Re: [JAWS-Users] winamp and playing more then one song
Hi Victor, In your tutorial you stated: Unfortunately, Winamp likes to leave residual ghost images of files it's played in the last instance I don't know when you wrote the tutorial, but in earlier versions of WinAmp, the last files played were saved in an m3u. I don't have a later version installed, so I can't really comment on the existence of a m3u in the WinAmp folder in program files. Also, In Winamp 2.8, the Control + S keystroke doesn't seem to open a save as dialogue. Do you happen to know when this keystroke came into play? HTH, Rick Justice - Original Message - From: Scorpio Forever scorpio...@gmail.com To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 11:40 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] winamp and playing more then one song Hi Brad, Here is a tutorial I wrote some time ago on how to create, manage and play Winamp playlists. This should answer most of your questions, however, this is quite an old tutorial, and some keystrokes have been discovered that make creating playlists much easier than the methods outlined in the below tutorial. For example, if you would like to play all the files within a specific folder, simply highlight the folder, then press your applications key, or shift+F10 if you are without such a key, and press P for play in Winamp. Depending on what else you have that starts with the letter P within that context menu, you'll either have to press enter on that option, or the command will activate right away. You'll have to decide which is the case for your particular situation or computer configuration. Also, you can do the same with specific songs within the same folder by going into a particular folder, pressing the end key to go to the bottom of the file list, and pressing control+up arrow selecting the tracks you wish to include in the playlist with control+spacebar. Once you've selected all the tracks you wish to play, press the applications menu or shift+F10 and press P for play in Winamp and the songs will automatically be placed in a Winamp playlist which you can then save for later access. Also, should you wish to add more songs to the above playlist, go into the second folder, or third or fourth, depending on how many times you wish to go into and out of folders, follow the same steps as above for selecting tracks to include, then once all the songs are selected, press the applications menu or shift+F10 and arrow down to add to Winamp, and the tracks you selected will be placed at the bottom of the playlist you created from the previous folder. You can do this for as many songs or tracks you'd like in however many folders you wish to include. Once you've added all the songs, just save the playlist like the instructions below. There are other shortcut steps I've discovered, but those will come at a later time when I've updated the tutorial. In the meantime, hope the below tutorial helps in some way. ***Begin Tutorial*** Believe it or not, it's easier to create a playlist with Winamp, than it sounds. First, go to your desktop, or where ever you keep the Winamp shortcut, and enter on it. Once the Winamp window opens, control+tab twice to get to the playlist editor. If you find that you've used the control+tab keystroke twice, and Jaws didn't say playlist editor, then that means you have the playlist editor closed. You can open it in one of two ways. You can press the keystroke of alt+E, or you can press alt+F, then arrow down to playlist editor and enter on it. I think you'll find the alt+E keystroke is easier. Smile. In any case, once Jaws reports that the playlist editor is opened, control+tab up to the playlist editor. Now, this is going to sound weird, but go with me on this. Once you land in the playlist editor, press control+A to highlight everything, then press delete. Don't worry if Jaws doesn't say anything, what you've essentially done is delete any tracks that were in there from the last time you used Winamp to listen to something. Unfortunately, Winamp likes to leave residual ghost images of files it's played in the last instance, and so, in order to create a clean playlist, you have to delete what was previously there. So, now that you've done that, press the letter L for lists, and this will open up an open dialog box. Those of you familiar with downloading from send space, or saving as and the like, will be familiar with this dialog box. When this dialog box opens, you'll land on the filename edit box. Do a shift+tab to go to the file list window just above the filename edit box. Now, depending on where you last took Winamp, you won't know where you'll be in the file list, so a good rule of thumb is to press the backspace key seven or eight times until Jaws stops talking. When he does, do a say line command with insert+up arrow, and Jaws should read out, Not Selected My Documents. This means you're on your desktop, and you can now go to the folder where the files are that you want to play. So
Re: [JAWS-Users] winamp and playing more then one song
Hi Rick, I should have been more clear. When I say residual ghost images of files played in the last instance, I meant within the playlist editor, not specifically on your computer as an M3U file. If you play a track and close Winamp, then simply open up an instance of Winamp without entering on a particular track on your hard drive, in other words, by entering on the Winamp icon on your desktop or start menu, if you press the spacebar, you'll find that it will start playing the same track you played the last time you used Winamp to play a file. I just checked, and while they've fixed this particular bug and the track does not start playing if you press the spacebar, the track list still appears in the playlist editor, so, as long as you haven't moved that file from it's original location when you first played it within Winamp, entering on that track from within the playlist editor will start playing that song. That also means that if you add any tracks to Winamp, they will be added below that first title, and, if you're listing to a particular