Re: the Book Port
APH and it was $375 Sarai and Rosie, Proverbs 3:5,6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. - Original Message - From: doc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 10:17 PM Subject: Re: the Book Port Who carries this product and how much does it cost? Doc Wright http://wrightplaceinc.net When I've given all that I have to give Its just the least I can do for my neighbor. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lissoning to the radio on the net
Hello Many thanks for this one I think I should be ok from these, I shall have to give them a try. Regards Andrew Shipp Located Northamptonshire Home phone 01604-517007, Mobile )07773457805, Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am also the Manager and Moderator of blind-gardening. All Messages are checked before sending by Norton anti Virus. - Original Message - From: Marty Rimpau [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 8:29 PM Subject: Re: lissoning to the radio on the net Hi, Andrew, the easiest way to listen to radio on the net, would be to go to a place like http://www.acbradio.org and click on any of the listen links, but for specific radio stations, two sites come to mind, they are http://www.billsparks.org where you can just type the call letters to any radio station you want to listen to, provided they are streaming on the net, and it will find that specific listen link, and in many cases, these are direct links to the server, rather than embeded links that many stations offer for advertising purposes, which are totally useless to us. The other site is http://www.radio-locator.com and I understand that it is very good also. Maybe others have more specific sites for radio listening, but those two should get you started quite nicely. Oh, also, another one that comes to mind is Mike's radio world, but don't know the specific url for it, but that is another good site. On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:24:17 +0100, andrew shipp wrote: Hello all, first off I will apologise if this question has been asked on the group before, but how do you lisson to a radio station on the net? also is there a website that give links to radio stations? Many thanks in advance for any help regarding this. Regards Andrew Shipp Located Northamptonshire Home phone 01604-517007, Mobile )07773457805, Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am also the Manager and Moderator of blind-gardening. All Messages are checked before sending by Norton anti Virus. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marty ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lissoning to the radio on the net
Hello Steve, You have given me some work here to do smiles Many thanks for these very much appreciated. Regards Andrew Shipp Located Northamptonshire Home phone 01604-517007, Mobile )07773457805, Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am also the Manager and Moderator of blind-gardening. All Messages are checked before sending by Norton anti Virus. - Original Message - From: Steve Pattison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 4:09 AM Subject: Re: lissoning to the radio on the net Here are some home pages that have links to radio stations that stream on the Internet: www.audiorealm.com, www.christiantuner.com, www.radioshowlinks.com, www.publicradiofan.com, www.kazweb.com/radio4.html, www.blindradio.com and www.blindtuner.com. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 10/07/2004 at 7:24 PM andrew shipp wrote: Hello all, first off I will apologise if this question has been asked on the group before, but how do you lisson to a radio station on the net? also is there a website that give links to radio stations? Regards Steve, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: steve1963 MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mike's Radio World was lissoning to the radio on the net
Hi guys I've just visited Mikes Radio World and it works just fine here. Chrissie - Original Message - From: Steve Pattison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 3:16 AM Subject: Mike's Radio World was lissoning to the radio on the net Unfortunately Mike's Radio World at www.mikesradioworld.com appears to be no longer active. The home page is still there but you will discover if you go there that it is no longer possible to listen to radio stations. I have no idea if this problem will ever be fixed or perhaps Mike has abandonned this home page completely. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 10/07/2004 at 7:35 PM Sunil wrote: Two good sites with thousands of stations worldwide are mikesradioworld.com and radio-locator.com. Once you've got a player installed you should be off and running. Regards Steve, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: steve1963 MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mike's Radio World was lissoning to the radio on the net
I've just had a look and tried listening to several streams and its working fine for me. - Original Message - From: Steve Pattison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 3:16 AM Subject: Mike's Radio World was lissoning to the radio on the net Unfortunately Mike's Radio World at www.mikesradioworld.com appears to be no longer active. The home page is still there but you will discover if you go there that it is no longer possible to listen to radio stations. I have no idea if this problem will ever be fixed or perhaps Mike has abandonned this home page completely. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 10/07/2004 at 7:35 PM Sunil wrote: Two good sites with thousands of stations worldwide are mikesradioworld.com and radio-locator.com. Once you've got a player installed you should be off and running. Regards Steve, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: steve1963 MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mod-files.
HellO! A couple a years ago when i was using Dos i had a lot o sound-files with the extension .mod or .s3m and .xm and .it. I have heard that winamp should play these kinds of files but i am not sure. Does anybody know any other player which can play these files? THanks in advance. /Anders. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: the Book Port
Hi. There have been seven or eight upgrades, both to the firmware in the unit and to the transfer software on the PC. Have a look at http://sun1.aph.org/tech/bp_new.htm for a list up to march of this year. After march, the major additions are the ability to play Audible books and the ability to increase the speed of files before they're sent to the machine. Aman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Shaker Sent: July 11, 2004 1:15 AM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: the Book Port While I totally agree with Mr. Carter about the book port, and I purchased one at the very outset, I haven't heard of any upgrades. Can anyone tell me whether there have been any? Jim ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lissoning to the radio on the net
Here are a couple more. http://millcreekmedia.com/sixfriends/subdir2/radio.html for radio reading services, some you will have to subscribe to, some like Sun Sounds of Arizona you won't. These are in the U.S. http://www.yrguk.com/news/worldnews.htm for shortwave stations, you need real player 10, for this 1. --- Steve Pattison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are some home pages that have links to radio stations that stream on the Internet: www.audiorealm.com, www.christiantuner.com, www.radioshowlinks.com, www.publicradiofan.com, www.kazweb.com/radio4.html, www.blindradio.com and www.blindtuner.com. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 10/07/2004 at 7:24 PM andrew shipp wrote: Hello all, first off I will apologise if this question has been asked on the group before, but how do you lisson to a radio station on the net? also is there a website that give links to radio stations? Regards Steve, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: steve1963 MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the Book Port
Just bought oneand love it. My husband whois sighted also bought one for his audible and mp3 books. Very fine machine! - Original Message - From: Robert Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 4:38 PM Subject: Re: the Book Port Hi, I would respectfully disagree with this. The Book Port was designed specifically for people who are blind. It will play contracted grade 2 files and the transfer software is much more designed to work well giving one audio feedback as transfers are happening. Both devices use the same basic hardware with some differences in the keypad and the user interface. Again, I put my vote in for the Book Port. The current public beta will even allow one to speed-up audio files compressing them without changing the pitch. It will play Audible files as well. Robert Carter At 04:54 PM 7/10/2004, you wrote: you may want to get the Book Courier instead. Book port it=s made buy the same company for APH. -- Sarai and Rosie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey: At the ACB convention, I saw a book port. It plays everything and will soon be playing books from audible. I was wondering if anyone uses it and what do they think of the accessibility and the voice quality? Sarai and Rosie, Proverbs 3:5,6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The best thing to hit the Internet in years - NetZero HiSpeed! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month -visit www.netzero.com to sign up today! ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free Multi-tracking software
