Re: i did it!

2006-07-05 Thread David Tanner
If you have those or know where to find them I would like to have a copy. Thanks, D. T. - Original Message - From: "Dean Martineau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 5:42 PM Subject: Re: i did it! :I haven't been following most of the t

Re: A skype out problem

2006-07-05 Thread Bruce Toews
I've had some very good quality experiences with SkypeOut, both in terms of calls I place and in terms of the one SkypeOut call I've received, which was last week. I wonder how much of it has to do with what kind of a mike you're using. Since the fidelity of a PC-to-PC call is much higher, perh

Re: A skype out problem

2006-07-05 Thread David Tanner
Hi Don, I don't have any answers, but wanted to add that I am experiencing the same problem. The quality seems to be a little better since the release of 2.5, but it still isn't quality that I would want to write home about. It would appear that the sound quality of Skype Out needs a lot of

Re: bipos question

2006-07-05 Thread Doc
It should mention it in your manual. For exampleI've gone as low as 2250 hz 64kb without problems on my bookport. - Original Message - From: "leslie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 9:17 PM Subject: Re: bipos question i've not tried

Re: bipos question

2006-07-05 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi, The courier's manual should say something about this. I'm not exactly sure where, but somewhere. Brandon Hicks Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: callto://reyuth msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://ww

Re: voiceposts on LJ

2006-07-05 Thread Paul Oeser
Try audio blog Http://www.audioblogg.com or audio blogger Http://www.audioblogger.com. Audio blogger is still free I think; But you can only use your phone. Audio blog costs around $5 a month. I use audio blog because I have more options besides the phone. On Jul 5, 2006, at 4:03 PM, Brando

Re: bipos question

2006-07-05 Thread leslie
i've not tried d speech or speech sound. How would I find out what bit rate my currier uses? Leslie - Original Message - From: "Brandon Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 2:17 PM Subject: Re: bipos question > hi leslie, > is the

Re: nero and mixed mode

2006-07-05 Thread nick danger
Hi Roger, In the property sheet, there's an option for burning a mix mode CD. I've never done this myself but if you choose that option and the multi session radio button, I think it will work in the same manner. Good luck with it. Tony - Original Message - From: "Roger R. Cusson" <[

Re: bipos question

2006-07-05 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi leslie, is the program you're using called biblos? It might be creating MP3 files that are too low of a bitrate for your book courier. If you have gold wave or some such editing software, you might try, and this won't help the quality but it might help the courier, saving them at a higher rate,

Re: bipos question

2006-07-05 Thread leslie
I can send you the program if you use skype or msn. The books are from nls and book share. The program turns them in to text then you convert them to mp3 s but the won't play on my courier because I really don't like the couriers voice. - Original Message - From: "kevin cussick" <[EMA

Re: voiceposts on LJ

2006-07-05 Thread Richard Claypool
I truly wonder why. Rick - Original Message - From: "Hayden Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 8:01 PM Subject: Re: voiceposts on LJ > No but apparently, skype-out is just incompatible with the lj voice-post > menu system. So, th

Re: voiceposts on LJ

2006-07-05 Thread Hayden Smith
No but apparently, skype-out is just incompatible with the lj voice-post menu system. So, there you go. - Original Message - From: "Richard Claypool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 9:33 AM Subject: Re: voiceposts on LJ > Hi, > > when

Re: voiceposts on LJ

2006-07-05 Thread Richard Claypool
Hi, when you make the call goto the dial tab, you can use touctones with skype. Rick - Original Message - From: "Brandon Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 7:12 PM Subject: Re: voiceposts on LJ > hi, > I haven't been able to fig

Re: voiceposts on LJ

2006-07-05 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi, I haven't been able to figure out exactly how to make skype out dial in a call. As I understand it, one needs a PIN in LJ, or can this be turned off? l8r Brandon Hicks Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: callto://reyuth msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Au

Re: voiceposts on LJ

2006-07-05 Thread Hayden Smith
Hi, there is only one problem. Skype out, though it has this good offer apparently does not support calling to LJ for some reason. - Original Message - From: "Chris Skarstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 8:29 AM Subject: Re: voicepost

RE: voiceposts on LJ

2006-07-05 Thread Chris Skarstad
hi. a voicepost and a phonepost are 1 and the same. Just a different term for the same thing. LJ does not have upload space for you, so you'll need to find one and link to it in your post like haden does, or if you're in the US, call any of the designated phone numbers lj has. You can have phon

Re: voiceposts on LJ

2006-07-05 Thread Richard Claypool
I thought I read somewhere that lj had some limited ftp access, but I googled and found myelf to be mistaken. - Original Message - From: "Hayden Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 5:33 PM Subject: Re: voiceposts on LJ > You don

