Re: getting size statistics on music folder

2008-09-10 Thread doc
nes, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 3430 (20080910) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List He

dvd audio extractor

2008-09-10 Thread doc
the program I currantly use will divide the disk into chapters which is great for the tv series I get but it also does the same with the movies I get. Is there another program I can use that will allowme to create a single file for movies? Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines

Re: av reciver or stereo reciever

2008-09-10 Thread Gary Wood
I have an Onkyo surround system that I use for TV and movies, but I feel that surround sound is excellent for music, in my opinion. I feel like I'm right in the middle of the orchestra, instead of just in the audience. I know this may be subjective, but that's my story! - Original Message

Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Dane Trethowan
Subject line says it all, both for Windows and Mac. -- Dane Trethowan From Melton Victoria Australia mailto:"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" phone (+61 3) 9005 8589 Fax (+61 3) 9743 7954 Mobile/SMS (+61 418) 773 532 MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype callto:grtdane12 ** Jonathan Mose

Re: dvd audio extractor

2008-09-10 Thread Christopher Chaltain
What application are you using? The application DVD Audio Extractor has several settings that will help with this. For example, you could break the movie up into chapters but then have it create a playlist of all of the chapters for you. You could also have it create one audio file for the whol

skype

2008-09-10 Thread Keith Gillard
Hi people. I am looking for some great and blind friendly user tutorials on Skype Written or Podcats it really doesn't matter. I am particularly interested in learning how to initiate and record conference calls as well as make and record Skype to land line calls. Please help. Thanks...KG

Re: getting size statistics on music folder

2008-09-10 Thread abarney
Hi Robert, select all, alt + inter for properties, that will do it. - Original Message - From: "Robert Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 9:16 PM Subject: getting size statistics on music folder > Hi, > > I have over two hundred

Re: dvd audio extractor

2008-09-10 Thread Bruce Toews
DVD Audio Extractor from www.castudio.org will allow this. Bruce On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:44:34 -0600, "doc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > the program I currantly use will divide the disk into chapters which is > great for the tv series I get but it also does the same with the movies I > get. Is the

RE: getting size statistics on music folder

2008-09-10 Thread Walter Ramage
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Re: getting size statistics on music folder

2008-09-10 Thread dennis
focus on the main mp3 folder. then hit alt enter for properties. root jaws to pc and start at the top of the window. it will tell you how many files, folders you have in that main folder. then it will tell you the total size of the folder. hope this helps. - Original Message - From: "ab

Re: dvd audio extractor

2008-09-10 Thread nick danger
Houdy doc, You can create single tracks with DVD audio extractor if I remember right on the third screen in the wizard if you uncheck the save each chapter as a separte file checkbox the file will then be created as one single file.. Hope this helps. Tony - Original Message - From: "d

Accessibility of Songbird

2008-09-10 Thread Blackwell, Clifford
Some recently recommended Songbird as a good music management, media play/burner. Does anyone have any experience with it's accessibility with screen readers? Thanks in advance! Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Lauren
If Itunes is accessible now, which Ipod is accessible as well? Sincerely, Lauren - Original Message - From: "Dane Trethowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:33 AM Subject: Itunes 8 now accessible > Subject line says it all, b

RE: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Alex and all, the new iPod Nanos are sort of accessible but do not use text to speech. They use the technique Rockbox has used for around 5 years, where they use your default system voice on your PC/Mac to create files that live on the nano to announce menus, albums and songs. In terms of iTunes i

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Rick Harmon
The newest version of the Ipod nano units. Rick - Original Message - From: "Tiffany Gordon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:17 PM Subject: Re: Itunes 8 now accessible what is a 4th generation nano? Tiffany - Original Message

Re: dvd audio extractor

2008-09-10 Thread doc
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Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Rick Harmon
Fourth generation Nano's are equipped with voice on menus. Rick - Original Message - From: "Alex Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 2:53 PM Subject: RE: Itunes 8 now accessible Lauren, According to the Apple website the lates

RE: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Stephen, I have not played with one so am going based on what I've read, but it appears that what happens is that when your nano is connected to your PC or Mac, a scan is made for all albums and songs on your nano. Using your default system voice, say RealSpeak Daniel in SAPI 5 as an example, fi

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread James Scholes
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Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Tiffany Gordon
what is considedred a 4th generation nano though? like how big memory wise? Tiffany - Original Message - From: "Rick Harmon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 1:42 PM Subject: Re: Itunes 8 now accessible > according to an article I r

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Rick Harmon
2 and 4 gb I believe from what I found on Google. Rick - Original Message - From: "Tiffany Gordon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:43 PM Subject: Re: Itunes 8 now accessible what is considedred a 4th generation nano though? like

RE: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Jonathan Mosen
The nanos go up to 16GB. I am really curious, given the technique they are using to do the speech, why it's not available on all the newer units including the hard drive-based players. Jonathan Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.or

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Rick Harmon
according to an article I read on another list Apple said the 4 th gen nano's had speech built in to the players and could be used on the go by blind users. Rick - Original Message - From: "Stephen Guerra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" Sent: Wednesday, September

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Tiffany Gordon
t; > > > Jonathan Mosen List Founder > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Jonathan Mosen List Founder > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Sunshine
i haven't had any problems with window eyes and ituens beta 3 of we and there is no set or scripts needed everything is accessible - Original Message - From: "Stephen Guerra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:17 PM Subject: RE: It

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Tiffany Gordon
what is a 4th generation nano? Tiffany - Original Message - From: "Rick Harmon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 1:17 PM Subject: Re: Itunes 8 now accessible > Fourth generation Nano's are equipped with voice on menus. > > Rick > --

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Tiffany Gordon
yes really. that is kind of odd, i think. Tiffany - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Mosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 1:54 PM Subject: RE: Itunes 8 now accessible > The nanos go up to 16GB. I am really curious, given the

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread saqib
Hi the Apple I-phones are touch screen. - Original Message - From: "Bruce Toews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:59 PM Subject: RE: Itunes 8 now accessible > Jonathan, are they still using touch-screens or have they switched to >

RE: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Stephen Guerra
Jonathan, so, when you have the new Nano hooked up to your pc, it feeds off the TTS you are running and loads it on to the Nano, or am I way off. Does the Nano require you to install software to have speech? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread saqib
Forgive me for my comment folks. Isn't it just easy enough to listen to music from your phone or preferred MP3 device. It's taken Apple so long to meet the VI sector half way with the accessibility issues. Their attitude was sod the blind and who ever can't access our devices or software. It's

RE: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Bruce Toews
Jonathan, are they still using touch-screens or have they switched to buttons? Or am I mistaking this with something else? Bruce On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:54:33 +1200, "Jonathan Mosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The nanos go up to 16GB. I am really curious, given the technique they > are > using t

Re: dvd audio extractor

2008-09-10 Thread doc
en List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 3432 (20080910) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com Jonathan Mos

RE: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Lauren this is true, but do keep in mind that without a PC or mac, the nano is useless anyway since you need to load music onto it. Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lauren Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2008 9:45 a.m. To: PC Audio D

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Tiffany Gordon
cool. thanks Rick. Tiffany - Original Message - From: "Rick Harmon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 1:49 PM Subject: Re: Itunes 8 now accessible >2 and 4 gb I believe from what I found on Google. > > Rick > - Original Message -

RE: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Saqib, I completely agree with you. I have no need for a Nano when I have an N82. But I think the reason why iPods and other stand-alone playback devices are so big in North America is that they have nowhere near a strong a smartphone culture as Europe, Asia and other places. Jonathan -Origi

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Rick Harmon
Thanks, I stand corrected. Rick - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Mosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:54 PM Subject: RE: Itunes 8 now accessible The nanos go up to 16GB. I am really curious, given the technique they are

RE: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Alex Stone
Lauren, According to the Apple website the latest IPod is accessible, but I haven't seen one, so I don't know. Cheers Alex -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lauren Sent: 10 September 2008 19:11 To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Itunes

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Lauren
Does this mean you cannot use the device without a PC? It will not speak menus when you want to choose the songs, etc. on the device itself? Sincerely, Lauren - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Mosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" Sent: Wednesday, September 10

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Rick Harmon
Jonathan, Doesn't playing music on your phone rapidly run your batteries down? And what about quality? I have a phone capable of playing music but I haven't really ever tried it out. Thanks, Rick - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Mosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC Audio Discussi

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Dane Trethowan
I could be wrong here but there are systems out there which will load tracks onto an Ipod (though I grant you the speech functionality probably wouldn't work ) I'm sure I've read about a couple of Panasonic systems which are now available, they have some sort of arrangement whereby the user

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Dane Trethowan
Yes that's indeed true but managing playlists for a couple of thousand songs can be a challenge for the best of us . Ipod Nanos are far cheaper than say mobile phones and getting Talks or Mobile Speak put on them, not to mention (in the case of the N95 phone at least), more practical as the

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Rick Harmon
Sounds very nice. Thanks for the information. Rick - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Mosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:42 PM Subject: RE: Itunes 8 now accessible Hi Rick, it depends on what else you're doing. On my N82

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Dane Trethowan
8GB and 16GB On 11/09/2008, at 6:49 AM, Rick Harmon wrote: > 2 and 4 gb I believe from what I found on Google. > > Rick > - Original Message - > From: "Tiffany Gordon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:43 PM > Subject: Re: Itune

Trotal recorder 7 and JFW

2008-09-10 Thread Keith Gillard
Hi guys, I installed TR7 as the FAQ sez I need it to record skype calls using the new kernal driver. after restarting it completely blew away all my sounds including windoes events and JFW. Is this a known bug or should I have installed it using the normal software driver then swithc in order

RE: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Jonathan Mosen
If this is the case, then the talking nano is seriously flawed, since you must connect a computer to it to get the speech recordings of your tracks and albums. Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Thursday, 11 Sept

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Christopher Chaltain
In response to the question "Does the Nano require you to install software to have speech?"I also think you need to have iTunes 8 on your PC. I don't think you need to install any software on the Nano though. Jonathan Mosen wrote: > Hi Stephen, I have not played with one so am going based on wha

RE: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Rick, it depends on what else you're doing. On my N82, I get about 10-12 hours of continuous music on a plane, that is to say when the phone functions aren't running. It's less when they are, and less again if you have WiFi active. Some of the new Nokia phones offer over 24 hours of music playba

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Lauren
Hi, Is there an Ipod that after you download the songs using a PC that you can take on the road and have it be accessible? Sincerely, Lauren - Original Message - From: "Rick Harmon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:48 PM Subject

RE: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Yes, this is what the nano will do. Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lauren Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2008 12:06 p.m. To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Itunes 8 now accessible Hi, Is there an Ipod that after you downl

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Dane Trethowan
As I'm aware you can use it with both Mac and Windows. On 11/09/2008, at 7:44 AM, Lauren wrote: > Does this mean you cannot use the device without a PC? It will not > speak > menus when you want to choose the songs, etc. on the device itself? > > > Sincerely, > > Lauren > - Original Messag

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Christopher Chaltain
Well, I don't agree with the statement "rather than just being content to sit back as blind people do on the whole and wine about how this isn't perfect, that isn't perfect or the other isn't accessible," and yes I did notice the smiley at the end! IMHO, blind people are people too, and this me

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Dane Trethowan
Indeed! but (as you said) most people use their Ipods with a computer of some description using Windows or a Mac. On 11/09/2008, at 9:26 AM, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > If this is the case, then the talking nano is seriously flawed, > since you > must connect a computer to it to get the speech r

Re: dvd audio extractor

2008-09-10 Thread Christopher Chaltain
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Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Gary King
Jonathan, I probably won't be buying a new iPod Nano since I have an N82 with plenty of storage and several other players including my old iRiver H120 with Rockbox, but I'm glad that Apple finally produced an iPod we can use without any modification. It's also nice that the voice tagging of me

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Dane Trethowan
I'd like to think I'm wrong as well but sadly (whether you agree nor not) its all too true. Christopher Chaltain wrote: > Well, I don't agree with the statement "rather than just being content > to sit back as blind people do on the whole and wine about how this > isn't perfect, that isn't pe

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Dane Trethowan
Yes, you do need Itunes 8 and only that, no extra software on the Nano. Christopher Chaltain wrote: > In response to the question "Does the Nano require you to install > software to have speech?"I also think you need to have iTunes 8 on your > PC. I don't think you need to install any software

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Christopher Chaltain
Yes, if you read down through this thread far enough, I think you'll see that if you have an iPod Nano (4th generation) and iTunes version 8 on your Mac or PC then you can set it up so that the Nano will given you spoken menus as well as spoken file and track names. Furthermore, iTunes version

RE: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Gary, There is software downloadable from the Rockbox site that does exactly what the software for the nano is doing. IE, it scans the MP3 player for files, uses your default speech synthesiser to make recordings of the albums, folders and file names, and puts those recordings with a special fil

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Rick Harmon
With one exception... The democrats and Republicans here in the USA. No one and I mean no one fights more than they do. Rick - Original Message - From: "Rick Harmon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:30 PM Subject: Re: Itunes 8 now

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Rick Harmon
I'd like to think it to be wrong as well, but I was sighted for 40 years and never saw the types of complaining and fighting and whining from other sighted persons that I've seen on blind mailing lists from many blind persons over the last 4 years since I lost my sight. The blind community sad

Apple Offers VoiceOver Getting Started for Leopard

2008-09-10 Thread Dane Trethowan
Hi Everyone! Here's a quote from an article which appears at http://www.lioncourt.com so you can navigate to this site to read the rest of the text. Apple Offers VoiceOver Getting Started for Leopard Podcast 10 September, 2008 @ 1:28 pm by Lioncourt In addition to the "VoiceOver

Re: Itunes 8 now accessible

2008-09-10 Thread Dane Trethowan
In 100% agreement with you on all that, its great we have a choice. Gary King wrote: > Jonathan, > > I probably won't be buying a new iPod Nano since I have an N82 with plenty > of storage and several other players including my old iRiver H120 with > Rockbox, but I'm glad that Apple finally p

Re: Apple Offers VoiceOver Getting Started for Leopard

2008-09-10 Thread Mr. Bill
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Re: Apple Offers VoiceOver Getting Started for Leopard

2008-09-10 Thread Dane Trethowan
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Re: Trotal recorder 7 and JFW

2008-09-10 Thread Jani Kinnunen
Hi, Keith Gillard wrote: > I installed TR7 as the FAQ sez I need it to record skype calls using the > new kernal driver. > after restarting it completely blew away all my sounds including windoes > events and JFW. I remember having read somewhere that it's a known problem and it will be fixed a