understanding Dvd-r discs

2007-11-24 Thread Scott Blanks
Hi all, Forgive my ignorance on this topic, but I'm just now considering the purchase of dvd-r discs for some of my storage/personal needs. I realize however, that I know very little about the technology. Here are my questions: 1. Can dvd-r discs be used to store mp3 and other compresse media

winamp remote

2007-11-24 Thread David Reynolds
Hi all, Has anyone managed to get this working. It talks a good fight, but I've never actually managed to get logged on. I click on start winamp remote, and jaws says: winamp remote starting. Then it very helpfully says: winamp remote stopping. I have verified my email address with orb, and

Re: understanding Dvd-r discs

2007-11-24 Thread Dane Trethowan
Ok, well my first comment is not to use DVD-R discs rather DVD-RW type, that way you can update things as you go along should you need to. Yes, you can copy-paste your data to a DVD-RW disc as you would a CD and you can store whatever data you like, I suppose a DVD-RW can be thought of as a

Re: The advantages of flak?

2007-11-24 Thread Steve Matzura
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:35:44 +1100, you wrote: FLAC IS LOSSLESS SO WHAT YOU HEAR IN THE ORIGINAL IS WHAT YOU HEAR WITH FLAC. Well, it's supposed to be. I've never read any test reports that say what comes out equals what went in. I can only hope it's that way. Audio List Help, Guidelines,

Re: The advantages of flak?

2007-11-24 Thread Steve Matzura
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:17:10 -0700, you wrote: I've heard people speaking of flac but since my portable player will not play it I can't see going through the hastle of conversion just to upload to my ipod. Well, if you don't have original media, like CD's, there's no need to even worry about

Re: The advantages of flak?

2007-11-24 Thread Dane Trethowan
Depends on how you do it I guess, In my case I have all my music stored on DVD in Cue/FLAC pairs and I have MP3 conversions of the FLAC stuff on my external drive, that way I can put them onto a hard drive player, CD for one of the DVD players etc at the touch of a few buttons. What this

Re: understanding Dvd-r discs

2007-11-24 Thread dan thompson
Thank you Dane for the information and Scott for asking a question I long thought about how to ask. I also have a few additional questions. 1. Is it true you can store four gb of document files such as doc, rtf etc on a dvdrw? 2. If I have a movie someone has sent me via email or put on

Re: understanding Dvd-r discs

2007-11-24 Thread Dane Trethowan
Ok, well I can't answer your last question as I'm not up to speed with the video side of things but yes, VD-RW's do hold around about 4 gig of data, just to put that into some perspective regarding MP3 tracks, you could get say around about 800 tracks on one DVD at excellent quality,

Re: Apples apples everywhere

2007-11-24 Thread Gary Wood
I also had an Apple 2E about that time. I think that another speech synthesizer was called Votrax. I don't remember if it was that one I used, or another, but I remember those back then. Now, I believe that the new system they're using is called Leopard, so the Mack went from a Tiger to a

Re: understanding Dvd-r discs

2007-11-24 Thread nick danger
Hi Scott, I'll try to answer as much of this as I can considering I do this style of backup all the time. I took each of the questions you have and the answers are right beneath. So pardon the length of this gang and please feel free to weigh in if I've missed anything. 1. Can dvd-r discs be

RE: understanding Dvd-r discs

2007-11-24 Thread albert griffith
How many of these disks are on a spindle? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nick danger Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 9:08 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: understanding Dvd-r discs Hi Scott, I'll try to answer as much of

Re: understanding Dvd-r discs

2007-11-24 Thread Dane Trethowan
You can get them in packs of 50 as you can with audio CD'S. Acutally one of our supermarkets down here isn't selling audio CD'S any more, just blank DVD R's, RW'S RAM etc. On 25/11/2007, at 4:34 AM, albert griffith wrote: How many of these disks are on a spindle? -Original

Re: understanding Dvd-r discs

2007-11-24 Thread Dane Trethowan
Thought I'd follow this up with the cost factor. DVD-R discs I can buy for $20.00 for a spindle of 50, DVD-RW'S about $29.00 for 50. DVD-RAM discs are considerably more expensive and they don't come on a spindle, they've about $2.50 each and they come in a standard-type CD case, they can

