Dude, if you don't know to not have your headphones close to your
ears when recovering from a situation like this,
you know if I think I'm going to get a loud sound, I don't stay close
to it, by all means, exercise some sense and take the headphones off 'grin'.
The reason I did that is to guarantee that all situations would be
covered, some sound cards don't put out a lot of sound, as a matter
of fact some netbooks are quite low. Better to err on the side of
extremes when your speech goes right?
As stated, a product that takes a snapshot and is installed to do
such is a different kind of thing, and there are obviously some tools
like that out there,
but this counts on you being prepared ahead of time.
This is for when you are caught off guard, how many times do I have
to say it 'grin'?
And for 10 bucks?
Well, blindies always want everything for free 'grin'.
There hasn't been a good tool since quickmix and that was an install
and take presets sort of thing.
I didn't want this to be a big deal, I mostly write scripts for sonar
and sound forge and audio apps, but I cobbled together a little tool
that helps us, around here, and thought I'd offer it
on the list.
I'm almost sorry I did, it's become a pain in the ass.
I've had to put up with sarcastic comments, and all sorts of flac,
I don't feed people bullshit and promise the moon and not deliver
like lots of adaptive vendorts do, giving you glowing reports about
how some feature works, but then sliding out and saying we can't
reproduce this, or mysteriously being un-available or too busy.
That doesn't seem to bother folks.
Well, I'm just an old cat who's dived in to a bit of programming to
help wineyes users get a leg up on some things jaws has been doing
for years, and I found a great little tool to do some things with,
and I'm offering them as is presenting as honestly and as
inexpensively as I can.
We tested this on a reasonable number of machines and it works on xp
and windows 7 and it does what it does, and if you don't like it, you
don't have to buy it.
The folks that did buy it, thank you very much, it's encouraging and
appreciated,
and that makes me feel vindicated for making the effort.
Chris Belle over and out.
At 04:18 AM 5/17/2010, David wrote:
When I first started to read your mail, I thought "What a great
idea!" I have the problem on my laptop, that the sound card often
gets muted, this due to the fact that there is a Touch-strip right
above the keyboard, that holds volume keys. If you accidentially
happen to move your fingers cross this Touch-strip, you are left
with the volume turned down. So, your script could have been helpful
- I'd expect - in such a situation. Only...
Then I read further on in your message, and three points made me
jump a bit in the chair. First, why would your script EVER maximize
the volume? Unmute, yes that is great, but maximize? In many cases I
am working my computer with a headset. My master volume is set to
something like 40%, and the rest of the volume bar is set to
everything between 20% and 50%. maximizing the volume - that is put
it to 100% - simply would blow my ears. And, then, I would have all
the hazzle of entering the volume control, and start to manually set
the volume sliders back to their normal position - If I get your
text right. Hmmm, Helpful little tool? If the script really would be
helpful, you should let it remember a setting that it would apply
for reinstituting sound. And maybe even have two hotkeys, one that
would reset to speaker level, and one that would reset to headphone
level; and both these settings should somehow be user-definable.
Second, you are jumping into the scripting 'market', and allready in
your advertisement telling that maybe the script will not work.
Honesty, yes by all means, but then how about Beta testing the
software before throwing it into the market. And this leads us to
the third point:
OK, you want to make money on this. Noone, I think, will blame you
on wanting money for your pizza. Yet, asking ten dollars for a
simple task, that you don't know whether will work for the user, and
if it does, will blow his ears... Well, I'm not sure, if this will
ever work. Particularly, so, since we already have had several
feedbacks here on other products that either are free, or offer a
more tested and stronger functionality. Go ahead, ask money for your
software, but make it work, give the user the chance of deciding
what volume should be restored, and make it all available for a
price the market will accept. Since you offer no demo, or testing
version of your great, little, script, of course noone here can tell
anything about it. Still, I am assured, your software piece is a
great one, and does its job - when it works - but I think you might
want to consider the above three points.
Put yourself in the shoes of most users. Few of us, are that much
geeks, that we want to pay the one ten-dollar bill after the other,
for every little 'funny' piece of software out there. Most of us,
want to know, that if we pay, this will be of a given amount of
benefit. Loosing speech on your system... Hmmm, yes, it is
frustrating, and we might want to ask, why GW has not implemented
some kind of routine to get speech back. Then again, many times,
loosing speech is due to WE hanging, ain't it? Whatever way we turn
it, even with my drawback of the Touch-strip on my laptop, I have a
feeling it is not worth ten dollars. And specially so, if the
benefit of it all, is that my ears will be blown every time.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Belle" <[email protected]>
To: "Kevin Barry" <[email protected]>; "Chip Orange"
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:24 AM
Subject: script for un-muting your sound card
Hey folks?
I'm just popping in here to let you know a very useful little
script will available for sale from us here at Affordable Studio Services.
Some of my friends inform me that one of the things that annoy
them the most is that sometimes the soundcard will get muted accidentally.
If your blind, this can be a huge annoyance.
Well, this little script unmutes your master and wave mute and
maxes out your master and wav volumes on your primary sound card.
We can not guarantee that this script will work on every machine
under every circumstance.
We are testing on more machines as I write this, but for those who
would like something like this,
it's 10 dollars and you can contact me privately if interested.
Thank you very much.
Chris Belle
email is
[email protected]
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