In Sound Forge which I use, the stereoize effect is called psuedo stereo,
because it spreads the sound out and puts some milliseconds delay between the
left and right channels.
Matthew
Although the effect sounds great initially, it's really not good to do this to
files. Most I've heard like this actually introduce a fraction of a second
delay between channels to achieve this effect. If you get a file like this and
want to fix it, you can just pan one channel to the center
OK, that brings up a question. Whenever I try to add credentials to
the ABWA Australian library, the Stream only accepts numbers in my
user id. I got this username several years ago when Greg was
publicizing the access for users in the U.S. Are new usernames now
numbers, and should I contact
There are plenty of machines out there that will help with this. I think they
start at around a hundred dollars, but not sure. Mine is a VPI machine that
costs just over a thousand, but then I have over eight hundred records.
Matthew
On Jan 19, 2017, at 3:07 AM, André van Deventer
nd I'd imagine more, the
support forum and materials available are extensive as you'll see from the site.
> On 12/09/2016 3:10 AM, Matthew Bullis wrote:
> I'd be curious to know how you like the program, and if it indeed does offer
> those extra vinyl perks. I've been a Sound Forge u
I'd be curious to know how you like the program, and if it indeed does offer
those extra vinyl perks. I've been a Sound Forge user for fifteen years, and if
this Vinyl Studio can detect the pauses between songs and pull track data from
an online database like Discogs, then this would be great.
I don't remember the model that I bought at the Guitar Center, but it's a
Stanton. I needed to be sure that it would play 78s if I spent the extra money
to get the parts for a 78 stylus, so I asked that question at the store. We
tested this, and on the model I found, you press the 33 and 45
I bought this about a year and a half ago. I'm very happy with the quality
overall.
Matthew
So a few things here: You can Google for the accessible alternative to Youtube.
There are also keyboard shortcuts built into Youtube. If you turn off the
virtual cursor, meaning you can't then use first letter navigation keys, you
can then use the letters j k and l to rewind, play/pause, and
I've used MP3 Tag Studio for years, built by Magnus Brading. I forgot now how
much the full version costs, but if you learn the interface and set it up
correctly, it saves you hours of tagging. You'll want to do some experimenting
on a folder of files that are not that important. I'd suggest
The best program for this is MP3 Tag Studio, made by Magnus Brading. It's very
powerful, and there is a bit of a learning curve.
Matthew
When I had a similar problem with the turntable rumbling back into the
nearby speakers, I had to put a piece of foam on each of the four feet of
the turntable. The foam was the same type that you find in a foam matress.
The pieces were at least an inch thick and not solid foam, but spongy foam.
Hello, you can install multiple versions of Sound Forge, just like you can
of Jaws. I remember one pc I had for a long time where I had versions 6 7
and 8 installed, just because I never got around to uninstalling them. I
don't know if you have used Jim's scripts for SF, but he built some for
Will the program put itself as an option in the context menu? I've come in
late to this thread, so where is this program obtained from?
Thanks a lot.
Matthew
Hello, I'm considering the purchase of a Surface Pro 2 as my next machine.
Has anyone run Sound Forge and other audio tools on one of these? Can it
keep up with all the processing needs? I assume it might be really snappy
with the solid state hard drive in there, but I thought I'd ask.
Thanks
Hello, if a signal is mono, you really don't want to make what's called
pseudo-stereo. I've come across some old-time radio shows where the signal
is mono, and the person, trying to make it sound better, has applied the
pseudo-stereo effect. This kind of gives it an echo effect, and it doesn't
I forget the model of the Stanton turntable I bought at my local Guitar Center
about a year ago, but if you press the 33 and 45 buttons at the same time, it
swings up to 78rpm. I also bought an additional headshell, which is the bit
that screws onto the arm, so that I could switch them out.
So when organizing my file collection to put onto cd and dvd, I've figured
out that if the properties of a folder say Size On Disc: 698mb, that this is
filling up a cd with data, and that I can't really put much more data on it.
I figured this out when I used to use an old program called Stomp
Are you sure you have an already activated account? If not, there is the
register button that helps you create a new account.
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Hello, so I got my default input settings mapped in Windows, as well as
the other sound card mapped for output settings, since I use Jaws, and the
speech from it is routed separately from the audio portion of the computer.
However, how do I tell Sound Forge about the third sound card? I'm
Hello, actually disc at once doesn't mean all tracks are combined. If you
have a cd where tracks need to be seamless, then disc at once is the option.
