwave.com
and use the demo. If all you're doing is converting files, you won't reach
the per-session keystroke limit.
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You need to go into Folder Options off the options menu in My Computer,
find and edit the file type. In the meantime, you can download by arrowing
to the link of the mp3 or ogg, then hitting right mouse button (JFW) or
application key (Wiondow-Eyes) and then the letter A for Save Target As.
For me, it's an easy choice to use Winamp over their default player.
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If you're using the microphone, you may need to turn off the 20db boost in
the advanced settings for the microphone on the recording properties page
of the volume control.
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You use ctrl-f9 to launch the recording; keystrokes are all summarized in
help. To set line-in as your source, you use the system volume control,
which you can access through Goldwaves control properties dialot or the
volume control on your system.
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Yes, you can insert silence using goldwave.
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Disregarding the Premier burner, since I haven't used it, put your cdrw in
the drive. Now go to My Computer, arrow to that drive, and hit either
shift-F10 or your application key. Arrow through the resulting menu and
one of your choices should be Erase CDRW. Try that, and ask if there are
Ken, I think you may find those songs buried in your My Music folder
somewhere. You have control over where cdex puts its files. Somebody
wrote a good post on the subject, and I put it up as an auto-responder as
part of the Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday newsletter. to get the post,
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Don, good mystery. I think the culprit here may be phantom information
from a screen reader. In sum, I'm going to suggest that you write to
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screen reader, then please share your answer with me. They are very
responsive.
I
Hi, Don. I finally tested that Total Recorder problem, to review, we're in
the advanced dialog of the Auto-stop recording feature telling the program
when to stop recording. The second check box lets us say that if nothing is
recorded for a given number of seconds, the recording should end. I
Hi. As long as your friend has something like Goldwave to record the
sound, with the volume control set to capture wave output, it should
work. I mention this in case you were expecting to use Windows Sound
Recorder.
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Hi. Either stereo or mono mix should let you capture streaming
audio. Also, you may have more options than you know. In the volume
control, hit alt-p, then select properties. Tab to the list of choices and
choose recording. Tab again and there will probably be a list of sound
sources
Let me try to respond to a couple points people have asked about. I love
Total Recorder under Windows xp; didn't like it under 98.
My favorite way to tell TR Pro what stream to record is the second check
box on the Advanced pate of the scheduler. this way I don't deal with the
Hi. Maybe I missed this, but what is a good place to grab the version that
people believe to be the best one, as distinct from the newest version?
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Total Recorder Professional Edition is designed for this task.
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If you buy online, you will get the unlock code for the program nearly
imediately. The demo is fine but it puts beeps in the recording.
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Installing total Recorder would not affect GoldWave in any way. The
Replay Radio idea might be a good one for you. Goldwave has the weakest
scheduler of the three packages.
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Total Recorder Professional Edition costs $47 US or so.
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If you go into Goldwave's control properties, on the recording tab, there
are two checkboxes that work together to create a primitive recording
timer. The timer check box, once checked, lets you set a time and day for
the start of the recording. The level activated check box lets you set a
Things to look at regarding Windows Media Player: highlight songs in
Windows Explorer and use the context menu. Choices there include add to
playlist and play using Windows Media Player. Once you get the playlist
built, or start playing, ctrl-h turns shuffle on.
Dean
Yes, the QChord is very usable by the blind thanks to the efforts of Mackie
McBride who has written a manual for blind Qchord users. I have it and you
can probably find it by a simple search.
Dean
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Is the Suzuki q-chord accessible for blind persons?
I call it the musical instrument for those of us who can't play a real
instrument. It's actually very nice. They call it a digital songcard
guitar. It has many of the virtues of the autoharp but it's more powerful,
also electronic. Also, perhaps borderline for this list.
Dean
Is there any way to watch/listen to dvd's free on a pc running Windows
xp? If so, how?
Thanks.
