Does Netlibrary have what audible does? I think I have access to that from being a student at the tech school. Or does each school give access to different books?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Hebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 10:23 PM Subject: Re: The Good Old Days (Was Mp3 players) > David, the time marker feature has been a very useful one for me. > When I first began using net library their WMA files would not play in > Winamp and placing a time marker using Real Audio or Windows Media Player > was a rather more complicated and much less accurate task for a totally > blind user. > Therefore, I was very pleased when Winamp gave us the ability to play WMA > files and thereby, co-incidentally, the ability to use your time marker > facility in Winamp. > I thank you for providing myself and others with these scripts. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Truong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'PC audio discussion list. '" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 7:25 PM > Subject: RE: The Good Old Days (Was Mp3 players) > > > Hi There, > > The folllowing is from our Winamp scripts manual and describes the time > marker features. > > The Winamp scripts include a feature that allows you to set, jump to and > remove multiple audio bookmarks on your currently playing track from any > of > the > Winamp Windows. You can also find out the elapsed, remaining and time > length > of the currently playing track. You can even export your time markers to > "Time > Marker Set" files (.tms files)and import time markers from .tms files into > your Winamp time marker file file (winamp.tmf). Note: Winamp already has a > bookmark > feature which allows you to store favourite streams so you can go back to > them later. To save confusion, the audio bookmarks are called "time > Markers". > > The idea of time markers is to allow you to set a time marker in a > currently > playing track and then be able to come back later and have the track play > from > the point where the time marker was set. This way you can close Winamp, > play > another track or even if you get caught up on the phone etc., you will > know > that you won't have to start the track from the beginning again. You can > also set more than one time marker in a track. > > The keystrokes are as follows and they can genrally be used from anywhere > in > Winamp. > List of 7 items (contains 1 nested list) > . m: Set a Time Marker. Sets a time marker on the currently playing track. > There must be a track playing for it to work, but it will warn you that no > track > is playing if you try to invoke it when no track is playing. If a track is > playing and you activate the set time marker command, you will be > presented > with a dialogue box and focused on an edit field where you can label the > time marker to be set. Simply type the desired label and press enter. If > you > leave > this field blank and press Enter, the time marker will still be set but > without a label. After the time marker is set, Jaws announces the number > assigned > to the time marker and the time stamp of the position in the currently > loaded track as well as announcing the optional label you gave it. For > example, > if you gave the time marker the label "chapter 3", and the positionin your > file was 2 minutes and 30 seconds, you would hear Jaws announce "Time > Marker3 > set at 2 minutes and 30 seconds, Chapter 3". Due to technical > considerations, the ability to label time markers is not available when > using JAWS versions > prior to Version 3.7. Note: You cannot use "m" to set time markers from > within dialogs such as the open file or jump to file dialogs. There, the > "m" > key > merely types the letter "m". To set a time marker, it is necessary to be > in > one of the Winamp windows such as the Playlist or Equaliser, etc. > . Alt+Shift+m: Jump to Time Marker. This script does not require a file to > be playing, but it must be able to determine which file you are wanting to > play. > If the file name is listed in the Winamp title bar, the script will grab > it > from there. Otherwise it will announce that there is no track ready to be > played. > If you have just opened a file in Winamp for the first time, but haven't > played it, it's name won't appear in the Winamp title bar. To fix this, > simply > play and stop the file. Stopping the file is optional; playing it will > cause > its name to appear in the title bar and then the script will proceed. When > you press Alt+Shift+m, the script will display a list box containing a > list > of all the time markers it has recorded for that track. Simply cursor > through > the list and press enter on the time marker you want to jump to. The > script > will say nothing after this, but playing will immediately skip to the > selected > time marker. If the file is not playing, it will start playing from the > specified time marker. > . control+Shift+m: remove time marker. This script must also be able to > identify which track you are playing. It does this in the same way as the > Alt+Shift+m > script. A list box will be displayed containing a list of all the time > markers recorded for the current file. To remove one, simply move to it > with > the > arrow keys and press enter. The remaining time markers will be renumbered, > etc. If you want to erase all the time markers, move to the last item in > the > list "Remove all time markers", and press enter. This will only delete all > time markers for the current file, not all the time markers you have on > your > system. > . Alt+Control+Shift+m: Export / Import time markers. This command allows > you > to export and import time markers into your Winamp time marker file. When > the > Export/Import time marker command is invoked with Alt+Control+Shift+m, you > will be presented with a listbox containing 3 choices. They are: > List of 3 items nesting level 1 > . Export time markers for the current track. When invoked, you will be > prompted to enter the name of the time marker set file to export your time > markers > to. Simply type in the desired file name without any extention. The > extention ".tms" (time marker set) will automatically be added to the end > of > the file > name. Then press enter. If you wish to cancil this operation, you can > either > leave the field blank and press enter or Press Escape to exit this > dialogue > box. Note, only the time markers associated with the currently loaded > track > will be exported to the time marker set file. > . Import time markers for the current track. When invoked, you will be > prompted to enter the name of the time marker set file to import your time > markers > from. Simply type in your desired file name without any extention. The > extention ".tms" (time marker set) will automatically be appended to the > file name. > Then press Enter. If you wish to cancil this operation, you can either > leave > the field blank and press Enter or Press Escape to exit the dialogue box. > Note, only the time markers associated with the currently loaded track > will > be imported from the time marker set file. > . Import all time markers in a time marker Set file. When invoked, you > will > be prompted for a time marker set file (.tms) containing the time markers > you > want to import to your winamp.tmf file. Simply type in the desired file > name > without any extention. The extention ".tms" (time marker set) will > automatically > be appended to the file name. Then press Enter. If you wish to cancil this > operation, you can either leave the field blank and press Enter or Press > Escape > to exit the dialogue box. This operation will import all of the time > markers > from the specified time marker set file regardless of what track is > currently > loaded. This is different from the "Import time markers for the current > track" operation which only imports time markers associated with the > currently > loaded track. > list end nesting level 1 > Note, if you don't have any time markers set for the current track and you > try to export / import time markers for that track, Jaws will notify you > of > this. > Also, if Jaws thinks there isn't a track loaded, you will be notified of > this as well. To insure that jaws knows for sure that a track is loaded, > it > is > always a good idea to start the track playing, if only for a split second, > and then stop it. This will insure that the export / import time marker > functions > work as they should. Note:Due to technical issues, if you are using a > version of JAWS prior to 3.7, you will not be given the opportunity to > type > in a > file name. In these older versions of JAWS, all exported time markers will > be saved to the file winamp.tms in your JAWS settings directory and all > imports > will be read from this file. Thus, it will be necessary to rename any time > marker set file you receive to winamp.tms and place it in your JAWS > settings > directory in order to import time markers from it. > > > > David Truong > > E-mail and MS messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Skype: blindboxer1967 > > Home Page: http://members.optusnet.com.au/davidtruong/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Brent Harding > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 12:32 PM > To: PC audio discussion list. > Subject: Re: The Good Old Days (Was Mp3 players) > > How does that feature work? I always tried to remember the time and end up > forgetting. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dean Martineau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 5:20 PM > Subject: Re: The Good Old Days (Was Mp3 players) > > >> >> >> The time marker feature especially sets the Winamp scripts out and makes >> this player more useful than any other. To further stir up the pot, then >> I'll duck, while Window-Eyes offers numerous advantages, this is >> functionality that Window-Eyes users will never have with Winamp because >> their program's feature set is not extensible in this way. With those >> scripts, Winamp is a joy to use. >> >> Dean >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. 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