A live cd will flow smoothly. If you select track at once, then the tracks
will have two-second gaps between them, which would break the flow of
Sound Forge 8 is installed on my 64-bit Windows 7 machine just fine. I
don't use it too often, since I have version 10, but it's there and will
work.
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Well this is coming in late to this thread, but once you get to know the
features of MP3 Tag Studio, which is a paid program by the way, it's well
worth it. If you're tagging an album's worth of files, you can go through
and set it up once to ignore the 01 - in front of the track name, go to
Although you've said that you can't navigate through folders, will it at
least go down into the folder levels and play the files, but you just have
to go through it song by song and can't jump to a folder?
Thanks a lot.
Matthew
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If you bought the program before he instituted the activation process, then
go to
http://q-continuum.net/hope
and click on resend activation. You put in your e-mail and it generates a
code which will be sent by e-mail. The latest version is 999, so it's worth
it to go and download the latest
Hmm, maybe something got mixed up here. I thought Joe was asking about
converting a five-hour .wav file that he'd created from a minidisc. For that
purpose, WinLame would help, and the YouTube thing is another matter which
you've already resolved.
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Something's wrong there, definitely. Try a program called WinLame. It's a
wizard interface, which steps you through each option. It's quite good for
something like this, especially when converting a whole batch of files.
http://WinLame.SourceForge.net/
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An electric autoharp is a pretty good description. The autoharp is the
acoustic instrument on which the QChord was modeled, because of the chord
layout of the buttons on both instruments, and the strum plate on the
QChord, which mimicks the string bed on the autoharp. Shane Jackson did a
demo
Well this now becomes definitely off-topic, but I'll just say that
autoharps are still definitely being made, but buying one on EBay can be
dodgy, since the autoharp is very mechanical, and parts may be missing.
There's an autoharp e-mail list called the Cyberpluckers. Googling that one
So how was it to navigate the web site to upgrade the firmware? Robert
Carter mentioned that in his demonstration, and I'd like to know more about
the web site challenges that you face when attempting to upgrade the
machine.
Thanks a lot.
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OK, well if you could let us know when you do get to that, if you do, as
maybe some units, purchased from various sellers around the world, might not
be selling the unit with the latest upgrades in. If I had the unit, I would
go test this myself, but I need to wait until I get a bluetooth
If you'll go to:
http://robertcarter.posterous.com/
you'll find the demo for download. Just so you know, this page takes about a
minute to load up, for some reason. The audio demo is about ten minutes
long, and as we've been discussing on this subject, he doesn't go through
the updating
Robert Carter did a brief demo of the speaker here:
http://robertcarter.posterous.com/
and he says there are some difficulties in updating the firmware with a
screen reader, though he says it's doable. I don't know what difficulties,
but the whole package does sound pretty neat, even with the
Well I've never had to use this feature before, but I'd like to know if the
timed recording feature is accessible in Sound Forge 10? I'm using the Jaws
scripts which Jim Snowbarger wrote, and will be leaving Friday afternoon,
while the program I want to record is on Saturday night. If it was
Hmm, Sound Forge unreliable in what way? Do you mean that Sound Forge
has recording issues versus Total Recorder? I haven't noticed, though I know
that earlier version did sometimes tend to drop seconds, and also ground the
hard drive quite noisily. I've been a Sound Forge user for ten years
Hello again. I use CDEX for this purpose, and I think that was the
program we used when I was on the phone with you. You'll run into the same
problem that you had before, if it won't recognize the cd info. It will make
a folder called no artist, with a folder called no title inside of
Could it also be that if you've installed ITunes, the default behaviour of
downloaded audio files is to play them, and if so, it's a setting you'll
need to change? Jonathan told about the fix for this in the FSCast demo of
ITunes a few months back.
Matthew
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Although I worked with Jed on this, and he was using WindowEyes
while I'm using Jaws, this solution might work for you. I found that when I
focused on a flash button, like the pause button on the video, then right
clicked on it with the applications key or the Jaws right click, that it
Same thing happened to me, and I went into the options of Adobe flash
player. I hit uparrow and it started getting louder, but that may have been
because I happened to be on that particular control. It may be a bit easier
to get sighted assistance with these controls, since it took me a half
Unfortunately I've forgotten now how I did get there, but there are
preferences. I fiddled around thinking I needed to update or reinstall the
player, but that only caused confusion, since the installation buttons
aren't labeled properly.
