Hi Steve Does Sam work well with Jaws 8? Regards Gordon McFarlane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Matzura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:08 AM Subject: Re: sam party dj
> Hi, Rusty: > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:18:05 -0400, you wrote: > >> I'm wondering if anyone has experience with sam party dj >>using we 6.1? I've downloaded and installed the demo, which I >>believe functions for fifteen days. I loaded my music into its data >>base but do not know how to proceed. What is the playlist extension >>in this program? Any tips as to how to get started? > > I'm going out on a limb here and assuming two things: (1) > Window-Eyes 6.1 is not substantially different than 5.5. (2) SAM > Party DJ is not significantly different from SAM Broadcaster, other > than the obvious point of not containing the broadcasting code. If > the two above statements are true, more or less, hopefully mostly > more, then here are a few things to get started. > > 1. After all your music is loaded, assuming your MP3 tags are good, > you can start playing randomly selected music simply by pressing F1. > F2 is pause, F3 is stop. F4 is next randomly chosen song. Shift F3 > and Shift F4 are supposed to apply a fade before performing their > actions, but I haven't always seen this work right. Don't take that > to mean anything except that I probably screwed up when trying it. > > 2. The canned script that runs will play things from all your music > categories just to get you started so you can hear how SAM sounds. If > you want a specific category to play, you'll have to create your own > script to do this, or modify the default one. This is extremely easy > to do, and the script is really only one line long, you just have to > do a bit of studying to learn what the parameters to the category > function are, then you can write anything you want. > > 2. To add a song to the play queue manually, just scroll through the > list until you find the one you want, or start typing its title or > artist and the search panel will automatically open and find what > you're searching for. Note the various check boxes in the search > panel which can help you narrow or widen your search by just about > anything that appears in the MP3 tag specification. The neat thing > about this panel is that as you type, songs that match the checked > search criteria appear in a scrollable list. Enter as much search > criteria as you think you need, then tab to the scrollable list and > select what you want queued. The default action is to add to the top > or front of the queue by pressing ENTER. You can route the mouse > pointer to the scrollable list and right-click to see all the other > options, which include add to top of queue, add to bottom of queue, > delete menu, and others. When you're done with the search panel, > press ESCAPE to close it. > > 3. SAM playlists are not the same as Winamp playlists. In fact, I'm > really not sure what they're for or how they're used. I'll look into > this for you if you like on my SAM Broadcaster installation. > > 4. Without additional scripting, SAM will play forever, queueing one > song at a time to the play queue. There are ways, via the scripting > language they give you, to queue many songs, tell how long it will > take to play them, and perform other actions on songs and queues. But > this should be sufficient to get you started. > > An additional tip: Keep as few windows open as possible on the SAM > desktop. I usually only keep the playlist and history windows open so > that I can browse or use the search feature in the main category > window and see what's been played in the history window for when I > want to do a voice break and say what's been played. The nice thing > is that even if you have many windows open, like the play queue, > history, voice effects, category, etc., you can move among them with > the TAB key and the screen is redrawn to accommodate the in-focus > window so you don't get any overlap or window bleed-through. > Sometimes, though, if you open too many windows, some windows may get > resized smaller. That's because SAM tries to keep everything visible > at all times. However, if there are too many open windows, SAM has to > make some decisions about how much of a window needs to be shown > without blocking out something else. That's where you get the > truncation effect I just described. Three or four windows should not > pose this difficulty, though. > > Hope this helps. > > > > 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 email has been verified as Virus free > Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
