Re: us open

2006-09-06 Thread Anders Holmberg
HellO! TIm! I really want your help with the us open link. Thanks in advance. /anders. - Original Message - From: Tim Grady [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'PC audio discussion list. ' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 1:21 PM Subject: RE: us open Sometimes I see it and

RE: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread André van Deventer
Hi all Have just been wondering. If vorbis is such a popular format and so much better, why is it not more widely used than mp3 in e.g. music services? Is there a lossless format for ogg vorbis? Andre -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread Chris Skarstad
this sounds fantastic and all around supurb. Now, if one of you nice people has $299 or $349 to buy one, you got more money than me. I just don't have the necessary cash at the moment, and by the time I do, a better model will probably be out. At 08:27 PM 9/5/2006, you wrote: I, personally,

Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread Jack Conti
David, my question is for book port if you have a lot of music on there, how do you know wich tune you are going to play in other words how does one read through the list? Thanks in advance. At 08:57 PM 9/5/2006, you wrote: What features do you want it to have? Ultimately, I think one of the

Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread Jack Conti
Nick I have a couple of questions. 1. how expensive is the iaudio x5 and, 2. how much deos it hold. 3. how do you know what tune you are looking for in other words how do you know where you are in the menuis? thanks in advance. At 09:27 PM 9/5/2006, you wrote: I, personally, would by the

Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread Jack Conti
David oops I should have read your second message, there must be some kind of speech involved here? At 09:54 PM 9/5/2006, you wrote: Book Port list price is $399 from American Printing House for the Blind www.aph.org. The Olympus w WS320m is around $200 and can be purchased through places like

Open source

2006-09-06 Thread tedmart
Could someone please explain what open source means, in connection with compressed audio formats? Thanks, Ted ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to:

I Pod Shuffle

2006-09-06 Thread Terese Ann Goren
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Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread Brent Harding
I wonder if the digisette players would be the best, most accessible thing out? I heard once you navigate it to the proper file, you just pop it in a tape deck and press play. I thought I heard you could record in mp3 from it too, doubt you'd get CD quality sound out of that old tape machine

Multiple Shoutcast Servers, Plug-ins, and Internet Streaming Accounts

2006-09-06 Thread Jardata Mail Services
Hello guys! On my system, there is currently a Shoutcast Server and my radio station is run through Winamp, with the Shoutcast Plug-in and a Sam Encoder Plug-in. Lately, I decided to subscribe to one of the Streaming Servers for more band width. I still plan to keep my onboard station and

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Gary King
Bruce, You said that changing the volume slider on the line-in source doesn't change the resulting recording. If you use the checkbox associated with the slider to mute the source, does it result in silence? Gary King [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Bruce Toews [EMAIL

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Bruce Toews
If I check another recording source, it no longer records from line in; if I mute the playback volume for line, it has no effect at all. Bruce -- Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12 NIV Bruce Toews E-mail and

Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread Richard Claypool
How much are these devices? Rickarama - Original Message - From: David Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 5:57 PM Subject: Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today What features do you want it to have?

making wav files out of .m,idi files

2006-09-06 Thread Richard Claypool
Hi, What program should be used to save the sounds of a mid as a wave file? I know you can't convert it, but I'm sure there has to be a way to get the synth tones into a wave file short of turning on the what you hear feature on the soundcard? Also, my friend has an onboard soundcard with

Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread Nick G
Andr,e the lossless vorbis format is called Flac, though I'm hearing that WavPack is better, and it's also open source. Why it isn't used more than mp3, maybe because the public seem to flock to closed up formats. People like Apple don't seem to want anything to do with Vorbis, and mp3 seems

Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread Nick G
Ah, well, if it's the flash based mp3 players you want, then I'm not as sure as I once was. Cowon does make some of those. i would've before chosen any player by Luxpro, but the American dealer for Luxpro seems to have disappeared. - Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL

Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread Nick G
Number one it is about $399, i believe. number two, it holds about 40 Gigs of music, I believe for that price. Number three, you can download a utility, if you are using Rockbox on it, to record directory and file name voices for rockbox. - Original Message - From: Jack Conti [EMAIL

Re: Open source

2006-09-06 Thread Nick G
Open source means that the audio encoers and decoders release their sourcecode for modification. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 9:56 AM Subject: Open source Could someone please

RE: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread André van Deventer
Wonder if rockbox will play that? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick G Sent: 06 September 2006 10:27 PM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today Andr,e the lossless vorbis format is called

Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread aad leeflang
welli bought myself a milestone, a very small mp3 player in whitch you can put a sd card. you can store music or books or whatever on different cards if you like. it has speech support and the abbility of reading daisy books as well. it evenhas a small loudspeaker and is as small as a credit

Re: Audacity

2006-09-06 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hello! There is a blind users mailing list for audacity.- Now i dont have the subscribtion information but i can get back tol the list if someone wants it. /Anders. - Original Message - From: Brent Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent:

Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread Nick G
Rockbox, i know, plays WavPack, don't know about flac goes. - Original Message - From: André van Deventer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'PC audio discussion list. ' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 4:57 PM Subject: RE: If you had to buy a mp3 player today Wonder if

Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread Terese Ann Goren
Thanks much! I'll give it a try Terese At 04:39 PM 9/6/2006, you wrote: welli bought myself a milestone, a very small mp3 player in whitch you can put a sd card. you can store music or books or whatever on different cards if you like. it has speech support and the abbility of reading daisy

Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread Darrell Shandrow
Hi Terese and all, I feel the Milestone is overpriced for its limited feature set. Add the ability to play DRM formats like protected WMA and add support for verbalizing ID3 tags, replaceable batteries, etc. Then, maybe, we're movin' in the right direction on this product. Darrell Shandrow

Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread Darrell Shandrow
Hi Nick and all, Wonder if anyone is selling any MP3 players preconfigured with Rockbox? Now, I think that'd be a deal for one of the blindness products companies? Darrell Shandrow - Shandrow Communications! Technology consultant/instructor, network/systems administrator! A+, CSSA, Network+!

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread frank deweese
Bruce: Could you explain to me how I can copy my old casets to my computer? Do I need a duel sound card? How involved is it? thanks for any assistance. - Original Message - From: Bruce Toews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Bruce Toews
Just an average run-of-the-mill sound card is all you need, plus a program such as Gold Wave, Sound Forge, or a few others that are popular. You would, in short, connect the line out of your tape machine into the line in of your computer, set the volume properly (which is where I'm getting

Announcing New Owner of the PC-Audio List

2006-09-06 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Firstly, my thanks to the large number of people who offered to own the PC-Audio List, your offers are very much appreciated. I'm very pleased to have appointed Tom Dimeo as the new List Owner. Tom has a good grasp of technology and I'm sure will do a fine job looking after this list.

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Sunshine
have you tried, to lower, the volume of the source you are recording from bruce? this might fix your problems and here is another question for you are you using the headphone jack? - Original Message - From: Bruce Toews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Bruce Toews
Deep breath, Bruce. My source is a line out jack, which consequently has no volume control. Even if the volume is set to 0 for line-in on the computer, zero, I still get the overdriven sound. I am assuming a defect in the sound card. Bruce -- Yet to all who received him, to those who

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Bruce Toews
You also get worse sound, i.e. a hum and so forth. I'll just record this at home, where things work as they should. Bruce -- Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12 NIV Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger:

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Sunshine
Ok, Bruce, Are you refering to the playback or the recording volume? - Original Message - From: Bruce Toews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:24 AM Subject: Re: Recording from Line-In I am using a Sound Blaster,

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Sunshine
try to use the headphone jack instead of the line out this way you can regulate the volume comming from the tape player. - Original Message - From: Bruce Toews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:21 AM Subject: Re:

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Bruce Toews
Recording volume. Maybe I should write an F.A.Q. Bruce -- Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12 NIV Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Live Journal: http://coke_drinker.livejournal.com

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Sunshine
ok, Bruce, Are you sure you selected your sound card in the volume controls? if you just gotten a new sound card it might have defualted to your on board chip for sound. - Original Message - From: Bruce Toews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent:

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Bruce Toews
If that were the case, then (a) I wouldn't have gotten any sound, as opposed to the overdriven sound I got, and (b) switching to another recording source would have had no effect. Bruce -- Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of

Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread Arthur Barney
Hi Darrell, RockBox is developing software for all iPods, except iPod Shuffle. Arthur Barney - Original Message - From: Darrell Shandrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 7:35 PM Subject: Re: If you had to buy a mp3

Fw: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread Nick G
This info comes from a rather trusted source. - Original Message - From: Rich Cavallaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Nick G [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 8:11 PM Subject: Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today Navigating menus in rock box is easy. Just press the

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Sunshine
ok, bruce try this one. go into your volume control and select your properties, and make sure ajust volume for recording is checked, now tab until you find your line in and in the advanced button try to check this box and then Record the audio source again. and let us know what happens. -

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Sunshine
bruce it would have recorded with your on board sound a, so yes, it would record, and b, if you were to play this recording through your sound card it would be distorted. - Original Message - From: Bruce Toews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent:

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Bruce Toews
There is no advanced option for line-in. Bruce -- Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12 NIV Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Live Journal: http://coke_drinker.livejournal.com Radio

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Bruce Toews
But since nothing was plugged into the onboard sound card, it would have recorded nothing, there being nothing to record and all. Bruce -- Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12 NIV Bruce Toews E-mail and

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Sunshine
do the following. when in the volume controls do alt p as in peter, and then down arrow to advanced and press enter on it now do alt p again and enter on the first one and then choose recording volume and you should see the advanced button - Original Message - From: Bruce Toews [EMAIL

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Gary Petraccaro
Could the card be defective? - Original Message - From: Bruce Toews To: PC audio discussion list. Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 9:15 PM Subject: Re: Recording from Line-In If that were the case, then (a) I wouldn't have gotten any sound, as opposed to the

Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread David Tanner
That certainly is understandable. If you can find a Creative Labs Nuvo I think there is a chance that you can get one for $100 or less, and they are fairly accessible. There may be others, but I will admit to not knowing about the newest MP3 players in the less expensive market just because I

Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread David Tanner
Book Port is $399 from American Printing House for the Blind http://www.aph.org The Olympus WS320M is around $200, but you can also get it in a model WS310m with 512 meg of memory and all the features remain the same or model WS300m with 256 megabytes of memory and same features. The WS320m is

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Arthur Barney
Hi Sunshine, the advance ctrls that you are talking about, has nothing to do with recording. It has to do with controlling the audio tones such has treble, and bass that come out of your sound card, and the other one has to do with your microphone. Arthur Barney - Original Message -

Re: Recording from Line-In

2006-09-06 Thread Sunshine
ok, Arthur, then why does the mute playback well recording show up right to the right of the line in recording source in the recording properties? i am using a sound blaster audigy sound card as well, aand when i mute this check box i still can record what ever is comming through my line in?

Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread Brent Harding
What about Non-protected WMA support? I sort of don't like the idea of recompressing these into mp3. Once I accidentally chose the wrong processing in Goldwave demo trying to convert one to wav and converted it to another wma at the same bit rate. Boy did I ever notice the sound quality

Re: If you had to buy a mp3 player today

2006-09-06 Thread Bobcat
Thanks Rich and Nick for this info. I'll look forward to hearing the report. - Original Message - This info comes from a rather trusted source. - Original Message - From: Rich Cavallaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Nick G [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 8:11