it's not very accessible btw no way to move in a file with the cursor. On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 12:14:57 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: There is _free_ multitracking software, complete with effects and ability to have audio plugins, called Audacity. Go to http://audacity.sourceforge.net It is available for several platforms including PC, Mac, and others. Cheers David On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Stewart Ross wrote: hi their can u send me the link for downloading the ntracks studio demo? -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] radioanorak low stream http://live.southeastsound.com:12624/listen.pls radioanorak high stream http://live.southeastsound.com:12626/listen.pls - Original Message - From: Norma A. Boge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 7:17 PM Subject: Multi-tracking software Hi Stuart, N Track Studio is very friendly, though I must say I'm just getting into using it. There is a very good review on acbradio.org, and a link there from which to download a demo. HTH Norma ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem
Hi Mimi. The jitter correction is found on the read options tab. You can't get to this if you're using the wizard though. Kevin - Original Message - From: mimi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 7:55 PM Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Where do you find the jitter correction? Mimi - Original Message - From: Kevin Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 9:15 AM Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Hi David. I've also experienced problems like this occasionally. You may wish to set the use jitter correction control to Yes when you copy a CD. This may help as often when copying from one CD drive to another, minor clocking differences between the two drives can introduce jitter. Also, check that you've got the ignore read errors set to No when you burn as the CD will burn with errors such as you describe otherwise. Kevin - Original Message - From: David R. Sky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 12:19 AM Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Hi Kevin I have not examined the help tool yet, didn't know that could help. I have been playing around with nero for just the past week or two. As I posted earlier, I could burn a CD with eleven fine tracks, but the twelvth went crazy when I played it on my CD player. Kinda comical. Thanks for the tip! David On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Kevin Lloyd wrote: Hi David. I suffered with this problem for a number of months. Have you tried working your way through the Nero help tool? I found this very useful as it will run through a checklist of areas that may affect successful burning. Anyway, the answer for me was to set my CD-rewriter to be DMA enabled. This meant that data could be transferred between the rewriter and hard drive much more efficiently. I've never had a buffer underrun since. Have you ever been able to burn CD's successfully with your current set up? Kevin - Original Message - From: David R. Sky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 8:09 AM Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Hi Mimi No, it was not the CD's... I've got very old equipment cuz I can't afford anything else right now. Apparently it was something called underr un or underburn or something, which meant the buffer to the CD write thingy got empty before more info was grabbed from the hard drive. I don't know how else to explain it at the moment, it's new to me. Anyway, my friend burned the CD's with his own computer and the same kind of CD discs, so they were okay. Thanks David On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, mimi wrote: Oh, no! That means your disc devloped an error in it. If you are using CDR's, which you can only use once, there is nothing you can do to fix that once it's burned. If the problem persists throughout the pack of discs, you have a bad package! You might have to try a different brand of discs. Anyway, Nero should have asked you if you wanted to save the read/write error onto a disc. Anyway, I would say no, because I don't want a defective write or play. I don't know what else to suggest other than try other discs to see if the same thing would happen. But I do know that any time your burn is unsuccessful or incomplete it's a bad disc. You cannot see the defect. Another way to know is when you play it back on your computer's CD drive if the last track will not play at all. I've had that happen a lot lately. Mimi - Original Message - From: David R. Sky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:31 AM Subject: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Hi listers With sighted help, I learned how to use Nero 5.5 to burn mp3 files to a CD. I split thirty five tracks into three folders and tried to make three CD's from these. At 4x speed, only 4 tracks were burned. Then, running my CD burner at 1x speed, the first eleven tracks are burned (and played) great, but each time the twelvth and last track is played, it's okay for a few seconds, then it gets comically crazy, like a space-age merry-go-round. And the CD player stays stuck on that track until I physically stop it or switch to another CD in my player. There was an error message from nero at the end of each burn session, and I saved the burn log from the last session. It's 8 pages long
Re: Mike's Radio World was lissoning to the radio on the net
Hi Steve, I just tried listening to some stations on Mike's Radio World, and didn't have any problems. The New Stations page was updated towards the end of June. Hope this helps. Yours Sincerely, Kelly John Sapergia For a mix of New Age, Ambient, Easy Listening, Smooth Jazz and Global Fusion music, listen to Northern Lights, Thursdays from 23:00 to 01:00 GMT on ACB Radio Interactive at: http://interactive.acbradio.org Visit the show's web site at: http://www.geocities.com/ksapergia/northernlights.html For high-quality audio productions at affordable prices, visit KJS Productions at: http://www.kjsproductions.com You can also visit my personal web site at: http://www.geocities.com/ksapergia ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem
Yu enable DMA for your CD drive through control panel, system, device manager. Select the rewriter and then tab to properties. You'll find an option to enable DMA there. This should come with a little health warning though. You'll be warned by Windows that changing the setting could cause the hardware not to work when your computer is restarted. The symptoms I was suffering were that I could burn a data CD no problem at all but whenever I tried to copy an audio CD, the burn would fail 5-10 minutes into the simulation step. Changing this setting cured that immediately and I've never had the problem since. Kevin - Original Message - From: mimi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 9:50 PM Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem You know, I never thought of that. How do you do that, Kevin? Maybe this will cut down on a lot of dead CD's. Mimi - Original Message - From: Kevin Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 11:09 AM Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Hi David. I suffered with this problem for a number of months. Have you tried working your way through the Nero help tool? I found this very useful as it will run through a checklist of areas that may affect successful burning. Anyway, the answer for me was to set my CD-rewriter to be DMA enabled. This meant that data could be transferred between the rewriter and hard drive much more efficiently. I've never had a buffer underrun since. Have you ever been able to burn CD's successfully with your current set up? Kevin - Original Message - From: David R. Sky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 8:09 AM Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Hi Mimi No, it was not the CD's... I've got very old equipment cuz I can't afford anything else right now. Apparently it was something called underr un or underburn or something, which meant the buffer to the CD write thingy got empty before more info was grabbed from the hard drive. I don't know how else to explain it at the moment, it's new to me. Anyway, my friend burned the CD's with his own