Re: Coppiing music from my brother's IPod?
I don't think you can get the music off of his iPod by connecting it to your computer. iTunes will complain that the iPod is synced to another library. Your best bet, if you have access to a portable hard drive, would be to connect it to his computer and copy the music from the iTunes Media folder. There might also be music elsewhere on his computer that was imported into iTunes that you would need to copy. Then you could connect the drive to your computer and copy the music to your hard drive. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Carliss seeje...@satx.rr.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 8:15 PM Subject: Coppiing music from my brother's IPod? Listers, Plese tell me the best way to copy my brother's music which is on his IPod, one of THOSE THAT HAS A TOUCH SCREEN, I was thinking about just plugging the IPod in to my computer which has ITunes on it, and coppiing the music THAT WAY, AND when its finished downloding in to ITunes JUST COPY AND PASTE IT WHERE I WANT? I don't want my brother to lose any of his music. He loves it! Thanks to all. Carliss --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
Re: a cd problem
Do I recall correctly that some stand-alone players at one time required special music CDs because the recording companies were trying to get a cut from burning copies of CDs? Hope this isn't the case with the Sony. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Joe Giovanelli joeg...@earthlink.net To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 7:11 PM Subject: Re: a cd problem Hi, Alexandra, My Sony unit works very well. I listened to quite a bit of music today with no problems. It's only when I began using my new laptop to burn disks that this problem occurred. I will see if my supplier can send me samples of other disks so I can find a brand which will play. It is fortunate that my clients can play their disks, even though I cannot do so. Joe Giovanelli - Original Message - From: Alexandra_Grúnauer al.gruena...@gmx.de To: 'Pc Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 1:47 Subject: RE: a cd problem Could either be the discs (so you could try discs of another brand) or the burner which would mean that you'd have to replace it in order to burn COULDs that will play on your sony device. I assume that you've checked that it's not the Sony thing itself? Take care Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Joe Giovanelli Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 12:09 AM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: a cd problem Hi, All, I recently started using a laptop to burn cd's. They play perfectly in a blue ray player and in a very cheap cd player. They won't play in my Sony Jukebox. I will very much appreciate your thoughts. Hopefully there's a remedy. Joe Giovanelli
Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media PlayerthatGivesBlindandVisually Impaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text
The Blaze EZ will have Bluetooth, but not the latest version. I hope it will be better implemented than it is in the BookSense XT. You can't control the BookSense from a headset. I've had trouble keeping a Bluetooth connection with my XT and my Plantronics 590 headset. I have no such trouble with the same headset and my iPad or iPod Touch. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Brian Olesen br...@blindkom.dk To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 2:27 AM Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media PlayerthatGivesBlindandVisually Impaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text hi, Not correct. Victor Stream 2 doesn't have bluetooth connectivity, which is amazing if you use it together on the go with a dual pairable bluetooth headset on the go. Book Sense xt has that feature, and I asume the new also will have that. Brian -Oprindelig meddelelse- From: Gary King Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 6:12 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media PlayerthatGivesBlindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text Humanware got a device out for $369 with the same basic feature set except for OCR. So, the OCR better be really good since you will be paying the difference in price for that feature. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 11:05 PM Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player thatGivesBlindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text You think so? I'm surprised that Hims Inc can get a device as feature packed as it is out the door for the price. On 2 Jun 2014, at 11:31 am, Kelly Pierce kellyt...@gmail.com wrote: the issue is that at this price, it is reasonable to expect the USB file transfer technology of this decade not the previous one. with windows 8.1, people are gradually adopting and accepting Windows 8. I want a device that is future focused and ready for the computers of today and tomorrow not geared for a computing environment of yesteryear. Earlier this year, USB 3.1 was released as an official specification. It is fully backward compatible and supports connectors inserted in both ways like Apple's Lightning port. The FM radio seems to be a cheep add on to add to a specification sheet. Those that are brand loyal to Hims will likely demand it as an FM radio was in its previous generation portable book reader. Personally, I'm bloodless when it comes to choosing devices. Just because I bought a device from one company in the past doesn't mean I should buy the replacement device from them. Kelly On 6/1/14, Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Honestly, all this fuss about a FM radio, everyone knows that a FM radio in a device such as this - whether it be a Phone or similar - is bound to be inferior to a dedicated FM radio. The only real reason I can think of that Hims Inc would bother putting one of these into their products is because they can, a bit like Tecsun giving you 3,000 memories into a radio, not because they particularly serve any practical purpose having that many, just because Tecsun can do it. Its the OCR and associated functionality that I would think is more appealing about this equipment than a FM radio. On 2 Jun 2014, at 10:05 am, Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net wrote: If the FM radio in the Blaze EZ is not any better than the one in the BookSense XT, then it won't be much. The FM radio in the BookSense is not very sensitive, and the signal must be very strong to keep it in stereo mode. The FM radio in my old Nokia N82 cell phone picks up weak stations better using the same earphones as the antenna. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 4:32 PM Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player thatGives Blindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text I guess the problem is that Hims Inc has made a device that they hope will appeal to a mass market, I myself could well do without a FM and Internet radio, I couldn't believe my ears when I heard someone say Yesterday that they were going to buy this device because of its FM radio, what's the use! On 2 Jun 2014, at 7:01 am, Adrien Collins adriencollins22...@gmail.com wrote: Hi For us in Europe I have just calculated that the cost of this gadget will be around £400, not bad but as we already have the internet radio on our vr streams mark 2, I am only really interested in the ocr and epub and other reading functions, apart from an I device what else would cover these features? It looks very good though. Regards Adrien -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc
Re: [Blindattic] The Blaze EZ from Ferguson Technologies
But wouldn't Bluetooth version 4 be more refreshing? Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 12:19 PM Subject: Re: [Blindattic] The Blaze EZ from Ferguson Technologies Very good and thanks for passint this on, so its seems the device uses Bluetooth 3.0 and that's refreshing. On 4 Jun 2014, at 3:02 am, john s jschw...@cox.net wrote: Here is some more about the Blaze EZ. text of forwarded message follows: From: Pat Ferguson via Blindattic blindat...@blindtreasures.com Ferguson Technologies is please to announce that We're taking orders for the following item to be shipped in Late June. Please see our contact info at the bottom of this email. Blaze EZ: A Revolutionary Multi-Player with OCR for Books, Music, Documents, Podcasts, Recording, DAISY and More! Shipping in Late-June 2014! With single-button access to music, media, documents and even printed materials, Blaze EZ OCR Multi-Player is yet another example of the HIMS commitment to blazing. new paths to accessibility. Blaze EZ’s wide range of media support and on-the-spot OCR text-to-speech ensures endless hours of information and entertainment at the touch of a button, including newspapers, books, documents, restaurant menus as well as DAISY and media content. You can scan and read printed materials immediately, or save them for reading at your leisure. SPECIAL DISCOUNT FOR ORDERS BEFORE JUNE 30, 2014.You may order your Blaze EZ today from Ferguson Technologies, Inc for $695.00 Plus Shipping/handling. Features Highlights Stand-alone, single-button OCR. capture and read Use Blaze EZ to OCR capture a menu, magazine article, library book, and more all at the touch of a single button. The built-in auto-focus camera ensures a high-quality image for accurate OCR and text-to-speech. Simple, easy-to-use controls and file system. Three easy-access buttons with Braille letters “M”, “R” and “B” give quick access to Music, Radio and Books. Above that a simple, easy-to-find record button, and below it a set of navigation buttons in the shape of a cross. At the bottom right corner, is a square button with a Braille letter “O” for OCR. A single press enters OCR mode and a second press will begin the capture and read process. Play DAISY, music and audio book files. Blaze EZ can read and play a variety of file including DAISY, TXT, BRL, MP3, MP4, WAV, WMA, WMV, OGG, ASF, AAC, AVI, FLAC, 3GP, MPG, M4A TXT, RTF, HTML, HTM, XML, DOC, DOCX, PDF, EPUB, FB2, PDF, and more… Built-in Wi-Fi. Use the built-in WiFi in Blaze EZ to access online DAISY, e-books, podcasts, internet radio and more. High-quality Recording. Record high-quality audio from internal microphone, external micrphone (not included) or stereo line-in. 12 GB internal flash memory. 12 hours battery life, free charging cradle and spare battery. Specifications: Model T70EZ Flash Memory 16 GB Interface. 1 micro USB, 1 SD slot, Bluetooth, Bluetooth 3.0 Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n. CD Rom, YES (DAISY, Audio), OCR Capture, Save and Read Applications. Daisy Player Media Player, Book Reader Online Services. Recorder Daisy2.0, 2.02, XML DAISY, ANSI/NISO, Z39.86 (DAISY3.0), NIMAS1.1, NLS, Learning Ally, Bookshare.org, Serotek(samnet), Open Library MP3, MP4, WAV, WMA, WMV, OGG, ASF, AAC, AVI, FLAC, 3GP, MPG, M4A TXT, RTF, HTML, HTM, XML, DOC, DOCX, PDF, EPUB, FB2, PDF Web Radio, DAISY Online, Podcast MP3, WAV. Additional Tools FM Radio, Clock Charging Cradle Included, Battery Rechargeable and Detachable Lithium Ion battery. More than 12 hours battery life, Free spare battery included. Size 4.59” x 2.31” x 0.64” / 116.7 x 58.9 x 16.3 mm Weight 0.30 lbs / 138g. Shipping Weight: Aprox 3 LBS. Shipping/handling is Extra. HWBZ-7495. $695.00 128GB SDXC Flash Card: 128GB Secure Digital Extended Capacity (SDXC) Flash Card. This card will work in the Blaze EZ. Speed Class Rating: UHS Speed Class 1. Read Speed: up to 90MB/s. Write Speed: up to 35MB/s. Features: 128GB capacity for superior storage vs. SDHC Ideal for SDXC capable Ultrabooks, Hi-Megapixel cameras, DSLRs and HD video recorders Class 10 rating; Great for action photography, burst mode shooting and recording hours of HD video. SDXC-12800. $99.99 For additional questions, or any assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us via phone during our business hours, or by email any time. Thank you very much. Kind Regards, Pat Ferguson v/p Marketing and Sales Ferguson Technologies, Inc. 205 Joliet Ave., S. E. Suite 101 De Smet, SD. 57231-2411 Phone: 605-854-9280 Email: sa...@fergusontechnologiesinc.net web sites: http://www.fergusontechnologiesinc.net http://www.scanacan.com SCANACAN For Windows, SCANACAN Professional Olympus Recorders, PlexTalk Products, BookSense Standard and XT models, HumanWare Products, Window-Eyes, GoBibles, tech support on all products we carry
Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized MediaPlayerthatGivesBlindandVisuallyImpaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text
Dennis, The Voice Recognition feature went away because HIMS claimed that it wasn't being used by many of their customers. They licensed voice recognition from another company, and they didn't want to continue paying the license fee. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dennis dennis...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 11:28 AM Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized MediaPlayerthatGivesBlindandVisuallyImpaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text this along with the mp3 player in the xt not being as good really makes me edgy about this being a good product. when they added voice commands to the xt it worked for a short time. then they did another fermware upgrade and the voice commands went away. at least on mine. they should have a much easier method of upgrading fermware on those devices. On 6/3/2014 11:23 AM, Gary King wrote: The Blaze EZ will have Bluetooth, but not the latest version. I hope it will be better implemented than it is in the BookSense XT. You can't control the BookSense from a headset. I've had trouble keeping a Bluetooth connection with my XT and my Plantronics 590 headset. I have no such trouble with the same headset and my iPad or iPod Touch. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Brian Olesen br...@blindkom.dk To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 2:27 AM Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media PlayerthatGivesBlindandVisually Impaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text hi, Not correct. Victor Stream 2 doesn't have bluetooth connectivity, which is amazing if you use it together on the go with a dual pairable bluetooth headset on the go. Book Sense xt has that feature, and I asume the new also will have that. Brian -Oprindelig meddelelse- From: Gary King Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 6:12 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media PlayerthatGivesBlindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text Humanware got a device out for $369 with the same basic feature set except for OCR. So, the OCR better be really good since you will be paying the difference in price for that feature. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 11:05 PM Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player thatGivesBlindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text You think so? I'm surprised that Hims Inc can get a device as feature packed as it is out the door for the price. On 2 Jun 2014, at 11:31 am, Kelly Pierce kellyt...@gmail.com wrote: the issue is that at this price, it is reasonable to expect the USB file transfer technology of this decade not the previous one. with windows 8.1, people are gradually adopting and accepting Windows 8. I want a device that is future focused and ready for the computers of today and tomorrow not geared for a computing environment of yesteryear. Earlier this year, USB 3.1 was released as an official specification. It is fully backward compatible and supports connectors inserted in both ways like Apple's Lightning port. The FM radio seems to be a cheep add on to add to a specification sheet. Those that are brand loyal to Hims will likely demand it as an FM radio was in its previous generation portable book reader. Personally, I'm bloodless when it comes to choosing devices. Just because I bought a device from one company in the past doesn't mean I should buy the replacement device from them. Kelly On 6/1/14, Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Honestly, all this fuss about a FM radio, everyone knows that a FM radio in a device such as this - whether it be a Phone or similar - is bound to be inferior to a dedicated FM radio. The only real reason I can think of that Hims Inc would bother putting one of these into their products is because they can, a bit like Tecsun giving you 3,000 memories into a radio, not because they particularly serve any practical purpose having that many, just because Tecsun can do it. Its the OCR and associated functionality that I would think is more appealing about this equipment than a FM radio. On 2 Jun 2014, at 10:05 am, Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net wrote: If the FM radio in the Blaze EZ is not any better than the one in the BookSense XT, then it won't be much. The FM radio in the BookSense is not very sensitive, and the signal must be very strong to keep it in stereo mode. The FM radio in my old Nokia N82 cell phone picks up weak stations better using the same earphones as the antenna. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, June
Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player thatGivesBlindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text
Humanware got a device out for $369 with the same basic feature set except for OCR. So, the OCR better be really good since you will be paying the difference in price for that feature. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 11:05 PM Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player thatGivesBlindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text You think so? I'm surprised that Hims Inc can get a device as feature packed as it is out the door for the price. On 2 Jun 2014, at 11:31 am, Kelly Pierce kellyt...@gmail.com wrote: the issue is that at this price, it is reasonable to expect the USB file transfer technology of this decade not the previous one. with windows 8.1, people are gradually adopting and accepting Windows 8. I want a device that is future focused and ready for the computers of today and tomorrow not geared for a computing environment of yesteryear. Earlier this year, USB 3.1 was released as an official specification. It is fully backward compatible and supports connectors inserted in both ways like Apple's Lightning port. The FM radio seems to be a cheep add on to add to a specification sheet. Those that are brand loyal to Hims will likely demand it as an FM radio was in its previous generation portable book reader. Personally, I'm bloodless when it comes to choosing devices. Just because I bought a device from one company in the past doesn't mean I should buy the replacement device from them. Kelly On 6/1/14, Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Honestly, all this fuss about a FM radio, everyone knows that a FM radio in a device such as this - whether it be a Phone or similar - is bound to be inferior to a dedicated FM radio. The only real reason I can think of that Hims Inc would bother putting one of these into their products is because they can, a bit like Tecsun giving you 3,000 memories into a radio, not because they particularly serve any practical purpose having that many, just because Tecsun can do it. Its the OCR and associated functionality that I would think is more appealing about this equipment than a FM radio. On 2 Jun 2014, at 10:05 am, Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net wrote: If the FM radio in the Blaze EZ is not any better than the one in the BookSense XT, then it won't be much. The FM radio in the BookSense is not very sensitive, and the signal must be very strong to keep it in stereo mode. The FM radio in my old Nokia N82 cell phone picks up weak stations better using the same earphones as the antenna. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 4:32 PM Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player thatGives Blindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text I guess the problem is that Hims Inc has made a device that they hope will appeal to a mass market, I myself could well do without a FM and Internet radio, I couldn't believe my ears when I heard someone say Yesterday that they were going to buy this device because of its FM radio, what's the use! On 2 Jun 2014, at 7:01 am, Adrien Collins adriencollins22...@gmail.com wrote: Hi For us in Europe I have just calculated that the cost of this gadget will be around £400, not bad but as we already have the internet radio on our vr streams mark 2, I am only really interested in the ocr and epub and other reading functions, apart from an I device what else would cover these features? It looks very good though. Regards Adrien -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 11:00 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player that Gives Blindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text I can quite understand that, one of the most sensitive AM radios on the planet today, you can then buy the other product when your moneybox is full again to read the CC 2E manual smile. On 31 May 2014, at 4:21 am, Dennis dennis...@gmail.com wrote: not a problem. you are one of my favorites.i think i would rather spend my money on a new cc radio 2. On 5/30/2014 1:02 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: sorry about repeating everything you wrote smile. On 31 May 2014, at 3:49 am, Dennis dennis...@gmail.com wrote: for everyones information on price. i just looked at the website and if you order before june 30 its $695 after that its $749. if you order before may 31, you get free shipping. it ships in late june. i almost dropped the hammer and ordered one just now. but i cant help wanting to wait and see the reviews on it sence i already have a booksence that i payed $500 for and i just don't know if i'd get my
Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized MediaPlayer thatGivesBlindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Accessto Printed Text
