Re: Winamp question

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi


Under dsp/effect, there should be a section called media library.   I 
would hesitate to delete or remove any of these plugins unless you're 
absolutely sure you want to get rid of them.  The absolutely safest 
thing to do is to hit alt plus l and hide the media library window from 
appearing.  If you really want to get rid of the plugins though,  the 
safest one looks like it might be one called Nullsoft library, and 
another one called Online services.  But like I say i haven't removed 
these, so approach with caution.  I have no idea if winamp requires 
these plugins to function.  That's why I've just hidden the media 
library window.  Better to be safe than sorry.





On 7/30/2017 7:41 PM, Donald L. Roberts wrote:
Joe, Thanks so much for the response to my inquiry.  I do not find the 
media library plug in of which you speak.  The groups I see are input, 
output, visualization, bst effect, and visualization.  I went through 
each of those groups and found nothing remotely close to what you 
mentioned.  Ideas please.



Don Roberts



On 7/27/2017 1:18 AM, Joe Paton wrote:

press control p for prefferences.

go down to media library plug ins.

remove the on-line services plug in.

That should fix it.

I'm not sure that this is the exact plug in, but there are 16 loaded at
startup on this instalation so you may need trial and error.




Joe Paton
telephone: 01702 543624
Mobile: 0 7 9 6 7 3 8 2 9 6 4
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Re: MP3 Is Dead!

[Chris Skarstad]

Geez, such negativity around here!

There is nothing in the world wrong with a 320 k mp3 at 44.1 khz stereo.

Listen on a good set of speakers and you will see.  Not as good as a 
lossless file for sure, but unless you're an audio snob, there's nothing 
wrong with it.


and now that the license has expired, you'll see products that couldn't 
offer mp3 magicly gain the ability to encode to it.







On 5/17/2017 12:30 PM, Hamit Campos wrote:
Yip yip yip yip yahoo like Rush Limbaw says. I love it. Yeah I was 
never a big fan of MP3. But maybe the PTR1's yucky 64 KBPS MP3 jaded me.



On 5/16/2017 6:14 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Yep subject line says everything, the format is dead and no new 
licences will be issued to continue supporting or developing the format.


MP3 has had a truly remarkable run when you think about it, almost 20 
years and the format has ben at the heart of changing the way we 
listen to music.


Now there are more efficient formats such as AAC out there and 
Lossless compressed formats such as FLAC, storage space has increased 
and so it goes.


There will be people who use MP3 for a long time to come but those 
will become fewer as more people adopt other methods.







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Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation

[Chris Skarstad]

I think that's just the point.  If you're a real audiofile who enjoys 
high end audio from a device, and you're really picky about how stuff 
sounds, the VR stream ain't for you.  Despite all the bad press the 
player has gotten here, i'll still purchase one in the next few days and 
report my findings.  I do think Bluetooth functionality is something 
that is lacking and needs to be in a future update.  If some of the 
other specialized players can have it, so can the stream.  But i'm 
buying it, fully aware of this and I'm certainly ok with it.


I'll also report on the speed of downloading books via online services 
like BARD.  I can always download the books manually and put them on the 
stream that way.  It's good to know there are multiple ways of getting a 
particular job like that done.



On 5/3/2017 8:58 AM, Hamit Campos wrote:
Ah well The Victors are more player anyways then recorder. The 
Plextalk Pocket is the thing ya want if ya want a recorder.



On 5/3/2017 5:14 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Ah okay so that problem still exists then? I was given to understand 
that later firmware updates had fixed this.

Too late to try that here now .


On 3 May 2017, at 6:44 pm, Tim Noonan <t...@timnoonan.com.au> wrote:

Sadly, the Stream Mic or line in creates very audible artefacts or 
whistles in recordings. Otherwise the stream would be a reasonable 
all-purpose player/recorder.


Regards
Tim

On 3 May 2017, at 6:02 pm, Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net> 
wrote:


I didn’t try the line-in recording function though I did note that - 
using this function - one can record to PCM Wave files at 44.1KHZ so 
surely this should be reasonable.
So if one really wanted to do high quality recordings one could use 
the line-in method and buy suitable equipment to take full advantage.



On 3 May 2017, at 5:43 pm, Jamie Kelly <otrja...@gmail.com> wrote:

The recording quality is ok for notes and meetings but not of high 
broadcast quality as with the bookport plus or Plextor Pocket range.


Jamie

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of 
Dane Trethowan

Sent: Wednesday, 3 May 2017 4:47 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation

Yep, convenient may be but the unit does have its limitations as 
we’ve discussed here, the Wi-Fi connectivity being a very serious 
limitation and - given the speed of the Wi-Fi - one wouldn’t really 
want to try and download a good quality audio stream.

And again we come to that bloody awful internal speaker.
Another interesting point and its not critical just an observation, 
I wonder why Human ware didn’t include the ability to be able to 
browse NAS storage devices or other computers on a network for 
files? Just about every other device I know of these days - that 
can play Internet radio stations - haas this handy feature which 
and I reckon it would be an absolute boom! for users of a VR Stream.
Perhaps I’m talking about a future VR Stream update though 
hHumanware take my advice, don’t make the update too big or it will 
take until Christmas for the VR Stream users to download .
Regarding my own streaM/ Its found a good home so I’m happy about 
that.



On 2 May 2017, at 4:34 am, Peter Scanlon <sca...@tpg.com.au> wrote:

I love my Victor Stream.
The best thing about it is how easy it is to listen to and locate 
internet radio stations.



-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of
Hamit Campos
Sent: Tuesday, 2 May 2017 3:07 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation

Yeah I've not heard this before either. But perhaps other people 
either didn't have the issue or they just axepted it.



On 5/1/2017 12:59 PM, Chris Skarstad wrote:

I'll be purchasing one of these very soon, so will be able to report
on it when i get it.  I have a super-fast connection with Verizon
Fios, so downloading books manually and transfering them to the
player won't be an issue if the download speeds on the player are as
slow as some of you guys say they are.  I'm kind of shocked that 
this

is just now coming up, as the new generation stream has been out for
some time now.  I thought this would've been mentioned sooner, but
maybe I skipped over it as I wasn't in the market for one at that
time, i'm not sure. I'll certainly let you guys know my experiences.






On 5/1/2017 12:41 PM, Evan Reese wrote:

As to slow downloading of data, I have noticed with ours, and those
of some friends, that it doesn't seem to have a great wi-fi
transceiver in it. Even when I'm close to my router, it usually 
says

that reception is poor.
Other than that, you are right, a lot of functionality in that
little package.
Evan

-Original Message- From: Dane Trethowan
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2017 10:24 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Victor Reade

Re: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation

[Chris Skarstad]

I'll be purchasing one of these very soon, so will be able to report on 
it when i get it.  I have a super-fast connection with Verizon Fios, so 
downloading books manually and transfering them to the player won't be 
an issue if the download speeds on the player are as slow as some of you 
guys say they are.  I'm kind of shocked that this is just now coming up, 
as the new generation stream has been out for some time now.  I thought 
this would've been mentioned sooner, but maybe I skipped over it as I 
wasn't in the market for one at that time, i'm not sure.  I'll certainly 
let you guys know my experiences.







On 5/1/2017 12:41 PM, Evan Reese wrote:
As to slow downloading of data, I have noticed with ours, and those of 
some friends, that it doesn't seem to have a great wi-fi transceiver 
in it. Even when I'm close to my router, it usually says that 
reception is poor.
Other than that, you are right, a lot of functionality in that little 
package.

Evan

-Original Message- From: Dane Trethowan
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2017 10:24 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Victor Reader Stream 2nd Generation

Hi!

I just bought one of these units and would like to make comment on my
purchase.

Firstly I think that the unit does a brilliant job for what it is in
most respects.

The sound from the internal speaker is a little muffled however - having
already heard a VR Stream - I was already prepared for this, a bit of an
annoyance one might say so to overcome this I use a small BUniden
hand-held amplified battery speaker I've had for years, cost me $25
about 7 years ago, pity the Stream doesn't have Bluetooth but I guess a
product can't have everythint.

Now I don't know whether this is my unit in particular but I have
noticed that the downloading of data seems to be incredibly slow
compared to other devices I have on my network, I used the "Check for
Updates" function and - according to that - the firmware is up to date,
well at least the data does get downloaded I guess.

There's a hell of a lot of functionality packed into the VR Stream box
and a lot of this - such as the Internet Radio, podcasts and so forth -
I won't bother using - given I already have better solutions for that
sort of thing - but for those who don't the VR Stream provides a great
entry level to the world of Internet Radio and Podcasting.

Getting online with the Vision Australia library was a snap so I
downlaoded a couple of books.

Again, I have other Apps and so forth which I prefer to use myself but
the Stream is convenient for reading, no doubt about that even though I
read all my newspapers these days straight from the web site its good to
know I have a reliable backup.

Re: how on earth do you play/record this audio stream?

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi.  I got it to play but it did take a minute or so.  Try pressing 
enter on the link, but leave the page open for a minute or two, and see 
if the music doesn't start playing on its own.







On 3/9/2017 7:36 AM, Peter Scanlon wrote:

Yes me too.


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Barry Chapman
Sent: Thursday, 9 March 2017 10:47 PM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' 
Subject: RE: how on earth do you play/record this audio stream?

For me, it started playing after I pressed enter on the link without doing 
anything.

Barry Chapman


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Robert 
Godridge
Sent: Thursday, 9 March 2017 8:45 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List 
Subject: how on earth do you play/record this audio stream?

I am a 78rpm record collector and really want to play several records from the 
library of congress's national jukebox site, this is one of them 
http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/recordings/detail/id/7722/autoplay/true/
I see an embedded object but the buttons are unlabeled, I cannot get it to play 
for the life of me!
I'd also like to record it, would total recorder do that?
thanks
Rob


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Re: another alternative to tapinradio/

[Chris Skarstad]

Well, I don't know about the rest of you guys, but if I like a program, 
and there's a paid version, I buy it and support the developer.  Really, 
the price in American dollars isn't all that much...it's $20.00.  That's 
a pizza you'll do without, but the hours you'll spend listening will be 
worth it.  Plus these guys have to keep the lights on somehow.  I would 
hate to see a great program like Tapin radio go away.


 So, if you really want it, save your bucks, and support a developer 
that makes their programs accessible to us.








On 2/26/2017 10:04 PM, randy tijerina wrote:
hi everyone...i just installed the new version.2.2...something..much 
to my horror the check for new station listings is no longer free.

is there a better programme?
or am I missing something?

Re: Reposting Problem With DVD

[Chris Skarstad]

You might have to configure VLC to play dvd content.I don't have vlc 
on my machine, but usually, a media player has some kind of area in the 
preferences that determines what file types the player will grab, so 
look for something like dvd content or something similar.  For ripping 
dvd audio to mp3, there is absolutely nothing better than DVD audio 
extractor.  It's not a free program, but it works like a charm.





On 12/28/2016 2:17 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

Hello Norma and list:  Actually that is my intention, that is, if I can ever
figure how I can get the thing to play!  No matter what I have read, VLC
just plain _will not_ play it!  Windows Media will play some of it, but then
it stops and seems to just freeze up!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Norma A.
Boge
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2016 11:26 PM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' 
Subject: RE: Reposting Problem With DVD

Hi tom,

I wonder if you could rip the DVDs and then watch the ripped files. That's
all I can think of so far.

HTH
Norma


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
Kaufman
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2016 8:45 PM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: Reposting Problem With DVD

Hello list:  Certainly someone can help me with this problem; I posted it
last night and got no replies!  I am really wanting to play this DVD set I
got as it is the band I work in when we worked a show back in November!  My
portable DVD player would play it, but am having problems with that machine
(not because of the DVD in question) but for some rreason I cannot charge
the battery!  Back to my original problem: I have these DVDs that were made
of a show I and the band were involved in; when I put the DVD into the disk
drive, VLC comes up.but that's about as far as it will go!  So I then tried
physically going to my D drive and pressed "enter, where I was promptly told
that Windows could not access the specified device, path or file; it goes on
to say that I may not have the permissions to access this device, which is
bullsh** (I paid for these DVDs and I want to see them!  I've managed to
watch some of it with Windows Media Player.  However it tells me something
about "transisioning so much percent (don't understand that either) then
after a few minutes, the video stops playing!  Am running Windows 7 (home
edition) if this helps any! Surely there is someone on this fine list that
can tell me what it is I need to do to make these DVDs play!  I know there
are some on here that swear by VLC (they say that VLC will play anything;
well ya can't prove it by me!  So I await your response and will post any
updates that I can share!

Tom Kaufman

Re: The 15 year wait is over

[Chris Skarstad]

I'd actually like to hear a demo of this software, but sadly, none 
exists. On Windows, SPL is still tops in my book.


I know, i'm like, one of the few Windows users on here, lol!



On 12/23/2016 1:01 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:

Hi!
The following is an eMail sent by Gordon Smith to another list I'm a 
member of and I've put his address just above the quotation so - those 
who are interested - may enter into discussion with him however - and 
Gordon would like to make this perfectly plain - he will not tollerate 
whiners.


On a personal note I find this all rahter amusing, an article was 
published a couple of weeks ago regarding the Mac and how it wasn't up 
to the job when it came to accessibility these days, just goes to show 
that there are plenty of workarounds out there and it pays to be patient.


From: Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net



Good afternoon, or whatever it is in your time zone, everybody!
Finally, finally, Mac broadcasters have a game-changing product which 
I can now tell you about.
Today has seen the long-awaited release of MegaSet 6.0 for MacOS. 
This new  version introduces over 50 new features, the most crucial 
of which, for those
of us in this group who enthuse about such things, is accessibility! 
Full VoiceOver  support now exists within the product, and although I 
have only just
started configuring the beast, I am confident that it will be 
possible for VoiceOver users to take advantage of this excellent new 
product.
I have been speaking to Fidelity Media for a couple of years now, 
helping them here and there to work on accessibility. It is to their 
emended credit that,
although it required a total rewrite of their user interface in order 
to comply, they have stripped their application right back to the 
bare bones, and
fully implemented Apple’s accessibility guidelines to introduce the 
kind of accessibility which, to be blunt, even die-hard Station 
Playlist Creator users

would give e their eye teeth for!
My only query to their technical people is whether it is possible to 
play non-iTunes-compatible material within their app. I’m hopeful 
that this will indeed
be the case but, to be honest, if it isn’t, there’s always Apple 
Lossless audio that one can use in order to gain a little bit of 
extra quality for low

file storage as opposed to MP3.
My understand is that MegaSeg 6 can be used with NiceCast for online 
broadcasting, so there’s no need for a broadcasting configuration 
within MegaSeg itselF.
I have listened to the audio output using their in-built mixer and it 
rivals even the old OTS Radio Broadcaster app on the PC, and that app 
has the best
software dynamics processor on the planet, or should I say, it did 
have until now!
Speaking personally, I am ecstatic! This means that, since Duxbury 
Braille Translator now also runs under MacOS, and since I can access 
all of the spreadsheet
documents and other documents I need to use on the Mac, I no longer 
require a Windows client! I have been waiting for this day for the 
last 15 years, and
it’s finally arrived! Now, most of my Windows-based systems, 
including my Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablet, can be put into 
mothballs. I only require Windows
on those systems responsible for my DNS and one custom data server. 
But other than that, I’m now free of all that expense!
Oh yes, I almost forgot. You can get MegaSet 6 from here, for the 
benefit of those who don’t know how to use Google, ;-)


Price of the Pro version may seem a little high to some. But priced 
at $199.00 US, it costs considerably less than most professional 
broadcasting solutions
which I have used under Windows; including Myriad, OTS Radio, SAM 
Broadcaster and, accumulatively, Station Playlist Creator Pro. There 
is none of this
silly annual maintenance agreement nonsense. So, if version 7.0 takes 
them another 5 years to create, you still get all minor updates 
within those five
years for free. That is what I mean by Accumulatively. Ob, and I 
almost forgot, it even costs less than, or about the dame as, 
RadioBOSS which, until now,
I have said for quite a while is the best broadcasting tool. Not any 
longer! I plan to try and push our community station over to MacOS 
or, at least, give

us that as an option.

Re: A 2-part Question Concerning Converting A File To MP3

[Chris Skarstad]

While you're focused on the file in your list, press the f2 key and 
change the .wpl extention to .txt. Windos will ask you if you really 
want to do this, so press the space bar on the yes button and it'll be 
changed to a .txt file, which you can open in notepad, and find out what 
file this is about.








On 12/14/2016 7:21 PM, Smiling? wrote:

Just give the file a .txt extension and it should open right up with
Notepad.

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
Kaufman
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:26 PM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: A 2-part Question Concerning Converting A File To MP3

Pardon my ignorance, Jon (and list) but am afraid I don't know how to
accomplish that!  Could someone explain how this would be done?  Thanks.
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of John
Covici
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 3:15 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List 
Subject: Re: A 2-part Question Concerning Converting A File To MP3

Why doon't you look inside the file with notepad and find the URL or
whatever and play it directly.

On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:08:44 -0500,
Tom Kaufman wrote:

Okay Joe and list...I was able to change and attempt to get the file to

play in Windows Media Player (no soap) it says that Windows Media
encountered a problem!  So then I had to go back into Winamp and finally
figured out how to tell it to play my MP3 files in Winamp again!  At this
point, I'm assuming that there is no way that this file will play?  It is a
piece of music that someone wanted me to hear.

Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Joe

Paton

Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 9:36 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List 
Subject: Re: A 2-part Question Concerning Converting A File To MP3

Hello Tom,

wpl is a playlist file for windows media player.  It contains
filenames and paths for other media files.  My understanding is
that it does not contain audio content.
If you open the file in windows media, does the audio play? If it does,

then you need to see to which directory and files it is

pointint at.

HTH
Joe




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Re: using exact audio copy, or another program to convert cd's to flac

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi.  Ok, i've tried out Exact Audio Copy, and i have a couple issues.  
First, i have been all over every possible option imaginable, and I can 
not, for the life of me figure out how to choose a format to rip the cd 
i've got.  Second, there is an option in there as to what to do after 
the cd is complete, and I'm not sure i like any of the options.  the 3 
i've got are shutdown, restart or hybernate.  I don't want the program 
to do any of these, i just want the pc to be left on, as is.  So as nice 
as the program is, i'm not sure if this program fits my needs, at least 
not yet! if anyone knows how to fix these 2 things it'd help lots.





On 11/12/2016 9:25 AM, Robert Godridge wrote:

Hi,
If you do go for eac (I would) here is a file that should make it
easier. All my perfect flac settings are in this file, go to profiles
in the file menue, then import and see what you get. Here's the file
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17525699/EACProfile.cfg

Also if you want to test for errors before copying, press f4. Takes
longer but I think it's worth it.
Rob

On 11/12/16, Chris Skarstad <rascal0...@verizon.net> wrote:

Hi guys


Just for a goof, I tried another piece of software done by the same guy
that did EAC, called Easy audio copy.  It sounded great, because it
claimed that the process to copy cd's was a little simpler than eac.
Sure, I want to have great rips, but i'm the impatient sort, so i
figured i'd give it a try.  The bummer is there was a welcome screen in
several different languages and, try as I might with 3 different
screenreaders I absolutely could not get past it to even try it out.
The big difference is that EAC is free, while Easy audio copy is not.  I
was able to find CDEX and after tweaking the settings I was able to get
some pretty good sounding rips.  I copied one rock album and one modern
country album and the results were excellent, at least for my ears.

So, i think i'm happy for now, but i'll still keep EAC and the other
programs in mind, you never really know!

Thanks guys!





On 11/12/2016 8:22 AM, Robert Godridge wrote:

I spent hours setting up my eac. Perhaps I can send you my profile
file if you're interested and I can work out how. I'm a member of a
very stringent private torrents site so these rips are perfect.

On 11/12/16, Joe Paton <j...@vi-ability.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Chris,
ez cd audio converter
from poikosoft is worth a look as well.

Does a fairly comprehensive range of file format conversions in
to the bargain.

Can not compare with the other program in this thread, but others might
do
that for you.

Regards,

JP



On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:58:45 -0500
Chris Skarstad <rascal0...@verizon.net> wrote:

   Hey folks

Subject line basicly tells the story.  I have some cd's that were sent
to
me, and i'd like to rip them to the pc, but i'd like to make them sound
as
good as possible.  I am a huge fan of FLAC, or free lossless audio codec
files.  The file size is a bit larger but the sound quality is supurb if
you're listening on a good system.  Looking online, I saw many people
mention a program called Exact Audio copy, which has been around for
years,
does anyone on here have experience using that?  My hope is to convert
the
cd's to flac files, and use the cd database to grab the song titles from
the
internet.  I was thinking of using CDEX, but sadly, i've never been able
to
get the CDDB, or Gracenote

servers to find anything.  Anyone know anything about this?  Thanks
for
any ideas folks.
Chris


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Re: using exact audio copy, or another program to convert cd's to flac

[Chris Skarstad]

That's the thing about technology, that's why some prefer pc's and 
others really love their mac and scream to the world how amazing it is.  
That's just how it works.  we just need to try different things and 
figure out what works the best for us as individuals.  what may work for 
you may not work for me, and that's just fine. that's how it should be. 
being individuals is fun.




On 11/12/2016 12:30 PM, Joe Paton wrote:

Yes the interface is prone to change this is for sure.

Furthermore, access has always required a lot of mouse-pad work.  Yes 50 
dollars is a price, but it's for the life of the product.  Or so he says. I can 
view the log files in the second tab page.

I have no interest as to who uses which program, only that pitfalls 
encountered, explained and worked around can help us
all, and merely to give as broad a view as possible within my
verry limited understanding.

It's strange but true, a particular set of users will have no
issues with a product, while others may find access almost
impossible.

So it is 1 big hurrah for exact audio copy.