computer and the same kind of CD discs, so they were okay. Thanks David On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, mimi wrote: Oh, no! That means your disc devloped an error in it. If you are using CDR's, which you can only use once, there is nothing you can do to fix that once it's burned. If the problem persists throughout the pack of discs, you have a bad package! You might have to try a different brand of discs. Anyway, Nero should have asked you if you wanted to save the read/write error onto a disc. Anyway, I would say no, because I don't want a defective write or play. I don't know what else to suggest other than try other discs to see if the same thing would happen. But I do know that any time your burn is unsuccessful or incomplete it's a bad disc. You cannot see the defect. Another way to know is when you play it back on your computer's CD drive if the last track will not play at all. I've had that happen a lot lately. Mimi - Original Message - From: David R. Sky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:31 AM Subject: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Hi listers With sighted help, I learned how to use Nero 5.5 to burn mp3 files to a CD. I split thirty five tracks into three folders and tried to make three CD's from these. At 4x speed, only 4 tracks were burned. Then, running my CD burner at 1x speed, the first eleven tracks are burned (and played) great, but each time the twelvth and last track is played, it's okay for a few seconds, then it gets comically crazy, like a space-age merry-go-round. And the CD player stays stuck on that track until I physically stop it or switch to another CD in my player. There was an error message from nero at the end of each burn session, and I saved the burn log from the last session. It's 8 pages long and I have no idea what it means. I can forward a copy to the list if it would help in solving this problem. I'd appreciate any help, thanks in advance! David -- ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: copying CD question
Your assistance is much appreciated. Thanks much. If you get to messages, please excuse. I am having difficulty with my email. Frank - Original Message - From: Kevin Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 12:10 PM Subject: Re: copying CD question Hi Frank. CDEX can only be used to copy CD tracks to your hard drive rather than copying one CD to another. This is known as ripping. Below are some notes on how to use CDEX to rip CD's to your hard drive as either WAV or MP3 tracks. Hope you find them of some use. Using CDEX to rip CD tracks to your hard drive 1. Place your CD into any of your CD-ROM drives. Hold down the shift key when the CD drawer is being closed to prevent the CD starting to play. 2. Close any running applications. This will ensure that when ripping is started CDEX is not competing for resources and therefore produces the best quality output. 3. Start CDEX from the desktop or programs menu. 4. Your screen reader will start to announce the track listing of the CD as Audio Track 1, Audio Track 2, etc. 5. CDEX can get the artist, album title and track titles from the CDDB by connecting to the internet but you will first need to make the following changes: a. Press F4 to open the Settings dialogue b. Press shift tab and then right arrow until you reach the Remote CDDB tab c. Press tab until you reach a control requesting you to enter your e-mail address d. Key in your e-mail address and then tab to OK e. If you'd like CDEX to get CD information automatically each time you start CDEX, then check the auto connect checkbox. f. Press enter on the OK button to confirm your changes 6. To retrieve artist name, album title and track titles from the CDDB, do the following: a. Press alt + D to enter the CDDB menu b. Press down arrow until you reach Read remote CDDB c. Press enter and CDEX will query the CDDB and pull back the artist name, album title and track titles d. If you'd like to store this information so that you don't need to retrieve from the CDDB again for this CD, press alt + D to enter the CDDB menu and then arrow down until you reach save to local CDDB. Pressing enter at this point will save the CD information on your computer. 7. CDEX can normalise the volume of all tracks being ripped. This will result in your tracks being set to the same volume even if they are taken from CD's where the volumes vary considerably. To make CDEX normalise the volume of ripped tracks, make the following changes: a. Press F4 to enter the Settings dialogue b. You will probably be placed on the encoder tab but if not, press shift and tab and then use the right and left arrow keys until you reach the encoder tab c. Press tab until you reach the control for on-the-fly MP3 encoding and press the spacebar to uncheck this d. Press tab until you reach the encoder tab again and use the left arrow key until you reach the general tab e. Press tab until you reach the control normalise volume and press the spacebar to check this f. Press tab until you reach OK and press enter to confirm your changes 8. To rip all of the tracks to WAV format, press F8. 9. To rip all of the tracks to MP3 format, press F9. 10. If you don't want all tracks to be ripped from the CD, use the up and down arrow keys in the list of track titles until you reach the track you want before pressing F8 or F9. If you want to select a number of tracks, you can do this using the standard windows keystrokes of shift with the up or down arrow to select contiguous tracks and control with the up and down arrow keys to unselect tracks. 11. You can change the default folder where CDEX will output your ripped tracks by making the following changes: a. Press F4 to enter the settings dialogue b. Press shift and tab and then left arrow until you reach the filenames tab c. Press tab until you reach the WAVMP3 control d. Route the JAWS cursor to the PC cursor using the insert + JAWS cursor keystroke e. Use the keystroke insert + left arrow to locate the button to the right of the WAVMP3 control f. Press the left mouse button on the numpad to activate this button g. Select the folder where you'd like CDEX to place your ripped tracks and open the folder by pressing the right arrow key h. Press tab until you reach OK and press enter to confirm the choice of output folder i. Press tab until you reach OK and press enter to confirm your changes 12. You can change the format of the track names and the folders that CDEX will create when ripping by making the following changes: a. Press F4 to enter the settings dialogue b. Press shift and tab and then left arrow until you reach the filenames tab c. Tab once to the output file format and directories edit field. If you are confident with the naming conventions, you can edit your preferences directly into this field. Otherwise, tab once more and press the
listening to the internet
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Re: Mike's Radio World was lissoning to the radio on the net
From what I've seen lately, the links on Mike's radio World appear to work for the most part. But I haven't found any new links. This could just involve my own area of listening interest, but that's what I've noticed during the past several months. Larry - Original Message - From: Sunil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 4:42 AM Subject: Re: Mike's Radio World was lissoning to the radio on the net I've just had a look and tried listening to several streams and its working fine for me. - Original Message - From: Steve Pattison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 3:16 AM Subject: Mike's Radio World was lissoning to the radio on the net Unfortunately Mike's Radio World at www.mikesradioworld.com appears to be no longer active. The home page is still there but you will discover if you go there that it is no longer possible to listen to radio stations. I have no idea if this problem will ever be fixed or perhaps Mike has abandonned this home page completely. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 10/07/2004 at 7:35 PM Sunil wrote: Two good sites with thousands of stations worldwide are mikesradioworld.com and radio-locator.com. Once you've got a player installed you should be off and running. Regards Steve, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: steve1963 MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cordless headphones
