RE: MaPlEr Player
Hello Peter: Unfortunately, no. I liked it much and used for years, but the developer announced he was too busy to continue with the project, he was involved in other things. Cannot remember his name, but he was German. Regards, Humberto -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Peter Russillo Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 9:50 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Subject: MaPlEr Player Hi list, does anyone know if that blind-friendly media player called MaPlEr is still being developed? There was a podcast about in 2009, so I’m curious if it’s still available, or if it’s been discontinued. Please let me know if the developers are still working on that program and what website they have, if any; thanks. Peter Russillo
MaPlEr Player
Hi list, does anyone know if that blind-friendly media player called MaPlEr is still being developed? There was a podcast about in 2009, so I’m curious if it’s still available, or if it’s been discontinued. Please let me know if the developers are still working on that program and what website they have, if any; thanks. Peter Russillo
MaPlEr Player
Hi. Two years ago several listers posted enthusiastic reactions to MaPlEr (pronounced Mapler, despite all the caps) and I finally acted yesterday. I downloaded and installed the program from the Mar-Dy website and sent payment via PayPal. However, MaPlEr hasn't sent the promised registration code or replied to my several queries. I'm confident MaPlEr wasn't a scam. I'm guessing they just moved on, for whatever reason. Has anyone here had any recent contact with the people behind the player? Thanks. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: MaPlEr Player
It does often take them a little time to respond. I just got a note from them today on a question I had. I suspect you'll get your info soon. Clifford - Original Message - From: Adrian Spratt adr...@adrianspratt.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 7:26 AM Subject: MaPlEr Player Hi. Two years ago several listers posted enthusiastic reactions to MaPlEr (pronounced Mapler, despite all the caps) and I finally acted yesterday. I downloaded and installed the program from the Mar-Dy website and sent payment via PayPal. However, MaPlEr hasn't sent the promised registration code or replied to my several queries. I'm confident MaPlEr wasn't a scam. I'm guessing they just moved on, for whatever reason. Has anyone here had any recent contact with the people behind the player? 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: MaPlEr Player
I thought that they had gone under! Hadn't heard anything about this player in a couple of years. On Feb 28, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Clifford Blackwell blackwe...@ameritech.net wrote: It does often take them a little time to respond. I just got a note from them today on a question I had. I suspect you'll get your info soon. Clifford - Original Message - From: Adrian Spratt adr...@adrianspratt.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 7:26 AM Subject: MaPlEr Player Hi. Two years ago several listers posted enthusiastic reactions to MaPlEr (pronounced Mapler, despite all the caps) and I finally acted yesterday. I downloaded and installed the program from the Mar-Dy website and sent payment via PayPal. However, MaPlEr hasn't sent the promised registration code or replied to my several queries. I'm confident MaPlEr wasn't a scam. I'm guessing they just moved on, for whatever reason. Has anyone here had any recent contact with the people behind the player? 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: MaPlEr Player
Thanks. I'm encouraged, although they ought to respond more quickly when a payment is made. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Clifford Blackwell Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:30 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: MaPlEr Player It does often take them a little time to respond. I just got a note from them today on a question I had. I suspect you'll get your info soon. Clifford - Original Message - From: Adrian Spratt adr...@adrianspratt.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 7:26 AM Subject: MaPlEr Player Hi. Two years ago several listers posted enthusiastic reactions to MaPlEr (pronounced Mapler, despite all the caps) and I finally acted yesterday. I downloaded and installed the program from the Mar-Dy website and sent payment via PayPal. However, MaPlEr hasn't sent the promised registration code or replied to my several queries. I'm confident MaPlEr wasn't a scam. I'm guessing they just moved on, for whatever reason. Has anyone here had any recent contact with the people behind the player? 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: MaPlEr Player
I suspect it is a sideline for them. I think there's an update about once a year or so. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of David McLean Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 7:43 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: MaPlEr Player I thought that they had gone under! Hadn't heard anything about this player in a couple of years. On Feb 28, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Clifford Blackwell blackwe...@ameritech.net wrote: It does often take them a little time to respond. I just got a note from them today on a question I had. I suspect you'll get your info soon. Clifford - Original Message - From: Adrian Spratt adr...@adrianspratt.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 7:26 AM Subject: MaPlEr Player Hi. Two years ago several listers posted enthusiastic reactions to MaPlEr (pronounced Mapler, despite all the caps) and I finally acted yesterday. I downloaded and installed the program from the Mar-Dy website and sent payment via PayPal. However, MaPlEr hasn't sent the promised registration code or replied to my several queries. I'm confident MaPlEr wasn't a scam. I'm guessing they just moved on, for whatever reason. Has anyone here had any recent contact with the people behind the player? 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 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
RE: MaPlEr Player
True, but I'd guess this is just a sideline for them. I can see that it might take a while if you're only able to check emails occasionally. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 7:44 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: MaPlEr Player Thanks. I'm encouraged, although they ought to respond more quickly when a payment is made. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Clifford Blackwell Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:30 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: MaPlEr Player It does often take them a little time to respond. I just got a note from them today on a question I had. I suspect you'll get your info soon. Clifford - Original Message - From: Adrian Spratt adr...@adrianspratt.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 7:26 AM Subject: MaPlEr Player Hi. Two years ago several listers posted enthusiastic reactions to MaPlEr (pronounced Mapler, despite all the caps) and I finally acted yesterday. I downloaded and installed the program from the Mar-Dy website and sent payment via PayPal. However, MaPlEr hasn't sent the promised registration code or replied to my several queries. I'm confident MaPlEr wasn't a scam. I'm guessing they just moved on, for whatever reason. Has anyone here had any recent contact with the people behind the player? 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 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
bookmark function in mapLer
Hi folks Can someone please explain to me exactly how the bookmark function in MapLer works? I want to use it to listen to audio books but then I would need it to resume where I stopped or to place bookmarks in files. I know that b is supposed to place a bookmark in a file if I understood it correctly but how do you get to that file? Andre To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
bookmark function in MapLer
Hi all Wondering if there are some users of MapLer on this list. I am wondering exactly how the bookmark function on MapLer works. If you are listening to an audio file with MapLer, is it possible to return to the place where you place the bookmark. Does the programme have a resume function? I cant seem to find anything about this in the help system. Regards Andre To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
bookmark function in MapLer
Hi folks Can anyone explain to me exactly how the bookmark function in MapLer works? I can find the shortcuts in the help system but no real explanations on how it works? Can you e.g. listen to an audio book and then put bookmarks in the file so that you can continue at the same place later? Andre To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Fwd: MardySoftware: MaPlEr V1.16.0 released!
This is a shareware media player designed to work with screen readers. It can be downloaded from www.mar-dy.com/MaPlEr/MaPlEr.php Regards Steve. From:Terje Strømberg te-st...@online.no To: gw-i...@gwmicro.com Resend this. Because it is a good player and maybe recorder and radio and ripping software and playlist. Take care Terje Strømberg Fra: mardysoftware-boun...@as-2.de [mailto:mardysoftware-boun...@as-2.de] På Hello together, Here we come with a new release of our mediaplayer and play list creator MaPlEr. We have included many new features in this version. We think it's worth to read the what's new-section, because there are some exciting ones. Now MaPlEr is able to record through your sound card, for digitalizing tapes, making direct speech recordings, etc. and it's possible to follow the peak of the recording. Now informations about album, artist and title can even be stored in wave files, And much more! MaPlEr is now available in portuguese too. A special thanks to Carolina herdy Mauricio almeida - Blind games Brazil who did the translation! We would appreciate your commends, bug reports and suggestions for further versions! You'll find the what's new as always at the end of the mail. Just go to help and click search for updates to download the newest update. Have much fun with the new version! With best regards from germany your Mardy-Team Andy and Marco What's new in version 1.16.0: new features - Now MaPlEr is available in portuguese too. A special thanks to Carolina herdy Mauricio almeida - Blind games Brazil who did this great job! - New path for all MaPlEr files: Microsoft would like it very much, if you, the programmer, store all files, needed by an application, under a special folder. With version 1.16 MaPlEr copies all those files to a path, of your choice. If you are not sure how to handle this, just press enter on the first startup of V1.16, and MaPlEr will copy all the files to your personal folder. This dialog will show up only once. The advantage of this is, that you know where all these files are, and if you restore your hard disc with an image program, all your settings won't be lost! - Added a brand new dialog recording, shift+c. Here you can record what ever you want. You can choose the output format, as known from the convert-tracks-screen, the input (e.g. line-in, midi), and, of course, the path and filename where the recording should be stored. The checkbox monitor output lets you hear exactly what you are recording, it's like the monitor of a good old tape deck. There's an edit box where you can read the current peak, ranging from 0 (silent) to 100 (full). If these values go over 100 your recording will be distorted. With the left and right arrow keys, you can adjust the level of the input in the list of the inputs and in the field with the peak meter. with the spin edit update peakmeter you can tell MaPlEr how often the peak meter should be updated. A word about the new command in the record menu: if you press the letter n for new while recording a new file is created and the recording will go on in this new file - that you can seperate the tracks of a tape, for instance, while the recording is done. - Added a dialog Settings | Playback settings, where you can adjust frequency, pitch, tempo, volume, channel mode, the equalizer bands and the sound font for all situations, where no play list specific settings can be found. - All information like artist, album, title, etc. are now available in wave files too. They can be entered via the properties dialog (alt+enter). - new setting under optical settings: hide unchanged status infos. This will hide all infos in the status list, that are on their normal value. This means: if, for example, the pitch is unchanged, (pitch 0 %), the whole line with the pitch won't appear in the status list. - New setting under the player menu Cursor follows player If this entry is deactivated, MaPlEr will move on to the next track, without moving the list. This is useful, because your screen reader will not tell you every new track. When you move the cursor by hand or stop playback, the cursor in the list will be repositioned automatically. - added only stop playing to the sleep timer. This gives you all the choices of the sleep timer like 5, 15, 30 minutes etc. but after the time the computer won't shutdown, only playing will cease. - Help | FAQ on the web will bring you to the page where all our articles regarding MaPlEr are stored. Changes - added - File name without extension - extension - bitrate - track elapsed time - track remaining time - sound font as new columns. - Often the screen reader has not the focus on MaPlEr when it is starting. This should belong to the past! ;-) - Convert tracks... - added %r for track of CD and %u for unique number as new values for the file mask. You