Have a great day.

Joe



On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 01:23:13 +1100
Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote:

I have to admit to being annoyed with EZ CD converter as it is now.

What annoys me about this software is that it keeps changing all the time.

When ripping CD'S now the user has no way of knowing just how accurately EZ has 
done or what errors it came across, the author of the software has - for 
whatever reason - removed the ability to log EZ Converters actions.

Apart from that - assuming it works correctly which we can't say for sure now - its a 
good bundle given its only $49 however Exact Audio Copy is free and - given a little 
setting up and tweaking - provides good and accurate rips all the time and you'll 
have the log file to prove it .

Regarding file converters? Well that's not a huge problem as all the 
encoders/decoders can be easily obtained and Exactly Audio Copy - if you'd 
prefer - can be configured to convert from format to format but Ez CD Converter 
is very convenient for that sort of thing.

The other reason I'd use Exact Audio Copy if at all possible is that its just 
plain far better when it comes to accessibility than Ez CD Converter ever has 
been.



On 13/11/2016 12:01 AM, Joe Paton wrote:

Hi Chris,
ez cd audio converter
from poikosoft is worth a look as well.

Does a fairly comprehensive range of file format conversions in
to the bargain.

Can not compare with the other program in this thread, but others might do that 
for you.

Regards,

JP



On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:58:45 -0500
Chris Skarstad <rascal0...@verizon.net> wrote:

   Hey folks

Subject line basicly tells the story.  I have some cd's that were sent to me, 
and i'd like to rip them to the pc, but i'd like to make them sound as good as 
possible.  I am a huge fan of FLAC, or free lossless audio codec files.  The 
file size is a bit larger but the sound quality is supurb if you're listening 
on a good system.  Looking online, I saw many people mention a program called 
Exact Audio copy, which has been around for years, does anyone on here have 
experience using that?  My hope is to convert the cd's to flac files, and use 
the cd database to grab the song titles from the internet.  I was thinking of 
using CDEX, but sadly, i've never been able to get the CDDB, or Gracenote

servers to find anything.  Anyone know anything about this?  Thanks for any 
ideas folks.
Chris

Re: using exact audio copy, or another program to convert cd's to flac

[Chris Skarstad]

Hey thanks, i'll keep this on hand just in case. If I have some time I 
just might try it out, what the heck!


On 11/12/2016 9:25 AM, Robert Godridge wrote:

Hi,
If you do go for eac (I would) here is a file that should make it
easier. All my perfect flac settings are in this file, go to profiles
in the file menue, then import and see what you get. Here's the file
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17525699/EACProfile.cfg

Also if you want to test for errors before copying, press f4. Takes
longer but I think it's worth it.
Rob

On 11/12/16, Chris Skarstad <rascal0...@verizon.net> wrote:

Hi guys


Just for a goof, I tried another piece of software done by the same guy
that did EAC, called Easy audio copy.  It sounded great, because it
claimed that the process to copy cd's was a little simpler than eac.
Sure, I want to have great rips, but i'm the impatient sort, so i
figured i'd give it a try.  The bummer is there was a welcome screen in
several different languages and, try as I might with 3 different
screenreaders I absolutely could not get past it to even try it out.
The big difference is that EAC is free, while Easy audio copy is not.  I
was able to find CDEX and after tweaking the settings I was able to get
some pretty good sounding rips.  I copied one rock album and one modern
country album and the results were excellent, at least for my ears.

So, i think i'm happy for now, but i'll still keep EAC and the other
programs in mind, you never really know!

Thanks guys!





On 11/12/2016 8:22 AM, Robert Godridge wrote:

I spent hours setting up my eac. Perhaps I can send you my profile
file if you're interested and I can work out how. I'm a member of a
very stringent private torrents site so these rips are perfect.

On 11/12/16, Joe Paton <j...@vi-ability.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Chris,
ez cd audio converter
from poikosoft is worth a look as well.

Does a fairly comprehensive range of file format conversions in
to the bargain.

Can not compare with the other program in this thread, but others might
do
that for you.

Regards,

JP



On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:58:45 -0500
Chris Skarstad <rascal0...@verizon.net> wrote:

   Hey folks

Subject line basicly tells the story.  I have some cd's that were sent
to
me, and i'd like to rip them to the pc, but i'd like to make them sound
as
good as possible.  I am a huge fan of FLAC, or free lossless audio codec
files.  The file size is a bit larger but the sound quality is supurb if
you're listening on a good system.  Looking online, I saw many people
mention a program called Exact Audio copy, which has been around for
years,
does anyone on here have experience using that?  My hope is to convert
the
cd's to flac files, and use the cd database to grab the song titles from
the
internet.  I was thinking of using CDEX, but sadly, i've never been able
to
get the CDDB, or Gracenote

servers to find anything.  Anyone know anything about this?  Thanks
for
any ideas folks.
Chris


--
Joe Paton <j...@vi-ability.demon.co.uk>

Re: using exact audio copy, or another program to convert cd's to flac

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi guys


Just for a goof, I tried another piece of software done by the same guy 
that did EAC, called Easy audio copy.  It sounded great, because it 
claimed that the process to copy cd's was a little simpler than eac.  
Sure, I want to have great rips, but i'm the impatient sort, so i 
figured i'd give it a try.  The bummer is there was a welcome screen in 
several different languages and, try as I might with 3 different 
screenreaders I absolutely could not get past it to even try it out.  
The big difference is that EAC is free, while Easy audio copy is not.  I 
was able to find CDEX and after tweaking the settings I was able to get 
some pretty good sounding rips.  I copied one rock album and one modern 
country album and the results were excellent, at least for my ears.


So, i think i'm happy for now, but i'll still keep EAC and the other 
programs in mind, you never really know!


Thanks guys!





On 11/12/2016 8:22 AM, Robert Godridge wrote:

I spent hours setting up my eac. Perhaps I can send you my profile
file if you're interested and I can work out how. I'm a member of a
very stringent private torrents site so these rips are perfect.

On 11/12/16, Joe Paton <j...@vi-ability.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Chris,
ez cd audio converter
from poikosoft is worth a look as well.

Does a fairly comprehensive range of file format conversions in
to the bargain.

Can not compare with the other program in this thread, but others might do
that for you.

Regards,

JP



On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:58:45 -0500
Chris Skarstad <rascal0...@verizon.net> wrote:

  Hey folks

Subject line basicly tells the story.  I have some cd's that were sent to
me, and i'd like to rip them to the pc, but i'd like to make them sound as
good as possible.  I am a huge fan of FLAC, or free lossless audio codec
files.  The file size is a bit larger but the sound quality is supurb if
you're listening on a good system.  Looking online, I saw many people
mention a program called Exact Audio copy, which has been around for years,
does anyone on here have experience using that?  My hope is to convert the
cd's to flac files, and use the cd database to grab the song titles from the
internet.  I was thinking of using CDEX, but sadly, i've never been able to
get the CDDB, or Gracenote

   servers to find anything.  Anyone know anything about this?  Thanks for
any ideas folks.
Chris


--
Joe Paton <j...@vi-ability.demon.co.uk>

Re: Replacementfor Winamp

[Chris Skarstad]

hi.  there's actually even an easier way.

what's happening is that it's a setup screen.
make sure that the Winamp classic skin is selected, and everything else 
should be fine so just click the finish button and you should be good.  
Everything that you want is turned on by default.  to get rid of the 
Winamp library, simply hit alt plus l and the library will go away. like 
everything else it's a toggle so if you hit alt l again it'll come back.
you may receive a message asking if you want to import your music into 
the library. tab to the no button and press the space bar and then press 
alt plus l and everything should be set.  by default, the equalizer, 
main window and playlist editor are all turned on, but the equalizer 
needs to be activated with the letter n while focused in the equalizer 
window.   you can press control plus tab to cycle between Winamp windows.


 hope that helps.




On 11/10/2016 5:51 PM, Joe Paton wrote:

andy,

if you press alt-w that hould put the main winamp window on top.

next, press left alt, arrow down one time to winamp, then arrow
right.  Go down the menue items, and press enter on anything
which is checked, to de-select it.

Don't worry about the options menu branch at this time.

go past that, when you arrive at Exit, you have done the lot.

you are particularly interested in de-selecting library.


continue back down the list, and when you get to
skins, it is a drop down.  Right arrow in to this branch, and
look for "classic." press enter on classic.

Now to get the winamp main window, press alt-w.

If you get stuck, You can write me off list.

j...@vi-ability.org.uk

or: cons...@apart.org

good luck.





On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 22:22:06 -
"Andy"  wrote:

Hi all.

I've been using Winamp for many many years now quite happily.

I don't create play lists, tag files or use anyplug ins.

All I do is make Winamp my default audio player and either press the enter key 
on an album or within Applications, select play in winamp.

So I need a version of Winamp for another computer and I've no longer got the 
softwear.

I got a copy of Winamp Version 5.... and installed it and straight away it 
wanted me to create a playlist and it's seems that I can't get away from this 
feature by disabling it.

Or am I wrong?

Any advice would be verry  very welcome.

Very best wishes.
Andy.

Re: Tapin Pro

[Chris Skarstad]

On 10/19/2016 5:16 PM, Doug Murray wrote:
Where do you enter the serial for Tapin Pro?  > > > > Thanks Doug > > > > If it's as I remember, the option to 

register is under the help menu.


>

Re: accessible software media player that can bookmark

[Chris Skarstad]

Aha!  Ok, you're thinking of what's called Jump to time. in Winamp 
that's control plus j.  i'm not sure what it is in other players but 
that's it.



On 10/6/2016 9:22 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

Chris:  you're close; in Winamp, you have a deal where you can hit a command
(control-J" and put in a specific place to go in a file, thus, if you know
(and of course this has to be learned beforehand) and it's  no problem, for
Winamp has a way were you can look and see where you're at in a file; you
hit that "control-J" and it'll take you to the exact spot where you left
off!  Now Winamp may have a "bookmark" thing too (not exactly sure of how
this works) but the method that I have described works well for me!  I'm not
saying that VLC doesn't do this, but I've yet to figure out how you'd do
that with VLC!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Chris
Skarstad
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2016 7:50 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: Re: accessible software media player that can bookmark

Hi.  I believe what the original guy I think it was Tom? is talking
about is being able to  take a very long audio file, and placing a timed
bookmark in it so if you close your player and re-open it, you can jump
right back to the same exact spot you were when you closed it.  Think of
it like placing a bookmark in a book so you can find the correct page.
I know JAWS has this functionality, and Window-eyes does too, but I
don't believe NVDA has an add-on for Winamp with this
functionality...and if it does exist i haven't seen it.






On 10/6/2016 4:30 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:

VLC has a Jump To command if that's the sort of thing you're talking
about along with various shortcuts to allow you to skip in various
increments through a file.



On 7/10/2016 7:08 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

But can VLC actually get you from "point A to point B in a file?  If so,
I've not really seen how it's done!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Brian
Olesen
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2016 8:01 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: SV: accessible software media player that can bookmark

Hi,
Winamp is a dinosaur.
VlC Media player is the new kid in town that actually works.

Best regards
Brian

-Oprindelig meddelelse-
Fra: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] På vegne af John
Covici
Sendt: 6. oktober 2016 13:57
Til: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Emne: Re: accessible software media player that can bookmark

I can no longer use winamp, it crashes all the time, it seems on exit
a lot.
I am using windows 10 build 1607.

On Thu, 06 Oct 2016 07:49:36 -0400,
Chris Skarstad wrote:

Yep, and so many people believe that just because it's not being
developed anymore that they should completely quit using it and move
onto something else, even at the cost of functionality like this.

I started using Winamp way back around 1998 or so.  It's done
everything I expected it to do, and nothing I don't want it to. There
were a few versions that acted a bit odd but you could always turn
those features off if you wanted to, many times I did.
it is still available via the ninite website, and that's a great site
all on its own. for  Winamp plus a lot of other accessible stuff you
can get, the link is:
http://ninite.com/accessible

On 10/6/2016 2:20 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

This is one of the things I have always liked about Winamp; it has the

ability to pick up where you left off in a file!

Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of
Peter Russillo
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 4:03 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: accessible software media player that can bookmark

Hello list, I'm looking for an accessible software media player that
runs under Windows 10 with which I can bookmark wherever I left off
in a media file so that later I can resume where I left off without
having to search through the file to find the place I left off.  I
now use Windows Media Player, but any accessible alternative capable
of bookmarking one's place in an audio file is what I'm looking for;
any suggestions or tips are welcome; thanks.

Yours truly, Peter Russillo





--
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

   John Covici
   cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: accessible software media player that can bookmark

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi.  I believe what the original guy I think it was Tom? is talking 
about is being able to  take a very long audio file, and placing a timed 
bookmark in it so if you close your player and re-open it, you can jump 
right back to the same exact spot you were when you closed it.  Think of 
it like placing a bookmark in a book so you can find the correct page.  
I know JAWS has this functionality, and Window-eyes does too, but I 
don't believe NVDA has an add-on for Winamp with this 
functionality...and if it does exist i haven't seen it.







On 10/6/2016 4:30 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
VLC has a Jump To command if that's the sort of thing you're talking 
about along with various shortcuts to allow you to skip in various 
increments through a file.




On 7/10/2016 7:08 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

But can VLC actually get you from "point A to point B in a file?  If so,
I've not really seen how it's done!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Brian
Olesen
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2016 8:01 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: SV: accessible software media player that can bookmark

Hi,
Winamp is a dinosaur.
VlC Media player is the new kid in town that actually works.

Best regards
Brian

-Oprindelig meddelelse-
Fra: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] På vegne af John 
Covici

Sendt: 6. oktober 2016 13:57
Til: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Emne: Re: accessible software media player that can bookmark

I can no longer use winamp, it crashes all the time, it seems on exit 
a lot.

I am using windows 10 build 1607.

On Thu, 06 Oct 2016 07:49:36 -0400,
Chris Skarstad wrote:

Yep, and so many people believe that just because it's not being
developed anymore that they should completely quit using it and move
onto something else, even at the cost of functionality like this.

I started using Winamp way back around 1998 or so.  It's done
everything I expected it to do, and nothing I don't want it to. There
were a few versions that acted a bit odd but you could always turn
those features off if you wanted to, many times I did.
it is still available via the ninite website, and that's a great site
all on its own. for  Winamp plus a lot of other accessible stuff you
can get, the link is:
http://ninite.com/accessible

On 10/6/2016 2:20 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

This is one of the things I have always liked about Winamp; it has the

ability to pick up where you left off in a file!

Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of
Peter Russillo
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 4:03 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: accessible software media player that can bookmark

Hello list, I'm looking for an accessible software media player that
runs under Windows 10 with which I can bookmark wherever I left off
in a media file so that later I can resume where I left off without
having to search through the file to find the place I left off.  I
now use Windows Media Player, but any accessible alternative capable
of bookmarking one's place in an audio file is what I'm looking for;
any suggestions or tips are welcome; thanks.

Yours truly, Peter Russillo







--
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

  John Covici
  cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: accessible software media player that can bookmark

[Chris Skarstad]

Yes winamp works beautifully in Windows 10.  Could never get VLC to do 
everything I need a media player to do.



On 10/6/2016 8:04 AM, Peter Scanlon wrote:

Winamp works fine in Win 10 for me. Why change.



-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Brian
Olesen
Sent: Thursday, 6 October 2016 11:01 PM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: SV: accessible software media player that can bookmark

Hi,
Winamp is a dinosaur.
VlC Media player is the new kid in town that actually works.

Best regards
Brian

-Oprindelig meddelelse-
Fra: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] På vegne af John Covici
Sendt: 6. oktober 2016 13:57
Til: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Emne: Re: accessible software media player that can bookmark

I can no longer use winamp, it crashes all the time, it seems on exit a lot.
I am using windows 10 build 1607.

On Thu, 06 Oct 2016 07:49:36 -0400,
Chris Skarstad wrote:

Yep, and so many people believe that just because it's not being
developed anymore that they should completely quit using it and move
onto something else, even at the cost of functionality like this.

I started using Winamp way back around 1998 or so.  It's done
everything I expected it to do, and nothing I don't want it to. There
were a few versions that acted a bit odd but you could always turn
those features off if you wanted to, many times I did.
it is still available via the ninite website, and that's a great site
all on its own. for  Winamp plus a lot of other accessible stuff you
can get, the link is:
http://ninite.com/accessible

On 10/6/2016 2:20 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

This is one of the things I have always liked about Winamp; it has
the

ability to pick up where you left off in a file!

Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of
Peter Russillo
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 4:03 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: accessible software media player that can bookmark

Hello list, I'm looking for an accessible software media player that
runs under Windows 10 with which I can bookmark wherever I left off
in a media file so that later I can resume where I left off without
having to search through the file to find the place I left off.  I
now use Windows Media Player, but any accessible alternative capable
of bookmarking one's place in an audio file is what I'm looking for;
any suggestions or tips are welcome; thanks.

Yours truly, Peter Russillo







--
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

  John Covici
  cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: accessible software media player that can bookmark

[Chris Skarstad]

Yep, and so many people believe that just because it's not being 
developed anymore that they should completely quit using it and move 
onto something else, even at the cost of functionality like this.


I started using Winamp way back around 1998 or so.  It's done everything 
I expected it to do, and nothing I don't want it to. There were a few 
versions that acted a bit odd but you could always turn those features 
off if you wanted to, many times I did.
it is still available via the ninite website, and that's a great site 
all on its own. for  Winamp plus a lot of other accessible stuff you can 
get, the link is:

http://ninite.com/accessible

On 10/6/2016 2:20 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

This is one of the things I have always liked about Winamp; it has the ability 
to pick up where you left off in a file!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Peter 
Russillo
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 4:03 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List 
Subject: accessible software media player that can bookmark

Hello list, I'm looking for an accessible software media player that runs
under Windows 10 with which I can bookmark wherever I left off in a media
file so that later I can resume where I left off without having to search
through the file to find the place I left off.  I now use Windows Media
Player, but any accessible alternative capable of bookmarking one's place in
an audio file is what I'm looking for; any suggestions or tips are welcome;
thanks.

Yours truly, Peter Russillo

Re: accessible software media player that can bookmark

[Chris Skarstad]

Winamp does this, provided you have either jaws or 
Window-eyes scripts.  Unfortunately I don't know if NVDA has an addon 
with this functionality, but it'd be nice.  People have delighted in 
sending me eleven-hour-long audio books, yes, all in one giant file, and 
i find it impossible to navigate so bookmarks are a welcome feature.





On 10/5/2016 4:02 PM, Peter Russillo wrote:
Hello list, I'm looking for an accessible software media player that 
runs under Windows 10 with which I can bookmark wherever I left off in 
a media file so that later I can resume where I left off without 
having to search through the file to find the place I left off.  I now 
use Windows Media Player, but any accessible alternative capable of 
bookmarking one's place in an audio file is what I'm looking for; any 
suggestions or tips are welcome; thanks.


Yours truly, Peter Russillo

Re: Very Nice Streaming Described Video Service I Just Came Across.

[Chris Skarstad]

Yes you don't need to buy it it's 100 percent free. long as you have a 
web browser, an iPhone or iPod touch and the oo tunes app, you can 
listen any number of ways. http://www.blindy.tv is the site you want to 
visit.





On 9/28/2016 4:39 PM, Kenny wrote:
It's not an app. It's a website that provides 5 different Described 
Video audio streams. You can simply visit http://www.blindy.tv and 
check it out. You will really like it. The service is free.


-Original Message- From: Vicky Vaughan
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 3:10 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Very Nice Streaming Described Video Service I Just Came 
Across.


Hi Kenny, Is Blindy TV an app or something we need to subscribe to?

Please give us some more information. I would very much like to get 
it! I am
THRILLED to hear that I will be able to get described Star Trek The 
Original

Series!! For that alone it is definitely worth buying.

Sincerely, Vicky l

-Original Message- From: Kenny
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 10:34 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Very Nice Streaming Described Video Service I Just Came Across.

Amazing what gems you can discover just from being a persistent 
Googler LOL!


Blindy.tv is a DVS (Described Video Service) which provides free of 
charge 5

channels of entertainment for the visually impaired community.

Not sure how long they been around but I love what I hear so far. Was 
able
to do a search for “blindy.tv” on my Victor Stream Reader (OOTunes) 
and all
5 channels came up with no problems. Saved all of them as Favorites, 
and I’m

right now enjoying the original Star Trek series being streamed on the
Sci-Fi channel.

Do you guys know of any other DV sites similar to this one that I can
checkout?

Can’t afford my $149/year Sero membership anymore so I’m looking for more
affordable replacements. Thanks!

Re: need high quality recording app

[Chris Skarstad]

How about Hokasai, that's h. o. k. a. s. a. i.

or if you have a few bucks, try boss jock studio. both are pretty good.





On 9/2/2016 5:25 AM, John Covici wrote:

hmmm, nothing in the app storeby that name, could it be called
something else?

On Fri, 02 Sep 2016 04:00:49 -0400,
Dane Trethowan wrote:

Have you tried Voxee? It records up to 48K and - last time I tried it - the App 
was very accessible.


On 2 Sep 2016, at 4:58 PM, John Covici  wrote:

Hi.  I am in urgent need of a high quality recording app -- one where
I can have 44.100 sample rate or higher and works with voiceover on my
iphone.  I have tried something called recorderplus which has the
features, but is very unfriendly to vo, you push the buttons and
sometimes nothing ahppens, amoung other things.  I bought a good
external mic which uses usb audio, so for these live recordings,
which are classical music, I need something which works well.  The mic
(rode xyl) has an app, but it destroys voiceover till the next reboot.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

--
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

 John Covici
 cov...@ccs.covici.com


**
Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the 
halfwits in this world behind.

Re: Becoming An Aussie: The Story Of Alexa, The US-Born Amazon Echo | Gizmodo Australia

[Chris Skarstad]

Not difficult at all. No other languages or regions were available.  
Basicly, it goes like this



1.  Plug in the echo, and it'll prompt you to open the amazon alexa app, 
found in the iOS app store for free.  It's a good idea to sign in before 
you set up your echo so you can just get to the setup process.



