The following two streams are in The Windows Media format. If I open them
with Windows Media Player, they play fine. But, because (for a reason I
don't understand) they have the file extension of .m3u, if I click on a link
to them, Winamp opens and tries to play them, and usually crashes as a
It seems to be some sort of embedded audio file, actually. I had no trouble
getting it to play, just by visiting the page. The sound quality was quite
poor, but it played.
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Is there such a thing as a plug-in (or any other sort of adaptation) that
allows Windows Media Player to play Real Audio streams?
Thanks.
Blessed Be,
Dana
D. S. Leslie, née C. R. Guttman
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Can anyone direct me to a recent review of computer sound cards, from the
audiophile's point of view, rather than the computer technologist's? Thanks
you
Blessed Be,
Dana
D. S. Leslie, née C. R. Guttman
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Well, I've given up on Real Alternative. I couldn't find anyone to help me
troubleshoot why the audio output device selector didn't have any effect at
all; no matter what selection I made, it still played through my default
sound card. And, the sound quality with Real alternative was noticeably
I rip all my CDs to my hard drive. I used to save them as .wavs, because of
the losslessness. but I recently uploaded over 5gigs of .m4a files from my
brother's ipod. All together, they nearly filled up a 300gig external hard
drive. So, I thought, I had better compress my .wavs. I was quite
can anyone recommend a program, *other than Winamp*, that will play .wav
sound files, AND whose output can be assigned to a secondary sound card?
Thanks.
Blessed Be,
Dana
D. S. Leslie, née C. R. Guttman
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?
Windows media player 10 will allow you to use a secondary sound card, and
it
also plays wav files.
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: PC-Audio pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 18:07
Subject: Alternative sound file player?
can
I've never had an equalizer in the various stereo systems I've owned over
the years. So I'm not familiar with what are reasonable settings for the
various frequency bands, for various genres of music. However, in exploring
the Realplayer 10 equalizer, I see that it comes with various presets,
well, I got up my courage, uninstalled Realplayer, and installed Real
Alternative. It plays ram streams, alright. But I STILL can't get it to play
through the sound card I wish.
I went to View, Options, Output, and set the DirectShow Audio, first, to:
iMic USB audio system (0020)
and then to:
Alt-ctrl-k sets the balance to center. Alt-ctrl-h sets it to extreme left,
and alt-ctrl-semicolan sets it to extreme right. alt-ctrl-j and alt-ctrl-l
set it to middle left and middle right, respectively.
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From: Peter Logue [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'PC audio discussion
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: using Real Player with secondary sound card
Julie,
This is the same issue I have been struggling
Do I still need to update the
driver, if I do try it when using JFW 6?
I don't follow what you're asking here. Please rephrase your question.
Dana
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent
, 2005 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: Restating the Problem
HellO!
If you install the real alternative 1.43 you can chooce which soundcard
you
want the player to play on.
Under view and options.
/Anders.
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: PC audio discussion
Thanks to Gene Asner, Chris skarstad, Chris Judge, and others who have
contributed
to getting me this far. But, in the venerable traditions of my academic
training, allow me to restate the problem, as I now understand it.
I have two sound cards. I would like to direct the speech from my screen
Julie,
This is the same issue I have been struggling with for a couple of weeks
now. Here's the upshot of what I've figured out, so far:
RealPlayer can NOT be set to play through the secondary card. Whichever of
your two cards you decide to make the primary, that is the one RealPlayer
will
No less so than the paid version. They both have pretty much the same
interface, which many people find accessible enough if a bit sluggish and
clumsy, with JAWS.
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Sent: Sunday,
I want to force Windows system sounds to play through a sound card other
than my Windows system default sound card. does anyone know how to do this,
perhaps, through a modification to win.ini or some other Windows system
file?
Thanks you.
Blessed Be,
Dana
D. S. Leslie, née C. R. Guttman
How is switching from Real to Real alternative supposed to allow you to play
Real Audio streams in Winamp? Someone suggested the same thing to me when I
asked the same question as Peter, but didn't explain how switching to Real
alternative is supposed to help.
Blessed Be,
Dana
D. S. Leslie,
the weekend, and I'll try to talk
you through it.
Dana
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: Winamp Question.
Anita,
from the Winamp main window, press alt-l
,Anita, Robert,
In my experience, after one has opened the library with alt-l and tabbed
once to the library button, one must press the spacebar on the library
button before one can arrow down to the remove missing media, add media to
library, or other functions.
But, in any case, if all one
Anita,
from the Winamp main window, press alt-l. Then, tab three times. This will
place you in an edit field into which you can type the search string you
want to find. However, it will search only the subsection of the library
highlighted on the treeview that is one tab back from the edit
Can anyone tell me how the MP3 and M4A formats compare to one another, with
regard to space saving and retaining sound quality? The external hard drive
I use for all my audio files is close to full, and I have to start thinking
about converting all the .WAV files I ripped from CDs into a
Joy,
Someone may have already suggested this: but, have you checked that the
Winamp window is set to Doublesize?
