Re: Further Exploration Of My Tivoli Audio DAB Radio
Does this radio allow all operations from the unit, or must you perform some task on the remoat only? Sent from my iPhone On 26 Dec 2013, at 5:12 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote: Hi and I trust you've all had a pleasant Christmas Day though our friends in the States are probably still making the most of the day itself. Its Boxing Day here which means plenty of cricket to follow and plenty of time to catch up on those things that need to be caught up on including the scanning of operating instructions and owners manuals so time to look at the supplied manual for the Tivoli DAB Radio. The radio itself is called the Tivoli Pal Plus so my error, I thought it was called the Tivoli Pal Dab. The radio has a built-in digital clock with 2 alarms that can be set, the procedure for setting these alarms seems straight forward enough according to the manual so - once I get some help with the Remote Control layout - I'll have a play and see just how successful I am, can't see any real problems here. The choices in the menu are a delight I should think to any lover of a good radio as so much can be customised here, there's a loudness facility, Bass and Treble controls, EQ presets and more. The display is customisable, just how customisable I can't say given I can't seen it but there are plenty of lighting options and options to adjust the font size, an auto brightness is also part of the display adjustment settings. If listening to the radio through a headset is something you'll be doing a lot of then note the adjustments particular to this mode of listening such as balance, mono or stereo headphones listening, Bass, Treble and EQ, separate volume adjustment etc. By default the backlight remains on all the time when running the radio on battery and this is interesting, the Pal Plus is the only radio I've used where the backlight remains lit, the opposite is usually the default, I'll make a note to change this setting in order to get a longer battery life though their may well be a disadvantage in doing this as I didn't notice separate backlight settings for power and battery operations. I'm very glad to say that the sleep timer is very accessible on this radio through the "sleep" button on the remote control, pressing once enables the time and each subsequent press changes the sleep timer, I'll have to get some help to find out the exact cycle. Having access to the sleep timer in this way is such a welcome change in a modern day radio, so many radios available today use the power button to enable the sleep timer and make changes to it so a person with no way of reading the display would find this method extremely difficult and frustrating to deal with. I had a play around with the FM band, on the remote controller the user presses the "source" button until the FM band is selected - the white noise from the FM band is recognisable anywhere -. From here I was able to engage manual tuning by pressing the jog-dial once and then turning the dial, every click of the dial changed the frequency in 50KHZ steps though I would imagine this could be changed somewhere in the settings if required. I didn't try the radio under my usual test conditions but it certainly had no problems in receiving a station I regularly listen to 80 miles from here which is 400KHZ above a stronger station nearby. I'll publish more notes as I keep exploring this wonderful radio. ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 Fax +61397437954
Re: Further Exploration Of My Tivoli Audio DAB Radio
Thanks for the measurements you gqave the other day. I was hoping for more pocket size. Need a good sized pocket for this. Any recommendation on pocket size with easy to feel pre sets? -Original Message- From: Aidan Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 11:06 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Cc: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Further Exploration Of My Tivoli Audio DAB Radio Does this radio allow all operations from the unit, or must you perform some task on the remoat only? Sent from my iPhone On 26 Dec 2013, at 5:12 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote: Hi and I trust you've all had a pleasant Christmas Day though our friends in the States are probably still making the most of the day itself. Its Boxing Day here which means plenty of cricket to follow and plenty of time to catch up on those things that need to be caught up on including the scanning of operating instructions and owners manuals so time to look at the supplied manual for the Tivoli DAB Radio. The radio itself is called the Tivoli Pal Plus so my error, I thought it was called the Tivoli Pal Dab. The radio has a built-in digital clock with 2 alarms that can be set, the procedure for setting these alarms seems straight forward enough according to the manual so - once I get some help with the Remote Control layout - I'll have a play and see just how successful I am, can't see any real problems here. The choices in the menu are a delight I should think to any lover of a good radio as so much can be customised here, there's a loudness facility, Bass and Treble controls, EQ presets and more. The display is customisable, just how customisable I can't say given I can't seen it but there are plenty of lighting options and options to adjust the font size, an auto brightness is also part of the display adjustment settings. If listening to the