raunchy audio book just prior to creating a kids party playlist, there's going to be a bit of embarrassment when you first turn on the playlist. LOL. Suffice it to say, I didn't mean that it would actually save a file on your hard drive, though, I guess, in order for Winamp to do what I mentioned above, I guess it would have to store a file on your hard drive, though I've never actually investigated whether Winamp does this within the temporary memory, or permanently on your hard drive, but as I've found this to be the case, even after re-booting my computer, I would say that it's a good guess that the file gets saved on your hard drive. As for the control+S keystroke, it's been in effect since version 4.5 and onwards, though I can't say for sure that it's been around longer than that. I have listed below the compendium of Winamp keystrokes for Jaws just in case there are any discrepancies, with the below keystrokes being taken directly from the Jaws application help file. Unfortunately, Jaws help does not offer keystrokes for the Winamp Library or the Winamp Video windows, but if and when I find such beasts, I'll be sure to update and post the new information. In the meantime, here are the keystrokes currently available for each of the Winamp windows, those being the Winamp Main Window, The Winamp Equalizer Window, and the Winamp Playlist Editor. ***Begin Winamp Keystrokes*** The following general keystrokes are available in WinAmp: Playback commands: To play/Restart, press X, To pause/Resume the current track, press C, To rewind by 5 seconds, press LEFT ARROW, To fast forward by 5 seconds, press RIGHT ARROW, To stop the current track, press V, To stop the current track with Fade-out, press SHIFT+V, To stop after the current track, press CTRL+V, To play the next Track, press B, To play the previous Track, press Z, To move to the first track in the list, press CTRL+Z, To move to the last track in the list, press CTRL+B, To move Ten Songs Back, turn on NUMLOCK and press NUMPAD 1, To move Ten Songs Forward, turn on NUMLOCK and pres NUMPAD 3, To move to a time in the current track, press CTRL+J, To move to a file, press J, To increase the volume, press UP ARROW, To decrease the volume, press DOWN ARROW, To set the volume to 0%, press ALT+CTRL+M, To set the volume to 33%, press ALT+CTRL+COMMA, To set the volume to 66%, press ALT+CTRL+PERIOD, To set the volume to 100%, press ALT+CTRL+SLASH, To pan 100% left, press ALT+CTRL+H, To pan 50% left, press ALT+CTRL+J, To center sound, press ALT+CTRL+K, To pan 50% right, press ALT+CTRL+L, To pan 100% right, press ALT+CTRL+SEMI COLON, To toggle Repeat mode, press R, To toggle Shuffle mode, press S, Play commands: To open and play a File, press L, To open and play a location, press CTRL+L, To open and play a directory, press SHIFT+L, Bookmark commands: To add a bookmark, press ALT+I, To edit bookmarks (Go to Bookmark preferences), press ALT+CTRL+i, Visualization commands: To go to built-in visualization options, press ALT+O, To configure the current visualization plug-in, press ALT+K, To start/stop the current visualization plug-in, press CTRL+SHIFT+K, To open the Visualization page of the Preferences dialog, press CTRL+K, Other commands: View/Edit Track Info, Alt+3 To open WinAmp help, press F1, To open the skin selection dialogue, press ALT+S, To open to Main Menu, press ALT+F, To go to WinAmp preferences, press CTRL+P, To toggle Always-On-Top (all but Playlist Editor), press CTRL+A, To toggle the Windowshade mode, press CTRL+W, To toggle Double size Mode, press CTRL+D, To toggle Easy move, press CTRL+E, To start a new instance of WinAmp, press ALT+CTRL+N, Within the Winamp Main Window: Use the following hot keys in the WinAmp main window: To toggle the status of the WinAmpmain window, press Alt+W. To open/close the equalizer, press Alt+G. To open/close the library, press Alt+L. To open/close the play
Re: [JAWS-Users] winamp and playing more then one song
Hi Brad. I am using a fairly old version of Winamp but here is how I make playlists. If I want to play more than one track at a time, I open Winamp then press letter L then shif-tab in to the folder where my songs are located. Select the ones you want then press Enter and they should start playing. If you want to create a playlist, you might press Alt+E then control+tab to open the playlist editor. Press letter L to add tracks to the playlist. Add as many tracks as you like even if they reside in different folders. You can move from folder to folder using either shift+L or just backspacing to the various folders. You can then save the playlist with control+S. Note: you can obtain a list of winamp keystrokes specifically for the playlist editor by pressing insert+W while in the playlist editor. Hope this helps. Pete For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] winamp and playing more then one song
Thanks ver much it was very helpful. Will this mess anything up if I do it before I transfer all the data to a vicor stream? -Original Message- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Pedro Romero Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 11:28 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] winamp and playing more then one song Hi Brad. I am using a fairly old version of Winamp but here is how I make playlists. If I want to play more than one track at a time, I open Winamp then press letter L then shif-tab in to the folder where my songs are located. Select the ones you want then press Enter and they should start playing. If you want to create a playlist, you might press Alt+E then control+tab to open the playlist editor. Press letter L to add tracks to the playlist. Add as many tracks as you like even if they reside in different folders. You can move from folder to folder using either shift+L or just backspacing to the various folders. You can then save the playlist with control+S. Note: you can obtain a list of winamp keystrokes specifically for the playlist editor by pressing insert+W while in the playlist editor. Hope this helps. Pete For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] winamp and playing more then one song