Hi all, I don't know too much about Cordless Headphones, and wondered if someone could help me out a bit. I've an MP3 player and my computer, both of which I want to use with cordless headphones. I don't know which sort to buy, things to look out for and so on. I'm also aware that in life you get what you pay for, so makes/models/prices would be appreciated. I just bought a pair of Sony ones for about gBP40, which sound OK, but there's background noise (hiss) and the reception fails when I get downstairs, I've a relatively small terraced house. I feel that I've wasted this money, and would rather try to find out a bit more before I spend any more, though very much want a pair of these. I live alone, so the sound isolation problem isn't too much of a difficulty, as I know my way round my house very well, and therefore don't need to be able to hear too much. Ideally I'd be able to plug 2 or 3 devices in, and select which I wanted to listen to, I.E. a book on the computer, album on the stereo, sports on my DAB tuner, or whatever. Thanks for any help, and I'm sure this is probably an old chestnut. Rob --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.718 / Virus Database: 474 - Release Date: 09/07/2004 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: problem with EZCD DA extractor 7
Hi Joe, you're right, it's not quite so accessible, however it's possible to type in exactly the way you want to store the albums by following the rules in that list view. I can't however find where they've hidden the ability to store a CD as one file rather than as many as you used to be able to do in 6.0, which is where I last say it. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joe Paton Sent: 25 July 2004 01:16 To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: problem with EZCD DA extractor 7 rob, I have a feeling that the manic fin who writes the program, and constantly updates it, has changed the list view, to a grid. Don't know if this is your problem, but it's the reason I haven't upgraded from version 6/x At 18:29 07/07/2004, you wrote: Hi all, got a problem with the latest version of the above, which I hope someone can help with. When I try to copy a compilation Cd, the programme lists all the tracks as separate directories, rather than all the tracks in one albums directory. each directory is call Artist name/album title. So you'd have say Robert Palmer addicted to love, survivor addicted to love, meatloaf addicted to love, where the album is called addicted to love and it's a compilation album, where 3 of the tracks on the album are by Survivor, Robert Palmer and Meatloaf. I want the directory to be called various Artists, the next level down to be the albums title, and the bottom level to e the track name with the artist. The problem is of course, where the album is by a particular artist, I.E. a Mike Oldfield album, Mike Oldfield needs to be the top directory name, with the album, say Tubular Bells, being listed as a sub-directory off that, along with the other Mike Oldfield albums. Hope that's reasonably clear, and if you can help, it would be very much appreciated. I don't appear to have had the problem with earlier versions of EZCD. Thanks, Rob --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.716 / Virus Database: 472 - Release Date: 05/07/2004 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.716 / Virus Database: 472 - Release Date: 05/07/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.718 / Virus Database: 474 - Release Date: 09/07/2004 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the Book Port
Thanks, Milton, for the information in your message quoted below. If only there was a similar product which used Eloquence text to speech rather than Doubletalk I'd snap it up in a heartbeat. I read the article comparing the BookPort and BookCourier, but I felt it did an inadequate job of comparison. It really just listed the features of each product without much comparison. Nowhere did I find much information about the mp3 capabilities of these products. What bit rates do they support? More importantly, what bit rates do they *not* support? Can bookmarks be placed within mp3 files? I think my primary use for the unit would be to listen to audio and perhaps audible.com books, so I'd be most interested in the detailed differences between the two units in this regard. Are there other products which I should consider for listening to audio/audible.com books? Also, nowhere was anything mentioned about AC adaptors. Can either of these units be run off of AC? If not, it seems one would go through a lot of batteries. I did notice that in addition to the BookCourier being $20 less expensive, it also includes twice the memory. Jeff, the Ultra guy http://www.UltraHost.US http://www.UltraRadio.US - Original Message - From: Milton M. Ota [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 5:59 PM Allow me to answer two postings in one-- I believe that the firmware in the BookPort over the Book Courier will support Daisy format 3.0 where the Book Courier currently was only supporting Daisy format 2.2. Whether that makes any difference at this time is not that important as there are not many books available in Daisy 3.0. The BookPort is a product of the American Printing House for the Blind, Inc. information about the BookPort can be found at their website at: http://www.aph.org/ You can find a website on the Book courier at: http://www.bookcourier.com/ And for all interested parties, go to the web of the American Foundation for the Blind's Accessworld for July 2004 and read a comparison report of the two devices we are talking about here. http://www.afb.org/accessworld/ Aloha, Milton M. Ota ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem
Thanks. - Original Message - From: Kevin Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 9:22 AM Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Hi Mimi. The jitter correction is found on the read options tab. You can't get to this if you're using the wizard though. Kevin - Original Message - From: mimi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 7:55 PM Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Where do you find the jitter correction? Mimi - Original Message - From: Kevin Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 9:15 AM Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Hi David. I've also experienced problems like this occasionally. You may wish to set the use jitter correction control to Yes when you copy a CD. This may help as often when copying from one CD drive to another, minor clocking differences between the two drives can introduce jitter. Also, check that you've got the ignore read errors set to No when you burn as the CD will burn with errors such as you describe otherwise. Kevin - Original Message - From: David R. Sky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 12:19 AM Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Hi Kevin I have not examined the help tool yet, didn't know that could help. I have been playing around with nero for just the past week or two. As I posted earlier, I could burn a CD with eleven fine tracks, but the twelvth went crazy when I played it on my CD player. Kinda comical. Thanks for the tip! David On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Kevin Lloyd wrote: Hi David. I suffered with this problem for a number of months. Have you tried working your way through the Nero help tool? I found this very useful as it will run through a checklist of areas that may affect successful burning. Anyway, the answer for me was to set my CD-rewriter to be DMA enabled. This meant that data could be transferred between the rewriter and hard drive much more efficiently. I've never had a buffer underrun since. Have you ever been able to burn CD's successfully with your current set up? Kevin - Original Message - From: David R. Sky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 8:09 AM Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Hi Mimi No, it was not the CD's... I've got very old equipment cuz I can't afford anything else right now. Apparently it was something called underr un or underburn or something, which meant the buffer to the CD write thingy got empty before more info was grabbed from the hard drive. I don't know how else to explain it at the moment, it's new to me. Anyway, my friend burned the CD's with his own computer and the same kind of CD discs, so they were okay. Thanks David On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, mimi wrote: Oh, no! That means your disc devloped an error in it. If you are using CDR's, which you can only use once, there is nothing you can do to fix that once it's burned. If the problem persists throughout the pack of discs, you have a bad package! You might have to try a different brand of discs. Anyway, Nero should have asked you if you wanted to save the read/write error onto a disc. Anyway, I would say no, because I don't want a defective write or play. I don't know what else to suggest other than try other discs to see if the same thing would happen. But I do know that any time your burn is unsuccessful or incomplete it's a bad disc. You cannot see the defect. Another way to know is when you play it back on your computer's CD drive if the last track will not play at all. I've had that happen a lot lately. Mimi - Original Message - From: David R. Sky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:31 AM Subject: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Hi listers With sighted help, I learned how to use Nero 5.5 to burn mp3 files to a CD. I split thirty five tracks into three folders and tried to make three CD's from these. At 4x speed, only 4 tracks were burned. Then, running my CD burner at 1x speed, the first eleven tracks are burned (and played) great, but each time the twelvth and last track is played, it's okay for