Re: MaPlEr
Yes it does and it comes with a large collection of stations from several countries. I tried MaPlEr briefly and in my opinion it didn't do a lot that other audio players such as Foobar2000 and Winamp already do. Its one main strength is that it gives you very detailed control over the speed the file is played at which could be useful for listening to audio books or recordings of speech. It is shareware and available from www.mar-dy.com/MaPlEr/MaPlEr.php. Regards Steve. On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:51:47 +1100 Peter Scanlon sca...@tpg.com.au wrote: does this player also allow listening to streaming of radio on the net? Regards Steve Email: s...@internode.on.net MSN Messenger: internetuser...@hotmail.com Skype: steve1963 Twitter: steve9782 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: MaPlEr
Thanks Steve, I did try it and I agree, I will stick to Winamp. If I start using my PC to listen to books some time in the future, I will use it. Be nice if they did a IPhone version. - Original Message - From: Steve Pattison To: PC Audio Discussion List Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 9:41 PM Subject: Re: MaPlEr Yes it does and it comes with a large collection of stations from several countries. I tried MaPlEr briefly and in my opinion it didn't do a lot that other audio players such as Foobar2000 and Winamp already do. Its one main strength is that it gives you very detailed control over the speed the file is played at which could be useful for listening to audio books or recordings of speech. It is shareware and available from www.mar-dy.com/MaPlEr/MaPlEr.php. Regards Steve. On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:51:47 +1100 Peter Scanlon sca...@tpg.com.au wrote: does this player also allow listening to streaming of radio on the net? Regards Steve Email: s...@internode.on.net MSN Messenger: internetuser...@hotmail.com Skype: steve1963 Twitter: steve9782 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: MaPlEr
Hi! I am not sure but you should be aware of that it costs. Not much but it costs. Don't know why when there are several free accessible players out there. /A Peter Scanlon skrev 2010-11-29 08:51: Hi, does this player also allow listening to streaming of radio on the net? - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 12:25 PM Subject: RE: Audiobooks, where to get them for free? Thanks for the information Steve. I did think it was funny that after the author said they wouldn't clutter up the list with a discussion on why Audible uses DRM they then went into some pretty silly analogies involving chairs, burgers, tables and so on. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Steve Pattison Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 6:50 PM To: Access L; CUG Members; VIP-L Cc: PC Audio Subject: Fwd: Audiobooks, where to get them for free? From:David eleph...@tele2.no To: WE English mailing list gw-i...@gwmicro.com The below mesage was found on the mailing list, of the all accessible media player MaPlEr. Although it refers to certain features of MaPlEr, I guess most of the info might be of interest to the users on this list as well, no matter what player you are currently using. In case, you have not yet checked it out, give the newest version (v1.15) of MaPlEr a try. It has features, that you won't find in any other software, and best of all, it is build by and for blind users, so you will never have to worry accessibility conflicts. You will find it at: http://mar-dy.com/MaPlEr/MaPlEr.php Enjoy! - Original Message - As you all might have noticed, MaPlEr is equipped with a number of features, specially taylored for reading audiobooks. The 'bookmarking' capability, just to mention one. Then we have stuff like the speed and pitch adjustment. And, you might also have noticed a couple of choices under the Special menu, and wondered, what they are for. I here have in mind, the 'skip at beginning', and 'skip at the end' features. They were specially designed, due to user request, and with reading audiobooks in mind. Yet, Personally, I have found them particularly useful, when trying to edit certain parts of music, of which, I'd rather be back with more info, in a later email. Getting audiobooks in an electronic format, might not always be too easily achieved. The only place on the net, that I know of, which offers a bigger selection for sale, would be Audible. You might right away be familiar with that site, and in such a case, you know that it is delivering its contents in a specially COPYRIGHTED format - the Audible format (having the .A extension to its files). Audible has quite strict copyright rules, and even when comes to hardware players, only a VERY FEW players on the market, do have the capablility to play Audible books. So, asking the Mar-Dy team, to ever implement Audible playback in their software, would be something close to 'in vain'. Although I don't want to clutter this list with a long discussion on why, and why not, Audible does it this way, I still want to point it out, so that users will know, why this will not come true, until the day, Audible would change their scheme. And, after all, how many people would ever buy any books, if they were only allowed to read them in a particular branded chair. Or, how often would you be eating burgers, if you only were allowed doing so, if you sit at a given table, listening to one particular song, and eating within a predefined time frame. Well, you see, there is not too much reasons for offering Audible any more space, as an alternative in this mail. My heading, though, did state, where to get audiobooks. And, even for FREE. I will point you to a few places, that offers such material, fully legal. The selection on all of these sites are ever growing. Due to the copyright rules, and the fact they are offering the material for free, it tends to be older books. But, it is a nice way, of getting your hands on the good old classics, and keep them all legally in yor library. And, with MaPlEr, you can even build one playlist for each book, which in practical life means, you can read as many books you want in parallel, and simply always refind your last read spot, in each and everyone of them. Yet another of those useful features, that the Mar-Dy team has been kind enough to implement, and which is quite beneficial. The biggest - and fastest growing - place to find the free audiobooks, would be at Librivox.org. Librivox, is getting their material from volunteers, all over the globe. In other words, you will listen to a book, all read
MaPlEr
Hi, does this player also allow listening to streaming of radio on the net? - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 12:25 PM Subject: RE: Audiobooks, where to get them for free? Thanks for the information Steve. I did think it was funny that after the author said they wouldn't clutter up the list with a discussion on why Audible uses DRM they then went into some pretty silly analogies involving chairs, burgers, tables and so on. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Steve Pattison Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 6:50 PM To: Access L; CUG Members; VIP-L Cc: PC Audio Subject: Fwd: Audiobooks, where to get them for free? From:David eleph...@tele2.no To: WE English mailing list gw-i...@gwmicro.com The below mesage was found on the mailing list, of the all accessible media player MaPlEr. Although it refers to certain features of MaPlEr, I guess most of the info might be of interest to the users on this list as well, no matter what player you are currently using. In case, you have not yet checked it out, give the newest version (v1.15) of MaPlEr a try. It has features, that you won't find in any other software, and best of all, it is build by and for blind users, so you will never have to worry accessibility conflicts. You will find it at: http://mar-dy.com/MaPlEr/MaPlEr.php Enjoy! - Original Message - As you all might have noticed, MaPlEr is equipped with a number of features, specially taylored for reading audiobooks. The 'bookmarking' capability, just to mention one. Then we have stuff like the speed and pitch adjustment. And, you might also have noticed a couple of choices under the Special menu, and wondered, what they are for. I here have in mind, the 'skip at beginning', and 'skip at the end' features. They were specially designed, due to user request, and with reading audiobooks in mind. Yet, Personally, I have found them particularly useful, when trying to edit certain parts of music, of which, I'd rather be back with more info, in a later email. Getting audiobooks in an electronic format, might not always be too easily achieved. The only place on the net, that I know of, which offers a bigger selection for sale, would be Audible. You might right away be familiar with that site, and in such a case, you know that it is delivering its contents in a specially COPYRIGHTED format - the Audible format (having the .A extension to its files). Audible has quite strict copyright rules, and even when comes to hardware players, only a VERY FEW players on the market, do have the capablility to play Audible books. So, asking the Mar-Dy team, to ever implement Audible playback in their software, would be something close to 'in vain'. Although I don't want to clutter this list with a long discussion on why, and why not, Audible does it this way, I still want to point it out, so that users will know, why this will not come true, until the day, Audible would change their scheme. And, after all, how many people would ever buy any books, if they were only allowed to read them in a particular branded chair. Or, how often would you be eating burgers, if you only were allowed doing so, if you sit at a given table, listening to one particular song, and eating within a predefined time frame. Well, you see, there is not too much reasons for offering Audible any more space, as an alternative in this mail. My heading, though, did state, where to get audiobooks. And, even for FREE. I will point you to a few places, that offers such material, fully legal. The selection on all of these sites are ever growing. Due to the copyright rules, and the fact they are offering the material for free, it tends to be older books. But, it is a nice way, of getting your hands on the good old classics, and keep them all legally in yor library. And, with MaPlEr, you can even build one playlist for each book, which in practical life means, you can read as many books you want in parallel, and simply always refind your last read spot, in each and everyone of them. Yet another of those useful features, that the Mar-Dy team has been kind enough to implement, and which is quite beneficial. The biggest - and fastest growing - place to find the free audiobooks, would be at Librivox.org. Librivox, is getting their material from volunteers, all over the globe. In other words, you will listen to a book, all read by a real human. Yet, you will encounter all kinds of Flavored English. One small drawback, would be that one and same book, might have its different parts - or chapters - read by different persons. Well enough, you won't
Re: MaPlEr
Oh by adjusting the pitch of the file? I think that's a cool feature and wish Winamp and other players had this capability without plug-ins. Sent using Thunderbird On 19/08/2010 5:39, Robert doc Wright wrote: I use it when I need to learn a complicated bass line. - Original Message - From: chris hallsworth christopher...@googlemail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:27 PM Subject: MaPlEr Hello all, Notice the capitals between the letters; this is how you actually spell the program. Does anyone use MaPlEr? If so what do you think? I like the program. Doesn't set it apart from Winamp except to say it's fully accessible and has features that Winamp or other players often don't have. Just wanted to spark a discussion. -- Sent using Thunderbird 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: MaPlEr
