Fwd: Fwd: loop back audio was Re: stereo mix not working on realtech build in soundcard

2017-11-29 Thread David Bailes
back audio was Re: stereo mix not working on realtech build in soundcard To: David Bailes how do you set it to record your usv head set and jaws fore example? using the loop back feature? On 11/28/2017 1:25 PM, David Bailes wrote: > Hi Hank, > see option 2 on this page: &

Fwd: loop back audio was Re: stereo mix not working on realtech build in soundcard

2017-11-28 Thread David Bailes
November 2017 at 20:13 Subject: loop back audio was Re: stereo mix not working on realtech build in soundcard To: David Bailes Hello I am changing the subject line so not to hi jack the thread how does the loop back feature work? I didn't even know you could do that Hank On 11/28/2017

Re: stereo mix not working on realtech build in soundcard

2017-11-28 Thread David Bailes
Hi Aiden, you may well already be aware of the following, but I thought it was worth checking. The stereo mix input provided by the realtek chip allows you to record the audio output of the realtek chip. Are you sending any audio to the realtek speaker output? The usb headset is a different sound d

Re: Audacity 2.2.0 has been released

2017-11-04 Thread David Bailes
Hi Don, In the case of Audacity, the only two differences between using the installer and the portable version are: 1. If you use the installer, the installed version is automatically available to all users on the computer. 2. The portable version does not include a copy of the manual. However, you

Audacity 2.2.0 has been released

2017-11-03 Thread David Bailes
For a summary of new features see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/new_features_in_this_release.html One of the new features is that clips are now accessible for users of screen readers. For Windows users, these are the direct links for Audacity 2.2.0: 1. The Installer version: https://www.fos

SV: Audacity and Jaws on Windows 10 creators update

2017-09-30 Thread David Bailes
Hi Brian, Yes I've tested it in all the situations in which it used to crash, and it seems now to be OK, David. original message: Hi, An this you have tested yourself? Brian

Audacity and Jaws on Windows 10 creators update

2017-09-28 Thread David Bailes
Up until very recently, running Audacity and Jaws on the Windows 10 creators update could cause Audacity to crash. However, the good news is that this has be fixed in the latest version of Jaws, version 18.0.4321. David.

Re: Audacity Simple Question/Selecting from Cursor Position to End of Track and Deleting the Selection

2017-09-25 Thread David Bailes
Hi Robert, you can find the Jaws guide here: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-2.1.3-Guide.html In Audacity 2.1.3 the keystroke to stop playback and move the cursor to the position where playback stopped in now the letter X, rather than Shift + A in previous versions. David.

Audacity and Jaws on Windows 10 Creators update

2017-08-01 Thread David Bailes
If the audio editor Audacity is used with Jaws on Windows 10 Creators update (version 1703), then Audacity can crash. Fortunately, there are no problems with other screen readers, so you can use NVDA, for example, until the problem is fixed. Freedom scientific are already aware of the issue, Davi

Audacity 2.1.3 released

2017-03-20 Thread David Bailes
just to let any Audacity users on this list, that version 2.1.3 has just been released. For the new features in this release, see this page of the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/new_features_in_this_release.html Included in these new features is that labels are now easier to use for us

Re: Probelsm with Audacity for Windows

2016-12-12 Thread David Bailes
Hi Frank, this is a bug in audacity - it gets the file extension wrong. A work around is to include the file extension in the file name edit box, that is, type in a file name such as fred.wav, rather than just fred. David. original message: Hi all, I am trying to convert a 16 bit .wav file to 8

Re: Audacity Mailing List

2016-08-29 Thread David Bailes
Hi Emanuel, the list is active - here is this months archive: http://www.freelists.org/archive/audacity4blind/08-2016 David. original message: The list it is not active -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org ] För David Bailes Skickat: den 29

