Okay further to your questions and I had to try this on the Windows PC as I'm accustomed to navigating around on the Mac. You can navigate a playlist with VLC by setting the view to playlist and navigating to the Tree-View as JAWS calls it, this is your list of songs that you can arrow up or down through. When you find the song you wish to play press the Spacebar and play will start. Note that stop, previous and next commands don't work in the playlist rather they're text-sensitive keys, press s for example to get to the next title beginning with s, press p to get to the next title beginning with p and so on. Now if you do navigate to a different song that is playing you'll have to press enter to start the song under the cursor playing rather than space which works on the previous selection. Tip: if you want to make Playlists on-the-fly as it were - live creation - then the best way is to actually select the tracks you wish to ad using File Explorer and then right-click, arrow down to "Add to VLC Media Players Playlist" and press enter, you can always save playlists out of VLC.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Barry Chapman Sent: Sunday, 7 October 2018 12:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [all-audio] Differences between Winamp and VLC? Well why then would the keys I mentioned be shown in the playback dropdown menu? Very strange. Also, with the keys you mentioned, which I worked out anyway, how does one stop a currently playing song then start it again from the beginning? Pressing p starts the previous track playing while n starts the next track. Also, is there a way when pressing n of stopping at the end of a playlist rather than recycling back to the beginning? And is there a way of moving from track to track without them actually playing? These are all things I can and need to do in Winamp. Regards, Barry Chapman -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Sunday, 7 October 2018 9:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [all-audio] Differences between Winamp and VLC? That’s because you’re issuing the wrong keystrokes. S stops. P or spacebar plays or pause. N is next track. P is previous track. R is Random on/off > On 7 Oct 2018, at 8:40 am, Barry Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: > > With all this talk about VLC, I decided to give it a try, but I can't get > most of the keyboard shortcuts shown in the menus to work. For example, alt+p > doesn't play, alt+s doesn't stop, alt+j doesn't jump forward and alt+k > doesn't jump backward. > > I worked out that p by itself plays and s by itself stops, but if I stop a > track and want to start it again, I need to press n for next followed by p, > otherwise it will play the previous track. > > I know I am a novice user, so it probably isn't fair to judge a program on > first impressions, but I don't find VLC to be very intuitive. I acknowledge > that Winamp is not perfect, but I will stick with it for now. > > Regards, > Barry Chapman > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JM > Casey > Sent: Sunday, 7 October 2018 1:13 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [all-audio] Differences between Winamp and VLC? > > I definitely think it'd be advantageous for them to receive some input for > screen-reader users. The software is quite friendly but there is a little > room for improvement, especially in the area of setting advanced preferences. > If you go there you'll see there's quite a lot "under the hood" of VlC! > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dane > Trethowan > Sent: October 5, 2018 9:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [all-audio] Differences between Winamp and VLC? > > Well there is hope, VLC will keep getting better so there’s your hope, the > more people who use the software then the more feedback the developers get. > > >> On 6 Oct 2018, at 11:26 am, Tom Kaufman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Yes...and that is what I am sorry about (that Winamp is not actively >> being >> developed) guess one can always hope--smile! >> Tom Kaufman >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Dane Trethowan >> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2018 9:13 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC? >> >> Point taken and that's fair enough. >> By the way there's another difference between VLC and Winamp, one is >> being actively developed and the other hasn't been for quite some time >> <smile>. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Byron >> Stephens >> Sent: Saturday, 6 October 2018 10:33 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC? >> >> I don't even use any equalizers at least not software, but a twenty >> band hardware unit I would and will. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dane Trethowan" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, October 5, 2018 5:20 PM >> Subject: Re: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC? >> >> >>> For what its worth from me and thanks for starting this discussion. >>> Its been a very long while since I used Winamp, why did I stop using it? >>> Because Winamp kept crashing when I tried to play video files >>> recorded in standard TS format from my video TV tuners that I use >>> still ttill this day though different models obviously. >>> So then began my search for a new player that was easy to use and >>> did what I believe a player needs to do, play the track when I press >>> play, move to the next track or skip through a track when I press or >>> hold the forward button etc. >>> VLC did these things and many more besides. >>> I grant you, VLC is not the friendliest App to get around but one >>> can get around much of it using the JAWS cursor or whatever your >>> thing is called on your Screen Reader. >>> If I had my way equalisers in players wouldn't be present. >>> I know I sound harsh but the amount of times I've seen equalisers >>> abused to the point that people manage to stuff their speaker >>> systems up causes me to perhaps take this view. >>> A good sounding pair of speakers which don't cost all that much >>> these days shouldn't require any additional medaling in the form of >>> an >> equaliser. >>> I went to someone's house the other day, this chap had what I would >>> call a perfectly serviceable pair of Altec Lansing computer >>> speakers, well at least I would have termed this speaker system in >>> that way when it was bought but after this chap had applied God only >>> knows how many equalisers in the audio chain? Well this respectable >>> speaker system had been turned to the sound of mud literally, sure! >>> Enough bottom but for what, to demolish the house and perhaps Next doors >>> dwelling too? >>> It certainly didn't sound good. >>> And the top, well it was there but incredibly harsh to the point >>> that my ears felt sore just trying to listen to the thing. >>> Where was the Mid-range? Lost somewhere in the cocofany of noise. >>> Anyway back to the point of VLC and I'm very pleased to say that the >>> developers are slowly but surely making accessibility fixes as >>> updates roll out and I reckon they're doing a fair job since VLC is >>> an open source package. >>> I use VLC on other devices such as my Apple Mac machines, iPhone and >>> iPads and Android with pleasing results. >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of JM >>> Casey >>> Sent: Saturday, 6 October 2018 8:05 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC? >>> >>> The VlC equalizer is certainly a lot less convenient to set and save >>> settings than the Winamp one using a screen-reader. One can easily >>> adopt any of the presets, but saving your own settings requires >>> messing with the not-too-accessible filters within the preferences >>> dialog box. Actually the whole design is weird and I wish that Video >>> Lan gave the ability to easily save and load multiple equalizer >>> settings in VLC. >>> >>> Just curious, but why not have both programmes? I watch a lot of >>> movies, especially with my sighted partner, and VLC is without doubt >>> an awesome video player and far more versatile and just better at >>> this than winamp ever was. However, I still use Winamp for my audio >>> needs and it works exceedingly well for this purpose even in Windows 10. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Brian >>> Olesen >>> Sent: October 5, 2018 5:50 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: [all-audio] Diferences between Winamp and VLC? >>> >>> Hi all you nice audiofiles, >>> >>> Well I use VLC myself, but I have an old fascion student, who >>> prefers Winamp. >>> >>> I want to persuade him to do the switch. >>> >>> But how is it with information about timing lenghth of files in >>> minutes and seconds and such. Can we easily get to that info also in >>> VLC? >>> >>> Are there other fields where VLC lacks information compared to Winamp? >>> >>> Is it actually the other way around? >>> >>> >>> >>> Best regards >>> >>> Brian >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1320): https://groups.io/g/all-audio/message/1320 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/26845153/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/all-audio/leave/1074140/405281159/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