2.  Next you'll be asked to connect it to your Wi-fi network.

You'll need to go into your wi-fi settings on your iDevice and you 
should then see a connection called Amazon xxx. the last 3 x's denote a 
numberwords, so you could hear something like Amazon 72, or Amazon 32u, 
or something similar.  Either way if it says Amazon that's a safe bet 
that it's been found.



3.  Next, go back to the Alexa app, and you should see your wi-fi 
network listed.  Double tap on the name of your network and you'll then 
be asked for your wi-fi password so your Amazon echo can


 finally connect.  Enter your password and press connect.  It's as easy 
as that!  You can also enter your location to get content that's nearest 
to you, but I'm not sure if Australia is


 supported just yet.  But it's not too bad.  The app is  mostly 
accessible, just remember that the navigation menu element is your 
friend.  when you double-tap on that, it'll show a list of echo 
connected devices, so choose yours from the list and you can manage it 
from there. I hope this helps!
















On 6/18/2016 1:57 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:

I'm very tempted to buyh one myself.


Was it difficult to set up and are their region/language options in a 
setup menu? Anything on accessibility at all?





On 19/06/2016 1:35 AM, Chris Skarstad wrote:

I love my echo!  Can't be without it!



On 6/18/2016 3:39 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
I'm thinking of buying one of these and the review linked to here 
was certainly both a good read and an eye opener.


I've contacted a store on eBay which has these units in stock to see 
if the procedures outlined in the review for setup are the same or 
whether updates have been applied to the firmware to make the Echo 
more location friendly, certainly its a plus to be able to order the 
box locally rahter than import it from the U.S. as the Australian 
reviewer had to do.


Anyway have a read and see what you think.

Perhaps someone in the U.K. has an Amazon Echo and can tell us how 
they went with it.


Or perhaps its native U.S. users might be able to fill us in too!

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/12/becoming-an-aussie-the-story-of-alexa-the-us-born-amazon-echo/ 

Re: Becoming An Aussie: The Story Of Alexa, The US-Born Amazon Echo | Gizmodo Australia

[Chris Skarstad]

I love my echo!  Can't be without it!



On 6/18/2016 3:39 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
I'm thinking of buying one of these and the review linked to here was 
certainly both a good read and an eye opener.


I've contacted a store on eBay which has these units in stock to see 
if the procedures outlined in the review for setup are the same or 
whether updates have been applied to the firmware to make the Echo 
more location friendly, certainly its a plus to be able to order the 
box locally rahter than import it from the U.S. as the Australian 
reviewer had to do.


Anyway have a read and see what you think.

Perhaps someone in the U.K. has an Amazon Echo and can tell us how 
they went with it.


Or perhaps its native U.S. users might be able to fill us in too!

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/12/becoming-an-aussie-the-story-of-alexa-the-us-born-amazon-echo/ 

iTunes issue solved, here's some valuable info

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi guys!  Through a bit of research, I finally got my tones onto my 
phone.  To make this short and really simple, if you see that ominous 
erase and sync button, do not panic! It will not actually erase anything 
from your phone, at least as far as ringtones go. Just to be safe, after 
pressing the erase and sync button, I was then able to see that old 
familiar screen with the 2 radio buttons sync selected tones or sync all 
ringtones.  To be safe, I chose all ringtones and when i synced, 
everything showed up just as it should.  That erase and sync button and 
the super-scary message that goes along with it is probably one of the 
most poorly-worded error messages I've ever seen.  So if you run into 
this sort of thing, be sure to read the iTunes sreens very carefully, so 
you'll be able to tell how many tones you're syncing. In short it works 
and I'm very happy with the results.


Thanks guys!

Re: problems adding custom made ringtones to iTunes in windows 10

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi

I just don't want to bother them because someone else really might be in 
a jam, and *really* need some accessibility help.  I'm pretty good with 
setting up an iDevice, I've set several up now but what if a newby is 
calling for the very first time and is upset and confused?  Sure, I 
understand I qualify, but that doesn't make it so.  If I can't find any 
answers that may be what I have to do.  I've seen a lot of stuff about 
this on the internet, and the sollution to transfer purchases works for 
some folks but not others.  I very rarely do this but this is one of the 
very rare times when I would love to see iOS become more like Android. 
On a droid you can just put an SD card into a reader, or connect your 
phone to the pc with a USB cable, and copy and paste your tones in the 
proppper place, and they just work.



On 6/14/2016 9:27 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:


Chris:  If you use Voice Over, then you certainly do qualify for tech
support; I know what you are saying (it's not an accessibility issue persee)
but I'm pretty sure that the folks at Apple would be all too glad to help
you out...and they are very good!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Chris
Skarstad
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 6:24 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: Re: problems adding custom made ringtones to iTunes in windows 10

Absolutely, i've been using VoiceOver for about 4 years now on a daily
basis.  But once again, we're straying from the answer i'm wanting to
get here.

   I just need to know what's going to happen if I have to hit this erase
and sync button.  If it's only going to erase tones only, that's not a
problem. However, if it's going to erase everything on the phone and
I'll need to start over from scratch and re-download all my apps and
music I am absolutely not going to be a happy person.





On 6/14/2016 6:08 PM, Les Gordon wrote:

do you use any type of accessibility feature on your iphone such as
voiceover or magifyer?

- Original Message - From: "Chris Skarstad"
<rascal0...@verizon.net>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: problems adding custom made ringtones to iTunes in
windows 10



Hi.  But see that's just it, I'm not really having any difficulty
reading the screens, everything's clear accept what's going to happen
if I hit that erase and sync button. i don't like the sound of that,
and I am extremely nervous. The only time I think i'd call the
accessibility line is if I was having trouble reading the screen, and
I'm not really having trouble with that part of it.




On 6/14/2016 5:58 PM, Les Gordon wrote:

hi, what i'd do to be sure is call apple accessibility support.
877-204-3930

you will need your apple id and phones sn. if its not registered.
they are extremely good. and its just designed for accessibility users.



----- Original Message - From: "Chris Skarstad"
<rascal0...@verizon.net>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: problems adding custom made ringtones to iTunes in
windows 10



Hi.  I certainly did, in fact that was one of the very first things
i did when setting things up. So, would you say it's safe to hit
that erase and sync button? It looks like it's going to remove
absolutely everything from my phone and I do not want to spend
hours and hours re-configuring it.




On 6/14/2016 5:44 PM, Les Gordon wrote:

hello, did you do a complete backup of your iphone once you have
it setup how you want? if so, then you have nothing to worry about
the backup will preserve everything you have on your phone.

- Original Message - From: "Chris Skarstad"
<rascal0...@verizon.net>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: problems adding custom made ringtones to iTunes in
windows 10



Well, I'm not having any problems with the accessibility of the
product, all the screens read exactly as they should.  I just
don't know what effect hitting the erase and sync button will
have on my iPhone, which I've spent a really long time
customizing. I have apps put in folders, and I like to have
things in a very specific way. The accessibility here isn't the
issue. Or at least it doesn't seem to be that way.





On 6/14/2016 5:05 PM, robert williams wrote:

You might want to consult the accessibility help department to
help resolve your issue.Y


Robert


On Jun 14, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Chris Skarstad
<rascal0...@verizon.net> wrote:

 Hi guys


i hope the subject line was clear enough, sometimes I'm
horrible at that.  Anyways, let me explain a little further.  I
had iTunes running on my Windows 7 machine for many years, and
I was successfully able to create a custom ringtone fo

Re: problems adding custom made ringtones to iTunes in windows 10

[Chris Skarstad]

Absolutely, i've been using VoiceOver for about 4 years now on a daily 
basis.  But once again, we're straying from the answer i'm wanting to 
get here.


 I just need to know what's going to happen if I have to hit this erase 
and sync button.  If it's only going to erase tones only, that's not a 
problem. However, if it's going to erase everything on the phone and 
I'll need to start over from scratch and re-download all my apps and 
music I am absolutely not going to be a happy person.






On 6/14/2016 6:08 PM, Les Gordon wrote:
do you use any type of accessibility feature on your iphone such as 
voiceover or magifyer?


- Original Message - From: "Chris Skarstad" 
<rascal0...@verizon.net>

To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: problems adding custom made ringtones to iTunes in 
windows 10



Hi.  But see that's just it, I'm not really having any difficulty 
reading the screens, everything's clear accept what's going to happen 
if I hit that erase and sync button. i don't like the sound of that, 
and I am extremely nervous. The only time I think i'd call the 
accessibility line is if I was having trouble reading the screen, and 
I'm not really having trouble with that part of it.





On 6/14/2016 5:58 PM, Les Gordon wrote:

hi, what i'd do to be sure is call apple accessibility support.
877-204-3930

you will need your apple id and phones sn. if its not registered. 
they are extremely good. and its just designed for accessibility users.




- Original Message - From: "Chris Skarstad" 
<rascal0...@verizon.net>

To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: problems adding custom made ringtones to iTunes in 
windows 10



Hi.  I certainly did, in fact that was one of the very first things 
i did when setting things up. So, would you say it's safe to hit 
that erase and sync button? It looks like it's going to remove 
absolutely everything from my phone and I do not want to spend 
hours and hours re-configuring it.





On 6/14/2016 5:44 PM, Les Gordon wrote:
hello, did you do a complete backup of your iphone once you have 
it setup how you want? if so, then you have nothing to worry about 
the backup will preserve everything you have on your phone.


- Original Message - From: "Chris Skarstad" 
<rascal0...@verizon.net>

To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: problems adding custom made ringtones to iTunes in 
windows 10



Well, I'm not having any problems with the accessibility of the 
product, all the screens read exactly as they should.  I just 
don't know what effect hitting the erase and sync button will 
have on my iPhone, which I've spent a really long time 
customizing. I have apps put in folders, and I like to have 
things in a very specific way. The accessibility here isn't the 
issue. Or at least it doesn't seem to be that way.






On 6/14/2016 5:05 PM, robert williams wrote:


You might want to consult the accessibility help department to 
help resolve your issue.Y



Robert

On Jun 14, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Chris Skarstad 
<rascal0...@verizon.net> wrote:


Hi guys


i hope the subject line was clear enough, sometimes I'm 
horrible at that.  Anyways, let me explain a little further.  I 
had iTunes running on my Windows 7 machine for many years, and 
I was successfully able to create a custom ringtone for my 
iPhone as a .m4r file, and sync it to my phone successfully. So 
recently, I got myself a brand spanking new screamer of a pc 
running Windows 10 So I


had some ringtones that I wanted to add to my phone so I 
installed iTunes on it, and authorized it on my pc and did all 
the usual stuff you have to do to get it set up.  I even did a 
backup of my iTunes library just to be safe.


However, when I went to sync these newly made ringtones, I 
receive a message from iTunes that says if i  sync with this 
iPhone everything will be removed, and the only thing I'll have 
left are these new tones. It says that it can only sync with 
one iTunes library at a time.  Or at least, that's how the 
message sounds to me.  It sounds rather ominous.


  I don't want to lose absolutely everything on my phone just 
to add a few ringtones.  That seems rather silly to me.  I know 
a lot of you guys on here use macs, but remember, this is in 
Windows 10, using the most recent version of iTunes, 
screenreader is Window-eyes 9.4.0.


Is it safe to hit the remove and sync button, or if I do that, 
will the only thing that's removed are the tones? If all it'll 
remove is my current batch of tones that's ok, but my concern 
is losing everything else such as apps, and music.  I'm a bit 
lost to tell you the truth. I hope someone has experience with 
this.

Thanks for any help, guys!

Re: problems adding custom made ringtones to iTunes in windows 10

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi.  But see that's just it, I'm not really having any difficulty 
reading the screens, everything's clear accept what's going to happen if 
I hit that erase and sync button. i don't like the sound of that, and I 
am extremely nervous. The only time I think i'd call the accessibility 
line is if I was having trouble reading the screen, and I'm not really 
having trouble with that part of it.





On 6/14/2016 5:58 PM, Les Gordon wrote:

hi, what i'd do to be sure is call apple accessibility support.
877-204-3930

you will need your apple id and phones sn. if its not registered. they 
are extremely good. and its just designed for accessibility users.




- Original Message - From: "Chris Skarstad" 
<rascal0...@verizon.net>

To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: problems adding custom made ringtones to iTunes in 
windows 10



Hi.  I certainly did, in fact that was one of the very first things i 
did when setting things up.  So, would you say it's safe to hit that 
erase and sync button? It looks like it's going to remove absolutely 
everything from my phone and I do not want to spend hours and hours 
re-configuring it.





On 6/14/2016 5:44 PM, Les Gordon wrote:
hello, did you do a complete backup of your iphone once you have it 
setup how you want? if so, then you have nothing to worry about the 
backup will preserve everything you have on your phone.


- Original Message - From: "Chris Skarstad" 
<rascal0...@verizon.net>

To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: problems adding custom made ringtones to iTunes in 
windows 10



Well, I'm not having any problems with the accessibility of the 
product, all the screens read exactly as they should.  I just don't 
know what effect hitting the erase and sync button will have on my 
iPhone, which I've spent a really long time customizing. I have 
apps put in folders, and I like to have things in a very specific 
way. The accessibility here isn't the issue. Or at least it doesn't 
seem to be that way.






On 6/14/2016 5:05 PM, robert williams wrote:


You might want to consult the accessibility help department to 
help resolve your issue.Y



Robert

On Jun 14, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Chris Skarstad 
<rascal0...@verizon.net> wrote:


Hi guys


i hope the subject line was clear enough, sometimes I'm horrible 
at that.  Anyways, let me explain a little further.  I had iTunes 
running on my Windows 7 machine for many years, and I was 
successfully able to create a custom ringtone for my iPhone as a 
.m4r file, and sync it to my phone successfully.   So recently, I 
got myself a brand spanking new screamer of a pc running Windows 
10   So I


had some ringtones that I wanted to add to my phone so I 
installed iTunes on it, and authorized it on my pc and did all 
the usual stuff you have to do to get it set up.  I even did a 
backup of my iTunes library just to be safe.


However, when I went to sync these newly made ringtones, I 
receive a message from iTunes that says if i  sync with this 
iPhone everything will be removed, and the only thing I'll have 
left are these new tones. It says that it can only sync with one 
iTunes library at a time.  Or at least, that's how the message 
sounds to me.  It sounds rather ominous.


  I don't want to lose absolutely everything on my phone just to 
add a few ringtones.  That seems rather silly to me.  I know a 
lot of you guys on here use macs, but remember, this is in 
Windows 10, using the most recent version of iTunes, screenreader 
is Window-eyes 9.4.0.


Is it safe to hit the remove and sync button, or if I do that, 
will the only thing that's removed are the tones? If all it'll 
remove is my current batch of tones that's ok, but my concern is 
losing everything else such as apps, and music.  I'm a bit lost 
to tell you the truth. I hope someone has experience with this.

Thanks for any help, guys!

Re: problems adding custom made ringtones to iTunes in windows 10

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi.  I certainly did, in fact that was one of the very first things i 
did when setting things up.  So, would you say it's safe to hit that 
erase and sync button? It looks like it's going to remove absolutely 
everything from my phone and I do not want to spend hours and hours 
re-configuring it.





On 6/14/2016 5:44 PM, Les Gordon wrote:
hello, did you do a complete backup of your iphone once you have it 
setup how you want? if so, then you have nothing to worry about the 
backup will preserve everything you have on your phone.


- Original Message - From: "Chris Skarstad" 
<rascal0...@verizon.net>

To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: problems adding custom made ringtones to iTunes in 
windows 10



Well, I'm not having any problems with the accessibility of the 
product, all the screens read exactly as they should.  I just don't 
know what effect hitting the erase and sync button will have on my 
iPhone, which I've spent a really long time customizing. I have apps 
put in folders, and I like to have things in a very specific way. The 
accessibility here isn't the issue. Or at least it doesn't seem to be 
that way.






On 6/14/2016 5:05 PM, robert williams wrote:


You might want to consult the accessibility help department to help 
resolve your issue.Y



Robert

On Jun 14, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Chris Skarstad 
<rascal0...@verizon.net> wrote:


Hi guys


i hope the subject line was clear enough, sometimes I'm horrible at 
that.  Anyways, let me explain a little further.  I had iTunes 
running on my Windows 7 machine for many years, and I was 
successfully able to create a custom ringtone for my iPhone as a 
.m4r file, and sync it to my phone successfully.   So recently, I 
got myself a brand spanking new screamer of a pc running Windows 
10   So I


had some ringtones that I wanted to add to my phone so I installed 
iTunes on it, and authorized it on my pc and did all the usual 
stuff you have to do to get it set up.  I even did a backup of my 
iTunes library just to be safe.


However, when I went to sync these newly made ringtones, I receive 
a message from iTunes that says if i  sync with this iPhone 
everything will be removed, and the only thing I'll have left are 
these new tones. It says that it can only sync with one iTunes 
library at a time.  Or at least, that's how the message sounds to 
me.  It sounds rather ominous.


  I don't want to lose absolutely everything on my phone just to 
add a few ringtones.  That seems rather silly to me.  I know a lot 
of you guys on here use macs, but remember, this is in Windows 10, 
using the most recent version of iTunes, screenreader is 
Window-eyes 9.4.0.


Is it safe to hit the remove and sync button, or if I do that, will 
the only thing that's removed are the tones?  If all it'll remove 
is my current batch of tones that's ok, but my concern is losing 
everything else such as apps, and music.  I'm a bit lost to tell 
you the truth. I hope someone has experience with this.

Thanks for any help, guys!

Clarification on the iTunes and custom ringtones issue...

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi folks


I feel like I may not have explained myself well enough before, so 
please let me try to explain things a bit better by going through the 
steps I do to do this, and then maybe someone with some knowledge can 
tell me where I may be going wrong if I am. I don't know if I am that's 
the thing.



I have imported a folder full of custom made ringtones into iTunes. 
They're in the usual m4r format, and show up just fine when I go into 
the view menu, then media kind and arrow down to tones and press enter.  
So, they all show up and iTunes recognizes them just fine.


2.  next, I already have my iPhone connected to my pc so I tab over to 
the button labeled iPhone and press the space bar.  I am now presented 
with a screen that pops up and shows me several different things,  most 
notably a list of different playlists.  if I am understanding this 
correctly, all the tones I've already imported are marked to be synced 
to my iPhone.  Window-eyes does not read the state of this, so I'm going 
purely on guess work here.So, I find the list of playlists by 
arrowing down until I hear tones, and then I keep tabbing to the sync 
tones checkbox. This is different from before, because there used to be 
a radio button that said sync selected tones.  But all I've got here is 
a sync tones checkbox, so when I check it, iTunes displays the following 
message.


Are you sure you want to remove existing music, movies, TV shows, books, 
and tones from this iPhone and sync with this iTunes library?
 Music, movies, TV shows, books, and tones synced to Chris's iPhone” 
from other iTunes libraries will be removed and items will be synced  
from this iTunes library.'




My only 2 choices are, erase and sync, or cancel.  The question isif 
I hit that Erase and sync button will the only thing that's erased will 
be my tones? or, will everything on the phone be erased?   Why can't 
this just be simple?


I hope someone will kindly correct me if I'm doing this incorrectly.

Thanks.

Re: problems adding custom made ringtones to iTunes in windows 10

[Chris Skarstad]

Well, I'm not having any problems with the accessibility of the product, 
all the screens read exactly as they should.  I just don't know what 
effect hitting the erase and sync button will have on my iPhone, which 
I've spent a really long time customizing. I have apps put in folders, 
and I like to have things in a very specific way. The accessibility here 
isn't the issue. Or at least it doesn't seem to be that way.






On 6/14/2016 5:05 PM, robert williams wrote:


You might want to consult the accessibility help department to help resolve 
your issue.Y


Robert


On Jun 14, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Chris Skarstad <rascal0...@verizon.net> wrote:

Hi guys


i hope the subject line was clear enough, sometimes I'm horrible at that.  
Anyways, let me explain a little further.  I had iTunes running on my Windows 7 
machine for many years, and I was successfully able to create a custom ringtone 
for my iPhone as a .m4r file, and sync it to my phone successfully.   So 
recently, I got myself a brand spanking new screamer of a pc running Windows 10 
  So I

had some ringtones that I wanted to add to my phone so I installed iTunes on 
it, and authorized it on my pc and did all the usual stuff you have to do to 
get it set up.  I even did a backup of my iTunes library just to be safe.

However, when I went to sync these newly made ringtones, I receive a message 
from iTunes that says if i  sync with this iPhone everything will be removed, 
and the only thing I'll have left are these new tones.  It says that it can 
only sync with one iTunes library at a time.  Or at least, that's how the 
message sounds to me.  It sounds rather ominous.

  I don't want to lose absolutely everything on my phone just to add a few 
ringtones.  That seems rather silly to me.  I know a lot of you guys on here 
use macs, but remember, this is in Windows 10, using the most recent version of 
iTunes, screenreader is Window-eyes 9.4.0.

Is it safe to hit the remove and sync button, or if I do that, will the only 
thing that's removed are the tones?  If all it'll remove is my current batch of 
tones that's ok, but my concern is losing everything else such as apps, and 
music.  I'm a bit lost to tell you the truth. I hope someone has experience 
with this.
Thanks for any help, guys!

problems adding custom made ringtones to iTunes in windows 10

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi guys


i hope the subject line was clear enough, sometimes I'm horrible at 
that.  Anyways, let me explain a little further.  I had iTunes running 
on my Windows 7 machine for many years, and I was successfully able to 
create a custom ringtone for my iPhone as a .m4r file, and sync it to my 
phone successfully.   So recently, I got myself a brand spanking new 
screamer of a pc running Windows 10   So I


had some ringtones that I wanted to add to my phone so I installed 
iTunes on it, and authorized it on my pc and did all the usual stuff you 
have to do to get it set up.  I even did a backup of my iTunes library 
just to be safe.