Re: Audacity Mailing List

2016-08-29 Thread David Bailes
Hi Geoges, to subscribe to the Audacity4Blind mailing list, send an email to ecar...@freelists.org, with the two word subject: subscribe audacity4blind. David. original message: Hi, would like to subscribe to the Audacity mailing list please, thanks. -- Georges Zeinoun Timmerv. 6A ITR LGH1102,

RE: Audacity

2016-01-14 Thread David Bailes
Hi Gary, The latest version of Audacity is 2.1.1, and this works with Windows 10. I think 2.1.0 worked as well. For Audacity 2.1.1 there's a corresponding version of the guide which Brett referred to: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-2.1.1-Guide.html David. original mess

Re: audacity

2015-07-25 Thread David Bailes
Hi Ray, Jim Gamage has put together some audio tutorials: http://www.talking-computers.org.uk/jimonaudacity.html There is also a guide to Audacity for Jaws users, which is also applicable to nvda and window-eyes users: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-2.1.1-Guide.html Ther

Audacity 2.1.1 released

2015-07-18 Thread David Bailes
Audacity 2.1.1 has been released, and can be downloaded from the Audacity website: http://audacityteam.org/ A direct link to the download is: http://www.fosshub.com/Audacity.html/audacity-win-2.1.1.exe I've updated my guide to Audacity for Jaws users, and it's available here: http://vip.chowo.co

Re: Audacity help needed

2015-04-14 Thread David Bailes
Hi, In audacity to select some audio so that you can apply an effect, you have to select one or more tracks, and a time range. So in your case where you want to apply an effect to all the audio in one of the tracks, then: 1. Make sure that the desired track is selected, and the other one is not

Re: Fwd: [Audacity-users] Audacity version 2.1.0 is released!

2015-03-30 Thread David Bailes
Just to add that the new features include: - A new recording meter which is more accessible - the peak level during a monitoring session can be read by screen readers - A new improved Noise reduction effect, which replaces the noise removal effect - A limited introduction of real-time preview for

Re: Latest version of Burnaware 6 wanted

2014-12-10 Thread David Bailes
Hi Brian, the following page contains links to the free, premium and pro versions of burnaware 6.9.4: http://www.burnaware.com/downloads/backup/v6.x/v6.9.4/ David. original message: Hi list, I know we are quite a lot, who use Burnaware for disk burning. I can't find Burnaware pro 6.9 an

Re: Latest version of Burnaware 6 wanted

2014-12-10 Thread David Bailes
Hi Brian, the following page contains links to the free, premium and pro versions of burnaware 6.9.4: http://www.burnaware.com/downloads/backup/v6.x/v6.9.4/ David. original message: Hi list, I know we are quite a lot, who use Burnaware for disk burning. I can't find Burnaware pro 6.9 anywher

Re: Audacity questions

2014-12-05 Thread David Bailes
shift+end to set the end of the selected time range to the end. 4. press delete. David. original message: It is like 10 minutes Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 5, 2014, at 3:41 AM, David Bailes wrote: > > Hi, > Is the part that you don't want at the beginning, middle or end, a

Re: Audacity questions

2014-12-05 Thread David Bailes
Hi, Is the part that you don't want at the beginning, middle or end, and roughly how long is it? David. original message: Hi all, I have a couple questions I'm just leaving audacity, and I'm really not sure what to do I have an MP3 file from the lecture that I imported into audacity I am not s

RE: noise reduction with Audacity

2014-06-16 Thread David Bailes
Hi, just to note that if you use ctrl+r to repeat last effect, you still have to select all the audio before pressing ctrl+r, otherwise you'll just correct the audio used to create the noise profile, David. original message: Hi David, As a slightly quicker way, once you have your noise profile

Re: noise reduction with Audacity

2014-06-16 Thread David Bailes
Hi Dave, the noise removal effect in audacity involves two steps. The first is to get a noise profile, and the second is to use that for noise removal. Step one - get noise profile. 1. Select a small section of audio where there's only background noise. To do this first make sure the track is sel

Re: Question: Rewinding in Windows Media Player?

