John, Strictly speaking, even though you have audio files on the CD, it is likely a "data" CD since it is holding many MP3 files. An audio CD has a fairly prescribed format and you can only get about 75 minutes, give or take a few, on a CD. Normally you can treat a data CD as you would treat an external file.
Are you trying to copy selected files, or do you want to copy the whole CD? If you are saying the disk was not "finalized," I'm not certain what the best approach would be. When you put the CD in, can you look at the files with Windows Explorer? If you can, try pressing the "applications" key, the one that brings up the context menu, and check to see what options there are. can you play the files on your computer? I am just trying to determine what functionality is being affected by the disk not being finalized. The next time you have a sighted person there, try to determine if the problem is that you cannot select files to be copied, or if the problem is with pasting it. Still, if you can select a file and press ENTER to play it, then selecting the file and seeing what the Applications key choices are might be helpful. I have seen situations where there was a "copy" option in the Application Key menu that worked when CONTROL-C did not work, for example, although that is very rare. As you may know from the GW Micro lists, I am also a Window-Eyes user. Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:17:33 -0400, john riehl wrote: >They are audio, mp3 cd's. I tried copying and pasting but that didn't work; >apparently the discs weren't "finished". A sighted friend can drag and drop >the files, but I don't know how to do that with Windoweyes. > > >From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Steve >Jacobson >Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 2:12 PM >To: PC Audio Discussion List >Subject: Re: copying audio cd's onto a computer > >John, >First, you need to determine if the old radio shows are stored as MP3 or >other audio file types, or if the CD is an audio CD. If >they are stored as MP3 files or files in some other format, then you should >be able to cut and paste them and knowing exactly what >you did and what happened would be helpful. If the CD contains MP3 files, >than there would be many hours of programming on a >single CD. >If each CD contains only an hour or a little more of programming, then the >CD is probably an Audio CD and you will need to "rip" >the cd to your computer. Even Windows Media Player can do that but there is >other software as well. >Best regards, >Steve Jacobson >On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 13:11:15 -0400, john riehl wrote: >>I've just purchased a number of old-time radio shows on cd. I want to copy >>them onto my computer. I tried copying and pasting the files but that did >>not work. >>I have Nero burning Rom, but I can't find an option to copy a CD onto my >>computer. I've done this with XP, but am now using Windows-7. Anybody got >>any ideas? >> >> >> >>John riehl >> >>To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature >database 8872 (20131003) __________ >The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >http://www.eset.com >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