However, when I went to sync these newly made ringtones, I receive a 
message from iTunes that says if i  sync with this iPhone everything 
will be removed, and the only thing I'll have left are these new tones.  
It says that it can only sync with one iTunes library at a time.  Or at 
least, that's how the message sounds to me.  It sounds rather ominous.


  I don't want to lose absolutely everything on my phone just to add a 
few ringtones.  That seems rather silly to me.  I know a lot of you guys 
on here use macs, but remember, this is in Windows 10, using the most 
recent version of iTunes, screenreader is Window-eyes 9.4.0.


Is it safe to hit the remove and sync button, or if I do that, will the 
only thing that's removed are the tones?  If all it'll remove is my 
current batch of tones that's ok, but my concern is losing everything 
else such as apps, and music.  I'm a bit lost to tell you the truth. I 
hope someone has experience with this.

Thanks for any help, guys!

Re: Winamp?

[Chris Skarstad]

Only place I know to get it these days is
http://www.ninite.com
The web page has a bunch of different check boxes for different 
programs, Winamp is oneof them.  So check the box for that, and then 
press the space bar on the "get installer" button. the next page that 
comes up lets you download the installer.  The great thing about Ninite 
is that you can check multiple boxes at once, so you can build an 
installer with all your favorite programs.  If you're getting a new pc 
you can just run it, and it'll install all the programs, one after 
another.  Also, you can keep an installer around, and it'll install the 
latest version of the program every time a new one comes out.  These 
installers run in the background so there's no next buttons to press, or 
license agreements to answer yes to.  Whoever thought of Ninite deserves 
a metal.




On 4/11/2016 10:39 AM, Gerardo Corripio wrote:

 HI listers
Anyone have a link for Winamp? I lost the installer. Thanks for info.

recommendation for a low-cost digital recorder?

[Chris Skarstad]

Howdy folks

I have a friend whose interested in getting a digital recorder, she 
doesn't have an iPhone, at least not yet.  She would prefer to spend no 
more than $100 to $120 tops, and since she's also blind it would have to 
have some kind of voice guidance.  Barring that, she'd have to have 
someone go through the menus and learn them that way.  Is there such a 
recorder?  I remember back in he early 2000s, there were lots of 
recorders that you could use and they were really accessible, they were 
great for podcasting.  I'm not sure if such recorders exist nowadays, 
but it would be great.  I'm also kind of curious about this myself I 
have to be honest.  But if anyone has any ideas that'd be great!


Thanks folks!

Re: Thinking seriously on an Imac rather than a new Windows 10

[Chris Skarstad]

Mike is certainly up-to-date with information about the mac.  If you 
listen to his previous podcasts, he gives his contact info at the end 
and I'm sure he'd answer any questions you may have. I know him very 
well and he's very trustworthy so he'll give you up-to-date information.





On 3/22/2016 8:55 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:

Why do you need to go to all that trouble when Apple has all the up to date 
documentation on their support pages?



On 22 Mar 2016, at 11:50 PM, Andy Logue  wrote:

No Dane, you misunderstand me my friend.  What I was saying was that this guy 
Mike really knew his stuff back then and must be up to date with all the newer 
devices and OS.  All I need do is contact someone like  Rick at the Blind Geek 
Zone, who may well put me in touch with him.

Very best wishes.
Andy.
- Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" 
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Thinking seriously on an Imac rather than a new Windows 10


2011 was 5 years ago and much has changed since then so time to get hold of 
some updated information me thinks and I don’t care how good he sounds to 
listen to, accurate and up to date information is more important.



On 22 Mar 2016, at 11:31 PM, Andy Logue  wrote:

Hi Brian.

Yes, I was listening this morning to a Blind Cool Tech archive concerning the 
Mac Demo 14, which was recorded in 2011, by a guy called Mike Arrigo. I just 
loved listening to this guy speak and that of course was almost five years ago.

I've no doubt that If Mike has an up to date tutorial on the new imac Retina, 
with some hard work, I'll learn the key-strokes  This morning, I was also in 
contact with an organisation in Glasgow who have an open door policy to 
learning all Apple products.  Aparently, all you do is walk in the front door 
and you'll get a chance to feel and check-out the item of your choice, which in 
my situation is a desk-top Mac.

So I'm getting pretty excitted now about finding out more.  Much more excited 
than toing attending  a Windows 10 demo, So my mind is clearly made up, just 
need a little more cash now.

Very best wishes.

Andy.


- Original Message - From: "Brian Olesen" 
To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" 
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 11:29 AM
Subject: SV: Thinking seriously on an Imac rather than a new Windows 10


Hi,
Interacting with things in mac OS requires quite a lot of key strokes
though.
On the winning side web browsing is a breeze on Mac.

Brian

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Nelson
Sendt: 21. marts 2016 22:40
Til: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Emne: RE: Thinking seriously on an Imac rather than a new Windows 10


Perhaps but you must understand that learning about Mac OS and VoiceOver is
only the beginning.

If you had no experience with windows, you would accept  that the awkward
way things are done in MAC OS  is normal but with a little experience of
windows you will find yourself trying to work out the mind set of those who
devised the OS and VoiceOver.

However, given your experience in windows you may find that something like
audio editing  has a steep learning curve.  Yes, I know that Garage Band,
Amadeus Pro and Twisted Wave are very good audio editing programs for
sighted people but for a blind person they can be very frustrating.

The question you should be asking yourself is: is there anything that I
would want to do that can only be done on a Mac and, if so, is it important
enough for you to justify the outlay, considering that most of the things
you might want to do are possible through your I Phone.

Anyhow, excuse me while I duck around the back to avoid the arrows and
flames of the Apple fans!

Bob Nelson


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Andy
Logue
Sent: Tuesday, 22 March 2016 5:46 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List 
Subject: Re: Thinking seriously on an Imac rather than a new Windows 10

Hi Devon and Hamit.

I've always wanted to check out a mac computer but because ive been so
brainwashed in Microsoft, I didn't  have the self confidence to try it out
for myself.

What I was thinking was to keep my old Windows machine active for my mail
and so on, but the Mac could sit alone in another room and if I spend some
time each day, then I should be able to grasp the basic?  eh?  Especially if

I joined a blind mac list.

One thing I have already found out that my Imac Store, which is in glasgow,
will spend up to an hour with a new customer in the shop.  Perhaps they may
be interessted in offering me a little more start-up time, given my
blindness?  Worth checking out eh?

Thanks for your ideas guys.  For the meantime, I'm going to check out
everything I can on the Imac Retina on the webpage.

Re: Thinking seriously on an Imac rather than a new Windows 10

[Chris Skarstad]

I don't know if they'll give you any actual special treatment because 
you're blind but there are plenty of resources out there such as 
Applevis, and there is an email list called Mac visionaries. I use 
Windows 7 and will soon upgrade to 10 so I've no plans to switch o a 
mac.  Far far far too expensive for me especially when I can get a 
kick-ass windows machine at half the price, and NVDA is free.



On 3/21/2016 3:45 PM, Andy Logue wrote:

Hi Devon and Hamit.

I've always wanted to check out a mac computer but because ive been so 
brainwashed in Microsoft, I didn't  have the self confidence to try it 
out for myself.


What I was thinking was to keep my old Windows machine active for my 
mail and so on, but the Mac could sit alone in another room and if I 
spend some time each day, then I should be able to grasp the basic?  
eh?  Especially if I joined a blind mac list.


One thing I have already found out that my Imac Store, which is in 
glasgow, will spend up to an hour with a new customer in the shop.  
Perhaps they may be interessted in offering me a little more start-up 
time, given my blindness?  Worth checking out eh?


Thanks for your ideas guys.  For the meantime, I'm going to check out 
everything I can on the Imac Retina on the webpage.


Thanks again.
Andy.




- Original Message - From: "Devin Prater" 
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: Thinking seriously on an Imac rather than a new Windows 10


Apple has a getting started guide, right when you turn on a new Mac. 
Just wait a minute or two then follow the spoken instructions.


Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 21, 2016, at 11:04 AM, Hamit Campos  
wrote:


An IMac as in the Apple computer? If so there are Mac lists and stuff 
but
you'd have to listen to a lot of podcasts and stuff because you must 
then
now learn Mac OS. If I'm understanding the question correctly. I had 
learned

Mac OS but I've gotten Rusty.

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Andy
Logue
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 11:57 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List 
Subject: Thinking seriously on an Imac rather than a new Windows 10

Hi all.

I love everything audio concerning my computer.  I've music, described
movies and talking books and I use programmes such as Goldwave to record
streaming music.  I also love burning the odd CD for a friend and 
recently,
I've purchased a Zoom H6 digital recorder for even more interesting 
audio

work.

Many of my friends, who are not blind are telling me to buy the new Imac
Retina and plug that into my AV and sound system.

Any members use Imac for this sort ofstuff and is there any support 
for a

new comer like myself about.

Any advice would be very much appriciated.

Very best wishes.
Andy.

Re: recording using apple ear pods on windows?

[Chris Skarstad]

For most stuff on the pc, mono is fine. The only time you really need 
stereo recordings these days is if you're out somewhere, and mostly 
people use stereo microphones with a digital recorder, or with the 
iPhone.  The issue with that is sometimes VoiceOver is effected.  But to 
give you a straight answer, anything from Plantronics is pretty decent 
for just recording your voice. Trust me it's a thousand times better 
than those damn apple ear pods. I wouldn't recommend anyone use those 
accept listen to music.  The mic on those is, well, in polite terms, not 
good in the least.




On 3/12/2016 3:43 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona wrote:

do you recommend any good usb microphones?
stereo recording would be nice but it is not a requirement
Hank
On 3/12/2016 1:40 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
If you're on a tight budget a good microphone shouldn't be too hard 
to find that will do a far better job than that in the Apple Earbuds.



On 13/03/2016 7:39 AM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona wrote:

because I currently don't have a microphone
I guess I could try to get a microphone app for my android and feed 
it that way in to the line input

thanks
Hank

On 3/12/2016 12:46 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
I'm just curious, why would you want to record from the Microphone 
of a set of Apple Earbuds?


I've never thought much of the microphone in those things even for 
taking pho9ne calls or for chatting.




On 13/03/2016 3:10 AM, ken wrote:

   The Iphone has a two rings a tip and a sleeve.
You can find a special plug in amazon at apple excesories.
This cable has a mic input and an audio output.

YoYou can use a standard  plug powered mic in this input and It 
wil work.


hth.


-Original Message- From: Dane Trethowan Sent: Friday, 
March 11, 2016 10:18 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: 
recording using apple ear pods on windows?
good question and I'd say that you probably can't given the Apple 
3.5MM jack that the Apple Earbuds use is not standard.




On 12/03/2016 1:50 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona wrote:
Hello is there a way that I can record using the mic on apple ear 
pods? if so how do I accomplish thi?s

thanks
Hank

Re: Apple's iPhone 7 WILL dump the headphone socket | Daily Mail Online

[Chris Skarstad]

With Apple, they have an obsession with being thin as possible. From 
what I'm told, the standard headphone jack takes up a lot of room, when 
you compare it to something like wireless might take up.  So, they want 
to go with that so the phone will be thinner. and knowing them, you'll 
have to use their specific ear pods. Actually, I'm hoping that regular 
bluetooth will work since I have a few pares of those and i can just use 
that.   Time marches on y'all.
I also agree with another poster, if all this is just too much, there's 
no reason why you can't just stay with the 6 or 6s. I have a 6 and it 
works beautifully for me.




On 3/10/2016 10:19 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:

Famous Last Words .


On 11/03/2016 1:24 AM, Hamit Campos wrote:

Hmm then will you skip from now on? No more IPhone for you for ever
more? I mean if and that's a big if they really do do it with 7 you 
know it

ain't coming back.

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Brian
Olesen
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 6:04 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' 
Subject: SV: Apple's iPhone 7 WILL dump the headphone socket | Daily 
Mail

Online

Hi,
It's a real shame. We are many, who like the analog style headphones 
so I'll

skip this update and stay with 6S.
Any reason why they're removing the plug? I mean they don't take up much
space.

Best regards
Brian

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Fra: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] På vegne af Devin
Prater
Sendt: 10. marts 2016 07:23
Til: PC Audio Discussion List
Emne: Re: Apple's iPhone 7 WILL dump the headphone socket | Daily Mail
Online

I can't wait to see what the new headphones are like, and even what 
they can
do now that they have digital capabilities. It might not be just 
audio that

goes through them.

Sent from my iPhone


On Mar 9, 2016, at 8:21 PM, Dane Trethowan 

wrote:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3484392/Apple-s-iPhone-7-dump 

-headphone-socket-Leaked-case-shows-superslim-design-instead-stereo-speakers 


.html

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Those who don't need help are prepared to help themselves

Re: Possible Recommendations for a good USB sound card please

[Chris Skarstad]

Speaking of sound cards, has anyone tried the sound cards by Turtle 
Beach of late?  Back when I was using a laptop, I used a turtle beach 
audio advantage SRM and it worked quite nicely.  When I got my pc I 
really didn't have much need for it since the internal card did 
everything I need so I didn't use it much after that.  Do they still 
make good sound cards these days? if so I may consider one for my next pc.


On 3/3/2016 4:52 PM, Joe Paton wrote:

yes.


On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 21:24:48 +
goshawk on horseback  wrote:

I do the USB card for audio and onboard card for the screen reader thing,
and it has served me very well, especially when playing different audio
things through the USB card for example. as if a bit of audio I am playing
is very loud, I don't get any issues with not being able to hear my
screenreader over the loud audio, as all I do is either back the volume of
the USB card off, or boost that of the onboard card. because I use a mixer
desk, I can do this very easily.

Simon


- Original Message -
From: "Joe Paton" 
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2016 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: Possible Recommendations for a good USB sound card please


Hi Larry,

On this dell optiplex, there is a default sound card, which is a real tek..

Now here's the interesting thing.

The windows mixer, offers limited access to all the controls on the card.
Further, these controls can be accessed, using an app called "dell audio."
This opens up all the card's controls.  It is not accessible by three screen
readers, but I suspect that screen mignification users may have a little
more opportunity.

Next, the version of drivers, either provided by Dell, or Real Tek.  Certain
drivers, do nott offer the range of controls in the default installation,
but
also these drivers leave the card in a flatter audio state, with no extra
audio
effects turned on.

So what I am thinking, is, that it might be possible to turn off the effects
that you don't want, either by the driver file itself, or, access to the
control pannel installed by the computer manufacturer.  I used dell in my
example.

Next you could argue, hell, why waiste my time.  You could use the default
card
for screen reader, then a second card for your audio.  I made the asumption
that you want to do more than just replay high quality audio.  So in either
case
Larry, creative audigie do a usb card, with controls onboard.  I tended to
think of a PCI audigie card, forgetting about the usb offerings.


good luck, and good listening.

Joe




On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 09:36:21 -0600
Larry Higgins  wrote:

Joe,

The main problem I notice with this card, is that it tends to phase out
centered voices on many stereo recordings. It also at times sounds as if it
has an overactive audio gain setting. I just never know how it is going to
react from song to song, or selection to selection. It just isn't a very
sound environment IMHO, not like my old Audigy, which was both dependable,
and at times, down right amazing as a reproducer of pure audio.

I'll admit that my demands are small, since I only use my sound card for
listening to audio streams, and mp3 files, but very little in the way of
actual recording. But when I had occasion to do some of that, the results
were usually quite adiquit for my needs.




On 3/3/2016 7:24 AM, Joe Paton wrote:

larry,

exactly what issues do you have with the on-board realtek?
If you mentioned it in a previous post, I missed it.


Thanks.

On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 06:16:33 -0600
Larry Higgins  wrote:

It just says Realtek hi definition audio, and I have tried turning
enhancements off with no satisfaction, and no new drivers available
according to my updating facility for the card in the properties in the
control panel.

If you are referring to something besides enhancements when you refer to
excelleration then I can't find any such setting anywhere on my system.
Turning off such excelleration was an option with my XP Computer, but
doesn't seem to be the case with this one .

On 3/3/2016 3:53 AM, Isaac wrote:

what is your onboard card, might need new drivers or excelleration >
turned off
- Original Message - From: "Larry Higgins" >

To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2016 3:40 AM
Subject: Re: Possible Recommendations for a good USB sound card please



Joe, thanks for your thoughtful and deliberate response. I did a >>
specific Google search yesterday for Audigy drivers for use with my >>
particular card and Windows 8.1, something I thought I did a while >>
ago, and came up with the particular set of drivers directly from >>
Creative Labs through a tech discussion group. I plan to have my >>
daughter remove and install the sound card to the Dell some time this >>
week, and give them a try. Hopefully 

Re: possibly a sound card issue, not sure?

[Chris Skarstad]

Well, she tells me that when she uses a wireless mic, there's hardly no 
hum at all. However, when she uses one of those USB headsets with a 
microphone and a cord on the end, the hum is a lot louder.   That's why 
I wasn't sure if had something to do with the sound card or if it was 
electrical?  I hope that made sense.




On 2/26/2016 12:13 PM, Hamit Campos wrote:

Ah that right there tells you it's something electrical. When she uses it 
without AC power it's fine. Now who knows maybe it is a ground issue. What kind 
of mike is she using? Could it be over censitivity of this mike?

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Chris 
Skarstad
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 11:32 AM
To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Subject: possibly a sound card issue, not sure?

Hey folks

A while ago, someone was talking about a possible sound card issue, and my  
girlfriend who is not on this list is having one and she's asked me to quiz the 
gurus.  Basicly, what's happening is whenever she records something or 
broadcasts on the internet, you can hear what appears to be a loud humming 
sound, probably a ground hum. She's using a windows 7 64-bit laptop, it's a 
Toshiba satellite of some kind, we're  not sure
about the exact model number.  Does anyone know what might be
causing the issue, and better yet how to eliminate it?   Is this an
actual sound card issue, or is it something electrical, like how it's plugged 
in? It's plugged into a power strip so i'm not sure if that's it
or not.   Keep in mind that i'm not an expert in all things electrical
so i'm not gonna be able to do anything really advanced.  I've heard this 
happen on other laptops, when it's plugged in you hear the hum.
When they unplug it, it goes away. It wouldn't be practical for her to use it 
on batteries all the time, so we would need to find a way to eliminate the 
issue.  Does anyone know what we can do?
Thanks!
Chris

possibly a sound card issue, not sure?

[Chris Skarstad]

Hey folks

A while ago, someone was talking about a possible sound card issue, and 
my  girlfriend who is not on this list is having one and she's asked me 
to quiz the gurus.  Basicly, what's happening is whenever she records 
something or broadcasts on the internet, you can hear what appears to be 
a loud humming sound, probably a ground hum. She's using a windows 7 
64-bit laptop, it's a Toshiba satellite of some kind, we're  not sure 
about the exact model number.  Does anyone know what might be 
causing the issue, and better yet how to eliminate it?   Is this an 
actual sound card issue, or is it something electrical, like how it's 
plugged in? It's plugged into a power strip so i'm not sure if that's it 
or not.   Keep in mind that i'm not an expert in all things electrical 
so i'm not gonna be able to do anything really advanced.  I've heard 
this happen on other laptops, when it's plugged in you hear the hum. 
When they unplug it, it goes away. It wouldn't be practical for her to 
use it on batteries all the time, so we would need to find a way to 
eliminate the issue.  Does anyone know what we can do?

Thanks!
Chris

Re: re audible

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi

I can't say that's ever happened to me, nope.  Pretty much every 
inaudible conversion i've ever done has worked flawlessly, every time.


Thanks.




On 2/17/2016 1:21 PM, brian parker wrote:
Hi chris, i don't mind having a big bunch of files, but does it 
sometimes give me the same file as one large converted files in the 
same folder. does it do that to you. i used to use sound taxi, but 
each file takes a long time, and there is sometimes a bit of the book 
missing at the end of the conversion. brian.

Re: re inaudible

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi.

Well, that's kind of the whole idea of the software, to set it so 
each chapter of the book is a separate mp3 file so it's a whole lot 
easier to read.  If you make the book into one long mp3, you'd have to 
use some kind of bookmarks in the file.
If you really want this, you might be better off using something else 
like sound taxi instead.  Inaudible is for folks who want each chapter 
of the audible book as a separate mp3. or at least, that's the whole 
reason I use it.  If there's a way to do it another way i'm not sure how.









On 2/17/2016 12:28 PM, brian parker wrote:
Hi list, is anyone out there using inaudible to convert files. i am 
using it, but i get some odd results. when i convert a file, sometimes 
i get a number of files each one representing a new chapter in the 
book. but, sometimes in the same folder with the bunch of files, i get 
another file with the name inaudible in the title, and being the 
complete file. i would like to adjust inaudible so that it would give 
me one file each time. if anyone knows how to make the change from 
what i am getting now, to what i would like, i would appreciate it if 
you could let me know. thanks, brian.

Re: MP3 Problems

[Chris Skarstad]

Not that I'm aware of, nope.
I could certainly be wrong, though.




On 2/8/2016 6:32 PM, Andrea Sherry wrote:

Is there a means of repairing faulty mp3 files?
Andrea

Re: The new version of winamp

[Chris Skarstad]

I have foobar on my machine but really haven't come to grips with it.   
I had heard you could do all that but hadn't really figured out how. It 
sounds cool though!






