Jaws guide for Audacity

2007-03-09 Thread David Bailes
I've recently written an introductory guide to Audacity for users of the Jaws screen reader. It's available in the Audio section of this webpage: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/jaws-guides/ Any comments or suggestions about the guide would be gratefully recieved, David Bailes

Re: wmp 11 menu trouble

2007-04-10 Thread David Bailes
of the columns - if you want to ensure it only matches to an artist, type eg, artist:bono. David Bailes. ___ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt

Re: wmp 11 menu trouble

2007-04-11 Thread David Bailes
list view!). 2. insert a blank cd. 3. To add items to the burn list: select items in the primary list view, press the application key, and choose add to burn list from the shortcut menu. 4. To burn the cd, press the start burn button at the end of the list pane, or press alt + s. David Bailes

Re: Looking for an Audacity tutorial

2007-04-30 Thread David Bailes
will be delayed by that amount (which can be negative). David Bailes. original message - Now, I have another problem. I am trying to record a couple of my friends singing a song with a karaoke track. It seems that when Audacity lays down the vocals, there is a delay

Jaws guide for Windows Media Player 11

2007-05-08 Thread David Bailes
for improving the guide would be appreciated, David Bailes. ___ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail

Re: library in Windows MediaPlayer

2007-05-16 Thread David Bailes
on updating the library. This may help, David Bailes. original message: Hi, listers, I am running Windows Vista Home Premium. I am trying to add to my library in Windows MediaPlayer version 11. I am pointing at a folder of .mp3 files but I can't seem to get the files in a list or if I am, I can't

Re: crashing and problems burning winammp with vista

2007-05-17 Thread David Bailes
Hi, If you're familiar with winamp, it's probalby easier to stay with this program. But if you want to try and use Windows Media Player 11 there's a guide for jaws users running under Windows XP at: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Windows-Media-Player-11-Guide.html Most of the

Re: Windows Media Player 10, Unavailable Functions

2007-06-12 Thread David Bailes
Hi, the closest thing that WMP has for rewinding audio is to use the seek slider. The keyboard navigation for this is to press ctrl + tab once of twice to move to the slider, then use left or right arrows to seek backwards or forwards by one twentieth of the length of the track. David Bailes

Re: anyone using audacity?

2007-06-13 Thread David Bailes
Hi, there's a Jaws guide available for the latest version of audacity at: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-1.3.3-Guide.html David Bailes. original message follows: Hi all, Is anyone using audacity? Wondering how JAWS or WE -friendly it is? looks like it does lots

Re: [Blind Audio] anyone using audacity?

2007-06-14 Thread David Bailes
in this thread. David Bailes. - original message --- hi, I tried using it with jaws, but found I couldn't select and delete from start to cursor. mark ___ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows

Re: [Blind Audio] anyone using audacity?

2007-06-14 Thread David Bailes
Hi, my last post should have read: there are a number of ways of moving the cursor, which can give you as much accuracy as you want, David Bailes. ___ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email

Re: Anyone using Audasity?

2007-09-04 Thread David Bailes
Hi, there's a jaws guide to using audacity 1.3.3 under windows at: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-1.3.3-Guide.html At the end of the document, there's a summary of the keystrokes, which should be the same on a mac. David Bailes. original message: Hi! Anyone

Re: audacity help please

2008-01-02 Thread David Bailes
Hi Ted, there's a Jaws guide to Audacity 1.3.4 at: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-1.3.4-Guide.html which may help, David Bailes. original message: Hi listers. I just downloaded audacity and installed it, and am wondering if there are any jaws scripts for it, or any

Re: problem with audacity sound editor

2008-04-23 Thread David Bailes
Hi Josh, I've used audacity 1.2.6, but haven't had that problem. You could try the latest version, 1.3.4 which is reasonalby stable despite being in beta, and is more accessible. There a reverb efffect called Gverb which is available from the Effect menu. There's some documentation on Gverb

Re: DAB Radios

2008-05-06 Thread David Bailes
Hi, Saqib, The ecoplus range of pure's dab radios consume less power: http://www.pure.com/ecoplus/ I think that the pure one, and pure evoke-2 were recently recommended in the Which consumer magazine. I'm writing this from the uk. David. original message: Hi all. I'm looking for a DAB

Re: Setting Recording Levels in Vista

2009-02-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi Mari, 1. You can open the Sound dialog by opening the start menu and typing sound. The first match will probably be sound recorder, but you can just arrow down one to sound, and then press enter. 2. Press ctrl+tab to move to the recording page, where there's a list of devices. Select a

Re: Fw: audacity?

2009-02-26 Thread David Bailes
Hi, There's a jaws guide to audacity 1.3.4, which would also be useful to users of other screen readers, at: http://tinyurl.com/8h99rq David. original message: I'm forwarding this from a friend. can someone give a description of this program and what its best used for? Hi Doc, How's it

Re: WMP 11

2009-02-26 Thread David Bailes
Hi, there's a jaws guide to wmp 11 which covers ripping cds: http://tinyurl.com/2hwmrn David. original message: I've just installed WMP 11 and can't figure out how to play a movie and how to rip a cd. Are there tutorials on either? Thanks. Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List

Re: Tutorial for WMP 11

2009-03-25 Thread David Bailes
Hi Mari, there's a Jaws guide to wmp 11 which is available at: http://tinyurl.com/2hwmrn It was written for wmp 11 running on Windows XP, but I think the only section which is different on Vista is the CD Drive Autoplay section. David. original message: Hello, Does anyone know if there is

Re: BBC iPlayer

2009-04-06 Thread David Bailes
Hi Stephan, With IE8, I can get listen live to work if Jaws isn't running, but not if it is. An alternative way of listening live to bbc radio is to install the webbie group of programs from the website: http://www.webbie.org.uk/ After installation, there's a program group Accessible and

Re: selecting with audacity

2009-04-06 Thread David Bailes
Hi Ray, There's a Jaws guide to the latest version of Audacity at: http://tinyurl.com/cws7ao Nearly all of it is applicable to other screen readers. The relevant sections are: playback, moving the cursor, and selecting audio. David. original message: I need to snag 3 minutes from an audio

Re: selecting with audacity

2009-04-07 Thread David Bailes
Hi Ray, Assuming that you've turned off the option to select all if non sekected, as described in the guide, then one or more tracks and a time range have to be selected to select a portion of audio. When you first open audacity, the focus should be the track table, so to move to the spin

Re: selecting with audacity

2009-04-08 Thread David Bailes
I need to set those buttons to rang3e or length and can I use the brackets to mark the beginning of the audio I need? - Original Message - From: David Bailes david_bai...@yahoo.co.uk To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 08:23 Subject: Re: selecting with audacity

Re: selecting with audacity

2009-04-09 Thread David Bailes
Hi Ray, Adjusting the jump. If you open the preferences dialog (ctrl+p), select Audio I/O in the tree view, you can then tab to the seek time when playing section which contains two edit boxes. The names of the two edit boxes are short time and long time, and the units are seconds.

Re: selecting with audacity

2009-04-09 Thread David Bailes
Hi Ray, I'll mention your suggestion about smaller increments to the Audacity developers - they're far too big at the moment. There is however a rather ugly work around for this. If you move to the playback speed slider, route the Jaws cursor to the pc cursor and double left click, then a

Re: selecting with audacity

2009-04-10 Thread David Bailes
Hi Ray, I'm not sure the developers would want to add another control to the toolbars. As an alternative, how about: 1. on the playback speed slider, the arrow keys move in 10% increments, and page up and down move in 40% increments. 2. a shortcut key is added to open the dialog box which

Re: selecting with audacity

2009-04-10 Thread David Bailes
Hi Ray, If you need to move the cursor by a large time increment, like 70 minutes, it's easier to do this using the selection start spin box. It takes a little time to get the hang of, but it's a very useful control, as you can increment or decrement any digit in the time. For example to move

Re: Flash video players

2009-04-13 Thread David Bailes
Hi, for youtube, you could try: http://icant.co.uk/easy-youtube/ David. original message: I'm really getting into Youtube and other video sites. Finding wonderful old TV shows bringing lots of nostalgia. The problem is sometimes the volume is to low. Turning it up causes Jaws to be to

Re: Win Vista Line in

2009-04-17 Thread David Bailes
Hi Bozka, I don't have the sound card that you refer to, but just want to point out that if a sound card supports the playthough of its inputs, then you can adjust this using the vista sound dialog. If you move to the playback page, select the playback device that you're using, then press

Re: Burning a CD in Windows Media Player 11

2009-05-04 Thread David Bailes
Hi, there's a jaws guide to wmp 11, and most of it is equally applicable to window eyes: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Windows-Media-Player-11-Guide.html the revlevant sections are probably: introduction, main window, player taskbar, and burn page, David. original message:

Re: BBC Podcastes

2009-06-23 Thread David Bailes
Hi Ketan, In the list of 6 options which includes itunes, google reader, etc, the last item is RSS feed. To copy the feed address to the clipboard, either select copy shortcut from the context menu of the RSS feed link, or alternatively open the link, and then copy the address in the address

Re: Audio Editing Software

2009-07-20 Thread David Bailes
Hi George, The latest release of Audacity is 1.3.8 which came out at the end of the last week. Although a small number of people have had problems installing it on XP, the developers are working on the problem, and there is a temporary fix if needed. There's a new version of the Jaws guide

RE: Audio Editing Software

2009-07-20 Thread David Bailes
Hi Katherine, If you have any specific pains in mind, then let me know and I can pass these on the the Audacity developers who are keen to improve its accessibility, David. original message: I wouldn't recommend the use of audacity. It is a pain as far as I can tell. Use GoldWave.

Re: WMP Issue

2009-08-14 Thread David Bailes
Hi Mark, you could try using the seek slider, which you can quickly move to by pressing ctrl+tab one or two times. The arrow keys move you by one twentieth of the track length, and shift + arrow keys move you by one four hundredth of the track length, David. original message: Hi folks,

Re: New to audio production

2009-08-14 Thread David Bailes
Hi Martin, here are some more detailed instructions for using Audacity to create the example you wanted. 1. Open audacity. 2. On the track menu, open the add new sub menu, and choose Audio track (ctrl+shift+n). 3. Open the Tone generator dialog from the Generate menu. In this dialog, the

Re: about eye player

2009-08-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi Iram, As far as I can see, BBC Urdu is not available using the BBC iPlayer. The Accessible iPlayer programs allow you to listen to the same content as that available using the BBC iPlayer, so you won't be able to listen to BBC Urdu using these programs either. However, there is a BBC Urdu

RE: about eye player

2009-08-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi Iram, The accessible programs from webbie are installed in the Accessible and Webbie folder in the all programs menu. The program BBC iplayer Radio in that folder has some useful help - just press F1. There's also a guide available at: http://tinyurl.com/kk55c5 David. To

Jaws guide for BBC iplayer

2009-09-18 Thread David Bailes
I've written a Jaws guide for the BBC iPlayer website, and it's available at: http://tinyurl.com/q58knt Also, there was an interesting article on the BBC internet blog in june which includes details of codecs and bitrates of their audio streams: http://tinyurl.com/lpwf58 David. To

Re: Jaws guide for BBC iplayer

2009-09-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi Vicky, thanks for the feedback. As Ray has already said, the iPlayer website is run by the BBC, which gets a licence fee from everyone who watches live tv in the uk. Alas I have no suggestions for the usa, where the funding is quite different. David. original message: I've just read your

Re: Jaws guide for BBC iplayer

2009-09-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi Ray, regarding the native accessibility of flash, here's a tutorial on Adobe's website (and it's an accessible flash movie): http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/flash/tutorial/ David. original message: Hahaha, RNIB could never ever develop anything like the IPlayer. The BBC

Re: Moving through Files in Windows Media Player

2009-10-08 Thread David Bailes
Hi Samuel, Using the seek slider in wmp 11, you can move through the following fractions of the length of the track: 1. Arrow keys move you one twentieth. 2. ctrl + arrow keys move you one fifth. 3. shift + arrow keys move you one four hundredth. 4. shift + ctrl + arrow keys move you by one

Re: audacity

2009-11-17 Thread David Bailes
Hi, You can find the position of the cursor, and the playback position in the Selection bar. Ctrl+F6 cycles you round the toolbars, the table of tracks, and the selection bar. When you open Audacity you're initially in the table of tracks, so to move to the Selection bar, just press ctrl+f6.

