Re: How Does 20th Century Radio Upscale their OTR Shows?

[Matthew Bullis]

In Sound Forge which I use, the stereoize effect is called psuedo stereo, 
because it spreads the sound out and puts some milliseconds delay between the 
left and right channels.
Matthew

Re: How Does 20th Century Radio Upscale their OTR Shows?

[Matthew Bullis]

Although the effect sounds great initially, it's really not good to do this to 
files. Most I've heard like this actually introduce a fraction of a second 
delay between channels to achieve this effect. If you get a file like this and 
want to fix it, you can just pan one channel to the center while muting the 
other. I've heard the term stereoize to describe what you're hearing, and I try 
to fix this whenever I come across a file like this. If you simply convert one 
of these files to mono without muting one of the channels, then the file has a 
weird sound quality to it because of the channel delay being pressed into one 
channel.
Matthew


On May 15, 2017, at 5:55 PM, Kenny  wrote:

Hello,

I'm one who enjoys listening to OTR shows on my Victor Reader Stream 2 on a 
daily basis.

I'm noticing a few of the stations (20th Century Radio for instance) seem to be 
broadcasting their stream in stereo. Very odd for I know that most, if not all 
OTR shows were recorded in momo.

How are they able to get low quality momo files to sound this good?

Would love to know their secret for I have a few mystery Old Time Radio shows 
I'd love to hear in stereo (Lights Out and Inner Sanctum in particular.)

Any ideas?

Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation

[Matthew Bullis]

OK, that brings up a question. Whenever I try to add credentials to
the ABWA Australian library, the Stream only accepts numbers in my
user id. I got this username several years ago when Greg was
publicizing the access for users in the U.S. Are new usernames now
numbers, and should I contact someone to get it changed?
Thanks,
Matthew

Re: Vinyl Studio

[Matthew Bullis]

There are plenty of machines out there that will help with this. I think they 
start at around a hundred dollars, but not sure. Mine is a VPI machine that 
costs just over a thousand, but then I have over eight hundred records.
Matthew


On Jan 19, 2017, at 3:07 AM, André van Deventer  
wrote:

The ones I will be using hasn't been cleaned or played for some time!  Need 
something to get the dirt out from inside the grooves I think.



-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane 
Trethowan
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 11:16 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Vinyl Studio

I use a micro fibre cloth these days, pulls the dust from the record.

> On 19 Jan 2017, at 8:12 pm, André van Deventer  
> wrote:
> 
> Still must find the time to put this through  its paces.  Just trying to find 
> the best solution now to clean records.  Other equipment in place - NAD 
> preamp and Rega iii turntable!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andr é
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane 
> Trethowan
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 9:43 PM
> To: PC Audio Discussion List
> Subject: Fwd: Vinyl Studio
> 
> Hi!
> Here’s an eMail from someone writing to the techno-chat list regarding the 
> Vinyl Studio Record Cataloging and Recording Software for Windows and Mac OS.
> I own both the versions of this excellent Software and of course credit goes 
> to another list member of pc-audio who brought Vinyl Studio to my attention 
> in the first place, I’m extremely grateful and now for Gordon’s views on the 
> Software and associated topics.
> 
> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>> From: Gordon Smith 
>> Subject: [Techno-Chat]: Vinyl Studio
>> Hello everybody
>> 
>> There’s a software solution out there which Dane recently pointed out to me 
>> called “Vinyl Studio”. Available for Windows & MacOS, Vinyl Studio seems to 
>> totally out-perform the rest of the similar products I have at my disposal, 
>> including Sound Forge Professional and even Adobe Audition, (which I use at 
>> the community radio station where I work).
>> 
>> Vinyl Studio can even detect the sound of your placing the stylus down on a 
>> disk, and start recording automatically thereafter until either the end of a 
>> track, or until you list the queue arm again. The noise reduction / crackle 
>> removal seems to be at least on a par with those which retail for 10 times 
>> the price of this software. Plus, you don’t get the clipping effect which 
>> most of those actually insert by trimming the higher frequencies where you’d 
>> get crackle much too aggressively.
>> 
>> I have literally thousands of albums and probably an equal number of old 
>> 45’s, plus a handful of 78’s (which my deck will not accommodate, sadly). I 
>> have already searched high and low on the Internet, as well as in a number 
>> of UK and Europe-wide music stores without any luck for a goodly number of 
>> these albums. Until now, I hadn’t given serious thought to sampling them, 
>> owing to the fact that without processing, crackles and pops from some of 
>> these 1960s and 1950s albums actually sound much more pronounced 
>> post-sampling. So I’d more or less given up on them. Now, however, thanks to 
>> Vinyl Studio, my plans for these albums have been radically revised, and 
>> I’ve just brought most of them down from my attic, where they’ve been stored 
>> for years in dust-proof cartons. Some of them haven’t been opened during the 
>> course of my lifetime, which is considerable, I might say!
>> 
>> Thanks, Dane, for this very excellent recommendation. Well, I’m saying 
>> thanks, maybe not actually, because you have just created several hundreds 
>> of hours of work for me I think. ;-)
>> 
>> I say that very tongue-in-cheek, because I’m actually really looking forward 
>> to listening once again to some of these, and to capturing for prosperity 
>> some of those which I’ve never listened too at all. They came to me years 
>> ago in the cartons where my late Aunt stored them. She sent them to me just 
>> before she died about 20 years ago, knowing how I love old records. So, here 
>> we go! Let the fun begin!
>> 
>> Oh yes, I guess I should include the now almost obligatory URL to the 
>> product, which just happens to be British, for a change. Maybe there is 
>> something we do best after all, apart, that is, from producing the best 
>> branded audio speakers and the best Bluetooth speaker systems in the world! 
>> :)
>> 
>> Vinyl Studio can, of course, handle tapes and other old analogue material, 
>> (such as the audio from VHS and Betamax Video Cassettes). It seems to have 
>> the highest technology noise gates I am aware of of any product at all. I 
>> shall be taking this to the studio with me tomorrow.  Anyway, here’s the 
>> website:
>> 
>> 

Re: Vinyl Studio

[Matthew Bullis]

I have installed it and had a look around. It indeed does support Discogs, so 
that's great. One thing I can't seem to edit is the file name format. I want it 
to have track number and title in the file name, not track number, artist, and 
title. Although I was able to delete the data, once I did that, I couldn't find 
a done or ok button and the Jaws cursor didn't reveal anything. When I reopened 
the settings screen, it was at its default.
Matthew


On Sep 11, 2016, at 10:42 AM, Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote:

There's certainly all the data options you talk about and I'd imagine more, the 
support forum and materials available are extensive as you'll see from the site.



> On 12/09/2016 3:10 AM, Matthew Bullis wrote:
> I'd be curious to know how you like the program, and if it indeed does offer 
> those extra vinyl perks. I've been a Sound Forge user for fifteen years, and 
> if this Vinyl Studio can detect the pauses between songs and pull track data 
> from an online database like Discogs, then this would be great. A lot of my 
> vinyl isn't in those cd databases, so if it doesn't link in with Discogs, 
> then hopefully there is at least a section to fill out with the artist title 
> and year.
> Matthew
> 
> 
> On Sep 10, 2016, at 10:35 PM, Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> 
> A lot easier to work with I should think if all you're wanting to do is 
> devote your time and energy to capturing your Vinyl to a collection and from 
> there? Well burn it to CD or just plain collect it for time ever more, makes 
> a lot more sense to use something like this rather than Sound Forge, Audacity 
> etc and that's where Apps written for a dedicated task stand out from the 
> crowd.
> 
> 
> 
>> On 11/09/2016 3:30 PM, André van Deventer wrote:
>> Dane
>> 
>> My initial impressions also seem to be quite good.  I might also fork out 
>> the necessary money to get the full version.  Dialog boxes and even the 
>> menus seem to be quite accessible.  Will have to see how the complete things 
>> work though when recording.  It seems to be very specifically geared towards 
>> working with vinyl lps.  While you can probably use something like audacity 
>> for this purpose, chances are that vinyl studio might be a lot easier to 
>> work with.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane 
>> Trethowan
>> Sent: 11 September 2016 05:29 AM
>> To: PC Audio Discussion List
>> Subject: Vinyl Studio
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I didn't intend trying this App but I'm now very glad I did at least take a 
>> look, you can find Vinyl Studio at 
>> http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk/VinylStudio/register.aspx
>> 
>> You can download a free trial of Vinyl Studio or buy a licence for $29 U.S. 
>> which I beleive to be extremely reasonable given everything the App does.
>> 
>> Yes, the App seems perfectly accessible though I cannot yet vouch for 
>> editing audio as I've not recorded anything with Vinyl Studio at this point 
>> however certainly all the dialogue boxes and edit boxes etc I cam across 
>> when setting up Vinyl Studio were easy to get to.
>> 
>> The real reason I myself wish to give Vinyl Studio a good is because of the 
>> completeness of the pacakge, anything pretty much to do with capturing your 
>> Vinyl is handled by Vinyl studio, capturing the vinyl to your computer, 
>> organising your albums into a collection, proting to CD, getting information 
>> from CDDB for your captured albums, cleaning up pops and noise  and much 
>> more.
>> 
>> Vinyl Studio also has a version available for Mac which I'm very much 
>> looking forward to trying.
> 
> 

Re: Vinyl Studio

[Matthew Bullis]

I'd be curious to know how you like the program, and if it indeed does offer 
those extra vinyl perks. I've been a Sound Forge user for fifteen years, and if 
this Vinyl Studio can detect the pauses between songs and pull track data from 
an online database like Discogs, then this would be great. A lot of my vinyl 
isn't in those cd databases, so if it doesn't link in with Discogs, then 
hopefully there is at least a section to fill out with the artist title and 
year.
Matthew


On Sep 10, 2016, at 10:35 PM, Dane Trethowan  wrote:

A lot easier to work with I should think if all you're wanting to do is devote 
your time and energy to capturing your Vinyl to a collection and from there? 
Well burn it to CD or just plain collect it for time ever more, makes a lot 
more sense to use something like this rather than Sound Forge, Audacity etc and 
that's where Apps written for a dedicated task stand out from the crowd.



> On 11/09/2016 3:30 PM, André van Deventer wrote:
> Dane
> 
> My initial impressions also seem to be quite good.  I might also fork out the 
> necessary money to get the full version.  Dialog boxes and even the menus 
> seem to be quite accessible.  Will have to see how the complete things work 
> though when recording.  It seems to be very specifically geared towards 
> working with vinyl lps.  While you can probably use something like audacity 
> for this purpose, chances are that vinyl studio might be a lot easier to work 
> with.
> 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane 
> Trethowan
> Sent: 11 September 2016 05:29 AM
> To: PC Audio Discussion List
> Subject: Vinyl Studio
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I didn't intend trying this App but I'm now very glad I did at least take a 
> look, you can find Vinyl Studio at 
> http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk/VinylStudio/register.aspx
> 
> You can download a free trial of Vinyl Studio or buy a licence for $29 U.S. 
> which I beleive to be extremely reasonable given everything the App does.
> 
> Yes, the App seems perfectly accessible though I cannot yet vouch for editing 
> audio as I've not recorded anything with Vinyl Studio at this point however 
> certainly all the dialogue boxes and edit boxes etc I cam across when setting 
> up Vinyl Studio were easy to get to.
> 
> The real reason I myself wish to give Vinyl Studio a good is because of the 
> completeness of the pacakge, anything pretty much to do with capturing your 
> Vinyl is handled by Vinyl studio, capturing the vinyl to your computer, 
> organising your albums into a collection, proting to CD, getting information 
> from CDDB for your captured albums, cleaning up pops and noise  and much more.
> 
> Vinyl Studio also has a version available for Mac which I'm very much looking 
> forward to trying.

Re: three speed turntable

[Matthew Bullis]

I don't remember the model that I bought at the Guitar Center, but it's a 
Stanton. I needed to be sure that it would play 78s if I spent the extra money 
to get the parts for a 78 stylus, so I asked that question at the store. We 
tested this, and on the model I found, you press the 33 and 45 buttons at the 
same time, and it swings up to 78rpm. Once I got that figured out, I then had 
to get the 78 playing capability. The clerk looked up the particular needle I'd 
need to get, and I bought an extra headshell so I could unscrew the one for 33 
and put in the one for playing 78s. The thing is that you need to get the three 
pieces separately. The needle fits onto the mounting bracket with the wires, 
and that part gets wired into the headshell. I needed sighted help with this 
project. Replacing the needle itself isn't a problem, since that just slides 
off and then on again. I hope this helps. If you're not in close proximity to a 
helpful store like Guitar Center, Stanton were very helpful over the phone with 
their descriptions. Oh also, if you have a patch cord to run audio to your 
computer, and you intend to transfer things digitally, you don't need to get a 
USB model. I find that USB carries a lot of noise over its wire, so using the 
standard mixer works fine if you've already got a mixer setup.
Matthew

Re: three speed turntable

[Matthew Bullis]

I bought this about a year and a half ago. I'm very happy with the quality 
overall.
Matthew

Re: beginners help with youtube?

[Matthew Bullis]

So a few things here: You can Google for the accessible alternative to Youtube. 
There are also keyboard shortcuts built into Youtube. If you turn off the 
virtual cursor, meaning you can't then use first letter navigation keys, you 
can then use the letters j k and l to rewind, play/pause, and fast forward. If 
it's Jaws, the keystroke to turn off the virtual cursor is insert Z, and again 
to turn it back on. However, if you're listening to a YouTube and all you 
really want to do is pause and get up from your seat for a break, then use the 
pass through key, which in Jaws is insert 3 on the number row. This lets Jaws 
ignore the next key press, so you could just press K to pause the video. Then 
when you're ready, use the pass through key again and type K to resume playing. 
As far as downloading to make mp3s, I found a nice free one from
www.DVDVideoSoft.com
and it's a program which installs on your hard drive, and you copy the link 
from a YouTube and use the program's Paste button, then tab to download. This 
program has ads, and sometimes it loses focus, but it will do the job nicely.
Matthew

Re: Need accessible music tagger

[Matthew Bullis]

I've used MP3 Tag Studio for years, built by Magnus Brading. I forgot now how 
much the full version costs, but if you learn the interface and set it up 
correctly, it saves you hours of tagging. You'll want to do some experimenting 
on a folder of files that are not that important. I'd suggest using a temp 
folder that's easy to get to for this project type of work.
http://www.magnusbrading.com/mp3ts/
Matthew

Re: What program can I use to tag mp3 files?

[Matthew Bullis]

The best program for this is MP3 Tag Studio, made by Magnus Brading. It's very 
powerful, and there is a bit of a learning curve.
Matthew

Re: need helping with humming on blue yeti pro.

[Matthew Bullis]

When I had a similar problem with the turntable rumbling back into the 
nearby speakers, I had to put a piece of foam on each of the four feet of 
the turntable. The foam was the same type that you find in a foam matress. 
The pieces were at least an inch thick and not solid foam, but spongy foam.
Matthew 

Re: Sound Forge Pro 11

[Matthew Bullis]

Hello, you can install multiple versions of Sound Forge, just like you can 
of Jaws. I remember one pc I had for a long time where I had versions 6 7 
and 8 installed, just because I never got around to uninstalling them. I 
don't know if you have used Jim's scripts for SF, but he built some for 
version eleven, and his page seems to say that there's not much change in 
version eleven from version ten. I know that they have not moved to the 
ribbon concept though.

http://www.snowmanradio.com/
to take a look at what he says.
Matthew 

Re: Switch Is Great

[Matthew Bullis]

Will the program put itself as an option in the context menu? I've come in 
late to this thread, so where is this program obtained from?

Thanks a lot.
Matthew 

Anyone run Sound Forge on a Surface Pro machine?

[Matthew Bullis]

Hello, I'm considering the purchase of a Surface Pro 2 as my next machine. 
Has anyone run Sound Forge and other audio tools on one of these? Can it 
keep up with all the processing needs? I assume it might be really snappy 
with the solid state hard drive in there, but I thought I'd ask.

Thanks a lot.
Matthew 

Re: soundforge query, converting mono to stereo?

[Matthew Bullis]

Hello, if a signal is mono, you really don't want to make what's called 
pseudo-stereo. I've come across some old-time radio shows where the signal 
is mono, and the person, trying to make it sound better, has applied the 
pseudo-stereo effect. This kind of gives it an echo effect, and it doesn't 
sound natural.
Matthew 

Re: turntables

[Matthew Bullis]

I forget the model of the Stanton turntable I bought at my local Guitar Center 
about a year ago, but if you press the 33 and 45 buttons at the same time, it 
swings up to 78rpm. I also bought an additional headshell, which is the bit 
that screws onto the arm, so that I could switch them out. This particular 
turntable from Stanton has a little hole on the top face where you can sit an 
extra headshell. The turntable has no automatic features, and no hard cover, 
just a cloth dust cover.

So there are three pieces you need for the 78 assembly: the headshell, the 
stylus itself, and the cartridge. What I had to do was find the stylus, which 
is the needle itself, then I had to find a cartridge, which is the bit between 
the stylus and the headshell that has wires that you connect to the headshell. 
The stylus fits onto the cartridge. You'll need to do very exacting research to 
make sure that you get the right things, since you may have to order one or 
more of the parts online. I found that for the 78 stylus, it didn't come 
mounted onto the cartridge, so that's why I had to order the cartridge and 
stylus separately, and from two different places, no less. I had sighted help 
to wire up the cartridge to the headshell, and then the cartridge actually had 
a standard 33 needle already there, so that's for extras, and the 78 needle 
just slipped on. You got all that? I hope you find what you need. The entire 
investment in order to get the proper playing setup for 78s was about six
 ty dollars, half for needle and half for the cartridge. I hope this info 
helps. The people at my store were helpful in looking up the model numbers of 
the parts I needed, but double check anyway. The output from this 78 needle is 
significantly louder than that of the one for 33s, so you'll need to adjust 
your volume output when transferring.
Matthew
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Size on disck: for data dvds?

[Matthew Bullis]

So when organizing my file collection to put onto cd and dvd, I've figured 
out that if the properties of a folder say Size On Disc: 698mb, that this is 
filling up a cd with data, and that I can't really put much more data on it. 
I figured this out when I used to use an old program called Stomp Record Now 
Max. This program doesn't work in Windows7, so I use Express Burn. However, 
Express Burn doesn't tell me if I've exceeded the maximum for a dvd. Can 
anyone tell me what the Size On Disc line in the properties should read when 
you can't fit any more data onto a regular 4.7gb data dvd? I realize that 
even though the size on disc may say 698, the number right next to it on the 
same line may say 734 megabytes, which is 34 megs beyond a normal cd, but it 
seems to burn just fine.

Thanks a lot.
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Re: Problem with Hope for Pandora, No Response from Support

[Matthew Bullis]

Are you sure you have an already activated account? If not, there is the 
register button that helps you create a new account.
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Changing the sound card input within Sound Forge.

[Matthew Bullis]

   Hello, so I got my default input settings mapped in Windows, as well as 
the other sound card mapped for output settings, since I use Jaws, and the 
speech from it is routed separately from the audio portion of the computer. 
However, how do I tell Sound Forge about the third sound card? I'm going to 
be getting a Stanton turntable which has USB output for transferring lps. 
This way I can use its RCA outputs to play it through the stereo system, and 
use the USB portion for putting the sound into the computer. I looked in the 
preferences pages in Sound Forge, and there doesn't seem to be a way to 
specify the input and output. There's a box there that says routing, but it 
doesn't look like you can select anything. Can I do this more easily within 
Windows itself, by maybe having settings changed in the volume mixer for 
Sound Forge once SF is open? I'd like to work this problem out before I get 
the turntable. The machine comes with Cakewalk software, and the manual says 
that you can direct the outputs as well as the inputs through that software, 
but I'm sure it's a universal thing that can be applied to Sound Forge. Any 
help would be appreciated.

Thanks a lot.
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Re: Disk at once versus track at once

[Matthew Bullis]

Hello, actually disc at once doesn't mean all tracks are combined. If you 
have a cd where tracks need to be seamless, then disc at once is the option. 
A live cd will flow smoothly. If you select track at once, then the tracks 
will have two-second gaps between them, which would break the flow of the 
live performance.
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Re: Noise reduction software recommendations please:

[Matthew Bullis]

   Sound Forge 8 is installed on my 64-bit Windows 7 machine just fine. I 
don't use it too often, since I have version 10, but it's there and will 
work.
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Re: Tagging Multiple Files with Winamp

[Matthew Bullis]

Well this is coming in late to this thread, but once you get to know the 
features of MP3 Tag Studio, which is a paid program by the way, it's well 
worth it. If you're tagging an album's worth of files, you can go through 
and set it up once to ignore the 01 - in front of the track name, go to tag 
from file name, then tag by autotag and fill in the fields and it does it 
all at once. It took a little time to learn the program, but I wouldn't be 
without it.
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Re: My Enzatec portable MP3 player

[Matthew Bullis]

   Although you've said that you can't navigate through folders, will it at 
least go down into the folder levels and play the files, but you just have 
to go through it song by song and can't jump to a folder?