On 12/24/2015 1:54 AM, Brett Boyer wrote:

All I can say is foobar 2000.
Yes you have to set it up yourself but once you do it is so customizable that 
it can beat anything winamp can do. In fact, you can manage multiple playlists 
at the same time, copy files from windows explorer, and make your won hot keys 
for every single command in the program including menu bar, context menus, 
now-playing context menus, and many many more.
Here is an article
I have been a foobar user for over 4 years.
And yes, I still have winamp on my machine and use it form time to time, 
probably because old habbits die hard. But if I have to do anything for my 
radio show, or out in my living room where I have tv shows, music, my Howard 
Stern live streams, karaoke files, and a playlist for when particular guests 
are over. I can do all of this inside of foobar without having to load 
playlists over and over.
The beauty part is managing multiple playlists in a tab style that makes my 
life a lot easier.
Good luck to you though.
If you do find the article of interest, since it's written for the general 
community I'd be happy to help you out figuring out accessible ways of doing 
things that the article doesn't cover.
http://winamp2foobar.blogspot.com/
I hope you find what you're looking for!

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Barry Chapman
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 6:03 PM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' 
Subject: RE: The new version of winamp

Well whether Winamp is the best or not is a matter of opinion, but I can say 
that I don't know of any other player which has all of the features that I use 
on a regular basis. Just a few that come to mind are:

1. Ability to play, pause, stop go back a track and go forward a track with one 
finger of my left hand. This is important to me when I use Winamp to stream and 
need to use my right hand to control my mixer.

2. The ability to move forward and back in five second increments with one 
finger.

3. An option to stop playing after the current track in a playlist.

4. The ability to locate a track in Windows explorer and add it to the Winamp 
playlist, either after the currently playing track or at the end of the 
playlist.

5. The ability to search for a track in a playlist and move it to after the 
currently playing track.

6. The ability to delete tracks from a playlist.

7. The ability to save a modified playlist.

8. The ability to cross fade tracks with a configurable plugin.

9. The ability to equalise the volume of all playing tracks with a configurable 
plugin.

10. The ability to have title information show up in Edcast when streaming.

11. The ability to find the length of a track in time as well as being able to 
find out the elapsed time and time remaining of a currently playing track.

12. The ability to select a sound card other than the default for the output.

13. The ability to edit and modify ID3 tags in MP3 files.

14. The ability to review tracks in a playlist by arrowing up and down.

15. The ability to search a playlist for tracks containing key words.

16. The ability to press enter on a track in Windows Explorer and have it start 
playing without the focus moving from Windows Explorer.

17. The ability to set a placemarker in a file when using JAWS.

18. The ability to set bookmarks for streams.

19. The ability to play a wide range of audio formats.

20. The ability to jump to a specific time in a track.

21. The ability to play the last few seconds of a track (possibly a JAWS 
feature).

22. The ability to easily get information about streams and tracks, such as the 
bit rate.

I'm sure there are other features that don't come to mind immediately. If Dane 
or anyone else can tell me of another free or low cost player which they know 
will doo all of the above as well or better than Winamp, I would be willing to 
give it a try.

Thanks,
Barry Chapman


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane 
Trethowan
Sent: Thursday, 24 December 2015 12:01 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List 
Subject: Re: The new version of winamp

Well it won’t be the worlds best media player if its not accessible will it 
 and there are plenty of people who would dispute your generalisation 
regarding Winamp being the World’s best media player.



On 24 Dec 2015, at 11:44 AM, Brian  wrote:

Winamp will always be the best player for screen reader users and
keyboard users so you are a very big lier.  if the new winamp is
better and still accessable I would conciter using it but if not I
will just keep using version 5.66 Brian Sackrider

On 12/23/2015 4:45 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:

Don’t care any more as there are so many good 

Re: The new version of winamp

[Chris Skarstad]

I've been using Winamp since 1998 and don't intend to stop unless I can 
find another player that's more accessible and does what i want it to.  
I'll be interested if and when a new version comes out.  You'd have to 
show me a player that's even better, and that's a tall order.


On 12/23/2015 11:03 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:

First of all, I can’t answer that question as to what is more accessible 
because I’ve not played around with Media Players for Windows for quite some 
time.

I do use VLC for Windows and I’m able to access all the functions I need in 
that player very easily such as the transport functions, file functions and so 
on.

I have used Windows Media Player and I found it a more pleasurable experience 
to use than I thought it would be mainly because of the excellent amount of 
Shortcut keys and other goodies it has.

So as I’ve already said, claiming that Winamp is the best and most accessible 
player in the world is a very general statement indeed and I wouldn’t have to 
look too far to find people who would disagree, I know there’s a whole heap of 
people out there using Windows Media Player because I’ve spoken to quite a few 
who have given me tips on that software.

VLC users are a plenty and well as there being plenty of iTunes users and so on.



On 24 Dec 2015, at 12:56 PM, Kelly Pierce  wrote:

The news is that last week vivendi, which owns Universal Music, bought
a controlling interest in Radio Nomi. Many are hopeful that vivendi
will breathe new life into winamp.

Dane, which programs are more accessible than Winamp?  I am on Brian's
side in believing that winamp was the most accessible media player
ever.  Yes, I am still using Winamp and loving the experieince.

Kelly





On 12/23/15, Brian  wrote:

 Winamp will always be the best player for screen reader users and
keyboard users so you are a very big lier.  if the new winamp is better
and still accessable I would conciter using it but if not I will just
keep using version 5.66
Brian Sackrider

On 12/23/2015 4:45 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:

Don’t care any more as there are so many good alternatives anyway, the
best thing that every happened in the media player world was the
announcement made that development would cease on Winamp and as yet I’ve
not heard any convincing reason as to why anyone should mourn the loss of
this software.

If a new company has taken Winamp over and development has started again
then all well and good but I do think the player became far too bloated is
is very much over rated.



On 24 Dec 2015, at 8:16 AM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona
 wrote:

its about time they released it
had no idea that they released a new version

On 12/23/2015 2:12 PM, Larry Higgins wrote:

Hello listers,

Just wanted to know if any of you have used the latest version of Winamp
from Radionomy? If so, how accessible is it with screen readers? I found
out that the there is apparently only two versions, pro and light, and
the pro is around $19.00.

I might consider springing for the Pro version if I knew that it was
actually worth it, or maybe another way of putting it, if it wouldn't
break all of my presets and  WE scripts/apps. I'd far rather use the old
version for as long as I can, rather than destroying a perfectly working
Winamp listening environment.




**
Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the
halfwits in this world behind.








**
Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the 
halfwits in this world behind.

Re: I re-instaled winamp.....

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi.  I'm still using Windows 7 but I ran across some instructions from 
the windows central site that just might do the trick.  Try the below...



1. Open "Settings" and click on "System"
Windows 10 settings

2. Select "Default apps" from the left hand pane

Windows 10 default apps

3. Scroll down until you see "Music Player"

Windows 10 default apps

4. Choose your alternative

Windows 10 default music player

You'll see Groove Music is selected currently, and this is what you want 
to change. Click on the box and you'll be presented with a list of apps 
you have installed that are suitable for this category. Simply select 
your favorite and it will now become the default music player whenever 
you're using Windows 10.


I know these directions are given from a sighted user's perspective, but 
hopefully you'll be able to work out what to do and get the default back 
to Winamp.



On 9/20/2015 1:18 PM, randy tijerina wrote:
Hi folks...I re-installed winamp as Steve Suggestedthat stupid 
program insists on playing my music..is there a way to get rid of 
it..i can't find it in the add/remove area.

Re: I re-instaled winamp.....

[Chris Skarstad]

If it's anything like Windows 7, try typing the word settings into the 
search box on the start menu.






On 9/20/2015 3:09 PM, randy tijerina wrote:

I'm just curious..as to where.s the settings in windows10?
or..how do you get there?
At 01:08 PM 9/20/2015, you wrote:
Hi.  I'm still using Windows 7 but I ran across some instructions 
from the windows central site that just might do the trick.  Try the 
below...



1. Open "Settings" and click on "System"
Windows 10 settings

2. Select "Default apps" from the left hand pane

Windows 10 default apps

3. Scroll down until you see "Music Player"

Windows 10 default apps

4. Choose your alternative

Windows 10 default music player

You'll see Groove Music is selected currently, and this is what you 
want to change. Click on the box and you'll be presented with a list 
of apps you have installed that are suitable for this category. 
Simply select your favorite and it will now become the default music 
player whenever you're using Windows 10.


I know these directions are given from a sighted user's perspective, 
but hopefully you'll be able to work out what to do and get the 
default back to Winamp.



On 9/20/2015 1:18 PM, randy tijerina wrote:
Hi folks...I re-installed winamp as Steve Suggestedthat stupid 
program insists on playing my music..is there a way to get rid 
of it..i can't find it in the add/remove area.

Re: For Chris Replay Radio

[Chris Skarstad]

Oh yes, absolutely replay radio works great with Window-eyes. I 
downloaded it and installed it yesterday and it's pretty cool. the only 
tricky part is moving through the different tabs in the options screens, 
sometimes they don't gain the propper focus.  You have to find the tab 
you want and press enter for it to gain focus so you can see what 
options are available.  it's anawesome program and I had no problem 
figuring it out.




On 7/9/2015 11:53 AM, Vinny Samarco wrote:

Hi,
Will Replay Radio work with Window-eyes?
Thanks.
Vinny

-Original Message- From: Petro T. Giannakopoulos
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 6:43 AM
To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Subject: For Chris Replay Radio

Audio tutorials
Two links below. Dropbox zipped files

#1
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7178104/Replay%20Radio%209%20Old%20Tutorials.zip 



#2
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7178104/Replay%20Radio%20more%20audio%20tutorials.zip 

Re: Chris G. your website with stations

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi

Yes it does provide an rss feed of the last 10 stations that've changed 
format, but if you look at the website there are tons more station 
format changes up there.  I do have a pretty good podcatching client but 
I wanted a way I could get everything, not just the last 10 things 
posted.  Good thought though.  Replay radio works great for this.




On 7/9/2015 6:21 PM, Petro T. Giannakopoulos wrote:

Chris G.
The website you provided the other day does provide an RSS feed that you can 
subscribe to and download the stations formats changes like Chicago. I was able 
to find the lat 10 MP3s from the changes stations formats website.

The Chicago formats changes RSS feed URL is;
http://formatchange.com/category/chicago/feed/

The above is the chicago feed you can subscribe to.
Replay Radio is a podcatcher and allows one to subscribed to feeds that have 
media content like MP3s.

Below is the
  
Previous Format: Not On Air (Stunting With Christmas Music)

New Format: Smooth Jazz “The Groove 103.9”
Date  Time Of Change: December 26, 2014 at 12:00am
More Info: RadioInsight

Aircheck Contributed by Jeremy Andrews



And below is the download for the above air check,

797.mp3

Not sure if it can be downloaded this way but try.



Finally, the below RSS feed is for all format changes for stations,

http://formatchange.com/feed/



You can add this to Replay Radio too.

You can tell RR to go back in time and download all the files for you.

You would choose add show manually button within RR (replay radio) and paste in 
the RSS feed URLs shown above into the RR9 scheduler. Also you will need to 
change a setting to RSS / Podcast instead of Direct Download.

Re: downloading from a site that streams audio but doesn't allow downloads

[Chris Skarstad]

Well, see, there aren't any actual download links, hence my reason for 
writing to the list.   For an example of what I mean, go to
http://www.formatchange.com, go to changes by city and just for fun, 
choose chicago.  You'll see different links for different stations. the 
first one says 103.9 the groove debuts.  If you press enter on that link 
and go a ways down the page, you'll find an html 5 player with a play 
button.  if you press it, the audio starts to play, but there's no 
download link.  What I'd like to do is capture that audio in an mp3 
file.  i'm hoping that makes a little more sense, sorry if the subject 
line wasn't clear. :)






On 7/8/2015 10:43 AM, Petro T. Giannakopoulos wrote:
If you can provide 2 or 3 direct URLs so I can test the streams for 
you. Are they live or archived?
If you use JAWS I have a software program that will work for sure but 
will not name it here.
Its not free. Also it will capture instead of doing a second by second 
recording.


-Original Message- From: Chris Skarstad
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 10:33 PM
To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Subject: downloading from a site that streams audio but doesn't allow 
downloads


Hi folks

The subject line might seem kind of simple, but it's the only way I can
think of to describe the situation.  Here's what's happening. There's a
specific website that allows you to listen to audio content, but it
doesn't offer links to download said content.  I'm pretty sure there has
to be a way to do it though. it uses an html 5 player, which most
screenreaders can recognize, so listening to the audio is no problem.
It offers podcast feeds, but it only offers the last 10 or so items
posted, and I'd like to get a lot more of it.  At one time it did allow
downloads but has since stopped for whatever reason.  Just so everyone
can have a look, the website is:
http://www.formatchange.com
This is a website that allows you to listen to different radio stations
changing formats. Kind of geeky, but I've been a radio nut for years so
I like this sort of thing and i'm willing to bet others do too. So if
there's any software that'll allow me to capture this audio, I'd love to
get ahold of it and capture some more of this stuff.

Thanks guys!


Chris

Re: downloading from a site that streams audio but doesn't allow downloads

[Chris Skarstad]

Mostly window-eyes, but i'm also very familiar with NVDA and system 
accessif I ever need it.  Don't have jaws on this machine. Peter's 
suggestion of Replay Radio is an interesting one, but I'm not sure how 
the program works.




On 7/8/2015 9:44 AM, Petro T. Giannakopoulos wrote:

Which screen reader do you use?


-Original Message- From: Chris Skarstad
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 10:33 PM
To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Subject: downloading from a site that streams audio but doesn't allow 
downloads


Hi folks

The subject line might seem kind of simple, but it's the only way I can
think of to describe the situation.  Here's what's happening. There's a
specific website that allows you to listen to audio content, but it
doesn't offer links to download said content.  I'm pretty sure there has
to be a way to do it though. it uses an html 5 player, which most
screenreaders can recognize, so listening to the audio is no problem.
It offers podcast feeds, but it only offers the last 10 or so items
posted, and I'd like to get a lot more of it.  At one time it did allow
downloads but has since stopped for whatever reason.  Just so everyone
can have a look, the website is:
http://www.formatchange.com
This is a website that allows you to listen to different radio stations
changing formats. Kind of geeky, but I've been a radio nut for years so
I like this sort of thing and i'm willing to bet others do too. So if
there's any software that'll allow me to capture this audio, I'd love to
get ahold of it and capture some more of this stuff.

Thanks guys!


Chris

Thanks to all, Replay radio is awesome!

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi folks
Thanks to Peter and Petro especially for turning me onto Replay Radio.  
I had been using some of the Replay programs a few years ago, but hadn't 
for some time.  It looks like Replay radio has replaced Replay AV, which 
was a program I used a lot.  The program does exactly what I want it to 
do, although, I can't seem to get the url finder to work. I installed it 
but when I press the start monitoring for URL's button nothing seems to 
happen. I saw a reference to something called Network Monitor in there, 
but not sure how to go about installing that.  There's a choice that 
says use the installed drivers recommended.  Is it ok to select that 
option when installing it?  I just want to be careful, and do the right 
thing.
Thanks guys!  If anyone has any other tips i'd love to have them. So far 
this program is amazing!


Chris

downloading from a site that streams audio but doesn't allow downloads

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi folks

The subject line might seem kind of simple, but it's the only way I can 
think of to describe the situation.  Here's what's happening.  There's a 
specific website that allows you to listen to audio content, but it 
doesn't offer links to download said content.  I'm pretty sure there has 
to be a way to do it though. it uses an html 5 player, which most 
screenreaders can recognize, so listening to the audio is no problem.  
It offers podcast feeds, but it only offers the last 10 or so items 
posted, and I'd like to get a lot more of it.  At one time it did allow 
downloads but has since stopped for whatever reason.  Just so everyone 
can have a look, the website is:

http://www.formatchange.com
This is a website that allows you to listen to different radio stations 
changing formats. Kind of geeky, but I've been a radio nut for years so 
I like this sort of thing and i'm willing to bet others do too.  So if 
there's any software that'll allow me to capture this audio, I'd love to 
get ahold of it and capture some more of this stuff.


Thanks guys!


Chris

Re: Converting .aa (audible files)

[Chris Skarstad]

there is a program out there somewhere called inaudible. do a google 
search for it.  It's the best audible conversion tool out there, full stop.




On 7/3/2015 12:55 PM, Robin Frost wrote:

Hi,
Actually it can do them.  I won't say anymore in case it's a violation 
of list policies to discuss such but googling it will reveal more.  It 
doesn't do enhanced format but would for instance do format 4.

Robin


-Original Message- From: Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2015 12:46 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Converting .aa (audible files)

switch doesn't do protected files
the audible format is protected as far as I know


On 7/3/2015 7:07 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

What about Switch; would this do what is needed?
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of 
roger.so...@virgin.net

Sent: Friday, July 03, 2015 3:05 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Converting .aa (audible files)

The 2 programs I mention are the only ones I know that will convert .aa
files and neither are free.

Roger

-Original Message-
From: Ketan Kothari
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2015 5:07 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Cc: li...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Converting .aa (audible files)

Hi,

How and where can I convert these files for free?  I did not get the
message properly and at my end there appears to be some problem.
Please.

With best wishes,

Ketan

On 7/3/15, roger.so...@virgin.net roger.so...@virgin.net wrote:

Yes. You will need either SoundTaxi Pro or dPower. Both will convert to
MP3

and Wav. They may also do other audio types but I'm not sure. dPower 
does
the fastest conversion in around 10 to 20 minutes but some of the 
encoding

is not there so cannot be then used on some other software. Such as
Goldwave

which will not recognise it. But I use it to convert to play on my 
Victor

Reader Stream, PTX1 and Sana Clip with no problems at all.

SoundTaxi is an overnight job taking several (3 -5 hours) and has 
all the

encoding needed but it must be the Pro version as the standard version
will

not accept .aa extension.

Roger

-Original Message-
From: Ketan Kothari
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 10:47 AM
To: li...@yahoogroups.com ; pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Subject: Converting .aa (audible files)

Dear Friends,

Sorry for cross-posting; can I convert .aa files to MP3 or wav files?
Please do help.

With best wishes,

Ketan

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Re: Future Of Windows Media Player

[Chris Skarstad]

Oh heaven forbid people should use another player! I know Winamp isn't 
being developed anymore and i know it's basicly a dead product, but i've 
used it since its inseption back in 98 and I'll probably always use it, 
until something that beats it comes along, and I haven't found it yet.





On 6/7/2015 7:59 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Actually Windows Media Player doesn't have one as of Windows 10 so 
people will have to think about using another player such as VLC etc.

Re: Test message To See If My Messages Still Come Through

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi
Writing to you privately, yes your message came through just fine.

On 5/26/2015 1:46 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

Hello list:  I changed the subject line of this message as I'm not sure I
have the right address to this list!  I received a message, telling me that
my membership has been disabled!  I replied to the message as I was
instructed to do!  So hopefully this reply will go through...and I'll
receive it as well!  My apologies for being off-topic; am only trying to
make sure that all is working as it should here!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of André van
Deventer
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 12:27 PM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: improving headphone sound with a portable amp?

I use a little headphone amplifier  made by a company called Headroom.  It
takes 4 AAA batteries.

What I like about it is that it has a high and low impedence switch so it
caters for all kinds of headphones.

You get a short cable with it  which allows you to connect your mp3 device
or whatever to  the 3.5 mm input of the amplifier. It also has a usb socket
so you can use it as a sound card also.

I think it was called the Egghead or something like that.


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Mary
Otten
Sent: 21 May 2015 05:50 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: improving headphone sound with a portable amp?

Hi all,

Several years ago, I purchased a pair of AKG Q701 headphones for use with a
home stereo. These are, in my opinion, outstanding phones, especially
considering the price is around $200 or a bit more on Amazon.They are
wonderfully comfortable to wear for extended periods of time, more so than
any other phones I've seen, bar none.  Recent reviews indicate some
dissatisfaction, since these are now apparently being made in China, rather
than Austria, the home country of AKG. But that's not the point of this
message.

I have tried my Q701 with the headphone output of my iPhone and find the
output of the phone isn't sufficient to drive the Qs well. So I looked into
the possibility of a portable headphone amp, such as the fiio e12, which has
pretty decent reviews on Amazon. It is not clear to me, however, how you get
the signal from the lightning port on the phone to the little amp, as it
doesn't seem to come with a cable. You can purchase a separate LOD from
fiio, but it has the old style 30-pin connector. You could then purchase an
official Apple lightning adapter at some ridiculously inflated price, of
course, and then I suppose the set up would work, although I don't think
this amp has a DAC, and I'm not sure if you'd need one of those anyway. So,
the question. What are folks doing who have head phones which are not driven
adequately by the crummy output stages found in portable devices like phones
etc?

Mary

Re: Tribute To Richie Benaud

[Chris Skarstad]

Please forgive my ignorance, but who exactly is this guy the tribute is 
for?  I know, probably a very silly question but I've never heard of him 
before.  Again, please forgive me, I feel like it should be obvious 
since there've been so many messages in the thread.





On 4/10/2015 2:28 PM, Colin Howard wrote:

Dane,

I am using Firefox on this Windows XP Home laptop and by default on my W7
desktop machines.  I downloaded on the wxp laptop.

Re: The Future of Winamp

[Chris Skarstad]

Well, I figure as long as it works, why add anything new?  I think it 
works beautifully with the window-eyes scripts.  Unless someone comes up 
with a feature that we just gotta have, i'm happy with it staying the 
way it is.