Actually by adjusting the speed so I can better hear what is being played. I slow it down and play at that speed until i have it. then I put it back to normal and test myself. - Original Message - From: chris hallsworth christopher...@googlemail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:17 AM Subject: Re: MaPlEr Oh by adjusting the pitch of the file? I think that's a cool feature and wish Winamp and other players had this capability without plug-ins. Sent using Thunderbird On 19/08/2010 5:39, Robert doc Wright wrote: I use it when I need to learn a complicated bass line. - Original Message - From: chris hallsworth christopher...@googlemail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:27 PM Subject: MaPlEr Hello all, Notice the capitals between the letters; this is how you actually spell the program. Does anyone use MaPlEr? If so what do you think? I like the program. Doesn't set it apart from Winamp except to say it's fully accessible and has features that Winamp or other players often don't have. Just wanted to spark a discussion. -- Sent using Thunderbird 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 __ NOD32 5378 (20100819) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: MaPlEr
Where can I get the software? -- 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
Re: MaPlEr
hmmm, ask uncle google? msn bellevue@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer last fm http://last.fm/lord_of_beer - Original Message - From: Wyatt Rose, an SA Mobile Network User wyattr...@samobile.net To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 11:14 AM Subject: Re: MaPlEr Where can I get the software? -- 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
Re: MaPlEr
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2144569/MaPlEr_108_Setup.exe - Original Message - From: Wyatt Rose, an SA Mobile Network User wyattr...@samobile.net To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:14 AM Subject: Re: MaPlEr Where can I get the software? -- 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
Re: MaPlEr
Try this link, instead of the drop box link, that Robert just gave you: http://www.mar-dy.com/MaPlEr/MaPlEr.php HTH, -Mac- To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: MaPlEr
Yes I've used it for that also. You can speed up and slow stuff down as you can in Goldwave or Soundforge without changing the pitch. Great for learning music. On Aug 19, 2010, at 4:17 AM, chris hallsworth wrote: Oh by adjusting the pitch of the file? I think that's a cool feature and wish Winamp and other players had this capability without plug-ins. Sent using Thunderbird On 19/08/2010 5:39, Robert doc Wright wrote: I use it when I need to learn a complicated bass line. - Original Message - From: chris hallsworth christopher...@googlemail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:27 PM Subject: MaPlEr Hello all, Notice the capitals between the letters; this is how you actually spell the program. Does anyone use MaPlEr? If so what do you think? I like the program. Doesn't set it apart from Winamp except to say it's fully accessible and has features that Winamp or other players often don't have. Just wanted to spark a discussion. -- Sent using Thunderbird 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
MaPlEr
Hello all, Notice the capitals between the letters; this is how you actually spell the program. Does anyone use MaPlEr? If so what do you think? I like the program. Doesn't set it apart from Winamp except to say it's fully accessible and has features that Winamp or other players often don't have. Just wanted to spark a discussion. -- Sent using Thunderbird To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: MaPlEr
I had high hopes for it when it was first released since it had a lot of features and was easy to use. However it hasn't been expanded much and doesn't work with any of the plug-ins that make Winamp so flexible so I pretty much gave up on it. It really hasn't changed too much since it was originally released, a few tweaks here and there but that's it. On Aug 17, 2010, at 6:27 PM, chris hallsworth wrote: Hello all, Notice the capitals between the letters; this is how you actually spell the program. Does anyone use MaPlEr? If so what do you think? I like the program. Doesn't set it apart from Winamp except to say it's fully accessible and has features that Winamp or other players often don't have. Just wanted to spark a discussion. -- Sent using Thunderbird 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: MaPlEr
I use it when I need to learn a complicated bass line. - Original Message - From: chris hallsworth christopher...@googlemail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:27 PM Subject: MaPlEr Hello all, Notice the capitals between the letters; this is how you actually spell the program. Does anyone use MaPlEr? If so what do you think? I like the program. Doesn't set it apart from Winamp except to say it's fully accessible and has features that Winamp or other players often don't have. Just wanted to spark a discussion. -- Sent using Thunderbird 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
Fwd: MardySoftware: New MaPlEr V1.14.0 available!
MaPlEr is an accessible media player for Windows. -Steve. From: Mar-Dy-Team supp...@mar-dy.com Hello together, Here we come with the newest version of our media player and playlist generator MaPlEr. We have included many new features in this version. We think it's worth to read the what's new-section, because there are some exciting ones. For example, MaPlEr now holds over 2,600 radio stations! A special thanks to david, who make most of them available! It was a great job. Another one is the possibility to use MaPlEr to start your PC at a given time. But, read for yourself. ;-) We would appreciate your commends, bug reports and suggestions for further versions! You'll find the what's new as always at the end of the mail. Have much fun with the new version! With best regards from germany your Mardy-Team What's new: new features - WakeUpTimer: you can set a wake up timer. That means, when you put your PC into standby mode, or hibernation mode, the PC will be waked up at the given time, and MaPlEr will start playing. So you can use it as an alarm clock. - added ctrl+f to search the whole playlist for a string. You can select in which fields of the play list should be searched. With F3 you can jump to the next occurance of the String. Shift+F3 searches backwards and ctrl+F3 jumps to the first search result. These commands are available in the radio screen too. - With File | restore last play list it is possible to restore the last file(s) you have played. This works without saving a play list explicitely. - Radio screen: now MaPlEr displays all stations of all integrated countries. If you want to select the countries, which stations should be displayed, please goto view | Display all stations and uncheck this box. You can select which stations should be displayed, by selecting Radio | Settings. - we have many new radio stations for several countries. A special thanks to David, who make around 2600 stations available. It was a excelent done job! Now MaPlEr holds stations for the following countries: - Australia - Canada (english and french seperated). - Germany - Denmark - French - Great Britain - Ireland - New Zealand - Norway - Sweden - USA The stations for Canada and USA holds codes for teretories/districts. They are noted in square brackets behind the name of the station. so the user knows where the station is located - especially usefull for knowing the right time zone. A full list of codes can be found under the Stations menu in the radio screen. - The settings for volume and the channels are automatically saved for every favourite. That means: if you adjust the volume for a favourite, go to another radio station, and change the volume, because it's louder than the last one, and you come back to your previously saved favourite, the volume will be automatically restored. - The last radio station you listened to will be restored when coming back to the radio screen. - new entry under the radio menu: Play last station automatically. If this is checked, the last station you listened to will begin playing automatically after coming to the radio screen. - When you convert tracks (and CD-Ripping) you can tell MaPlEr to create a Folder for each Artist and Album automatically. That means, if you Convert a CD, MaPlEr will create the folder for the CD-Artist, therein a folder for the Album, and so you can put the next CD into your CD-Drive without manually creating the necessary folders. This feature can also be used to rearrange your folder with all MP3 files mixed up. ;-) - The global hotkeys for previous and next track now work for previous and next favourite too, if radio is playing while using this keys. - you can use view | show location of radio station to display where the current favourite is taken from, when many stations of different locations has the same name. - with alt+u you can mute/unmute the playback while recording a radio station. - Added a new dialog called advanced settings. These should only be changed if really needed. For example, here you can adjust the time MaPlEr waits until it gives up to connect to a radio station, or the length of the playback buffer. If you listen to a file through a network, it may be better to increase the buffer length, for a result without glitches, but the time MaPlEr will react on keys like p for changing pitch will increase too. changes - The shortcut to change frequency has been changed to q. If you don't have special adjustments for your keyboard settings, just go to settings | Default settings | Set shortcuts to default values. - or just make the changes by hand. - j and ctrl+j for jump mode has been removed, because it's not longer supported. - The menu mono mode has changed its name to channels. It holds the for we hope selfexplaining entries: mono, stereo, only left channel and only right channel. - now you can safe as many favourites as you want. - Now you must add
RE: A couple of tips to improve your MaPlEr
Hi, I can just confirm that this player is really really good. Brian -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of dan thompson Sent: 2. april 2010 13:03 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: A couple of tips to improve your MaPlEr Thanks Dave, I tried emaling this company on Monday because of a restration problem and haven't heard anything yet. Do you happen to have the best email address to reach the individuals in tech? Thanks very much in advance. - Original Message - From: Steve Pattison s...@internode.on.net To: Access L acces...@access-l.com; CUG Members memb...@bcacug.org; VIP-L vi...@freelists.org Cc: PC Audio pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 11:17 PM Subject: Fwd: A couple of tips to improve your MaPlEr MaPlEr is an accessible media player available from http://www.mar-dy.com/MaPlEr/MaPlEr.php -Steve. From: David You will have noticed, that MaPlEr displays information like Artist, Album and Track title, when playing your songs. Each of these informations are displayed in their respective columns. Unfortunately, the speech synthesizer in the screen reader, does not always split these informations, hence often you will have the full line of information read as one long phrase, making it a bit hard to distinguish the one column from the other. This can easily be fixed: Thing is that MaPlEr standard ships with the 'split character' between columns set to a single dash, that usually will have little effect on most voices in your screen reader. Here is how to fix it: 1. go to Settings (Alt-S) 2. Choose Optical Settings. 3. Tab to 'Character between columns', and here type the period sign on your keyboard followed by a Space (. ). 4. Press Enter. Your speech now will make a small pause between each information, making it somehow more comprehendable to scroll through your playlist. ... MaPlEr has the ability to remember the last four played playlists. You easily can access them by going to the File menu, and pressing 1 through 4. On the other hand, if you want to switch between these even more quickly, here is a suggestion: 1. Go to Settings menu (Alt-S). 2. choose Keyboard (K). 3. Choose Define Shortcuts (E). 4. Scroll down to File - 1. 5. Press a wanted hotkey, for instance, CTRL-1. 6. Repeat the two previous steps for File -2, File- 3, and File -4. 7. Press Tab, and press Enter on OK. From now on, you can press the newly defined hotkeys (in the example Ctrl-1 through Ctrl-4), and quickly switch between the last four playlists. When is this feature useful? Well, say you are listening to an audiobook. It is defined by MaPlEr as a playlist, and the software will keep track of where in the book you are, at any given time. You now get tired of the book, and want a break, in which you want to listen to some music. Your second playlist now will be holding your music. After half an hour of music listening you want to go back to your audiobook, and simply switching back to your playlist that holds the book, will put you where you left your reading. With the above defining of hotkeys for this switch, it is done in a swift to 'pop' between your playlists. Start playing around, and you will soon find your MaPlEr gets even a greater tool. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: 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