Thanks a lot.
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Re: hope for pandora help

[Matthew Bullis]

If you bought the program before he instituted the activation process, then 
go to

http://q-continuum.net/hope
and click on resend activation. You put in your e-mail and it generates a 
code which will be sent by e-mail. The latest version is 999, so it's worth 
it to go and download the latest version, since the older 95 version won't 
have the activation scheme in it. Just reinstall and go from there.
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Re: wave to MP 3 conversion problem

[Matthew Bullis]

Hmm, maybe something got mixed up here. I thought Joe was asking about 
converting a five-hour .wav file that he'd created from a minidisc. For that 
purpose, WinLame would help, and the YouTube thing is another matter which 
you've already resolved.
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Re: wave to MP 3 conversion problem

[Matthew Bullis]

Something's wrong there, definitely. Try a program called WinLame. It's a 
wizard interface, which steps you through each option. It's quite good for 
something like this, especially when converting a whole batch of files.

http://WinLame.SourceForge.net/
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Re: q-chord accessibility

[Matthew Bullis]

An electric autoharp is a pretty good description. The autoharp is the 
acoustic instrument on which the QChord was modeled, because of the chord 
layout of the buttons on both instruments, and the strum plate on the 
QChord, which mimicks the string bed on the autoharp. Shane Jackson did a 
demo of the QChord on Blind Cool Tech, and that demo is here:

http://www.archive.org/download/ShaneJacksonbct376Qchord/bct376Qchord.mp3
I did a demo on the autoharp and its layout on BCT as well, and that link is 
here:

http://www.archive.org/download/MatthewBullisbct355AutoharpDemo/bct355AutoharpDemo.mp3
Enjoy both recordings.
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Re: q-chord accessibility

[Matthew Bullis]

   Well this now becomes definitely off-topic, but I'll just say that 
autoharps are still definitely being made, but buying one on EBay can be 
dodgy, since the autoharp is very mechanical, and parts may be missing. 
There's an autoharp e-mail list called the Cyberpluckers. Googling that one 
word will get you the list page. Pete Daigle in Seattle has some affordable 
and well-set-up autoharps, so start there maybe:

www.DaigleHarp.com
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Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

[Matthew Bullis]

So how was it to navigate the web site to upgrade the firmware? Robert 
Carter mentioned that in his demonstration, and I'd like to know more about 
the web site challenges that you face when attempting to upgrade the 
machine.

Thanks a lot.
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Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

[Matthew Bullis]

OK, well if you could let us know when you do get to that, if you do, as 
maybe some units, purchased from various sellers around the world, might not 
be selling the unit with the latest upgrades in. If I had the unit, I would 
go test this myself, but I need to wait until I get a bluetooth device yet, 
which is a bit down the road for me.

Thanks a lot.
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Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker

[Matthew Bullis]

If you'll go to:
http://robertcarter.posterous.com/
you'll find the demo for download. Just so you know, this page takes about a 
minute to load up, for some reason. The audio demo is about ten minutes 
long, and as we've been discussing on this subject, he doesn't go through 
the updating process on the web site, thus our recent discussion of that 
aspect of owning this unit.
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Re: Jawbox Jambone wireless speaker system

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Robert Carter did a brief demo of the speaker here:
http://robertcarter.posterous.com/
and he says there are some difficulties in updating the firmware with a 
screen reader, though he says it's doable. I don't know what difficulties, 
but the whole package does sound pretty neat, even with the updating 
troubles. The audio demo is about ten minutes long.
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Is the timed recording accessible in Sound Forge?

[Matthew Bullis]

Well I've never had to use this feature before, but I'd like to know if the 
timed recording feature is accessible in Sound Forge 10? I'm using the Jaws 
scripts which Jim Snowbarger wrote, and will be leaving Friday afternoon, 
while the program I want to record is on Saturday night. If it was just 
leaving for a day and returning, I'd just leave the recording going, and 
trim the before and after, since I have enough hard drive space, but I don't 
have that much for this project. I'd not be able to record 48 hours 
straight. If the timer feature is accessible, will it let you choose a time 
for the next day?

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Re: Is the timed recording accessible in Sound Forge?

[Matthew Bullis]

   Hmm, Sound Forge unreliable in what way? Do you mean that Sound Forge 
has recording issues versus Total Recorder? I haven't noticed, though I know 
that earlier version did sometimes tend to drop seconds, and also ground the 
hard drive quite noisily. I've been a Sound Forge user for ten years though.
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Re: putting cds on a hard drive

[Matthew Bullis]

   Hello again. I use CDEX for this purpose, and I think that was the 
program we used when I was on the phone with you. You'll run into the same 
problem that you had before, if it won't recognize the cd info. It will make 
a folder called no artist, with a folder called no title inside of it, if 
you set it up this way. Then you'll need to rename the folders, but the ID3 
tags won't be filled in properly, though you could tab through and fill in 
the artist and title info before you hit f9 to extract into mp3. F8 extracts 
to .wav, by the way.. If you take the time to do the filling in of the info 
before extracting, then the folders that are created will be relevant.
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Re: Reaper Tutorial

[Matthew Bullis]

Could it also be that if you've installed ITunes, the default behaviour of 
downloaded audio files is to play them, and if so, it's a setting you'll 
need to change? Jonathan told about the fix for this in the FSCast demo of 
ITunes a few months back.
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Re: Youtube issues

[Matthew Bullis]

   Although I worked with Jed on this, and he was using WindowEyes 
while I'm using Jaws, this solution might work for you. I found that when I 
focused on a flash button, like the pause button on the video, then right 
clicked on it with the applications key or the Jaws right click, that it 
brought up a menu, two choices of which are settings and global settings. 
When I went into there, I was able to up arrow and turn up the volume. This 
didn't work for Jed though, but whether it was a fluke on my part, or 
whether WindowEyes doesn't relate the same to the flash buttons, I don't 
know. Anyhow, it's something to look into, before getting sighted 
assistance.
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Re: Youtube issues

[Matthew Bullis]

   Same thing happened to me, and I went into the options of Adobe flash 
player. I hit uparrow and it started getting louder, but that may have been 
because I happened to be on that particular control. It may be a bit easier 
to get sighted assistance with these controls, since it took me a half hour, 
and only by accident did I fix this.
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Re: Youtube issues

[Matthew Bullis]

   Unfortunately I've forgotten now how I did get there, but there are 
preferences. I fiddled around thinking I needed to update or reinstall the 
player, but that only caused confusion, since the installation buttons 
aren't labeled properly.
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Re: Reaper Multi Track recording software

[Matthew Bullis]

   Hmm, would you consider doing an audio demonstration of the program for 
one of the tech shows, or for BlindCoolTech, since it's a bit daunting, and 
I haven't figured out how to interact with both Reaper and Reaper Access?

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Re: recovering cd track information

[Matthew Bullis]

You should be able to use CDEX to get this done. It pulls from the internet 
database of cd titles, and will also do a great job of extracting the files 
into whatever format you want, if you set the options properly. The program 
is free.
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Re: recovering cd track information

[Matthew Bullis]

Hmm, odd. Are you using braille input to type or format your messages? I 
checked your message, and it turned my original message into the word 
couldex, when my actual message said c d e x, as four distinct letters. I'd 
never seen that happen before, when it made c d translate into the braille 
contraction could. Anyhow, once you put a cd into the drive and start cdex 
up, it will automatically pull the cd from its database, assuming it's a 
regular commercial cd. It goes by the time of each track. That's how it 
figures out what cd you've put in. There are a couple of places where using 
the mouse cursor, or Jaws cursor will help, specifically in opening up areas 
where you tell the program where to store the files. Also, you'll probably 
want to read the help area inside the program that deals with the percent 
signs and how to structure that format so that it puts the files in the 
correct folder structure. On another unrelated note, and you may want to 
respond off-list for this, but have you kept up with Ed Potter's 
announcements which he continues to do? How are you doing otherwise? He said 
you might be in Virginia, but also I think you're from New York as well. 
We've not corresponded before, but when the archives of Playback magazine 
and the underground tapes became available on mp3, I listened to the 
magazine from its beginning, though I hadn't ever been aware of it 
beforehand. So keep asking questions about cdex, and I'll try to help as 
best I can.
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Re: recovering cd track information

[Matthew Bullis]

   Hmm, perhaps this is not a store-bought cd? If it is though, then go 
into the menu bar, specifically the cddb menu, and choose a few of those 
options there. Each one will activate and then take you out of the menu bar, 
so you'll be trying one at a time, and maybe one of those databases will 
pull up the artist and title info. If you get this to work, and one database 
works more than the others, then go and set that as your primary database 
lookup in the settings. The settings can be easily reached by hitting F4. 
Also, when you have the artist and title the way you want it, F9 extracts 
the cd tracks into mp3, and F8 extracts into .wav format. You'll want to use 
the settings area to customize the quality of the mp3s though, so go through 
the settings pages first before extracting a cd onto the computer. One other 
note though. By default, it's set to extract all of the cd tracks on the cd. 
If you go exploring down the track list, it unselects everything, and only 
the item you're on will then have focus. Just be aware of that, if you 
actually did mean to extract all of the tracks.
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Re: Looking for program to rip audio tracks from CD's and is easyto navigable.

