I respect your desire to download music legally. Rhapsody is partially accessible and can work for you with a little trial and error. You must know how to use your screenreader though, or you will become frustrated very quickly. I don't mean this to sound rude. I'm serious about it though because it takes some time, patience, and skill to make this or a program like Napster work properly. I use Jaws, so that is what I will describe. Scripting could make this program dance, but I don't know how to do it. If what I've said doesn't make sense, let me know and we can try going through it over Skype if you like.
First, load Rhapsody and go into the Jaws configuration manager to make a file for Rhapsody. This will make your life easier. Go to the HTML settings and go to the tab about headings and frames. Make sure it announces that you're entering and leaving frames and that it speaks headings for you. Under the misc tab, make sure it reads element attributes and also turn off flash movies. Save the config file and you're ready to have a go at this. Once Rhapsody is installed and you sign in, your PC cursor won't move around. Route your Jaws cursor to pc and begin reading the screen with your Jaws cursor. Once you see something that says browse genres or staff picks, click on that with the Jaws key for the left mouse button. This will bring the window into focus and will put it all in the virtual cursor. After that, you can read the site like a web page. If you have to tab away from the Rhapsody window to answer a message or something, you will have to repeat this step to get Jaws to read in virtual cursor mode again. Now that it's reading like a web page, you can search for songs or artists, or you can browse genres just like on a web site. Once you find a song you want to listen to, you have two choices. Above the song title, you will find two graphical buttons. One says play and the other says download. Playing is easiest for us. If you want to download songs, choose download and let a few minutes go by. You cannot see the download progress with Jaws, and the Rhapsody library is only marginally useful. The solution to playing downloaded music is to use Windows Media Player to actually listen to your downloaded tunes. By default, Rhapsody puts your downloaded music in your My Music folder in the My Documents folder on your machine. Once you've downloaded to your heart's content, exit Rhapsody and load Media Player to sort or play your tunes. Monica Visit my blog at: http://plumlipstick.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