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Hmm, would you consider doing an audio demonstration of the program for
one of the tech shows, or for BlindCoolTech, since it's a bit daunting, and
I haven't figured out how to interact with both Reaper and Reaper Access?
Thanks a lot.
Matthew
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You should be able to use CDEX to get this done. It pulls from the internet
database of cd titles, and will also do a great job of extracting the files
into whatever format you want, if you set the options properly. The program
is free.
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Hmm, odd. Are you using braille input to type or format your messages? I
checked your message, and it turned my original message into the word
couldex, when my actual message said c d e x, as four distinct letters. I'd
never seen that happen before, when it made c d translate into the braille
Hmm, perhaps this is not a store-bought cd? If it is though, then go
into the menu bar, specifically the cddb menu, and choose a few of those
options there. Each one will activate and then take you out of the menu bar,
so you'll be trying one at a time, and maybe one of those databases will
Out of the many I've tried over the years, I like CDEX the best. It's
open-source, and free. If you set it up correctly, and have a bit of
knowledge of how to review the screen with the mouse cursor, then you can
get at a few buttons which aren't tabbable. Read the little pop-up about how
Hello, I've finished transferring a tape into Sound Forge, and have
saved it as c:\tape1.wav. However, neither Windows Explorer nor the command
promt show the file is there. If I load up Sound Forge and navigate to c:\,
the file is there, and can be brought back into Sound Forge. Do you
Pandora radio is a music service on the internet, and not a machine. I'm
not sure if any web radio machines can access it or not. There is the web
radio from Solutions, but I'm not sure about the amount of access you get if
you're in the U.S. Go here:
I love this program, and I've only used it for about twelve hours now. I
hope the developer will be interviewed on a tech show like Main Menu or
Innovations, because I'd like to hear about how he accomplished this task,
and what plans he has for the future of the program, as far as features.
If you'll go to
www.q-continuum.net
you will find the link for further information. You can read the
instructions on how to use this program, but in order to download, you must
pay the ten dollars using PayPal.
Matthew
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The only one that sounded familiar to me was the last one. The one about
Killarney sounds like it's Dennis Day singing.
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Hello, especially if you're running SF with Jim's extra scripts for
Jaws, you'll still be enjoying great functionality. I believe that version 8
was the first one to introduce the shuttle controls, which run the audio
file at a faster speed, which is different from Jim's scrubbing function.
Were you able to find a manual online, or did you only have the printed one?
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To convert those files into mp3 is a violation of your Audible terms.
There are many players which can play Audible files, and the computer can
use either Audible's Desktop Player or Windows Media Player, and so there
are many options.
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It's very extensive. It's at
www.MushroomFM.com
Enjoy, and dive in.
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I wrote to Neal after his review debuted, but didn't get a response. I
wonder if when you turn off the recorder, if the sampling rate always
defaults to 44/16? If you're in the record standby mode, which you are when
you press record once, then you use the arrows to increase or decrease the
Hello, since Windows 7 deals with audio completely differently, and in
my opinion very convolutedly, it's not as simple as leaving the volume
control open and checking the box for either microphone or line in within
seconds. I have two sound cards. The first one is the onboard one that's in
Hello, just a bit more clarification. The recorder under discussion
takes micro-SD cards, which are different from mini-SD cards. The micro SD
cards used in the new Olympus DM4 and the new Zoom H1 are the smaller of the
two types. So the micro sd is the smallest, the mini sd is a bit
Hello, since the H1 hasn't been released in the States yet, I have
no info other than from the Amazon product page and from the company's page.
We'll just have to wait and see.
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Hello, I just looked on BlindCoolTech, and Neal said with his review
that the accessibility is awful, but that the monitor mode for recording
makes it a little better. That's from the text descriptions under the
podcast title, and so you'd need to listen to his recordings to hear more
Although the list price for the accessory pack is about $30, the
selling price will be around fifteen in the U.S. The extra stuff is listed
as a link down the page that I posted before from Amazon. I e-mailed the
company, and they said that the manual in pdf format isn't available yet,
Wow. This sounds even better than the Olympus DM4 which has just come out. I
like the idea of dedicated buttons and no menu structure. Perhaps someone
can do a podcast on this new unit, and then maybe we'd be able to compare
the two machines.