On 2/17/2015 1:50 PM, Steve Pattison wrote:

Hi all,

Is it just me or is anyone else concerned about the future development 
of Winamp? The last version came out in mid December 2013 just before 
Winamp was taken over by Radionomy. See www.radionomy.com and 
www.winamp.com. I wrote to the developers of Winamp on Twitter a few 
weeks ago asking about the future of Winamp and received no response. 
I hope I'm wrong but I'm starting to think even though there have been 
promises of new versions of Winamp that development of Winamp has been 
abandoned.


I know that there are plenty of other good audio players such as 
Foobar2000 and VLC media player available. the reason I like Winamp is 
mainly because of the extra functionality added to Winamp when it is 
used with the Window-Eyes scripts.


Regards Steve.

Re: New Version of TapinRadio Available

[Chris Skarstad]

Tapin radio lets you listen to internet radio stations. and yes 
it is available world wide!

 http://www.tapinradio.com

you can get the free version or the pro version is 
available too, check the website for prices in your country.



On 1/30/2015 10:50 AM, salamander22...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi

What is tappin radio? Can anyone use it or is it just for the states?

Regards

Adrien


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 3:09 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: New Version of TapinRadio Available

Well now...I don't know if I should get the latest update from Tapin or not!  
If I were to get it (then find I have problems as others have reported) I 
wonder if I can revert back to the previous version?
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Steve 
Pattison
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 6:17 PM
To: PC Audio
Subject: New Version of TapinRadio Available

Hi all,

The following message from the developer of TapinRadio was posted on
Twitter a couple of days ago:

For visually impaired users be patient as QT support is experiencing
some issues with accessibility but we're preparing new version. Please
try the beta version which might solve the accessibility issues

http://tinyurl.com/l26ypxf

End of tweets.

This link is a direct link to download TapinRadio version 1.60.2 beta2.
Actually I hadn't noticed any accessibility issues in the previous
version. I've been running this beta for a couple of days now and
although it is in beta it seems very stable and I haven't had any
problems with it.

If you want to follow the developer of TapinRadio on Twitter the
username is tapin_radio

Regards Steve.

Re: New Version of TapinRadio Available

[Chris Skarstad]

As I said before, check the website for prices in your country. In the 
US the  pro version is $12.99 if that gives you an idea.



On 1/30/2015 11:36 AM, salamander22...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Chris

Ok many thanks, is it free or do I need to pay a
subscription?

Regards

Adrien


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On
Behalf Of Chris Skarstad
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 4:58 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: New Version of TapinRadio Available

  Tapin radio lets you listen to internet radio
stations. and yes
it is available world wide!
   http://www.tapinradio.com

  you can get the free version or the pro version
is
available too, check the website for prices in your country.


On 1/30/2015 10:50 AM, salamander22...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi

What is tappin radio? Can anyone use it or is it just for

the states?

Regards

Adrien


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On

Behalf Of Tom Kaufman

Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 3:09 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: New Version of TapinRadio Available

Well now...I don't know if I should get the latest update

from Tapin or not!  If I were to get it (then find I have
problems as others have reported) I wonder if I can revert
back to the previous version?

Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On

Behalf Of Steve Pattison

Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 6:17 PM
To: PC Audio
Subject: New Version of TapinRadio Available

Hi all,

The following message from the developer of TapinRadio was

posted on

Twitter a couple of days ago:

For visually impaired users be patient as QT support is

experiencing

some issues with accessibility but we're preparing new

version. Please

try the beta version which might solve the accessibility

issues

http://tinyurl.com/l26ypxf

End of tweets.

This link is a direct link to download TapinRadio version

1.60.2 beta2.

Actually I hadn't noticed any accessibility issues in the

previous

version. I've been running this beta for a couple of days

now and

although it is in beta it seems very stable and I haven't

had any

problems with it.

If you want to follow the developer of TapinRadio on

Twitter the

username is tapin_radio

Regards Steve.

Re: New Version of TapinRadio Available

[Chris Skarstad]

If you want to install multiple copies, you would install it to 
something like c:\program files\(x86)\tapin Radio Beta and then make 
sure to create a shortcut to it in a place that's easy to get to.  This 
way, if you have any issues both versions are installed and you can go 
back to using the older one.  I've had this beta for a few hours now and 
it seems to be very stable.  I'm not sure what people mean by having 
accessibility issues with it, as I use Window-eyes and NVDA and haven't 
had a single issue with the program. It's super solid and one of the 
most accessible programs I've used in a while.




On 1/25/2015 11:13 PM, Charles Krugman wrote:
I would think you could if you saved the downloaded file of the new 
version before running it so it could be installed separately similar 
to saving downloads of screen reader versions.

Chuck

-Original Message- From: Tom Kaufman
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 6:08 PM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: New Version of TapinRadio Available

Well now...I don't know if I should get the latest update from Tapin 
or not! If I were to get it (then find I have problems as others have 
reported) I wonder if I can revert back to the previous version?

Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of 
Steve Pattison

Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 6:17 PM
To: PC Audio
Subject: New Version of TapinRadio Available

Hi all,

The following message from the developer of TapinRadio was posted on
Twitter a couple of days ago:

For visually impaired users be patient as QT support is experiencing
some issues with accessibility but we're preparing new version. Please
try the beta version which might solve the accessibility issues

http://tinyurl.com/l26ypxf

End of tweets.

This link is a direct link to download TapinRadio version 1.60.2 beta2.
Actually I hadn't noticed any accessibility issues in the previous
version. I've been running this beta for a couple of days now and
although it is in beta it seems very stable and I haven't had any
problems with it.

If you want to follow the developer of TapinRadio on Twitter the
username is tapin_radio

Regards Steve.

Re: What would be the stream address for TapinRadio?

[Chris Skarstad]

simply enter the address into Tapin radio and you can listen if all goes 
well. Go to the file menu, then open URL, type the url you just pasted 
here in there and it should play.





On 1/9/2015 8:05 PM, Gerardo Corripio wrote:

 HI guys
What would be the streaming address as to be able to configure and 
listen to it via Tapin for this station? 
http://tunein.com/radio/KMBH-FM-881-s32965/

http://tunein.com/radio/KMBH-FM-881-s32965/?streamid=17574963

Re: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX

[Chris Skarstad]

I'm guessing the answer is that nobody bothered to 
enter the songs into the database, although that seems nuts to me.  You 
would sure as hell think it'd be in there if one cd is in there, but I 
suppose anything is possible.



On 12/27/2014 12:16 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

I could understand it maybe a little better if the whole boxed set was this
way!  Am wondering if something happened with the Freed server; all I know
is it's telling me no match found!
Tom Kaufman P.S.  Forgot to mention...this is with Cdex beta 1..70 beta 2 if
this is of any help!

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
Kaufman
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2014 11:42 PM
To: Pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Subject: Strange Problem With Ripping CD With CDEX

Hello list:  You may remember I came to you to ask for help with a similar
problem a few months ago (I had a problem with a boxed set on Hank Williams
(Cdex wouldn't tell me the track info) well I have something similar, only
this time, it's doing fine with the first two CDs of another boxed set that
the Bare Family folks put out a few years ago on George Jones) it did fine
with the first two CDs, but with the third CD, Freed (or whatever it's
called (will not give it any information!  The question is, why won't it and
is there a way to make it work?  Could it be that I just need to wait and
try again another time?  This boxed set is a 5-CD boxed set; each CD has
approximately thirty tracks.and I really don't want to have to do all of
this manually!  Thanks for any info you can pass along that would be
helpful!

Tom Kaufman

Re: beginners help with youtube?

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi
You can't really download from Youtube itself, it's mainly meant for 
watching videos, creating playlists and sharing them with social media.  
If you want to download the audio from it there are a few websites out 
there that'll do this. One is


http://www.youtube-mp3.org

it's a very simple site with an edit box for the link for the youtube 
video you want to download, a convert button and a few other basic 
links.  It's very fast, but the limitation is that it only converts 
videos that are less than 20 minutes long. If you want something longer 
than that, yes there are videos that are quite lengthy on youtube, the 
site you'll want to try is


http://www.ListenToYoutube.com

One important caviot about this site is that it sometimes likes to throw 
up a popup window that completely covers up the website, so to get rid 
of this, simply press control plus f4 and the popup window will close, 
but the website will stay open.  After it's converted your video, it'll 
have a link that says click here to get your download link, that's when 
the popup window might happen.  But on the resulting ppage, you'll find 
a button that says, click hhere to download.  it's a button so just keep 
that in mind.


I hope some of this helps.


On 12/23/2014 5:02 PM, Dave McElroy wrote:

i have really never taken much interest in youtube but wonder if there is
any way of reasonably accessably searching an then downloading from it?
Thanks.

Re: Future Of The PC Audio List

[Chris Skarstad]

Nick is 100% right.  Although, I'm hearing some not-so-good 
things about dreamhost of late, maybe they've improoved, this was quite 
a while back.  I've also stopped dealing with ultrahosts, though, they 
were ok for a while and then they stopped working and have been nothing 
but problematic ever since.  Either way the pc-audio list is a valuable 
resource so please keep it around if possible.



On 12/2/2014 5:55 PM, Nick Giannak wrote:

Honestly, Tom?
I actually think it has something to do with your reliance on 
Ultrahost more than anything else. I'd be more apt to have you host 
your list's email somewhere else, before resorting to Freelists. The 
domain is too good to waste as such. I can host pC-Audio on my 
DreamHost hosting plan, as i have unlimited domains and 
unlimited...well, everything. I won't charge you, and we can see how 
you like it that way. Alternatively, subscribe to Google Apps pro, 
host your domain there and use Google Groups on said domain, and have 
rock solid lists for as long as you like. But please...no freelists.

On 12/2/2014 5:27 PM, Tom wrote:

Ladies and gentlemen,

The hosting for the pc audio list and the domain name will
expire at the end of December. The list software has been
problematic for over a year. Not sending messages to some
people, not allowing some people to send messages to the
list, bouncing messages to valid e-mail addresses, a lot of
trash etc. I'm considering taking the list to free lists. I
don't mind paying for the domain name and hosting of the list
but the support just has not been very good.

I'm open to thoughts and opinions.

t...@pc-audio.org

Thank you.

Tom Dimeo

Re: Tapin Radio crashes when doing a search

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi again guys

Glad I'm not the only one with this issue.  I do believe Eset may be 
part of the issue, because when I downloaded a fresh copy of tapin radio 
from the rummersoft website, Nod 32 flagged the setup file as some kind 
of virus, which it wasn't.  I would remove Nod 32 as a test but I don't 
want to put myself at risk from viruses and other bad stuff out there.
Even after completely removing the software, I'm talking about even 
removing the program and all associated registry entries, a re-install 
of the software exhibits this same behavior.  I've not been able to get 
ahold of them.  They're on Facebook, but they've asked people not to 
send them private messages as they won't see them.  so this is a tough 
one.  I'm guessing we'll just have to keep trying.  Glad I'm not the 
only one with the problem.






On 11/9/2014 10:18 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

They _are_ in the states?  I didn't think so; maybe they've moved since the
last time I wrote to them!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Ray
Williams
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 9:01 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Tapin Radio crashes when doing a search

you may need to reinstall the program.  I have never had any problems
with tapin at all.  by the way, they are here in the states.  good
luck

On 11/9/14, Steve Pattison s...@internode.on.net wrote:

Thanks Chuck. I'm running the edition of TapinRadio for Windows 7 and
still having the problem so it doesn't appear to be related to the
operating system being used. I hope a solution is found soon!

Regards Steve.

On 9/11/2014 6:22 PM, Charles Krugman wrote:

I have had the same problem over the past few weeks. I can't get it to
play at all and can't browse stations in different genres. I am using
the version for Windows 8.1. I also tried to contact them several times
with no response and am not sure where they are based but I think its in
Europe.

Re: Tapin Radio crashes when doing a search

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi

Yep, I have those, but far prefer tappin due to the ease of the 
program.  Replay radio does all kinds of things to the sound card and 
other things and i just want something that just plane works. Up until 
recently, Tapin was absolutely perfect.  Remember, I've uninstalled and 
re-installed almost 3 times now with exactly the same result.  So it's 
either something on my system, or there's a common thread that we just 
haven't found yet.  Good suggestion though!





On 11/9/2014 4:00 PM, Peter Russillo wrote:
Hi, just my 2 cents.  I believe Tapin' Radio is in the Czech Republic; 
have you considered the program Radiosure, or Replay Radio 9 by 
Applian Technologies?  Applian is in California and US-based; there's 
a subscription charge but it's not much; try Applian's website for 
more info.  Thanks.


Peter

-Original Message- From: Charles Krugman
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 2:22 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Tapin Radio crashes when doing a search

I tried to do a WOIS search for the domain and got no where with it as I
wanted to try to find some other way of contacting them for technical
support. It is disheartening that they are so unresponsive. The sad 
part is

that I haven't found a comparable program that works as well.
Chuck

-Original Message- From: Tom Kaufman
Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2014 7:18 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: Tapin Radio crashes when doing a search

They _are_ in the states?  I didn't think so; maybe they've moved 
since the

last time I wrote to them!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Ray
Williams
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 9:01 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Tapin Radio crashes when doing a search

you may need to reinstall the program.  I have never had any problems
with tapin at all.  by the way, they are here in the states.  good
luck

On 11/9/14, Steve Pattison s...@internode.on.net wrote:

Thanks Chuck. I'm running the edition of TapinRadio for Windows 7 and
still having the problem so it doesn't appear to be related to the
operating system being used. I hope a solution is found soon!

Regards Steve.

On 9/11/2014 6:22 PM, Charles Krugman wrote:

I have had the same problem over the past few weeks. I can't get it to
play at all and can't browse stations in different genres. I am using
the version for Windows 8.1. I also tried to contact them several times
with no response and am not sure where they are based but I think 
its in

Europe.

Re: Tapin Radio crashes when doing a search

[Chris Skarstad]

That's my thinking on this too, but I'm nervous about uninstalling it 
because it does offer a pretty good layer of protection against viruses. 
and anyone going around without an antivirus program on their system is 
just asking for trouble. Anyways, i wrote to the rummersoft guys again 
so hopefully they'll respond. If anyone else has trouble I'd urge you to 
write them too, maybe we can get their attention.



On 11/9/2014 4:32 PM, randy tijerina wrote:
I may be wrong hereI'm wondering if the antivirus programme is 
thinking this may be a virus?

just wondering.
At 03:06 PM 11/9/2014, you wrote:

Hi

Yep, I have those, but far prefer tappin due to the ease of the 
program.  Replay radio does all kinds of things to the sound card and 
other things and i just want something that just plane works. Up 
until recently, Tapin was absolutely perfect. Remember, I've 
uninstalled and re-installed almost 3 times now with exactly the same 
result.  So it's either something on my system, or there's a common 
thread that we just haven't found yet.  Good suggestion though!





On 11/9/2014 4:00 PM, Peter Russillo wrote:
Hi, just my 2 cents.  I believe Tapin' Radio is in the Czech 
Republic; have you considered the program Radiosure, or Replay Radio 
9 by Applian Technologies? Applian is in California and US-based; 
there's a subscription charge but it's not much; try Applian's 
website for more info.  Thanks.


Peter

-Original Message- From: Charles Krugman
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 2:22 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Tapin Radio crashes when doing a search

I tried to do a WOIS search for the domain and got no where with it 
as I

wanted to try to find some other way of contacting them for technical
support. It is disheartening that they are so unresponsive. The sad 
part is

that I haven't found a comparable program that works as well.
Chuck

-Original Message- From: Tom Kaufman
Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2014 7:18 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: Tapin Radio crashes when doing a search

They _are_ in the states?  I didn't think so; maybe they've moved 
since the

last time I wrote to them!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Ray
Williams
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 9:01 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Tapin Radio crashes when doing a search

you may need to reinstall the program.  I have never had any problems
with tapin at all.  by the way, they are here in the states. good
luck

On 11/9/14, Steve Pattison s...@internode.on.net wrote:

Thanks Chuck. I'm running the edition of TapinRadio for Windows 7 and
still having the problem so it doesn't appear to be related to the
operating system being used. I hope a solution is found soon!

Regards Steve.

On 9/11/2014 6:22 PM, Charles Krugman wrote:
I have had the same problem over the past few weeks. I can't get 
it to

play at all and can't browse stations in different genres. I am using
the version for Windows 8.1. I also tried to contact them several 
times
with no response and am not sure where they are based but I think 
its in

Europe.

Tapin Radio crashes when doing a search

[Chris Skarstad]

Hey guys

As the subject line says, as of this past week for whatever reason, 
Tapin Radio has suddenly started to crash on me when performing a search 
by typing something into the edit box on the main screen.  For example, 
when I type a station's call letters, a dialogue suddenly appears and 
says, Tapin radio failed to load presets, would you like to download 
them from our website? there are yes, no, and cancel buttons.  when I 
press yes, a download button appears but when i press it, the program 
crashes.  When i answer no, another dialogue appears and says, couldn't 
load presets, pre-mature end of document, with an ok button.  I've tried 
completely uninstalling and re-installing the program with both the free 
and paid versions and it still exhibits this behavior. I've been using 
Tapin for ages now and have never seen this.  I wrote to the support 
folks for Tapin Radio and haven't received  any kind of response, so I 
figured i'd ask here.  The only major change I made lately is that I 
installed a newer version of Nod 32 antivirus on my machine, so I wonder 
if the 2 aren't fighting with each other?So if anyone knows if 
there's a fix for this, I'd appreciate it.  I miss using Tapin to listen 
to internet radio!


Thanks!

Chris

Re: Youtube to mp3 Converter for Longer Videos?

[Chris Skarstad]

I've extracted videos of up to 11 hours in length before from listen to 
youtube, so yes, that site works wonders!

On 8/14/2014 10:48 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

Nancy:  Are you using the pro version of TR or the standard version?
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Nancy
Shackelford
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 2:49 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Youtube to mp3 Converter for Longer Videos?

I just use my good old Total Recorder. I have never had trouble recording
with it, and it cuts out just about all other audio from your computer when
you are recording.

Nance

Nancy Shackelford
Walk On Faith  Trust In Love - Michael Reed
- Original Message -
From: Clive Lever clive.le...@btinternet.com
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 5:44 PM
Subject: RE: Youtube to mp3 Converter for Longer Videos?


Hello,

I'm coming late to this thread, for which, apologies. However, just in case
nobody has given this answer:

Try www.listentoyoutube.com. I don't know if it puts length limits on videos

to convert, but I have successfully extracted mp3s of at least 45 minutes
before.

Best,
Clive


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Evan
Reese
Sent: 06 August 2014 01:49
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Youtube to mp3 Converter for Longer Videos?

Anybody know of a way to convert videos longer than 20 minutes? the youtube
to mp3 converter site:
www.youtube-mp3.com
only supports conversions of videos up to 20 minutes. I'd like to convert a
55 minute video to audio so I can download it.
Thanks much.
Evan

Re: Audio players for listening to internet streams

[Chris Skarstad]

Foobar 2000 is always good, I haven't played with it very much but a lot 
of blind folks seem to really like it a whole lot.

http://www.foobar2000.org is where to get a copy. It's free.





On 7/20/2014 4:11 PM, Brian Hartgen wrote:

Hello

I have not been part of this mailing list for many years but have just
resubscribed.

Can anyone please help? Are there any other accessible Windows-based media
players available please other than Winamp, principally for listening to
internet radio on a computer? In a search, I came across Mapler, which
seemed to be extremely accessible, at
http://www.mar-dy.com/MaPlEr/MaPlEr.php
However it seems this may no longer be in development, I am not sure.

What please would people recommend? Thank you very much.

Brian Hartgen

Re: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks?

[Chris Skarstad]

When i ripped my last couple of cds about a month ago I didn't even 
require the player program you guys are talking about. i just put the cd 
in the drive, launched CDEX and just like magic, there they were, the 
song titles properly in the right places.  Then I just hit f9 and off it 
went, ripping to 320 k mp3.  Nice and fast.



On 6/24/2014 2:29 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

So where do you get this player program from?  I know it _did_ work not
too terribly long ago, so I don't know what could be different!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Alexandra
Grünauer
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 1:47 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title
Tracks?

...get a programme there that's called Player, download it, install it.
This very blindfriendly program will let you grab the information from
Gracenote, then you could either rip to wav or ogg or export the information
in the player.ini from which cdex is able to read it so you can also rip
into whatever formats cdex supports, i.e. mp3.

Alexandra


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
Kaufman
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 12:19 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex

Title

Tracks?

So what you're saying is, go to the Gracenote site and...and then what?
Afraid it's just not sinking in!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of
Alexandra Grünauer
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 6:07 PM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex

Title

Tracks?

CDEx doesn't use Gracenote by default, you have to install a different
program called player which you can find on the gracenote site and this

will

allow you to export information from Gracenote to CDEx and, yes, this

still

works fine. GraceNote is far better than FreeCDDB, but both still exist

and

Gracenote complements the former.

Take care
Alexandra


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of
Chris Skarstad
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 11:42 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex

Title

Tracks?

I ripped a cd just a few weeks ago using CDEX so yes, it is quite

definitely

possible to have it grab the track titles from gracenote.
speaking of which the proper spelling of that for future reference is
g r

a c e

n o t e.
I'm guessing the cd collection being ripped wasn't available, some
older titles and some audio books aren't referenced in there.  so
amazon or google may be your best bet for track titles, and you can
always use something like mp3 tag to tag your files if that's important

to

you.




On 6/23/2014 5:34 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

Hello list:  I decided to rerip a CD collection; my goal was to have
it put the titles in for me, using Cdex.  I have that Remote CDDB
(or whatever that is) checked; still.it's giving me audio track 1
and so forth!  I know that there has been an issue with Grassinite
(sorry about wrong spelling) has this affected Cdex?  Is it no
longer possible to have Cdex put the titles of tracks in?  If so,
then I'll have to go back to using Windows Media.something I'm not
real thrilled about as the current version isn't as cut and dried
as Windows Media
11 was!  Thanks for any info you can provide in advance!