Re: understanding Dvd-r discs

2007-11-24 Thread Sunshine
The Mac Minnie, does it have a seperate screen or is the screen built in? and about how much does a mac minnie cost? and what os does it run? - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007

Re: A new conversion utility:

2007-11-24 Thread Kelly Pierce
I'm downloading it now. the download speed is rather slow. I found the download link at: http://www.erightsoft.net/S6Kg1.html The file will take more than an hour to download from this site. I can transfer it to interested folks once I get it. Just zap me on AIM. My screen name is

Re: A new conversion utility:

2007-11-24 Thread Fazil M.
I'm sorry, what does this utility do?\ Thanks! - Original Message - From: Kelly Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, 24 November, 2007 10:17 AM Subject: Re: A new conversion utility: I'm downloading it now. the download speed is

RE: A new conversion utility:

2007-11-24 Thread albert griffith
It converts files from one format to another and it's free. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fazil M. Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 11:49 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: A new conversion utility: I'm sorry, what does this

Re: A new conversion utility:

2007-11-24 Thread Sarah
Hello. can ou upload it to sendspace when o are done getting it? I can't get aim working with bitlbee for the moment. SAG - Original Message - From: Kelly Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 10:17 AM Subject: Re:

RE: Winamp, my thoughts and VLC

2007-11-24 Thread Chris Skarstad
Hi. This is why it's really, really important to make sure that you don't just click yes like a mad man when you're going through these installs. I've had like 5 other people on the list I run have similar issues, and I can't imagine how everyone misses these checkboxes to install the Winamp

Re: A new conversion utility:

2007-11-24 Thread Kelly Pierce
My download ran at 6 kbps and I have DSL! Kelly - Original Message - From: albert griffith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 1:49 PM Subject: RE: A new conversion utility: It seems this is the only distribution

Re: A new conversion utility:

2007-11-24 Thread Timothy
Did the program actualy work for anybody? I'm using JAWS 7. Please reply and tell me how it went. It gave me an error when I gave it a file to ocnvert to mp3. It gave me an error message and told me to click to get more info of what the eror was. I couldn't click it. From, A fustrated

RE: A new conversion utility:

2007-11-24 Thread Paul Henrichsen
I couldn't seem to find any link to download the program. Paul Henrichsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurzweil 1000 Technical Support Engineer (888) 995-9905 Press 5 Then 1 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of albert griffith Sent: Thursday, November

RE: A new conversion utility:

2007-11-24 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Even my sighted wife gave up after a while. She said the page was too confusing. Paul Henrichsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kurzweil 1000 Technical Support Engineer (888) 995-9905 Press 5 Then 1 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of albert griffith

Re: A new conversion utility:

2007-11-24 Thread Kelly Pierce
No problem. will do. Kelly - Original Message - From: Sarah [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 1:57 PM Subject: Re: A new conversion utility: Hello. can ou upload it to sendspace when o are done getting it? I can't

RE: A new conversion utility:

2007-11-24 Thread albert griffith
I took the link fro a blog for sightlings and the author said he'd posted it because it was difficult to find. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Henrichsen Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 12:46 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'

Re: A new conversion utility:

2007-11-24 Thread Rick Harmon
me either, found a start download link but everytime I clicked it nothing happened. Rick -- Visit my webpage and podcast feed at: http://www.blind-geek-zone.net and my web Blog at: http://blind-geek-zone.blogspot.com/ Join the BGZ mailing list by sending a blank email message to: [EMAIL

Re: A new conversion utility:

2007-11-24 Thread Timothy
I'd do it, but I have a really slow upload speed - Original Message - From: Kelly Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 3:47 PM Subject: Re: A new conversion utility: No problem. will do. Kelly - Original

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2007-11-24 Thread Dan Thompson
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Supercopyright Download