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Hmm, but if you're plugging in a microphone of your choice, and both
machines record in .wav file format, would it matter at that point which one
you were using? I would opt for anything that makes professional recordings
like for audience taping at concerts or for making demo
Here's the Amazon link, quite a long one. The price, surprisingly, is
just $99!
http://www.amazon.com/Zoom-H1-Portable-Digital-Recorder/dp/B003QKBVYK/ref=sr_1_1?s=musical-instrumentsie=UTF8qid=1281326791sr=1-1
If the link wraps for your e-mail client, then search Amazon for Zoom H1.
Matthew
Might I recommend a program called Skype Talking? It uses keystrokes to
do its work, rather than bringing up an interface. I open and close Skype
with this program, and you can make other changes in a quicker and more
straightforward way. The program is free from
Hello, since I've not heard of this piece of software before, could you
briefly describe how you edit in this software? I've been a Sound Forge user
for ten years, and would like to know how Reaper does it. The userguide was
in a pdf, and the .exe script file won't install without Reaper
Hmm, never did use Midi at all. I heard an audio demo of Sonar, and it
just sounded way too involved to me, and the reviewer focused on the Midi
capabilities, rather than just regular audio editing. How is Reaper on that
aspect, and can it do multitrack recording?
Thanks a lot.
Matthew
Hello, when I used XP, I had the same problem. The check boxes were
usable, but they didn't have labels. I used my Jaws cursor and went up a
line to see what the words across the top were. Thereafter, I just had to
memorize which check boxes were which. Unfortunately I couldn't even assign
Hello, since I can't figure out the layout or configuration of the
options in Windows 7, and since my sound card supports the what you hear
option in XP but apparently not in Windows 7, I'm wondering if Total
Recorder or Replay AV will take care of the what you hear option for me?
Usually
Hello, your one-stop place is
www.BagsUnlimited.com
They have various sleeves for 78s, with various thicknesses of paper, center
hole or not, and even cardboard or just paper. They also have inner static
sleeves for 33s, as well as the mylar sleeves that fit over the record
jacket, so
Hello, may I humbly suggest my going over of this topic in the old Main Menu
archives at
www.acbradio.org
You have what you need, except you either don't have, or forgot to mention
the leads that connect everything up.
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I should mention that manipulating the NLS content so that it can be played
on a device not authorized for it, especially getting it into mp3 format, is
a violation of your agreement with NLS. You need to be careful not to do
that, and also not to give out ways and means to others. It will hurt
The sound will not differ, and the resulting .wav file when converted will
not lose out. It's just a matter of file size and time taken to compress it.
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This program will indeed do what you want. You have to read the instructions
carefully to get what you want, since you have to tell it how to treat the
files the way you want. Once you get it the way you like it, you can just
change the info in the fields each time something changes, or you can
OK, so the Plextalk Pocket and the new Bookport Plus feel the same when held
in the hand? Is that what they mean about the same hardware, or do they mean
the same pressable keys? I don't quite understand.
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Yeah, that is a bit tricky to get to. Start out with
www.acbradio.org
then go to on demand, then main menu, then the link that says visit the new
Main Menu site. Even after that, you then have to click on shows, and then
you'll be presented with the archives. If you're looking for something from
Hello, can it really be this hard? I'm used to the Windows XP way of doing
things, where the volume control has check boxes to select whether the line
in or the microphone port is used. If I now work in Windows 7, I have to
click on speakers in the system tray and go down a list of several
I quite like the IMic from Griffin Technology. For a while it wasn't available
on their site, but I see that it's back for addition to their shopping cart at
$30. It just plugs into the USB port, and has an input and an output jack, with
a switch to go from line in to microphone settings. It
I like the keychain speaker from
www.thinkgeek.com
Choose keychain speaker amp, and not the earbud one. The keychain speaker
amp is ten dollars, but you'll no doubt find other things from Think Geek
that you'll want.
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N-Track is probably the one.
www.NTrack.com
If you go to
www.ACBRadio.org
then go to on demand, then Main Menu, then search down the page, you will
find my review of the software from about seven years ago. The software is
reasonably priced at less than a hundred dollars U.S. The maker is
Hello, while my copy of Sound Forge is just fine here at home, when I went
into the talking book library to help them with their book editing, I found
out that although I could delete from the cursor to the end of the file, or
from the cursor to the beginning, I couldn't use the i and o keys to
Perhaps you could get the $35 version of Sound Forge to put the records onto
the hard disc in .wav file format, and then try out Depopper from
www.depopper.com
for 30 days. If you like the results of Depopper as I do, you could buy that
for just under $20. I've enjoyed Depopper for eight years
Oh yes. At one time, on one PC, I had versions 7 8 and 9 on. For some reason
with that computer, version 8 didn't record well, as it kept stuttering, and
so I'd use version 7 for recording, and then version 8 for all other tasks.