Fwd: A couple of tips to improve your MaPlEr
MaPlEr is an accessible media player available from http://www.mar-dy.com/MaPlEr/MaPlEr.php -Steve. From: David You will have noticed, that MaPlEr displays information like Artist, Album and Track title, when playing your songs. Each of these informations are displayed in their respective columns. Unfortunately, the speech synthesizer in the screen reader, does not always split these informations, hence often you will have the full line of information read as one long phrase, making it a bit hard to distinguish the one column from the other. This can easily be fixed: Thing is that MaPlEr standard ships with the 'split character' between columns set to a single dash, that usually will have little effect on most voices in your screen reader. Here is how to fix it: 1. go to Settings (Alt-S) 2. Choose Optical Settings. 3. Tab to 'Character between columns', and here type the period sign on your keyboard followed by a Space (. ). 4. Press Enter. Your speech now will make a small pause between each information, making it somehow more comprehendable to scroll through your playlist. ... MaPlEr has the ability to remember the last four played playlists. You easily can access them by going to the File menu, and pressing 1 through 4. On the other hand, if you want to switch between these even more quickly, here is a suggestion: 1. Go to Settings menu (Alt-S). 2. choose Keyboard (K). 3. Choose Define Shortcuts (E). 4. Scroll down to File - 1. 5. Press a wanted hotkey, for instance, CTRL-1. 6. Repeat the two previous steps for File -2, File- 3, and File -4. 7. Press Tab, and press Enter on OK. From now on, you can press the newly defined hotkeys (in the example Ctrl-1 through Ctrl-4), and quickly switch between the last four playlists. When is this feature useful? Well, say you are listening to an audiobook. It is defined by MaPlEr as a playlist, and the software will keep track of where in the book you are, at any given time. You now get tired of the book, and want a break, in which you want to listen to some music. Your second playlist now will be holding your music. After half an hour of music listening you want to go back to your audiobook, and simply switching back to your playlist that holds the book, will put you where you left your reading. With the above defining of hotkeys for this switch, it is done in a swift to 'pop' between your playlists. Start playing around, and you will soon find your MaPlEr gets even a greater tool. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Fwd: MardySoftware New MaPlEr V1.12.0 released!
The MaPLEr audio player can be downloaded from www.mar-dy.com/MaPlEr/MaPlEr.php Regards Steve. From: Marco Steinebach - Mardy supp...@mar-dy.com Hello to all, Here we come with the new V1.12 of MaPlEr. We have included many new things, especially global hotkeys and new bookmark system and MaPlEr is now Win7-ready. The What's new is at the end of this mail. So if you want to update MaPlEr, just go to help and select search for update. Best regards from germany and we are looking for your feedback, questions and suggestions! Andy and Marco (Mar-Dy-Team) What's new in V1.12.0: new features - MaPlEr is now Vista and Win7-Ready! - Under settings | Keyboard | Global Hotkeys you can define global hotkeys for the following functions: (every function is followed by their default global hotkey) play/pause - pause bring MaPlEr to the front and go back to the program where you was before - Shift+pause previous track - ctrl+alt+f9 next track - ctrl+alt+f10 5 seconds backwards - ctrl+alt+f11 5 seconds forward - ctrl+alt+f12 decrease volume - ctrl+alt+f7 increase volume - ctrl+alt+f8 Global hotkey means, that you can press them from everywhere in windows, and MaPlEr will react on it. The list has a context menu to use the windows key as a key modifier and for some special keys, like up and down arrow. note: scroll lock and print screen cannot be used as global hotkeys. - now you can use bookmarks even without specifying a play list. That means: Just listen to one file, press b to set a bookmark, and when you come back to this file, you can use ctrl+shift+left and -right arrow to jump back to the position where you was before. - added extras | ftp. This brings up a dialog where you can enter a ftp server, and can play files just without downloading them first. - Added a new dialog for recording to the radio screen. Now you can record all stations, no matter which format they have, you can specify a file name, and/or a start- and end time for the recording. - Now MaPlEr supports mp2-, mp1- and aiff-files too. - the list of missing files when loading a play list, can now be copied to the clipboard or saved to a file. - Edit | Clear play list (shift+Delete) will delete all tracks from the play list, without changing the name of the playlist. - title | mark all tracks as nice - will do what you think it does. ;-) You can then unmark several tracks instead of marking many tracks as nice. - New setting calculate exact lengths added. If this is enabled, MaPlEr will first scan fast through all files to find a good estimated length for every track. Because of many possibilities to convert tracks with many VBR methods its necessary to scan the whole file, to get an exact lenght. This is done in the background, if this setting is enabled - and the progress is shown in the status bar. Normally there's no need for turning this setting of, except you're running MaPlEr on a very old machine. - special | skip time at beginning and - skip time add end lets you define an amount of time, which is skipped at the beginning and/or end of each track of a play list. This is usefull, when every track has a starting and/or ending phrase, which you don't want to hear, e.g. with the tracks from AudioBooksForFree.com. - We have a new file with norwegian radio stations. changes - the context menu in the radio screen was replaced by a normal menu. - all settings, which are stored for every play list, have been moved to a new menu called special. This means: volume, speed, pitch, frequency and mono/stereo controls are now part of the new special menu. If you save a play list, these settings are stored automatically and are restored when loading the play list the next time. - the information about - bitrate (including VBR or not) - mono or stereo - skip times are displayed in the status field. - MaPlEr should start faster now! fixed bugs - the shortcut to change the volume in the radio screen is now v too! - if you change the order of the columns, the fields for width are now filled correctly. - the playing in mono sometimes causes an error message, and, with some files, it produces some glitches - fixed. Regards Steve Email: s...@internode.on.net MSN Messenger: internetuser...@hotmail.com Skype: steve1963 Twitter: steve9782 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
RE: MardySoftware New MaPlEr V1.12.0 released!
This is becoming very inpressive indeed. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Steve Pattison Sent: 18 January 2010 04:46 PM To: Access L; CUG Members; PC Audio Subject: Fwd: MardySoftware New MaPlEr V1.12.0 released! The MaPLEr audio player can be downloaded from www.mar-dy.com/MaPlEr/MaPlEr.php Regards Steve. From: Marco Steinebach - Mardy supp...@mar-dy.com Hello to all, Here we come with the new V1.12 of MaPlEr. We have included many new things, especially global hotkeys and new bookmark system and MaPlEr is now Win7-ready. The What's new is at the end of this mail. So if you want to update MaPlEr, just go to help and select search for update. Best regards from germany and we are looking for your feedback, questions and suggestions! Andy and Marco (Mar-Dy-Team) What's new in V1.12.0: new features - MaPlEr is now Vista and Win7-Ready! - Under settings | Keyboard | Global Hotkeys you can define global hotkeys for the following functions: (every function is followed by their default global hotkey) play/pause - pause bring MaPlEr to the front and go back to the program where you was before - Shift+pause previous track - ctrl+alt+f9 next track - ctrl+alt+f10 5 seconds backwards - ctrl+alt+f11 5 seconds forward - ctrl+alt+f12 decrease volume - ctrl+alt+f7 increase volume - ctrl+alt+f8 Global hotkey means, that you can press them from everywhere in windows, and MaPlEr will react on it. The list has a context menu to use the windows key as a key modifier and for some special keys, like up and down arrow. note: scroll lock and print screen cannot be used as global hotkeys. - now you can use bookmarks even without specifying a play list. That means: Just listen to one file, press b to set a bookmark, and when you come back to this file, you can use ctrl+shift+left and -right arrow to jump back to the position where you was before. - added extras | ftp. This brings up a dialog where you can enter a ftp server, and can play files just without downloading them first. - Added a new dialog for recording to the radio screen. Now you can record all stations, no matter which format they have, you can specify a file name, and/or a start- and end time for the recording. - Now MaPlEr supports mp2-, mp1- and aiff-files too. - the list of missing files when loading a play list, can now be copied to the clipboard or saved to a file. - Edit | Clear play list (shift+Delete) will delete all tracks from the play list, without changing the name of the playlist. - title | mark all tracks as nice - will do what you think it does. ;-) You can then unmark several tracks instead of marking many tracks as nice. - New setting calculate exact lengths added. If this is enabled, MaPlEr will first scan fast through all files to find a good estimated length for every track. Because of many possibilities to convert tracks with many VBR methods its necessary to scan the whole file, to get an exact lenght. This is done in the background, if this setting is enabled - and the progress is shown in the status bar. Normally there's no need for turning this setting of, except you're running MaPlEr on a very old machine. - special | skip time at beginning and - skip time add end lets you define an amount of time, which is skipped at the beginning and/or end of each track of a play list. This is usefull, when every track has a starting and/or ending phrase, which you don't want to hear, e.g. with the tracks from AudioBooksForFree.com. - We have a new file with norwegian radio stations. changes - the context menu in the radio screen was replaced by a normal menu. - all settings, which are stored for every play list, have been moved to a new menu called special. This means: volume, speed, pitch, frequency and mono/stereo controls are now part of the new special menu. If you save a play list, these settings are stored automatically and are restored when loading the play list the next time. - the information about - bitrate (including VBR or not) - mono or stereo - skip times are displayed in the status field. - MaPlEr should start faster now! fixed bugs - the shortcut to change the volume in the radio screen is now v too! - if you change the order of the columns, the fields for width are now filled correctly. - the playing in mono sometimes causes an error message, and, with some files, it produces some glitches - fixed. Regards Steve Email: s...@internode.on.net MSN Messenger: internetuser...@hotmail.com Skype: steve1963 Twitter: steve9782 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.725 / Virus Database: 270.14.148/2629 - Release Date: 01/17/10 21:35:00 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: MardySoftware New MaPlEr V1.12.0 released!
tell us more! or tell me more - Original Message - From: André van Deventer andred...@webafrica.org.za To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 9:25 AM Subject: RE: MardySoftware New MaPlEr V1.12.0 released! This is becoming very inpressive indeed. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Steve Pattison Sent: 18 January 2010 04:46 PM To: Access L; CUG Members; PC Audio Subject: Fwd: MardySoftware New MaPlEr V1.12.0 released! The MaPLEr audio player can be downloaded from www.mar-dy.com/MaPlEr/MaPlEr.php Regards Steve. From: Marco Steinebach - Mardy supp...@mar-dy.com Hello to all, Here we come with the new V1.12 of MaPlEr. We have included many new things, especially global hotkeys and new bookmark system and MaPlEr is now Win7-ready. The What's new is at the end of this mail. So if you want to update MaPlEr, just go to help and select search for update. Best regards from germany and we are looking for your feedback, questions and suggestions! Andy and Marco (Mar-Dy-Team) What's new in V1.12.0: new features - MaPlEr is now Vista and Win7-Ready! - Under settings | Keyboard | Global Hotkeys you can define global hotkeys for the following functions: (every function is followed by their default global hotkey) play/pause - pause bring MaPlEr to the front and go back to the program where you was before - Shift+pause previous track - ctrl+alt+f9 next track - ctrl+alt+f10 5 seconds backwards - ctrl+alt+f11 5 seconds forward - ctrl+alt+f12 decrease volume - ctrl+alt+f7 increase volume - ctrl+alt+f8 Global hotkey means, that you can press them from everywhere in windows, and MaPlEr will react on it. The list has a context menu to use the windows key as a key modifier and for some special keys, like up and down arrow. note: scroll lock and print screen cannot be used as global hotkeys. - now you can use bookmarks even without specifying a play list. That means: Just listen to one file, press b to set a bookmark, and when you come back to this file, you can use ctrl+shift+left and -right arrow to jump back to the position where you was before. - added extras | ftp. This brings up a dialog where you can enter a ftp server, and can play files just without downloading them first. - Added a new dialog for recording to the radio screen. Now you can record all stations, no matter which format they have, you can specify a file name, and/or a start- and end time for the recording. - Now MaPlEr supports mp2-, mp1- and aiff-files too. - the list of missing files when loading a play list, can now be copied to the clipboard or saved to a file. - Edit | Clear play list (shift+Delete) will delete all tracks from the play list, without changing the name of the playlist. - title | mark all tracks as nice - will do what you think it does. ;-) You can then unmark several tracks instead of marking many tracks as nice. - New setting calculate exact lengths added. If this is enabled, MaPlEr will first scan fast through all files to find a good estimated length for every track. Because of many possibilities to convert tracks with many VBR methods its necessary to scan the whole file, to get an exact lenght. This is done in the background, if this setting is enabled - and the progress is shown in the status bar. Normally there's no need for turning this setting of, except you're running MaPlEr on a very old machine. - special | skip time at beginning and - skip time add end lets you define an amount of time, which is skipped at the beginning and/or end of each track of a play list. This is usefull, when every track has a starting and/or ending phrase, which you don't want to hear, e.g. with the tracks from AudioBooksForFree.com. - We have a new file with norwegian radio stations. changes - the context menu in the radio screen was replaced by a normal menu. - all settings, which are stored for every play list, have been moved to a new menu called special. This means: volume, speed, pitch, frequency and mono/stereo controls are now part of the new special menu. If you save a play list, these settings are stored automatically and are restored when loading the play list the next time. - the information about - bitrate (including VBR or not) - mono or stereo - skip times are displayed in the status field. - MaPlEr should start faster now! fixed bugs - the shortcut to change the volume in the radio screen is now v too! - if you change the order of the columns, the fields for width are now filled correctly. - the playing in mono sometimes causes an error message, and, with some files, it produces some glitches - fixed. Regards Steve Email: s...@internode.on.net MSN Messenger: internetuser...@hotmail.com Skype: steve1963 Twitter: steve9782 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org No virus found
MaPlEr V1.08
I purchased this program and have yet to see an email address with my registration code. Has anyone else purchased it and how long did you have to wait to get your code? ** If we can't look at ourselves, and ask, why? then where does the learning start? robert Doc Wright http://www.wrightplaceinc.net msn godfeare...@hotmail.com Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: MaPlEr V1.08
Robert: I had to send them an email reminder. You might want to try that. Cheers. - Original Message - From: Robert doc Wright talmi...@wrightplaceinc.net To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 9:53 AM Subject: MaPlEr V1.08 I purchased this program and have yet to see an email address with my registration code. Has anyone else purchased it and how long did you have to wait to get your code? ** If we can't look at ourselves, and ask, why? then where does the learning start? robert Doc Wright http://www.wrightplaceinc.net msn godfeare...@hotmail.com Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: MaPlEr V1.08
It finally came in this morning. ** If we can't look at ourselves, and ask, why? then where does the learning start? robert Doc Wright http://www.wrightplaceinc.net msn godfeare...@hotmail.com - Original Message - From: Jim Noseworthy To: PC Audio Discussion List Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 9:27 AM Subject: Re: MaPlEr V1.08 Robert: I had to send them an email reminder. You might want to try that. Cheers. - Original Message - From: Robert doc Wright talmi...@wrightplaceinc.net To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 9:53 AM Subject: MaPlEr V1.08 I purchased this program and have yet to see an email address with my registration code. Has anyone else purchased it and how long did you have to wait to get your code? ** If we can't look at ourselves, and ask, why? then where does the learning start? robert Doc Wright http://www.wrightplaceinc.net msn godfeare...@hotmail.com Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3851 (20090213) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
RE: MaPlEr V1.08
Hi, I got mine within a few hours. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Robert doc Wright Sent: Friday, 13 February 2009 11:54 PM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: MaPlEr V1.08 I purchased this program and have yet to see an email address with my registration code. Has anyone else purchased it and how long did you have to wait to get your code? ** If we can't look at ourselves, and ask, why? then where does the learning start? robert Doc Wright http://www.wrightplaceinc.net msn godfeare...@hotmail.com Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org __ NOD32 3850 (20090213) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Fwd: MaPlEr V1.08 released!
MaPlEr is an accessible media player that is designed to work with screen readers. -Steve. From: Scott Erichsen piano...@scotterichsen.com To: vi...@softspeak.com.au Hello to all, After a while of working, we now have released Version 1.08 of MaPlEr. We have added a lot of new features and we hope you'll enjoy them. For this update please do not use the update feature of MaPlEr. Please download the setup file from our homepage, and install it. This is necessary because of integrating the CD-Ripping-Feature. The direct download link is http://www.odissa.de/php/CHCounter/getfile.php?id=10 a word about the conversion function: to convert to MP3 files you have to download the program lame.exe. You can get it e.g. on this site http://audio.ciara.us/rarewares/lame3.98.2.zip Please unzip the file and copy lame.exe to the program folder, where you have installed MaPlEr. Because of license laws we are not allowed to bundle lame.exe with our program. But if you download it your own, it's not illegal. I'll attach the what's new list at the end of the mail. Best regards from here and we are waiting for your feedback and hope you'll have much fun with the new version! Marco (Mar-dy-Team). V1.08.0: - Integrated the English help file. - We have rapidly decreased the time to recognize the tracks of an audio CD. - Assign shortcuts to all labels of the different dialog boxes. - Extras | convert: with this feature you can convert several audio formats to another. With this dialog you can convert audio CD's to MP3 too. Please refer to our homepage for more information. - If you insert an audio CD in your CD-ROM-Drive, you can select MaPlEr to play this CD right from this popup menu. - If you have multiple sound cards you can switch between the soundcards. This can be done while MaPlEr is playing too. - view | column settings: with this entry you can tell MaPlEr which columns should be shown and the width of each column. The order of the columns can be set here too. - view | Display columns as one long row: this displays all the columns as one long row, without many spaces between. This setting is useful especially for use with a braille display. - view | refresh: this refreshes the entries of the currently loaded play list. - Player | player follows cursor: if you deactivate this entry you can navigate through the play list, without stopping the playback of the current track. If you want to listen to the track, which has the focus, you must explicitly play it by pressing the letter x. Regards Steve Email: s...@internode.on.net Windows Live Messenger: internetuser...@hotmail.com Skype: steve1963 Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: MaPlEr V1.08 released!