2014-02-01 Thread David Bailes
Hi Alexandra, In Windows vista and later you can do the following - not sure about xp. Tab to the seek slider. Pressing LEFT ARROW or RIGHT ARROW moves the playback backward or forward by one twentieth of the length of the track. If you add SHIFT or CTRL to these keystrokes, then the distance mo

Re: multi tracking with audacity

2014-01-13 Thread David Bailes
Hi Joe, from your first message, I understood that the tracks started out in sync, but drifted out of sync after a time. Is this the case? If the tracks are out of sync by the same amount throughout the tracks, then there's a latency correction within audacity which you can set. David. origina

Re: multi tracking with audacity

2014-01-11 Thread David Bailes
Hi Joe, you should be fine with that cpu and ram. I don't know what the problem is, perhaps other background tasks are taking up some of the computer's resources. David. original message: I'm using a home built PC with 2 gig of ram and a 2.5 gig processor and windows xp. With audacity tracks st

RE: Audacity Versus Reaper for Multitrack Recording

2013-11-28 Thread David Bailes
Hi Ted, concerning the latency in Audacity. There is a setting for a latency correction in audacity. In the preferences dialog, in the recording category, there's a latency correction edit box. The default value of the correction is -130ms, and the more negative the value, the larger the correct

RE: Audacity 2.0.5

2013-10-22 Thread David Bailes
Hi Hamit, not if you're using headphones... David. original message: Ah, you'll get loop back from this though.. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of David Bailes Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 11:58 AM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.o

Re: Audacity 2.0.5

2013-10-22 Thread David Bailes
Hi Petro, yes, there's a portable version available at: http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/audacity_portable concerning recording a microphone and the audio going to a playback device, for example a screen reader. Audacity only helps you with recording the audio going to a playback device,

Audacity 2.0.5

2013-10-22 Thread David Bailes
Audacity 2.0.5 has been released. One of the recent new features which is available if you’re using Windows Vista or later, is that using the WASAPI audio interface you can record the audio being sent to a playback device even if your sound card doesn’t support “Stereo Mix”. I've updated my guid

RE: which sound editor?

2013-10-16 Thread David Bailes
Hi, just to add that Audacity has a bass and treble effect which works the same way as bass and treble controls on an amplifier. It also has an equalization effect, which includes some preset curves. David. original message: Audacity does do the speed thing, I'm not sure about the tape thing.

Re: audacity

2013-09-30 Thread David Bailes
Hi Rich, If you press pause before pressing the left bracket, then to resume playback then you can either just press P to resume playback, or as you suggest press spacebar to stop playback, then spacebar again to start playback. And as you say, you have to press spacebar after pressing the right

Re: audacity

2013-09-30 Thread David Bailes
 Hi Joe, In your steps, after you press the right bracket key, audacity is paused in playback. To be able to delete the selected audio, you have to press spacebar to stop the playback before you press the delete button. (You can't delete during playback).   David.     original message: Hi. Using

Re: Is Audacity more accessible on the PC or the Mac, or doesn't it matter?

2013-09-18 Thread David Bailes
Hi Dave, just out of interest, how to you separate the streams on XP?   David.     original message: Unfortunately, that's what I thought. I'm trying to record programs on my PC like Rhapsody, YouTube streams, my Slingbox, etc. In XP, there's no problem separating these streams from JFW, but I ca

Re: Is Audacity more accessible on the PC or the Mac, or doesn't it matter?

2013-09-17 Thread David Bailes
Hi Dave, I'm not sure whether you're trying to record the audio that's being sent to the playback device, for example what's coming out of the speakers or the headphones. If this is the case, then if you've got only one sound card, then audacity will record the screen reader as well. But if you'

Re: Is Audacity more accessible on the PC or the Mac, or doesn't it matter?

