Hi Kane Thank you for your message. Yes I use Napster every week and don't have any real problems with it, here are a few things to try.
First, you have an edit field into which you can type the artist or track you are looking for. Next to this is a combo box containing items such as artist or track. These are both accessible. Once this combo box is manipulated in the way you wish, Pressing Enter wil usually reveal a list of tracks. You can arrow down to a track, activate the context menu and select download. Upon activating the context menu, sometimes you will see an item "view artist page" which will be the first item on the menu. You can hit enter on this item. Once this is done, I start exploring with the jaws cursor. You can usually find the title of an album somewhere, or in some instances the phrase "other members downloaded" or something similar. Put the jaws cursor on any of those elements and route PC to jaws. the virtual cursor is then available, making it possible for you to select albums by pressing enter on the hyperlink for the album. From there, you can select the download album link. I did have a problem a couple of weeks ago when I downloaded an album, and then wanted to download part of it again. However, Napster will not let you do this because its internal database thought the tracks were in my library, which they were not. I called Napster, and they told me which files to delete in order to rectify that problem. I could find my notes on this and let you have them if you wanted. They were quite helpful at Napster and they realise there store is not completely accessible, but I have found it to be the most accessible music service with the widest range of tracks. Given that I have used it for about two years or more, I have a lot of experience in using it and if I can answer anything else please do not hesitate to ask. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kane Brolin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brian Hartgen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 3:06 PM Subject: Updated Napster Scripts for JFW? > Near the end of 2003 I downloaded a short set of scripts for Napster > that were designed for Napster Client 2.0.7.2. These were offered, I > believe, on AccessiblePrograms.com, but are not any more. > > Since the iTunes Music Store is largely inaccessible to me as a blind > PC user, especially when it comes to downloading or buying full > albums, I've thought recently about Napster and have gotten a trial > subscription to start with. But I've noticed the Napster client > software is up to Ver. 3.8.1.4 now, and JAWS doesn't seem to respond > to it well without scripts. Brian, I singled you out on this message > because you've written on the Blind iPod list that you use this > service and are happy with it. > > But I find that I must use the JAWS cursor to do most of the > navigating; and selecting exactly what I want and getting to all the > background info and all available albums is tricky, with the Virtual > PC Cursor sometimes working and sometimes not. > > Anyone have tips? I haven't seen this issue discussed on the JFW list > since 2004. > > -Kane Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