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Hi. TotalRecorder seems to be a program that works for many very well and
fails miserably for some. As Russell said, you can always use the
soundboard option for all your recordings, but by doing so you lose the
advantage the program offers of making digital recordings, and also letting
you
Hi. It depends on which version of the PaceMaker plug-in you are
using. The latest version does not interact well with either JFW or
Window-Eyes. If you go to the home page,
http://www.iki.fi/oparviai/pacemaker/ then to the downloads page, you can
choose the old versions. There was a
Hi, Ann. The only way I know to record streams without capturing software
speech that you generate while using the computer is to use Total Recorder
and to use its software recording option, which works splendidly for most
and terribly for a few people. In addition, when capturing mp3
No, I really meant winter. He is busy outdoors in summer, and it was
summer when I wrote to him.
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The Winamp volume can be regulated with arrows in the Winamp main window
such that Winamp and JAWS volumes are set independently. Concise and
efficient coverage of this matter is easy to come by if you use JAWS. Go
to the JAWS help topic on winamp, choose Getting Started, then Optimizing
As it happens, a demonstration appeared today on BlindCoolTech,
www.blindcooltech.com.
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Yes, Ann is correct. You can schedule a recording to start and stop with
the standard edition, but you already have to be connected to the sound
source. Or you can schedule a playback, using TR as an alarm clock. With
Professional, you can tell the program to connect to a Url at the given
Hi. Indeed, the buttons in tR5.3 are not labeled, and this works the same
in JFW as with Window-Eyes. The problem is minimized by the fact that
there are keyboard shortcuts for all functions provided by the
buttons. Part of the problem may be that they have streamlined the display
so that
Hi. I tried to solve this one, but wasn't motivated enough to download
their plug-in etc. I would try checking the first checkbox on the advanced
tab, which opens the mini-browser. With it, you can navigate to the Radio
Caroline page and thence to the correct Url, and probably capture that
Hi. How do the IRiver 799 or 899do in terms of recording with the internal
mike in a class or group setting? Are they tolerable for that?
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How unusable is the proprietary software for transferring files? Can a
competent user of the JAWS cursor or Window-Eyes mouse pointer use it? If
I get one of these, I would want to transfer the occasional recording to
the computer, not do a lot of transfers, and not use it as a mass storage
Yes, Jonathan, I've been following your r-1 explorations. The battery life
is a limitation, and so is the price. For what I'll do, I suspect the
IRiver will work for half the price or less, but we'll see. For that
matter, I'd love the new Plextalk, but that's a little expensive!
Dean
TotalRecorder lets you record an mp3 stream silently while you work on the
same computer using JFW and software speech.
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The time marker feature especially sets the Winamp scripts out and makes
this player more useful than any other. To further stir up the pot, then
I'll duck, while Window-Eyes offers numerous advantages, this is
functionality that Window-Eyes users will never have with Winamp because
their
I usually use the duration feature, checking that box and then
choosing the duration, just because it takes fewer keystrokes to do,
but what you did to set the time is completely correct. I'm
wondering if the connection could have dropped during the hour you
were recording, such that only 52
Total Recorder can trim silence if you want it to. It could also be
told to stop recording when silence occurs for a certain length of
time, which isn't what you would want obviously but is a nice program
capability.
Marty, when I say that it takes fewer keystrokes to set duration than
it
Hi. The trick to monitoring a recording is to go into playback properties
for your volume control, find the line in control, and unmute it by
clicking the box with the space bar. Then you'll hear whatever is going
into your line in, and you can set the playback volume independent of the
I am looking for recommendations of usb sound cards to use with a laptop to
allow me to make better recordings, both of my voice and of my voice and
the software speech so I can create training materials. I would also like
the card to have a line in jack if such a thing exists on a usb sound
As part of the 50-article Sound Computing series, I have produced one
article detailing setup of Total Recorder, and two articles addressing the
program tangentially. More articles will follow.
The 50-article series costs a total of $9.00 to access. You can read about
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What options exist for text-to-speech for Spanish texts? I'm
familiar with EloQuence and ViaVoice; what else exists and how are the results?
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the answer to both questions is yes, you can append and you can join
files together.
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Hi. Make sure that Append to recording is active, as opposed to
Insert, on the play/Record menu. Then hit Ctrl-End to go to the end
of the current recording. Now record, and the new recording should
be appended to the original.