2013-09-17 Thread David Bailes
Hi Dave, Audacity is slightly more accessible on Windows than on a Mac. For more details, see the screen reader section of this page on Accessibility in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/accessibility.html   When recording on windows with a single sound card, then the screen reader

Re: Audacity

2013-08-08 Thread David Bailes
Hi Mark, one way of getting the audio to switch between speakers is as follows. Let's assume that you've got a single track in the project, and that the audio in that track consists of someone saying welcome three times. 1. Select all the audio by pressing ctrl + a. 2. Duplicate the selected audi

Re: Audacity or GW

2013-06-20 Thread David Bailes
Hi John, you can just save the guide to disk. There are a couple of ways of doing this. First, you can open the context menu of the following link and choose save target as (or the equivalent for your browser): http://goo.gl/bZIXh Alternatively, if you have the guide open in a browser, you can ch

Re: program forbuilding a daisy book from audio files

2013-06-17 Thread David Bailes
Hi Andre, you could have a look at obi, though I haven't used it myself: http://www.daisy.org/project/obi   David.   original message: Hi all Are there any programs available preferably free with which you can build a daisy book from audio files? My old nokia e52 could actually do that using a da

Re: RE: Audacity or GW

2013-05-30 Thread David Bailes
Hi Reed, the free guide to audacity can be found here: http://goo.gl/bZIXh It's written specifically for Jaws users, but nearly all of it is also applicable to users NVDA and Window-eyes. There's also an audacity mailing list for blind users, and details of this are given in the guide's introduct

Re: Making .mp3's from cassette using Audacity.

2013-04-29 Thread David Bailes
Hi Collin, my guess is that the problem is that the option for sound activated recording is set to be on. This can be switched off either on the transport menu, where there's a sound activated recording option, or in the recording category of the preferences, where there's Sound activated record

RE: Good Hum Removal Programme or Noise Reduction VST Plug-in

2012-05-31 Thread David Bailes
Hi Samuel, concerning selecting the right amount of sound in audacity. If you've selecting a time range using shift + left/right arrows etc, note that by default, the step size depends on the length of the recording - the longer the recording, the larger the default step size. However you can cha

Re: CD burner question

2012-05-07 Thread David Bailes
Hi Don, using burnaware free, then after you've added the tracks that you want to burn, if you tab to the list of tracks, then using either the edit menu or the context menu you can move tracks up or down. In addition these commands and the shortcuts ctrl+up arrow, and ctrl+down arrow.   David.

Re: Is Audacity 2.0 Worth the Update?

2012-05-03 Thread David Bailes
Hi Humberto, concerning getting the length of a track. If you move the cursor to the end of the track, you can then read the cursor position, which will give you the length of the track. 1. If there's only a single track, then press end to move to the end of all the audio. 2. If there's more than

Re: Is Audacity 2.0 Worth the Update?

2012-05-03 Thread David Bailes
Hi Humberto, replying to the question of how to reduce the volume of the playing track while recording speech over it. If you mean that it's too loud so that you can't hear what you're saying, you can reduce the volume of the whole track using the track gain. With the track being the focus, pres

Re: Is Audacity 2.0 Worth the Update?

2012-05-02 Thread David Bailes
Hi Rich, some significant bugs have been fixed for version 2.0, so it's definitely worth upgrading,   David.   original message: I have been using Audacity 1.3 beta. Are there any advantages in upgrading to 2.0? Also, the noise reduction effect in Audacity appears to be far superior to that in

Re: Can audacity merge diff mp3 files into a single one?

