MaPlEr is an accessible media player available from
http://www.mar-dy.com/MaPlEr/MaPlEr.php -Steve.
From: David
You will have noticed, that MaPlEr displays information like Artist, Album and
Track title, when playing your songs. Each of these informations are displayed
in their respective columns. Unfortunately, the speech synthesizer in the
screen reader, does not always split these informations, hence often you will
have the full line of information read as one long phrase, making it a bit hard
to distinguish the one column from the other.
This can easily be fixed:
Thing is that MaPlEr standard ships with the 'split character' between columns
set to a single dash, that usually will have little effect on most voices in
your screen reader. Here is how to fix it:
1. go to Settings (Alt-S)
2. Choose Optical Settings.
3. Tab to 'Character between columns', and here type the period sign on your
keyboard followed by a Space (". ").
4. Press Enter.
Your speech now will make a small pause between each information, making it
somehow more comprehendable to scroll through your playlist.
...
MaPlEr has the ability to remember the last four played playlists. You easily
can access them by going to the File menu, and pressing 1 through 4.
On the other hand, if you want to switch between these even more quickly, here
is a suggestion:
1. Go to Settings menu (Alt-S).
2. choose Keyboard (K).
3. Choose Define Shortcuts (E).
4. Scroll down to File - 1.
5. Press a wanted hotkey, for instance, CTRL-1.
6. Repeat the two previous steps for File -2, File- 3, and File -4.
7. Press Tab, and press Enter on OK.
>From now on, you can press the newly defined hotkeys (in the example Ctrl-1
>through Ctrl-4), and quickly switch between the last four playlists.
When is this feature useful? Well, say you are listening to an audiobook. It is
defined by MaPlEr as a playlist, and the software will keep track of where in
the book you are, at any given time.
You now get tired of the book, and want a break, in which you want to listen to
some music. Your second playlist now will be holding your music. After half an
hour of music listening you want to go back to your audiobook, and simply
switching back to your playlist that holds the book, will put you where you
left your reading. With the above defining of hotkeys for this switch, it is
done in a swift to 'pop' between your playlists.
Start playing around, and you will soon find your MaPlEr gets even a greater
tool.
To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to:
[email protected]