radio through a headset is something you'll be doing a lot of then note the adjustments particular to this mode of listening such as balance, mono or stereo headphones listening, Bass, Treble and EQ, separate volume adjustment etc. By default the backlight remains on all the time when running the radio on battery and this is interesting, the Pal Plus is the only radio I've used where the backlight remains lit, the opposite is usually the default, I'll make a note to change this setting in order to get a longer battery life though their may well be a disadvantage in doing this as I didn't notice separate backlight settings for power and battery operations. I'm very glad to say that the sleep timer is very accessible on this radio through the "sleep" button on the remote control, pressing once enables the time and each subsequent press changes the sleep timer, I'll have to get some help to find out the exact cycle. Having access to the sleep timer in this way is such a welcome change in a modern day radio, so many radios available today use the power button to enable the sleep timer and make changes to it so a person with no way of reading the display would find this method extremely difficult and frustrating to deal with. I had a play around with the FM band, on the remote controller the user presses the "source" button until the FM band is selected - the white noise from the FM band is recognisable anywhere -. From here I was able to engage manual tuning by pressing the jog-dial once and then turning the dial, every click of the dial changed the frequency in 50KHZ steps though I would imagine this could be changed somewhere in the settings if required. I didn't try the radio under my usual test conditions but it certainly had no problems in receiving a station I regularly listen to 80 miles from here which is 400KHZ above a stronger station nearby. I'll publish more notes as I keep exploring this wonderful radio. ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 Fax +61397437954
RE: Is the NCH audio software accessible?
I believe it will work on Windows 7 64 bit. The program itself is very accessible. Dan -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Peter Russillo Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 6:35 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Is the NCH audio software accessible? Hi list, Merry Christmas. Would anyone here know about the accessibility of the software from NCH? Specifically, I want to look into their Express Burn CD burning software, if it works on Windows 7 64 bit machines. If anyone's had experience using this, would you please give me some pointers for getting the best use from it? Windows Media Player seems a bit tricky for setting up a playlist to burn to a CD; I use System Access for a screen reader but something's wrong with the Media Library in that it won't let me burn something to CD; Support can't help much in this case. I have tried Digital Jukebox from Marvelsoft; in that case yes, I can make the playlist and then go to the Project menu and tell the program to burn the tracks to CD; a blank CD is in the drive, but when I hit the okay button after I'm given the total playing time for the tracks to burn the CD, the speech just goes silent and a message pops up that the dj.exe has stopped working and should be closed; I haven't heard back from their tech support yet, maybe tomorrow after Christmas. Meanwhile I'm wanting to find out more about Express Burn by NCH Software to find out if it's accessible with screen readers before I plunk down money for it. Thanks in advance for any info you can give me on this; also if anyone has experience with Digital Jukebox by Marvelsoft I'm interested in learning about experiences people had using it. thanks again and Merry Christmas. Peter Russillo
Re: Is the NCH audio software accessible?
I've used Express Burn for several years, and I find it totally accessible. There is one area near the bottom that keeps track of how much space is on the disk, and how much of that space you've marked files for burning. This is only accessible via the Jaws cursor, or a simple script can be written. Best of all, the program is free for the first two weeks or 15 days, so you get to try it prior to buying it. - Original Message - From: "dan Kerstetter" To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 11:32 AM Subject: RE: Is the NCH audio software accessible? I believe it will work on Windows 7 64 bit. The program itself is very accessible. Dan -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Peter Russillo Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 6:35 PM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Is the NCH audio software accessible? Hi list, Merry Christmas. Would anyone here know about the accessibility of the software from NCH? Specifically, I want to look into their Express Burn CD burning software, if it works on Windows 7 64 bit machines. If anyone's had experience using this, would you please give me some pointers for getting the best use from it? Windows Media Player seems a bit tricky for setting up a playlist to burn to a CD; I use System Access for a screen reader but something's wrong with the Media Library in that it won't let me burn something to CD; Support can't help much in this case. I have tried Digital Jukebox from Marvelsoft; in that case yes, I can make the playlist and then go to the Project menu and tell the program to burn the tracks to CD; a blank CD is in the drive, but when I hit the okay button after I'm given the total playing time for the tracks to burn the CD, the speech just goes silent and a message pops up that the dj.exe has stopped working and should be closed; I haven't heard back from their tech support yet, maybe tomorrow after Christmas. Meanwhile I'm wanting to find out more about Express Burn by NCH Software to find out if it's accessible with screen readers before I plunk down money for it. Thanks in advance for any info you can give me on this; also if anyone has experience with Digital Jukebox by Marvelsoft I'm interested in learning about experiences people had using it. thanks again and Merry Christmas. Peter Russillo