RE: audacity

2009-11-18 Thread David Bailes
Hi Yes, noise reduction is available within audacity - here's the page in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Noise_Removal David. original message: Does audacity offer any kind of noise reduction or audio cleanup functions? To unsubscribe from this list,

Re: Audacity

2009-11-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi, After you press the ] key to mark the end of the selection, are you pressing space to stop playback before you press the delete key? You can't delete during playback. David. original message: Hi, I'am trying Audacity. Ive installed the last beta version, but I can't use it. For example,

Re: Audacity

2009-11-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi Mario, a couple of things to check: 1. Is the focus in the table of tracks? (ctrl+f6 cycles round toolbars, track table, and selection bar) 2. Is the track selected? When you open a file, the track is initially selected, and pressing enter toggles the selection of the focussed track. David.

pc-audio@pc-audio.org

2009-11-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi Mario, another thing to check: after you've selected the time range, if you press space to play/stop, it should play only the selected time range. Does this happen? David. original message: yes I press the space. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to:

Re: Audacity

2009-11-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi Mario, two more things to try: A. Just check on the About dialog on the Help menu that you're definitely using Audacity 1.3.9. B. Maybe there's some problem with using the [ and ] keys on an Italian keyboard. You could try the following method which uses commmands on menus rather than the

Re: Windows media player 11 and jfw 11

2009-12-17 Thread David Bailes
Hi Jason, current playing track: Insert + Ctrl + T. David. original message: Hi all, How do you make JFW tell you the title of the currently playing track? I know how to do it in win amp, but I'm forced to use WMP at work. Thanks, Jason To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank

Re: Windows media player 11 and jfw 11

2009-12-17 Thread David Bailes
Unfortunately, insert+ctrl+T has always just worked for me using wmp 11, and Jaws 10 and higher, David. orginal message: Never seems to work too well. Do I need to change some setting in WMP to make it easier for JFW to read the track To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email

Re: how to access track info using Windows Media Player 11

2010-03-10 Thread David Bailes
Hi joanne, 1. Using Jaws 10 you can read the name of the currently playing track by pressing insert+ctrl+t. 2. As someone has already said, you can seek back and forward by moving to the seek slider, just press ctrl+tab once or twice to move to it. Pressing the arrow keys moves you by one

Re: how to access track info using Windows Media Player 11

2010-03-11 Thread David Bailes
Hi Tom, Unfortunately, I don't think there's a way in wmp to go to a place in a track by specifying a time, David. original message: Hello David and list: Just wondering..is there any way (in WMP)..to go exactly to a certain place in the track or file as you can in Winamp? Tom Kaufman

Re: Searching by bit rate

2010-03-11 Thread David Bailes
Hi Barry, You should be able to do this with the advanced query syntax available in windows: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/technicalresources/advquery.mspx For example to search for files with 320k bit rate, the search term to enter would be bitrate:320kbps.

Re: Searching by bit rate

2010-03-12 Thread David Bailes
Hi Hank, to search by genre, you can use search terms such as genre:rock and genre:classical. Note spelling of genre. David. original message: hello what about johnrahs? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org

Re: recording multiple inputs in windows 7

2010-03-16 Thread David Bailes
Hi Brett, my understanding is that Audacity can only record a single device. So if you want to use audacity you could either use a hardware mixer as input or get windows 7 to do the mixing. To do the latter: 1. Enable software playthrough for both the microphone and the line in. On the

Re: Windows Media Player controls

2010-03-22 Thread David Bailes
Hi Dane, the seek increment for the arrow keys is one twentieth of track length. Other increments are available using modifier keys: 1. ctrl + arrow keys, one fifth of track length. 2. shift + arrow keys, one four hundredth of track length. 3. ctrl + shift + arrow keys, one eight thousandth of

Re: Windows Media Player controls

2010-03-23 Thread David Bailes
Hi Bob, the modifiers work in wmp 11, and wmp 12 on windows 7, but I've been told that they don't work on wmp 10. However, even for wmp 11, and 11 the modifiers aren't listed in the help files. David. original message: I wonder if those modifiers work with WMP 10 because I never got them to

Re: Windows Media Player controls

2010-03-23 Thread David Bailes
Hi Bob, I found the modifiers by trial and error, just hoping that there might be some way to change the increment. I've since seen them mentioned for wmp 12 on a microsoft windows blog, but it seems crazy that they are not included in the list of shortcuts in help. David. original message:

Re: Enabling What you Hear on Windows 7

2010-03-26 Thread David Bailes
Hi Samuel, to enable what u hear, stereo mix or whatever it's called on windows 7: 1. Go to the recording page of the sound dialog, which you can open from start menu, or the the context menu of the volume icon in the notification area. 2. In the list of devices, by default disabled devices

Re: issues with volume when recording threw audacity

2010-07-29 Thread David Bailes
Hi Dave, Do you have this program only when using audacity? For example, if you use window's sound recorder program, is there the same problem.? Also, some more info may help me or others on the list work out what the problem is: What version of windows and audacity are you using, and which

Re: windows7 and audio inputs

2010-07-31 Thread David Bailes
Hi brian, there's some info in the sound dialog in Vista and windows 7 section of this guide to audacity: http://bit.ly/axYol6 Stereo mix is often disabled by default, so you'll probably need to change the setting to show disabled devices and then enable stereo mix,as described. Also, if

Re: audacity

2010-09-04 Thread David Bailes
Hi Robert, there's a jaws guide to audacity available at: http://bit.ly/axYol6 1. to apply an effect to a single track, make it the only track selected (enter toggles whether a track is selected). Then select a time range, for example, if you press J, then shift+k, this selects a time range

Re: Windows 7 - how to question

2010-09-13 Thread David Bailes
Hi, If your sound card can monitor the input then: 1. Open the Sound dialog in the control panel on the playback page. A couple of ways of opening this are either to type change sound into the start menu, or from the context menu of the speaker icon in the notification area. 2. In the list on

Re: Windows 7 - how to question continued

2010-09-14 Thread David Bailes
Hi Brett, it sounds like the audio driver after the reinstall isn't the same one that was there prior to the reinstall. You may be able to download an audio driver for your laptop from the dell website, or it may be easier to contact dell's tech support. David. original message: Hi. Great

Re: audacity

2010-09-20 Thread David Bailes
Hi Robert, there's a vocal removal page on Audacity's wiki: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Vocal_Removal - my understanding is that simple methods for vocal removal aren't that satisfactory.   There's a mailing list for blind audacity users at:

Re: Audacity Group?

2010-10-13 Thread David Bailes
Hi Larry, there's a mailing list for blind audacity users at: http://www.freelists.org/list/audacity4blind -there isn't much activity currently on this list, but one of the audacity team members seems to keep a look out for any questions.   There's also an audacity users mailing list, which has a

Re: Question for Audacity users

2010-10-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi Larry, I presume that you're using a recent version of Audacity (latest version is 1.3.12). If a track is the focus, then pressing enter toggles whether that track is selected or not, but it has no effect on whether the other tracks are selected. So if if you want only one track to be

Re: Question for Audacity users

2010-10-20 Thread David Bailes
Hi Larry, The suggestions were not Jaws specific. Although Audacity is not completely accessible, a large part of it can be used with Jaws, Window-Eyes, and NVDA. I'm not sure about system access, and I don't think it's as accessible using voiceover at the moment. Regarding applying an

Re: Looking for a CD utility

2010-12-20 Thread David Bailes
Hi Don, There's a free version of burnaware which can be used for non-comercial use. It's a cd/dvd burning program, and it includes the option to display disk info. You can download the program from the page: http://www.burnaware.com/downloads.html There are three download now links on this

Re: Crackling sound in Win/7

2011-02-08 Thread David Bailes
Hi Morey, If Acer provide an audio driver for your computer for win7, then I would suggest trying these. Unfortunately, Acer's website isn't very accessible, but if you tell me the model number of your computer, the country where it was purchased, and whether you're using the 32bit or 64bit

Re: Crackling sound in Win/7

2011-02-09 Thread David Bailes
Hi Morey, I had a quick look around the web for examples of this problem, and it seems that it's not necessarily caused by problems with the sound hardware or driver - it can be caused by other drivers not working properly. You can check this by temporarily disabling certain devices in the

Re: Foobar, ripping and a problem

2011-04-06 Thread David Bailes
Hi Christopher, I think you need a Flac encoder, which you can download from this page: http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html For windows, there's a choice of either an installer which puts the file flac.exe in a flac folder in programs, or alternatively a zip file which contains flac.exe

RE: FYI foobar and winamp blog

2011-04-21 Thread David Bailes
Hi David and James, to queue tracks that you've found in search, choose add to playback queue on the context menu. This seems to work. David. orginal messge: HI James, I found that you can use the search box in foobar to queue tracks by finding your tracks via your search term, highlighting

Re: sync in WMP 12

2011-06-21 Thread David Bailes
Hi Cornell,   To manually sync files in wmp12: First add items to the sync list by selecting them in the main list, press the appliction key, open the add to sub menu, and choose sync list. ctrl+9 is the shortcut for adding to the sync list. Then tab to the start sync button and press it

Re: Volume; Need some help here with Audacity thanks!