The new generation of the Victor Reader Stream is priced at $369 in the US. The features of the two devices are similar, or probably will be, after the Blaze EZ is upgraded a few times. The major difference is that the Blaze EZ has OCR, which is the reason for the big price tag. Some procedures on the Blaze EZ won't be so easy to perform due to the lack of a numeric keyboard. All input will be by selecting letters, numbers and symbols from a grid. Well, I guess you only need to enter your network password once. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Adrien Collins adriencollins22...@gmail.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 1:22 PM Subject: RE: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized MediaPlayer thatGivesBlindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Accessto Printed Text Hi Gary What was that device from humanware? Regards Adrien -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Gary King Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 6:13 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player thatGivesBlindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text Humanware got a device out for $369 with the same basic feature set except for OCR. So, the OCR better be really good since you will be paying the difference in price for that feature. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 11:05 PM Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player thatGivesBlindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text You think so? I'm surprised that Hims Inc can get a device as feature packed as it is out the door for the price. On 2 Jun 2014, at 11:31 am, Kelly Pierce kellyt...@gmail.com wrote: the issue is that at this price, it is reasonable to expect the USB file transfer technology of this decade not the previous one. with windows 8.1, people are gradually adopting and accepting Windows 8. I want a device that is future focused and ready for the computers of today and tomorrow not geared for a computing environment of yesteryear. Earlier this year, USB 3.1 was released as an official specification. It is fully backward compatible and supports connectors inserted in both ways like Apple's Lightning port. The FM radio seems to be a cheep add on to add to a specification sheet. Those that are brand loyal to Hims will likely demand it as an FM radio was in its previous generation portable book reader. Personally, I'm bloodless when it comes to choosing devices. Just because I bought a device from one company in the past doesn't mean I should buy the replacement device from them. Kelly On 6/1/14, Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Honestly, all this fuss about a FM radio, everyone knows that a FM radio in a device such as this - whether it be a Phone or similar - is bound to be inferior to a dedicated FM radio. The only real reason I can think of that Hims Inc would bother putting one of these into their products is because they can, a bit like Tecsun giving you 3,000 memories into a radio, not because they particularly serve any practical purpose having that many, just because Tecsun can do it. Its the OCR and associated functionality that I would think is more appealing about this equipment than a FM radio. On 2 Jun 2014, at 10:05 am, Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net wrote: If the FM radio in the Blaze EZ is not any better than the one in the BookSense XT, then it won't be much. The FM radio in the BookSense is not very sensitive, and the signal must be very strong to keep it in stereo mode. The FM radio in my old Nokia N82 cell phone picks up weak stations better using the same earphones as the antenna. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 4:32 PM Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player thatGives Blindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text I guess the problem is that Hims Inc has made a device that they hope will appeal to a mass market, I myself could well do without a FM and Internet radio, I couldn't believe my ears when I heard someone say Yesterday that they were going to buy this device because of its FM radio, what's the use! On 2 Jun 2014, at 7:01 am, Adrien Collins adriencollins22...@gmail.com wrote: Hi For us in Europe I have just calculated that the cost of this gadget will be around £400, not bad but as we already have the internet radio on our vr streams mark 2, I am only really interested in the ocr and epub and other reading functions, apart from an I device what else would cover
Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player thatGives Blindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text
If the FM radio in the Blaze EZ is not any better than the one in the BookSense XT, then it won't be much. The FM radio in the BookSense is not very sensitive, and the signal must be very strong to keep it in stereo mode. The FM radio in my old Nokia N82 cell phone picks up weak stations better using the same earphones as the antenna. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 4:32 PM Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player thatGives Blindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text I guess the problem is that Hims Inc has made a device that they hope will appeal to a mass market, I myself could well do without a FM and Internet radio, I couldn't believe my ears when I heard someone say Yesterday that they were going to buy this device because of its FM radio, what's the use! On 2 Jun 2014, at 7:01 am, Adrien Collins adriencollins22...@gmail.com wrote: Hi For us in Europe I have just calculated that the cost of this gadget will be around £400, not bad but as we already have the internet radio on our vr streams mark 2, I am only really interested in the ocr and epub and other reading functions, apart from an I device what else would cover these features? It looks very good though. Regards Adrien -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 11:00 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player that Gives Blindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text I can quite understand that, one of the most sensitive AM radios on the planet today, you can then buy the other product when your moneybox is full again to read the CC 2E manual smile. On 31 May 2014, at 4:21 am, Dennis dennis...@gmail.com wrote: not a problem. you are one of my favorites.i think i would rather spend my money on a new cc radio 2. On 5/30/2014 1:02 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: sorry about repeating everything you wrote smile. On 31 May 2014, at 3:49 am, Dennis dennis...@gmail.com wrote: for everyones information on price. i just looked at the website and if you order before june 30 its $695 after that its $749. if you order before may 31, you get free shipping. it ships in late june. i almost dropped the hammer and ordered one just now. but i cant help wanting to wait and see the reviews on it sence i already have a booksence that i payed $500 for and i just don't know if i'd get my monys worth from buying the blaze.this is just my 2 penny's worth. On 5/30/2014 12:14 PM, Paul Hunt wrote: Hello everyone. I'll have to see it and try it on documents that really challenge solutions like Openbook, Kurzweil 1000 and the combination of the IPhone 5S, Prizmo and the standscan pro. Results need to be much much better than the other solutions before I would buy it. On May 30, 2014, at 10:06 AM, Gerardo Corripio gera1...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone post the video? I guess I didn't pay attention to the past thread, thus missed it. El 30/05/2014 09:30 a.m., Dane Trethowan escribió: Only advantage in waiting a bit is that you hear what others are saying, read reviews etc, I won't be able to get one for quite some time - even if I wanted one - but - judging by the Youtube video I referred to earlier - we're going to see some most interesting chatter regarding this machine in the weeks and months ahead. On 31 May 2014, at 12:27 am, Dennisdennis...@gmail.com wrote: well it clames it has internet radio listening cabability. not sure what that means. it also has a fm radio. it seams pretty interesting, but i don't know if i'll drop the over $700 for the thing. its over $700 because they charge shipping. the other thing that bothers me is unlike other technology these things don't go down in price. so if you don't buy it right away and want to wait, it doesn't matter because the price won't go down. i guess they are counting on a lot of agency perchases. On 5/30/2014 9:15 AM, Peter Scanlon wrote: Pity it doesn't have a radio listening thing like Ootunes like the victor. -Original Message- From: Dennis Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014 12:02 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media Player that Gives Blindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access to Printed Text oh yes! after seeing the cost of the booksence when it came out i figured this thing would cost every bit of $900 to $1000. i just wonder if the media player is better than the booksence was. it has a lot of other features that the booksence does and i just wonder if they are improved or the same. btw: the booksence is $50 less than when it came out a few years ago. i would have thought it would have come down a little more than that. On 5/30/2014 8:53 AM
Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR
We've heard prices for the Blaze EZ from $650 to $700. I guess we'll just have to wait until it is actually released to find out. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dennis dennis...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 11:23 AM Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR this looks pretty good. i don't know why they don't post the price. if the booksence is $499 on sale for $449, i can't imagine what they'll ask for on this one. On 4/24/2014 10:53 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Is it availlable in europe? /A 23 apr 2014 kl. 14:49 skrev Aidan aidan.smartt...@gmail.com: Thanks hammit, You rite, and it always take time to find out those spex. And my experience often with these companies is that they mostly don't deliver up to that standards. PlexTalk openly said they won't higher their bit rate or sampling rate of any of the recorders currently. So why would hims be different since they really did not go far enough with the booksense. The PlexTalk range record the best of them all, and even with them its not as nice as you would get with Olympus or zoom. I will do a podcast on the hv-e5 and will post a link here once it rich the blind geek zone. I got one up there already about the dm620. Its a player made in china with a nice design and support most formats in one device like nun of the other players. You can even play .dat video files. I don't think its available in the US yet, or at least I don't no. On 23/04/2014, Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com wrote: What's the HV-E5? -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Aidan Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 4:46 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR It sound ok, but we stil don't no if the recording quality is better, we don't no anything about the mic used, neither the mic pre amp. And if its like the booksense it will just plain sucks. I rather go for the hv-e5. It record much better, have better hardware and is much faster. Not even to mention how stable the firmware. That is one thing hims just cannot get rite, they need to use programmers who no what they doing. Sounds like many of them are stil in a learning stage or something. Its simply unexceptable that a device keep dying on you and half of the time its not the battery, or sometimes the battery goes flat, then if you charch again, it won't come on unless if you perform an hard reset. Is this going to be tru for this unit? I don't really care much about the OCR although I understand why its useful. The other thing that I'm really disappointed about for this unit, is that they used acapela speech. I mean yes I love acapela, but really, just because other people do it, they just follow along, don't try something else. I mean I just don't get it. But lets wait and see. On 23/04/2014, Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com wrote: This sounds cool. I see it'll play WMV and AVI files. Does it I wander have a monitor? The little spek table that followed didn't say so, but those are videos. So you would watch WMV or AVI files. I guess you could just listen if it's a song. Like I have a song called Christmass is creeppy and it's a vid. Though it's an N4V file. But it's the same point. It's a video. Very cool. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 7:01 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR Can't wait till this hits the market here, a I thought up till now was something you dreamed of smile, hope it performs as good as it sounds http://hims-inc.com/products/blaze-ez-daisy-multi-player-with-ocr/ ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane -- Facebook: m.facebook.com/aidan.maher92 Skype: andries4451 Twitter: smarttalk7 Audioboo: www.audioboo.com/DjSpotlight -- Facebook: m.facebook.com/aidan.maher92 Skype: andries4451 Twitter: smarttalk7 Audioboo: www.audioboo.com/DjSpotlight
Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR
They are probably saving the $900 price tag for the next model of the Blaze which is supposed to have Skype and more keys. It would be a little difficult to dial a phone number with the key layout on the Blaze EZ. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dennis dennis...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 12:02 PM Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR yeh i figured it would probably be about that. i wouldn't be at all surprised if it starts at $900 though. On 4/24/2014 11:53 AM, tim cumings wrote: i think it's going to cost about $700.00 - Original Message - From: Dennis dennis...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 12:23 PM Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR this looks pretty good. i don't know why they don't post the price. if the booksence is $499 on sale for $449, i can't imagine what they'll ask for on this one. On 4/24/2014 10:53 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Is it availlable in europe? /A 23 apr 2014 kl. 14:49 skrev Aidan aidan.smartt...@gmail.com: Thanks hammit, You rite, and it always take time to find out those spex. And my experience often with these companies is that they mostly don't deliver up to that standards. PlexTalk openly said they won't higher their bit rate or sampling rate of any of the recorders currently. So why would hims be different since they really did not go far enough with the booksense. The PlexTalk range record the best of them all, and even with them its not as nice as you would get with Olympus or zoom. I will do a podcast on the hv-e5 and will post a link here once it rich the blind geek zone. I got one up there already about the dm620. Its a player made in china with a nice design and support most formats in one device like nun of the other players. You can even play .dat video files. I don't think its available in the US yet, or at least I don't no. On 23/04/2014, Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com wrote: What's the HV-E5? -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Aidan Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 4:46 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR It sound ok, but we stil don't no if the recording quality is better, we don't no anything about the mic used, neither the mic pre amp. And if its like the booksense it will just plain sucks. I rather go for the hv-e5. It record much better, have better hardware and is much faster. Not even to mention how stable the firmware. That is one thing hims just cannot get rite, they need to use programmers who no what they doing. Sounds like many of them are stil in a learning stage or something. Its simply unexceptable that a device keep dying on you and half of the time its not the battery, or sometimes the battery goes flat, then if you charch again, it won't come on unless if you perform an hard reset. Is this going to be tru for this unit? I don't really care much about the OCR although I understand why its useful. The other thing that I'm really disappointed about for this unit, is that they used acapela speech. I mean yes I love acapela, but really, just because other people do it, they just follow along, don't try something else. I mean I just don't get it. But lets wait and see. On 23/04/2014, Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com wrote: This sounds cool. I see it'll play WMV and AVI files. Does it I wander have a monitor? The little spek table that followed didn't say so, but those are videos. So you would watch WMV or AVI files. I guess you could just listen if it's a song. Like I have a song called Christmass is creeppy and it's a vid. Though it's an N4V file. But it's the same point. It's a video. Very cool. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 7:01 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR Can't wait till this hits the market here, a I thought up till now was something you dreamed of smile, hope it performs as good as it sounds http://hims-inc.com/products/blaze-ez-daisy-multi-player-with-ocr/ ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane -- Facebook: m.facebook.com/aidan.maher92 Skype: andries4451 Twitter: smarttalk7 Audioboo: www.audioboo.com/DjSpotlight -- Facebook: m.facebook.com/aidan.maher92 Skype: andries4451 Twitter: smarttalk7 Audioboo: www.audioboo.com/DjSpotlight
Re: not sure if it qualifies as audio but at least its pc related
You can go directly to: www.adobe.com bring up a list of links and press f for Flash. Activate the Flash Player link and follow the steps. Be sure to uncheck the checkbox that will install the Chrome browser and the Google Toolbar if you don't want them. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: goshawk on horseback goshawk_on_horseb...@fastmail.co.uk To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 3:17 PM Subject: Re: not sure if it qualifies as audio but at least its pc related have tried it a few times, and the link doesn't seem to work unfortunately. Simon - Original Message - From: Colin Howard co...@pobox.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 7:45 PM Subject: Re: not sure if it qualifies as audio but at least its pc related Direct link to reinstall Flash Player when asking to be updated. http://www.adobe.com/go/full_flashplayer_win_msi Colin Howard, by the Lord's providence has lived at his present address near Fareham in Southern England, since February 1992.
Re: Hum from Cable
Dean, I think you should try to find a well-shielded audio cable with the correct length instead of having those connected cables. I'm not sure it would help, but it would eliminate one possible source of the hum. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dean Masters dwmaster...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 1:19 PM Subject: Re: Hum from Cable The PC and TV are on opposite walls so they are about 12 feet apart. so they can't use the same outlet. The PC is plugged into a uninterrupted power supply which has the three prong outlets and it is plugged into a three pronged outlet which means it should be grounded. Dean -Original Message- From: Brian Olesen Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 4:32 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Hum from Cable hi, connect the two units to the same power outlet from the wall. Maybe turn around the plugs for one of the units. -Oprindelig meddelelse- From: Joe Paton Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 9:15 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Hum from Cable Hi, are you connecting to a desktop computer? You might try grounding your machine if this is the case. Joe On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:52:03 -0400 Dean Masters dwmaster...@gmail.com wrote: I am wanting to run a patch cord from the headphone jack on my TV to my PC to record some shows but there is a hum. I have Comcast cable. The patch cord is actuallly two cords with male plugs on both ends and a connector with two female plugs. When I put headpohones in the jack there is no hum. Is there something I can do to get rid of the hum? Thanks, Dean -- Joe Paton j...@vi-ability.demon.co.uk
Re: Runtime error
After cleaning up the mess the update made with my iTunes, I was able to go to iTunes on the Apple web site and download the Setup program. It installed without difficulty, and my libraries seem to be unaffected. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Jamie Kelly otrja...@gmail.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:28 AM Subject: RE: Runtime error Thanks Barry, is the latest iTunes ok to download and install and just the updating that was the issue? Jamie -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Barry Campbell Sent: Thursday, 30 January 2014 8:12 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Runtime error Hello: You need to uninstall itunes and all related software. This includes bonjour. There are some posts on applevis all about this. This error occurred when installing /updating the latest version of itunes. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Jamie Kelly Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:05 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Runtime error Turning on the PC or running iTunes. Jamie -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Lee Sent: Thursday, 30 January 2014 6:57 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Runtime error Hi, What were you doing when this error occurred? Cheers, Joseph -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Jamie Kelly Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:53 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: Runtime error Anyone offer advice how to fix the error below with Win7 and jaws15? Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library graphic 798 Runtime Error!graphic 775 Program: C:\Program Files (x86)... R6034 An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly. Please contact the application's support team for more information. OK With thanks, Jamie
Re: Audials One
I've been looking at Audials on my Windows 7 computer with both JAWS and NVDA. I get a little more feedback with NVDA, but I don't think it will be enough to make the program usable. Dane, I will be interested in your results with the program. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 1:06 PM Subject: Re: Audials One The interface is going to take a little getting used to and I have some button labeling to do. On 21 Dec 2013, at 5:42 am, Mac Norins macata...@cox.net wrote: yeah, let us know, Dane! I downloaded this a long time ago but never did anything with it! I think Petro had some interest in it, at one time, didn't you Petro? Tell us if it is accessible! Merry Christmas, -Mac- -Original Message- From: Dane Trethowan Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 7:41 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Audials One Hi! Anyone tried this software? Seems to be the master of audio recording software being able to record both audio and video from the Internet, download and convert music from the Internet and so on. The software is on sale at the moment so if trial proves successful then I'll certainly buy. ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 Fax +61397437954
Winamp Add-ons Plugins
Since Winamp web services will be closing in a couple of days, I have been thinking about downloading some of the listed Add-Ons and Plugins. If any of you are using these Add-Ons and Plugins, I would appreciate any comments on which ones you find accessible and particularly useful. I downloaded the latest and hopefully greatest and most likely last version of Winamp. If I install it over my Winamp Pro, I would hope that I will still have the Pro version when the installation is finished. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net
Re: Bluetooth Device
Andrea, Do a search for this item on Amazon: Product Description Style: Mini-jack TX The Miccus Mini-jack TX adds Bluetooth wireless capability to any Headphone jack (3.5mm). Enjoy your music without the hassle of cables and adapters. Easy to use, plug it into TVs, game pads, CD/DVD players, MP3 players, laptops, PCs, GPS and more. The 90° swiveling jack allows for easy storage, portability and hard-to-reach connections. Pair with any Bluetooth compatible receiver, such as the Miccus Mini-jack RX, Miccus Home RTX or Bluetooth headphones, speakers, helmet systems, hearing aids and more. Touch and hold the button for 8 seconds and the Mini-jack TX will automatically search for a compatible receiver such as the Bluetooth headphones or the Mini-jack RX; no codes or passwords to enter. The LED lights beneath the button indicate Bluetooth connection and charging status. The Mini-jack TX is compatible with any destination device capable of receiving via the Bluetooth A2DP software profile. A fully charged Mini-jack TX provides up to 7 hours of music transmission or continuous with USB power. Package includes: Miccus Mini-jack TX, USB charging cable and User manual. 1 Yr Limited Warranty. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Andrea Sherry sherr...@wideband.net.au To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 5:53 PM Subject: Re: Bluetooth Device You may be right there. On 6/12/2013 10:19 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote: Just thought, you have A Google Nexus device as I understand it, well wouldn't it be far easier to abandon the MP3 player and just pla Books and stuff from your Nexus product which is Bluetooth compatible? On 5/12/2013 9:31 PM, Andrea Sherry wrote: I have an mp3 player with 3.5mm headphone jack. I have newly acquired bluetooth stereo headphones. Does a device exist which I can plug to 3.5mm jack and bluetooth to my headphones? Andrea -- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Carl Brad
Re: Recommendations for an audio book reader?