Tom Kaufman

Re: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks?

[Chris Skarstad]

If it doesn't grab them automaticly, go to your cddb sub menu and arrow 
down to freedb batch query and press enter.  I bet you that'll do the trick.



On 6/24/2014 11:54 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

Yup; that's what my CDEX used to do too!  But that isn't what I found
yesterday afternoon (it said audio track 1 01 (and so it went like that) I
wouldn't think that the information on this particular CD boxed set would be
hard to get info for!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Chris
Skarstad
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 10:51 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title
Tracks?

When i ripped my last couple of cds about a month ago I didn't even
require the player program you guys are talking about. i just put the cd
in the drive, launched CDEX and just like magic, there they were, the
song titles properly in the right places.  Then I just hit f9 and off it
went, ripping to 320 k mp3.  Nice and fast.


On 6/24/2014 2:29 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

So where do you get this player program from?  I know it _did_ work not
too terribly long ago, so I don't know what could be different!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of

Alexandra

Grünauer
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 1:47 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex

Title

Tracks?

...get a programme there that's called Player, download it, install it.
This very blindfriendly program will let you grab the information from
Gracenote, then you could either rip to wav or ogg or export the

information

in the player.ini from which cdex is able to read it so you can also rip
into whatever formats cdex supports, i.e. mp3.

Alexandra


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
Kaufman
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 12:19 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex

Title

Tracks?

So what you're saying is, go to the Gracenote site and...and then what?
Afraid it's just not sinking in!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of
Alexandra Grünauer
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 6:07 PM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex

Title

Tracks?

CDEx doesn't use Gracenote by default, you have to install a different
program called player which you can find on the gracenote site and this

will

allow you to export information from Gracenote to CDEx and, yes, this

still

works fine. GraceNote is far better than FreeCDDB, but both still exist

and

Gracenote complements the former.

Take care
Alexandra


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of
Chris Skarstad
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 11:42 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex

Title

Tracks?

I ripped a cd just a few weeks ago using CDEX so yes, it is quite

definitely

possible to have it grab the track titles from gracenote.
speaking of which the proper spelling of that for future reference is
g r

a c e

n o t e.
I'm guessing the cd collection being ripped wasn't available, some
older titles and some audio books aren't referenced in there.  so
amazon or google may be your best bet for track titles, and you can
always use something like mp3 tag to tag your files if that's important

to

you.



On 6/23/2014 5:34 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

Hello list:  I decided to rerip a CD collection; my goal was to have
it put the titles in for me, using Cdex.  I have that Remote CDDB
(or whatever that is) checked; still.it's giving me audio track 1
and so forth!  I know that there has been an issue with Grassinite
(sorry about wrong spelling) has this affected Cdex?  Is it no
longer possible to have Cdex put the titles of tracks in?  If so,
then I'll have to go back to using Windows Media.something I'm not
real thrilled about as the current version isn't as cut and dried
as Windows Media
11 was!  Thanks for any info you can provide in advance!

Tom Kaufman

Re: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks?

[Chris Skarstad]

I dunno if this helps but the version  of CDEX I'm running is 1.70 beta 1.
So if you're running a different version you might try installing the 
one I am and see if that doesn't work.  If you're already running it, go 
into your settings with f4, and in the remote cddb tab, set your server 
to Freedb.Freedb.org, and make sure the connect to remote cddb check box 
is checked.
If all that is correct and you still don't get results, maybe try 
another cd that you know should have a listing, make it something super 
popular, like oh, gosh i dunno a beatles cd if ya have one. Or something 
like Dark Side of The Moon by Pink Floyd.  I'm talking a cd that 
absolutely should be listed, this way we can tell if it's the cd itself 
not being listed, or if it's a problem with the connection, or CDEX itself.



On 6/24/2014 1:14 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

I'm either down to that...or just trying to see what I can do with Windows
Media; so far, no luck there as I cannot find something that says srip CD
(I have a set of instructions that tell me that control-3 will put me where
I need to be for ripping CDs with Windows Media.  However I have been
through all the tabs and there's absolutely nothing indicating to me that I
can rip a CD with this program either!  Totally frustrated!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of
Blackwell, Clifford
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 1:11 PM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title
Tracks?

Maybe delete and reinstall?

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
Kaufman
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 11:47 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title
Tracks?

Well I'm either not understanding something, or it's just plain not working;
it _still_ gives me audio track 1...and on and on and on; not what I want!
I don't understand why it used to work just fine, but now it's not!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Chris
Skarstad
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 12:03 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title
Tracks?

If it doesn't grab them automaticly, go to your cddb sub menu and arrow down
to freedb batch query and press enter.  I bet you that'll do the trick.


On 6/24/2014 11:54 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

Yup; that's what my CDEX used to do too!  But that isn't what I found
yesterday afternoon (it said audio track 1 01 (and so it went like that) I
wouldn't think that the information on this particular CD boxed set would

be

hard to get info for!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Chris
Skarstad
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 10:51 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex

Title

Tracks?

When i ripped my last couple of cds about a month ago I didn't even
require the player program you guys are talking about. i just put the cd
in the drive, launched CDEX and just like magic, there they were, the
song titles properly in the right places.  Then I just hit f9 and off it
went, ripping to 320 k mp3.  Nice and fast.


On 6/24/2014 2:29 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

So where do you get this player program from?  I know it _did_ work not
too terribly long ago, so I don't know what could be different!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of

Alexandra

Grünauer
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 1:47 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex

Title

Tracks?

...get a programme there that's called Player, download it, install it.
This very blindfriendly program will let you grab the information from
Gracenote, then you could either rip to wav or ogg or export the

information

in the player.ini from which cdex is able to read it so you can also rip
into whatever formats cdex supports, i.e. mp3.

Alexandra


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
Kaufman
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 12:19 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex

Title

Tracks?

So what you're saying is, go to the Gracenote site and...and then what?
Afraid it's just not sinking in!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of
Alexandra Grünauer
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 6:07 PM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex

Title

Tracks?

CDEx doesn't use Gracenote by default, you have to install a different
program called player which you can find on the gracenote site

Re: Tried Another CD; Same Results

[Chris Skarstad]

It sounds like you're not able to contact the free db server for some 
reason.  in the cddb menu of CDEX, there's another option that says read 
from music brains, which is an alternative database that should have 
similar info.  I do believe this is 99 percent of the problem though, 
for some reason the connection just can't be made to the freedb servers 
which has your cd's track titles.

i hope this helps somewhat?




On 6/24/2014 3:16 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

Okay folks, I have tried another CD (it's a CD that Paul Franklyn and Vince
Gill came out with last year) this Freed thing came up, but found no
match!  So what now?

Tom Kaufman

Re: Ripping With CDEX: Is It No Longer Possible To Have Cdex Title Tracks?

[Chris Skarstad]

I ripped a cd just a few weeks ago using CDEX so yes, it is quite 
definitely possible to have it grab the track titles from gracenote.  
speaking of which the proper spelling of that for future reference is g 
r a c e n o t e.
I'm guessing the cd collection being ripped wasn't available, some older 
titles and some audio books aren't referenced in there.  so amazon or 
google may be your best bet for track titles, and you can always use 
something like mp3 tag to tag your files if that's important to you.





On 6/23/2014 5:34 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

Hello list:  I decided to rerip a CD collection; my goal was to have it put
the titles in for me, using Cdex.  I have that Remote CDDB (or whatever
that is) checked; still.it's giving me audio track 1 and so forth!  I know
that there has been an issue with Grassinite (sorry about wrong spelling)
has this affected Cdex?  Is it no longer possible to have Cdex put the
titles of tracks in?  If so, then I'll have to go back to using Windows
Media.something I'm not real thrilled about as the current version isn't as
cut and dried as Windows Media 11 was!  Thanks for any info you can
provide in advance!

Tom Kaufman

Re: Concerning Rar files

[Chris Skarstad]

If you have 7zip, which is free, it'll open .rar files.


On 5/20/2014 10:16 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

Is WinRAR no longer free?  I looked on that site, but everything I saw
seemed to indicate that it's paid!  All I saw were trial...leading me to
believe that WinRAR is no longer a free program!
Tom Kaufman

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From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of JM Casey
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 7:25 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Concerning Rar files

a Rar is probably a compressed archive. It's an alternative to the .zip
algorithm. Get the Winrar programme mentioned in the post above to
uncompress/extract .rar files.


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From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net
To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 2:04 AM
Subject: Re: Concerning Rar files


Hi! I tried opening a RAR file in Winamp but I didn't get any sound, why is
this so?

On 20 May 2014, at 3:58 pm, Joseph Lee joseph.lee22...@gmail.com wrote:


Hi,
Rar - try 7-zip or WinRAR.
Cheers,
Joseph


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From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of John
Chilelli
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 10:55 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Concerning Rar files

Hi all,

How does one open and install one on your Windows PC?

Do I need a third party program?

Thanks,

John




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Re: Voice Dream Reader App Discounted Until Sunday

[Chris Skarstad]

Here's the direct link to the Voice Dream Reader app on the iTunes app 
store. note there is no extra discount code to enter, just go to the  
link and you'll need to run iTunes to get this to work.


When iTunes comes up, you can buy it for $4.99. here's the link.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader-text-to/id496177674


On 5/8/2014 2:18 PM, Mac Norins wrote:
Same question to you, as to Adrian; where's the buy link?  I get all 
the way to the I Tunes app store but don't have the experience, to get 
the discounted buy link or any other link to buy, for that matter!


Thanks,

-Mac-

-Original Message- From: Brian Olesen
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 9:03 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Voice Dream Reader App Discounted Until Sunday

hi,
If you do a search in app store and discard the Voice Dream Reader lite,
then the next itemn is the right Voice Dream Reader, where the price 
is the

low and nice one.

Brian

-Oprindelig meddelelse- From: Adrian Spratt
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 5:57 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: RE: Voice Dream Reader App Discounted Until Sunday

This link takes you to the purchase page on which there is a link to 
buy at

the discounted price:
http://www.applevis.com/apps/deals/ios-apps-dropped-price/voice-dream-reader 



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From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane
Trethowan
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 12:07 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Voice Dream Reader App Discounted Until Sunday

Tip: download the Light version and it will allow you to upgrade once you
run it.

On 8 May 2014, at 2:03 pm, Fazil urdu...@telus.net wrote:


I am trying to purchase this app but I can't find the paid version.
Your help is much appreciated.
Thanks!


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane
Trethowan
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 5:45 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Voice Dream Reader App Discounted Until Sunday

Why not, a huge opportunity is presenting it self and I'm not just 
making a
statement, The Voice Dream Reader App is truly flexible and powerful 
in what

it does.


On 8 May 2014, at 10:43 am, Hamit Campos hamitcam...@gmail.com wrote:


Cool. I should check this out then.

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of
Mary Otten
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 8:40 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Voice Dream Reader App Discounted Until Sunday

Amen! Huge selection of voices at reasonable prices. You can read all
manner of Daisy files and mp3 audio books. Best 10 bucks I spent on an
app, and now its only $5!

Mary

On Thu, 8 May 2014 10:32:52 +1000, Dane Trethowan wrote:


Hi!

The Voice Dream Reader has been discussed on list before so - if you
have

an iPhone or other IOS device - now is your big opportunity to own one
of the best Apps - in my view - ever developed for Visually Impaired
people on the IOS platform.


Until Sunday the App sells for 50% off on the iTunes Store.



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Re: Foobar?

[Chris Skarstad]

To my knowledge, Foobar is, and has always been free.  Some folks swear 
by it, while others like me prefer Winamp.  I've always wanted someone 
to do an audio demonstration and walkthrough of Foobar so I could get a 
better grasp of what it does. It looks like it could do some pretty 
powerful stuff.



On 3/5/2014 11:17 PM, Evan Reese wrote:

Sorry if this has been covered before, and this program does sound familiar, 
but I didn't have an interest in it at the time. Is anyone here using Foobar 
with Window Eyes 8.4? If so, how accessible is it? And while I'm writing, I may 
as well ask if it costs and how much, or is it free?
Thanks much for any advice.
Evan

Re: with the moderator's permission may i ask help?

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi.

No need, really.

you can visit

http://www.keepvid.com, plug in the url and download it as an mp4 
file, which will play in Winamp.
 note the legality of said site is unknown so if this gets me in 
trouble, I'm sorry.




At 03:37 PM 6/13/2009, you wrote:
friends, I was using the Free Youtube to mp3 converter to convert a 
goodie I found.

it's the old people's court theme music.
it didn't come out the way i wanted it at all.
can someone record this and send it off-list to me?
Here's the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iTqoDH0vFU
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Re: Maheem is annoying us again

[Chris Skarstad]

I knew something was up.  Nice catch, Rick.

At 01:47 PM 5/17/2009, you wrote:

This message originates from maheem.w...@bell.net so it's of course our
slimey little friend Maheem at work again folks.

Tom is there any way you can get rid of this pest once and for all?

Rick

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Re: my initial impressions of the turtle Beach Audio Advantage SRM

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi.
No, the card itself does not have any USB ports on it, you have to 
use the provided USB cable with it.  As for a PCI card? I'm really 
not sure but I'm thinking either Turtle Beach or Creative will have a 
card that will do that for you.
In another e-mail, you asked about it driving the internal sound 
card, and I don't think it will.  If you want your software speech to 
come out of your internal card in your computer, what I did was I 
bought an extra set of speakers and plugged them into the laptop, and 
I set Window-eyes so that it comes out of the sigmatel card.   All 
other sounds are routed to my Audio Advantage.
So right now, my laptop's internal Sigmatel card handles software 
speech, and everything else goes through the audio advantage. I hope 
that makes sense?

Thanks.




At 10:04 AM 5/16/2009, you wrote:

Thanks Chris.

So, this card does not plug directly into the USB port on your lap top
right?

I was hopeing to find a solution that would not involve having another USB
cable hanging from my Dell.

Any thoughts on a good PCI sound card for an XPS1210?

Cheers!
- Original Message -
From: Chris Skarstad toonhe...@verizon.net
To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 11:51 PM
Subject: my initial impressions of the turtle Beach Audio Advantage SRM


A while ago, I had asked about buying an external sound card, and I
eventually chose the Turtle Beach Audio Advantage SRM.
This card is tiny, weighing in only  a few ounces, and it kind of
looks like a cigarette lighter at first glance.
It has 4 audio jacks 2 on each end of the card, the ones I've paid
the most attention to are the microphone, and the headphone jack,
which are on the same end.

This card also sports 2 stereo mics, a green LED light that blinks
when audio is present, and stays solid when none is playing.  So if
you have some usable sight this might take a bit of getting used to.

I have a set of speakers hooked up to the card which handles my music
and windows sounds, and I have Window-eyes 7.01 routed to my laptop's
internal Sigmatel card.  So I now have 2 sets of speakers instead of
one.This allows me to have more control over the volume of each one.
I have 2 volume controls to use now, but if I want to hear the speech
over the music more, it's easier for me, because I can keep the music
at the same level now.

As far as instalation goes, I had another friend of mine helping me,
and we learned a somewhat valuable lesson that I'm sure most people
probably know either through just being technically savvy, or having
the same experience we had.  If you're going to install this card, be
sure to hook the card *directly* into your laptop or desktop's USB
ports, do not use a USB hub. If you do, the driver's won't install
properly, because the card can't draw enough power.  The card is
recognized, but not to the same point as it would be via a regular
straight USB connection.  So make sure you have a free USB port handy.
To install it, we first inserted the cd that came with the
card.  If you're using window-eyes, you'll have to use your mouse
pointer, numpad plus pressed twice, and then you use your numpad 2
and 8 keys to arrow down to where it says setup.  At that point,
press your left mouse button and the software will install.  Then,
when prompted, please insert the cable into the card, and the other
end into the USB port.

You may lose speech after pressing yes at this point, but this can be
fixed.  It's a good bet that the card is now active, so what you'll
need to do is plug a pare of headphones or speakers into the
headphone jack. If you hear speech, you're good to go.  The headphone
jack is located on the top right handside of the card, you'll feel a
circular sort of socket or plug with ridges, and just to the right of
that, that's your headphone jack.  The jack to the left of that one
is your microphone jack.  When you plug a headset mic or any other
mic into that jack, the stereo mics on the card itself are muted, so
for the least confusing results, I would say you might want to have
something plugged into that jack all the time.

Initially, the software tried to install the necessary driver for the
card to function properly, but I had to reboot a couple of times to
get the process to work properly. Hey, I'm new to this and it was a
learning experience.  So the driver installed and all, at this point,
seems to be working well.  As for the SRM control pannel  program, it
is definitely not very speech friendly, not without a lot of mousing
around. and even then, some of the screens look mighty
confusing.  So  the best way to customize things is to probably stick
to using the regular Windows volume control.  That will allow ou to
set things how you want them.  Overall, I'm very pleased with the
card!  The install was a bit touch and go because, as I said we
weren't sure why things weren't working but after I remembered that I
had been using a hub, and I plugged the card directly into my laptop
USB

Re: my initial impressions of the turtle Beach Audio Advantage SRM

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi. I don't see why not, as long as you can get JAWS to behave 
itself.  JAWS 10 will let you determine what card it works on, 
whereas older versions required you to edit a .ini file to make that 
work, and it wasn't always easy to do.

But I think y ou can do that.




At 04:23 PM 5/16/2009, you wrote:
an this sound car be used for d.j.ing  purposes, meaning can you 
have JAWS go to the turtle beach soundcard and play music on your 
default soundcard?



Sincerely,
Jason known as Blind Fury
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skype contact kb3icc
- Original Message - From: Chris Skarstad toonhe...@verizon.net
To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 1:51 AM
Subject: my initial impressions of the turtle Beach Audio Advantage SRM


A while ago, I had asked about buying an external sound card, and I 
eventually chose the Turtle Beach Audio Advantage SRM.
This card is tiny, weighing in only  a few ounces, and it kind of 
looks like a cigarette lighter at first glance.
It has 4 audio jacks 2 on each end of the card, the ones I've paid 
the most attention to are the microphone, and the headphone jack, 
which are on the same end.


This card also sports 2 stereo mics, a green LED light that blinks 
when audio is present, and stays solid when none is playing.  So if 
you have some usable sight this might take a bit of getting used to.


I have a set of speakers hooked up to the card which handles my 
music and windows sounds, and I have Window-eyes 7.01 routed to my 
laptop's internal Sigmatel card.  So I now have 2 sets of speakers 
instead of one.This allows me to have more control over the 
volume of each one.
I have 2 volume controls to use now, but if I want to hear the 
speech over the music more, it's easier for me, because I can keep 
the music at the same level now.


As far as instalation goes, I had another friend of mine helping 
me, and we learned a somewhat valuable lesson that I'm sure most 
people probably know either through just being technically savvy, 
or having the same experience we had.  If you're going to install 
this card, be sure to hook the card *directly* into your laptop or 
desktop's USB ports, do not use a USB hub. If you do, the driver's 
won't install properly, because the card can't draw enough 
power.  The card is recognized, but not to the same point as it 
would be via a regular straight USB connection.  So make sure you 
have a free USB port handy.
   To install it, we first inserted the cd that came with the 
card.  If you're using window-eyes, you'll have to use your mouse 
pointer, numpad plus pressed twice, and then you use your numpad 2 
and 8 keys to arrow down to where it says setup.  At that point, 
press your left mouse button and the software will install.  Then, 
when prompted, please insert the cable into the card, and the 
other end into the USB port.


You may lose speech after pressing yes at this point, but this can 
be fixed.  It's a good bet that the card is now active, so what 
you'll need to do is plug a pare of headphones or speakers into the 
headphone jack. If you hear speech, you're good to go.  The 
headphone jack is located on the top right handside of the card, 
you'll feel a circular sort of socket or plug with ridges, and just 
to the right of that, that's your headphone jack.  The jack to the 
left of that one is your microphone jack.  When you plug a headset 
mic or any other mic into that jack, the stereo mics on the card 
itself are muted, so for the least confusing results, I would say 
you might want to have something plugged into that jack all the time.


Initially, the software tried to install the necessary driver for 
the card to function properly, but I had to reboot a couple of 
times to get the process to work properly. Hey, I'm new to this and 
it was a learning experience.  So the driver installed and all, at 
this point, seems to be working well.  As for the SRM control 
pannel  program, it is definitely not very speech friendly, not 
without a lot of mousing around. and even then, some of the screens 
look mighty confusing.  So  the best way to customize things is to 
probably stick to using the regular Windows volume control.  That 
will allow ou to set things how you want them.  Overall, I'm very 
pleased with the card!  The install was a bit touch and go because, 
as I said we weren't sure why things weren't working but after I 
remembered that I had been using a hub, and I plugged the card 
directly into my laptop USB port, that's when things vastly 
improoved.  Hope this helps anyone looking to buy a card like this. 
Hopefully it'll help you avoid any pitfalls along the way and 
you'll have your new card up and running in ono time!








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my initial impressions of the turtle Beach Audio Advantage SRM

[Chris Skarstad]

		A while ago, I had asked about buying an external sound card, and I 
eventually chose the Turtle Beach Audio Advantage SRM.
This card is tiny, weighing in only  a few ounces, and it kind of 
looks like a cigarette lighter at first glance.
It has 4 audio jacks 2 on each end of the card, the ones I've paid 
the most attention to are the microphone, and the headphone jack, 
which are on the same end.


This card also sports 2 stereo mics, a green LED light that blinks 
when audio is present, and stays solid when none is playing.  So if 
you have some usable sight this might take a bit of getting used to.


I have a set of speakers hooked up to the card which handles my music 
and windows sounds, and I have Window-eyes 7.01 routed to my laptop's 
internal Sigmatel card.  So I now have 2 sets of speakers instead of 
one.This allows me to have more control over the volume of each one.
I have 2 volume controls to use now, but if I want to hear the speech 
over the music more, it's easier for me, because I can keep the music 
at the same level now.


