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> scripts. I've never found a way of stopping it. I just type one word or else
> delete the X if I need to put a space in.
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Hi All.
I have the new XMP3 receiver from Pioneer and over-all like it. Of course,
as a totally blind person, I do need sighted assistance with the menus,
which is an accessibility issue, but typical of Sirius and XM...Unlike the
MyFi, from what I can tell, you can't even just hold down the "OK"
I'm looking forward to trying this one out. Ever since upgrading to JAWS 10,
when I do a search in the audio section of the Winamp media library, an "x"
gets inserted whenever I hit the spacebar...Thus making most of my searches
come up empty. Hopefully, that little glitch will go away with thi
>From what I've read on the Apple site, you do have to be connected and find
>the options in yout iTunes software.
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Hopefully, Apple is being made aware of the unspoken options and can fix it via
a simple download of some sort. My Apple store tells me they'll have the model
I want during the middle of the week...Circuit City says they'll have them
Friday.
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Interesting observation...I have a pretty good "smart" phone (HTC 6800, Windows
Mobile 6.1), and would never think to use it as my primary music player for one
reason...Not nearly enough memory. I think it has 128MB on-board, and came
with a 512MB mini-SD card. Granted, I could buy a bigger SD
That was actually one of the things I suggested when I emailed the
accessibility address at Apple, listed on the page talking about the
improvements to iTunes and the Nano. In the response I got, they said the
feature was new, and they were definitely looking for feedback and that they'd
pass
This is some great news, but I have to admit I wish they'd included some of the
larger-capacity units like the 120GB unit for those of us with huge music
collections. I've put in a suggestion to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Either way, I think I'll pick up a 16GBunit when one of the Seattle Apple or
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Hi All.
Okay, here's a strange one, and I can't seem to figure out how to stop it.
Lately, my computer thinks it has a virtual CD/DVD drive. Now, I have two
drives, and they're both there, but now there's a third one which doesn't
really exist, but it's decided to be the G drive. I've tried rem
I've actually been in touch with them about this...They're interested in
pursuing the audio captcha, but seemingly only if they can find a free way
to do it, and if one of us who needs it does all the research and stuff for
them. Their response, when I told them about how Digg and Craigslist
u
Very strange...I'm running 5.5 and haven't had this particular
problem...Although, on my system, it now appears to be called MusicID From
Gracenote, instead of CDDB.
In fact, I just popped in a CD now, clicked the "MusicID" button from my
drive in the library, and the data was downloaded no pro
I know this is a bit late, but something Chris said got me thinking...I
notice Winamp's forums are "powered by vBulletin". I've also noticed, for
about six years now, the ANYTHING powered by vbulletin has the captcha code
associated with sign-up. I've found three lists (two Opie and Anthony fa
Albert.
I see you know something about Winamp 5.5. Mind letting me know your
settings, what screenreader you're using, and all that? As you may have
seen before, I'm having crashing issues. It's only on the "Audio" view of
the library though, and only when I tab to an actual list of individu
Hi All.
I know this is off-topic, but frankly, I wasn't sure which list was best to
subscribe to to ask for help, so here it is. If someone can point me in the
right direction, I'd appreciate it.
Does anyone here use the Samsung A640 from Sprint? I've been a Sprint customer
foryears, and bec
Hey, Chris.
Yep...Already did that about a week ago. DJ Egg, the guy who seems to be
running things, took a look at the error report that came out of all of this
(the problem started with the 5.5 betas and has continued) and seemed
completely stumped as to what's causing this...No one else see
Okay, I like the features of the new Winamp, but...Whenever I tab from the
artist list to the album list, things are fine; but when I tab to the list of
actual songs, the program crashes...It appears to be blaming it on oleacc.dll,
which appears to be some sort of Microsoft Accessibility system
I've found DVD support is very good for backing up MP3's and my wife's
pictures...AWFUL for backing up .zip or .7Z files though as it only shows
them being 384MB when they're MUCH larger.
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Yeah...It's pretty decent software; works well with JAWS too.
My only complaint is, when I tried to load a zip file to a DVD, it told me
it was only 384MB, when the file was really about 4.4 GB. Also, they show
an option for burning a multiple-disc zip file, but when you select that and
select
I have to say, I like the Auto tagger idea...However, I'm running into a
MAJOR problem with this beta, as well as the last beta, of Winamp.