Hi Brad. If you copy the files in your playlist to Victor Stream there will be no problem. However, if you move the files from your computer to your Stream, they will no longer be in your computer and the Playlist file will not work because it won't be able to locate the files you've asked it to play. Pete For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] winamp and playing more then one song
Hi Brad, Here is a tutorial I wrote some time ago on how to create, manage and play Winamp playlists. This should answer most of your questions, however, this is quite an old tutorial, and some keystrokes have been discovered that make creating playlists much easier than the methods outlined in the below tutorial. For example, if you would like to play all the files within a specific folder, simply highlight the folder, then press your applications key, or shift+F10 if you are without such a key, and press P for play in Winamp. Depending on what else you have that starts with the letter P within that context menu, you'll either have to press enter on that option, or the command will activate right away. You'll have to decide which is the case for your particular situation or computer configuration. Also, you can do the same with specific songs within the same folder by going into a particular folder, pressing the end key to go to the bottom of the file list, and pressing control+up arrow selecting the tracks you wish to include in the playlist with control+spacebar. Once you've selected all the tracks you wish to play, press the applications menu or shift+F10 and press P for play in Winamp and the songs will automatically be placed in a Winamp playlist which you can then save for later access. Also, should you wish to add more songs to the above playlist, go into the second folder, or third or fourth, depending on how many times you wish to go into and out of folders, follow the same steps as above for selecting tracks to include, then once all the songs are selected, press the applications menu or shift+F10 and arrow down to add to Winamp, and the tracks you selected will be placed at the bottom of the playlist you created from the previous folder. You can do this for as many songs or tracks you'd like in however many folders you wish to include. Once you've added all the songs, just save the playlist like the instructions below. There are other shortcut steps I've discovered, but those will come at a later time when I've updated the tutorial. In the meantime, hope the below tutorial helps in some way. ***Begin Tutorial*** Believe it or not, it's easier to create a playlist with Winamp, than it sounds. First, go to your desktop, or where ever you keep the Winamp shortcut, and enter on it. Once the Winamp window opens, control+tab twice to get to the playlist editor. If you find that you've used the control+tab keystroke twice, and Jaws didn't say playlist editor, then that means you have the playlist editor closed. You can open it in one of two ways. You can press the keystroke of alt+E, or you can press alt+F, then arrow down to playlist editor and enter on it. I think you'll find the alt+E keystroke is easier. Smile. In any case, once Jaws reports that the playlist editor is opened, control+tab up to the playlist editor. Now, this is going to sound weird, but go with me on this. Once you land in the playlist editor, press control+A to highlight everything, then press delete. Don't worry if Jaws doesn't say anything, what you've essentially done is delete any tracks that were in there from the last time you used Winamp to listen to something. Unfortunately, Winamp likes to leave residual ghost images of files it's played in the last instance, and so, in order to create a clean playlist, you have to delete what was previously there. So, now that you've done that, press the letter L for lists, and this will open up an open dialog box. Those of you familiar with downloading from send space, or saving as and the like, will be familiar with this dialog box. When this dialog box opens, you'll land on the filename edit box. Do a shift+tab to go to the file list window just above the filename edit box. Now, depending on where you last took Winamp, you won't know where you'll be in the file list, so a good rule of thumb is to press the backspace key seven or eight times until Jaws stops talking. When he does, do a say line command with insert+up arrow, and Jaws should read out, Not Selected My Documents. This means you're on your desktop, and you can now go to the folder where the files are that you want to play. So, if the files are in a folder three levels deep into your my documents folder, let's call it Thea's audio files, you would press the spacebar to select My Documents, press the enter key to go into that folder, then arrow or find the folder titled Thea's Personal Files, highlight it, then press enter. Once in that folder, find the next folder, called Thea in Hawaii, enter on it, and finally go to Thea's audio files, and press enter. Be careful here, you don't want to make a common mistake that everyone makes, even me before I realized it, smile, do not touch any of the arrow keys, or the spacebar key, or anything on your keyboard until you've done a select all with control+A, and I'll explain later. Once you've done the control+A, tab to the open button in the
Re: [JAWS-Users] winamp and playing more then one song
Try insert+ h for key to use, also jaws help. At 08:48 PM 3/3/2012, you wrote: First thanks to all that helped with cdex. I have placed all my music files in my c drive under music. I also linked up winamp so I can play such music. I figured out that if I select all music on the album, then I can play multiple tracks. I want to create a play list though and wanted to know if someone can walk me through how to do such. I would also like to know how to pull up the music files directly in Winamp without typing the long drawn out file name. it is quite easy to do such in windows explorer but not in winamp. Any other tidbits would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
