Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-16 Thread Marc Sutton
If you want to import the flac files into itunes and preserve their lossless quality, two programs that work well with voiceover are xld and flac tunes. Marc On May 16, 2013, at 8:31 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Christine, > > VLC will certainly play those files, and is a good program to have on > y

burning an mp3 cd with iTunes

2013-05-16 Thread Mary Otten
I am trying to burn a playlist that I have created in iTunes to a cd. The files are m4a, and I want to make an mp3 cd. When I try to burn the playlist, Itunes says it can't do that, I assume, because the files are not already mp3. Is there a way to convert these to the highest quality mp

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-16 Thread Esther
Hi Christine, VLC will certainly play those files, and is a good program to have on your Mac. The FLAC conversion to another format is only a suggestion if you want to be able to transfer and play the music files to an iPhone or other iOS device, or to an iPod. Another non-iTunes music player th

Google Drive Download Issue Update

2013-05-16 Thread Christine Grassman
Earlier, I wrote that I was only able to download four of eleven files from Google Drive. Seems the seven files that wouldn't download were too large to be scanned for viruses, and there was a warning that did not make itself immediately apparent. There was a "download anyway" button if one was

Re: Itunes constantly ripping files as aiff files.

2013-05-16 Thread Jessica Moss
I checked them when I transferred them to my harddrive/sansa clip, and that's when I found they'd been ripped in aiff format, which I find really strange, considering the fact that "mp3 decoder," was checked. So then I had to go back and convert them all to mp3 format, and now for some reason,

Google Drive download issue

2013-05-16 Thread Christine Grassman
Hello, all. I am trying to download some files from Google drive. I am signed in, and was able to download four of eleven files. When I click download, it seems to work, but when I search for the files, it only shows the files on Google Drive. I am having trouble getting to help; it keeps saying

Re: Itunes constantly ripping files as aiff files.

2013-05-16 Thread Esther
Hi Jessica, Did you check the format of any of your ripped tracks in iTunes before transferring them to the Sansa Clip Zip? Select one of these tracks in your iTunes library, press Command-I to "Get Info", and navigate to the "General Tab". The track should be identified with information like "Ki

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-16 Thread Christine Grassman
Thanks, Esther. I will give Easy Music a whirl, since I would like to convert, but I did download VLC, and the files are playing perfectly. On May 16, 2013, at 9:06 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Christine, > > If you just want to convert the FLAC files to mp3 format in order to > play it, a number of

RE: using keyboard

2013-05-16 Thread wayne17a
Thanks phil for the short cut keys From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Phil Halton Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 6:20 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: using keyboard Here is a list of bluetooth keyboa

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-16 Thread Esther
Hi Christine, If you just want to convert the FLAC files to mp3 format in order to play it, a number of people have used a new Mac app named Easy Music Converter: • Easy Music Converter (current price $5.99) https://itunes.apple.com/app/easy-music-converter/id572507484?mt=12 This app does fast ba

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-16 Thread Christine Grassman
There's a mac app called alltomp3. Will that work? On May 16, 2013, at 7:57 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Flac stands for free lossless audio codek. They ar compressed audio files > that can be decompressed to the exact specification of the original audio. > No quality loss. > > Apple doesn't

Re: New iTunes

2013-05-16 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Got news for you, that's been the case for a while now with severel versions. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On May 16, 2013, at 6:23 PM, Agent086b wr

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-16 Thread Christine Grassman
So if I download and install VLC, how does this impact my pre-existing iTunes library? Does this also mean I will not be able to get these tunes onto my iPhone? Christine On May 16, 2013, at 7:57 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Flac stands for free lossless audio codek. They ar compressed audio

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-16 Thread erik burggraaf
Flac stands for free lossless audio codek. They ar compressed audio files that can be decompressed to the exact specification of the original audio. No quality loss. Apple doesn't support these as far as I know which is a great loss. You can do one of two things. The Approach I recommend if

Flac files inquiry

2013-05-16 Thread Christine Grassman
Has anyone ever heard of these? I was just sent some music which has flac as an extension. Can these be imported into my music library without too much hassle? Christine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this

Itunes constantly ripping files as aiff files.

2013-05-16 Thread Jessica Moss
I've converted I don't know how many CD's into Itunes, then loaded them on to Hannah's Sansa Clip Zip, only for them to not play, thinking they were in mp3 format, sense it was set to that by default. However, when I got ready to play the file on the clip-zip, it read it as an aiff file, and r

New iTunes

2013-05-16 Thread Agent086b
Hi, anybody downloaded the latest version of iTunes? I just have and the first thing I noticed is under about in the iTunes menu I can't read that screen and determine the version number. Max. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group.

What is the keyboard shortcutt for "text field", like in search.

2013-05-16 Thread Terje Strømberg
Thanks Take care -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar

Fast navigation don't work

2013-05-16 Thread Terje Strømberg
Hi I have checked the "use left and right arrows to turn non and off fast navigation" check mark. Don't work. Nothing happens when pressing left and right arrows.The "set fast commandoes" are grayed out. The short - cut commandoes for keyboard in Voice Over setting does neither work. Like op

Re: using keyboard

2013-05-16 Thread Karen Lewellen
Forgive what may be a silly question...but I was thinking of this before I saw the post. Is there no way to connect a regular apple keyboard to any ios device? You know the way one can connect one to a laptop? Karen On Thu, 16 May 2013, Phil Halton wrote: Here is a list of bluetooth keyboar

OFF Topic, I can't sinc my iOS devices with my mac

2013-05-16 Thread Daniela Rubio
Hello: Sorry if this doesn't belong to our list topics, but I have tried to do all and I just can't sinc my iPhone or my iPad with my mac. When I click the sinc button on iTunes, either from the file and devices menu or inside the devices area, It starts, but like 5 seconds later, it just stops

Re: using keyboard

2013-05-16 Thread Phil Halton
Here is a list of bluetooth keyboard commands for IOS devices! *** General navigation Keys Action VO + left or right Select previous or next item VO + up or down Performs or move to the selected rotor option VO + Space Activate the selected item. (open app, press button) VO + H Go to home scre

Re: reinstalling windows

2013-05-16 Thread May and Noah
Meaning a clean install. I need to format the machine and wipe it clean of windows 8 so I won't have windows access to install windows. Is it still possible to use something like nvda or anything? Any help is appreciate, thanks. May and Prince Noah www.canadianlynx.ca m...@canadianlynx.ca On 2

Re: reinstalling windows

2013-05-16 Thread Chris H
You can install Windows from Windows itself using speech. When it's complete you can use Narrator to set up your user account etc. Chris E-mail and Facebook: challswor...@sky.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@christopherh40 Find my blog at challsworth2.wordpress.co

Re: a very useful app for the physically disabled

2013-05-16 Thread Esther
Hi Brandt, I read about that app, and posted a suggestion to the mac-access list for someone who was asking for suggestions on one-handed typing. I wasn't sure whether the app was accessible to blind users. Did you try the free version first? From the description, this app works for people who

reinstalling windows

2013-05-16 Thread May and Noah
Hi everyone. hopefully there's someone that can help that still have to deal with windows every now and then. I need to reinstall windows on my desktop is there anyway to do this without trying to hunt down a sighted person? Would be nice if it was like the macand had speech or something…i've

Re: [Maccessibility] Prizmo OCR App for iOS Enhances VoiceOver Support

2013-05-16 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Hi, It usually says "no page visible" within a split second of saying "page detected". Some of the scanning results have been far better than before whereas others have been equally bad.Sent from my iPhone On May 16, 2013, at 3:40 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > When you get the iPhone above w

a very useful app for the physically disabled

2013-05-16 Thread Brandt
hi there folks, I just bought One-Hand keyboard from the mac app store for R1099. This is $199 if I am not mistaken. This app allows you to type one-handed using only one half of your qwerty Keyboard. It works similarly to Fleksy, by predicting what you are typing. You can also add words to yo

which Music Tag editor

2013-05-16 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Good day. I wish to know something. Which Music Tag editor do the folks here find most accessible? I need to set up track numbers in sequence and I DO, NOT, want to use ITunes to do this. Thanks. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, T

Re: Getting Back into the Kindle Library from Within a Book?

2013-05-16 Thread Teresa Cochran
Yes, I discovered that. For some odd reason, the home button wasn't displayed the few times before that I'd tried this. Then I tried last night and there it was. Strange. Thanks. Teresa On May 15, 2013, at 11:50 PM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > Hi, > > Don't you just double tap to bring up the

Re: Organizing Notes

2013-05-16 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Tracyi, Yes there is. On the Mac at least. Go to the menu bar, View, Sort by. There are three options: Date Created, Date Edited and Title. Your selection here seems to be specific to that device. So you can choose to sort notes by date created on one Mac and date edited on another. I'm not