[Blind-Computing] making winamp the default player

2012-11-17 Thread Rosemarie Chavarria
Hi, everyone, I forgot how to make winamp the default player. What I want to do is have winamp play all my files instead of windows media player. How do I make winamp the default player? Thanks very much. Rosemarie For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit:

Re: [Blind-Computing] making winamp the default player

2012-11-17 Thread Martina Letochová
Inside Winamp go ctrl+p to preferences, there will be a treeview with various options; arrow down till you get to file types, then tab till you find all button; press that and that should select all file types. Then shift/tab twice back to close and that should be it. HTH Martina

Re: [Blind-Computing] FOR RANDY, UPGRADING FROM XP TO WINDOWS 7

2012-11-17 Thread John Justice
Hi Pete. 1. No, it isn't necessary to re-format a hard drive when switching from XP to Windows 7. Both of these programs are simply operating systems. They help you access and manage other programs and files. There are times when an incompatibility might arise if your switching from a 32 bit

Re: [Blind-Computing] UPGRADING FROM XP TO WINDOWS 7

2012-11-17 Thread John Justice
Hmmm! I have never done that David. In fact, I'm not sure that the average computer user would know how to perform a clean installation. I'll bet it presents fewer possible issues but I'm not sure I'd recommend that course of action to someone with normal computer experience. You may have

[Blind-Computing] having trouble playing my .ogg files

2012-11-17 Thread Rosemarie Chavarria
Hi, everyone, I just tried playing some books that I have in .ogg format but they won’t even play in winamp. Is there a setting I might need to change? Thanks for your help. Rosemarie For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/

Re: [Blind-Computing] having trouble playing my .ogg files

2012-11-17 Thread JM Casey
Hmm, there shouldn't be. Winamp ought to handle these natively. That's strange...the only thing I can imagine is that winamp isn't recognising them because the file extension is wrong. This has happened to me before after downloading something Try updating winamp maybe though, if that's

Re: [Blind-Computing] making winamp the default player

2012-11-17 Thread JM Casey
I recommend selecting the audio files only, since though I love winamp dearly, it isn't really the best for video formats; for that I recommend VLC. - Original Message - From: Rosemarie Chavarria knitqueen2...@verizon.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Saturday, November

Re: [Blind-Computing] having trouble playing my .ogg files

2012-11-17 Thread Rosemarie Chavarria
Hi, I think I do have the latest version of winamp. I have several books that are .ogg format. Rosemarie -Original Message- From: JM Casey Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 1:32 PM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] having trouble playing my .ogg

Re: [Blind-Computing] having trouble playing my .ogg files

2012-11-17 Thread JM Casey
yeah, having read your other recent posts now, I suspect you must have a new-ish version, and in any case, ogg has been supported for a while... The only other thing I can suggest is that you write in to the tech forum on the winamp site. It's a bit of a pain though; you have to be very

Re: [Blind-Computing] having trouble playing my .ogg files

2012-11-17 Thread Rosemarie Chavarria
What did you do to get the files to play? -Original Message- From: JM Casey Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 1:47 PM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] having trouble playing my .ogg files yeah, having read your other recent posts now, I suspect you

Re: [Blind-Computing] having trouble playing my .ogg files

2012-11-17 Thread JM Casey
Oh, it was a different problem I think, winamp was crashying from what I remember and I had to install it from scratch. Sometimes it seems to break and that's the only thing that'll fix it. Seems like a different issue for you though. In the past when files inexplicably didn't play and I

Re: [Blind-Computing] UPGRADING FROM XP TO WINDOWS 7

2012-11-17 Thread David Ferrin
It's not really any kind of a major difference between the procedures. I wish I could find an accessible program for creating un-attended installs of windows 7 like I did for XP. The fact is without that you do require some sited help. David Ferrin Life it what happens after you have already