2012-03-16 Thread David Bailes
Hi Prateek, you can use audacity to merge mp3 files. One way of doing it would be as follows: 1. Open the first file (ctrl+o). 2. press End to move the cursor to the end of the audio. Then for each mp3 file you wanted to add on the end follow the next 3 steps: 1. Import the file (ctrl+shift+I). Imp

Jaws guide to Audacity 2.0

2012-03-15 Thread David Bailes
I've updated my Jaws guide to audacity to cover version 2.0. Nearly all the guide is also applicable to users of window-eyes and nvda. The guide is available here: http://goo.gl/dQ75G David. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org

Re: Audacity 2.0 RC5

2012-03-05 Thread David Bailes
Hi Dean and others, Audacity 2.0rc5 is a release candidate for Audacity 2.0, which will be released within the next few days. When that happens, it will be available from the audacity website. Audacity 2.0 is very similar to the 1.3.14 beta version in terms of features, but several bugs have bee

Re: Audacity

2011-12-02 Thread David Bailes
al Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of David Bailes Sent: 02 December 2011 14:55 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Audacity Hi Colin, forgot to ask you what versions of windows and audacity are you using? thanks, David.

Re: Audacity

2011-12-02 Thread David Bailes
remaining 40% approx does not convert hence is not there to remove the end of it. The total file length is around 50 mins Thanks for any ideas Colin -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of David Bailes Sent: 01 December 2011

Re: Audacity

2011-12-02 Thread David Bailes
0 mins Thanks for any ideas Colin -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of David Bailes Sent: 01 December 2011 16:08 To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Re: Audacity Hi Colin, you could chop off the front end in a simila

Re: Audacity

2011-12-01 Thread David Bailes
Hi TickPub, yes, audacity 1.3.13 can run on windows xp, vista and 7, David. - Original Message - From: "tick...@juno.com" To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, 1 December 2011, 18:02 Subject: Re: Audacity David, hey, can I run the 1.3 version on XP-hom? Right now all I have is

Re: Audacity

2011-12-01 Thread David Bailes
Hi Colin, you could chop off the front end in a similar manner: 1. move the cursor to the end of where you want to chop off (about 5 mins into the file in your case). 2. press shift + home, which selects a time range from the cursor to the start of the audio. 3. press delete.   So shift+home and

Re: Audacity

2011-12-01 Thread David Bailes
Hi Colin, these instructions are for version 1.3.13 of audacity. To be able to export to mp3 from audacity you need to download and install the lame encoder, which isn't included with audacity for legal reasons: http://lame1.buanzo.com.ar/Lame_v3.98.3_for_Audacity_on_Windows.exe   Then: 1. open th

Re: An Audacity Problem

2011-11-28 Thread David Bailes
Hi David, have you tried using the [ and ] keys during playback to mark the start and end of the selection? Could you be more specific about what you're getting stuck on? In addtion to this list, there's also an audacity4blind list - details can be found in the help sub-section of the introductio

Re: recording what you here in windows 7?

2011-11-26 Thread David Bailes
Hi Hank, you don't have to find the empty space. If you select any device and open its context menu, then the option show disabled devices will be on this context menu. If this option is not checked, then press enter whilst this is selected it to check the option.   David.     original message:

Re: An Audacity Problem

2011-11-26 Thread David Bailes
Hi Dave, the 1.3.13 beta version of audacity is much more accessible than 1.2.6 version and is reasonably stable. In addtion there's a guide for jaws users for this version, which can also be used by users of window-eyes and nvda. It's available here: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/ja

Re: Volume; Need some help here with Audacity thanks!

2011-11-25 Thread David Bailes
Hi, assuming that the cassette to pc device uses a usb connection, and that you're using windows xp, then audacity probably can't control the recording level from within the program. However, you can adjust the recording level by adjusting the windows recording level of the device: 1. In the Con

Re: sync in WMP 12

2011-06-21 Thread David Bailes
Hi Cornell,   To manually sync files in wmp12: First add items to the sync list by selecting them in the main list, press the appliction key, open the add to sub menu, and choose sync list. ctrl+9 is the shortcut for adding to the sync list. Then tab to the start sync button and press it (alt+s).