I can tab through the library fine...But, if I try to tab to the song list
from the album list, Winamp crashes and creates a dump file and log. Also,
this
Hello.
Recently, due to the death of my Braille Lite, I finally bought a PAC
Mate...And after having had experience with both the PAC Mate now and the
BrailleNote in the past, I'm definitely happy with the choice I made.
What I'm wondering is, do we know if FS plans to work with NLS to add supp
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> Not sure about Sonos, but I just read about one called the Phoenix WiFi Radio
> on
> one of my favorite blogs, Orbitc
Not sure about Sonos, but I just read about one called the Phoenix WiFi Radio
on one of my favorite blogs, Orbitcast.com. Looks like an interesting device,
but again, not sure about accessibility. I have an email into the company to
find out about the price of the unit as well as how accessible
Mine's definitely more stable, but slow to initially load.
5.35 has finally solved that annoying problem I had for a year or so where
the whole computer would crash if I loaded a CD via Winamp without holding
down the Shift key when closing the door.
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way to speed it up. Though, sometimes after I defrag my drive or have run
Norton Win Doctor, it's a bit faster for a while for some reason.
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Hi, Jose.
Not sure if ripping is possible with the free Winamp, but with Winamp Pro, I
can rip the average CD in about 5 or 6 minutes.
Just insert the CD, go to the Winamp Library. From there, arrow down through
the tree view and find your CD or DVD drive. Once you find this, it will
likely in
Hi, Peter.
Not sure on your last one, but with the first two:
I find I have no problem with the "Rip" button being found using the tab
key...I'm running Winamp 5.35 with the latest update to JAWS 8.0 and David
Truong's most excellent scripts. Can't remember where you find them (Dean,
wasn't th
I don't have a copy, but I know you can get SOME sort of makeing voices
application at www.tbrn.net/rockbox...Also a good place for updated voices.
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What exactly did you find about that particular player? Feel free to email
me off-list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, if you have Rockbox questions,
the Forums on their site are very helpful and I've always found the mods and
developers to be very friendly as long as a question is asked conc
Sorry for the late response; just catching up on email, so if this has
already been answered, I apologize.
Rockbox is free. Not sure how much an iPod Nano costs, but I got a 30GB
video for $249.99 plus tax at Best Buy and use Rockbox on it with little
trouble. There are a couple features such
Hi, All.
Just wondering how many of you have heard about the apparently legal
file-sharing program coming out soon called SpiralFrog. I've been reading
about it for a while now through fmqb.com. Apparently, they're inviting some
of their newsletter subscribers to be essentially beta testers a
As someone who has been using the scripts for several weeks now, I must say
they're great. I haven't had a problem with the things I normally try to do
in Winamp...I haven't used any of the online features, as I'm an XM
subscriber and use XStreamXM (xstreamxm.com) to listen to their online
stre
I'd totally agree with the statements about Rockbox...I've been using it on a
30GB iPod Video since February, and over all, it works great and is pretty
accessible. I would have rather gone with the 80GB iPod, but at the time,
Rockbox didn't support it...Not sure if that's changed.
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> Did you manage to get the library sorted out? I've given up
> trying. How did you do it?
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I found it pretty much impossible to do with Winamp 5.33 and JAWS 8. Seems to
work okay in Winamp 5.34 though; you might give that a try.
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Hi, All.
Just updated to the official release of Winamp 5.34 (using Pro Version). I'm
noticing an odd thing that I've never had happen before. In the library, I
often use the search function since my library is so large and not everything
is propperly tagged due to the various rippers and tag
quot;Cher Bosch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Is this with WinAmp 5.33 or 5.34? I didn't have to do any re-compiling of
> the
> same JFW lite scripts and they work perfectly on several computers.
>
> Cher
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Hmmm...Not sure if I still have a copy of the scripts from JAWS 8. I've been
running the ones Jim Grimsby created for library support last June. I haven't
downloaded any new ones since then, but have updated JAWS several times since
then. So that I don't have to reinstall JAWS, where can I fi
33, and do find it difficult. The beta is worth trying then?
> Mark
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 4:41 PM
> Subject: Re: Quick Observati
Hi All.
Okay, just downloaded the new JAWS update. Now, in my Winamp library, it only
gives me the last character of the selected item in the Tree View (list of
artists/titles works fine) when I use my up and down arrow. "Say Current Line"
doesn't make a difference either.
