Re: Sirius Online Player now has AutocaptchaandweBlindpeoplearelockedout.

2006-06-14 Thread Gary Wood
Well maybe what's better and/or more accessible might be a preference, or in the eye or ear of the beholder. - Original Message - From: "Bob Seed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:04 PM Subject: Re: Sirius Online Player now has Autoc

Re: VIrtual cable.

2006-06-14 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hello! If you buy virtual cable then its yes. I guess it was free. I dont have 20 or 30 dollars. Dont really have much money to live with. And i dont want to use either paypal or credit card. /Anders. - Original Message - From: "Brent Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion l

Re: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha andweBlindpeoplearelocked out.

2006-06-14 Thread Brent Harding
Hmmm. I wonder why it costs so much to transmit it? I know studio equipment and transmitters aren't cheap, but unless they break down a lot there would be no ongoing expense besides utilities and talent for each channel that has a DJ on. It seems that $1000 per hour would be quite high. - O

Re: Sirius Online Player now has AutocaptchaandweBlindpeoplearelocked out.

2006-06-14 Thread Bob Seed
I haven't really gotten a dfinitive answer as to what service is the best overall. Some people swear that XM is the besrt and there others that say sirious is the way to go. What I do know is that sirious has more commercial free channals. When it comes to receivers I have noticed that XM probab

Re: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha andweBlindpeoplearelocked out.

2006-06-14 Thread Gary Wood
It sounds like that could be the thing to come! - Original Message - From: "Bob Seed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:36 PM Subject: Re: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha andweBlindpeoplearelocked out. > highly unlikely. One

Re: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha and weBlindpeoplearelocked out.

2006-06-14 Thread Bob Seed
highly unlikely. One of the American networks such as ABC will probably scoop it up, as they want in as well. With the introduction of satellite radio everybody is running scared. Terrestrial radio is loosing audience because people are getting tired of commercials and the same old same old. I

Re: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha and we Blindpeoplearelocked out.

2006-06-14 Thread Bob Seed
What I do know about XM is once you sign up for the service you have automatic internet access to the service. I am sure that Sirious will iron out the problem. It was probably an oversight on their part. If sirious operates in the same way as XM they will not give you access to the internet se

Re: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha and we Blindpeoplearelocked out.

2006-06-14 Thread Brent Harding
My guess is, since it is for logging in, that it is to stop ReplayAV. - Original Message - From: "Chris Skarstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 7:43 PM Subject: RE: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha and we Blindpeoplearelocked

Re: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha and weBlindpeoplearelocked out.

2006-06-14 Thread Mac Norins
Chris, A little later tonight, I will try entering the visual captcha, with sighted help, then go into a station, then leave the site and try to go back in! One question: Does hitting the space bar, to "remember me", in such a field, after the code is entered, "bookmark" my password, normally?

Re: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha and we Blindpeoplearelocked out.

2006-06-14 Thread Chris Skarstad
Hi Mac Ok, if what you say is correct then it does sound like this could be considerably hard for us without some kind of audio help. If Sirius is going to be all fired up about people accessing their service, then they at least need to provide some other way of logging in, either through some

Re: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha and we Blindpeoplearelocked out.

2006-06-14 Thread Chuck Adkins
Guys whey does one have to be better than the other, whatever people like. Grow up please!! - Original Message - From: "Barry Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC audio discussion list. '" Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 7:16 PM Subject: RE: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptch

Re: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha and we Blindpeoplearelocked out.

2006-06-14 Thread Mac Norins
Chris, >From what I was able to show the lady, whom I spoke with, today, it appears to be a situation where you have to enter every time, but, I couldn't absolutely vouch for that, because I did not go through with entering the code, going into the site, then backing out (with bookmarking it, I

RE: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha and we Blind peoplearelocked out.

2006-06-14 Thread Chris Skarstad
Ok, let's cut through the bs about which company is better at what and let me ask a question which, i hhopewill get an answer so that it will be more clear. what I can't figure out is this. is this a question of having to enter a captcha *every* time you listen, or is this for setting up an a

Re: A Winmx question

2006-06-14 Thread Debbie Scales
You can find it on the programs page at www.jfwlite.com Debbie - Original Message - From: "eduffy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Dan Kerstetter'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'PC audio discussion list.'" Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:40 PM Subject: Re: A Winmx question How do I get winmx? Tha

Re: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha and we Blindpeoplearelocked out.

2006-06-14 Thread Gary Wood
If XM's stock continues to trop, it doesn't sound good for them. Maybe they'll be eventually bought out by Sirius! - Original Message - From: "Barry Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC audio discussion list. '" Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 7:16 PM Subject: RE: Sirius Online Player

Re: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha and we Blind peoplearelocked out.

2006-06-14 Thread Mac Norins
Well, at least we know your politics, regarding the two competing satellite services! - Original Message - From: "John Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list." Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 3:58 PM Subject: Re: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha and we Blind peo

RE: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha and we Blind peoplearelocked out.