Re: Christmas Presents
I got it, Dane, and love it, except for one relatively minor irritant. Specifically, I dislike the mechanism which mutes the audio for half a second while tuning. I can live with it but wish I could disable it. One other thing I wanted to mention is that because it runs on 4 D cells, it appears that one should use brand new D cells since cells which aren't fully charged don't power the unit nearly as well as partially used D cells in my super radio 3. Of course, the super radio 3 uses analog tuning which is also a factor. Also, if anyone is interested, C. Crane has an audio tutorial produced by Tim Hendel who does a great job of describing all features and functions of this radio. It was actually done for the CC2 but which is still applicable for the enhanced radio. If anyone wants it, I will put it up on Dropbox for download. Don Roberts On 12/25/2013 6:46 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote: Hi everyone and I sincerely hope you're all having a very good Christmas, - friends in the states wouldn't have touched their turkey yet but I reckon the time for present opening is well upon you right? - Anyhow Christmas in the land of Oz is well and truly over and for those who were cashed up for Christmas then now is the time to order those presents you deserve, I'm no exception to that rule having just ordered the CC 2/E radio from CCrane which I've written about on list and linked to various reviews. I think one of the members here talked about his Wife giving him this excellent radio for Christmas, did the member get that wonderful gift and - if so - what did or does member think? I can tell you that the quality control of these radios is absolutely first class and here's the example. I know someone who ordered one of these radio sets quite some time ago, he has one for his study and he ordered a second last week for his kitchen, the order came on Christmas Eve and - although the colours of the radio units are different - that's the only difference between the 2 radios, both are identical in performance and quality, that's a great trait for a product to have. ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 Fax +61397437954
Re: Is the NCH audio software accessible?
I realize that these program choices are very subjective; however, it is my contention that the most accessible and feature rich program for burning CDs or DVDs is burnaware free. Don Roberts On 12/25/2013 7:07 PM, Peter Russillo wrote: Hi Andrea and list. I got the Express Burn CD burner. Now when burning a CD, when picking the files/songs to put on a CD, the help area talks about dragging and dropping. What's the best way to do this just on the keyboard? Any tips and tricks for using this program would be appreciated; thank you. Peter .
Re: Is the NCH audio software accessible?
Hey I fully agree there! Brian -Oprindelig meddelelse- From: Donald L. Roberts Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 7:46 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Is the NCH audio software accessible? I realize that these program choices are very subjective; however, it is my contention that the most accessible and feature rich program for burning CDs or DVDs is burnaware free. Don Roberts On 12/25/2013 7:07 PM, Peter Russillo wrote: Hi Andrea and list. I got the Express Burn CD burner. Now when burning a CD, when picking the files/songs to put on a CD, the help area talks about dragging and dropping. What's the best way to do this just on the keyboard? Any tips and tricks for using this program would be appreciated; thank you. Peter .
Re: Is the NCH audio software accessible?
Hi Donald and Brian. This Burnaware sounds like a good one. Now, to select songs to put on the audio CD, since I find Windows Media Player tricky as far as making a playlist, is there a Browse function where I can find the songs that are on the hard drive and copy and paste? What's the best way you've found to put several tracks into the program for burning to disc? Please let me know of any tips or tricks that've worked for you; thanks very much. Peter
Re: Christmas Presents
Greetings, Nobody supplied the link for BurnAware Free, the one found when I tried Google.co.uk is: http://www.burnaware.com/features/ Colin, who by the Lord's providence remains living near Fareham in Southern England, hopes you enjoyed a very blessed Christmas and will have a peaceful, prosperous and happy New Year during 2014.
is there a better player for playing dvd's?
friends, I don't know what's happening here. media player clasic at least this version I got doesn't even recognize that there's a dvd in the drive. the oler versions I had, did. is there any suggestions as to how to make it work? or did I uncheck or check something by mistake?