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Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: unable to
When I click on mp3 files on my hard drive, they open with Winamp, as I wish
and expect. But, when I put an mp3 file on my web site, create a link to it,
and click on the link, it opens with RealPlayer. can anyone tell me which
file type association I have to change to get such files to open
. tab over and you will see whare you can choose the soundcard
you
want to use.
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: Editing an M4A File?
Yeah, I just
to use.
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: Editing an M4A File?
Yeah, I just discovered that. Well, I suppose I could save it as a .wav
file, and just
and
put in mp3. hit enter and you might get a worning about changing file
types.
just say yes. now its an mp3. see if it plays. if it doesn't then you can
allways change it back using the above steps.
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That you can do with Easy CD-DA Extractor's file format converter utility.
Blessed Be,
Dana
D. S. Leslie, née C. R. Guttman
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: Editing an M4A File?
YEH JUST PLAY THE FILE AND RECORD IT WITH GOLDWAVE THEN CUT OFF THE
BEGINNING.
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: Editing an M4A File
I have an M4A file I uploaded from my brother's ipod. There are several
seconds of dead air at the beginning of the file, before the music begins.
How can I edit out this dead air?
I tried loading the file into Goldwave. It loads; but, when I play it, I
hear only electronic noise. So, I doubt
Not that I've ever found. . . .Someone did, though, recently mention to me a
similar program that does have such a feature; was it, perhaps, Total
Recorder?
Blessed Be,
Dana
D. S. Leslie, née C. R. Guttman
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Skype: dsleslie
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Several versions of Winamp ago, I used to have a plug-in installed that
allowed Winamp to play RealAudio streams. Is there still such a plug-in
available? can anyone direct me to it? Thank you.
Blessed Be,
Dana
D. S. Leslie, née C. R. Guttman
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for that.
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: RealPlayer Output Device
I agree. But, unfortunately, there are many online streams I like to
listen
to that are only available
Clifford,
I'm asking the first of your readings. I want to send Realplayer's audio
output to my secondary sound card/device, not the card that is configured as
the Windows default audio output device. And, there are reasons (involving
my Skype headset) why I can't just configure the secondary
can anyone direct me to step-by-step instructions for reconfiguring
RealPlayer 10.5's default output device to a device other than the Windows
default output device?
I would also appreciate the same for Winamp 5.092.
Thank you.
Blessed Be,
Dana
D. S. Leslie, née C. R. Guttman
Email: [EMAIL
I recently reconfigured my soundcards and associated hardware devices. I
need to adjust my Goldwave settings accordingly. But, first, I need a
refresher on which controls apply to which functions.
On the Volume tab of the control Properties dialogue, there is a combo box
to select an audio
I recently bought a Logitech USB head-set/microphone combination advertised
as Skype-ready. I would like to leave it permanently plugged into my system,
so that, when I receive a Skype call, I just have to slip on the head-set.
The problem is that, when I plug the head-set into a USB port, my
When I use the shift-l command in Winamp, to play an entire folder of
tracks, the tracks are played in the order in which they were placed in the
folder - the order in which they exist on the hard drive, which is usually
not the same as the order in which they are sorted in the folder's file
Randy,
On my desktop computer, instead of the C-media card that came with the unit,
I use the Griffin Technologies USB IMic. It's small enough that it should
work well with a lap-top. if you ultimately decide to go the USB route, I
can highly recommend it. It gives great sound quality, and
How do I sort the tracks in RealPlayer's My Library? The tracks I initially
imported into My Library were sorted by Artist, and by track title within
each artist. But I've added a few tracks since then, and the newer tracks
have all gone to the bottom of the list.
I've looked in all the
Clifford,
I don't see any options in either of those places that will allow me to sort
tracks, once they have been added to My Library. Am I missing something, or
not understanding what a particular option is supposed to do?
Blessed Be,
Dana
D. S. Leslie, née C. R. Guttman
[EMAIL
Subject: comparing Easy CD Extractor vs. Easy CD/DVD Creator v. 6
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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As I mentioned to Donna, I've been trying out various CD ripping and
burning programs to find the one that's
library and tell it that you want to burn a cd(do
that first) and click burn cd. Oh, you need to tell it what kind of cd.
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: PC-Audio pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 12:17 PM
Subject: Burning with RealPlayer
in
as much simplicity of interface as possible and as low a price as possible,
too.
Thanks.
, o
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 7:04 AM
Subject: Re: Burning with RealPlayer
If all
to burn a
cd(do
that first) and click burn cd. Oh, you need to tell it what kind of
cd.
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: PC-Audio pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 12:17 PM
Subject: Burning with RealPlayer
For a few days now, I've been
a cd(do
that first) and click burn cd. Oh, you need to tell it what kind of cd.
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: PC-Audio pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 12:17 PM
Subject: Burning with RealPlayer
For a few days now, I've been downloading
started using the Ipod Shuffle for music. You should really take another
look at it because if you do a lot of transferring or burning it makes it a
lot easier to do.