[Matthew Bullis]

   Out of the many I've tried over the years, I like CDEX the best. It's 
open-source, and free. If you set it up correctly, and have a bit of 
knowledge of how to review the screen with the mouse cursor, then you can 
get at a few buttons which aren't tabbable. Read the little pop-up about how 
to configure the artist backslash album backslash track name format, and you 
can get it set up with folders just the way you like it. From then on, you 
can extract cds quickly. I'm using Jaws, and it tends to speak the 
percentages pretty monotonously, so be sure to check the box that opens the 
tray after extraction. This way, you can turn Jaws off until the door opens. 
I hope you like this as much as I do. I'd give the URL, but there's a 
problem with the main site right now, and so a Google search seems to serve 
you better.
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Sound Forge hiding audio files after they're saved.

[Matthew Bullis]

   Hello, I've finished transferring a tape into Sound Forge, and have 
saved it as c:\tape1.wav. However, neither Windows Explorer nor the command 
promt show the file is there. If I load up Sound Forge and navigate to c:\, 
the file is there, and can be brought back into Sound Forge. Do you think 
that Sound Forge is setting the hidden or archive attribute on this file? I 
thought so, and tried to use the Dos attrib command, but it couldn't find 
the file. Any suggestions? I'll be able to delete these when I'm finished 
extracting the songs into individual tracks, but I'd like to clear up this 
problem without needing to delete the tape-long files within Sound Forge.

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Re: pandora radio

[Matthew Bullis]

   Pandora radio is a music service on the internet, and not a machine. I'm 
not sure if any web radio machines can access it or not. There is the web 
radio from Solutions, but I'm not sure about the amount of access you get if 
you're in the U.S. Go here:

http://www.theglobalvoice.info/gallery.php?show=innovations
and scroll down to November 2010 for the program which has the Solutions 
interview and demonstration.
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Re: There Is HOPE For Pandora

[Matthew Bullis]

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.
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Re: There Is HOPE For Pandora

[Matthew Bullis]

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.
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Re: Can anyone identify these songs for me

[Matthew Bullis]

The only one that sounded familiar to me was the last one. The one about 
Killarney sounds like it's Dennis Day singing.
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Re: Sound Forge 7 upgrade to 10 pro

[Matthew Bullis]

   Hello, especially if you're running SF with Jim's extra scripts for 
Jaws, you'll still be enjoying great functionality. I believe that version 8 
was the first one to introduce the shuttle controls, which run the audio 
file at a faster speed, which is different from Jim's scrubbing function. I 
use the SF function extensively, most when I'm near a point I want to mark, 
and I want to move back half a second and stop. I use the audio itself to 
gauge this. Anyhow, there are many features which have been added since 
Sound Forge version seven, but I just can't remember all of them. I've been 
a user of SF since version 4.5. I believe I even heard of another user who 
has been using version 6 on Windows 7, so you may decide to stay at that 
version. I'd personally upgrade to be current though, if you can manage it.
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Re: Question about the Zoom H1 recorder

[Matthew Bullis]

Were you able to find a manual online, or did you only have the printed one?
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Re: free software to convert audible books to mp3 files

[Matthew Bullis]

   To convert those files into mp3 is a violation of your Audible terms. 
There are many players which can play Audible files, and the computer can 
use either Audible's Desktop Player or Windows Media Player, and so there 
are many options.
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Re: station playlist

[Matthew Bullis]

   It's very extensive. It's at
www.MushroomFM.com
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Re: The Zoom H1 audio recorder

[Matthew Bullis]

   I wrote to Neal after his review debuted, but didn't get a response. I 
wonder if when you turn off the recorder, if the sampling rate always 
defaults to 44/16? If you're in the record standby mode, which you are when 
you press record once, then you use the arrows to increase or decrease the 
sampling rate. If you choose something else, by design or mistake, then I'd 
like to know if it stays there even after you switch it off? If it doesn't, 
then even better, since I'd want to know where I was in the selection. Also, 
is the autogain setting a switch on the machine? Does the volume and 
recording level always default to fifty when you turn the machine on? The 
threads for the tripod are contained on the machine. Can you get an adaptor 
to fit this onto a microphone stand, and if so, is it included inside the 
accessories pack which Zoom also sells?

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Can you assign audio in and out for each application?

[Matthew Bullis]

   Hello, since Windows 7 deals with audio completely differently, and in 
my opinion very convolutedly, it's not as simple as leaving the volume 
control open and checking the box for either microphone or line in within 
seconds. I have two sound cards. The first one is the onboard one that's in 
the laptop, and the other is the IMic usb sound card, the one I'll use for 
recording. It was no real problem setting Jaws to use the onboard card, nor 
of setting Skype to do the same, since both programs have options to 
configure that. I want to set the microphone on the Accessible World client 
to receive my voice from the microphone on the laptop, and output the other 
participants in the room to either card, whichever is easier. This way, I 
don't have to unplug the cord to the IMic and connect the microphone. The 
IMic has a handy switch so that the same port can be used as microphone or 
line in. So is there a way to do this the way I want? I didn't see a setting 
in Winamp to select the output, so I guess the IMic is set as the default 
sound card, with the onboard as a secondary. It's very confusing, and I wish 
there were more concrete answers. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Re: H1 Handy Recorder: New Portable Stereo Recorder Announced

[Matthew Bullis]

   Hello, just a bit more clarification. The recorder under discussion 
takes micro-SD cards, which are different from mini-SD cards. The micro SD 
cards used in the new Olympus DM4 and the new Zoom H1 are the smaller of the 
two types. So the micro sd is the smallest, the mini sd is a bit bigger, and 
then the SD card that you put in your Stream is the largest of the SD card 
types by physical size. This has nothing to do with the amount of data that 
can fit on them, as each sd card has its own capacity specifications. I hope 
this sorts it out a bit for when you're making a purchase. The Zoom H1 is 
packaged with a two-gig micro sd card, so you start off all set.
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Re: zoom h2 recorder

[Matthew Bullis]

   Hello, since the H1 hasn't been released in the States yet, I have 
no info other than from the Amazon product page and from the company's page. 
We'll just have to wait and see.
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Re: zoom h2 recorder

[Matthew Bullis]

   Hello, I just looked on BlindCoolTech, and Neal said with his review 
that the accessibility is awful, but that the monitor mode for recording 
makes it a little better. That's from the text descriptions under the 
podcast title, and so you'd need to listen to his recordings to hear more 
about it.
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Re: H1 Handy Recorder: New Portable Stereo Recorder Announced