As far as instalation goes, I had another friend of mine helping me, 
and we learned a somewhat valuable lesson that I'm sure most people 
probably know either through just being technically savvy, or having 
the same experience we had.  If you're going to install this card, be 
sure to hook the card *directly* into your laptop or desktop's USB 
ports, do not use a USB hub. If you do, the driver's won't install 
properly, because the card can't draw enough power.  The card is 
recognized, but not to the same point as it would be via a regular 
straight USB connection.  So make sure you have a free USB port handy.
   To install it, we first inserted the cd that came with the 
card.  If you're using window-eyes, you'll have to use your mouse 
pointer, numpad plus pressed twice, and then you use your numpad 2 
and 8 keys to arrow down to where it says setup.  At that point, 
press your left mouse button and the software will install.  Then, 
when prompted, please insert the cable into the card, and the other 
end into the USB port.


You may lose speech after pressing yes at this point, but this can be 
fixed.  It's a good bet that the card is now active, so what you'll 
need to do is plug a pare of headphones or speakers into the 
headphone jack. If you hear speech, you're good to go.  The headphone 
jack is located on the top right handside of the card, you'll feel a 
circular sort of socket or plug with ridges, and just to the right of 
that, that's your headphone jack.  The jack to the left of that one 
is your microphone jack.  When you plug a headset mic or any other 
mic into that jack, the stereo mics on the card itself are muted, so 
for the least confusing results, I would say you might want to have 
something plugged into that jack all the time.


Initially, the software tried to install the necessary driver for the 
card to function properly, but I had to reboot a couple of times to 
get the process to work properly. Hey, I'm new to this and it was a 
learning experience.  So the driver installed and all, at this point, 
seems to be working well.  As for the SRM control pannel  program, it 
is definitely not very speech friendly, not without a lot of mousing 
around. and even then, some of the screens look mighty 
confusing.  So  the best way to customize things is to probably stick 
to using the regular Windows volume control.  That will allow ou to 
set things how you want them.  Overall, I'm very pleased with the 
card!  The install was a bit touch and go because, as I said we 
weren't sure why things weren't working but after I remembered that I 
had been using a hub, and I plugged the card directly into my laptop 
USB port, that's when things vastly improoved.  Hope this helps 
anyone looking to buy a card like this. Hopefully it'll help you 
avoid any pitfalls along the way and you'll have your new card up and 
running in ono time!








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Re: new sound card for my laptop

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi.  Wow this sounds like it's exactly the one I'm looking for!  My 
only question is, is the software that comes with it necessary?  I'm 
not going to be doing a whole bunch with surround sound, just maybe 
occasionally recording from an external source like a casette deck or 
cd player or something, so I don't need anything that's going to 
require me to hook up tons of speakers.  Space is limited here.   It 
does sound quite nice though!



At 05:33 AM 5/10/2009, you wrote:

Hi there!  Finally getting around to answering this post, because I wasn't
sure what I'd say.  I have a cute little Turtle Beach Audio Advantage SRM
that I just started using with my Asus netbook.  Works great with Studio
Recorder, much to my delight.  I havenot messed with the sound card's
control pannel because I suspect it's an inaccessible mess (lol) but I may
go in there and check it out.  The card runs about $70 u.s. and you can get
it at

http://turtlebeach.com/

I love it because I can use What you Hear and mix sounds from various
sources.

Peace, Kathy



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Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 7:15 PM
Subject: RE: new sound card for my laptop


|I am using an SB live 24 bit external. it works okay, seems simple enough
to
| use. I can't recommend where to find one of these inexpensive cards as I
| purchased mine about eight months ago from circuit city. now you can not
| find circuit city. it is a good card though.
|
| /David
|
| -Original Message-
| From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org]
| On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad
| Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 1:12 PM
| To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
| Subject: new sound card for my laptop
|
| Hi folks
| This should be pretty simple but I want to make sure I'm doing the
| right thing. I have an Asus laptop and it currently has one of the
| usual Sigmatel cards, ok for listening to stuff, but not for
| recording from external sources.  I'm using XP service pack 3, by the way.
|
| Since I have a laptop and space is farely limited, I'm looking for a
| sound card, hopefully something from
|   either Creative or Turtle Beach that'll let me use something along
| the lines of the what u hear option to record from an external
| source, or if I want to record sspeech along with my voice if I'm
| recording a demo of a peace of software or a game.  I'd like for it
| to be USB, if possible.
|
| There are so many cards out there, and I just want to pick the one
| that is easiest to install and get running and doesn't require a lot
| of guess work.  I'm in a place where there aren't a lot of people who
| have working eyes so I'm trying to keep this farely simple.
|  I don't mind installing software from a CD, but if there are going
| to be any hoops I'm going to need to jump through to get it
| installed, I'd appreciate any tips. Hope someone can help a bit?
| Thanks.
|
| Chris
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Turtle Beach Audio Advantage SRM

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi folks

I've taken the plunge and will be getting a Turtle Beach Audio 
Advantage SRM for my laptop, after Kathy's suggestion.
Can anyone give me any tips for the instalation, it sounds like it's 
pretty standard but if there are any pitfalls or sticking points, I 
want to know so I can be prepared ahead of time.  It definitely 
sounds like the card I'm looking for, though.


Thanks!
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Re: new sound card for my laptop

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi.  I have tried both  actually.  Total Recorder didn't work very 
well for me, and  and I'm a huge pfan of Replay A/v, but I find that 
when I record using either of those programs my computer slows to a 
crawl and it's impossible to get anything done. I'm only working on a 
gig of ram here and this laptop is about 2 years old so it's not the 
newest thing around.  Good idea though.



At 06:18 PM 5/8/2009, you wrote:
Hi Chris have you tried software that emulate the what you hear 
affect? Total Recorder and Replay A/V are examples. They're both 
shareware but are certainly fully accessible and probaby worth the 
few bucks they cost. They emulate the affect by installing or using 
a virtual sound card that digitally captures the output, so you 
don't get any loss of quality in the recording.


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Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 9:12 PM
Subject: new sound card for my laptop



Hi folks
This should be pretty simple but I want to make sure I'm doing the 
right thing. I have an Asus laptop and it currently has one of the 
usual Sigmatel cards, ok for listening to stuff, but not for 
recording from external sources.  I'm using XP service pack 3, by the way.


Since I have a laptop and space is farely limited, I'm looking for 
a sound card, hopefully something from
  either Creative or Turtle Beach that'll let me use something 
along the lines of the what u hear option to record from an 
external source, or if I want to record sspeech along with my 
voice if I'm recording a demo of a peace of software or a 
game.  I'd like for it to be USB, if possible.


There are so many cards out there, and I just want to pick the one 
that is easiest to install and get running and doesn't require a 
lot of guess work.  I'm in a place where there aren't a lot of 
people who have working eyes so I'm trying to keep this farely simple.
 I don't mind installing software from a CD, but if there are 
going to be any hoops I'm going to need to jump through to get it 
installed, I'd appreciate any tips. Hope someone can help a bit?

Thanks.

Chris


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new sound card for my laptop

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi folks
This should be pretty simple but I want to make sure I'm doing the 
right thing. I have an Asus laptop and it currently has one of the 
usual Sigmatel cards, ok for listening to stuff, but not for 
recording from external sources.  I'm using XP service pack 3, by the way.


Since I have a laptop and space is farely limited, I'm looking for a 
sound card, hopefully something from
  either Creative or Turtle Beach that'll let me use something along 
the lines of the what u hear option to record from an external 
source, or if I want to record sspeech along with my voice if I'm 
recording a demo of a peace of software or a game.  I'd like for it 
to be USB, if possible.


There are so many cards out there, and I just want to pick the one 
that is easiest to install and get running and doesn't require a lot 
of guess work.  I'm in a place where there aren't a lot of people who 
have working eyes so I'm trying to keep this farely simple.
 I don't mind installing software from a CD, but if there are going 
to be any hoops I'm going to need to jump through to get it 
installed, I'd appreciate any tips. Hope someone can help a bit?

Thanks.

Chris


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external sound card for my laptop

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi guys
Like the subject says, I've got this Asus laptop, and I'm looking at 
getting an external sound card, preferably USB that will allow me to, 
among other things, use the what u hear, or stereo mix option so I 
can record external devices like a tape deck or something similar, or 
in other cases, allow me to record software speech so that I can 
review a program and send it to somewhere like blind cool tech 
or  put it on my own podcast feed.  I realize one of the Creative 
Audigy, or possibly a turtle beach card will let me do this, so I'm 
aware that it can be done.  The thing is, I'd like to be able to do 
the instalation of the software independently, I understand that when 
you hook up sound cards and other audio devices, windows takes that 
to mean that you want that new device to be the default card, and I'd 
like to be able to get it installed without sighted assistance...I've 
never done this before so it's something new to me. I've also heard 
that some of the instalation programs for these cards aren't the 
easiest to use with a screenreader.  So if anyone has any thoughts or 
recommendations of a card that's easy to install and does everything 
I like, that would be awesome!


Thanks.

Chris


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Re: Suggestions on a player please:

[Chris Skarstad]

Actually you can do this while the stream is playing.

 do the following.

1.  press control plus tab until you get to the playlist editor.

2.  Now you should see 1 item in the playlist, that's your stream.
3.  Press control plus s and you'll be prompted for a file name.
you can call this file whatever you like, making sure that the file 
has a .m3u extention.
Now save the file anywhere on your hard drive, or put it in a folder, 
or save it as an icon on your desktop, either way works.  So whenever 
you want to listen to this station, find the appropriate file, press 
enter on it and Winamp will come up.


As an aside, the bookmarks are actually saved in a text file called 
Winamp.bm.  so if you ever need to update the addresses of the 
stations you listen to, do a search for Winamp.bm, open it in a text 
editor and simply change the url


hth.









At 10:30 AM 5/1/2009, you wrote:

Hi Chris and listers.

I found an easy solution with winamp.

Make the streams bookmarks and then rename the bookmark file 
extention to m3u or pls.


It works.

Didn't used to but it does now.

Don



On 5/1/2009 6:25 AM, Chris Hallsworth wrote:

Well, I guess Winamp does this for you when adding the stream. If you
wish to save it for later, you can do it through the playlist editor.
Press CTRL+S and save it like you would any other file. You can then
open the playlist in Winamp and the stream should play.

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- Original Message - From: Don Breda dbr...@nyc.rr.com
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Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 10:22 AM
Subject: Suggestions on a player please:



I am wondering if there is a player out there that has the feature of
adding the currently playing stream to a playlist probably a menu
choice or particular keystroke.

I want to be able to find radio streams and while listening to a
stream hit a keystroke and have it automatically added to a playlist.

GS player for windows had this feature but I can't find that program
anymore.

Is there another player out there that has this feature?

Thanks in advance.

Don


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Re: Skype 4.0 with screen readers

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi.  Another thing you can do, if this hasn't been mentioned already, 
is when you first install Skype 4.0, the menu bar will be there, but 
your screenreader will not be able to read it easily.  But we'll 
change this by first hitting alt plus t for tools, and o for 
options.  In the general settings, change the radio button that says 
skype, to classic windows.  In other words, you'll see a radio button 
that says, skype radio button checked, 1 of 2.  change that so it 
says classic windows radio button checked, 2 of 2.  Also, both 
screenreaders, those being JAWS and Window-eyes have scripts that 
come highly recommended for making the contact list a lot more easy to use.


Hope this helps.


At 07:56 PM 3/26/2009, you wrote:
The problem comes when you want to accept a file transfer or see how 
much time a file has left. Also I have a few other gripes about it, 
I recommend sticking with 3.8, as skype 4.0 only bungles 3.8 and 
doesn't add much more.



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Subject: Re: Skype 4.0 with screen readers



Hello.  I have limited experience using Skype, but have experimented
with this increasingly over the last few months.

I use Skype 4.0 with JFW 10 and have found that with the third party
scripts it is simple to modify settings, to search for and add
contacts, etc.  I have also found that this is quite doable when I
choose to use refreshable Braille exclusively as my method of reading
the screen.

-Kane

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Re: The saga continues . . . Re: What you hear option not available on asus netbook

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi.  There's a podcast about the Asus Netbook on the BCT website but 
the dude is most definitely nont from te UK I can tell ya that much!

The direct link to the mp3 is
http://media.libsyn.com/media/bct/bct1313AsusNetbook.mp3
 or do a search for Asus netbook and you should be able to find it.

Thanks.


At 06:24 PM 3/8/2009, you wrote:

Maybe blind cool tech?

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Subject: Re: The saga continues . . . Re: What you hear option not available
on asus netbook


Hi Kathy and all,

ther is a pod cast somewhere of a fine fellow I think from the UK
where he reviews the Axux 900x.  The pod cast is amazing in that he
had several things going including JAWS, something called Tank
Commander and I think Goldwave while he was recording everything
through his onboard mics.  Does anyone know where that pod cast is?

John

At 03:20 PM 3/8/2009, you wrote:
Okay, gang. So I've installed Total recorder on my Asus computer, and from
what I can tell, there appears to be no What you hear option, and I'm
guessing it's because of the sound card the Asus uses.  I've also installed
a demo version of VAC which is utterly and totally beyond my understanding!
Lol!  So, can anyone in Geekland please help me see if I can set up VAC to
be able to record, either through Total recorder or Studio Recorder, both
mike and sound card output at the same time?  Seems so simple, but I guess
it just isn't.  Many thanks in advance.

Peace,
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Re: Need Help with RAR Files

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi.

Yup, this is exactly the case.  When you have a file with the .rar 
extention, it's exactly like, or extremely close to a .zip file, 
which means it looks like it's only one file but when you open it, it 
actually may contain several other smaller files.  On Sendspace for 
example, people have been known to use both .rar and .zip files to 
send large files to keep them smaller.  It's much easier to send one 
much larger file than having to send several smaller ones.  The .rar 
or .zip files you see aren't meant to be converted, at least not when 
you first see them.  After you extract them, or unzip them in the 
case of winzip, or XP's native unzipping support, you can do whatever 
you like with the files contained in the archive.  But you can't 
actually convert a .rar file into something else.



At 04:46 PM 2/2/2009, you wrote:

I think .RAR is akind of hyperzip, or a superset of the .ZIP format.  Have
had good luck with the program Winwrar  or Winrar  having seen it with and
without the extra W.

There's a liberal evaluation period and it's about $39.00.  They actually
got back to me on a complaint made during the EVal period.
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finding recording software, was Re: I need some help please!

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi.  I've changed 
the subject line to better reflect the question.  You absolutely 
can't go wrong with Replay A/V from Applian.


the software is very speech friendly and the company is very aware of 
the fact that a lot of the users of the software are blind.  It costs 
a bit but is very well worth your investment.


http://www.replayav.com
is where to grab it.  You can try it out as a demo that'll record 
something for about 5 minutes.  If you like it, you can buy it online 
and you'll be able to record your show and save it in mp3 or whatever 
format you choose.  Awesome program!



At 09:06 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote:

Howdy,

I need to know what a good and accessible program would be to record 
radio streams.  I'm needing to buy this within the next couple of 
days, as I am needing to record a radio stream on Friday.  I use 
JAWS 9 and have a PC computer.  I have one that uses Windows XP and 
one that uses Vista.  So, what do you recommend that is easy to use?

Thanks,
Jim

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RE: New Winamp And Last Url Visited In Winamp

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi Peter.  If you're running JAWS version 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, or 4.51, 
and I'm guessing you are?  Support for Winamp is already built 
in.  Just start using winamp and enjoy it.  to get specific help, 
press insert plus h for the window you're in, or insert plus w for a 
set of keystrokes for any winamp window you might be in.



At 08:40 AM 1/19/2009, you wrote:

Are there Jaws scripts that are best suited for this version of Winamp?  If
so, where can one find them?
Peter

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On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 7:14 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: New Winamp And Last Url Visited In Winamp

You can find it on other sites, but I still get it from winamp.com. If you
follow the Download Winamp link near the top of the page, you'll go to the
site http://www.winamp.com/player. There's a little dialog to fill out
beneath the heading Choose your Winamp. The dialog prompts you for things
like language, which version of Winamp you want (I always select full.) and
whether you want to be notified of Winamp announcements.

Pam Drake wrote:
 Ok, this is going to be a two-parter.

 Where's the best place to download the latest Winamp?  I went to
 Winamp.com, but could not tell whether the program was loading with
 either Window-Eyes or JAWS.  I haven't upgraded in a while on my
 desktop computer.

 Second, there used to be a way to display the url for the last stream
 played in Winamp but I can't make it appear.  I want to add a url to
 my list of shows to be recorded with Replay/AV, but can't locate the url.

 Thanks in advance for all help.

 Pam



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Re: Editing Audio Tracks

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Hi. Just so you know John,  album is spelled a l b u m.
It's not one of those words that sounds obvious when it's heard 
spoken quickly.   But yeah, Winamp allows you to change the tag info 
with alt 3, I'm not sure if Windows media has an equivilant but I'm 
almost certain it does.



At 09:56 AM 12/10/2008, you wrote:

Hello Marvin,
If you know the name of the tracks, you can rename them yourself.
All you have to do is, have your curser pointing to the file.
Then hit your applications key, scroll up to properties.
Tab over to artist name or something like that, and just type in the 
name of the artist and hit inter on it.
If you scroll up, you will find the field where the alvem title 
goes, just type it in if you know it and hit inter.

This is what you will really see altogether.
At the top, alvem title, artist title,jonra if I'm spelling this one right.
Year and so on.
Tab over to the ok button and hit space bar or inter on it, and 
you're all sat!
I hope this helps you with the first part of your question, I only 
wish I had an answer for the other part of your question.

I am sorry that I don't.
My best regards!
 John.
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Subject: Editing Audio Tracks



Hi.
1. now, in windows media player, if i have a mp3 file, which was ripped from
an earlier version of windows media player say like version 8 or 9.
and now got version 11.
how can i update the information, to tell me the artist, album, and the
track, and not just say unknown artist.
is there a tool to update this information.
using jaws 10, and windows media player 10.
just editing and ripping from a cd, and it does tell me the information, but
the other mp3 files i dumped, does not tell me this information
can any one help.
also, is there a tool, to fix corrupted audio mp3 files, once they have been
converted.
got a few tracks, either muffled, a bit warped from the cd, and burned the
mp3 files, and do not have the original cds any more.
can any one help?
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Re: Why winamp?

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi.


In adition to what other people have said here, the hotkeys that are 
built into Winamp  are pretty cool. They may seem a bit strange but 
when you look at it from using the keyboard it actually makes sense, 
especially if you're familiar with using those old tape recorders 
back in the day.  while in Winamp, the letter x plays a track.  c 
pauses and unpauses it, b goes to the next song, and the letter z 
moves you back a song if you're in a playlist.
obviously the b and z keys won'twork if you have a single song 
loaded, but remember, the hotkeys i listed above are in Winamp, no 
matter what you're using as far as a screenreader goes.  I've never 
used Hal so I can't begin to speak on its accessibility but others 
might be able to.  I can however, say that the Window-eyes scripts 
that Jeff Bishop wrote are absolutely supurb and I highly recommend 
them.  For years I always hoped Window-eyes could have better access 
to Winamp and it finally does!





At 01:32 AM 11/10/2008, you wrote:

Hi friends!
Actually i have been using foobar2000 for 4 years now.
However from the beginning it was a really neat and great player.
Though many functions i had in my first version of foobar2000 has been
removed.
For example, you now have to create your own hotkeys for play stop etc.
Now to my question.
Most people seems to use winamp and seems to be very satisfied with it.
But it seems to take up a lot of space though.
Now in the latest version of hal you can use winamp much more flexible than
before.
The screenreader has got new map files and scripts.
So i am thinking to start using winamp again after 4 years.
There is a streamripper plugin also for winamp.
But why should i use winamp?
More than what i've stated above.
Can the library feature be used?
Such as the shoutcast radio functionality i had in older versions of winamp.
Thanks in advance.
/Anders.



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Re: New Winamp and Jaws scripts

[Chris Skarstad]

Hi

I think you might've gotten your hotkeys a little confused there.  To 
set a time marker, you press the letter m, all on its own.

This goes for both JAWS and Window-eyes as well.

Try that.




 At 07:49 AM 11/8/2008, you wrote:

Hello all,
Using the newest version of Winamp and Jaws 10.
Are there any newer scripts available for the newest version of 
Winamp and Jaws 10?

Or, do the older scripts work just fine?
Having a problem setting a time marker with what used to be the Ctrl/M key.
What might they be now?
Thanks in advance.
Morey Worthington


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Mic goes mute when using the line recording plugin for Winamp

[Chris Skarstad]

Hey folks

This question isn't for me, I'm helping a guy get his Winamp set up 
for broadcasting, and he has a really weird thing going on.  He's 
able to use his mic in all kinds of situations like sending voice 
clips over Windows Live Messenger, he can record using recording 
programs, basically the mic he has works just fine.  However when he 
uses Winamp, and the line recording plugin to broadcast, his mic goes 
mute and he can't be heard at all.
He's using  a realtech card, it says high definition audio, so  I'm 
willing to bet that's onboard sound.   Is it possible that his mic 
could be muted, but only when the line recording plugin is being used?
  I'm familiar with the windows XP and 9x series of the volume 
controls, like you can have things muted in playback but not in 
recording.  Is there a setting he needs to look at or change so he 
can get this to work. Like I say, his mic works beautifully in all 
kinds of other situations accept with the line recording 
plugin.  When he uses it, the Winamp title bar says line recording 
just as it should but no audio. It's frustrating as you can 
imagine.  Any ideas would be really helpful!


Thanks folks.

Chris



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