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Sent
I just tried browsing my media files with Goldwave's Open Files dialogue. I
set it to all supported file types. But it didn't find the *.mid files in
the folder I browsed. So, I suspect you can't do what you want. Sorry!
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To:
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: Burning with RealPlayer
Tim,
I find using My Library very difficult. I prefer to highlight the tracks I
want to burn in Windows Explorer
.
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: Burning with RealPlayer
Thanks for the Tip. I haven't seen the option you speak of,under the view
menu. But I'll explore
it.
Anyone know how to select file types using Jaws?
Thanks.
han eselct
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: Burning with RealPlayer
Tim,
I did go back into My
For a few days now, I've been downloading tracks from the RealPlayer 10
Music Store, burning them to CD - which has to be done in RealPlayer
Premium - , and ripping them off as .wav files. It's been working well, and
the quality of the tracks is excellent! But I have one major problem (aside
I burned the same set of tracks to an R and an RW CD. The RW CD will play in
Winamp, but NOT in my stereo's CD deck. Is that the way it's supposed to
work, or did I do something wrong?
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From: Larry N [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: Winamp Version 5.091 Final is now Available
No harm at all. That's Winamp's home and they're offering the same
program. I've
Can anyone explain to me how to re-format an RW CD, so that it can be
re-used? I paid extra for RW CDs, because I understood that one could do
this with them. But I haven't been able to figure out how. After burning
some music tracks to a CD, when I want to re-use it, I can't find any icon
in
.
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: PC-Audio pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 5:04 PM
Subject: Reusing an RW CD?
Can anyone explain to me how to re-format an RW CD, so that it can be
re-used? I paid extra for RW CDs, because I understood
www.poikosoft.com
I love it. I do all my ripping and burning with it, by preference. It's VERY
JAWS-friendly. And the cost is only $24.95.
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Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:37 PM
Yardbird,
There are a couple of similarly named products. But the one we are
discussing is properly called Easy CD-DA Extractor, and it's made by a
one-man outfit called Poikosoft: www.poikosoft.com
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Yardbird,
Also, I'm sure, there are lots of people who, like me, began using Easy
CD-DA Extractor as a ripper before ever they upgraded to a system with a
burner, at all. And, having gotten familiar with Easy's user interface, we
never bother to investigate Nero once we upgraded our systems,
Yardbird,
If you're referring to the passage on the Poikosoft home page that I think
you are, I think it's saying that Easy CD-DA Extractor will support the AAC
file format (a Nero-specific format?) if (that is, only if) you also have
Nero installed. I've got Nero installed (It came with my
I *AM* a registered user. I've been to the page where you're asked to submit
your registered email address. I've done so, but nothing happens when I do.
I'm still on the same page, with no indication of what I'm supposed to do
now, to get 8.2.
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From: Steve Matzura
What can I use to convert an asx file to an mp3 file? The converter in Easy
CD-DA Creator doesn't seem to support converting asx files.
Thanks.
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HMMM. That's discouraging. I can certainly play this asx file in either
Realplayer or Windows Media Player. Is there no way to use either of them to
save the data as either a wav or an mp3?
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From: Chris Skarstad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: PC audio discussion list.
I have two commercially manufactured CDs I ripped several years ago. But I
deleted the ripped files to save hard drive space, last year. Now that I
have a new external hard drive, I'm re-ripping all my CDs. But, when I try
to rip these two particular Cds, the rip fails on all tracks. (I'm using
Forgot to mention: I have no problem playing the CDs, just ripping them.
Thanks, again. - D
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: PC-Audio pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 8:11 AM
Subject: CD ripping failed
I have two commercially manufactured
trying a different ripper before you consider
buying
new CD's. Try CDEX or media player perhaps.
Regards.
Kevin
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From: Dana S. Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: PC-Audio pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 1:11 PM
Subject: CD ripping
Thanks. I eventually discovered that, and, rather than convert all my files,
I re-digitized them all, in the correct format -- a lot of work, but I'm
rather an obsessive perfectionist. grin
Now, I have another couple of issues I'll ask about in my next message.
Thanks, again.
Dana
-
First, after digitizing all of my old cassettes with Goldwave (one entire
side of a cassette to a file), I used Goldwave's autocue feature to break
the file up into tracks. Then, I wanted to trim the tracks before burning
them. I had configured the autocue so that all the dead air was at the
In several of the files with which I'm working, goldwave's autocue feature
is not placing the cue points where I would like them. In part, this may be
because I simply need to adjust the autocue settings. But a number of the
files with which I am working are recordings of live concerts, or have
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On Mon, 9 May 2005, Dana S. Leslie wrote:
In several of the files with which I'm working, goldwave's autocue feature
Hello.
It has been almost three years since I last had occasion to use my shareware
version of Goldwave 4.26, and I have forgotten the keystroke shortcut to
start recording a sound, once I have created and configured a sound file.
Also, how do I set line-in as the default input source?
Thank
Thanks!
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From: Dean Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Using Goldwave with JAWS
You use ctrl-f9 to launch the recording; keystrokes are all summarized in
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