[Matthew Bullis]

   Although the list price for the accessory pack is about $30, the 
selling price will be around fifteen in the U.S. The extra stuff is listed 
as a link down the page that I posted before from Amazon. I e-mailed the 
company, and they said that the manual in pdf format isn't available yet, 
but hopefully it will be when this product releases.
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Re: H1 Handy Recorder: New Portable Stereo Recorder Announced

[Matthew Bullis]

Wow. This sounds even better than the Olympus DM4 which has just come out. I 
like the idea of dedicated buttons and no menu structure. Perhaps someone 
can do a podcast on this new unit, and then maybe we'd be able to compare 
the two machines.
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Re: H1 Handy Recorder: New Portable Stereo Recorder Announced

[Matthew Bullis]

   Hmm, but if you're plugging in a microphone of your choice, and both 
machines record in .wav file format, would it matter at that point which one 
you were using? I would opt for anything that makes professional recordings 
like for audience taping at concerts or for making demo recordings, so have 
you figured out what the Zoom has that the Olympus does not, if you're using 
the same microphone?
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Re: H1 Handy Recorder: New Portable Stereo Recorder Announced

[Matthew Bullis]

   Here's the Amazon link, quite a long one. The price, surprisingly, is 
just $99!

http://www.amazon.com/Zoom-H1-Portable-Digital-Recorder/dp/B003QKBVYK/ref=sr_1_1?s=musical-instrumentsie=UTF8qid=1281326791sr=1-1


If the link wraps for your e-mail client, then search Amazon for Zoom H1.
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Re: Skype not closing in Windows 7

[Matthew Bullis]

   Might I recommend a program called Skype Talking? It uses keystrokes to 
do its work, rather than bringing up an interface. I open and close Skype 
with this program, and you can make other changes in a quicker and more 
straightforward way. The program is free from

http://code.google.com/p/skypetalking/
For the problem you describe, you'll want to set the options of Skype 
Talking so that when you start and close the program, it will shut down 
Skype. I just use control shift alt Q to quit both programs at once. I've 
even gone so far as to delete the desktop shortcut for Skype, and I just use 
the shortcut for Skype Talking. If you read the documentation, you'll get 
all of the control shift alt commands that the program uses. It's wonderful. 
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An audio editing program called Reaper.

[Matthew Bullis]

Hello, since I've not heard of this piece of software before, could you 
briefly describe how you edit in this software? I've been a Sound Forge user 
for ten years, and would like to know how Reaper does it. The userguide was 
in a pdf, and the .exe script file won't install without Reaper installed. 
I'd like to know more about it before I install the software. I haven't even 
heard of any audio review of Reaper before.

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Re: An audio editing program called Reaper.

[Matthew Bullis]

   Hmm, never did use Midi at all. I heard an audio demo of Sonar, and it 
just sounded way too involved to me, and the reviewer focused on the Midi 
capabilities, rather than just regular audio editing. How is Reaper on that 
aspect, and can it do multitrack recording?

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Re: Recording What you Hear in Windows 7?

[Matthew Bullis]

   Hello, when I used XP, I had the same problem. The check boxes were 
usable, but they didn't have labels. I used my Jaws cursor and went up a 
line to see what the words across the top were. Thereafter, I just had to 
memorize which check boxes were which. Unfortunately I couldn't even assign 
each check box a Jaws prompt from the prompt creator, since all of the 
prompts would then speak the same for each box. Now that I'm using Windows 
7, I only wish it was that simple. I can't seem to switch from line in to 
microphone easily, not without disabling line in or some convoluted thing 
like that. There don't appear to be check boxes anymore, and although the 
what you hear option is on my sound card, I don't see it in the list of 
available devices, even after I check the box for showing disabled devices.

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Recording What you Hear in Windows 7?

[Matthew Bullis]

   Hello, since I can't figure out the layout or configuration of the 
options in Windows 7, and since my sound card supports the what you hear 
option in XP but apparently not in Windows 7, I'm wondering if Total 
Recorder or Replay AV will take care of the what you hear option for me? 
Usually when I need to record using the what you hear or stereo master 
functions, I would just select that option and then record with Sound Forge. 
However, since this isn't possible in Windows 7 that I've found, does Total 
Recorder or Replay AV let me record using this option built into either 
program? For instance, if I'm recording the output of my screen reader to a 
file, or the playing of a stream, does either program just simply record the 
audio that comes out of the sound card, or does it actually record internet 
streams only? I don't need this option very often, but when I do, I'd like 
to be versed in how to use it. I'd like to learn it before I have to rush a 
project and have to learn quickly.

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Re: Where to find record sleeves for vinyl records.

[Matthew Bullis]

   Hello, your one-stop place is
www.BagsUnlimited.com
They have various sleeves for 78s, with various thicknesses of paper, center 
hole or not, and even cardboard or just paper. They also have inner static 
sleeves for 33s, as well as the mylar sleeves that fit over the record 
jacket, so that you could braille on the mylar sleeve with a labeling gun 
like I do, and you don't mark up the cover. You can also phone Bags 
Unlimited to make sure you're ordering exactly what you need, since it can 
sometimes be confusing. I hope you find what you need, though you'll 
probably be ordering more than you need.
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Re: Record vinyl to computer .

[Matthew Bullis]

Hello, may I humbly suggest my going over of this topic in the old Main Menu 
archives at

www.acbradio.org
You have what you need, except you either don't have, or forgot to mention 
the leads that connect everything up.
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Re: saving and playing audio books from my NLS player

[Matthew Bullis]

I should mention that manipulating the NLS content so that it can be played 
on a device not authorized for it, especially getting it into mp3 format, is 
a violation of your agreement with NLS. You need to be careful not to do 
that, and also not to give out ways and means to others. It will hurt all of 
us as patrons if users abuse the system. Apparently something like this 
happened a few years ago with the Web Braille system, and it was shut down 
for a while, with dire pronouncements that it wouldn't return. Please enjoy 
NLS content responsibly.
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Re: FLAC Compression Question

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The sound will not differ, and the resulting .wav file when converted will 
not lose out. It's just a matter of file size and time taken to compress it.
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Re: MP3 Tag Studio Question

[Matthew Bullis]

This program will indeed do what you want. You have to read the instructions 
carefully to get what you want, since you have to tell it how to treat the 
files the way you want. Once you get it the way you like it, you can just 
change the info in the fields each time something changes, or you can 
uncheck the box for that field if you don't want the program to fill the 
field out.
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Re: Bookpo9rt Plus and Plextalk PTR2

[Matthew Bullis]

OK, so the Plextalk Pocket and the new Bookport Plus feel the same when held 
in the hand? Is that what they mean about the same hardware, or do they mean 
the same pressable keys? I don't quite understand.

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Re: audio studio audio presentation on main menu

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Yeah, that is a bit tricky to get to. Start out with
www.acbradio.org
then go to on demand, then main menu, then the link that says visit the new
Main Menu site. Even after that, you then have to click on shows, and then
you'll be presented with the archives. If you're looking for something from
the earlier Main Menu archives, going back to 2000, then stop on the link
that says main menu, and those archives are there. The show you want will 
discuss Studio Recorder from APH. There are also demos of it on

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Managing recording settings in Windows 7.