RE: FYI foobar and winamp blog

2011-04-21 Thread David Bailes
Hi David and James, I spoke too soon. I've since realized that although the track is added to the playback queue, after the track is played, foobar continues through the tracks in the searched playlist, which is probably not what you wanted. David. original mesage: Hi David and James, to queue

RE: FYI foobar and winamp blog

2011-04-21 Thread David Bailes
Hi David and James, to queue tracks that you've found in search, choose add to playback queue on the context menu. This seems to work. David. orginal messge: HI James, I found that you can use the search box in foobar to queue tracks by finding your tracks via your search term, highlighting t

Re: Foobar, ripping and a problem

2011-04-06 Thread David Bailes
Hi Christopher, I think you need a Flac encoder, which you can download from this page: http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html For windows, there's a choice of either an installer which puts the file flac.exe in a flac folder in programs, or alternatively a zip file which contains flac.exe whi

Re: Crackling sound in Win/7

2011-02-09 Thread David Bailes
Hi Morey, I had a quick look around the web for examples of this problem, and it seems that it's not necessarily caused by problems with the sound hardware or driver - it can be caused by other drivers not working properly. You can check this by temporarily disabling certain devices in the devi

Re: Crackling sound in Win/7

2011-02-08 Thread David Bailes
Hi Morey, If Acer provide an audio driver for your computer for win7, then I would suggest trying these. Unfortunately, Acer's website isn't very accessible, but if you tell me the model number of your computer, the country where it was purchased, and whether you're using the 32bit or 64bit ver

Re: Looking for a CD utility

2010-12-20 Thread David Bailes
Hi Don, There's a free version of burnaware which can be used for non-comercial use. It's a cd/dvd burning program, and it includes the option to display disk info. You can download the program from the page: http://www.burnaware.com/downloads.html There are three "download now" links on this pa

Re: Question for Audacity users

2010-10-20 Thread David Bailes
Hi Larry, The suggestions were not Jaws specific. Although Audacity is not completely accessible, a large part of it can be used with Jaws, Window-Eyes, and NVDA. I'm not sure about system access, and I don't think it's as accessible using voiceover at the moment. Regarding applying an effect

Re: Question for Audacity users

2010-10-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi Larry, I presume that you're using a recent version of Audacity (latest version is 1.3.12). If a track is the focus, then pressing enter toggles whether that track is selected or not, but it has no effect on whether the other tracks are selected. So if if you want only one track to be select

Re: Audacity Group?

2010-10-13 Thread David Bailes
Hi Larry, there's a mailing list for blind audacity users at: http://www.freelists.org/list/audacity4blind -there isn't much activity currently on this list, but one of the audacity team members seems to keep a look out for any questions.   There's also an audacity users mailing list, which has a

Re: audacity

2010-09-20 Thread David Bailes
Hi Robert, there's a vocal removal page on Audacity's wiki: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Vocal_Removal - my understanding is that simple methods for vocal removal aren't that satisfactory.   There's a mailing list for blind audacity users at: http://www.freelists.org/list/audacity

Re: Windows 7 - how to question continued

2010-09-14 Thread David Bailes
Hi Brett, it sounds like the audio driver after the reinstall isn't the same one that was there prior to the reinstall. You may be able to download an audio driver for your laptop from the dell website, or it may be easier to contact dell's tech support. David. original message: Hi. Great tip

Re: Windows 7 - how to question

2010-09-13 Thread David Bailes
Hi, If your sound card can monitor the input then: 1. Open the Sound dialog in the control panel on the playback page. A couple of ways of opening this are either to type change sound into the start menu, or from the context menu of the speaker icon in the notification area. 2. In the list on th

Re: audacity

2010-09-04 Thread David Bailes
Hi Robert, there's a jaws guide to audacity available at: http://bit.ly/axYol6 1. to apply an effect to a single track, make it the only track selected (enter toggles whether a track is selected). Then select a time range, for example, if you press J, then shift+k, this selects a time range cov

Re: windows7 and audio inputs

2010-07-31 Thread David Bailes
Hi brian, there's some info in the sound dialog in Vista and windows 7 section of this guide to audacity: http://bit.ly/axYol6 Stereo mix is often disabled by default, so you'll probably need to change the setting to show disabled devices and then enable stereo mix,as described. Also, if you'r