Has anyhone actually downloaded and run this program? Had a very unpleasant experience with a prograsm that was suggested for download on one of these list several years. The lister painted a glowing picture of the program sayig that it was designed with blind users in mind. In fact what it did was to erase my main drive. So again has anyone actually downloaded this package? It does sound interesting. Cheers Andrea - Original Message - From: Steve Pattison s...@internode.on.net To: Access-L acces...@access-l.com; PC-Audio pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 10:45 PM Subject: Fwd: MaPlEr V1.08 released! MaPlEr is an accessible media player that is designed to work with screen readers. -Steve. From: Scott Erichsen piano...@scotterichsen.com To: vi...@softspeak.com.au Hello to all, After a while of working, we now have released Version 1.08 of MaPlEr. We have added a lot of new features and we hope you'll enjoy them. For this update please do not use the update feature of MaPlEr. Please download the setup file from our homepage, and install it. This is necessary because of integrating the CD-Ripping-Feature. The direct download link is http://www.odissa.de/php/CHCounter/getfile.php?id=10 a word about the conversion function: to convert to MP3 files you have to download the program lame.exe. You can get it e.g. on this site http://audio.ciara.us/rarewares/lame3.98.2.zip Please unzip the file and copy lame.exe to the program folder, where you have installed MaPlEr. Because of license laws we are not allowed to bundle lame.exe with our program. But if you download it your own, it's not illegal. I'll attach the what's new list at the end of the mail. Best regards from here and we are waiting for your feedback and hope you'll have much fun with the new version! Marco (Mar-dy-Team). V1.08.0: - Integrated the English help file. - We have rapidly decreased the time to recognize the tracks of an audio CD. - Assign shortcuts to all labels of the different dialog boxes. - Extras | convert: with this feature you can convert several audio formats to another. With this dialog you can convert audio CD's to MP3 too. Please refer to our homepage for more information. - If you insert an audio CD in your CD-ROM-Drive, you can select MaPlEr to play this CD right from this popup menu. - If you have multiple sound cards you can switch between the soundcards. This can be done while MaPlEr is playing too. - view | column settings: with this entry you can tell MaPlEr which columns should be shown and the width of each column. The order of the columns can be set here too. - view | Display columns as one long row: this displays all the columns as one long row, without many spaces between. This setting is useful especially for use with a braille display. - view | refresh: this refreshes the entries of the currently loaded play list. - Player | player follows cursor: if you deactivate this entry you can navigate through the play list, without stopping the playback of the current track. If you want to listen to the track, which has the focus, you must explicitly play it by pressing the letter x. Regards Steve Email: s...@internode.on.net Windows Live Messenger: internetuser...@hotmail.com Skype: steve1963 Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: MaPlEr V1.08 released!
Yes I've been running it for a month or so and it works well. - Original Message - From: Andrea Sherry sherr...@tpg.com.au To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 3:11 PM Subject: Re: MaPlEr V1.08 released! Has anyhone actually downloaded and run this program? Had a very unpleasant experience with a prograsm that was suggested for download on one of these list several years. The lister painted a glowing picture of the program sayig that it was designed with blind users in mind. In fact what it did was to erase my main drive. So again has anyone actually downloaded this package? It does sound interesting. Cheers Andrea - Original Message - From: Steve Pattison s...@internode.on.net To: Access-L acces...@access-l.com; PC-Audio pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 10:45 PM Subject: Fwd: MaPlEr V1.08 released! MaPlEr is an accessible media player that is designed to work with screen readers. -Steve. From: Scott Erichsen piano...@scotterichsen.com To: vi...@softspeak.com.au Hello to all, After a while of working, we now have released Version 1.08 of MaPlEr. We have added a lot of new features and we hope you'll enjoy them. For this update please do not use the update feature of MaPlEr. Please download the setup file from our homepage, and install it. This is necessary because of integrating the CD-Ripping-Feature. The direct download link is http://www.odissa.de/php/CHCounter/getfile.php?id=10 a word about the conversion function: to convert to MP3 files you have to download the program lame.exe. You can get it e.g. on this site http://audio.ciara.us/rarewares/lame3.98.2.zip Please unzip the file and copy lame.exe to the program folder, where you have installed MaPlEr. Because of license laws we are not allowed to bundle lame.exe with our program. But if you download it your own, it's not illegal. I'll attach the what's new list at the end of the mail. Best regards from here and we are waiting for your feedback and hope you'll have much fun with the new version! Marco (Mar-dy-Team). V1.08.0: - Integrated the English help file. - We have rapidly decreased the time to recognize the tracks of an audio CD. - Assign shortcuts to all labels of the different dialog boxes. - Extras | convert: with this feature you can convert several audio formats to another. With this dialog you can convert audio CD's to MP3 too. Please refer to our homepage for more information. - If you insert an audio CD in your CD-ROM-Drive, you can select MaPlEr to play this CD right from this popup menu. - If you have multiple sound cards you can switch between the soundcards. This can be done while MaPlEr is playing too. - view | column settings: with this entry you can tell MaPlEr which columns should be shown and the width of each column. The order of the columns can be set here too. - view | Display columns as one long row: this displays all the columns as one long row, without many spaces between. This setting is useful especially for use with a braille display. - view | refresh: this refreshes the entries of the currently loaded play list. - Player | player follows cursor: if you deactivate this entry you can navigate through the play list, without stopping the playback of the current track. If you want to listen to the track, which has the focus, you must explicitly play it by pressing the letter x. Regards Steve Email: s...@internode.on.net Windows Live Messenger: internetuser...@hotmail.com Skype: steve1963 Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: MaPlEr V1.08 released!
Thanks heaps. Cheers Andrea - Original Message - From: Dave McLean david.mcl...@cox.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 8:10 AM Subject: Re: MaPlEr V1.08 released! Yes I've been running it for a month or so and it works well. - Original Message - From: Andrea Sherry sherr...@tpg.com.au To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 3:11 PM Subject: Re: MaPlEr V1.08 released! Has anyhone actually downloaded and run this program? Had a very unpleasant experience with a prograsm that was suggested for download on one of these list several years. The lister painted a glowing picture of the program sayig that it was designed with blind users in mind. In fact what it did was to erase my main drive. So again has anyone actually downloaded this package? It does sound interesting. Cheers Andrea - Original Message - From: Steve Pattison s...@internode.on.net To: Access-L acces...@access-l.com; PC-Audio pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 10:45 PM Subject: Fwd: MaPlEr V1.08 released! MaPlEr is an accessible media player that is designed to work with screen readers. -Steve. From: Scott Erichsen piano...@scotterichsen.com To: vi...@softspeak.com.au Hello to all, After a while of working, we now have released Version 1.08 of MaPlEr. We have added a lot of new features and we hope you'll enjoy them. For this update please do not use the update feature of MaPlEr. Please download the setup file from our homepage, and install it. This is necessary because of integrating the CD-Ripping-Feature. The direct download link is http://www.odissa.de/php/CHCounter/getfile.php?id=10 a word about the conversion function: to convert to MP3 files you have to download the program lame.exe. You can get it e.g. on this site http://audio.ciara.us/rarewares/lame3.98.2.zip Please unzip the file and copy lame.exe to the program folder, where you have installed MaPlEr. Because of license laws we are not allowed to bundle lame.exe with our program. But if you download it your own, it's not illegal. I'll attach the what's new list at the end of the mail. Best regards from here and we are waiting for your feedback and hope you'll have much fun with the new version! Marco (Mar-dy-Team). V1.08.0: - Integrated the English help file. - We have rapidly decreased the time to recognize the tracks of an audio CD. - Assign shortcuts to all labels of the different dialog boxes. - Extras | convert: with this feature you can convert several audio formats to another. With this dialog you can convert audio CD's to MP3 too. Please refer to our homepage for more information. - If you insert an audio CD in your CD-ROM-Drive, you can select MaPlEr to play this CD right from this popup menu. - If you have multiple sound cards you can switch between the soundcards. This can be done while MaPlEr is playing too. - view | column settings: with this entry you can tell MaPlEr which columns should be shown and the width of each column. The order of the columns can be set here too. - view | Display columns as one long row: this displays all the columns as one long row, without many spaces between. This setting is useful especially for use with a braille display. - view | refresh: this refreshes the entries of the currently loaded play list. - Player | player follows cursor: if you deactivate this entry you can navigate through the play list, without stopping the playback of the current track. If you want to listen to the track, which has the focus, you must explicitly play it by pressing the letter x. Regards Steve Email: s...@internode.on.net Windows Live Messenger: internetuser...@hotmail.com Skype: steve1963 Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
SV: My thoughts on the Mapler media player
Hello! One question to me that isn't celar. Is this player free of charge or do i have to pay the 7 euro to make it work properly? /Anders. -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] För Brian Hartgen Skickat: den 3 januari 2009 18:46 Till: PC Audio Discussion List Kopia: blindi...@freelists.org Ämne: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Hi There has been some discussion on the list about the new Mapler media player and playlist generator. I thought I would give my overview of how I found using the player from a user's perspective. Many media players are either fairly complex to use from a screen-reading standpoint or they require special plugins to achieve tasks which we as visually impaired people may like to do. Mapler is designed to make the playback of audio files and the creation of playlists easy while incorporating some unique features. As has been discussed, Mapler is an audio player and playlist generator produced by a small company in Germany. At least one of the developers is visually impaired, a fact derived from the podcast downloadable from the company web site which explains clearly how to use the program. All functions can be accessed using the keyboard or through the menu system. Because Mapler uses standard windows controls, no special scripts or screen-reader configuration files are required. It functions well with jaws, window-eyes or system access and I imagine all other screen-readers. Mapler costs 7 Euro if PayPal is used (about 10 dollars), or 11 Euro if an external company processes the credit card payment. Learning how to use Mapler is best achieved in my view using the podcast or by exploring the menus. The help topics are not accessible via the Help menu for some reason, but you can access them via the shortcut off the Programs menu, available from the Start menu. However, not all the files have been translated into English as some still remain in German. Having said that, Mapler is an incredibly easy player to use. For those people who do not want to learn how to use a complex media player,Mapler probably is for you. Advantages of using the Player: 1. It is easy to start, stop and pause the playing of a file, or move forward and backward it in predefined steps, such as five seconds, 30 seconds, or a minute at a time. 2. Files or folders can be added to create a playlist to hear the tracks immediately or the playlist can be saved with an .m3u extension. 3. One of the things I liked about Mapler was the ability to change the order of tracks in the playlist. Tracks can be rearranged by pressing Control+Up Arrow or Control+Down Arrow to move the selected track up or down in the playing order. Keystrokes also exist to move an item to the beginning or end of a playlist. 