Re: voiceposts on LJ

2006-07-05 Thread Chris Skarstad
hi. Live journal also has many US phone numbers that can be called to voice post on. You can get a list of these by going to http://www.livejournal.com/phonepost/ and you could then, in theory at least, call one of those numbers on a phone if you have free unlimited long distance as i do. or unti

Re: voiceposts on LJ

2006-07-05 Thread Hayden Smith
You don't upload them to lj, you have to have your own web-server somewhere like I do, I upload my voicepost things to http://www.tbrn.net/archives/psychorabbit/psychorabbit/voicepost/ or http://onj.andrelouis.com/voicepost and then I just link to it on my live journal. - Original Message -

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-05 Thread Gary Wood
I have over 20 Bruce Springsteen songs that were burned for me. Some of them were burned using MP3, and some using WMA. One thing I noticed is that with the songs that were in the WMA format, it seemed like I heard more of a dynamic range with my surround sound than I heard from the MP3 tracks

RE: voiceposts on LJ

2006-07-05 Thread Allison Mervis
They're the same. I think there is a way to upload audio directly as an mp3 file, but I honestly don't knowhow. Allison -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hayden Smith Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 4:52 PM To: PC audio discussion list. Subj

Re: voiceposts on LJ

2006-07-05 Thread Richard Claypool
I think it might be doable I think lj gives ftp access to the journal space. Rick - Original Message - From: "Brandon Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 4:48 PM Subject: voiceposts on LJ > hi all, > Lol, I realize I've got a lot

Re: voiceposts on LJ

2006-07-05 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi hayden, Like on your journal, I remember seeing one phone post that had a recording off ventrilo. How'd you get that up there? I'm not willing to deal with skype out for phone posts, so how do I upload stuff? Brandon Hicks Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: callto://reyuth msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: voiceposts on LJ

2006-07-05 Thread Hayden Smith
A voicepost as far as I am aware, is exactly the same as a phone post. If there is a new type of post that I am not aware of, I will investigate into it. Cheers, Hayden - Original Message - From: "Brandon Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Thursday, July

nero and mixed mode

2006-07-05 Thread Roger R. Cusson
i had posted some rather incorrect terminology to a previous message, concerning nero's ability to burn what i wrote were multi-session cd's. the correct question, just so i get a correct answer is --- how does one set up and burn appropriately a mixed mode cd, to facilitate letting the files w

voiceposts on LJ

2006-07-05 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi all, Lol, I realize I've got a lot of messages up here lately, and I appologize, but I'm bored and trying to entertain myself. Anyways, how does one do a voice post on live journal? I know about phone posts, but how does one upload voice posts, and can it be done with a sponsored account? thanks

Re: nero 6 ultra addition

2006-07-05 Thread nick danger
Hi Roger, I think there is a way to do this and if anyone has any additional feedback send it along. First, open nero burning rom. Once you have it open, set up the following options in the property sheet. Choose the multi session radio button and make sure you're on the audio CD page. From t

Re: Playing time of MP3

2006-07-05 Thread Hayden Smith
That is not always true. Different methods of mp3 encoding and different versions of the encoder may produce different sizes of files. Therefore, there is no accuracy in this. - Original Message - From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Thursday, J

playlists

2006-07-05 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi all, If anyone else on this list uses a gigabeat and creates playlists on it, could you please drop me a line? I'm wanting to put books and music on the device, however I don't want to have to keep skipping to continue reading and have the music after. Is there any way to create a playlist that

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-05 Thread Bruce Toews
Thanks for the offer. Some time I'll just sit down and try the conversion with both myself and report back. Bruce -- Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12 NIV Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: [EMAIL P

nero 6 ultra addition

2006-07-05 Thread Roger R. Cusson
hi folks, does anyone know how to make a successful multi-session CD, using Nero 6 Ultra Addition? I have an associate in Chicago who has a bunch of audio wave files and quite a few document files, all needing to be put onto one CD. The audio files need to play in standard CD players, while th

Re: Playing time of MP3

2006-07-05 Thread Kevin Lloyd
There's been a lot of methods already mentioned here for accurately checking track duration of MP3 files. However, if you're looking for a simple way of estimating track duration and you know the bit rates of the files in question, a rough guide is that an MP3 file encoded at 128kbps will yield 1

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-05 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Hayden. I'd absoluteley endorse what you're saying here. Encoding music is down to math and science and not subjective sampling done by your computer and so it's not a good idea to use different algorithms that decide which parts of the music they're going to throw away. However, I'd make one