[Matthew Bullis]

Hello, can it really be this hard? I'm used to the Windows XP way of doing 
things, where the volume control has check boxes to select whether the line 
in or the microphone port is used. If I now work in Windows 7, I have to 
click on speakers in the system tray and go down a list of several 
nondescript options that say microphone. Line in is at the bottom, and when 
I select it and hit properties, sometimes I get the listen tab, along with 
the levels tab, but sometimes not. When I don't get this set of tabs, I hear 
no noise from my recording source, and only have the general tab. I think 
I'll have to reboot to get these settings to show up. Also, when things are 
working, how can I switch to using the microphone rather than the line in 
port, such as when I want to do voice chats? I used to just keep the volume 
control open and could switch back and forth in a few seconds. Am I just not 
going about it the right way, or has Microsoft really made it complicated 
and arduous? I have made a dual-boot system, with both XP and Windows 7, but 
I prefer to keep going in Windows 7, since it's working pretty well for the 
most part.

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Re: External sound cards

[Matthew Bullis]

I quite like the IMic from Griffin Technology. For a while it wasn't available 
on their site, but I see that it's back for addition to their shopping cart at 
$30. It just plugs into the USB port, and has an input and an output jack, with 
a switch to go from line in to microphone settings. It doesn't do the what you 
hear or stereo mix feature though, but if your laptop doesn't have a line in 
port, it's quite handy. You wouldn't think a small piece of plastic would work 
so well.
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RE: Keychain Speaker

[Matthew Bullis]

I like the keychain speaker from
www.thinkgeek.com
Choose keychain speaker amp, and not the earbud one. The keychain speaker
amp is ten dollars, but you'll no doubt find other things from Think Geek
that you'll want.
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Re: Multitrack recording software

[Matthew Bullis]

N-Track is probably the one.
www.NTrack.com
If you go to
www.ACBRadio.org
then go to on demand, then Main Menu, then search down the page, you will 
find my review of the software from about seven years ago. The software is 
reasonably priced at less than a hundred dollars U.S. The maker is Italian.

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Can't mark in and out using Sound Forge 9

[Matthew Bullis]

Hello, while my copy of Sound Forge is just fine here at home, when I went 
into the talking book library to help them with their book editing, I found 
out that although I could delete from the cursor to the end of the file, or 
from the cursor to the beginning, I couldn't use the i and o keys to mark 
passages. I needed to mark the place where breaths occurred and delete them. 
I would stop the cursor just before the breath, hit i for mark in, go past 
the breath and hit o to mark out, and hit delete. It would not delete, and 
it also would not play the selected data if I hit the space bar to check it 
out before deleting. I've never had this issue with Sound Forge, using 
multiple versions through the years on multiple computers. We even went into 
the options and configured it like I have it here at home. The only thing I 
can think of is that they must have something perhaps interfering with the 
marking abilities, but I can't think of any possible reason why this doesn't 
work. Does anyone have any suggestions as to why the keyboard commands don't 
respond like the mouse clicks do?

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Re: Sound Forge Versions/names; what they should cost approximately; and which version should I get that is the most accessible (version8,9, or 10)

[Matthew Bullis]

Perhaps you could get the $35 version of Sound Forge to put the records onto 
the hard disc in .wav file format, and then try out Depopper from

www.depopper.com
for 30 days. If you like the results of Depopper as I do, you could buy that 
for just under $20. I've enjoyed Depopper for eight years now.

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Re: Installing SoundForge 8 and 9 on same machine

[Matthew Bullis]

Oh yes. At one time, on one PC, I had versions 7 8 and 9 on. For some reason 
with that computer, version 8 didn't record well, as it kept stuttering, and 
so I'd use version 7 for recording, and then version 8 for all other tasks. 
I didn't do much with version 9, because it didn't seem to work well with 
scripts. but version 10 just came out, and I'll get that.

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Re: Flac File Question

[Matthew Bullis]

Hello, now I didn't know that Winamp now ships with a flac plug-in. I used 
the flac plug-in for Winamp that I had to download. Everything dealing with 
flac files, including how to decode them to .wav and how to encode .wav 
files to flac is contained at

http://flac.sourceforge.net
Since I'm not sure of your experience with flac files, this will give you a 
starting point. These are used in the trading of concert recordings, and now 
a few artists are offering the flac downloads as an alternative to the mp3s.

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Re: Help with voiceovers in Sound Forge (Matthew Bullis)

[Matthew Bullis]

Oh yes. You have the option of voice over useage in Sound Forge. Jonathan 
used it in his tutorial of version 4.5.

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moving a marker: was Re: sound forge 7

[Matthew Bullis]

Hello, I never actually used this method of marking. What I've always done 
is to put the cursor at the start point of the desired audio, then press the 
letter I. Then I'd page down or control page down to the point at which I 
wished to stop and hit the letter O. This section would then be marked to 
reverse or mute or do whatever effects I wanted on it. Mark in and out.

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Help with voiceovers in Sound Forge

[Matthew Bullis]

Hello, I'm using Sound Forge 9 right now. It's been about nine years since I 
used the voice over options, specifically the one where the music lowers in 
response to the voice on another file. Where do I find this option again, 
and how do I go about it? I need a refresher course. Also, is it possible to 
render just the files separately, such as getting the processed music file 
with the volume drop in music, but not the voice? I'm not sure if the music 
file could then be used with other voice files, since the volume drop 
depends on the specific qualities and volume of the voice that was used in 
the first place. So direction on this would be helpful.

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re: Sound Forge with Window-eyes

[Matthew Bullis]

Hello, not being a Window Eyes user, I can't help with Sound Forge's 
interaction with that screen reader, but what sort of problems are you 
having navigating the screen? There are scripts for Jaws made by Jim 
Snowbarger, and there may be scripts to add equal functionallity with Window 
Eyes, though I'm not sure.

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Re: Batch converting, flac to mp3

[Matthew Bullis]

Hi Tim. Might some of the cds I gave you a few years ago be among those for 
conversion? If you have Sound Forge, the batch converter within the program 
works quite well for what you want to do. They do have a stand-alone 
download of the batch converter, but I don't think it's the same thing, or 
at least the last time I checked, it wasn't speech friendly.
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Re: Seeking USB/analog turntable recommendations

[Matthew Bullis]

While I haven't bought a USB turntable, since my existing equipment does the 
job, you should be aware that these units don't come with a separate stylus 
to play 78s, unless they've corrected this oversight. While you can play 78s 
with the same stylus that plays 33s, it won't sound as good, because of the 
wider grooves on the 78s.
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Re: Extracting Audio From Avi

[Matthew Bullis]

I've done this many times using Sound Forge. It loads up the files just 
fine. I believe, though I have no sight to test it, that if you trim or 
otherwise edit the audio, the video should keep right up, so that you could 
cut out bits you didn't want. Then all you'd have to do is save in your 
preferred audio format like you want, or resave the .avi file and have 
someone sighted go over it and see if the picture cuts worked out ok.
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Re: Can Someone help me figure out the best way to do this largeaudio project?

[Matthew Bullis]

Hello, I believe you might be confusing bitrate with kbps. 32kbps is a 
pretty average encoding bitrate for mp3s, especially for voice. Most files 
are created as 16-bit files, unless you have changed something. I think 
you'll find after creating one of these mp3 files that if you look at its 
properties, it will say 32kbps, 16-bit and either mono or stereo or joint 
stereo. There would be your answer then. You should then adjust the encoding 
to 64-kbps for a bit better quality. The 16-bit setting would remain the 
same.
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Re: Gapless Cd creation: Re: Can it be done? How do I do it?