Re: Winmx
After I find out what I want I just hit the Enter key. I think you can also hit Control, ALT, D. Don't quote me on the last one. Like I said I usually hit enter. - Original Message - From: doug leavens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 4:55 PM Subject: Winmx Once I've performed a search, and selected a file to download, how do I perform the actual act of downloading? In fact, is there a tutorial on winmx I can access? I'm using jfw5 on a win xp system. Thanks in advance. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the Book Port
Hi. I'd spend the extra money and get the bookport. It does more than the book courier. you may want to get the Book Courier instead. Book port it=s made buy the same company for APH. -- Sarai and Rosie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey: At the ACB convention, I saw a book port. It plays everything and will soon be playing books from audible. I was wondering if anyone uses it and what do they think of the accessibility and the voice quality? Sarai and Rosie, Proverbs 3:5,6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The best thing to hit the Internet in years - NetZero HiSpeed! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month -visit www.netzero.com to sign up today! ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the Book Port
The courier has less functions and I think it cannot read as many file types. it is easier to learn because it doesn't do as much. So you need to decide if you want something that might take you a bit longer to learn how to use or not. What's the difference b/t the two? Sarai and Rosie, Proverbs 3:5,6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. - Original Message - From: Gary G. Schindler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 3:54 PM Subject: Re: the Book Port you may want to get the Book Courier instead. Book port it=s made buy the same company for APH. -- Sarai and Rosie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey: At the ACB convention, I saw a book port. It plays everything and will soon be playing books from audible. I was wondering if anyone uses it and what do they think of the accessibility and the voice quality? Sarai and Rosie, Proverbs 3:5,6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The best thing to hit the Internet in years - NetZero HiSpeed! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month -visit www.netzero.com to sign up today! ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the Book Port
Hi, Jim. Aren't you on the bookport list? You might want to go to the aph web site and join the bookport e-mail list. There is quite a bit of beta testing going on for those who want to do so. While I totally agree with Mr. Carter about the book port, and I purchased one at the very outset, I haven't heard of any upgrades. Can anyone tell me whether there have been any? Jim ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: the Book Port
Hello Jeff and listers, I bought the BC when it first came out but my unit was buggy and ran through batteries at an alarming clip. I also lost a memory card to the device and had to send it in for service when it totally stopped working after a battery change. So when I finally got around to the APH web site and read about the Bookport, I kicked myself for not having gone that route. When I received a bonus from work, I bought the bookport. The Bookcourier sits in a drawer unused, and that is my backup device. As far as the bookport goes, we are inseparable! And I do mean inseparable! It lives in the pocket of whatever I'm wearing--it's in my robe pocket as I write this, and it travels with me everywhere. Battery changes take place about once a week. It handles a wider variety of formats more gracefully than does the BC. Here are my specific comments regarding the questions you pose: I read the article comparing the Bookport and BookCourier, but I felt it did an inadequate job of comparison. It really just listed the features of each product without much comparison. I agree. The one comment they made that was helpful was that it is far too easy to record a memo by accident on the bookport--you really need to establish the habit of locking it when it's not in use. Nowhere did I find much information about the mp3 capabilities of these products. What bit rates do they support? More importantly, what bit rates do they *not* support? I Haven't come across a bit rate which either device would not handle. I frequently record at very low bit rates for spoken word material and these do not present any problems. Can bookmarks be placed within mp3 files? Yes for the Bookport, no for the Bookcourier. The BP also has better navigation of .mp3 files--I.E. you can back up by phrases or longer pauses. In the case of music files, you can navigate by five or ten seconds or a minute at a time. There is also a way to do rapid jumps. On the BC, you are limited to jumping by 5 percent increments within the file and you cannot set bookmarks. I think my primary use for the unit would be to listen to audio and perhaps audible.com books, so I'd be most interested in the detailed differences between the two units in this regard. On the BP, the audible support is in beta-testing, for which you can download the beta firmwear and transfer software from the website. Audible works very well on both devices, but you are limited to format 4 on either one of them. This means your files are going to be huge and will take longer to download, although the audio quality almost makes it worth it. Are there other products which I should consider for listening to audio/audible.com books? In my opinion, either one of these devices is the most accessible audible-ready device, if you don't mind the extra time and overhead involved in using format 4. The Audible Otis, which is no longer sold, also worked well and supports formats 2 and 3 if you can get your hands on one of these, but it doesn't resume in normal .mp3 files and of course doesn't give you verbal feedback. Also, nowhere was anything mentioned about AC adaptors. Can either of these units be run off of AC? If not, it seems one would go through a lot of batteries. Neither comes with an adapter, nor is there a plug for one on the unit. I strongly recommend the use of NIMH rechargeables--there are chargers out now that will fully charge these in less than an hour. One hint: store charged spares in a baggy in your freezer--they retain the charge much longer that way. I did notice that in addition to the BookCourier being $20 less expensive, it also includes twice the memory. True, but you can purchase compact flash I cards with up to 2GB memory that will work in either device. The 2GB guys are terribly expensive, but there are usually pretty good deals on 256MB and 512MB cards. Hope these comments are helpful. Debbie ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Winmx
Hit enter on the track you want, and then hit control t to get to the transfers window. Take an extra moment when you find yourself at piece, to think about your values, and your own affluency. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Winmx
if you are using the jfw scripts for winmx, just press enter. on Sunday 7/11/2004 03:55 PM, doug leavens said: Once I've performed a search, and selected a file to download, how do I perform the actual act of downloading? In fact, is there a tutorial on winmx I can access? I'm using jfw5 on a win xp system. Thanks in advance. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leonard Salinas -- People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament. come join our new lists: eudora list at http://coreytk.com/mailman/listinfo/eudora_coreytk.com and PcTalk at http://coreytk.com/mailman/listinfo/pctalk_coreytk.com visit my ftp site at: ftp://guest:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and find scripts for eudora 6 and jfw 4.51 and 5.x at http://www.coreytk.com/jfw web page at http://okie.sytes.net (password required) ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: the Book Port