Re: issues with volume when recording threw audacity

2010-07-29 Thread David Bailes
Hi Dave, Do you have this program only when using audacity? For example, if you use window's sound recorder program, is there the same problem.? Also, some more info may help me or others on the list work out what the problem is: What version of windows and audacity are you using, and which m

Re: Enabling What you Hear on Windows 7

2010-03-26 Thread David Bailes
Hi Samuel, to enable "what u hear", "stereo mix" or whatever it's called on windows 7: 1. Go to the recording page of the sound dialog, which you can open from start menu, or the the context menu of the volume icon in the notification area. 2. In the list of devices, by default disabled devices a

Re: Windows Media Player controls

2010-03-23 Thread David Bailes
Hi Bob, I found the modifiers by trial and error, just hoping that there might be some way to change the increment. I've since seen them mentioned for wmp 12 on a microsoft windows blog, but it seems crazy that they are not included in the list of shortcuts in help. David. original message: T

Re: Windows Media Player controls

2010-03-23 Thread David Bailes
Hi Bob, the modifiers work in wmp 11, and wmp 12 on windows 7, but I've been told that they don't work on wmp 10. However, even for wmp 11, and 11 the modifiers aren't listed in the help files. David. original message: I wonder if those modifiers work with WMP 10 because I never got them to do

Re: Windows Media Player controls

2010-03-22 Thread David Bailes
Hi Dane, the seek increment for the arrow keys is one twentieth of track length. Other increments are available using modifier keys: 1. ctrl + arrow keys, one fifth of track length. 2. shift + arrow keys, one four hundredth of track length. 3. ctrl + shift + arrow keys, one eight thousandth of tr

Re: recording multiple inputs in windows 7

2010-03-16 Thread David Bailes
Hi Brett, my understanding is that Audacity can only record a single device. So if you want to use audacity you could either use a hardware mixer as input or get windows 7 to do the mixing. To do the latter: 1. Enable software playthrough for both the microphone and the line in. On the recordin

Re: Searching by bit rate

2010-03-12 Thread David Bailes
Hi Hank, to search by genre, you can use search terms such as genre:rock and genre:classical. Note spelling of genre. David. original message: hello what about johnrahs? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org

Re: Searching by bit rate

2010-03-11 Thread David Bailes
Hi Barry, You should be able to do this with the advanced query syntax available in windows: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/technicalresources/advquery.mspx For example to search for files with 320k bit rate, the search term to enter would be bitrate:320kbps.

Re: how to access track info using Windows Media Player 11

2010-03-11 Thread David Bailes
Hi Tom, Unfortunately, I don't think there's a way in wmp to go to a place in a track by specifying a time, David. original message: Hello David and list: Just wondering..is there any way (in WMP)..to go exactly to a certain place in the track or file as you can in Winamp? Tom Kaufman

Re: how to access track info using Windows Media Player 11

2010-03-10 Thread David Bailes
Hi joanne, 1. Using Jaws 10 you can read the name of the currently playing track by pressing insert+ctrl+t. 2. As someone has already said, you can seek back and forward by moving to the seek slider, just press ctrl+tab once or twice to move to it. Pressing the arrow keys moves you by one twen

RE: Windows media player 11 and jfw 11

2009-12-23 Thread David Bailes
Hi Jason, It is weird. The shortcut for toggling the repeat mode is ctrl+t. Note that the insert modifier in insert+ctrl+t is the "jaws key", which by default is insert in the desktop keyboard layout. If you're using a different keyboard layout, or have changed the Jaws key for that layout, the

Re: Windows media player 11 and jfw 11

2009-12-17 Thread David Bailes
Unfortunately, insert+ctrl+T has always just worked for me using wmp 11, and Jaws 10 and higher, David. orginal message: Never seems to work too well. Do I need to change some setting in WMP to make it easier for JFW to read the track To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email