I just did it and it works, with V5.3 Pro, and I don't think
To play dvd's using Windows Media Player, you need a software add-on. A
free one is VLC Media Player. This link takes you to the Windows download
page:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html
I believe Don from this list was the source of my knowledge of this program.
Dean
I seldom, perhaps never, hear any fundamental complaints about the
unit. There are things people might like to see changed, but a very high
percentage of users are very pleased with the Book Port. I've only seen
one on resale on one of the buy-sell lists for the blind. I love mine.
Dean
I've found a few stations that stream Westwood One football
broadcasts. A fun site in this regard is www.thegamelive.com, one
which I originally discovered through an archive search of this list.
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Well, perhaps the considerable price difference between the two
programs is an explanation. Sound Forge is in many ways more
powerful than Goldwave.
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What's to explain? Sound Forge is a more polished and
highly-developed program than Goldwave. I use Goldwave, but for most
things, Sound Forge is at least its equal. So, while I haven't
tested it, it doesn't surprise me that its converters are faster than
Goldwave's.
Dean
I am gradually completing a Total Recorder tutorial as part of the
Sound Computing series. So far, two major portions are complete,
with at least one more to follow. Sound Computing costs $9.00 for a
series of fifty articles, or at least fifteen hours of reviews,
mini-tutorials and other
I have questions about batch processing in Sound Forge, version 8 and also
using the external batch processing module available with earlier versions.
Right now I have the earlier version, and can't figure out how to do what I
want to do with it. I want to add effects to numbers of files. I
Ok, I do this all the time, so I'll tell you what I've figured out.
When you enter the time Warp dialog, arrow through the presets. You
want to find one that uses the similarity algorithm. I double the
speed, and I can't remember if the present called '200 per cent via
similarity was already
Hi. Here are some thoughts regarding these two devices:
1. Book Port plays books from RFBD, Book Courier does not.
2. Bok Port is a little more complicated. On the flip side, Book
Port has capabilities to process text that Courier does not have.
3. Book Port is well supported by
I'm not a good judge of sound quality, as I have never trained my ear
to be too discriminating, but I believe the quality is good.
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Yes it would be great if we could use it, and at present, we definitely
can't.
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Julie, there are lots of ways to do what you want to do. People have
been talking a lot about Replay AV and that program lets you record
online radio programs onto your hard drive while you still work at
the computer. If you want to just capture a short bit of JAWS
speaing, you can use
I certainly hope that this feature of only receiving one tean's
broadcast is an aberration, and I think it is because they still
advertise that you can hear both home and away versions. Considering
that the system didn't work at all for part of the day, hopefully
they'll return it to its
I just called and got through fairly quickly. I did spend some time on
hold, but got somebody who e-mailed me a link for the visually
impaired. Apparently, only the road broadcast link is coming up on the
main page, when I use this link, I see both broadcast links, and the one
for the only
For the record, I had no trouble with the 7.10 upgrade and notice no
degraded performance. Aren't computers fun?
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That was easy:
http://www.wfpl.org/new_stream/wfpl64k.pls
Thaks for reminding me about Dick Estelle. Is that still called
Radio Reader? I'm going to add it too!
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Hi, Jim. I have the latest version of Replay a/v. and though I have
had some frustrations with it, I routinely record a couple longish
weekly programs with perfect results. Most of what I record comes
from different public radio stations. I could test your program if
you want, though I may
to elaborate, it is good to have a fairly recent version of the
firmware, since APH has made improvements in this aspect of the
device. Under Options, you program the time interval moved when you
hit +3 forward or 1+2 backward. the choices are 2 10 and 30
seconds. Also, 3, 6 and 9 forward
The advantage of Replay a/v over total Recorder is that it is totally
unobtrusive, since it bypasses the sound card altogether. I'm mostly
ecstatic about it, but there are some streams I seems not to
record. I find it has trouble with some RealAudio streams.
Dean
Let me start by pointing out that as part of the measurably low price
of US $9.00, one can subscribe to Sound Computing, a series of 50
audio articles, one of which concerns how to speed up playback in
winamp and windows Media Player;.
Regarding Pacemaker, here is the page from which older
If I recall, it will install itself into the plug-ins folder, which
is where it needs to end up.