I have all 3 devices. I purchased the New Generation Victor Reader Stream in July. It hasn't been on the market long enough to judge how well it will hold up over time. I've had a Book Port Plus for 3 years and have had no trouble with it. I purchased the BookSense when it was released 4 years ago. I have had the same problems with this device as other users. The speaker and Lock Switch both need replacement. The rattle in the speaker doesn't bother me too much since I usually use a headset. Intermittent failures of the Lock Switch are a bigger problem since they render the unit useless until I can persuade it to unlock. Some day the switch will fail completely, and I will have to send it off to Texas for repair. As for the Bluetooth feature, I consider its implementation on the BookSense XT to be rather poor since you can't control the unit from a headset. I've also experienced Bluetooth disconnecting from my headset when audio is paused for a few seconds. Both the Book Port Plus and new Victor Reader Stream have wireless capability. Both will be adding the ability to download books directly without using a computer. This doesn't appear to include Audible books, however. All 3 devices play Audible books very well in my experience. I like navigation a little better on the Book Port Plus and new Victor Reader Stream with their dedicated navigation keys. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Salien Brown say...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 7:41 PM Subject: Re: Recommendations for an audio book reader? Boy, you give 3 nice options to select from. I'm Googling info on all 3 devices. Wish there was a podcast or something that compared the 3. It's really tough to make a choice. Since my main use for the device will be to play Audible.com audio books, guess I need to stick with that device which does this the best? Can you tell me which one is your pick? yAt 06:39 PM 9/30/2013, you wrote: I would recomand either the book port plus, plextalk pocket or booksense xt - Original Message - From: Aidan aidan.smartt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 3:53 PM Subject: Re: Recommendations for an audio book reader? I am very sorry to here that, but overall, most users find the opposite. I doubt such behaveour will happen to a lot of people. Maybe humanware should investigate? On 30/09/2013, cov...@ccs.covici.com cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Unless the new stream has very different hardware, I find the old one was not very stable -- I must have had several new ones and repairs over the years I have had the thing. It crashes at times and I always wonder if my bookmarks will be saved. Well, the iphone makes them mostly obsolete. Aidan aidan.smartt...@gmail.com wrote: You can get more info at: www.humanware.com/newstream, and for the manuals and f a q and other stuff go to: www.humanware.com/support, then choose the victor stream new generation link from that page and you will get the rest there. The USB thing is not a commin behaviour. If you use the supplied cables and charcher you will be fine. The stream is the most stable among all players, and have the longest battery life. And the new model can charch on the pc in both the on and off state. On 30/09/2013, Salien Brown say...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a site where I can learn more about this victor stream? I reviewed a few threads by members on this group who seem to be encountering problems with the USB connection to the PC failing? Is this a common occurence or is this player pretty reliable? At 03:00 PM 9/30/2013, you wrote: The victor stream is a very good option if audible books and bookmarks are your concern. The stream save bookmark your place no matter what, and you can create a veriety of custom bookmarks manually at any spot of your desire. The new stream have wifi, and audible support. And I'm sure soon it should be able to download audible books from the device. On 30/09/2013, Salien Brown say...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. Well I'm looking for something that's portable, so I will probably want it to have a headphone jack. My main concern is it having the ability to play Audible.com audio books. If I stop at a certain point, the player will leave a bookmark or some sort of marker to pick up where I left off later on. Also being able to hold a nice amount of audio books is important too. This advanced book player from NLS, does it store a lot of audio books? More importantly, is it easy to save audio books too it? Is there a website where I can learn more about it? At 01:20 PM 9/30/2013, you wrote: If you're in the US, try the advanced book player from NLS. You can't put it in your pocket, but it has a great speaker
Re: Recommendations for an audio book reader?
Currently, The Book Port Plus, in addition to playing books, also plays web radio stations and downloads and plays podcasts. I am hoping that these features will be implemented on the Victor Reader Stream in the future. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Salien Brown say...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 5:49 PM Subject: Re: Recommendations for an audio book reader? Ok, so at least now I've narroed my choices down to the Victor Stream or Book Port Plus. Is there any audio demonstration available shocasing either of these 2 devices? I'm curious if they've ever been put in a head-to-head test to see which one faired better? Right now it looks like they both do the same thing, but the Victor Stream reader does seem to integrate the player more seemlessly with various book sharing sites. That's what I really want. Don't want to have to keep plugging and unplugging my reader to my PC to upload books to it. I want it to have that ability built directly in via Wi-fi. Avoids any USb connection issues for sure. Wish there was a coupon or something available to reduce the price of both devices. I would just shell out the money for both of them so I can test them on my own. At 12:23 PM 10/1/2013, you wrote: I have all 3 devices. I purchased the New Generation Victor Reader Stream in July. It hasn't been on the market long enough to judge how well it will hold up over time. I've had a Book Port Plus for 3 years and have had no trouble with it. I purchased the BookSense when it was released 4 years ago. I have had the same problems with this device as other users. The speaker and Lock Switch both need replacement. The rattle in the speaker doesn't bother me too much since I usually use a headset. Intermittent failures of the Lock Switch are a bigger problem since they render the unit useless until I can persuade it to unlock. Some day the switch will fail completely, and I will have to send it off to Texas for repair. As for the Bluetooth feature, I consider its implementation on the BookSense XT to be rather poor since you can't control the unit from a headset. I've also experienced Bluetooth disconnecting from my headset when audio is paused for a few seconds. Both the Book Port Plus and new Victor Reader Stream have wireless capability. Both will be adding the ability to download books directly without using a computer. This doesn't appear to include Audible books, however. All 3 devices play Audible books very well in my experience. I like navigation a little better on the Book Port Plus and new Victor Reader Stream with their dedicated navigation keys. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Salien Brown say...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 7:41 PM Subject: Re: Recommendations for an audio book reader? Boy, you give 3 nice options to select from. I'm Googling info on all 3 devices. Wish there was a podcast or something that compared the 3. It's really tough to make a choice. Since my main use for the device will be to play Audible.com audio books, guess I need to stick with that device which does this the best? Can you tell me which one is your pick? yAt 06:39 PM 9/30/2013, you wrote: I would recomand either the book port plus, plextalk pocket or booksense xt - Original Message - From: Aidan aidan.smartt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 3:53 PM Subject: Re: Recommendations for an audio book reader? I am very sorry to here that, but overall, most users find the opposite. I doubt such behaveour will happen to a lot of people. Maybe humanware should investigate? On 30/09/2013, cov...@ccs.covici.com cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Unless the new stream has very different hardware, I find the old one was not very stable -- I must have had several new ones and repairs over the years I have had the thing. It crashes at times and I always wonder if my bookmarks will be saved. Well, the iphone makes them mostly obsolete. Aidan aidan.smartt...@gmail.com wrote: You can get more info at: www.humanware.com/newstream, and for the manuals and f a q and other stuff go to: www.humanware.com/support, then choose the victor stream new generation link from that page and you will get the rest there. The USB thing is not a commin behaviour. If you use the supplied cables and charcher you will be fine. The stream is the most stable among all players, and have the longest battery life. And the new model can charch on the pc in both the on and off state. On 30/09/2013, Salien Brown say...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a site where I can learn more about this victor stream? I reviewed a few threads by members on this group who seem to be encountering problems with the USB connection
Re: Looking for a Specific Type of Connector
Curtis, Google is your friend! Put PS2 to USB converter in the search field and check out the results. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Curtis Delzer curtis1...@verizon.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 6:20 PM Subject: Re: Looking for a Specific Type of Connector I am looking for a connector all right, but need one which can connect a PS2 type of keyboard into a USB computer. I think there is something like that available? -- Curtis Delzer. HS. K 6 V F O San Bernardino, CA. curtis1...@verizon.net skype: curtis1014 On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:23:57 -0400 Evan Reese ment...@dslextreme.com wrote: Yup, that is exactly what I am looking for and I found one on Amazon for $2.39, and free shipping. Had to make sure it was stereo though, as the first y cable I ffound just merged left and right channels into one female jack. But reading some reviews assured me that the one I ordered has stereo male jacks on it. Evan - Original Message - From: Reed poynter reed.poyn...@telus.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 1:14 PM Subject: RE: Looking for a Specific Type of Connector Hi, I didn't catch the original request. I purchased a Y-cable from Radio shack last year. It has 2 stereo mail jacks connecting to 1 female stereo jack. So, I can connect 2 stereo audio sources to my head phones. For example, I can connect my Bookport Plus to one side and my pc to the other and listen to both with my headphones. Don't know if this is what you are looking for...But, it is an option. Reed -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Evan Reese Sent: September-10-13 9:50 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Looking for a Specific Type of Connector Hmmm, why would two inputs and one output damage one or more pieces of equipment. Separately, they can both drive the pair of headphones I've hooked up to them. Why should connecting them both to the same pair of headphones damage either of them? Evan - Original Message - From: Tom t...@pc-audio.org To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 11:41 AM Subject: Re: Looking for a Specific Type of Connector I agree with Ken. Although what you need is a two in one out mixer. A headphone amplifier most likely will have one input and two or more outputs. Your idea of having an adaptor with two inputs and one output might work, but it could damage one or both pieces of equipment. Tom ** Your Message ** Hi, let me sugest this. The best way is to get a head phone amplifier. This arangment should only be used for inputs, because loading in inputs is way less. Get the headphone amp, you'l be glad you did. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: question
Joe, If you have another USB port on your desktop, you could give it a try also. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Joe Bollard joebolla...@eircom.net To: pc- audio pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 8:03 AM Subject: question well friends, regarding the card, does not the plextalk only use daisy format? therefore it wouldn't be possible to do any editing, or would it, i tried another USB cable, but i still got the same message, and yet, on my laptop the problem doesn't occur, the laptop seems to accept the plextalk, but i do all my audio editing on the desktop, i have a couple more USB cables i'll try tonight, thanks for your help and interest, travel safely, joe. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Blindy.TV
http://blindbargains.com/ has links to Blindy.TV and to a program for your PC that allows you to listen without going to the web site. Blindy.TV is a source of audio-only described TV programs with 5 channels of content. I'll let you decide for yourselves what you think of the fake commercials that they insert in the streams from time to time. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: watching tv on my computer?
Juan, The suggestions to use Windows Media Center with a TV tuner seem reasonable until you do some research on this solution. Put DirecTV and Windows Media Center in a Google search and read through the results. You will quickly see how sighted folks have struggled with various combinations of hardware and software to make this work. The accessibility of some of this software may also be a problem. I have DirecTV, but I don't consider trying to make it work with Media Center worth the effort. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Juan pjaub...@gmail.com To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 9:01 PM Subject: watching tv on my computer? Hi everyone: using windows 7 with jaws and or window eyes, and having direct tv as a tv provider. I am wanting to be able to watch my tv on my computer. can anyone please give me some suggestions regarding what software/firm ware I'd need to accomplish this? also a tutorial would be very much appreciated thanks To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Victor Reader Stream New Generation Review
There is a review of the Victor Reader Stream (New Generation) in the April 2013 Issue of AccessWorld http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw1404toc The review mentions a tone that is present on recordings made by the new Stream in all recording formats. If anyone on the list owns the new Stream or has heard recordings made by one, I would like to know how seriously this tone degrades recordings. I would also be interested to hear a longer sample of the Acapela speech used in the new Stream than the sample on the Humanware web site. After putting up with the mispronunciation issues in the Neospeech used in the BookSense for nearly 4 years, I want to know what to expect from the new Stream when reading various types of documents. I am considering a purchase in the near future, and I don't want any bad surprises if I decide to spend my $369. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: re audible
As far as I can tell, the so-called accessible site is just a page that was created as a work-around for the 3 items with the new submenus at the top of the regular home page, namely, your greeting, Library, and Shop Audible. The accessible page displays the links that you would find on these submenus if they worked consistently with your screen reader. Unfortunately, these submenus do not work consistently with a screen reader even when you follow the spoken instructions. This is why it is necessary to use the accessible page. If you want to use all of the features of Audible though, you will need to use both the regular home page and the accessible page, whichever works best in a particular situation. Also, be aware that on the regular home page, the My Library link is now shortened to Library; on some other Audible pages, it is still displayed as My Library. The only problems I've had with downloading books are slower download speeds and quite a few stops and restarts. The Search For A Good Book edit box on the regular home page usually finds what I'm searching for using the title, key words or author. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Clifford Blackwell blackwe...@ameritech.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 10:55 AM Subject: Re: re audible Try using their accessible site http://www.audible.com/access - Original Message - From: brian parker brian.parke...@btopenworld.com To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 8:47 AM Subject: re audible Hi list, have any of you who download books from audible noticed that their opening page has changed. when i go there, the edit box for a keyword is no longer available. brian. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Mac Versus Windows
Vicky, I think it would depend on what program was used to create the documents and what you wanted to do with the documents on each platform. From what I understand, MS Office doesn't work on the Mac, but there are programs that can read documents created by MS Word. What I'm not sure about is whether these programs can modify documents and retain all of the formatting. The one thing I haven't heard when listening to the many demonstrations of the Mac is someone doing office work, i.e., performing complex tasks like mail merge, creating and navigating tables and using styles in formatting documents. The only problem I can see with music is that you might need to do some format conversion if some formats are not directly supported. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Vicky Vaughan vrvaug...@mailzone.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Cc: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 5:58 AM Subject: Re: Mac Versus Windows Music, which I think would work, since both Windows and Mac would be using iTunes. The other I would like to be able to shair between them would be documents, which I am not at all sure can be done. What do you think? Many thanks! Vicky Sent from my iPhone On Mar 15, 2013, at 5:34 AM, Joe Paton j...@vi-ability.demon.co.uk wrote: What exactly do you want to do that requires commonality between both systems please? regards, Joe At 00:07 15/03/2013, you wrote: Please what would be the right tools for me to use files or data on both a Windows and Mac computers? Many thanks! Vicky Sent from my iPhone On Mar 13, 2013, at 10:55 PM, Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com wrote: Yep with the right tools. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Vicky Vaughan Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 10:00 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Cc: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Mac Versus Windows If I got a Mac, would I be able to have any document or other data shairing between them? Many thanks! Vicky Sent from my iPhone On Mar 13, 2013, at 2:45 PM, Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! Well there are both a version of soundforge for mac and accessible protools availlable. Though i do notknow anything about them. /A To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: an accessible dvd playing software
I'm talking about Media Player Classic Home Cinema. It doesn't play the Blue Ray format as far as I can tell. I had to use an OEM version of Power DVD that came with my computer to play Avatar in that format. The descriptive Video was available only in the Blue Ray format, and I wouldn't have gained much from the movie without description. Has anyone noticed that even with the FCC mandate, the TV shows that need it the most, the action shows, don't have descriptive video. Last Resort and Revolution are 2 examples of shows that really needed descriptive video. The only way to find out the details of what happened in these shows if you were watching them alone was to read the recaps. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 10:48 PM Subject: RE: an accessible dvd playing software What program are you talking about? If power dvd, yeah it does. I think starting from virsion 8 it could. One warning though, the new virsions of Power DVD aren't as accessible as the old ones. If VLC, I don't know. I thought I heard it now did. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Gary King Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 8:04 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: an accessible dvd playing software I like the program, but unless I'm missing something, it doesn't play the Blue Ray format. From what I read, this format is the most likely to have a Descriptive Video track included. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Chris H christopher...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 5:58 AM Subject: Re: an accessible dvd playing software Media Player Classic Home Cinema is the way forward. Christopher Hallsworth On 01/03/2013 03:20, randy tijerina wrote: hello everyone, i'm back online. i'm using windows 7 My xp machine croaked. I'd like to ask what's the most accessible dvd playing software? for example, powerDVD? i'd appreciate your help. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org . To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: an accessible dvd playing software
I don't have the URL for the program. The best way to find it is to put Media Player Classic Home Cinema into a Google search. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: randy tijerina rtijeri...@satx.rr.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 12:55 PM Subject: Re: an accessible dvd playing software gary, where can i get this media player classic? Bare with me folks. i'm trying. At 10:54 AM 3/2/2013, you wrote: I'm talking about Media Player Classic Home Cinema. It doesn't play the Blue Ray format as far as I can tell. I had to use an OEM version of Power DVD that came with my computer to play Avatar in that format. The descriptive Video was available only in the Blue Ray format, and I wouldn't have gained much from the movie without description. Has anyone noticed that even with the FCC mandate, the TV shows that need it the most, the action shows, don't have descriptive video. Last Resort and Revolution are 2 examples of shows that really needed descriptive video. The only way to find out the details of what happened in these shows if you were watching them alone was to read the recaps. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 10:48 PM Subject: RE: an accessible dvd playing software What program are you talking about? If power dvd, yeah it does. I think starting from virsion 8 it could. One warning though, the new virsions of Power DVD aren't as accessible as the old ones. If VLC, I don't know. I thought I heard it now did. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Gary King Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 8:04 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: an accessible dvd playing software I like the program, but unless I'm missing something, it doesn't play the Blue Ray format. From what I read, this format is the most likely to have a Descriptive Video track included. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Chris H christopher...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 5:58 AM Subject: Re: an accessible dvd playing software Media Player Classic Home Cinema is the way forward. Christopher Hallsworth On 01/03/2013 03:20, randy tijerina wrote: hello everyone, i'm back online. i'm using windows 7 My xp machine croaked. I'd like to ask what's the most accessible dvd playing software? for example, powerDVD? i'd appreciate your help. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org . To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: an accessible dvd playing software
I like the program, but unless I'm missing something, it doesn't play the Blue Ray format. From what I read, this format is the most likely to have a Descriptive Video track included. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Chris H christopher...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 5:58 AM Subject: Re: an accessible dvd playing software Media Player Classic Home Cinema is the way forward. Christopher Hallsworth On 01/03/2013 03:20, randy tijerina wrote: hello everyone, i'm back online. i'm using windows 7 My xp machine croaked. I'd like to ask what's the most accessible dvd playing software? for example, powerDVD? i'd appreciate your help. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org . To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Audio Software with Screen Reader Mode
I have been trying to recall if there is an audio program with a screen reader mode that changes the user interface for better accessibility. Is anyone aware of such a program, or am I thinking of some other type of software? Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: re sound taxi
Brian, Audible has responded to inquiries about support for the new Stream. They say that it will be supported. I suspect that Audible considers it to be just a new generation of a player that is already supported. While support for the new Stream is good news, it would be even better if Audible would make a commitment to support all new devices designed for people with disabilities. I've already heard repeatedly on another list that everybody should be using main-stream commercial devices and that the market for specialty devices will soon be gone; don't need to hear all that again! Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: brian parker brian.parke...@btopenworld.com To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 12:13 PM Subject: re sound taxi Hi joe, i want to convert audible files if it becomes necessary. at present the only way i can play them, is with my victorstream. i have been given to understand, that the new victrstream which has just come out, won't do this, as amazon, who i believe own audible, want people to play audible files with kindle. i got this information from a reliable source. brian. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Nero 12 and Screen Readers
Is anyone using Nero 12 with a screen reader? If the controls are not standard, the menus are not readily accessible and the whole thing needs a lot of mouse clicking, then the $35 price tag in the Black Friday deal is still too high. I've already heard from one user that it is not as accessible as earlier versions, so I suspect that Nero 12 has some of these faults. Any comments from others who have tried it? Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: JAWS Scripts for Winamp?