According to the manual for the Book Port, mp3 at 128 bit rate will play fine and in stereo. There is no A.C. plug adapter. Its recommended that you buy and use rechargeable batteries and recharge on a separate battery charger. The unit comes with a 64 mb flash card and you can buy additional flash cards from your local computer store. I understand that both the Book Port and the Book courier will accept storage/playback of Audible books from audible.com Hope this information helps you a little more to get a clear idea of the Book Port. Aloha, Milton M. Ota Associate Dealer, Hawaii Island Computer Access Now, I.C.A.N. 1318 Kanewai Street Honolulu, Hawaii 96816-1718 Phone: (808)734-0612 Cell: (808)295-2528 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.hgea.org/~mota -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff - The Ultra Guy Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 12:41 PM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: the Book Port Thanks, Milton, for the information in your message quoted below. If only there was a similar product which used Eloquence text to speech rather than Doubletalk I'd snap it up in a heartbeat. I read the article comparing the BookPort and BookCourier, but I felt it did an inadequate job of comparison. It really just listed the features of each product without much comparison. Nowhere did I find much information about the mp3 capabilities of these products. What bit rates do they support? More importantly, what bit rates do they *not* support? Can bookmarks be placed within mp3 files? I think my primary use for the unit would be to listen to audio and perhaps audible.com books, so I'd be most interested in the detailed differences between the two units in this regard. Are there other products which I should consider for listening to audio/audible.com books? Also, nowhere was anything mentioned about AC adaptors. Can either of these units be run off of AC? If not, it seems one would go through a lot of batteries. I did notice that in addition to the BookCourier being $20 less expensive, it also includes twice the memory. Jeff, the Ultra guy http://www.UltraHost.US http://www.UltraRadio.US - Original Message - From: Milton M. Ota [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 5:59 PM Allow me to answer two postings in one-- I believe that the firmware in the BookPort over the Book Courier will support Daisy format 3.0 where the Book Courier currently was only supporting Daisy format 2.2. Whether that makes any difference at this time is not that important as there are not many books available in Daisy 3.0. The BookPort is a product of the American Printing House for the Blind, Inc. information about the BookPort can be found at their website at: http://www.aph.org/ You can find a website on the Book courier at: http://www.bookcourier.com/ And for all interested parties, go to the web of the American Foundation for the Blind's Accessworld for July 2004 and read a comparison report of the two devices we are talking about here. http://www.afb.org/accessworld/ Aloha, Milton M. Ota ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the Book Port
Yes, Debbie, I appreciate your comments. I do have a couple more questions about the BookPort. You mentioned resuming in mp3 files. Are you saying that the BookPort will remember where you stop listening to an mp3 file and start at that spot when you resume listening? Also, the BC mentioned having an update feature for updating the software. Nothing was specifically said about this for the BP, although I realize it can be done. Is it more difficult to update software/firmware on the BP than on the BC? Actually, I'm not a subscriber of audible.com yet, but I have been contemplating it for quite some time. One of my reasons for doing so would be to have books I could listen to with one of these types of players. However, I have read about the various formats and would probably want to use format 4 anyway. I am somewhat particular about quality and usually prefer to get the highest quality I can, so this would not be an issue for me. If you have any other comments about either of these devices or other similar products I'd be interested. I really, really wish there was a unit like this with Eloquence. Jeff, the Ultra guy http://www.UltraHost.US http://www.UltraRadio.US ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: the Book Port
Jeff, Both the BC and BP have auto-resume for any file type. Also the update procedures are about the same for both--the Bookport transfer software automatically notifies you of updates and will download them automatically if you tell it to do so. The Doubletalk synthe really is not that bad--I lived with it on my PC for years, so it's like an old friend to me, although I agree with you that Eloquence would be superior. My only complaint--and this applies to either device--is that the volume at which it reads and the volume at which MP3 files are played is quite different. So if you've been reading text or .htm files and you want to listen to an .mp3 or Audible file, best turn the volume down a few notches first if you want to keep your ears from ringing. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff - The Ultra Guy Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 8:32 PM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: the Book Port Yes, Debbie, I appreciate your comments. I do have a couple more questions about the BookPort. You mentioned resuming in mp3 files. Are you saying that the BookPort will remember where you stop listening to an mp3 file and start at that spot when you resume listening? Also, the BC mentioned having an update feature for updating the software. Nothing was specifically said about this for the BP, although I realize it can be done. Is it more difficult to update software/firmware on the BP than on the BC? Actually, I'm not a subscriber of audible.com yet, but I have been contemplating it for quite some time. One of my reasons for doing so would be to have books I could listen to with one of these types of players. However, I have read about the various formats and would probably want to use format 4 anyway. I am somewhat particular about quality and usually prefer to get the highest quality I can, so this would not be an issue for me. If you have any other comments about either of these devices or other similar products I'd be interested. I really, really wish there was a unit like this with Eloquence. Jeff, the Ultra guy http://www.UltraHost.US http://www.UltraRadio.US ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: the Book Port
You sold me on the book port! -- Debbie Crafts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jeff and listers, I bought the BC when it first came out but my unit was buggy and ran through batteries at an alarming clip. I also lost a memory card to the device and had to send it in for service when it totally stopped working after a battery change. So when I finally got around to the APH web site and read about the Bookport, I kicked myself for not having gone that route. When I received a bonus from work, I bought the bookport. The Bookcourier sits in a drawer unused, and that is my backup device. As far as the bookport goes, we are inseparable! And I do mean inseparable! It lives in the pocket of whatever I'm wearing--it's in my robe pocket as I write this, and it travels with me everywhere. Battery changes take place about once a week. It handles a wider variety of formats more gracefully than does the BC. Here are my specific comments regarding the questions you pose: I read the article comparing the Bookport and BookCourier, but I felt it did an inadequate job of comparison. It really just listed the features of each product without much comparison. I agree. The one comment they made that was helpful was that it is far too easy to record a memo by accident on the bookport--you really need to establish the habit of locking it when it's not in use. Nowhere did I find much information about the mp3 capabilities of these products. What bit rates do they support? More importantly, what bit rates do they *not* support? I Haven't come across a bit rate which either device would not handle. I frequently record at very low bit rates for spoken word material and these do not present any problems. Can bookmarks be placed within mp3 files? Yes for the Bookport, no for the Bookcourier. The BP also has better navigation of .mp3 files--I.E. you can back up by phrases or longer pauses. In the case of music files, you can navigate by five or ten seconds or a minute at a time. There is also a way to do rapid jumps. On the BC, you are limited to jumping by 5 percent increments within the file and you cannot set bookmarks. I think my primary use for the unit would be to listen to audio and perhaps audible.com books, so I'd be most interested in the detailed differences between the two units in this regard. On the BP, the audible support is in beta-testing, for which you can download the beta firmwear and transfer software from the website. Audible works very well on both devices, but you are limited to format 4 on either one of them. This means your files are going to be huge and will take longer to download, although the audio quality almost makes it worth it. Are there other products which I should consider for listening to audio/audible.com books? In my opinion, either one of these devices is the most accessible audible-ready device, if you don't mind the extra time and overhead involved in using format 4. The Audible Otis, which is no longer sold, also worked well and supports formats 2 and 3 if you can get your hands on one of these, but it doesn't resume in normal .mp3 files and of course doesn't give you verbal feedback. Also, nowhere was anything mentioned about AC adaptors. Can either of these units be run off of AC? If not, it seems one would go through a lot of batteries. Neither comes with an adapter, nor is there a plug for one on the unit. I strongly recommend the use of NIMH rechargeables--there are chargers out now that will fully charge these in less than an hour. One hint: store charged spares in a baggy in your freezer--they retain the charge much longer that way. I did notice that in addition to the BookCourier being $20 less expensive, it also includes twice the memory. True, but you can purchase compact flash I cards with up to 2GB memory that will work in either device. The 2GB guys are terribly expensive, but there are usually pretty good deals on 256MB and 512MB cards. Hope these comments are helpful. Debbie ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The best thing to hit the Internet in years - NetZero HiSpeed! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month -visit www.netzero.com to sign up today! ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
total recorder question
Hi, I use total recorder and works fine, but why would I be able to play back file recorded with total recorder and work fine and others recorded also via the web only play back what I typed. Some radio broadcasts such as Blumberg radio and wbix am radio record and play back just as good as I recorded it. Other sites such as one place. com which is ministry based radio shows and archives only give me things I typed on the keyboard instead of the show itself. Could it be because one is live and the other is archived? I just don't understand . ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multi channel sound cards
Hi David. I don't know if anyone has answered your question, but a multichanel soundcard will allow you to hear things in stereo, while using Jaws or Window-eyes for software speech. - Original Message - From: David R. Sky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:57 AM Subject: Multi channel sound cards Hi listers I am using Window Eyes 4.5 demo and a sound card to hear it through. I can only hear the screen reader _or_ audio at the same time, not both. I understand there is something called a multi channel sound card, what is this, are they commonly available? What about multi channel cards with MIDI inputs? Thanks a lot in advance! David -- ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fm transmitter sound related issues
Seems to me, if my FM unit is any example, that the audio plug-in cord is also the antenna, or at least part of it, and the RF may be messing with your card. You might try an extension cable which may improve your signal and reduce the RF getting back to your sound card. Geoff - Original Message - From: Mike Pietruk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 10:21 AM Subject: Re: fm transmitter sound related issues Marco Jumping into this thread late so don't know if this has been tried or mentioned. I presume your cable has an 1/8 plug on the end which goes into the sound card. If the cable is ok, plugging it into any device -- radio, stereo, whatever -- that can accept such a connector should tell you if the cable is ok. It's also possible that there is some short at the point where the cable connects into the transmitter. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MP3 Direct Cut
Hi all. A while back, I heard of a free sound editing program called MP3 Direct Cut. I've looked at that website. It sounds like there's a lot of free editing software there. I'm wondering if MP3 Direct Cut offers things like pitch shift like Soundforge? ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cordless headphones
I bought some las tyear from ccrane that had a range of 300 fett, and they worked very well. They require a lot of battery power, but they do have rechargeable ones that come with it. You can get them for around 100 bucks. - Original Message - From: rinty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 2:15 PM Subject: cordless headphones Hi all, I don't know too much about Cordless Headphones, and wondered if someone could help me out a bit. I've an MP3 player and my computer, both of which I want to use with cordless headphones. I don't know which sort to buy, things to look out for and so on. I'm also aware that in life you get what you pay for, so makes/models/prices would be appreciated. I just bought a pair of Sony ones for about gBP40, which sound OK, but there's background noise (hiss) and the reception fails when I get downstairs, I've a relatively small terraced house. I feel that I've wasted this money, and would rather try to find out a bit more before I spend any more, though very much want a pair of these. I live alone, so the sound isolation problem isn't too much of a difficulty, as I know my way round my house very well, and therefore don't need to be able to hear too much. Ideally I'd be able to plug 2 or 3 devices in, and select which I wanted to listen to, I.E. a book on the computer, album on the stereo, sports on my DAB tuner, or whatever. Thanks for any help, and I'm sure this is probably an old chestnut. Rob --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.718 / Virus Database: 474 - Release Date: 09/07/2004 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cordless headphones
I have a pair of Senheiser (SP?) headphones which I very much like. They come with a spare rechargeable battery which you can charge while the current one is in use, and the sound is very good. Bruce -- Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net For the best oldies anywhere visit http://www.treasureislandoldies.com On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Mike Mote wrote: I bought some las tyear from ccrane that had a range of 300 fett, and they worked very well. They require a lot of battery power, but they do have rechargeable ones that come with it. You can get them for around 100 bucks. - Original Message - From: rinty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 2:15 PM Subject: cordless headphones Hi all, I don't know too much about Cordless Headphones, and wondered if someone could help me out a bit. I've an MP3 player and my computer, both of which I want to use with cordless headphones. I don't know which sort to buy, things to look out for and so on. I'm also aware that in life you get what you pay for, so makes/models/prices would be appreciated. I just bought a pair of Sony ones for about gBP40, which sound OK, but there's background noise (hiss) and the reception fails when I get downstairs, I've a relatively small terraced house. I feel that I've wasted this money, and would rather try to find out a bit more before I spend any more, though very much want a pair of these. I live alone, so the sound isolation problem isn't too much of a difficulty, as I know my way round my house very well, and therefore don't need to be able to hear too much. Ideally I'd be able to plug 2 or 3 devices in, and select which I wanted to listen to, I.E. a book on the computer, album on the stereo, sports on my DAB tuner, or whatever. Thanks for any help, and I'm sure this is probably an old chestnut. Rob --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.718 / Virus Database: 474 - Release Date: 09/07/2004 ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $0 Web Hosting with up to 120MB web space, 1000 MB Data Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Get It Now At www.doteasy.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free Multi-tracking software
There is a page for blind Audacity users, and at least part of it addresses this problem. And there's a list of keyboard commands I can post here if anyone wishes. David Linkname: Audacity Wiki: AudacityForBlindUsers URL: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.pl?AudacityForBlindUsers On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Arnaud wrote: it's not very accessible btw no way to move in a file with the cursor. On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 12:14:57 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: There is _free_ multitracking software, complete with effects and ability to have audio plugins, called Audacity. Go to http://audacity.sourceforge.net It is available for several platforms including PC, Mac, and others. Cheers David On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Stewart Ross wrote: hi their can u send me the link for downloading the ntracks studio demo? -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] radioanorak low stream http://live.southeastsound.com:12624/listen.pls radioanorak high stream http://live.southeastsound.com:12626/listen.pls - Original Message - From: Norma A. Boge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 7:17 PM Subject: Multi-tracking software Hi Stuart, N Track Studio is very friendly, though I must say I'm just getting into using it. There is a very good review on acbradio.org, and a link there from which to download a demo. HTH Norma ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem
Hi Kevin Thanks very much for this information! David On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Kevin Lloyd wrote: Yu enable DMA for your CD drive through control panel, system, device manager. Select the rewriter and then tab to properties. You'll find an option to enable DMA there. This should come with a little health warning though. You'll be warned by Windows that changing the setting could cause the hardware not to work when your computer is restarted. The symptoms I was suffering were that I could burn a data CD no problem at all but whenever I tried to copy an audio CD, the burn would fail 5-10 minutes into the simulation step. Changing this setting cured that immediately and I've never had the problem since. Kevin - Original Message - From: mimi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 9:50 PM Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem You know, I never thought of that. How do you do that, Kevin? Maybe this will cut down on a lot of dead CD's. Mimi - Original Message - From: Kevin Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 11:09 AM Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Hi David. I suffered with this problem for a number of months. Have you tried working your way through the Nero help tool? I found this very useful as it will run through a checklist of areas that may affect successful burning. Anyway, the answer for me was to set my CD-rewriter to be DMA enabled. This meant that data could be transferred between the rewriter and hard drive much more efficiently. I've never had a buffer underrun since. Have you ever been able to burn CD's successfully with your current set up? Kevin - Original Message - From: David R. Sky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 8:09 AM Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Hi Mimi No, it was not the CD's... I've got very old equipment cuz I can't afford anything else right now. Apparently it was something called underr un or underburn or something, which meant the buffer to the CD write thingy got empty before more info was grabbed from the hard drive. I don't know how else to explain it at the moment, it's new to me. Anyway, my friend burned the CD's with his own computer and the same kind of CD discs, so they were okay. Thanks David On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, mimi wrote: Oh, no! That means your disc devloped an error in it. If you are using CDR's, which you can only use once, there is nothing you can do to fix that once it's burned. If the problem persists throughout the pack of discs, you have a bad package! You might have to try a different brand of discs. Anyway, Nero should have asked you if you wanted to save the read/write error onto a disc. Anyway, I would say no, because I don't want a defective write or play. I don't know what else to suggest other than try other discs to see if the same thing would happen. But I do know that any time your burn is unsuccessful or incomplete it's a bad disc. You cannot see the defect. Another way to know is when you play it back on your computer's CD drive if the last track will not play at all. I've had that happen a lot lately. Mimi - Original Message - From: David R. Sky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:31 AM Subject: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Hi listers With sighted help, I learned how to use Nero 5.5 to burn mp3 files to a CD. I split thirty five tracks into three folders and tried to make three CD's from these. At 4x speed, only 4 tracks were burned. Then, running my CD burner at 1x speed, the first eleven tracks are burned (and played) great, but each time the twelvth and last track is played, it's okay for a few seconds, then it gets comically crazy, like a space-age merry-go-round. And the CD player stays stuck on that track until I physically stop it or switch to another CD in my player. There was an error message from nero at the end of each burn session, and I saved the burn log from the last session. It's 8 pages long and I have no idea what it means. I can forward a copy to the list if it would help in solving this problem. I'd appreciate any help, thanks in advance! David -- ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to:
Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem
Thanks once again Kevin. I am saving all your suggestions to a file for later exploring. David On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Kevin Lloyd wrote: Hi David. It seems Ahead have changed their support pages and the closest you'll get to the help tool as was is at http://www.ahead.de/en/632181889268729.html#9 That said, it seems they're happy to take log files attached to e-mails to the support desk so that may be the best course of action for persistent problems when burning. The DMA setting is not a Nero specific setting. If you go to control panel, then system, then device manager, you should be able to locate your rewriter in the list of devices. When selected, tab to the properties button and press enter. The enable DMA setting can be found on one of the resulting tabs. As mentioned in a previous post, Windows will warn you if you change this as some hardware devices, particularly older ones, will not work if DMA is enabled. As regards the jitter and ignore read errors controls, these can be found on the Nero read options tab but you can only get to this if you dismiss the wizard and go through the resulting detailed screens. Kevin - Original Message - From: David R. Sky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 10:43 PM Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Hi Kevin I tried in vain to find the help tool you reffered to in a previous post, so was unable to change I think you called it dma. I've been using Window Eyes 4.5 demo, and have been exploring the screen lots with the numeric keypad as well as regular keystrokes. *chuckle* I have no idea (yet) what you're talking about below, I haven't seen any of these things. I guess I'm gonna have to get my neighbor to help me with Nero again. Thanks very much for your pointers, I will post to this list when I have a progress report to make. David On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Kevin Lloyd wrote: Hi David. I've also experienced problems like this occasionally. You may wish to set the use jitter correction control to Yes when you copy a CD. This may help as often when copying from one CD drive to another, minor clocking differences between the two drives can introduce jitter. Also, check that you've got the ignore read errors set to No when you burn as the CD will burn with errors such as you describe otherwise. Kevin - Original Message - From: David R. Sky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 12:19 AM Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Hi Kevin I have not examined the help tool yet, didn't know that could help. I have been playing around with nero for just the past week or two. As I posted earlier, I could burn a CD with eleven fine tracks, but the twelvth went crazy when I played it on my CD player. Kinda comical. Thanks for the tip! David On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Kevin Lloyd wrote: Hi David. I suffered with this problem for a number of months. Have you tried working your way through the Nero help tool? I found this very useful as it will run through a checklist of areas that may affect successful burning. Anyway, the answer for me was to set my CD-rewriter to be DMA enabled. This meant that data could be transferred between the rewriter and hard drive much more efficiently. I've never had a buffer underrun since. Have you ever been able to burn CD's successfully with your current set up? Kevin - Original Message - From: David R. Sky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 8:09 AM Subject: Re: Nero 5.5 CD-burning problem Hi Mimi No, it was not the CD's... I've got very old equipment cuz I can't afford anything else right now. Apparently it was something called underr un or underburn or something, which meant the buffer to the CD write thingy got empty before more info was grabbed from the hard drive. I don't know how else to explain it at the moment, it's new to me. Anyway, my friend burned the CD's with his own computer and the same kind of CD discs, so they were okay. Thanks David On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, mimi wrote: Oh, no! That means your disc devloped an error in it. If you are using CDR's, which you can only use once, there is nothing you can do to fix that once it's burned. If the problem persists throughout the pack of discs, you have a bad package! You might have to try a different brand of discs. Anyway, Nero should have asked you if you wanted to save the read/write error onto a disc. Anyway, I would say no, because I don't want a defective