2006-06-14 Thread Barry Campbell
I wont get into an argument about content and whether they are bad or not but how an you explain that XM stock has dropped $10 in the past month but Sirius's stock has remained pretty steady, in fact it dropped below $4 a share for a bit but it was up to $4.13. -Original Message- From: [

Re: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha and we Blind people arelocked out.

2006-06-14 Thread John Moore
What can you expect from that company? Those are bad people at Sirius. People just need to learn that XM is better than that stupid network that plays songs over and over and features Howard Stern. Down with Sirius! On 6/14/06, Mac Norins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, Barry, > > I can substant

Re: Fast wav converter to mp3?

2006-06-14 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi if you have kurzweil or openbook, use those. kurzweil makes mp3 files in like 20 minutes, fair sized books, and it doesn't eat up much processor. other than that, you're pretty much stuck with the hour long for books. it's frustrating, but it could be worse. you could be, like I did, running a p

RE: Sirius Satellite radio & catch online

2006-06-14 Thread Tim Grady
You can't log in. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brent Harding Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:48 PM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: Sirius Satellite radio & catch online That's exactly why they probably did it, they probabl

Re: How do I reset my laptop sound card default properties?

2006-06-14 Thread Don Ball
you may be able to do it through volume control but I had to do it through control pannel and select sounds and audio. I set both default input and output to the default soundcard and things worked fine. If you ever get the sound back the way you want it use qmix to save a set of default volume opt

Re: Sirius Satellite radio & captcha online

2006-06-14 Thread Brent Harding
I liked what I found from the Sirius free trial awhile back. To me, they seem far better online in audio quality, no need to really reach for the volume knob all the time like XM, which I subscribe to. Their sort of standards channel is Sunny on 24, but I think that is one of the channels Clear

Re: Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha and we Blind people arelocked out.

2006-06-14 Thread Mac Norins
Yes, Barry, I can substantiate that this problem does, in fact, exist! I urge all blinks to contact Sirius to get this rectified; I spoke to a cooperative young lady, who "flagged" our conversation, to give Sirius' Tech Support a "heads up"! Be very courteous with Sirius personnel and they tr

Re: Sirius Satellite radio & catch online

2006-06-14 Thread Brent Harding
That's exactly why they probably did it, they probably don't want Replay recording it. You mean that you can't even log in, or is this only on the signup? - Original Message - From: "Tim Grady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC audio discussion list. '" Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:32 A

Re: Re[2]: VIrtual cable.

2006-06-14 Thread Brent Harding
Yeah, what they suggest is using cable 1 for playback, cable 2 for recording, and an instance of repeater to map them to the real sound devices that do it. Unless one found a way to record both cables simultaneously, one would use a third instance to mix the 2 cables together. Yeah, Skype isn't

Re: A Winmx question

2006-06-14 Thread eduffy
How do I get winmx? Thanks, Eric ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what o

Sirius Online Player now has Autocaptcha and we Blind people are locked out.

2006-06-14 Thread Barry Campbell
Hello everyone: If you listen to sirius Satellite radio online you will not be able to utilize it as of this morning if you are blind. They have instituted a autocaptcha similar to google mail before we gained access. I have contacted their customer service and a nice gentleman wrote up my com

Re: A Winmx question

2006-06-14 Thread Debbie Scales
Hi Dan, after you enter on browse, you should be able to alt tab between the transfers window and the browse window for that user. Although I found that I had to arrow down a few lines and left click in the listview of songs for that user then I could arrow up and down the list of songs. Debbie

How do I reset my laptop sound card default properties?

2006-06-14 Thread Dujari, Prateek
Hello. While setting up the software called "Tunebite' (legal, so pl let us stay focused on my problem) , to remove DRM content from a book I own on my authorized PC, it messed up some thing in my laptop so that now the sound quality through my laptop or any other speakers is markedly deteriorat

Re: Sirius Satellite radio & captcha online

2006-06-14 Thread Gary Wood
I think that maybe XM is supposed to be more user friendly than Sirius, but maybe others have a different opinion on that! - Original Message - From: "Bob Seed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 2:40 PM Subject: Re: Sirius Satellite radio

Re: Sirius Satellite radio & captcha online

2006-06-14 Thread Gary Wood
Well thank goodness for that! - Original Message - From: "Tim Grady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC audio discussion list. '" Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 1:59 PM Subject: RE: Sirius Satellite radio & captcha online > Well, they aren't doing that yet. > > > -Original Message- >

Re: Sirius Satellite radio & captcha online

2006-06-14 Thread Bob Seed
Who has the better service sirious or XM? I am interested in smooth jazz, adult standards, 60's rock etc. I am not really interested in sports. Thinking of getting one or the other, but not exactly sure what service I will end up getting. - Original Message - From: "Tim Grady" <[EMAIL PR

Re: A Winmx question

2006-06-14 Thread Dan Kerstetter
The problem is that, as far as I know, there's no way to separate the transfers window from the browse window. They sort of overlap each other unless I'm doing something wrong. I find the feature extremely hard to use. Dan Kerstetter - Original Message - From: "Barry Chapman" <[EMAIL

RE: Sirius Satellite radio & captcha online

2006-06-14 Thread Tim Grady
Well, they aren't doing that yet. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Wood Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:59 AM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: Sirius Satellite radio & captcha online Well if this is true with Sirius, then

Re: Fast wav converter to mp3?