Anyhow, I tried op
n it didn't appear in the previous ones! Any ideas as to how one would
> remedy this? I guess we just wait for the release of the "final" version!
>
> -Mac-
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> To:
>
I downloaded the new beta version of Winamp last night and noticed a few things
I thought might be interesting to other users.
First, the Library is working better with JAWS, as far as being able to use
arrow keys and the PC cursor. However, I notice that as I scroll through the
first tree vie
And, to add to Jana's question, since Debbie's untimely passing (also meaning
jfwlite won't be updated), what is the best site for scripts? For those who
write scripts but either don't have their own sites or want to spread the word
to all JAWS users, what script sites are you posting to?
I'd
Great suggestion...This won't help him with XM, so in that case, I recommend a
subscription to XM Radio Online, available at listen.xmradio.com. I think the
trial is three days; not sure what the monthly fee is since I get it free as a
regular XM subscriber...But, you get a LOT more channels wi
Sorry if someone's already responded to this, but I have two ideas.
First, in Winamp's Preferences menu (control+p), under Plugins, there's a
"Get Plugins" button...Either click this or go directly to Winamp.com and
search, and see if the plugin is available there.
If not, a reinstall should do
Hello.
When I use the transcoder, I select the file or files I want to transcode from
the media library, use the right-click button on my keyboard, and selec the
"Send to" submenu, then select "Format Converter". When the window launches, I
select the location I want the file to go to, the nam
I'm finding, if I use my JAWS cursor, get to Audio, route PC to JAWS, then I
can tab...But initially, when I first launch the library, no, tabbing and
arrowing around isn't possible. Hopefully, Jim or someone will come up with
some new scripts for this version.
I AM glad to see they included t
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Very good article. Without giving away too much detail about where I work,
we're going through smething similar with the streaming of our radio reading
service...Other than us, I've never seen a radio station use DRM; many of us
are hoping that we WON'T be using it much longer. I think this ar
Hi All...Thought I'd make some comments on this thread.
I'll admit, I haven't been keeping up with the list lately, but seeing this
about possible accessible XM radios is very cool...As many of you know, I've
been an XM subscriber for almost three years, and would NEVER go back to
using terrest
Hi All.
Okay, I did it...I went with a 30GB iPod (only because the 60GB doesn't appear
to be made anymore), and have loaded Rockbox on to it. I have to say, over
all, I love it and find it makes the iPod VERY accessible.
However, I have a question that I'm hoping someone here can answer. I'd
audio X5 from COWON America. Rockbox works on this one &
> doesn't have the problems of the IPods.
>
> The website for this unit is at:
>
> http://www.cowonamerica.com/
>
> Wayne
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Earlier today, I wrote about a weird error message I'd been getting with Winamp
lately. I've also noticed that sometimes as of late, I have trouble burning
with CDRWIN if Norton Internet Security is running. I'd shut down NIS before
burning with Winamp, but still got the error. However, After
Hey, All.
Okay, I have some questions about Rockbox that I didn't see answered/asked in
my search of the archives.
With tax time coming up, since my birthday falls shortly after we get our
refund, I'm thinking of trying to convince my wife to get me an iPod.
First, I see from looking at Rockbo
Okay, I've had an error that's been popping up lately, just all of a sudden the
last few days, and I'm hoping someone here can help. I'm running WinAmp 5.32.
The error is pasted below:
Nullsoft Burner Error
Error during Audio CD burning process.
Library error: The SCSI command sent by the funct
That actually sounds pretty similar to the problem I've been having since
Winamp 5.2 came out. I'm running a similar system, though with a bit less
RAM. The problem still continues in Winamp 5.3.
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Hello.
I uninstalled and reinstalled Winamp, and am still having the same issues with
CD's as I described a couple weeks ago (regarding playing and ripping). Other
programs play the CDs fine without the crash, and CDEX will rip my CDs (but
it's slower than Winamp Pro). I don't know if upgradi
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> I'm running a system with windows xp pro.
> Brandon
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rd through a file, and winamp hangs up and makes this absolutely
> horible noise and won't stop unless I restart the whole system.
> Does anyone else have this problem and know what I can do about it?
> Brandon
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> From: "Wes Derby"
>
eboots. I don't have this problem
> with Windows Media Player ever. I have tried going back a few versions with
> Winamp, but still the same problem.