2007-11-24 Thread Kelly Pierce
Here's the info from Send Space: File Name: SUPERsetup.exe Size: 26MB Description: supercopyright file converter Download Link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/0wqe4z Kelly Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a

looking for demo of pc creator

2007-11-24 Thread blsmass
Does anybody have an address for premier CD creator? I bought it before but can't find it and need to reinstall it. I don't want to buy a new copy, but my computer got hit with a trojan horse or something and it disconnected the programs from its objects or something and I wanted to reinstall it

Re: looking for demo of pc creator

2007-11-24 Thread Casey
www.readingmadeez.com Casey - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 7:03 PM Subject: looking for demo of pc creator Does anybody have an address for premier CD creator? I bought it before but can't find it and need

Re: Winamp, my thoughts and VLC

2007-11-24 Thread Dane Trethowan
Good point. One of the great things worth having around is the software called Rollback, that way if Winamp or other software doesn't function or isn't as accesible as you think it ought to be then you can just go back to a point before the install as though nothing had happened. On

free dvd copying program

2007-11-24 Thread blsmass
Does anybody know of a free DVD making or copy program? I need to take stuff off this drive and don't have a program to do it. Any suggestions would be welcome. Kurt Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email

Re: The advantages of flak?

2007-11-24 Thread David Tanner
So, if I understand you right taking audio from a cd to flac would not improve over what was on the original cd? So, I am guessing that the flac format would only be worth using if you were recording original material from a live source? - Original Message - From: Steve Matzura

Re: understanding Dvd-r discs

2007-11-24 Thread David Tanner
What is DVD - RAM and how do they differ from double density DVDs? - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 11:41 AM Subject: Re: understanding Dvd-r discs Thought I'd follow this

Re: free dvd copying program

2007-11-24 Thread nick danger
Hi kurt, Go to http://www.deepburner.com and grab that for cophying data files to DVD. Tony - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 9:21 PM Subject: free dvd copying program Does anybody know of a free DVD making or

Re: still looking for girltalk by Lesley gore

2007-11-24 Thread David Tanner
Any idea which of her albums it would be on. I have most of her albums so I just might have it. - Original Message - From: Dan Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 1:06 PM Subject: still looking for girltalk

RE: The advantages of flak?

2007-11-24 Thread albert griffith
Flak will produce smaller files than wave files. It's called lossless because you lose no data in the conversion process. so, it's not just for live recordings. It's a way to transfer sound files from a CD to your computer without losing sound quality. However, it's not the only lossless

Re: still looking for girltalk by Lesley gore

2007-11-24 Thread usabill
let me look in my l p's I believe I have it. Bill Sheen RED HOT FREE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY www.themallking.com email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: David Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 8:59 PM

Re: A new conversion utility:

2007-11-24 Thread usabill
I could not get it to work. Maybe I will try again tomorrow, and the link will be fixed. Merry Christmas Bill Sheen RED HOT FREE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY www.themallking.com email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: David Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC Audio Discussion List

Re: A new conversion utility:

2007-11-24 Thread David Tanner
That makes two of us. Or should I say, I found a link to startdownloading it, but it didn't work. - Original Message - From: Paul Henrichsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 2:44 PM Subject: RE: A new conversion

Re: Stereo Translater Question

2007-11-24 Thread Doc
Maybe you need to contact their supervisor. I ordered mine over the phone because I kept having problems with the web page. - Original Message - From: DJ DOCTOR P [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 3:41 PM Subject: Re:

Re: The advantages of flak?

2007-11-24 Thread Dane Trethowan
If you want something compressed which sounds exactly like the original then FLAC or other lossless formats are perfect for this sort of thing, FLAC is probably the most widely supported form of lossles compression around but there are others and as I pointed out earlier, there are a lot

Re: understanding Dvd-r discs

2007-11-24 Thread Dane Trethowan
Ok, well I don't know the tech specifications so I can't exactly tell you the difference but you probably wouldn't want to worry about them unless you had a DVD recorder which was capable of things such as chase playback or time shifting or editing, DVD-RAM discs allow these functions when

Re: Supercopyright Download

2007-11-24 Thread Sarah
Thanks. I'm grabbing it now. SAg - Original Message - From: Kelly Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 1:11 PM Subject: Supercopyright Download Here's the info from Send Space: File Name: SUPERsetup.exe Size: 26MB Description: