That sounds right to me.
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You've certainly got enough hard drive space to start
I've heard some great phones lately, too. While I'd like to see the B.P.
be quite versatile, there's a point at which too many apps spoil the
experience. I don't know where that point will be but I hope those with
their hands in its development will.
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You've certainly got enough hard drive space to start with, now I'm
doing some very rough calculations here, on average I might get 10
CD'S on a DVD disc using some sort of Lossless format, say FLAC for
example, I also said earlier that I use the FLAC and Cue sheet
method, that way I can wr
High once again Albert,
Some DVD players will play mp threes off of a DVD, but not losless audio
files.
However, there are some DVD players out there that will playDVD audio
discs,but they are on the high end price wize.
But if your DVD player doesn't support audio DVDs, then your best bet is to
I have a 250 gig hard drive and a 150 gig external drive. At some point,
I'm going to want to add additional external drive capacity.
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You've got to be careful, some players will whilst others won't, my
Pioneer will and I know other people who have Pioneer DVD players who
can play audio files stored on DVD'S so look around and ask a few
questions. On the other hand as I said, many DVD players won't touch
them, my Panasonic
As I described some time ago on this list, the audio you get out of
speakers in small devices these days is utterly amazing or it can be,
I talked about my LG tu-500 mobile phone which I play books on as
well as making phone calls, that thing blows many bigger audio
products right out of th
Well a couple of things here, I do it all the time for a variety of
reasons. I now have a DVD player that plays DVD Discs and all audio
formats I've put past it, these include FLAC, MP3 and AAC/M4A and it
was quite a cheap unit too, the Pioneers should do the job.
Next, I have all my CD'S on
Are you saying DVD players won't play files with just audio in them? I
thought I'd keep these disks in another location so I figured DVD disks
would cut down on the number of them I'd need. I've yet to burn to one of
these disks. I just became DVED capable with the purchase of this computer
and
I've assumed news would be posted to, www.aph.org. Is this not correct? If
it's going to continue to be portable, the speaker can't sound better than a
good cell phone. Personally, I'll purchase my own docking station if it
means keeping the size down to something I can easily carry in a pocket.
High albert,
You may want to rethink that idea.
In less you have a DVD player that can play dvd audio discs, burning all of
your audio files on to dvd is a bad idea.
You may want to stor them on eather CD or MD.
It's just something to think about.
John Price
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During my quest to learn as much as I could about various formats for sound
files, I came across the most accessible and easy to install ripping program
ever. It's called, Express rip and it's free, too. It comes bundled with a
file conversion program which seems just as accessible and costs the s
The program has changed since that tutorial. Using mp3directcut, how do you
merge files?
Thanks.
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Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 7:34 AM
Subject: RE: Splitting mp3 files
Michael,
Many thanks for
I don't know that Nero has Flac, but it does have Ape.
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Subject: Re: Output format tips needed:
Hi.
If you're looking to retain exact audio copies of your CD's be
You could also use a dual dvd/vhs recorder. LG makes some.
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Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: Getting video tapes on to computer
Vicki, you would need a video capture device and a
Hi
It would be a help if there was a site where we could check the latest
news on the new bookport.Somewhere we could also make suggestions
for features. I hope that the new bookport does include a decent
speaker, the comments I have heard about the Victor Stream say it has
a very poor under p
I bought a portable pa system from dak and it is a pretty good one. You can
buy it with a rechargable battery option for about $135 shipped. It has a
wireless microphone with it and you can buy an optional lapel or headset
mic. It works good in a room that would hold about a hundred people. it h
I believe he is based on the subject line. However, the question is
somewhat artificial. NLS will have its digital audio books available next
year and folks likely want a machine that can access them as well as RFB
books. Unfortunately, NLS uses DAISY version 3.0 while RFB uses DAISY 2.2.
Th
Hi,
Are you talking about daisy?
Yes both players will support Daisy as well as some other proprietary
formats.
hth...KG
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While I've never attempted this, I believe your idea will work. There are
also players specific for this task for less than $50.
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Hi,
Please keep your ears open and let us know if anyone is broadcasting 20-20
cricket world cup even locally. I would like to follow it. Thank you.
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I've been following the discussion--(I think it was on this list)--about
portable media players other than the iPod, that can play different file types.
I get the impression -that the iPod cannot play the protected format used by
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic in the production of its digit
I'm sorry, I am not sure what a video capture device is.
I was just thinking of doing video and audio out from the video machine to
video and audio in on the computer.
If this is not right, would you explain more?
Thanks so much! Vicky
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the easiest way would be if you could run a stereo y jack from the line out
of your vcr to the line in on your computer sound card.
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What sort of explanation do you want? I thought my message said
everything which needed to be said.
On 03/09/2007, at 8:19 AM, Sunshine wrote:
please explain about the sound thing
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Thanks Keith,
I'm looking just now.
Gordon
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> Hi,
>
> I checked out EBay using the search term Fender pas
Hi all,
I'm looking for a JFW friendly program to record telephone calls. Anyone
know of a good inexpensive program that can do this automatically?
Thanks,
Jason
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It seems that the victor reader may be
Tom, thanks. Now, I just have to learn the difference between a seed and a
pit and my day will be complete. I almost have the answer to that one, too.
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Sunshine,
I think that is explained in the manual. I've been toying with the
idea of trying it out, but it just hasn't been a priority of mine.
Maybe I'll break down and experiment some time this week.
At 09:24 PM 9/1/2007, you wrote:
>ok, another question can anyone please explain to me hot to
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the information. You've helped me eliminate an option. I'm
proceeding with allot of caution because my decision will be irrevocable
after I begin selling off the originals.
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please explain about the sound thing
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Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 12:57 PM
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> Yep, an excellent format actually, if you want to hear how good it is
>
The word "bounces" isn't part of the list address. It is in
the "return path" header line and is added by the final
transport system.
If a message you send to the list bounces the "Mailman"
e-mail list software keeps track of the number of bounces and
after a certain number of bounces it will
Hi Albert.
The praise would be high for Aac Plus on Live365 as the Aac Plus format is
very good at delivering a decent sound quality at very low bitrates. This
will not approach a lossless format and, if in the future you decided to go
to another format, you would lose more quality in trying t
It seems that the victor reader may be light years ahead of the bookport
devices
so maybe they are trying to come up with more innovative ideas.
I believe the victor reader needs no transfer software, where the bookport does.
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That's a good method but if you're going to go that way then be sure
to use DVD-RW discs so that the content may be updated.
On 03/09/2007, at 4:00 AM, albert griffith wrote:
Along with the files I have stored on my computer and an external
drive, I
was considering making a more permanent re
The have high praise for AAC on the Live 365 pages.
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Yep, an excellent format act
Along with the files I have stored on my computer and an external drive, I
was considering making a more permanent record with DVD disks. Any
thoughts would be appreciated.
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Point well and truly taken, Tarabyte drives are only about $500.00
here, I got one of those thrown in with the purchase of my new Imac.
On 03/09/2007, at 3:54 AM, Kevin Lloyd wrote:
Yep, with today's cheap hard drive prices, why settle for anything
less than
the quality of a purchased music C
Hi Mark.
Both programs are accessible and easy to use. With CDEX, you insert your CD
and hit either F8 to rip into WAV format or f9 to rip into mp3 format. With
media player, you can either set it up to rip automatically whenever a CD is
inserted or tab down to the list of tracks, check thos
Yep, an excellent format actually, if you want to hear how good it is
then you can hear AAC+ streams at http://www.tuner2.com but I'm not
sure whether its as good as a lossless format such as FLAC, as far as
I'm aware AAC+ isn't a lossless format so that being the case,
there's going to be
Yep, with today's cheap hard drive prices, why settle for anything less than
the quality of a purchased music CD? Of course, you can then create other
formats from your perfect lossless masters such as lower bitrate mp3's to
play on portables where disc space is at a premium.