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Hi All.
Okay, here's a strange one; maybe someone else has experienced this. I now use
Winamp for all of my ripping needs, as well as most of my audio burning (I'm
now using CDRWin for data burning since Easy CD Creator is no longer
accessible.). Ever since the 5.2 series came out, I've had a
That's interesting to hear people saying how "inaccessible" the library
is...I'm running JFW 5.1, XP Home, and currently, Winamp 5.27...Thanks to
Jim's scripts, I have absolutely no trouble using the media library...Works
great for browsing files, searching for files, ripping/burning CD's, using
Hi Melissa.
I don't know if you've already gotten a response to this, but here goes...
I've been an XM subscriber for a couple years now, and naturally, was
curious about accessibility when XM Napster came out, and quite frankly,
when the initial Napster software was released for legal
downloa
Wow...That's amazing. I ripped two 2-CD sets (Beatles Greatest Hits, both
1962-66 and 67-70) in about a half hour total for all four CDs. Very
strange. Just burned a 41-minute album to CD in just under three minutes
with Winamp Pro 5.24.
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I installed the scripts after upgrading to Winamp 5.24...Everything seems to
work fine, except, JAWS keeps saying "Unknown Function Call to (something
unintelligible) Support". Any idea what this means or how to fix it? Also,
I'm still running JAWS 5.1 (My SMA expired and I haven't had the ext
Hi Chris.
I'm curious, what problems did you have with Winamp Pro? You mentioned it
didn't work all that well on your system...I only ask because I bought it
last September (at that time, it was $19.95, so according to your message,
sounds like they've lowered the price) and I find the ripping
Sirius isn't good for anyone, unless you're a weightlifter or have a U-Haul
to bring it home in. The units are god-awful, the programming (other than
the NFL) stinks, and from the listening I've done, their DJ's are awful. XM
is lightyears ahead of Sirius as far as technology goes. XM has had
Hi Kevin.
Okay, let's see if I can help you...Others may have already, but here's my
opinion.
I'm on the bottom floor of a 3-story apartment building in Everett,
Washington. With my home stereo, I have a MyFi hooked up, and my antenna on
top of the stereo speaker which is on a wall next to a
I evaluated both companies heavily before I chose XM...The only advantage,
IMHO, Sirius has is the NFL...Hopefully, XM will steal that away and Howard
Stern's contract will bankrupt the Little Doggy Company and leave XM as the
only one standing.
I admit, I don't have a lot of respect for Sirius
If I remember right, they discontinued the XMPCR about a year and a half ago
because of some software some guy created which allowed users to set the
XMPCR to not only record songs/programs from XM as individual MP3's, but to
tag them with ID3 tags as well. The creator mainly did this for the
This may have been handled already...I'm a bit behind on my email.
Which XM list are you referring to? My favorite is Ziggy's site,
www.xm411.com...Pretty accessible; I'm a regular poster there.
Ziggy also runs a great XM merchandise site, www.myradiostore.com.
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Hi Dick.
I'm sure you've gotten a ton of recommendations, but here ya go.
I used to use CDEX, but now find it slow, especially on my new computer.
Now, I use WinAmp Pro...I still have 5.111, though I see some newer versions
are out. It works great, and is fast.
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It's irritating to see how many sites are using this form of
verification...I work as a Readers' Advisor for the Washington Talking Book
& Braille Library. As part of my job, I maintain our general email account.
Many times, when replying to a user who has Earthlink as their ISP, I'm
given a f
Okay, I know I'm several months behind on my list mail, but I do have a
comment about this...It's one of the reasons I miss SonicNet's station
feature; the rating tool was accessible.
I wrote Yahoo about this a couple years back, and the response I got was
pretty much "It's a flash tool. Sorry
Hi All.
After hearing about it on the JFW list, I went ahead and decided to try
AresP2P. The first time I tried it, it froze my computer completely, but
that's besides the point...Last night, I installed it and got it working, found
some files and downloaded them. My question is, with this pr
Hi Juan.
I'm new to the list, but recognize some names from the JFW group...Anyway,
if this has already been answered, I apologize.
I find the Read-Only box in the Tag editor/info section of Winamp (alt+3)
displays the bitrate pretty easily. That's the best way I've found for
knowing the bitr
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