4. The volume of playback can be adjusted independently of the screen-reader. 5. The variable speed without pitch adjustment is particularly impressive. Many hardware and computer-based players often disturb the overall quality of the playback when audio is reproduced at high speed and I found accessing audio at a rapid rate using Mapler to be very easy on the ear. 6. There are a number of functions you can select when audio is being played, such as to repeat tracks, shuffle, continuously play, fade out or cross-fade. Parameters in the Settings menu allow you to control the cross-fade process. 7. A special sleep timer allows you to have the computer shut down or go into hybernation when the track or playlist has finished playing, or after a designated time period has elapsed. 8. One really cool feature is that you can pause and play the audio from within any application by pressing the Pause key on the computer keyboard, located on the top right of the qwerty keyboard. If for example you are located within Microsoft Word, and the Pause key is pressed once, the audio from Mapler is either paused or playback is resumed. If pressed twice quickly, focus is set to the Mapler window for any manipulation you may wish to do. When the Pause key is pressed twice quickly again, focus is reset back to the application you were previously using, very nice. 9. The supported file formats are audio CD, wav, MP3, MP4, OGG, WMA unprotected, AAC and FLAC. As a summary of the advantages of using Mapler, given this is version 1 I think this is going to be a fantastic program. It already has some great features. While some people may be a little scathing of specialist or accessible programs, undoubtedly there is a significant computer user base who can benefit from them. The only way in which the program will improve would be if people constructively submit feedback to the developers. Before I do that, let me write a few words about the demonstration copy of the program because the concept is quite interesting. All the functions of Mapler are available in the demo, and in fact if you just wanted to use it for creating playlists
My thoughts on the Mapler media player
Hi There has been some discussion on the list about the new Mapler media player and playlist generator. I thought I would give my overview of how I found using the player from a user's perspective. Many media players are either fairly complex to use from a screen-reading standpoint or they require special plugins to achieve tasks which we as visually impaired people may like to do. Mapler is designed to make the playback of audio files and the creation of playlists easy while incorporating some unique features. As has been discussed, Mapler is an audio player and playlist generator produced by a small company in Germany. At least one of the developers is visually impaired, a fact derived from the podcast downloadable from the company web site which explains clearly how to use the program. All functions can be accessed using the keyboard or through the menu system. Because Mapler uses standard windows controls, no special scripts or screen-reader configuration files are required. It functions well with jaws, window-eyes or system access and I imagine all other screen-readers. Mapler costs 7 Euro if PayPal is used (about 10 dollars), or 11 Euro if an external company processes the credit card payment. Learning how to use Mapler is best achieved in my view using the podcast or by exploring the menus. The help topics are not accessible via the Help menu for some reason, but you can access them via the shortcut off the Programs menu, available from the Start menu. However, not all the files have been translated into English as some still remain in German. Having said that, Mapler is an incredibly easy player to use. For those people who do not want to learn how to use a complex media player,Mapler probably is for you. Advantages of using the Player: 1. It is easy to start, stop and pause the playing of a file, or move forward and backward it in predefined steps, such as five seconds, 30 seconds, or a minute at a time. 2. Files or folders can be added to create a playlist to hear the tracks immediately or the playlist can be saved with an .m3u extension. 3. One of the things I liked about Mapler was the ability to change the order of tracks in the playlist. Tracks can be rearranged by pressing Control+Up Arrow or Control+Down Arrow to move the selected track up or down in the playing order. Keystrokes also exist to move an item to the beginning or end of a playlist. 4. The volume of playback can be adjusted independently of the screen-reader. 5. The variable speed without pitch adjustment is particularly impressive. Many hardware and computer-based players often disturb the overall quality of the playback when audio is reproduced at high speed and I found accessing audio at a rapid rate using Mapler to be very easy on the ear. 6. There are a number of functions you can select when audio is being played, such as to repeat tracks, shuffle, continuously play, fade out or cross-fade. Parameters in the Settings menu allow you to control the cross-fade process. 7. A special sleep timer allows you to have the computer shut down or go into hybernation when the track or playlist has finished playing, or after a designated time period has elapsed. 8. One really cool feature is that you can pause and play the audio from within any application by pressing the Pause key on the computer keyboard, located on the top right of the qwerty keyboard. If for example you are located within Microsoft Word, and the Pause key is pressed once, the audio from Mapler is either paused or playback is resumed. If pressed twice quickly, focus is set to the Mapler window for any manipulation you may wish to do. When the Pause key is pressed twice quickly again, focus is reset back to the application you were previously using, very nice. 9. The supported file formats are audio CD, wav, MP3, MP4, OGG, WMA unprotected, AAC and FLAC. As a summary of the advantages of using Mapler, given this is version 1 I think this is going to be a fantastic program. It already has some great features. While some people may be a little scathing of specialist or accessible programs, undoubtedly there is a significant computer user base who can benefit from them. The only way in which the program will improve would be if people constructively submit feedback to the developers. Before I do that, let me write a few words about the demonstration copy of the program because the concept is quite interesting. All the functions of Mapler are available in the demo, and in fact if you just wanted to use it for creating playlists alone, you can do that forever without encountering any restriction. So in theory you could use it to create playlists with all the nice accessible features without incurring any costs, and transfer the playlist to your mobile phone or portable player. However the demo restrictions apply when you begin to play audio content. When you have played audio
Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player
Hello Brian, There are two things that I would like to add. For starters, I haven't seen a media player that lets you record from the line and mike in jacks on your sound card. Audio editing would really be a nice touch too as well. And I would also like to have the ability of ripping and burning CD's too. John. - Original Message - From: Brian Hartgen br...@hartgen.org To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Cc: blindi...@freelists.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 12:46 PM Subject: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Hi There has been some discussion on the list about the new Mapler media player and playlist generator. I thought I would give my overview of how I found using the player from a user's perspective. Many media players are either fairly complex to use from a screen-reading standpoint or they require special plugins to achieve tasks which we as visually impaired people may like to do. Mapler is designed to make the playback of audio files and the creation of playlists easy while incorporating some unique features. As has been discussed, Mapler is an audio player and playlist generator produced by a small company in Germany. At least one of the developers is visually impaired, a fact derived from the podcast downloadable from the company web site which explains clearly how to use the program. All functions can be accessed using the keyboard or through the menu system. Because Mapler uses standard windows controls, no special scripts or screen-reader configuration files are required. It functions well with jaws, window-eyes or system access and I imagine all other screen-readers. Mapler costs 7 Euro if PayPal is used (about 10 dollars), or 11 Euro if an external company processes the credit card payment. Learning how to use Mapler is best achieved in my view using the podcast or by exploring the menus. The help topics are not accessible via the Help menu for some reason, but you can access them via the shortcut off the Programs menu, available from the Start menu. However, not all the files have been translated into English as some still remain in German. Having said that, Mapler is an incredibly easy player to use. For those people who do not want to learn how to use a complex media player,Mapler probably is for you. Advantages of using the Player: 1. It is easy to start, stop and pause the playing of a file, or move forward and backward it in predefined steps, such as five seconds, 30 seconds, or a minute at a time. 2. Files or folders can be added to create a playlist to hear the tracks immediately or the playlist can be saved with an .m3u extension. 3. One of the things I liked about Mapler was the ability to change the order of tracks in the playlist. Tracks can be rearranged by pressing Control+Up Arrow or Control+Down Arrow to move the selected track up or down in the playing order. Keystrokes also exist to move an item to the beginning or end of a playlist. 4. The volume of playback can be adjusted independently of the screen-reader. 5. The variable speed without pitch adjustment is particularly impressive. Many hardware and computer-based players often disturb the overall quality of the playback when audio is reproduced at high speed and I found accessing audio at a rapid rate using Mapler to be very easy on the ear. 6. There are a number of functions you can select when audio is being played, such as to repeat tracks, shuffle, continuously play, fade out or cross-fade. Parameters in the Settings menu allow you to control the cross-fade process. 7. A special sleep timer allows you to have the computer shut down or go into hybernation when the track or playlist has finished playing, or after a designated time period has elapsed. 8. One really cool feature is that you can pause and play the audio from within any application by pressing the Pause key on the computer keyboard, located on the top right of the qwerty keyboard. If for example you are located within Microsoft Word, and the Pause key is pressed once, the audio from Mapler is either paused or playback is resumed. If pressed twice quickly, focus is set to the Mapler window for any manipulation you may wish to do. When the Pause key is pressed twice quickly again, focus is reset back to the application you were previously using, very nice. 9. The supported file formats are audio CD, wav, MP3, MP4, OGG, WMA unprotected, AAC and FLAC. As a summary of the advantages of using Mapler, given this is version 1 I think this is going to be a fantastic program. It already has some great features. While some people may be a little scathing of specialist or accessible programs, undoubtedly there is a significant computer user base who can benefit from them. The only way in which the program will improve would be if people constructively submit feedback to the developers. Before I do that, let me write a few words about
Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player