Regards.
Kevin
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I'm looking in to that format as well, thanks.
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i would also recomand Aac plus the file
i would also recomand Aac plus the file size is smaller and sounds just as
good if not better then wma. lossless.
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Ok, so if the Bookport wasn't USB 2.0 compatible then how did people
put books or whatever onto the thing, I suppose it was USB 1.1
compatible right? Again, I know very little about these devices.
Do they play Daisy books as well?
On 03/09/2007, at 3:09 AM, albert griffith wrote:
The develope
Like many MP3 players, it didn't. Supposedly, the new board will allow for
many enhancements but they're not telling what they might be.
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This is correct. I forgot about that in my post.
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Hi,
There are a co
The developer of the new B.P. says he's not looked much further ahead than
the first release which won't have much more than the old unit except it
will be USB2 capable, thinner, and charge its own battery. Oh yes, it's
supposed to play WMA, DRM. protected files.
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Probably not till next year. They didn't have a proto type as of last month
yet.
Rick
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Ah ok, I'm not up-to-date with Bookports or much else in that area
but I have to admit to being a little surprised that such a device
didn't already have an in-built speaker, ah well you learn something
every day I guess .
On 03/09/2007, at 2:31 AM, Keith Gillard wrote:
Hi,
There are a cou
Hi,
There are a couple of minor changes but the one I do remember is that there
will be a built in speaker on the new model...KG
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And what is the new Bookport supposed to do that the old one doesn't
do and how's the Icon coming along?
On 03/09/2007, at 1:12 AM, Bobcat wrote:
I haven't heard anything in months about the new Book Port. Wasn't it
scheduled to come out this summer? Has anyone heard any recent updates?
Bob
I haven't heard anything about the Icon Braille Plus either. The only
reference to it I can find is a forum where a few people seem to discuss it.
Both seem to be very low profile for some reason.
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I haven't heard anything in months about the new Book Port. Wasn't it
scheduled to come out this summer? Has anyone heard any recent updates?
Bob
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Vicki, you would need a video capture device and accessible software to convert
it
to a dvd format. you also need lots of hard drive.
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is Cdex better and easier to use than window media player?
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> why don't you use c dex. it will save directly to mp3.
> ---
Kevin, thanks for the Info. I'm doing quite a bit of research because the
project is rather large and I can't afford to make mistakes. Once the disks
are sold, I'm left with the copies, no matter the quality of the conversion.
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I would mostly mean just sound, but knowing how to do both would be nice.
Thanks for any info! Vicky
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Hi,
I checked out EBay using the search term Fender passport.
Found lots of hits.
The 250 version new is available for around $500 US
Note that there is also 500 and 150 watt systems under this model.
They come with two microphones and the latest versions come with a CD player
built in.
You w
High Kevin, this is Mr. John Price.
This is exactly what I do.
I have Wenamp V5.35, but when I want to rip CDs, I fall back on Windows
Media Player to do it.
And I rip all of my Cds in the WMA lossless format.
And so when I make compilation CDs, they turn out sounding like store bought
Cds.
Maybe
Hi.
If you're looking to retain exact audio copies of your CD's before selling
them then you'll need to use a lossless format. I'd recommend lossless WMA
and using windows media player to rip your CD's rather than nero.
As you're probably aware, next to MP3, WMA is the most commonly supported
Michael,
Many thanks for this. I found the program you mention, but did not know
about the tutorial.
I'll give it a listen.
Thanks again,
David.
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Are you speaking of the whole content or just the audio?
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I'm new here and wonder how putting, "bounces," in the middle of the list's
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You're welcome any time!
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> Brilliant John.
> Thanks again.Gordon
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Hi all, I seem to remember that someone on this list new of an easy way to
get a video collection on to your computer's hard drive? Does anyone
remember what that was?
Thank you so much for any suggestions! Vicky
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