Re: Windows media player 11 and jfw 11

2009-12-17 Thread David Bailes
Hi Jason, current playing track: Insert + Ctrl + T. David. original message: Hi all, How do you make JFW tell you the title of the currently playing track? I know how to do it in win amp, but I'm forced to use WMP at work. Thanks, Jason To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank em

Re: Audacity

2009-11-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi Mario, two more things to try: A. Just check on the About dialog on the Help menu that you're definitely using Audacity 1.3.9. B. Maybe there's some problem with using the [ and ] keys on an Italian keyboard. You could try the following method which uses commmands on menus rather than the [

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2009-11-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi Mario, another thing to check: after you've selected the time range, if you press space to play/stop, it should play only the selected time range. Does this happen? David. original message: yes I press the space. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsu

Re: Audacity

2009-11-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi Mario, a couple of things to check: 1. Is the focus in the table of tracks? (ctrl+f6 cycles round toolbars, track table, and selection bar) 2. Is the track selected? When you open a file, the track is initially selected, and pressing enter toggles the selection of the focussed track. David.

Re: Audacity

2009-11-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi, After you press the ] key to mark the end of the selection, are you pressing space to stop playback before you press the delete key? You can't delete during playback. David. original message: Hi, I'am trying Audacity. Ive installed the last beta version, but I can't use it. For example,

RE: audacity

2009-11-18 Thread David Bailes
Hi Yes, noise reduction is available within audacity - here's the page in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Noise_Removal David. original message: Does audacity offer any kind of noise reduction or audio cleanup functions? To unsubscribe from this list, send

Re: audacity

2009-11-17 Thread David Bailes
Hi, You can find the position of the cursor, and the playback position in the Selection bar. Ctrl+F6 cycles you round the toolbars, the table of tracks, and the selection bar. When you open Audacity you're initially in the table of tracks, so to move to the Selection bar, just press ctrl+f6. Yo

Re: Moving through Files in Windows Media Player

2009-10-08 Thread David Bailes
Hi Samuel, Using the seek slider in wmp 11, you can move through the following fractions of the length of the track: 1. Arrow keys move you one twentieth. 2. ctrl + arrow keys move you one fifth. 3. shift + arrow keys move you one four hundredth. 4. shift + ctrl + arrow keys move you by one eight

Re: Jaws guide for BBC iplayer

2009-09-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi Ray, regarding the native accessibility of flash, here's a tutorial on Adobe's website (and it's an accessible flash movie): http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/flash/tutorial/ David. original message: Hahaha, RNIB could never ever develop anything like the IPlayer. The BBC develo

Re: Jaws guide for BBC iplayer

2009-09-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi Vicky, thanks for the feedback. As Ray has already said, the iPlayer website is run by the BBC, which gets a licence fee from everyone who watches live tv in the uk. Alas I have no suggestions for the usa, where the funding is quite different. David. original message: I've just read your e

Jaws guide for BBC iplayer

2009-09-18 Thread David Bailes
I've written a Jaws guide for the BBC iPlayer website, and it's available at: http://tinyurl.com/q58knt Also, there was an interesting article on the BBC internet blog in june which includes details of codecs and bitrates of their audio streams: http://tinyurl.com/lpwf58 David. To uns

RE: about eye player

2009-08-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi Iram, The accessible programs from webbie are installed in the Accessible and Webbie folder in the all programs menu. The program BBC iplayer Radio in that folder has some useful help - just press F1. There's also a guide available at: http://tinyurl.com/kk55c5 David. To unsubscri

Re: about eye player

2009-08-19 Thread David Bailes
Hi Iram, As far as I can see, BBC Urdu is not available using the BBC iPlayer. The Accessible iPlayer programs allow you to listen to the same content as that available using the BBC iPlayer, so you won't be able to listen to BBC Urdu using these programs either. However, there is a BBC Urdu w

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