I didn't do much with version 9, because it didn't seem to work
Hello, now I didn't know that Winamp now ships with a flac plug-in. I used
the flac plug-in for Winamp that I had to download. Everything dealing with
flac files, including how to decode them to .wav and how to encode .wav
files to flac is contained at
http://flac.sourceforge.net
Since I'm not
Oh yes. You have the option of voice over useage in Sound Forge. Jonathan
used it in his tutorial of version 4.5.
Thanks a lot.
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Hello, I never actually used this method of marking. What I've always done
is to put the cursor at the start point of the desired audio, then press the
letter I. Then I'd page down or control page down to the point at which I
wished to stop and hit the letter O. This section would then be
Hello, I'm using Sound Forge 9 right now. It's been about nine years since I
used the voice over options, specifically the one where the music lowers in
response to the voice on another file. Where do I find this option again,
and how do I go about it? I need a refresher course. Also, is it
Hello, not being a Window Eyes user, I can't help with Sound Forge's
interaction with that screen reader, but what sort of problems are you
having navigating the screen? There are scripts for Jaws made by Jim
Snowbarger, and there may be scripts to add equal functionallity with Window
Eyes,
Hi Tim. Might some of the cds I gave you a few years ago be among those for
conversion? If you have Sound Forge, the batch converter within the program
works quite well for what you want to do. They do have a stand-alone
download of the batch converter, but I don't think it's the same thing, or
While I haven't bought a USB turntable, since my existing equipment does the
job, you should be aware that these units don't come with a separate stylus
to play 78s, unless they've corrected this oversight. While you can play 78s
with the same stylus that plays 33s, it won't sound as good,
I've done this many times using Sound Forge. It loads up the files just
fine. I believe, though I have no sight to test it, that if you trim or
otherwise edit the audio, the video should keep right up, so that you could
cut out bits you didn't want. Then all you'd have to do is save in your
Hello, I believe you might be confusing bitrate with kbps. 32kbps is a
pretty average encoding bitrate for mp3s, especially for voice. Most files
are created as 16-bit files, unless you have changed something. I think
you'll find after creating one of these mp3 files that if you look at its
Sound Forge is on version 9, though I use eight for my main tasks. Version 9
isn't as responsive, though I have yet to try it on my computer which is in
the process of being built.
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Hello, if you use Sound Forge to extract audio from a cd, and you want the
existing track marks to be included within the file, you just check the box
in the extraction wizzard that comes up. I don't think it matters whether
you choose markers or regions. If you have .wav file data on your hard
Hello, if you're dealing with concerts on your hard drive, especially with
lossless cd trading, this is a problem that recievers of your discs will
thank you for correcting. Depending on how the resultant .wav files are cut,
the editing program may not respect the cd track boundaries, as far as
OK, getting really fine and technical here. If you splice files together in
Sound Forge, and you hear a click, or you otherwise notice the point at
which you've joined the files, then there is something wrong with the .wav
files before you've even joined them. You'll need to use a program
Yes, it's I for in, or the starting marker, and O for out, for the ending
marker. Also remember that if you use control shift K, you'll hear upto the
cursor position, so that it plays a bit before you've stopped, so you can
hear exactly where you are, and where you're about to mark in or out..
OK, this depends on what you actually want to do. If you just want to store
the dvd data on the hard drive, in order to make exact copies of the dvds
later, then you need only to create folders with meaningful names for each
dvd, and copy the video_ts and other folders from the dvd itself into
There's a program called mp3Gain which works pretty well. It claims that it
can normalize mp3 files without reencoding them, though I don't know how it
does that. You'll have to Google the program, because I don't know where I
got my copy.
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But is it the IMic original or the IMic2? Griffin had the IMic2 available on
their site, but the original IMic seemed not to be available. The IMic2
seems to be a larger mixing board sort of thing. If you know the difference
between these products, please let me know. I bought my IMic off of
Hello Josh. I had considered that unit briefly, until I found out that there
weren't inputs for what I needed. I've never been satisfied with the mono
sound of instrument inputs. I therefore use a pedal and spread out the sound
with dual outputs. This unit wouldn't help me in that regard. I
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