To see what settings are loaded, hold down the Insert Key on the keypad and press q. It could be that the other Winamp windows are closed. To get a list of hot keys, including those to open all of the Winamp windows, hold down the Insert Key on the keypad and press h. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Evan Reese ment...@dslextreme.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 6:16 PM Subject: JAWS Scripts for Winamp? Hey Guys, I'm helping my partner get her Winamp running and accessible. I am not a JAWS user, (I use Window Eyes and the app that goes with it makes Winamp run very accessibly for what I do with it), but Winamp doesn't seem to be so accessible on her Windows 7 JAWS 13 system. I installed the latest version of Winamp Pro, version 6.22, which is the same one I'm using on my system. I can't seem to use the control tab to go from the library to the main window and back again, among other problems. What I'd like to know is are there still scripts for Winamp to make it more accessible with JAWS? If so, how can I get them and how do I install them? Or, are they already built in? I know that JAWS does come with some scripts already set up by FS. But if the Winamp scripts are built in, how do I make them run. They don't seem to be running now, or at least not very well. Thanks for any help. Evan To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Amazon Instant Video
I'm starting my second year of Amazon Prime membership. I suspect I've already gotten my money's worth in shipping charges, but I would like to get even more value out of my membership by getting Amazon Instant Video to play on my PC. Has anyone had success getting this to work? I noticed a message on the GW Micro list that also mentioned the problem I'm having. Apparently Amazon is using Flash to stream their videos, and screen readers can't access the controls to play the stream. If I can't get streaming on the PC to work, I may look into streaming on iOS devices such as the iPad and Apple TV. Hopefully, this topic will show up on one of the Apple Accessibility lists. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: 5.1 stereo amps to connect to a sound card
One other thing you can say about the Z-5500 is that in the world of electronics where models come and go frequently, it has a long sales life. I bought mine in 2004, and it is still being sold the last time I checked this year. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: goshawk on horseback goshawk_on_horseb...@fastmail.co.uk To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 8:10 PM Subject: Re: 5.1 stereo amps to connect to a sound card first off, to the best of my knowledge, a single stereo jack, or 2 RCA plugs, are not going to carry a full 5.1 signal, as you would then be asking a stereo connection, normally for 2 speakers, to carry a 6 speaker signal, which is what 5.1 is. it needs either 3 stereo jacks, 6 RCA plugs, or a digital connection. the only thing I can think of that comes reasonably close to what you are looking for, is the logitech z-5500 speaker system. it doesn't have all the ins and outs of a full home cinema amp, but does have 2 digital inputs, an analog input on 3 stereo jacks, and it does have a single stereo jack input, which you could try using, but I personally doubt that you will get full 5.1 through it. a few other points of this system are: 1. the controls and connections, are mounted on a remote wired pod, which is ideal if not a lot of space is available. 2. apart from the sub, the speakers are quite small, but still give a very good sound. and 3. apart from the sub, all other speakers can be stand or wall mounted super easily, thanks to there swiveling stands. it also has a remote control. the only thing I had to say against the system, being a bit of an audiophile, is that it could have been supplied with better quality speaker cable. apart from that, it is a very good system for those who haven't got room for, or who just don't want all the bells and whistles of a full home cinema amp. for example, I got mine after a move gone wrong, when I had to downsize a bit, but still wanted a decent 5.1 sound system for my tv. and like I said, apart from the not very good speaker cable supplied, which I changed, I have got no complaints. hope this helps. Simon - Original Message - From: Frank Ventura frank.vent...@littlebreezes.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 3:57 PM Subject: 5.1 stereo amps to connect to a sound card Hi all, can anyone recommend a good 5.1 amplifier to connect to a sound card with ehther a single 1/8 stereo output or preferably two RCA jacks. Nothing with a built in receiver or multiple inputs just a good high quality, high power amplifier to compliment an average sound card. Thanks To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: vlc media player for windows with screen reader?
JAWS must support QT to some extent since I can use both TapinRadio and Kindle for PC with Accessibility Plug-In with it. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Sunshine sunsh...@abe.midco.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 9:57 PM Subject: Re: vlc media player for windows with screen reader? jaws does not support the qt frame work. - Original Message - From: Hank Smith hanksm...@hanksmith.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 9:27 PM Subject: Re: vlc media player for windows with screen reader? there is no way to make it work with jaws? Hank On 4/3/2012 7:23 PM, Sunshine wrote: use window eyes with the program - Original Message - From: Hank Smithhanksm...@hanksmith.net To: PC Audio Discussion Listpc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 8:05 PM Subject: vlc media player for windows with screen reader? hello there any way to use vlc windows version with a screen reader? anything I need to set the play to eg interfaceses, skins or anything? this thing is hard to use currently. Hank -- websites: http://www.fivedollarfreedomplan.com/hs5leap.html http://www.tmiwireless.com/?aid=54868 http://www.tmiwireless.com/affiliate/?aid=54868 personal email: hanksm...@hanksmith.net facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hanksmith5 Klango: hanksmith Skype: hank.smith966 Amateur radio call sign: ke7ief check out my Youtube video of a song I recorded in Nashville Tennessee! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqut5Bi3e7A also you can find my youtube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/hanksmith2011 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: windows media player problems
I also had a problem with Media Player 12 last Christmas when I tried to play a movie that apparently had some type of copy protection. I got a message from Media Player that said something to the effect that it could not apply the protection to the output device and suggested that I update my video driver. I switched from JFW to the NVDA screen reader, and the movie played. I think the mirror driver used by JAWS for Windows 13 was interfering with Media Player 12. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dujari, Prateek prateek.duj...@intel.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 3:25 PM Subject: RE: windows media player problems I and many many others on Win7 and stuck with wmp12 have such and other problems with wmp12. so there is nothing wrong on your end, instead its WMP12. If you go to your fave search engine and look up 'fix wmp12 error' then you will find some good resources acknowledging the inherent wmp12 problems and offer you some suggestions to fix them. However I can tell you to keep your hopes realistic as despite trying out the diff tools and utilities and such that popped up doing the search, they fixed my problem on one of my 2 win7 laptops. WMP12 on the other win7 laptop just refuses to get fixed. So you may be in or out of luck...you need to try out the fixes you find on the web yourself and see if it works for your computer. good luck! From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of André van Deventer Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 11:19 AM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: windows media player problems Hi folks Using jaws 13, windows 7 and windows media player 12. For some reason Windows Media player does not now want to play any streams from the internet. This happened after I tried to play a protected file on it. This is a ripped cd on my hard drive which was ripped in wma lossless in protected mode by mistake. I got the usual message that a license was downloaded now and I could play the file. However, when I closed media player and tried to play the file it froze. After a time a message appeared saying something like a server that could not be found. Since then for some strange reason I am also unable to play streamed content on windows media player from the internet. All unprotected content however works fine. Any advice? Andre To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: windows media player problems
I know that NVDA doesn't use a mirror driver, and that's why I decided to try it with the movie. I thought that Media Player would be happier with that configuration. I do intend to try some other DVD players with that particular movie and JAWS 13 since I want to use the OCR feature on the menu titles. Maybe other players won't complain about the copy protection. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 7:54 PM Subject: RE: windows media player problems Turn off JAWS. Since thwe mirror driver is on at that point, WMP thinks you are trying to pirate the DVD and it doesn't let it self play it. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Gary King Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:28 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: windows media player problems I also had a problem with Media Player 12 last Christmas when I tried to play a movie that apparently had some type of copy protection. I got a message from Media Player that said something to the effect that it could not apply the protection to the output device and suggested that I update my video driver. I switched from JFW to the NVDA screen reader, and the movie played. I think the mirror driver used by JAWS for Windows 13 was interfering with Media Player 12. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dujari, Prateek prateek.duj...@intel.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 3:25 PM Subject: RE: windows media player problems I and many many others on Win7 and stuck with wmp12 have such and other problems with wmp12. so there is nothing wrong on your end, instead its WMP12. If you go to your fave search engine and look up 'fix wmp12 error' then you will find some good resources acknowledging the inherent wmp12 problems and offer you some suggestions to fix them. However I can tell you to keep your hopes realistic as despite trying out the diff tools and utilities and such that popped up doing the search, they fixed my problem on one of my 2 win7 laptops. WMP12 on the other win7 laptop just refuses to get fixed. So you may be in or out of luck...you need to try out the fixes you find on the web yourself and see if it works for your computer. good luck! From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of André van Deventer Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 11:19 AM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: windows media player problems Hi folks Using jaws 13, windows 7 and windows media player 12. For some reason Windows Media player does not now want to play any streams from the internet. This happened after I tried to play a protected file on it. This is a ripped cd on my hard drive which was ripped in wma lossless in protected mode by mistake. I got the usual message that a license was downloaded now and I could play the file. However, when I closed media player and tried to play the file it froze. After a time a message appeared saying something like a server that could not be found. Since then for some strange reason I am also unable to play streamed content on windows media player from the internet. All unprotected content however works fine. Any advice? Andre To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Tagging Multiple Files with Winamp
I hope the message below wasn't one done with Siri! Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Brett Boyer bboyer...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:07 AM Subject: Re: Tagging Multiple Files with Winamp i. hre's wht ido, itshould rkfor you i am windwyyyssr mysel. mke a plylist of all te fil you want to tag. Wen youg to the laylist use otra ooct l w, you sould b aleouse ou it seut opulp contxt meu and the subn of sd tyo'l id hatttgomn. If your're n seeing thismenu oply t tr yroutngyour mouse cursor to your pc curor. TMGHT B OTHR WASTO THIS BUT HSH IGET HE JO DNIFFFER JUT S ht bb - Original Message - From: Samuel Wilkins clevercl...@gwilkins.co.uk To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 3:51 PM Subject: Tagging Multiple Files with Winamp Hello everyone, I was wondering, is there a way to tag several wripped tracks with Winamp? It says in the tagger you can select the files and choose to tag them, but I can't find how to do it. I am using Windows 7 and Window-Eyes 7.5.3. Thank you. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: is it possible to add stations yourself to tapin radio?
If the station is not in their database, and you can find its URL from another source, you can go to the File Menu and choose Open URL. Paste the URL into the edit field, press Enter, and the station will play. Then you can add it to your Favorites. You can also go to the Help Menu and submit it for inclusion in their database. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: chris ramsay cram...@cox.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 3:47 PM Subject: Re: is it possible to add stations yourself to tapin radio? search box works for me. chris ramsay however if the station isn't in the group it won't come up -Original Message- From: Scott Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 1:21 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Re: is it possible to add stations yourself to tapin radio? Hi all. I have never had any luck with that search box. I type in a call of the station but after sitting there for a while, I sill get nothing after i hit the search button. Is something wrong or does it take a long time to search? thanks scott -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Replay Capture Suite
Is anyone using the Replay Capture Suite from Applian Technologies? I have used Replay AV 8 on my old XP system, and it worked well capturing streams. I'm not familiar with current versions of their products and how accessible they are. The Replay Capture Suite does more than Replay AV, but I'm not certain I need all of its features. Comments on current versions of products from Applian Technologies are welcome. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Converting Audible to MP3 [was Re: audible]
Holger, I called Audible Customer Service this morning and posed the question about access to my books after termination of membership. The lady assured me that I would continue to have access to my books both on my computers and portable devices. I would also be able to access My Library on AUDIBLE.COM. Finally, I would be able to activate new devices, provided I did not go beyond the limits they set. If one of my devices was no longer in operation, I would be able to call them and get my device limit reset. This information should reassure you and other subscribers that access to Audible books is not lost when membership is terminated. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Holger Fiallo holgerfia...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 11:35 PM Subject: Re: Converting Audible to MP3 [was Re: audible] Agreed. I currently use audible and if in the future I want to stop using their services, I will not be able to read my books. -Original Message- From: kim Kelly Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 11:29 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Re: Converting Audible to MP3 [was Re: audible] There is always someone who has to be a stick in the mud. I figure once something is purchased, it is ours to do with as we see fit. Just my oppinion. -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Converting Audible to MP3 [was Re: audible]
As long as you have the hidden Audible activation file on your computer and portable devices, you should be able to play your books. I keep a copy of mine from the BookSense in case it gets destroyed during an update. If you really want to know about your rights to access your books after terminating your subscription, you could ask their customer service. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Holger Fiallo holgerfia...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 11:35 PM Subject: Re: Converting Audible to MP3 [was Re: audible] Agreed. I currently use audible and if in the future I want to stop using their services, I will not be able to read my books. -Original Message- From: kim Kelly Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 11:29 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Re: Converting Audible to MP3 [was Re: audible] There is always someone who has to be a stick in the mud. I figure once something is purchased, it is ours to do with as we see fit. Just my oppinion. -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: TapinRadio Help
I sent in a report when TapinRadio version 1.53 crashed while editing my Favorites, and in my subsequent correspondence with Philip Oldaker, I put in a word for better documentation. He replied that the Help file would be improved soon. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: chris hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 3:48 PM Subject: Re: TapinRadio Help Not that I can see. Glad you converted to the pro version. Christopher H On 10/02/2012 21:32, Gary King wrote: I just purchased the key for TapinRadio Pro and converted over to Pro version 1.53. The Online Help seems to be somewhat incomplete, and the English translation of the Help could be better. Is there any other documentation for TapinRadio besides the list of shortcut keys and the Online Help? I might be able to figure out the various recording and scheduling options through trial and error, but additional documentation would be helpful. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
TapinRadio Help
I just purchased the key for TapinRadio Pro and converted over to Pro version 1.53. The Online Help seems to be somewhat incomplete, and the English translation of the Help could be better. Is there any other documentation for TapinRadio besides the list of shortcut keys and the Online Help? I might be able to figure out the various recording and scheduling options through trial and error, but additional documentation would be helpful. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: All, Tapin Radio Pro
I'm not sure when the upgrade to Pro choice was added to TapinRadio, but I first needed to upgrade to free version 1.53to find it. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: chris hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 9:59 AM Subject: Re: All, Tapin Radio Pro Help, Pro version, upgrade. I paid by Paypal and was dead easy at my end. Christopher H On 09/02/2012 02:24, kim kelly wrote: Yes, How in the world does one purchase it? I sent an email to the support team because I didn't find a place to purchase. Kim McNatt-Kelly You can also send emails to: kim...@samobile.net Skype: richies12 Follow Me on Twitter: kimk59 Keep on Smiling and everyone will wonder what you've been up to. Author unknown. Have a great day. - Original Message - From: Steve Pattison s...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 5:41 PM Subject: Re: All, Tapin Radio Pro Hi Kim, TapinRadio Pro costs 15 US dollars. I hope this helps. Regards Steve. On 9/02/2012 12:32 PM, kim kelly wrote: How much is it? Those of us in the US? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: All, Tapin Radio Pro
How many stations does it monitor to record your favorite artist or track? Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: chris hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 4:14 PM Subject: Re: All, Tapin Radio Pro I also like a pretty unique feature, recording wishlist. Use this to record stations playing any tracks by a certain artist, or vice versa. It's in the recording menu. You add the artist(s) or track(s) you want. Any station playing what you have added will be recorded. Good or what! Christopher H On 08/02/2012 19:06, Steve Pattison wrote: Hi all, I also own Tapinradio Pro. One of the features I really like in the pro edition is the ability to get a list of new stations that have recently been added to the database. The hotkey for this option is Control N. It is also available from the Stations Menu. Regards Steve. On 9/02/2012 3:00 AM, chris hallsworth wrote: I just bought the pro version of Tapin Radio. It was only £10 and that's for a lifetime license. See an earlier post of mine for the comparison between pro and free versions. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful
In Windows Media Center, you can use the Applications Key on your computer to go into Settings and change TV audio to SAP. Of course, you may get a second language instead of audio description. In WMC, Control+Shift+a is supposed to change audio tracks in the DVD section of the program. I'm not sure if it also works in the TV section. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 10:21 PM Subject: RE: TV on computer list, unsuccessful See, this right here is yet another example of what I meant, what if you want to access it with WMC, how would you do it? They have a button on their remote, and that's the key, their remote. What if you don't want to use a regular TV? That's where I guess I was the first to go in too deep, and I guess I caused people to leave. I'm just saying, for those that still wander, this is the kind of thing that I kind of got a funny feeling might be too much, but I wasn't sure how far is too far. The guid lines didn't really talk about that kind of thing. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Hank Smith Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 7:38 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful direct tv has a button on the remote to turn on audio description but am unsure where it is at on remote. On 1/8/2012 5:29 PM, Brent Harding wrote: I know that CSI and NCIS are described. Maybe Criminal Minds is too, but I'm not sure if one can turn the description thing on. I know my mom still has an OTA TV hooked up in the kitchen, but I don't know if it has the right capability. - Original Message - From: Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 7:48 PM Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful Windows Media Center records in .wtv format, which is described as Windows Recorded TV. If all you want to do with the files is to watch them in Media Center, there shouldn't be any problem. I don't know if other players support this format. As soon as I find some TV with audio description, I'll try to record it. At the moment, I can only get ABC and CBS networks on my tuner, along with some independent channels. If anyone knows of programs on ABC or CBS that are described, let me know. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Gianluca Apollaro gianluca.apollar...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 1:05 PM Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful Hi, If I remember correctly mediacenter records in a format complicated to be converted into somethink more usefull like mpg or ts, and I don't know if with mediacenter you can record all the streams included in the channel like a secondary audio stream. Best regard, Gianluca SkypeID: gianluca8815 Il 06/01/2012 18:56, Gary King ha scritto: It's true that there is other software that can operate a tuner card and schedule recordings, but accessibility is not guaranteed. The advantages of Media Center are that in the program itself, the controls are standard, eliminating the need for any scripts, and you can read the descriptions of each program in the Program Guide. Also, Media Center comes with Windows, giving us a standard user interface to work with. Media Center in Vista and Windows 7 must be fairly similar since my remote control that was designed for Vista also works well with Media Center in Windows 7. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 10:05 PM Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful I'll let Jianluca answer for himself, but as he says in his email he uses the software that comes with his USB TV tuner card from Hauppauge. He says this software is accessible. I did something a few years ago, using the software that came with a TV tuner card I got cheap. I think the software was PVR by KWorld. I don't recall the manufacturer of the TV tuner card, but like I said, this was a few years ago, so I'm sure neither the TV tuner card or the software is still around. I just use this as an example that there may be other software out there besides Windows Media Center that let's you control and record from your TV tuner card. On 05/01/12 21:32, Hank Smith wrote: Hello what do you use to control software if you don't use windows media center? Hank On 1/5/2012 10:54 AM, Gianluca Apollaro wrote: Hi everyone. Here in Italy for whatching the tv on my pc I use a usb tv card from Hauppauge, and I can even record in .ts format. The software that comes with it is accessible, in fact, I don't use mediacenter, I don't like it at all. I run Windows 7 64 bit version as OS Best
Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful
Yes, DirecTV does carry the audio description. I watched a described version of the Wizard of Oz during the holidays. The Turner channels seem to have the most audio described programs. TNT and the Turner Classic Movies are your best bets. You would probably need to check the manual for the specific receiver you have to see how to access Secondary audio. Hopefully, we will have more audio description later this year when the FCC mandate goes into effect in July. Unfortunately, it only calls for 50 hours of audio described programming from each network per quarter. We shall see how much difference that makes! Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Brent Harding br...@hostany.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 6:47 PM Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful So, does DirecTV definitely carry it if the locals over the air do? My parents have that in the livingroom and bedroom, and finding out this way would be the easiest way to know if the locals here have it since they probably don't know themself that CBS even does it. - Original Message - From: Hank Smith hanksm...@hanksmith.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 6:38 PM Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful direct tv has a button on the remote to turn on audio description but am unsure where it is at on remote. On 1/8/2012 5:29 PM, Brent Harding wrote: I know that CSI and NCIS are described. Maybe Criminal Minds is too, but I'm not sure if one can turn the description thing on. I know my mom still has an OTA TV hooked up in the kitchen, but I don't know if it has the right capability. - Original Message - From: Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 7:48 PM Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful Windows Media Center records in .wtv format, which is described as Windows Recorded TV. If all you want to do with the files is to watch them in Media Center, there shouldn't be any problem. I don't know if other players support this format. As soon as I find some TV with audio description, I'll try to record it. At the moment, I can only get ABC and CBS networks on my tuner, along with some independent channels. If anyone knows of programs on ABC or CBS that are described, let me know. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Gianluca Apollaro gianluca.apollar...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 1:05 PM Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful Hi, If I remember correctly mediacenter records in a format complicated to be converted into somethink more usefull like mpg or ts, and I don't know if with mediacenter you can record all the streams included in the channel like a secondary audio stream. Best regard, Gianluca SkypeID: gianluca8815 Il 06/01/2012 18:56, Gary King ha scritto: It's true that there is other software that can operate a tuner card and schedule recordings, but accessibility is not guaranteed. The advantages of Media Center are that in the program itself, the controls are standard, eliminating the need for any scripts, and you can read the descriptions of each program in the Program Guide. Also, Media Center comes with Windows, giving us a standard user interface to work with. Media Center in Vista and Windows 7 must be fairly similar since my remote control that was designed for Vista also works well with Media Center in Windows 7. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 10:05 PM Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful I'll let Jianluca answer for himself, but as he says in his email he uses the software that comes with his USB TV tuner card from Hauppauge. He says this software is accessible. I did something a few years ago, using the software that came with a TV tuner card I got cheap. I think the software was PVR by KWorld. I don't recall the manufacturer of the TV tuner card, but like I said, this was a few years ago, so I'm sure neither the TV tuner card or the software is still around. I just use this as an example that there may be other software out there besides Windows Media Center that let's you control and record from your TV tuner card. On 05/01/12 21:32, Hank Smith wrote: Hello what do you use to control software if you don't use windows media center? Hank On 1/5/2012 10:54 AM, Gianluca Apollaro wrote: Hi everyone. Here in Italy for whatching the tv on my pc I use a usb tv card from Hauppauge, and I can even record in .ts format. The software that comes with it is accessible, in fact, I don't use mediacenter, I don't like it at all. I run Windows 7 64 bit version as OS
Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful
It's true that there is other software that can operate a tuner card and schedule recordings, but accessibility is not guaranteed. The advantages of Media Center are that in the program itself, the controls are standard, eliminating the need for any scripts, and you can read the descriptions of each program in the Program Guide. Also, Media Center comes with Windows, giving us a standard user interface to work with. Media Center in Vista and Windows 7 must be fairly similar since my remote control that was designed for Vista also works well with Media Center in Windows 7. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 10:05 PM Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful I'll let Jianluca answer for himself, but as he says in his email he uses the software that comes with his USB TV tuner card from Hauppauge. He says this software is accessible. I did something a few years ago, using the software that came with a TV tuner card I got cheap. I think the software was PVR by KWorld. I don't recall the manufacturer of the TV tuner card, but like I said, this was a few years ago, so I'm sure neither the TV tuner card or the software is still around. I just use this as an example that there may be other software out there besides Windows Media Center that let's you control and record from your TV tuner card. On 05/01/12 21:32, Hank Smith wrote: Hello what do you use to control software if you don't use windows media center? Hank On 1/5/2012 10:54 AM, Gianluca Apollaro wrote: Hi everyone. Here in Italy for whatching the tv on my pc I use a usb tv card from Hauppauge, and I can even record in .ts format. The software that comes with it is accessible, in fact, I don't use mediacenter, I don't like it at all. I run Windows 7 64 bit version as OS Best regards, Gianluca from italy. SkypeID: gianluca8815 Il 05/01/2012 18:22, vrvaug...@mailzone.com ha scritto: Hi Folks, I'm sorry, but I haven't been able to get more than 2 out of 7, email addresses of the people who said they wanted to be in on a conversation regarding television on their computer. Brett Boyer's and Gary Kings email addresses worked, but the following did not: Steven Hics, David Tanner, Brent Harding, Hamit Campos and Gary Wood. I'd be glad to pass on the information I have to who ever would be willing to take this conversation project on. I think we could all bennefit from each others knowledge and experiences. Sincerely, Vicky Vaughan vrvaug...@mailzone.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Christopher (CJ) chalt...@gmail.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful
Here is the URL to a page on the Microsoft web site with shortcuts for Windows Media Center: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Windows-Media-Center-keyboard-shortcuts Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Hank Smith hanksm...@hanksmith.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 6:40 PM Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful can some one do a tutorial on wmc then? this is another one I have tried in the past and gave up on it. Hank On 1/6/2012 5:00 PM, Hamit Campos wrote: I would say I agree with that. What's more, you can get pluggins for it anyway to do stuff. Not to bash the stuff that comes with the cards, but WMC is a good well rounded starting point. It's all Jonathan Mozen uses, he has no TV in his living room. That's what I want to do. Just have the ultimate home theater PC, and use it for every thing and I would basicly just use a TV as the screen to get the big screen experience. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Gary King Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 12:57 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful It's true that there is other software that can operate a tuner card and schedule recordings, but accessibility is not guaranteed. The advantages of Media Center are that in the program itself, the controls are standard, eliminating the need for any scripts, and you can read the descriptions of each program in the Program Guide. Also, Media Center comes with Windows, giving us a standard user interface to work with. Media Center in Vista and Windows 7 must be fairly similar since my remote control that was designed for Vista also works well with Media Center in Windows 7. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltainchalt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion Listpc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 10:05 PM Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful I'll let Jianluca answer for himself, but as he says in his email he uses the software that comes with his USB TV tuner card from Hauppauge. He says this software is accessible. I did something a few years ago, using the software that came with a TV tuner card I got cheap. I think the software was PVR by KWorld. I don't recall the manufacturer of the TV tuner card, but like I said, this was a few years ago, so I'm sure neither the TV tuner card or the software is still around. I just use this as an example that there may be other software out there besides Windows Media Center that let's you control and record from your TV tuner card. On 05/01/12 21:32, Hank Smith wrote: Hello what do you use to control software if you don't use windows media center? Hank On 1/5/2012 10:54 AM, Gianluca Apollaro wrote: Hi everyone. Here in Italy for whatching the tv on my pc I use a usb tv card from Hauppauge, and I can even record in .ts format. The software that comes with it is accessible, in fact, I don't use mediacenter, I don't like it at all. I run Windows 7 64 bit version as OS Best regards, Gianluca from italy. SkypeID: gianluca8815 Il 05/01/2012 18:22, vrvaug...@mailzone.com ha scritto: Hi Folks, I'm sorry, but I haven't been able to get more than 2 out of 7, email addresses of the people who said they wanted to be in on a conversation regarding television on their computer. Brett Boyer's and Gary Kings email addresses worked, but the following did not: Steven Hics, David Tanner, Brent Harding, Hamit Campos and Gary Wood. I'd be glad to pass on the information I have to who ever would be willing to take this conversation project on. I think we could all bennefit from each others knowledge and experiences. Sincerely, Vicky Vaughan vrvaug...@mailzone.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Christopher (CJ) chalt...@gmail.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- website: http://fivedollarfreedomplan.com/throwawaymoneylcphs5.html personal email: hanksm...@hanksmith.net facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hanksmith5 Klango: hanksmith Skype: hank.smith966 Amateur radio call sign: ke7ief check out my Youtube video of a song I recorded in Nashville Tennessee! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqut5Bi3e7A also you can find my youtube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/hanksmith2011 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful
Windows Media Center records in .wtv format, which is described as Windows Recorded TV. If all you want to do with the files is to watch them in Media Center, there shouldn't be any problem. I don't know if other players support this format. As soon as I find some TV with audio description, I'll try to record it. At the moment, I can only get ABC and CBS networks on my tuner, along with some independent channels. If anyone knows of programs on ABC or CBS that are described, let me know. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Gianluca Apollaro gianluca.apollar...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 1:05 PM Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful Hi, If I remember correctly mediacenter records in a format complicated to be converted into somethink more usefull like mpg or ts, and I don't know if with mediacenter you can record all the streams included in the channel like a secondary audio stream. Best regard, Gianluca SkypeID: gianluca8815 Il 06/01/2012 18:56, Gary King ha scritto: It's true that there is other software that can operate a tuner card and schedule recordings, but accessibility is not guaranteed. The advantages of Media Center are that in the program itself, the controls are standard, eliminating the need for any scripts, and you can read the descriptions of each program in the Program Guide. Also, Media Center comes with Windows, giving us a standard user interface to work with. Media Center in Vista and Windows 7 must be fairly similar since my remote control that was designed for Vista also works well with Media Center in Windows 7. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 10:05 PM Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful I'll let Jianluca answer for himself, but as he says in his email he uses the software that comes with his USB TV tuner card from Hauppauge. He says this software is accessible. I did something a few years ago, using the software that came with a TV tuner card I got cheap. I think the software was PVR by KWorld. I don't recall the manufacturer of the TV tuner card, but like I said, this was a few years ago, so I'm sure neither the TV tuner card or the software is still around. I just use this as an example that there may be other software out there besides Windows Media Center that let's you control and record from your TV tuner card. On 05/01/12 21:32, Hank Smith wrote: Hello what do you use to control software if you don't use windows media center? Hank On 1/5/2012 10:54 AM, Gianluca Apollaro wrote: Hi everyone. Here in Italy for whatching the tv on my pc I use a usb tv card from Hauppauge, and I can even record in .ts format. The software that comes with it is accessible, in fact, I don't use mediacenter, I don't like it at all. I run Windows 7 64 bit version as OS Best regards, Gianluca from italy. SkypeID: gianluca8815 Il 05/01/2012 18:22, vrvaug...@mailzone.com ha scritto: Hi Folks, I'm sorry, but I haven't been able to get more than 2 out of 7, email addresses of the people who said they wanted to be in on a conversation regarding television on their computer. Brett Boyer's and Gary Kings email addresses worked, but the following did not: Steven Hics, David Tanner, Brent Harding, Hamit Campos and Gary Wood. I'd be glad to pass on the information I have to who ever would be willing to take this conversation project on. I think we could all bennefit from each others knowledge and experiences. Sincerely, Vicky Vaughan vrvaug...@mailzone.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Christopher (CJ) chalt...@gmail.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful
I would say that TV on the computer is a closely related subject. It can be either fairly simple or complex. Once set up, Media Center on a Windows 7 system and a TV tuner connected to an antenna works well to record over-the-air TV, and is simple to use. If you try to do the same task with a cable or satellite provider with Media Center on a computer, it can get quite complex. I Googled DirecTV and Media Center this morning, and a lot of sighted folks were having trouble getting that combination to work together. It's probably the same for cable connections. A separate list may be better for discussions of TV on the computer, but there needs to be enough interest to get a list going and folks with some level of expertise about the subject. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 5:21 PM Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful I would think graphics cards are pretty clearly on topic, although I can see where you might get so specific and so deep that the discussion would only be of interest to a few people. I would also think that accessing your cable companies DVR or streams from your PC would also be on topic, but I could see where you could easily get into the merits of one cable company over the other, which would clearly be off topic. BTW, I applaud your sensitivity to keeping discussions on topic! Are you saying Tom, that 5 people left the list specifically because of the cable TV thread? I'm kind of surprised someone would leave the list for a thread I didn't even realize was going on. I guess people have different levels of sensitivity. I also wonder how interested those people were in the list to begin with if they left because of one thread which may have strayed off topic. BTW, here's the information I got when I subscribed to the list as far as what the list is for. I just offer this for informational purposes. I don't have any comments on it, other than I think it looks good, and I like the ban on test messages! Welcome to the Pc-audio@pc-audio.org mailing list! Welcome to the pc-audio group. Please take a moment to review this message. You should save it for later reference, as it contains important information about this group, such as your password, how to change your preferences, and a few basic rules of conduct we expect all members to observe. Attention! Do NOT send a test message to the list or you will not be subscribed very long! Guidelines. PC-audio is a list for the discussion of any PC audio related topic such as PC audio software like sound editors, audio players and audio formats; and hardware like sound cards, CD and DVD devices and so on. While the subject matter is wide ranging, this is not a forum for the discussion of non-pc-audio matters. There are many other lists for political or other discussions. There are also some PC audio related topics which are specifically excluded from the allowable topics. The explicitly prohibited topics include: * requests for songs or other audio files * promotion of audio streams except for occasional announcements of special events * advertising audio products and service Willfully posting an off-topic message is strictly prohibited. While it may be considered that one or two messages that are off topic can't hurt, if everyone on a large list like this took that approach, we would quickly descend into chaos. Asking for replies to be sent privately makes no difference. Some examples of off-topic messages include: * Virus alerts * Jokes and humor * Advertising items for sale * Test messages * Non-audio software and hardware On 05/01/12 16:48, Hamit Campos wrote: Oh no! Sorry, my bad. I didn't mean for people to go off list because of me. That's why when who ever brought it back up again, I invited them to continue with me off list. See, because I kind of had a funny feeling that once you got into cable companies, you might be going too deep. Like I said before, that's why I took my discussion about audio threw HDMI ports off list with Dain too, because I figured we might go too deep talking about graffics cards. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 4:40 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Re: TV on computer list, unsuccessful Christopher, You're not missing much. A couple weeks ago there were a few posts to the list about cable companies and cable programming and I mentioned that those messages were not appropriate for the PC Audio list. Now, within the past week or so there's been several messages about home theater and watching television on a computer and I've just been letting the thread play out to see where it goes. I'm not sure where exactly to draw the line. A list member ask for the e-mail addresses
Re: over the air tv on a win 7 machine?
Vicky, I am using an AVerTV Hybrid Volar MAX TV Tuner Kit that I ordered from amazon.com. It is a USB tuner that I use on my Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit computer to receive free over-the-air signals with an antenna. I don't have access to cable TV here. I can get all of my local channels and one channel from about 70 miles away. If I can get a little better antenna, I should be able to get the other channels that are available at the same distance. Once I got Media Center set up using the NVDA screen reader, which worked the best but not perfectly with the setup, both JAWS and Window-Eyes work well with it. I can schedule recordings of single programs or of series. I can also rewind live TV just like I would with a DVR. It's also nice to be able to read the Program Guide in Media Center rather than having to look up TV listings on the Internet. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: vrvaug...@mailzone.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:20 PM Subject: Re: over the air tv on a win 7 machine? Gary, This is Vicky. I had thought to work with a TV tuner in my new Windows 7 computer with Jaws 13, but no go. My ISP, Comcast, says now I will only be able to work this with one of their cards, which I will be having installed on Wednesday January 4. This will be replacing my Set Top Box, so I'll be paying rent on it each month, just like I have done on the Set Top Box. What ISP provider do you have? What card are you successfully using on what computer? Many thanks for any help! Vicky - Original Message - From: Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 8:52 PM Subject: Re: over the air tv on a win 7 machine? Mary, In my previous post, I said that I didn't have any experience setting up Media Center in Windows 7; now I do. Sighted assistance would definitely be preferred, but if none is available, I would suggest that the NVDA screen reader would be the best choice for tackling the setup screens. I didn't get anything with Window-Eyes. the OCR in JAWS for Windows 13 did give me some usable text, but having to Use OCR on every screen gets rather tedious. NVDA seems to read the setup screens pretty well, but you do need to know how to get it to speak the necessary information. Once set up, you can use your screen reader of choice to access the Program Guide. I just press Spacebar to get a particular channel in the Guide to play or pause. Page Up and Page Down can be used to change channels. I'm enjoying having TV on my computer. I'll have to check out the recording features next. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Mary Otten maryot...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 9:29 PM Subject: Re: over the air tv on a win 7 machine? Oh, there is no way I'm paying that much for a tv app. Forget it. Do you have experience with the Win media set up under win 7, Gary? Mary To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Bose Wave 2 Radio
I was on the Bose web site a couple of years ago searching for a cord for my older model headphones, and I ran across a Braille remote for one of their Wave systems. I don't recall which model it was for. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2011 2:19 PM Subject: Re: Bose Wave 2 Radio I'll apply a Google search in a few minutes and see what comes up, thanks for the tip. On 26/12/2011, at 7:00 AM, Hamit Campos wrote: I don't know, I mean, Bose said they use to have it, I don't know if they still do. I think not. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2011 1:56 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Bose Wave 2 Radio Ah! now that would be handy if I can get hold of it, wonder who I should contact. On 26/12/2011, at 5:34 AM, Hamit Campos wrote: Lucky you. I'ed love to have one. I've heard of them, touched them, but don't own one. They are pretty simple to use though. They use to have the manual in Braille and everything. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2011 1:14 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Bose Wave 2 Radio Hi! I was extremely fortunate to have one of these in my Christmas stocking, does anyone on list own one as I have a couple of questions about the set. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: over the air tv on a win 7 machine?
Mary, I got the AVerTV Hybrid Volar MAX TV Tuner Kit from AMAZON.COM. It's a USB tuner, and it includes a short extension cable. I also bought the remote for use with Media Center that was mentioned on the same page. It turned out to have a lot more buttons than I need or want. I may not use it. Windows 7 installed the drivers for the tuner, and then it was just a matter of setting up Media Center. No software came with the tuner, and none is needed if you use Media Center. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Mary Otten maryot...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 9:32 PM Subject: Re: over the air tv on a win 7 machine? Hi Gary, Thanks for the report on your Win7 experience. I'm going to install the NVDA screen reader, as I have heard good things about it, and it does seem to offer some things that the other guys don't, and the price is right. What kind of tv tuner did you get? I'm debating whether to get the upgrade to the Dell, if that's what I end up buying, or to get a usb stick add on. Mary To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: over the air tv on a win 7 machine?