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I recently helped a friend upgrade to xp home sp2 and add dsl. while
at it, I installed Spyware Blaster and updaged the computer for all
critical windows updates. Before the upgrade, the user could listen
to baseball via mlb.com. Now he can't. He can listen to NHL
streams. When trying to
I'm looking for music for my mother, who loves Dean Martin among
other artists from that era. I am open to buying any cd's that are
for sale, but otherwise wonder which if any of the online music sites
might have collections of music by Dean Martin or others from that era.
Thanks for any
Hi. You can slow down music without changing pitch in windows Media
Player 10 and in winamp if you use the pacemaker plug-in.
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I can only share my experience as a former Total Recorder devotee. I
largely use a laptop these days, and the total Recorder driver did
once interfere with my primary sound driver, so that didn't endear me
to the program. If Replay A/V hadn't come along, I would still be
using total
to use the plug-in, go into winamp preferences and choose dsp
plug-ins. Tab to the list of available plug-ins and arrow to choose
Pacemaker. I've seen the plug-in functin differently on different
systems and different versions of it, but most likely you will be in
a dialog with three
I can confirm the problem with the repeat button. I wish they would
fix that but it isn't fatal.
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How accessible are either WavePad or Freecorder for beginners?
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I never use that mini-browser. I couldn't make it work. Assuming you
can identify the Url of the sound you want to record, copy it to the
clipboard from your usual browser. Now, in the schedule dialog,
don't check the box you checked, rather, check the one that says to
run a program at the
total Recorder is found at www.highcriteria.com, but I at least have
abandoned it in favor of Replay a/v, whose Url I don't have.
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Replay a/v records silently, so one doesn't even know it is
happening. It can do this with streams of any streaming type. Total
Recorder can only do this with mp3 streams, and even then it is using
the sound card. The latest version of Total Recorder has added the
ability to record multiple
I haven't been following most of the threads around here lately, but
if you have Kurzweil, you probably have windows xp, and you can burn
mp3 or music cd's using its built-in capability. I'm pretty sure
instructions have been posted for doing this bedore; if you need
them, I'll try to find
Here below is a whole thread discussing using windows Media to rip
and burn cd's.
As usual, in windows, there is more than one way to do things. I am
in the habit of opening my cd drive in My Computer and opening the
folder containing my files to be burned in another My Computer
window. I
I did find dspeech, but you cant put a space in the name. In fact,
if you search for dspeech and hit the I'm Feeling Lucky button,
you'll go right to the page.
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Raising the volume in Winamp has nothing to do with JAWS scripts, so
it does not matter which screen reader you use. Up arrow does
it. Also, in order to set the volume independent of the screen
reader volume using software speech, use the wave out plug-in and on
some systems you have to use
with any of the popular sound editors, Goldwave, Sound Forge and
Studio Recorder, and probably others as well, you can compress mp3
files so that they play faster on mp3 players. Goldwave and Sound
Forge both can do this as batch jobs which is nice.
Dean
the short answer is, yes, this can easily be done. I'll try to write
up a description of how to do it.
Dean
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Hello,
is there a way to tell total recorder to save with a particular file
name where only the date changes? at the station where i work, we're
Ok, here is how to make total Recorder version 6.0 (though the same
principle will work on earlier versions,) save recordings based on
the name of the show and the date.
this is not the only procedure to accomplish what we want, but it is
the one I use.
In TR, you can set a default file name
I apologize that this request for information has fallen through the cracks.
As I mentioned, you can, if you want, speed up playback of audio
files. You can do this with individual files using Studio Recorder,
and with Goldwave and Sound Forge you can process one file at a time
or a batch of
It gives you compressed speech, where the pitch remains unaltered but
the voice is accelerated.
Dean
At 12:06 PM 8/7/2006, you wrote:
What does this give you? Compressed speech or sped up speech with
pitch rising?
Thanks.
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I wrote to them and they acknowledged that registration is likely
impossible, and I agree. I haven't gotten help getting over that
hurdle, but they seem to believe, and the existing keyboard shortcuts
give cause for cautious optimism, that the system is usable once you register.
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