Hi,
I can just confirm that this player is really really good.

Brian
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On Behalf Of dan thompson
Sent: 2. april 2010 13:03
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Subject: Re: A couple of tips to improve your MaPlEr

Thanks Dave, I tried emaling this company on Monday because of a restration 
problem and haven't heard anything yet.  Do you happen to have the best 
email address to reach the individuals in tech?  Thanks very much in 
advance.

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From: "Steve Pattison" <s...@internode.on.net>
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Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 11:17 PM
Subject: Fwd: A couple of tips to improve your MaPlEr


> MaPlEr is an accessible media player available from 
> http://www.mar-dy.com/MaPlEr/MaPlEr.php  -Steve.
>
> From: David
>
>
>
>
>
> You will have noticed, that MaPlEr displays information like Artist, Album

> and Track title, when playing your songs. Each of these informations are 
> displayed in their respective columns. Unfortunately, the speech 
> synthesizer in the screen reader, does not always split these 
> informations, hence often you will have the full line of information read 
> as one long phrase, making it a bit hard to distinguish the one column 
> from the other.
>
> This can easily be fixed:
> Thing is that MaPlEr standard ships with the 'split character' between 
> columns set to a single dash, that usually will have little effect on most

> voices in your screen reader. Here is how to fix it:
>
> 1. go to Settings (Alt-S)
> 2. Choose Optical Settings.
> 3. Tab to 'Character between columns', and here type the period sign on 
> your keyboard followed by a Space (". ").
> 4. Press Enter.
>
> Your speech now will make a small pause between each information, making 
> it somehow more comprehendable to scroll through your playlist.
>
>
> ...
>
> MaPlEr has the ability to remember the last four played playlists. You 
> easily can access them by going to the File menu, and pressing 1 through 
> 4.
>
> On the other hand, if you want to switch between these even more quickly, 
> here is a suggestion:
> 1. Go to Settings menu (Alt-S).
> 2. choose Keyboard (K).
> 3. Choose Define Shortcuts (E).
> 4. Scroll down to File - 1.
> 5. Press a wanted hotkey, for instance, CTRL-1.
> 6. Repeat the two previous steps for File -2, File- 3, and File -4.
> 7. Press Tab, and press Enter on OK.
>
>>From now on, you can press the newly defined hotkeys (in the example 
>>Ctrl-1 through Ctrl-4), and quickly switch between the last four 
>>playlists.
>
> When is this feature useful? Well, say you are listening to an audiobook. 
> It is defined by MaPlEr as a playlist, and the software will keep track of

> where in the book you are, at any given time.
> You now get tired of the book, and want a break, in which you want to 
> listen to some music. Your second playlist now will be holding your music.

> After half an hour of music listening you want to go back to your 
> audiobook, and simply switching back to your playlist that holds the book,

> will put you where you left your reading. With the above defining of 
> hotkeys for this switch, it is done in a swift to 'pop' between your 
> playlists.
>
> Start playing around, and you will soon find your MaPlEr gets even a 
> greater tool.
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