Mary, In my previous post, I said that I didn't have any experience setting up Media Center in Windows 7; now I do. Sighted assistance would definitely be preferred, but if none is available, I would suggest that the NVDA screen reader would be the best choice for tackling the setup screens. I didn't get anything with Window-Eyes. the OCR in JAWS for Windows 13 did give me some usable text, but having to Use OCR on every screen gets rather tedious. NVDA seems to read the setup screens pretty well, but you do need to know how to get it to speak the necessary information. Once set up, you can use your screen reader of choice to access the Program Guide. I just press Spacebar to get a particular channel in the Guide to play or pause. Page Up and Page Down can be used to change channels. I'm enjoying having TV on my computer. I'll have to check out the recording features next. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Mary Otten maryot...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 9:29 PM Subject: Re: over the air tv on a win 7 machine? Oh, there is no way I'm paying that much for a tv app. Forget it. Do you have experience with the Win media set up under win 7, Gary? Mary To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: over the air tv on a win 7 machine?
Mary, No, I haven't tried to set up Media Center, since I don't yet have a TV tuner. It's pretty much a one-time thing though, so I'm sure I could get some help with it if I need it. I've heard it's accessible after it's set up, and it's free! Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Mary Otten maryot...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 9:29 PM Subject: Re: over the air tv on a win 7 machine? Oh, there is no way I'm paying that much for a tv app. Forget it. Do you have experience with the Win media set up under win 7, Gary? Mary To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: over the air tv on a win 7 machine?
Mary, You can enjoy TV Speak for the low, low price of $245. It is sold in the United States by Handy Tech North America. Makes Media Center in Windows 7 look pretty good, even if setup is difficult. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Mary Otten maryot...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 8:15 PM Subject: Re: over the air tv on a win 7 machine? Interesting, David, and thanks for the info on the Code Factory product. I'd like to find something that works with a screen reader rather than having to buy a separate application just to get tv access, but it is worth looking into, I suppose. mary To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Is there a location to listen to archived NCAA Men's Basketball games?
I suggest you Google for the web sites of the 2 universities and see if they archive the games on the sports section of their sites. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Kevin Minor kmi...@windstream.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 11:47 PM Subject: Is there a location to listen to archived NCAA Men's Basketball games? Hi. I slept through the Kentucky North Carolina basketball game, and I'd like to hear it. Is there a site that has these games archived? Thanks a lot. GO CATS! Kevin Minor, Lexington, KY kmi...@windstream.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker
Dain, Did your JamBox come with the Live Audio update installed? The one I ordered from AMAZON.COM didn't. The first thing I tried after starting music on my iPod Touch was to hold both volume buttons down to start Live Audio Mode, but nothing happened. I then went to the web site and installed the JawBone Updater. This program opens the update page, and I found that the free NVDA screen reader seemed to work a little better than either JFW or Window-Eyes on this page. After updating, Live Audio was impressive for its ability to spread the stereo effect from such a small speaker. Of course, for Live Audio to work properly, you must sit directly in front of the speaker at the optimum distance. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 4:32 AM Subject: Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker Okay well a couple of points I'd like to comment on. I know various people around the world who have them and who have tested the update software. Yep, it would appear to be a challenge for a blind person to use it would seem, the people I know have sight so they've used it and all report that no updates are available at this time. I take your point about bluetooth devices but you certainly do not need a bluetooth device on hand to use one of these things, as I said they have a line-in socket thus make a truly marvelous portable speaker system, I plug a very nice Denon tuner into mine for example. On 13/11/2011, at 8:53 PM, Matthew Bullis wrote: OK, well if you could let us know when you do get to that, if you do, as maybe some units, purchased from various sellers around the world, might not be selling the unit with the latest upgrades in. If I had the unit, I would go test this myself, but I need to wait until I get a bluetooth device yet, which is a bit down the road for me. Thanks a lot. Matthew To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker
Dain, I'm sure there's information on the JamBox update page that tells how to invoke Live Audio Mode, but I first heard about it by listening to Robert Carter's review at http://robertcarter.posterous.com/ Live Audio Mode only works when connected via Bluetooth. If the update is installed, the speech in the JamBox announces Live Audio when you hold both volume controls down for a couple of seconds,, and you will hear the stereo effect expand. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 3:36 PM Subject: Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker Who told you to hold both volume controls down? I've never heard of this before. I'm not saying your wrong. Up till now I've controlled my iPod from the unit itself. On 14/11/2011, at 5:43 AM, Gary King wrote: Dain, Did your JamBox come with the Live Audio update installed? The one I ordered from AMAZON.COM didn't. The first thing I tried after starting music on my iPod Touch was to hold both volume buttons down to start Live Audio Mode, but nothing happened. I then went to the web site and installed the JawBone Updater. This program opens the update page, and I found that the free NVDA screen reader seemed to work a little better than either JFW or Window-Eyes on this page. After updating, Live Audio was impressive for its ability to spread the stereo effect from such a small speaker. Of course, for Live Audio to work properly, you must sit directly in front of the speaker at the optimum distance. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 4:32 AM Subject: Re: Jawbone Jambox portable bluetooth speaker Okay well a couple of points I'd like to comment on. I know various people around the world who have them and who have tested the update software. Yep, it would appear to be a challenge for a blind person to use it would seem, the people I know have sight so they've used it and all report that no updates are available at this time. I take your point about bluetooth devices but you certainly do not need a bluetooth device on hand to use one of these things, as I said they have a line-in socket thus make a truly marvelous portable speaker system, I plug a very nice Denon tuner into mine for example. On 13/11/2011, at 8:53 PM, Matthew Bullis wrote: OK, well if you could let us know when you do get to that, if you do, as maybe some units, purchased from various sellers around the world, might not be selling the unit with the latest upgrades in. If I had the unit, I would go test this myself, but I need to wait until I get a bluetooth device yet, which is a bit down the road for me. Thanks a lot. Matthew To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Re tune in radio for,the P C.
Tom, The QT Support App must be installed to make Tapin Radio work with Window-Eyes. Tapin Radio works well with both versions 12 and 13 of JAWS for Windows since it has built-in QT support. I'm not sure about earlier versions of JFW and Tapin Radio. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Tom Kaufman tomca...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 11:13 AM Subject: Re: Re tune in radio for,the P C. Since Tapin Radio was mentioned in Chris's post, I have a question (actually it's for a friend of mine who isn't on this list) but I ask because, it seems like sometime back, this came up: my friend has Window-eyes and installed Tapin Radio. However, he can't get hardly anything to read! I seem to recall that there was a problem with Tapin Radio and Window--eyes..but that there was a work-around; is this correct? And if so, what is it? Thanks! Tom Kaufman - Original Message - From: chris hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 11:56 AM Subject: Re: Re tune in radio for,the P C. I would say Tapin Radio is the Tune In Radio for the PC. Please google for it. Thanks! Chris Hallsworth Sent from Thunderbird On 12/11/2011 11:17, Alan Pollard wrote: Hi List,the imfo on google re ,Tune in radio seems to be mostly concerning there App for mobile platforms and is it also available for a,XP pc? if so please what is the best site to download it from.Thanks for any imfo ?.Alan To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Re tune in radio for,the P C.
Tom, I don't know what version of Window-Eyes your friend is using, or how familiar your friend is with how the screen reader works, but apps, or scripts as they used to be called before the marketing department renamed them, are downloaded from App Central on www.gwmicro.com Hopefully, your friend will know how to install the app if you just pass along the information that the QT Support App is required for Tapin Radio. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Tom Kaufman tomca...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 2:00 PM Subject: Re: Re tune in radio for,the P C. So where would (and how would) my friend go about getting this QT Support? Tom Kaufman - Original Message - From: Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 1:53 PM Subject: Re: Re tune in radio for,the P C. Tom, The QT Support App must be installed to make Tapin Radio work with Window-Eyes. Tapin Radio works well with both versions 12 and 13 of JAWS for Windows since it has built-in QT support. I'm not sure about earlier versions of JFW and Tapin Radio. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Tom Kaufman tomca...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 11:13 AM Subject: Re: Re tune in radio for,the P C. Since Tapin Radio was mentioned in Chris's post, I have a question (actually it's for a friend of mine who isn't on this list) but I ask because, it seems like sometime back, this came up: my friend has Window-eyes and installed Tapin Radio. However, he can't get hardly anything to read! I seem to recall that there was a problem with Tapin Radio and Window--eyes..but that there was a work-around; is this correct? And if so, what is it? Thanks! Tom Kaufman - Original Message - From: chris hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 11:56 AM Subject: Re: Re tune in radio for,the P C. I would say Tapin Radio is the Tune In Radio for the PC. Please google for it. Thanks! Chris Hallsworth Sent from Thunderbird On 12/11/2011 11:17, Alan Pollard wrote: Hi List,the imfo on google re ,Tune in radio seems to be mostly concerning there App for mobile platforms and is it also available for a,XP pc? if so please what is the best site to download it from.Thanks for any imfo ?.Alan To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Watching Streaming Video from Amazon
As a Prime member at AMAZON.COM, I am eligible to watch Instant streaming video. My 1.5 MB DSL connection is slow, but it is above their minimum specs. I've tried with both Internet Explorer and Firefox, but the video never starts playing, even after more than the specified waiting time. I have the latest Flash Player installed in both browsers. After writing to their Tech Support about the problem, I was invited to call to get real-time support. Having done that with sighted tech reps before, I doubt it would help. Do you see the graphic of the jet airplane near the top of the screen? Just click that, and the movie will start playing. I am wondering if anyone on the list has tried watching streaming videos from AMAZON.COM. I would definitely like to watch some of these TV shows and movies, as it would add to the value of Amazon Prime. Amazon Prime is now also giving their members the opportunity to borrow books to read on their Kindles. Unfortunately, the books can't be read with Kindle for PC with Accessibility Plug-in. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Replay Capture Suite
I have used Replay AV Version 8 on my XP system and found it to be very screen reader friendly. I am now considering the Replay Capture Suite from Applian Technologies for my Windows 7 Home Premium system. Has anyone used the entire suite of programs and found any accessibility problems? Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
PlexTalk Pocket The Only One -Really?
Freedom Scientific sent out a news release today stating that they will be distributing the PlexTalk Pocket. Unfortunately, in this news release, they claim the PlexTalk Pocket is the only one that has Wi-Fi, the only one that is a portable DAISY recorder and the only one that has an accessible level meter. They seem to have conveniently forgotten about the Book Port Plus from the American Printing House, which also has these features. While the Book Port Plus is built on the same hardware as the PlexTalk Pocket, it is using firmware written by APH and is sold under a different brand name. FS should be able to recognize another company's brand name; they have defended theirs often enough. I don't know if APH will challenge these claims by FS, but hopefully, potential customers will learn all of the facts before they make a purchase. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Accessible Internet Radio devices
Dane, On the Serotalk web site, in the Final Interviews from CSUN, there is an interview about the Solutions Radio, a stand-alone Internet radio that they say will be coming in July. I haven't gotten around to listening to the interview yet, but it might be something to check out. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Jim Noseworthy jim.nosewor...@compuconference.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 11:10 AM Subject: Re: Accessible Internet Radio devices Hello: If you have a SqueezeBox Boom internet radio, and an iPhone or iTouch, you can have complete control of your radio. The radio can also be controlled via the PC. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Bud Schwab budsch...@verizon.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 12:25 PM Subject: Re: Accessible Internet Radio devices Hi Dane, I have the jjSanyo r227 internet radio which I really like and think it's great. As you say though, it does take a pair of eyes to do any scanning or searching unfortunately. It has only eight presets, but I have eight of my favorite station set in them. It's somewhat limited, but if you pick eight of your favorite ones then it's not so bad. If you get tired of any of the stations you can have a sighted person help you to scan to find some others. I've had it for about a year now and have never regretted buying it. there are a lot of interesting stations out there just for the looking. If you have any questions please email me. Bud s At 06:06 AM 3/28/2011, you wrote: Hi! Does anyone manage to use a standard Internet type radio device? by that I mean a device which you just purchase from your local Walmart or local electronics Retailer? Obviously the user would have trouble setting the thing up due to the lack of speech or other accessibility but just supposing you had someone set the radio up to match your wi-fi network and they programmed some presets for you, I can't see any reason why you couldn't scroll through those presets up and down as you would with some digitally controlled FM radios which have been readily available for the last quarter of a century, anyone got any views or had any experience with this. I'm looking at buying a stand-alone Internet radio for the kitchen though if I can't get one that won't work at all for a person with no vision then I won't be too worried, Ootunes on the Iphone and Ipad does a damn good job but I don't want to be carrying them around with me everywhere if I can avoid it. I did think about the new Plextalk Pocket which is supposed to have Internet Radio accessible on it however I think it will be quite some time before we see anything out of that company, unfortunately the whole company's location was destroyed in the recent Japan earthquake. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Accessible Internet Radio devices
No, they didn't say which July. I was actually having similar thoughts, recalling that there was supposed to be a Solutions Radio quite a while ago. When advertised software never quite makes it to the market, they call it vaporware. Is it the same for hardware? Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: David McLean david.mcl...@cox.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:15 PM Subject: Re: Accessible Internet Radio devices Did they say which July by any chance?! That company has been around for years and I've heard nothing good about their customer service. On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Gary King wrote: Dane, On the Serotalk web site, in the Final Interviews from CSUN, there is an interview about the Solutions Radio, a stand-alone Internet radio that they say will be coming in July. I haven't gotten around to listening to the interview yet, but it might be something to check out. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Jim Noseworthy jim.nosewor...@compuconference.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 11:10 AM Subject: Re: Accessible Internet Radio devices Hello: If you have a SqueezeBox Boom internet radio, and an iPhone or iTouch, you can have complete control of your radio. The radio can also be controlled via the PC. Hope this helps. - Original Message - From: Bud Schwab budsch...@verizon.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 12:25 PM Subject: Re: Accessible Internet Radio devices Hi Dane, I have the jjSanyo r227 internet radio which I really like and think it's great. As you say though, it does take a pair of eyes to do any scanning or searching unfortunately. It has only eight presets, but I have eight of my favorite station set in them. It's somewhat limited, but if you pick eight of your favorite ones then it's not so bad. If you get tired of any of the stations you can have a sighted person help you to scan to find some others. I've had it for about a year now and have never regretted buying it. there are a lot of interesting stations out there just for the looking. If you have any questions please email me. Bud s At 06:06 AM 3/28/2011, you wrote: Hi! Does anyone manage to use a standard Internet type radio device? by that I mean a device which you just purchase from your local Walmart or local electronics Retailer? Obviously the user would have trouble setting the thing up due to the lack of speech or other accessibility but just supposing you had someone set the radio up to match your wi-fi network and they programmed some presets for you, I can't see any reason why you couldn't scroll through those presets up and down as you would with some digitally controlled FM radios which have been readily available for the last quarter of a century, anyone got any views or had any experience with this. I'm looking at buying a stand-alone Internet radio for the kitchen though if I can't get one that won't work at all for a person with no vision then I won't be too worried, Ootunes on the Iphone and Ipad does a damn good job but I don't want to be carrying them around with me everywhere if I can avoid it. I did think about the new Plextalk Pocket which is supposed to have Internet Radio accessible on it however I think it will be quite some time before we see anything out of that company, unfortunately the whole company's location was destroyed in the recent Japan earthquake. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Bud Schwab W 6 Z Y P Malibu, California To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Wireless settings on the PTP1 - update
Yes, the Book Port Plus now has wireless capabilities in a Beta version of the firmware, but there are some problems with its implementation that I'm sure they will solve. Some folks can't connect with their wireless router, and others can connect but can't transfer files wirelessly. But, that's what betas are for. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Blackwell, Clifford cblackw...@cityofmadison.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 3:45 PM Subject: RE: Wireless settings on the PTP1 - update Sorry to slightly hijack this question! If the PTP 1 now has the wireless capabilities has APH made them available in the Book Port Plus too? -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dale Heltzer Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 1:15 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Wireless settings on the PTP1 - update ... So I now have *.pls files on the PTP1 which work. The *.asx files do not. Why? BTW: Am I the only one who has a problem with the pronunciation of one when setting up network/wireless settings? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Winamp Pro
I have used various versions of Winamp on my computers for many years. I have never used the Pro version though. I am considering putting Winamp Pro 5.6 on my Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit system. If you're using this version of Winamp, are there any problems I should know about either with JAWS for Windows or with Window-Eyes? Is Winamp Pro worth the price? Gary King mailto:w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: A tip to overcome one of the annoying problems with the Zoom H1
An AM radio can also be used to determine the distance to a nearby thunder storm. Listen to the loudest static crashes and count the seconds until you hear the thunder, about 5 seconds to the mile. If the time interval is 0, I hope you're in a building with a lightning rod! Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Steve Matzura numb...@noisynotes.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 5:44 AM Subject: Re: A tip to overcome one of the annoying problems with the Zoom H1 A thousand percent agreeance with this technique. I used to keep a cheap pocket AM radio on me for just these purposes. People used to think I'd lost it! Then I actually did--lost the radio, that is, never found another to replace it. Guess they don't make those things much any more. You can figure out some amazing things by listening to those noises. Like whether a PC has crashed or frozen or has just lost speech but is otherwise operating, or even when the picture on your TV set has gone wonky. On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 18:13:52 +0200, you wrote: Dane There are many of these weird things I use the induction loop coils in a hearing aid for. I can hear the hard disk of my iriver hard drive booting up for example. And my cell phone to know if it's starting up or not. If a normal hearing person can get hold of a small amplifier with an induction loop built in, you will be able to check all kinds of interesting things. Andre -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: 02 November 2010 04:37 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: A tip to overcome one of the annoying problems with the Zoom H1 Hi! Now this tip isn't going to be for everyone as not everyone wears hearing instruments which can be used with induction loops but if you do? Well here's a handy way to use your instruments to great effect when sorting out one of the very few functions of the Zoom H1 which isn't accessible. I'm talking about the Bit and Sample rate of the file you're recording, this is changed in Standby mode by using the fast forward and rewind buttons, rewind takes you back through the cycle whilst fast forward takes you forward through the cycle of bit and sample rates. When recording using Wave Broadcast format you cycle through 44.1KHZ 16 Bit, 48KHZ 24 bit and so on right the way up to 96KHZ 24 and back to 44.1KHZ 16 bit so how to tell where you are. Well turn your instruments to pick up induction loops and put the recorder near them. Now start recording, you'll be able to hear the recorder as it writes to the SD card and the slower the rate of writing then the small the sample size, 44.1KHZ 16 bit has the Zoom H1 writing to the SD card about every half second whilst 96KHZ 24 bit has the H1 writing to the SD card every sixth of a second or so. Just thought others may find this helpful as I do, still haven't worked out a way to set the date and time for date/time stamping of recordings but I have to admit to not trying too hard, after all! one can change all that when the files are copied from the H1 to your computer. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Apple TV