Actually I believe you can record from the line input with Winamp if you use the linerec input plug-in. It's a bit cumbersome because you'd have to have the output go to one of the disk writer plug-ins but I think it can be done. It's a lot easier with Goldwave though! - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@windstream.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 8:17 PM Subject: Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Hello Brian, There are two things that I would like to add. For starters, I haven't seen a media player that lets you record from the line and mike in jacks on your sound card. Audio editing would really be a nice touch too as well. And I would also like to have the ability of ripping and burning CD's too. John. - Original Message - From: Brian Hartgen br...@hartgen.org To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Cc: blindi...@freelists.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 12:46 PM Subject: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Hi There has been some discussion on the list about the new Mapler media player and playlist generator. I thought I would give my overview of how I found using the player from a user's perspective. Many media players are either fairly complex to use from a screen-reading standpoint or they require special plugins to achieve tasks which we as visually impaired people may like to do. Mapler is designed to make the playback of audio files and the creation of playlists easy while incorporating some unique features. As has been discussed, Mapler is an audio player and playlist generator produced by a small company in Germany. At least one of the developers is visually impaired, a fact derived from the podcast downloadable from the company web site which explains clearly how to use the program. All functions can be accessed using the keyboard or through the menu system. Because Mapler uses standard windows controls, no special scripts or screen-reader configuration files are required. It functions well with jaws, window-eyes or system access and I imagine all other screen-readers. Mapler costs 7 Euro if PayPal is used (about 10 dollars), or 11 Euro if an external company processes the credit card payment. Learning how to use Mapler is best achieved in my view using the podcast or by exploring the menus. The help topics are not accessible via the Help menu for some reason, but you can access them via the shortcut off the Programs menu, available from the Start menu. However, not all the files have been translated into English as some still remain in German. Having said that, Mapler is an incredibly easy player to use. For those people who do not want to learn how to use a complex media player,Mapler probably is for you. Advantages of using the Player: 1. It is easy to start, stop and pause the playing of a file, or move forward and backward it in predefined steps, such as five seconds, 30 seconds, or a minute at a time. 2. Files or folders can be added to create a playlist to hear the tracks immediately or the playlist can be saved with an .m3u extension. 3. One of the things I liked about Mapler was the ability to change the order of tracks in the playlist. Tracks can be rearranged by pressing Control+Up Arrow or Control+Down Arrow to move the selected track up or down in the playing order. Keystrokes also exist to move an item to the beginning or end of a playlist. 4. The volume of playback can be adjusted independently of the screen-reader. 5. The variable speed without pitch adjustment is particularly impressive. Many hardware and computer-based players often disturb the overall quality of the playback when audio is reproduced at high speed and I found accessing audio at a rapid rate using Mapler to be very easy on the ear. 6. There are a number of functions you can select when audio is being played, such as to repeat tracks, shuffle, continuously play, fade out or cross-fade. Parameters in the Settings menu allow you to control the cross-fade process. 7. A special sleep timer allows you to have the computer shut down or go into hybernation when the track or playlist has finished playing, or after a designated time period has elapsed. 8. One really cool feature is that you can pause and play the audio from within any application by pressing the Pause key on the computer keyboard, located on the top right of the qwerty keyboard. If for example you are located within Microsoft Word, and the Pause key is pressed once, the audio from Mapler is either paused or playback is resumed. If pressed twice quickly, focus is set to the Mapler window for any manipulation you may wish to do. When the Pause key is pressed twice quickly again, focus is reset back to the application you were previously using, very nice. 9. The supported file formats are audio CD, wav, MP3, MP4, OGG, WMA unprotected, AAC and FLAC
Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player
High Dave, Where can I download this plug in for WINAMP? John. - Original Message - From: Dave McLean david.mcl...@cox.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 8:57 PM Subject: Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Actually I believe you can record from the line input with Winamp if you use the linerec input plug-in. It's a bit cumbersome because you'd have to have the output go to one of the disk writer plug-ins but I think it can be done. It's a lot easier with Goldwave though! - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@windstream.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 8:17 PM Subject: Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Hello Brian, There are two things that I would like to add. For starters, I haven't seen a media player that lets you record from the line and mike in jacks on your sound card. Audio editing would really be a nice touch too as well. And I would also like to have the ability of ripping and burning CD's too. John. - Original Message - From: Brian Hartgen br...@hartgen.org To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Cc: blindi...@freelists.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 12:46 PM Subject: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Hi There has been some discussion on the list about the new Mapler media player and playlist generator. I thought I would give my overview of how I found using the player from a user's perspective. Many media players are either fairly complex to use from a screen-reading standpoint or they require special plugins to achieve tasks which we as visually impaired people may like to do. Mapler is designed to make the playback of audio files and the creation of playlists easy while incorporating some unique features. As has been discussed, Mapler is an audio player and playlist generator produced by a small company in Germany. At least one of the developers is visually impaired, a fact derived from the podcast downloadable from the company web site which explains clearly how to use the program. All functions can be accessed using the keyboard or through the menu system. Because Mapler uses standard windows controls, no special scripts or screen-reader configuration files are required. It functions well with jaws, window-eyes or system access and I imagine all other screen-readers. Mapler costs 7 Euro if PayPal is used (about 10 dollars), or 11 Euro if an external company processes the credit card payment. Learning how to use Mapler is best achieved in my view using the podcast or by exploring the menus. The help topics are not accessible via the Help menu for some reason, but you can access them via the shortcut off the Programs menu, available from the Start menu. However, not all the files have been translated into English as some still remain in German. Having said that, Mapler is an incredibly easy player to use. For those people who do not want to learn how to use a complex media player,Mapler probably is for you. Advantages of using the Player: 1. It is easy to start, stop and pause the playing of a file, or move forward and backward it in predefined steps, such as five seconds, 30 seconds, or a minute at a time. 2. Files or folders can be added to create a playlist to hear the tracks immediately or the playlist can be saved with an .m3u extension. 3. One of the things I liked about Mapler was the ability to change the order of tracks in the playlist. Tracks can be rearranged by pressing Control+Up Arrow or Control+Down Arrow to move the selected track up or down in the playing order. Keystrokes also exist to move an item to the beginning or end of a playlist. 4. The volume of playback can be adjusted independently of the screen-reader. 5. The variable speed without pitch adjustment is particularly impressive. Many hardware and computer-based players often disturb the overall quality of the playback when audio is reproduced at high speed and I found accessing audio at a rapid rate using Mapler to be very easy on the ear. 6. There are a number of functions you can select when audio is being played, such as to repeat tracks, shuffle, continuously play, fade out or cross-fade. Parameters in the Settings menu allow you to control the cross-fade process. 7. A special sleep timer allows you to have the computer shut down or go into hybernation when the track or playlist has finished playing, or after a designated time period has elapsed. 8. One really cool feature is that you can pause and play the audio from within any application by pressing the Pause key on the computer keyboard, located on the top right of the qwerty keyboard. If for example you are located within Microsoft Word, and the Pause key is pressed once, the audio from Mapler is either paused or playback is resumed. If pressed twice quickly, focus is set to the Mapler
Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player
It comes with Winamp I believe. If you go to the input section under plug-ins you should be able to find it. - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@windstream.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 9:11 PM Subject: Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player High Dave, Where can I download this plug in for WINAMP? John. - Original Message - From: Dave McLean david.mcl...@cox.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 8:57 PM Subject: Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Actually I believe you can record from the line input with Winamp if you use the linerec input plug-in. It's a bit cumbersome because you'd have to have the output go to one of the disk writer plug-ins but I think it can be done. It's a lot easier with Goldwave though! - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P djdoct...@windstream.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 8:17 PM Subject: Re: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Hello Brian, There are two things that I would like to add. For starters, I haven't seen a media player that lets you record from the line and mike in jacks on your sound card. Audio editing would really be a nice touch too as well. And I would also like to have the ability of ripping and burning CD's too. John. - Original Message - From: Brian Hartgen br...@hartgen.org To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Cc: blindi...@freelists.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 12:46 PM Subject: My thoughts on the Mapler media player Hi There has been some discussion on the list about the new Mapler media player and playlist generator. I thought I would give my overview of how I found using the player from a user's perspective. Many media players are either fairly complex to use from a screen-reading standpoint or they require special plugins to achieve tasks which we as visually impaired people may like to do. Mapler is designed to make the playback of audio files and the creation of playlists easy while incorporating some unique features. As has been discussed, Mapler is an audio player and playlist generator produced by a small company in Germany. At least one of the developers is visually impaired, a fact derived from the podcast downloadable from the company web site which explains clearly how to use the program. All functions can be accessed using the keyboard or through the menu system. Because Mapler uses standard windows controls, no special scripts or screen-reader configuration files are required. It functions well with jaws, window-eyes or system access and I imagine all other screen-readers. Mapler costs 7 Euro if PayPal is used (about 10 dollars), or 11 Euro if an external company processes the credit card payment. Learning how to use Mapler is best achieved in my view using the podcast or by exploring the menus. The help topics are not accessible via the Help menu for some reason, but you can access them via the shortcut off the Programs menu, available from the Start menu. However, not all the files have been translated into English as some still remain in German. Having said that, Mapler is an incredibly easy player to use. For those people who do not want to learn how to use a complex media player,Mapler probably is for you. Advantages of using the Player: 1. It is easy to start, stop and pause the playing of a file, or move forward and backward it in predefined steps, such as five seconds, 30 seconds, or a minute at a time. 2. Files or folders can be added to create a playlist to hear the tracks immediately or the playlist can be saved with an .m3u extension. 3. One of the things I liked about Mapler was the ability to change the order of tracks in the playlist. Tracks can be rearranged by pressing Control+Up Arrow or Control+Down Arrow to move the selected track up or down in the playing order. Keystrokes also exist to move an item to the beginning or end of a playlist. 4. The volume of playback can be adjusted independently of the screen-reader. 5. The variable speed without pitch adjustment is particularly impressive. Many hardware and computer-based players often disturb the overall quality of the playback when audio is reproduced at high speed and I found accessing audio at a rapid rate using Mapler to be very easy on the ear. 6. There are a number of functions you can select when audio is being played, such as to repeat tracks, shuffle, continuously play, fade out or cross-fade. Parameters in the Settings menu allow you to control the cross-fade process. 7. A special sleep timer allows you to have the computer shut down or go into hybernation when the track or playlist has finished playing, or after a designated time period has elapsed. 8. One really cool feature is that you can pause and play the audio from