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-05 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Bruce. Yes, as I said I've never used Flak and so was hoping the Bruce Springsteen example I provided may have been a track in your Flak collection that you could have compared with the 31 meg WMA lossless. I have plenty of other examples if you have a Flak track you'd like to compare, includi

Re: Playing time of MP3

2006-07-05 Thread Sarah
except sometimes the length of the track shows unknown. Just a worning. TC all. - Original Message - From: "Hayden Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:28 AM Subject: Re: Playing time of MP3 If you are using the winamp player fro

Re: Selecting Tracks (songs) in Nero 7

2006-07-05 Thread tedmart
Hello, Press ctrl 1 in Nero, it's the equivalent of ctrl T in Roxio. Actually, I thought it was alt T, but my memory may be failing! Ted Protected by www.Spamjab.com {qg2OV0tS9SQjrbj3xG} - Original Message - From: "Jardata Mail Services" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, July 05

Re: Playing time of MP3

2006-07-05 Thread Hayden Smith
If you are using the winamp player from http://www.winamp.com you can when in the playlist editor window, presss ctrl + alt + g and it creates an .html file where it has a listing of all the tracks and their time lengths and also on the top the estimated playlist length. - Original Message -

Playing time of MP3

2006-07-05 Thread Morey Worthington
Thanks to all for the wonderful amount of information relating to my question. Will put it to good use. Thanks again, Morey ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank

Selecting Tracks (songs) in Nero 7

2006-07-05 Thread Jardata Mail Services
Hello List! How does one select tunes to be burned onto a CD or DVD in Nero 7. For example, in Roxio Easy CD-DVD Creator, one goes to the list of MP3's or WAV files; then highlight one or all and then type CTRL-T and the tunes move to the lay-out. How is this done in Nero. I can get to the l

Re: Playing time of MP3

2006-07-05 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi, Winamp will do this. If you load an m3u file into winamp, or open a directory or multiple directories or whatever, it will tell you the estimated time, unless you go into general preferences and i believe the fourth one down in the tree, to load file information when it's loaded into winamp, as

Re: Playing time of MP3

2006-07-05 Thread Donald L. Roberts
Along the same line, is there a tool which will tell you the total playing time of an m3u play list; or, conversely, could one group a bunch of mp3s together in the same folder and find out the playing time of all files when played together? Thanks. Don Roberts - Original Message - F

Re: Advanced Audio Coding

2006-07-05 Thread Dana S. Leslie
I may be wrong, but my understanding is that AAC is an implementation of the MPEG4 standard. This didn't surprise me, at all, when I read it at Wikipedia, as I cannot hear any difference between the .AAC files I rip from CDs and the .M4A files I uploaded from my brother's IPod. But I prefer .AAC

Advanced Audio Coding

2006-07-05 Thread Gary Wood
Hi all! Since we've been discussing different formats for music, such as MP3 and AAC, I went to Google to find out about advanced audio coding! It sounds like AAC might be more akin to DVD sound, because it relies on the MPEG2 standards, similar to DVD's.

Re: Burning DVD music files

2006-07-05 Thread MAGGIE NORTON
Hi Trace, I have managed to set up my list of files to burn, and to remove files if there is too many! But, it is not showing anything in the recorder box! I have done a search of my system, in Nero, and it found everything, and I saved it. But, as I say, when I go into "next" to burn the field i

Re: making music CD's

2006-07-05 Thread Dancing Queen
I log on to the site and then just download them from there, what's the difference? no explorer, no alltunes, they come down ok, just been doing some more now. Trace - Original Message - From: "Kathy Szinnyey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04

Re: Burning DVD music files

2006-07-05 Thread Dancing Queen
it'll tell you if its too full won't it? if that's the case, just take something off and then put that on another disk with some more stuff. Trace - Original Message - From: "MAGGIE NORTON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 10:19 PM Subj

Re: Burning DVD music files

2006-07-05 Thread Dancing Queen
That's where I'm spoiled I guess as my home cinema takes both. Trace - Original Message - From: "Brandon Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 8:45 PM Subject: Re: Burning DVD music files > hi > You can't actually burn them to a DVD a

Re: bipos question

2006-07-05 Thread kevin cussick
I am a bit obsess by tts programs so if you give me a link where I can get ahold of this program I will have a look. But If you want a free program that will make mp3 files from text google for d speech. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives

bipos question

2006-07-05 Thread leslie
I've converted some books to MP3's using the program but when I put them on my book currier they don't play. Can something be done to fix this problem? I'd rather listen to the screen readers voice than to the voice on the courier. Thanks Leslie ___