I would like to try the Apple TV now that it is accessible, but at the moment I don't have anything with either an optical or an HDMI input. Time to check those big sales again, I guess! Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 12:12 PM Subject: Apple TV Hi! One of the things I'm very much looking forward to this week is the arrival of my Apple TV, I'm sure others will write pieces on this multi media device in due course along with myself, I'll be making reference to it often on my TTwitter and I'll be doing various reviews of it on my blog. In short this device which is around 3 inches square allows the streaming of media from Itunes computers or other compatible devices on your network, Youtunes videos, Netflicks, etc to your TV or an audio device through the Optical digital or HDMI connections on the device, you control what you hear with a remote control, not unlike that which used to come as standard with the Apple Imac and Macbook computers. Apple TV now supports accessibility through Voiceover so - once set up - a blind person can browse their media library and so on deciding what to hear. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Apple TV
Apple TV is a media receiver that you connect to your HD TV or home theater system. It allows you to watch or listen to the contents of your iTunes library, rented movies and TV shows and purchased music, streamed from your computer through your wireless network. VoiceOver speaks the devices menus and the titles of the movies and TV episodes that you select to be played with a remote control. You can go to blindbargains.com where you will find a link to an article in MacWorld about Apple TV and a Flash presentation of VoiceOver speaking menus and media titles. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Kris Hickerson krishicker...@att.net To: pc-audio pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 11:43 AM Subject: Apple TV Hello All, Ok, I'm out of the loop somehow, but this morning is the first time I've heard about Apple TV with VoiceOver. What is Apple TV? Is it a device like an iPod or is it simply an application for your iPhone or iPod? Why is it considered to be a great product for the home theater enthusiast? Thanks much. Kris To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Inaccessible Blio eReader Released
K-NFB Reading Technology, a company which you would think should have the blind as their highest priority, has released the long-awaited Blio eReader today. After it was announced in January with glowing promises that it would bring access to a million books to blind readers, K-NFB Reading Technology, a joint venture of the National Federation of the Blind and Kurzweil Technologies, has released a version of the Blio eReader that is not accessible to screen readers. They promise on the download page that an accessible version of Blio will be available in October, but they've missed so many release dates, I'll believe it when it happens. How can we expect companies to release accessible software from day one when a company in which one of the partners is a national blindness organization doesn't even follow this principle? To make matters worse, I just got an email message from K-NFB Reading Technology telling me about all of the books I can read with the Blio eReader. It reminds me of all of those messages from AMAZON.COM about the Kindle PC software. Gary King mailto:w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Inaccessible Blio eReader Released
I had to read the note on the download page a couple of times because I couldn't believe it, but after reading it, I didn't bother downloading the program. We've grown to expect poor treatment from Microsoft and from the bad boy of the assistive technology industry, but I didn't expect it from K-NFB Reading Technology. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: David McLean david.mcl...@cox.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 3:59 PM Subject: Re: Inaccessible Blio eReader Released Yup! It's a pile o' crap! I downloaded it and tried it out and it seemed very inaccessible for the few minutes I tried it before it crashed! On Sep 28, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Gary King wrote: K-NFB Reading Technology, a company which you would think should have the blind as their highest priority, has released the long-awaited Blio eReader today. After it was announced in January with glowing promises that it would bring access to a million books to blind readers, K-NFB Reading Technology, a joint venture of the National Federation of the Blind and Kurzweil Technologies, has released a version of the Blio eReader that is not accessible to screen readers. They promise on the download page that an accessible version of Blio will be available in October, but they've missed so many release dates, I'll believe it when it happens. How can we expect companies to release accessible software from day one when a company in which one of the partners is a national blindness organization doesn't even follow this principle? To make matters worse, I just got an email message from K-NFB Reading Technology telling me about all of the books I can read with the Blio eReader. It reminds me of all of those messages from AMAZON.COM about the Kindle PC software. Gary King mailto:w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: rockbox and talk clips
That's why I never updated my Rockbox on the iRiver h120 when the final release version finally came out. I wasn't sure whether to install over the top of the beta on the iRiver or remove everything and start from scratch. I've got so many things that play music now that it hardly matters. I use the iPod Touch most of the time. Even the new Apple 4th Generation 2GB Shuffle costing around $48 talks with VoiceOver now. Do I really need it? No! But I'll probably get one anyway. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Betsy bet...@intergate.com To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 8:12 PM Subject: rockbox and talk clips I finally decided to update rockbox on my iriver h10 and now my talk clips for files and folders won't work anymore. Do I need to regenerate them and what is thought to be the most stable versions of the firmware and voices? I was running a version from a couple years ago and just installed 3.6. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Betsy To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Veronica FM transmitter
The unit described below is the one I bought from Wavemach Communications for Christmas a couple of years ago. I can transmit music to my Bose Wave Music System at the other end of the house or take a portable radio outside. The sound is great. I can adjust the input level with a knob on the back if necessary. I am still using the rubber duck antenna since the transmitter covers the part of my yard where I use my radio. I have noticed some slight fading at around 200 feet from the unit when walking with a portable radio, but I still get full quieting in hot spots at that distance. The remote for changing frequencies is very nice, but wouldn't strictly be necessary since normally, once you find a clear frequency, there's no need to change it. I paid around $360 at that time. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Robert Nelson rsnel...@optusnet.com.au To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 2:17 AM Subject: Re: Veronica FM transmitter The current model of the Jonathan Mosen transmitter is- Wavemach Communications NEW 100 milliwatt FM stereo transmitter HI PERFORMANCE Digital PLL FM stereo transmitter With Remote Control! Our New FM-100MWS-LED-RV unit is ready to go and comes complete with a compact rubber duckie antenna and well regulated 15 volt power supply that works with 120 or 240 VAC sources. Download the FREE user manual (WORD DOC) All you need to do is hook up your audio source to the RCA inputs on the back of the unit, and you are on the air!Wavemach Communications NEW 100 milliwatt FM stereo transmitter will well out perform most of the low cost units on the market since it was carefully designed to pass even the very lowest audio frequencies down to 20 Hz up to 15 KHz. Believe me, this unit sounds just like the big stations! Excellent base and highs!!! This unit is great for transmitting audio around you home an back yard as well as for transmitting audio in buildings to various rooms! We have sold a lot of these units to churches stadiums and drive-in theatres. The unit you are looking at is our latest unit with a remote control. This is especially great for the visually impared! Its highly accurate crystal reference and PLL circuitry ensure you will have a very stable signal at all times. The frequencies can easily be selected by pushing the recessed buttons using the remote control, (not shown). The frequency range is 87.5 to 108 MHz and the channel resolution is 100KHz. I should also mention that the stereo separation is excellent! The unit is housed in a very nice extruded aluminum enclosure that shields the unit. No cheap plastic box used here! For more range a high gain antenna could be used and connected to the standard BNC connector on the back of the unit. Other connector types can be installed upon request. I should mention that we now offer a few antennas, other transmitters and amplifiers on ebay. Please take a look at our other auctions page and our ebay store! If you are seriously looking for a high performance Stereo transmitter, this is definitely the one! This item is only available through the vendor's e-bay store. E-bay item 200407308449 Wavemach Communications Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada Telephone 416-243-2260 Email address: f...@fmamplifiers.com - Original Message - From: Bob Seed bobs...@tbaytel.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 2:02 PM Subject: Re: Veronica FM transmitter Do you like the unit, and would you recommend it to others on the list? How much did you pay for it? As Jonathan mentioned in a previous post a couple of years ago the unit was a little on the high side as far as pricing is concerned, but well worth the money, as these units are well built! - Original Message - From: David McLean david.mcl...@cox.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 9:12 PM Subject: Re: Veronica FM transmitter Yes. They added buttons for the up/down frequency selector and the power on/off selector. I know because I also have one. On Jun 25, 2010, at 4:23 PM, hank smith wrote: do you know what motifications were done? - Original Message - From: Bob Seed bobs...@tbaytel.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 7:47 AM Subject: Re: Veronica FM transmitter I believe that Jonathan Mosen picked up an FM transmitter on my recommendation from the company listed below. The company that sells these transmitters was more than willing to modify the transmitter for him so that it would be accessible! A little on the high side as far as pricing is concerned, but well worth it! www.fmamplifiers.com - Original Message - From: Howard Traxler htraxl...@earthlink.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010
Re: manual in accessible format for mackie 802 vlz3 mixer
Tim, Have you contacted the company to see if they will send you an accessible manual? If you have Open Book or Kurzweil 1000, you could try using the virtual printer in these programs to OCR the document, if the author hasn't disabled printing. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: tim cumings thcumi...@comcast.net To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 9:49 PM Subject: manual in accessible format for mackie 802 vlz3 mixer I just bought this mixer and am trying to get a copy of the manual in accesible format. I downloaded the pdf version but cannot read it because of its security settings. Does anydyone have an accesible copy of this manual they could send me. I would also be interested in speaking with anyone who could help me set up this mixer. Thanks. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: HOW USB PORTS WORK
Yes, when you are on email lists, you do learn something new every day. The question is are you learning something that is true, or you learning something that somebody thinks is true? Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Jörgen Hansson hansson.jo...@spray.se To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 9:49 AM Subject: Re: HOW USB PORTS WORK Hey John! Wow, that was also something I didn't know, I am learning something new every day. thanks for that info. Regards, Jörgen Hansson! Tel +46 703-601296 www.jorgenhansson.com skype: djtropical4532 - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 12:58 PM Subject: Re: HOW USB PORTS WORK High George, Actually, the windows operating system was developed in 1982. But it didn't gain its foot hold until early 1991. But the music didn't ketch up to it until 1994 which is, when Microsoft put out Windows 95. We've been ripping and burning CD's on our computers since then. My best regards. John. - Original Message - From: Jörgen Hansson hansson.jo...@spray.se To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 9:52 PM Subject: Re: HOW USB PORTS WORK Hi there John! wow! that was the best info I have ever heard of, I didn't know that the USB port was in use in 1986. I thought that the USB port came out when the windows systems came out in the 90's, cause the first PC I saw that on was from 1998 Regards, Jörgen Hansson! Tel +46 703-601296 www.jorgenhansson.com skype: djtropical4532 - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@att.net To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 3:33 AM Subject: HOW USB PORTS WORK Hello all list members, I'm gonna try to explain how your USB ports work. And in the process of this, I'm also try to put away allot of misconceptions and myths about it. In 1986, the USB port was developed to transmit and receive digital information or if you will, data from the computer to other digital devices such as, printers scanners and fax machines. All of these devices usually have their own power supplies. Even though, 1.5 volts is needed to open up the data ports that are built in to the devices, the devices themselves, aren't powered by the USB ports. These days, the USB ports are used to open up the data ports on memory chips that are built in to storage devices such as, thumb drives external hard drives and MP3 players and IPods. As I said in an earlier post, your lab top and desk top computers have 12 volt power supplies powering them. In some electronic equipment, there are power/currant limiting resisters to reduce the voltage to what the engineer desires. But inside your computers, there is a chip that does a triple job. This chip cuts the high voltage down to what the storage devices can handle which is, 1.5 volts in to 135 MA. This chip also handles the transmitting and the receiving of data. This is why we're able to transfer audio/video files to our MP3 players and IPods. The same thing is also true about transferring pictures from digital cameras to our computers. The USB port was never mint to power devices alone. But in order to make the USB port a viable power supply, a couple of changes will have to be made. First, the voltage will have to be razed from 1.5 volts to pretty close to what the computers power supply is delivering. Next, the currant will have to be razed from 135 MA to about 1500 MA. But if we do this, the storage devices will overload and burn out. unless, you increase their capacity too as well. I hope I clarified the way your USB ports work. My best regards. John. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: getting speech on my ipod
Robert, If you have the 4th Generation iPod Nano, you can use iTunes to send voice clips to it that will speak the menus, folders and tracks. This doesn't give you a true screen reader like VoiceOver on the iPhone and iPod Touch, but may do what you want. Rockbox has also been mentioned, and it works in a similar fashion, using recorded voice clips to speak menus, folders and tracks; but replaces the firmware of the iPod, making it no longer a true iPod. If you decided to go with Rockbox, you would need to see if it supported the iPod model you have. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Robert doc Wright godfea...@wrighthere.net To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:56 AM Subject: getting speech on my ipod I just recently won a 16gb ipod nano. How do I go about geting the speech installed? - Sometimes I think I understand everything, and then I regain consciousness. robert Doc Wright http://www.wrighthere.net skype: talmidim ** WRIGHTJAMS I bet somewhere at home you still have those stacks of wax! That crate of cassettes. Those tunes that bring back special memories. You've looked near and far but not all are available on CD. What are you to do? Let Wright jams convert those LPs and cassettes for you. Wright jams can take those 33s and 45s and recreate them for you on CD in the best quality possible. Wrightjams now offers limited audio production for radio programs and voice overs. Pricing: LPs... $15.00 45S... $15.00 FOR A GROUP OF 8 (A and B sides) Cassettes... Commercial $15.00 Home made $20.00 Bulk rate: 21-50 $12.50(each) 51 - 100 $10:00(each) Audio production $25 per hour To arrange an appointment Contact doc Wright Phone: 720-213-4871 Email: talmid...@comcast.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: getting speech on my ipod
Robert, In Addition to the information I provided in a previous message, you can go to www.apple.com and search for iPod Nano. The iPod Nano link in the search results will take you to a page with an accessibility link. You can read about how to enable speaking menus on the 4th and later generations of the Nano. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Robert doc Wright godfea...@wrighthere.net To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:56 AM Subject: getting speech on my ipod I just recently won a 16gb ipod nano. How do I go about geting the speech installed? - Sometimes I think I understand everything, and then I regain consciousness. robert Doc Wright http://www.wrighthere.net skype: talmidim ** WRIGHTJAMS I bet somewhere at home you still have those stacks of wax! That crate of cassettes. Those tunes that bring back special memories. You've looked near and far but not all are available on CD. What are you to do? Let Wright jams convert those LPs and cassettes for you. Wright jams can take those 33s and 45s and recreate them for you on CD in the best quality possible. Wrightjams now offers limited audio production for radio programs and voice overs. Pricing: LPs... $15.00 45S... $15.00 FOR A GROUP OF 8 (A and B sides) Cassettes... Commercial $15.00 Home made $20.00 Bulk rate: 21-50 $12.50(each) 51 - 100 $10:00(each) Audio production $25 per hour To arrange an appointment Contact doc Wright Phone: 720-213-4871 Email: talmid...@comcast.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Surprise Audible Sale
I don't know if this sale applies to all Audible subscribers, but it might be good to take a look. I renewed my subscription to Science News today, and then I went to my library on AUDIBLE.COM to download the latest issues. I saw an announcement of a Surprise $4.95 Sale. Investigating further, I found a link to the list of books that were on sale, a rather short list, unfortunately. I also ran across a warning that the sale would close as soon as I closed my browser. Since I like history, I purchased a book by Winston Churchill about World War II. Just thought I'd pass this along for what it's worth. Hope you find the sale and get something you like! Try searching for sale and see what you find. Gary King mailto:w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: struggling with audible
Joe, From your description of what happened when you tried to download a book, I suspect you haven't downloaded the Audible Manager software to your computer. Once you've done that and installed it, Audible Manager will take care of downloading your books and placing them in a Library list in the program. You should be able to find Audible Manager for your operating system by accessing the Software link on the Audible site. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: joe bollard joebolla...@eircom.net To: pc -audio pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 3:33 PM Subject: struggling with audible hello friends, now i hope you're sitting comfortably for this one, i have an account with audible, but as yet have not downloaded any books, so, tonight i decided i would download a book, i have credits for the past three months,i chose a book, it went in to my library it then asked me if i wanted to open or download the book, so far so good, easy-peasy, i decided i would download it to my documents before transferring it to the victor stream reader,it started to down load that took just a few seconds, which surprised me, then when i went to look for the book in my documents there was no sign of it,i think i downloaded a short file,some sort of software file, anyone got any ideas? when i click on the book i have purchased do i have to put it in to my basket, and then sign out? i have two books sitting in my library where do i go from there, any help will be gratefully appreciated, regards from a balding irishman who is slowly pulling out his hair, take care travel safely, joe. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Hardware Synthesizers with Jaws 64 bit Windows
I'm sure that FS would be glad to get some 64-bit drivers for hardware speech synthesizers written if they could collect some nice fees for their approval. It's just a matter of security, you know! Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Tony Swartz tbswa...@ptd.net To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 5:21 PM Subject: Hardware Synthesizers with Jaws 64 bit Windows In my business I do quite a bit of sound editing and always prefer to separate my screen reader voice, routing it to the dry and almost toneless output of a hardware synthesizer. I've made a considerable investment in several hardware synthesizers including both the PCI and external versions of the TripleTalk from Access Solutions. Within the last several months I installed a new PC running Windows 7 64 bit in my sound booth and was quite disappointed that Jaws for the 64 bit environment did not include drivers for any hardware synthesizers. At that point I contacted Mike Cozzolino of Access Solutions who agreed to begin work on the development of 64 bit drivers for the TripleTalk series. He quickly developed drivers to work with Window Eyes but has had little cooperation from Freedom Scientific in his efforts to develop drivers for Jaws. My question is whether anyone knows how and whom to contact at SF to try and get some movement on the issue? I've written to support, but received responses which told me what I already know, that at present there is no support for hardware synthesizers, which was my initial point. Here we have a vendor willing to invest the time and money to continue offering to support a product, and I would sincerely hope that SF would feel the same. I would be very disappointed as well to lose my investment in these hardware synthesizers. Tony Swartz To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: book sense. vs plextalk
The difference will be in the features that APH decides to include in their firmware since they will be the ones that write it. There is a podcast on Blind Cool Tech, that could have benefited from some normalization, which nevertheless shows off many of the current features of the Bookport Plus. Like the Plextalk Pocket, the future support for Wi-Fi will be a major feature of the Bookport Plus. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Brett Boyer bboyer...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 6:04 PM Subject: Re: book sense. vs plextalk So the difference would be? bb Brett Boyer Production / Program Director KZBR 97.1 FM Alamosa Colorado www.kzbr971.com Morning show. Comedy Block. Rockin Hits 24 / 7 - Original Message - From: Sunshine sunsh...@abe.midco.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 4:18 PM Subject: Re: book sense. vs plextalk The Book Port Plus is the same hard ware and is the same configuration as the plextalk pocket they share the same hard ware and some of the same firmware but both do the same jobs - Original Message - From: Brett Boyer bboyer...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 3:13 PM Subject: book sense. vs plextalk Ok. Here we ago again. I'm so sorry to rehash this but I'm confused. The PT or plextalk pocket is essentially the same as the book port made by APH? Is that what I'm to understand? I have forgotten about the victor stream because it doesn't seem to have as many things I need as the other two. Please help me straighten this out. I hope I'm not the only one confused. Thanks yall bb Brett Boyer Production / Program Director KZBR 97.1 FM Alamosa Colorado www.kzbr971.com Morning show. Comedy Block. Rockin Hits 24 / 7 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Free E-Books