2011-11-25 Thread David Bailes
Hi, assuming that the cassette to pc device uses a usb connection, and that you're using windows xp, then audacity probably can't control the recording level from within the program. However, you can adjust the recording level by adjusting the windows recording level of the device: 1. In the

Re: An Audacity Problem

2011-11-26 Thread David Bailes
Hi Dave, the 1.3.13 beta version of audacity is much more accessible than 1.2.6 version and is reasonably stable. In addtion there's a guide for jaws users for this version, which can also be used by users of window-eyes and nvda. It's available here:

Re: recording what you here in windows 7?

2011-11-26 Thread David Bailes
Hi Hank, you don't have to find the empty space. If you select any device and open its context menu, then the option show disabled devices will be on this context menu. If this option is not checked, then press enter whilst this is selected it to check the option.   David.     original message:

Re: An Audacity Problem

2011-11-28 Thread David Bailes
Hi David, have you tried using the [ and ] keys during playback to mark the start and end of the selection? Could you be more specific about what you're getting stuck on? In addtion to this list, there's also an audacity4blind list - details can be found in the help sub-section of the

Re: Audacity

2011-12-01 Thread David Bailes
Hi Colin, these instructions are for version 1.3.13 of audacity. To be able to export to mp3 from audacity you need to download and install the lame encoder, which isn't included with audacity for legal reasons: http://lame1.buanzo.com.ar/Lame_v3.98.3_for_Audacity_on_Windows.exe   Then: 1. open

Re: Audacity

2011-12-01 Thread David Bailes
Hi Colin, you could chop off the front end in a similar manner: 1. move the cursor to the end of where you want to chop off (about 5 mins into the file in your case). 2. press shift + home, which selects a time range from the cursor to the start of the audio. 3. press delete.   So shift+home and

Re: Audacity

2011-12-01 Thread David Bailes
Hi TickPub, yes, audacity 1.3.13 can run on windows xp, vista and 7, David. - Original Message - From: tick...@juno.com tick...@juno.com To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, 1 December 2011, 18:02 Subject: Re: Audacity David, hey, can I run the 1.3 version on XP-hom? Right now

Re: Audacity

2011-12-02 Thread David Bailes
is around 50 mins Thanks for any ideas Colin -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of David Bailes Sent: 01 December 2011 16:08 To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Re: Audacity Hi Colin, you could chop off the front end

Re: Audacity

2011-12-02 Thread David Bailes
] On Behalf Of David Bailes Sent: 01 December 2011 16:08 To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Re: Audacity Hi Colin, you could chop off the front end in a similar manner: 1. move the cursor to the end of where you want to chop off (about 5 mins into the file in your case). 2. press shift + home, which

Re: Audacity

2011-12-02 Thread David Bailes
know? Thanks Colin    -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of David Bailes Sent: 02 December 2011 14:55 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Audacity Hi Colin, forgot to ask you what versions of windows and audacity

Re: Audacity 2.0 RC5

2012-03-05 Thread David Bailes
Hi Dean and others, Audacity 2.0rc5 is a release candidate for Audacity 2.0, which will be released within the next few days. When that happens, it will be available from the audacity website. Audacity 2.0 is very similar to the 1.3.14 beta version in terms of features, but several bugs have

Jaws guide to Audacity 2.0

2012-03-15 Thread David Bailes
I've updated my Jaws guide to audacity to cover version 2.0. Nearly all the guide is also applicable to users of window-eyes and nvda. The guide is available here: http://goo.gl/dQ75G David. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org

Re: Can audacity merge diff mp3 files into a single one?

2012-03-16 Thread David Bailes
Hi Prateek, you can use audacity to merge mp3 files. One way of doing it would be as follows: 1. Open the first file (ctrl+o). 2. press End to move the cursor to the end of the audio. Then for each mp3 file you wanted to add on the end follow the next 3 steps: 1. Import the file (ctrl+shift+I).

