*********** BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE *********** On 21/09/2004 at 9:15 PM Chris Skarstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all Dave Williams did a fantastic little series on Winamp 5, and he was nice enough to mention the list I run, it's called Winamp for the blind. Doubtless some of you are already on the list I know this for a
fact, but for those of you who aren't I thought I would pass on the details. Back in May of this year, the list moved from Smartgroups, over to freelists.org, so obviously, the list address has changed. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a lot of feedback from smartgroups about moving the list, and a lot of people aparently got left in the lirch. It certainly wasn't my intention to do this, and I guess the list moving didn't get publicized a lot. In any case, the list has been running strong at Freelists.org since mid may, and things are going great. We had a website up for a while, but unfortunately, it's down until we can find a new provider for it, and that process is still being worked on, have no fear, we haven't forgotten it I promise. Ok, onto the details. To subscribe, send a blank e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put the word subscribe in the subject line. note that the word subscribe should be in all lower case and without quote marks around it. You should then receive a confirmation e-mail back, so replying to that*should* subscribe you to the list. A special note to Outlook and outlook express users... Some folks have reported to the list admins that they've had trouble subscribing, and in looking at the headers of the messages, we were able to determine that they were all using Outlook or Outlook express, and they all had the option to include the original message in the reply turned off. Still others had the option to show signature in the reply, and in both cases, this caused the Freelists mail server software to get really confused, so if you're using Outlook and outlook express, it is strongly advised that you turn off the feature that includes your signature in the reply and turn on the feature that includes the original message in the reply. If you do this, the server software will not play up and things should befine. We send a frequently asked questions FAQ file to the list once every month, and if you have a freelists account you can view this any time you like. We update the FAQ when necessary, so watch for a message when the FAQ gets posted. If you're first joining the list and you don't know thing 1 about Winamp, read this FAQ file first. It answers a whole lot of the newby questions all in one place and provides many resources for you to do more research. Winamp For The Blind is a fun list, but I'm going to be honest and very up front when I tell you that it isn't designed for the very beginning windows user, or someone who isn't very technically oriented. Winamp is fantastic and it does a lot of great stuff. it's great if you just want to listen to ACB Radio and other stations, but to harnis the full power of the application, you should most definitely be an intermediate to advanced windows user. Most people on the list understand this and a good lot of the people on the list are intermediate and advanced windows users, so again, if you're just beginning, you might like to learn as much as you can about the windows operating system as you can before joining. Your experience will certainly help you to understand some of the more complex concepts that Winamp has. If you've heard the review Dave did, you know that it has a lot of check boxes, list boxes and other things, but sometimes the way they are displayed can be a bit different and may be confusing if you're just learning how windows works. So some experience in windows is recommended, but most certainly not a requirement. Hope this information is helpful to some of you, and again I thought Dave did a fantastic job in his review about the media library. In almost an hour, he covered a whole lot of the stuff that we talk about on the list in a daily basis such as how to raise and lower Winamp's volume independent of software speech, how to increase the number of streams in the media library, and other stuff. So hopefully the archives will be brought bang up to date and when we get our website back up, we'll certainly link to both parts of the review. Thanks. *********** END FORWARDED MESSAGE *********** Regards Steve, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: steve1963 MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