[Matthew Bullis]

Sound Forge is on version 9, though I use eight for my main tasks. Version 9 
isn't as responsive, though I have yet to try it on my computer which is in 
the process of being built.
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Re: Gapless Cd creation: Re: Can it be done? How do I do it?

[Matthew Bullis]

Hello, if you use Sound Forge to extract audio from a cd, and you want the 
existing track marks to be included within the file, you just check the box 
in the extraction wizzard that comes up. I don't think it matters whether 
you choose markers or regions. If you have .wav file data on your hard disc, 
you can place markers at the desired track points with Sound Forge. You go 
to the top of the file, hit m for the first marker, go to the bottom, hit m 
for the end marker, and then go through the file, hitting m whenever you 
want a new track mark. Then you convert these into regions, by hitting alt 
s, r, and then m, and say yes to the prompt. Now you're not going to be able 
to burn a gapless disc from here. You will have to extract the regions into 
individual files and fix the sector boundaries. Sound Forge only has a track 
at once burner built in, meaning it has the two-second gaps. They do have a 
product called CD Architect, but I never figured that out, either by 
inaccessibility or through program confusion. Once you get the files 
correctly cut on sector boundaries, you'll want to make a lossless flac data 
set, which involves another program, your flac encoder of choice. I know 
this sounds overwhelming and complicated, but I've done this almost every 
day for the past few months, and frequently over the past four years, while 
collecting my ever-growing concert recordings. Once you get the hang of it, 
it becomes very smooth.
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Re: Gapless Cd creation: Re: Can it be done? How do I do it?

[Matthew Bullis]

Hello, if you're dealing with concerts on your hard drive, especially with 
lossless cd trading, this is a problem that recievers of your discs will 
thank you for correcting. Depending on how the resultant .wav files are cut, 
the editing program may not respect the cd track boundaries, as far as how 
they're made. This is what causes the barely-perceptible split-second gaps 
between tracks. They're called sector boundary errors. They can be corrected 
with a command line program called SHNTool, or with another program called 
Trader's Little Helper. If you'll get a plug-in for your media player which 
plays files gaplessly, like the gapless plug-in for Winamp, then you can 
test whether the files actually are seamless when played back. However, 
there still may be sector boundary errors in the .wav files, even if the 
files play gaplessly in your media player. This is why you'll need to fix 
them with the programs I listed above. If you're a Sound Forge user, then 
you'll definitely need to fix these, since no current version of that 
program cuts the files on their correct sector boundary. I've asked them to 
fix this in future versions, so maybe they will. I hope this helps, and 
sorry if it was a bit technical, but hopefully you can get what you desire. 
If you've any more questions, just ask. Oh, and if you have files which 
already have the gaps in them to begin with, then there are programs which 
try to remove these, with varying degrees of success, like WavTrim.
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Re: Gapless Cd creation: Re: Can it be done? How do I do it?

[Matthew Bullis]

OK, getting really fine and technical here. If you splice files together in 
Sound Forge, and you hear a click, or you otherwise notice the point at 
which you've joined the files, then there is something wrong with the .wav 
files before you've even joined them. You'll need to use a program called 
WavTrim to fix the two files before you join them. This way, it can look at 
the ends of each file on either side, trim out any digital garbage, and 
present you with cleaned-up files which you can then join. Sound Forge's 
problem is that while splitting the files is fine, and the playback on 
computer is seamless, when written to cd, the byte allocation data is off, 
and only when you play back the audio cd will you then hear any clicks, 
hesitations, or ticks, while the .wav files that still reside on your hard 
drive play back flawlessly. It's worth it to learn this correctly, because 
if you trade a concert to someone, and your cd to them has these mistracked 
errors, and they don't fix them, and then they burn a copy for someone else, 
more tracking errors occur. Their failure to check this problem results 
possibly in double errors, and it can go downhill from there. The worst case 
I've come across is where someone did heaven knows what while making the 
cds, or five or six people ignored the problems, and actual seconds of audio 
was lost, which of course couldn't be recovered. OK, I'll stop there, as it 
might have got a bit nit-picky, but I appreciate the effort when someone 
presents a well taken care of show, which flows seamlessly, like you're 
right there in the concert.
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Re: Sound Forge question

[Matthew Bullis]

Yes, it's I for in, or the starting marker, and O for out, for the ending 
marker. Also remember that if you use control shift K, you'll hear upto the 
cursor position, so that it plays a bit before you've stopped, so you can 
hear exactly where you are, and where you're about to mark in or out.. I've 
found that it's a bit tricky to undo an in or out marker, because it gets 
confused. If you know you've done it wrong, just hit delete, and then 
control Z, to undo the delete. That will usually clear the wrong position.
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Re: moving dvd's to a hard drive question

[Matthew Bullis]

OK, this depends on what you actually want to do. If you just want to store 
the dvd data on the hard drive, in order to make exact copies of the dvds 
later, then you need only to create folders with meaningful names for each 
dvd, and copy the video_ts and other folders from the dvd itself into those 
meaningful folders. When you want to burn another copy of the same dvd, you 
can use the data stored within the folders to make dvds, rather than using 
the physical discs themselves. For instance, if your dvd is labeled 
production 1, then make a folder with that name on the hard drive, and copy 
the contents of the dvd just like you would any other file. When you 
actually prepare to burn the dvd, select the folders within the production 1 
folder, rather than the production 1 folder itself. The root of the dvd 
structure must be those video_ts and audio_ts folders. Now that's how you 
preserve dvds on a hard drive. However, if your object is to take the video 
content off of a dvd and make playable files for uploading to Youtube or for 
play in other formats, then you'll need a dvd ripper. There is a good 
program which grabs only the audio from dvds called DVD Audio Extractor, but 
for collecting the whole video source, you'd want something which will turn 
dvd segments into .avi files, such as a converter named that, or some of the 
tools within the Nero suite of cd burning tools. I hope that this info helps 
you out some.
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Re: how can I normalize a bunch of files?

[Matthew Bullis]

There's a program called mp3Gain which works pretty well. It claims that it 
can normalize mp3 files without reencoding them, though I don't know how it 
does that. You'll have to Google the program, because I don't know where I 
got my copy.
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Re: iMic

[Matthew Bullis]

But is it the IMic original or the IMic2? Griffin had the IMic2 available on 
their site, but the original IMic seemed not to be available. The IMic2 
seems to be a larger mixing board sort of thing. If you know the difference 
between these products, please let me know. I bought my IMic off of EBay. 
It's the little rouned device that plugs into the USB port.
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Re: accessable multitrack

[Matthew Bullis]

Hello Josh. I had considered that unit briefly, until I found out that there
weren't inputs for what I needed. I've never been satisfied with the mono
sound of instrument inputs. I therefore use a pedal and spread out the sound
with dual outputs. This unit wouldn't help me in that regard. I therefore
used a program on the computer called NTrack. I can mix the audio how I like
it, and then feed it into the computer and layer as I please. I did a review
on Main Menu several years ago, and I hope that it helps you, if you decide
to go the computer route. You can edit the resulting mixed-down .wav file in
any number of editing programs to get rid of the before-song stuff. I hope
you can return the Tascam unit without problems, if you find it not to meet
your needs. I never actually tried out the unit, but maybe you can get
sighted assistance to show you the menu structure for the things that you
need, and memorize enough to go where you need to go.
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