RE: Good Hum Removal Programme or Noise Reduction VST Plug-in

2012-05-31 Thread David Bailes
Hi Samuel, concerning selecting the right amount of sound in audacity. If you've selecting a time range using shift + left/right arrows etc, note that by default, the step size depends on the length of the recording - the longer the recording, the larger the default step size. However you can

Re: Making .mp3's from cassette using Audacity.

2013-04-29 Thread David Bailes
Hi Collin, my guess is that the problem is that the option for sound activated recording is set to be on. This can be switched off either on the transport menu, where there's a sound activated recording option, or in the recording category of the preferences, where there's Sound activated

Re: RE: Audacity or GW

2013-05-30 Thread David Bailes
Hi Reed, the free guide to audacity can be found here: http://goo.gl/bZIXh It's written specifically for Jaws users, but nearly all of it is also applicable to users NVDA and Window-eyes. There's also an audacity mailing list for blind users, and details of this are given in the guide's

Re: program forbuilding a daisy book from audio files

2013-06-17 Thread David Bailes
Hi Andre, you could have a look at obi, though I haven't used it myself: http://www.daisy.org/project/obi   David.   original message: Hi all Are there any programs available preferably free with which you can build a daisy book from audio files? My old nokia e52 could actually do that using a

Re: Audacity or GW

2013-06-20 Thread David Bailes
Hi John, you can just save the guide to disk. There are a couple of ways of doing this. First, you can open the context menu of the following link and choose save target as (or the equivalent for your browser): http://goo.gl/bZIXh Alternatively, if you have the guide open in a browser, you can

Re: Audacity

2013-08-08 Thread David Bailes
Hi Mark, one way of getting the audio to switch between speakers is as follows. Let's assume that you've got a single track in the project, and that the audio in that track consists of someone saying welcome three times. 1. Select all the audio by pressing ctrl + a. 2. Duplicate the selected

Re: Is Audacity more accessible on the PC or the Mac, or doesn't it matter?

2013-09-17 Thread David Bailes
Hi Dave, Audacity is slightly more accessible on Windows than on a Mac. For more details, see the screen reader section of this page on Accessibility in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/accessibility.html   When recording on windows with a single sound card, then the screen

Re: Is Audacity more accessible on the PC or the Mac, or doesn't it matter?

2013-09-17 Thread David Bailes
Hi Dave, I'm not sure whether you're trying to record the audio that's being sent to the playback device, for example what's coming out of the speakers or the headphones. If this is the case, then if you've got only one sound card, then audacity will record the screen reader as well. But if

Re: Is Audacity more accessible on the PC or the Mac, or doesn't it matter?

2013-09-18 Thread David Bailes
Hi Dave, just out of interest, how to you separate the streams on XP?   David.     original message: Unfortunately, that's what I thought. I'm trying to record programs on my PC like Rhapsody, YouTube streams, my Slingbox, etc. In XP, there's no problem separating these streams from JFW, but I

Re: audacity

2013-09-30 Thread David Bailes
 Hi Joe, In your steps, after you press the right bracket key, audacity is paused in playback. To be able to delete the selected audio, you have to press spacebar to stop the playback before you press the delete button. (You can't delete during playback).   David.     original message: Hi.

Re: audacity

2013-09-30 Thread David Bailes
Hi Rich, If you press pause before pressing the left bracket, then to resume playback then you can either just press P to resume playback, or as you suggest press spacebar to stop playback, then spacebar again to start playback. And as you say, you have to press spacebar after pressing the right

RE: which sound editor?

2013-10-16 Thread David Bailes
Hi, just to add that Audacity has a bass and treble effect which works the same way as bass and treble controls on an amplifier. It also has an equalization effect, which includes some preset curves. David. original message: Audacity does do the speed thing, I'm not sure about the tape

Audacity 2.0.5

2013-10-22 Thread David Bailes
Audacity 2.0.5 has been released. One of the recent new features which is available if you’re using Windows Vista or later, is that using the WASAPI audio interface you can record the audio being sent to a playback device even if your sound card doesn’t support “Stereo Mix”. I've updated my

Re: Audacity 2.0.5

2013-10-22 Thread David Bailes
Hi Petro, yes, there's a portable version available at: http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/audacity_portable concerning recording a microphone and the audio going to a playback device, for example a screen reader. Audacity only helps you with recording the audio going to a playback

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