While looking around for news about the Blio eReader, which apparently will not be released until late April, I found a press release about Read An E-Book Week, which mentioned free e-books. Free is good! That's what I always say. So I went to ebookweek.com and found some interesting articles and some links to free e-books in various categories. Since I like Sci-Fi, the 2 books I've downloaded so far are in that category. There are a number of different formats, but I chose RTF since it can be read by MS Word and other word processors or be easily converted to other formats. I'm not sure which of the other formats listed for these books are accessible either on the PC or on a phone. Read An E-Book Week starts today, so get them this week while they are free! Gary King mailto:w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Bookport Plus podcast
I haven't compared the 2 products feature for feature, but since APH will be controlling future software development, the feature set will be different. APH has always been very responsive to the suggestions of its customers, and people have already been telling them that they want to see the features they liked in the original Bookport to be put in the Bookport Plus. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: André van Deventer andred...@webafrica.org.za To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 11:12 AM Subject: RE: Bookport Plus podcast According to the podcast, it works exactly like the plextalk pocket. It has the same menus, the same waiting sound, etc. That was why I am curious what the difference between the pocket and the bookport plus is. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Norma A. Boge Sent: 04 February 2010 06:31 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: RE: Bookport Plus podcast Why have two different products? Are you kidding? I, for one, appreciate choice, and competition is good for us as consumers. Sorry, I just don't get where you're coming from. Plus I'm not convinced they are products with identical features. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Bookport Plus podcast
To hear other interviews from ATIA 2010, in addition to the one on Bookport Plus, go to http://serotalk.com Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Norma A. Boge nab...@mchsi.com To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 9:10 AM Subject: Bookport Plus podcast http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2380806/BookPortPlus.mp3 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Kindle For PC
Has anyone tried Kindle for PC, which can be downloaded free from AMAZON.COM? I got a notice from them about Kindle for the iPhone and iPod Touch, but I heard that it doesn't work with VoiceOver. I wonder if the PC version works with a screen reader and allows the text of the books to be spoken. If there any free books in the Kindle store that can be used for testing, I guess it wouldn't hurt to give it a try. Gary King mailto:w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Kindle For PC
I just went to the Kindle Support page on AMAZON.COM and used their email form to request that Kindle for iPhone and Kindle for PC be made accessible. It will be interesting to see if I get a reply. Let's all be squeaky wheels! Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Rick Harmon rickhar...@sbcglobal.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 5:01 PM Subject: Re: Kindle For PC Not accessible on the PC either sadly. Rick - Original Message - From: Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net To: PC Audio List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 5:17 PM Subject: Kindle For PC Has anyone tried Kindle for PC, which can be downloaded free from AMAZON.COM? I got a notice from them about Kindle for the iPhone and iPod Touch, but I heard that it doesn't work with VoiceOver. I wonder if the PC version works with a screen reader and allows the text of the books to be spoken. If there any free books in the Kindle store that can be used for testing, I guess it wouldn't hurt to give it a try. Gary King mailto:w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
A Good Article On Braille Literacy
You can read a good article on Braille literacy by going to NYTimes.com and searching for the link Listening To Braille. As you read the article, you may run across a familiar name. I agree with the article, even though I was listening to it with text-to-speech instead of reading it with Braille. Gary King mailto:w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Decoding Audible files
These procedures would have been more interesting to me in the old days when I only had one player in addition to the Audible Manager that would play Audible files. Now that I have four players, including my N82 cell phone, that will play Audible content, I wouldn't go to all that trouble. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Robert Nelson rsnel...@optusnet.com.au To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, December 25, 2009 2:05 PM Subject: Re: Decoding Audible files The old version of audible manager and goldwave will still work but there are 2 conditions- 1. the old version of audible manager must be the only version of audible manager on the computer. 2. the files must be in the normal format, i.e., 1 through 4 etc. The new format audible is promoting can't be decoded (that figures, doesn't it?) What doesn't work is that you can't download using the old version of audible. That means that you will have to download the files on one computer using the newer version of audible manager and set up the old version of audible manager on a second computer and transfer the files to that computer to be decoded. It is an annoyingly cumbersome process but it is doable and you get the best sound quality possible using goldwave. Bob - Original Message - From: Ken Burgess kenb...@rogers.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, December 25, 2009 7:23 PM Subject: Decoding Audible files It used to be that you could download an Audible file using an old version of Audible Manager, and then decode it using Goldwave. I don't think that old version of Audible Manager works any more, so I was wondering if there is still a way to decode these files. Ken To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
iTunes Store Music Format
I would like to rip some CDs and convert some of my Windows Media Lossless music tracks to the same format and quality as the music purchased from the iTunes Store. I plan to transfer the music to my new iPod Touch 64GB on Christmas morning. Can anyone tell me what format and bit-rate they use for their music downloads? How do I know I am getting a new iPod Touch 64GB for Christmas? Because I didn't take any chances and bought it for myself, that's how! Gary King mailto:w4...@bellsouth.net To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Workable alternatives to Creative
Dave, That attitude won't get you much help, but it might get you tossed off some email lists. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dave McElroy WA6BEF d...@drakelroy.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 4:27 PM Subject: RE: Workable alternatives to Creative Please go screw yourself. You would do the rest of us a favor. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Sunshine Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 2:20 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Workable alternatives to Creative the work arounds i have are as follows, get a sighted person to help tweek the card, work with scripters to make scripts for the screen reader/ or use hot spot clicker to do the jobs you need to do. I have maped out for me what works best formy card. if you are wanting to tweek the sound that comes from yourmedia players why not use the internal settings for each media player? Plus i have some knoledge of high and low settings for getting the best out of the card i have. - Original Message - From: Dave McElroy WA6BEF d...@drakelroy.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 3:58 PM Subject: RE: Workable alternatives to Creative It is certainly conceivable that you don't care about the sound coming out of your card; that is your affair. I, however, do and yes, I want and yes expect that I will be able to access what I paid for. Clearly you don't have an answer to contribute and that's ok. Equaly clearly you haven't been reading this thread because I'm not the only one who has been having difficulties with Creative. I am willing, however, to stand up and say that we need access to what we pay for just as our seeing counterparts do. It is my obligation and my right to warn people against making the mistakes that I have. Now I notice that happy as you are with this card, you have made no effort to discuss whatever workarounds you may have established, which leads me to believe that you are just using the card in its flat default response. This is your privilege, but I want at least the ability to get some treble out of the high end. Since this appears to be too much to ask, I am now asking for alternatives and chosing to walk away from this company, which I find to be entirely unresponsive. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Sunshine Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 1:09 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Workable alternatives to Creative dave, i think your behavior towards this company is not outstanding just because you have trouble with a product doesnt mean others have problems with their products, doesn't? I for one have had really good luck with the creative tech support when asking questions they have been able to point out things to me. they do listen to blind people. SOmetimes. you have to wonder weather or not blind people really just want to be sighted. if you do ot like the x-fi card you have you can always go for something else but for blind people I belive if that a product works for them then leave the company alone. I have been using creative products all the time and have had no troubles configuring them. We do not need to boycot the company. just because you say we should. do we? are you an athority of sound cards, or the one that tells everyone to do what and when? just wondering. if script writers would take a look at the cards interface, and ask the right questions maybe just maybe a person could script the cards. - Original Message - From: Dave McElroy WA6BEF d...@drakelroy.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 1:52 PM Subject: Workable alternatives to Creative Are there any sound cards left out there that one can actually control? I really think we need to boycott Creative as their no good foreign tech support has been worse than useless. There is no answer at the corporate office so I am unable to lodge a complaint anywhere that anyone will listen to. This company should dry up and die. Go back to Singapore and croke! To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4671 (20091208) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4671 (20091208) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send
Re: Evaluating digital reading machines.
Jim, Usually, when I want to find reviews on particular products, I enter their names into a Google search field, followed by the word review. That works for me most of the time. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: jim gill sf49e...@surewest.net To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 3:57 PM Subject: Evaluating digital reading machines. Hello PC-Audio: My wife is looking to buy one of digital reading machines first she was interested in the Kindel and now she is interested in Barnes and Noble Nook machine . I would like to know if there is a web site that evaluates digital reading machines like the Kindel;Sony;Barnes andnoble Nook digital reading machines . Thanks Jim To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: rosetta stone
Tom, I guess that depends on how you look at it, or in this case listen to it. Since it's a language learning program, I'm sure at least part of it is audio. It would be rather difficult to learn a language without hearing it. I've always wondered about this program as well. It's quite expensive, and I certainly wouldn't want to invest in it if it is not accessible. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Tom t...@pc-audio.org To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 6:59 AM Subject: RE: rosetta stone Rosetta Stone has nothing to do with audio therefore is off topic for the pc audio list. Thank you. Tom To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Digital recorders again.
Sunshine, Does your statement mean that you have tried all of the recorders in the Plextalk Pocket's price class and compared their technical specifications and recordings with those of the Plextalk Pocket? Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Sunshine sunsh...@abe.midco.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 3:20 PM Subject: Re: Digital recorders again. Oh: bruce not true this device out proforms any of them. - Original Message - From: Bruce Toews br...@ogts.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 1:01 PM Subject: Re: Digital recorders again. That statement should probably be qualified: It may well be the most excellent recording device in its class on the market, I couldn't say but have no reason to believe otherwise, but there are better recording devices on the market. Sweeping statements are dangerous. Bruce On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:56:11 -0500, Sunshine sunsh...@abe.midco.net said: I totally agree with you Dean, the plextalk pocket is the most exclent recording device on the market these days. - Original Message - From: dean martineau dea...@earthlink.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 12:36 PM Subject: RE: Digital recorders again. What I know is that the PlexTalk Pocket is totally accessible, nicely packaged, has both manual and automatic level control, and does a very nice job of recording from the line injack. I doubt any other digital recorder provides as much feedback, as this one is made for the blind. Of course, it may (or may not, I don't know) cost more than others of similar quality, but there's no guesswork involved. It's nice to be able to monitor through the speaker when making a line-in recording. Dean -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tim Crawford Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 9:27 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Digital recorders again. Hi all, Just wondering, which one of the flash memory based recorders recently discussed here, would be most suitable for making high quality recordings from an external source via line-in? e.g. a satellite receiver. I don't intend recording via microphone, so that particular aspect of performance is of limited interest. Any views much appreciated. Cheers, Tim. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4487 (20091007) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: More on the new Ipod Touch
For those interested in the specifications for the iPod Touch, here they are: What's in the Box? iPod touch Apple Earphones with Remote and mic USB 2.0 cable Dock adapter Quick Start guide Requirements: Mac Requirements Mac computer with USB 2.0 port Mac OS X v10.4.11 or later iTunes 9 or later PC Requirements PC with USB 2.0 port Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 3 or later iTunes 9 or later Technical Specifications and Dimensions Size and Weight Height: 4.3 inches (110 mm) Width: 2.4 inches (61.8 mm) Depth: 0.33 inch (8.5 mm) Weight: 4.05 ounces (115 grams) Display 3.5 inch (diagonal) Multi-Touch color LCD 320 by 480 pixels at 163 ppi Capacity 8GB, 32GB, or 64GB flash drive Holds up to 1,750, 7,000 or 14,000 songs in 128-Kbps AAC format Holds up to 10,000, 40,000 or 90,000 iPod-viewable photos Holds up to 10 hours, 40 hours or 80 hours of video Audio Frequency response: 20 Hz to 20, 000Hz Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2,3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV TV and Video Support for 480p and 576p component TV out H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats Battery Built-in rechargeable lithium ino battery Music playback time: Up to 36 hours when fully charged Video playback time: Up to 6 hours when fully charged Input and Output Dock connector 3.5-mm stereo headphone jack Wireless Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) Nike + iPod support Maps location based service Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Ford Blackwell blackwe...@ameritech.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 12:41 PM Subject: Re: More on the new Ipod Touch The 32 gb model is slated to be $299 and the 64 gb is to be $399. Their all hung up for now with a problem with the camera module. Could be this week or a month before they really hit the market. - Original Message - From: André van Deventer andred...@webafrica.org.za To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 10:23 AM Subject: RE: More on the new Ipod Touch Wonder what this thing actually costs? Would it be competition for e.g. thextreme or the plextalk pocket? -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Constantine Sent: 12 September 2009 04:53 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: More on the new Ipod Touch Wow. So - any apple haters have anything to say about this? Smiles. contact details: email: tcwoo...@shaw.ca and others msn: the_conman...@hotmail.com skype: the_conman283 system details: Hp pavillion dv5220CA notebook pc AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-37 2.0 GHZ, 1024 mb DDR ram, Fujitsu 100 gb 4500 RPM Hard Drive, connecsant AC-link audio - Original Message - From: Mac Norins macata...@cox.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 5:19 PM Subject: Re: More on the new Ipod Touch Totally amazing, if this works as advertised! Can anyone imagine having a tablet, say the size of a keyboard, that you could utilize like this? I bet they come out with that, next, then musical instruments, etc., etc.,etc.! Kind of mind boggling! -Mac- - Original Message - From: Steve Pattison s...@internode.on.net To: Access L acces...@access-l.com; PC Audio pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 2:54 PM Subject: Fwd: More on the new Ipod Touch From:Dane trethowan dane.tretho...@me.com To: VIP L vi...@softspeak.com.au Hi! Here's a summary of the accessibility features and functions found on the new Ipod Touch as taken from the Apple Web Site. Vision iPod touch includes a screen reader and other innovative accessibility features that make it easier to use for those with impaired vision. VoiceOver The same VoiceOver screen reader made popular on the Mac and the iPhone is now a standard feature on iPod touch (3rd generation). It's the world's first gesture-based screen reader, enabling you to enjoy the fun and simplicity of iPod touch even if you can't see the screen. What makes VoiceOver on iPod touch remarkable is that you control it using simple gestures that let you physically interact with items on the screen. It's easy to learn and fun to use. Instead of memorizing
Re: cost of Ipod touch
MacMall at www.macmall.com is selling them for $294 and $394 and is throwing in a free Altec Lansing Portable iPod speaker to sweeten the deal. I wonder if there are any other good deals out there. Gary King - Original Message - From: Ford Blackwell blackwe...@ameritech.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 4:42 PM Subject: Re: cost of Ipod touch No, the 8 gb model is $199. The 32 gb in 299 and the 64 gb is $399. Only the 32 gb and the 64 gb models talk. Wonder why no 16 gb model? Maybe held in reserve to see if they need something to boost sales later? - Original Message - From: Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@sbcglobal.net To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 2:54 PM Subject: RE: cost of Ipod touch The 32 gig version is $199. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 2:11 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: cost of Ipod touch Ok. Bottom line. How much does this Ipod touch cost? Thanks, Joe. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Talks question
Lauren, From reading through the text version of the manual that Verizon posted online, it seems to be a fully functional version of Talks for Windows Mobile, and it would probably do everything you want, including text messaging, email and Internet. However, if you look at the answer to question 3 on the Answers page that I sent the link for, you will hear the word nontransferable in the answer about the cost. This makes me think that the $99 price is just for a Talks license for this phone and cannot be transferred to another phone later. Mobile Speaks has a higher initial cost, but it can be transferred to a new phone when a better one comes along. If you have the Blackberry Tour 9630, you can wait for Orator for Blackberry to be released by Humanware. They say it will be released soon, but they don't say when, and they don't give a price. They say it will support all of the core Blackberry applications. This is the only Blackberry model they mention specifically in the information on their web site. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Lauren lotusris...@att.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:34 AM Subject: Re: Talks question Hi Tim, Thanks for the info. Verizon sells the Ozone with Talks preloaded, but I can't find out if it is a limited or fully functioning version. If I choose it, do you know if I can navigate everything myself like accessing menus, email, internet and texting? Use of the internet would really be great for me! The Talks cost $99; the Mobile Speaks, does it allow you to do everything and would it work on a Blackbury? I think I mad the mistake of buying a Blackbury Tour with Vlingo, but am discovering it won't let me access what I need. Verizon will let me trade to another phone without any penalty because of my disability. Please advise and thanks to Gary also for his very helpful link. Sincerely, Lauren - Original Message - From: Martin, Tim A., NMDOT tim.mar...@state.nm.us To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:38 AM Subject: RE: Talks question Good morning List, Here is the promised information. A few months ago I started hearing talk of a Smart Phone that was fully accessible to blind people. This phone was from Verizon and contained the Talks program. The phone was a Motorola Q-9C and with the speech program cost $249 with a 2 year contract. According to Verizon, the Moto phone was the only one they offered that would do this. Of course I was eager to have a phone that would allow me complete access to all it had to offer. I was currently using the Env 2 and I could read and compose text messages, but as far as simple things like setting an alarm or leaving myself a note, and many other things, it just wouldn't happen. I purchased the phone and found it to work fairly well, but it had a few issues. It came with Pocket Word that wasn't accessible with the Talks program. This left me a bit frustrated because I wanted full use of all the features of this phone, and so I began to inquire of other types of phones and different speech programs. Through my searching, I discovered that the Talks program Verizon sells and on the Moto phone was not the fully functioning version of the program. I was able to return the Moto Q to Verizon for a full refund after hearing of a program called: Mobile Speaks. This program can be used on Smart Phones running Windows Mobile along with Pocket PC's. It works with several different service providers and costs about $300.00. I was able to purchase the Moto Q-9C from an individual and used the Mobile Speaks program for a 30-day trial to make sure I liked all it had to offer. This program works great, and I'm able to use features on a different new phone I've purchased which is called the Ozone from Verizon. I kept the Moto to use as a spare, but I wanted a brand-new phone. Since all of this, I found out that the Talks program, like Mobile Speaks is a fully functioning program, but doesn't work with as many smart phones and with as many carriers. I might also point out that when you purchase a Smart Phone from Verizon that has come out after November of last year, that you must have a Data package with your current plan. A Data package gives you access to the Internet and E-mail from your phone. This is not meant for everyone, but if you think there might be a reason for this function, then a Windows Mobile device running a speech program might be what you need. If anyone has any questions, they can keep the thread going on this list or contact me off list at: tim.mar...@state.nm.us Here is the link to where you can get a trial of the Mobile Speaks software. http://www.codefactory.es To get a good detailed tutorial on installing and using this program, also a place to purchase once you've used the trial of Mobile Speaks: http