2006-06-14 Thread kevin cussick
Hi yes I agree but it's the truth but text to audio is good I use it all the time it seems to be some voices more than others that sound just a bit loud. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe

Re: Fast wav converter to mp3?

2006-06-14 Thread shannon
Thanks Chris, Steven, and Kevin, for the help. Chris as far as sound quality goes this is a computer voice so there isn't alot too loose. Smile When I make Text aloud split a book, I tell it to only make five k files. That way the tracks to my book are only about five min long to listen to if I wer

Re: Sirius Satellite radio & captcha online

2006-06-14 Thread Chris Skarstad
that's not just windows messenger, that's actually for hotmail accounts, msn, and a lot of other things. It's exactly the same fight we went through with Google before, which I won't mention on this particular list since it strays off the topic. The best way to change this is to write to Siri

Re: Sirius Satellite radio & captcha online

2006-06-14 Thread Gary Wood
Well if this is true with Sirius, then this is a total bummer for blind people! Unless they're going to use a scheme like Windows Messenger has where you can download a voice file to listen to, and you type those letters or numbers. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: S

Re: CD or DVD writer information please

2006-06-14 Thread Gary Wood
I don't know what kind is in my Dell computer, but my DVD writer goes up to 48X! - Original Message - From: "Patrick Perdue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 2:34 AM Subject: Re: CD or DVD writer information please > Ted: > > Toshiba m

Re: Fast wav converter to mp3?

2006-06-14 Thread Chris Skarstad
hi. Well that's not exactly a ringing endorsement for either of those programs eh? I would say Replay converter could be a good bet, but I'm not sure what you mean by fast. You do have to factor in the size of the files and how fast your computer runs. and remember, when you convert one file f

Re: Fast wav converter to mp3?

2006-06-14 Thread kevin cussick
Hi Shannon, You can get Yeosoft to mp3 speaker it does not make a wov atall but I have found when making a long book it just bottles out it looks as if it has made a complete book but when you are listening to the book then suddenly at the most exiting bit it stops. Or you can use text to audi

Re: Fast wav converter to mp3?

2006-06-14 Thread Steven Hicks
Easy CDA Extractor and file converter from WWW.POIKOSOFT.COM may be worth a try. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14 June 2006 >>> Hello list, I usually use text aloud to make my audio books. I was just wondering if there was another program that would make the MP3 files faster? Text aloud makes the wavve f

Fast wav converter to mp3?

2006-06-14 Thread shannon
Hello list, I usually use text aloud to make my audio books. I was just wondering if there was another program that would make the MP3 files faster? Text aloud makes the wavve files REALLY quick but the MP3 conversion takes aprox 15 seconds per file. That doesn't seam that long except for ther

Re: skype

2006-06-14 Thread Richard Claypool
Hi, use your jaws cursor to locate the contact you want, hit right arrow, and choose share contact detales or something like that. It's more draconian than I remember it being of yor. Rick - Original Message - From: "Brandon Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. "

Skype Version 2.5.0.113 is now Available

2006-06-14 Thread Steve Pattison
Skype version 2.5.0.113 is now available and one place where you can download it from is at www.skype.com. Here are the changes in this version: feature: Possibility to stop the Import Contact search anytime feature: Flag emoticons feature: SMS API feature: API: PROFILE IPCOUNTRY property featu

Re: CD or DVD writer information please

2006-06-14 Thread Nick G
Same with LiteOn, which frankly I like better, always did. A bit better in burning gapless audio CD's. - Original Message - From: "Patrick Perdue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 2:34 AM Subject: Re: CD or DVD writer information please

skype

2006-06-14 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi all, this isn't really an audio question, but I go to add a contact in skype and i type in the user name i see and it doesn't add them. it does the search thing and comes up with nothing. is there some special way i should be doing this? thanks Brandon Hicks Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: call

Re: A Winmx question

2006-06-14 Thread simon.dowling
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A Winmx question

2006-06-14 Thread Barry Chapman
Using Winmx and the Winmx scripts for JAWS, I can get to the search window with ctrl+s, the transfers window with ctrl+t and the network window with ctrl+n, but if I browse someone else's files, is there a keystroke to get to the browse window? I can't find one in the JAWS help. Thanks, Barry

RE: Sirius Satellite radio & catch online

2006-06-14 Thread Tim Grady
It's true, they have done this and I can't for the life of me figure out why. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:05 AM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Sirius Satellite radio & captcha onli

Sirius Satellite radio & captcha online

2006-06-14 Thread petrakigianos-giasou
Looks like Sirius satellite has locked out the blind pc user from using its online tuner service by instituting a captcha. Is this true? I will check it soon to see. Sirius just changed their online radio tuner to require a captcha - an entry of random letters that only a sighted person can see -

Problem Making A Playlist.

2006-06-14 Thread Anita
Hi List, Is send to still used for making playlists in Winamp? If so, where can I get it? If not, are there any alternatives? in order to select tracks on a cdr or rw to be organized like the original, will i need to make a play list? The last few times that I have made a cdr or cdrw, my tra