how do we import from iTunes? On Aug 29, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Esther wrote:
> Hi Will, > > Radium is a general internet radio player that also will support > subscription-based stations. Joe was asking how to access the Sirius XM > subscription playing. You can input a specific radio station in the search > field, or type in a category to use as a filter. You can also import > stations from iTunes, or from a URL, or contact the developer to add a > station if it doesn't show up in your search. If you find stations that you > like, you can mark them as favorites. You're also supposed to be able to > share your songs with Twitter and Facebook, though I haven't used these > functions. The ability to also stream subscription radio is an additional > feature. > > It's a very simple interface -- no library to manage, and just accessed from > the menu bar. And it's all accessible with VoiceOver. The price at the Mac > App store is $25, but if you go to the developer's site, or access it through > the Macupdate site, you can download a 30-day free trial version of the > program to check out. > > For more details, you can read a review about the app at MacStories from > April: > http://www.macstories.net/reviews/radium/ > > I'll excerpt bits of the review (snipped sections): > <begin quote> > Radium, A Fantastic Internet Radio Application > > Radium is one of those apps I fell instantly in love with. So much in fact, > it’s gotten me interested in Internet radio again… Sitting in your menubar as > an old portable radio, Radium is accessed with either a keyboard shortcut, or > by a simple mouse click. I opt for a generous mouse click, which then > displays a spotlight-esque menu of available stations. But what you see isn’t > necessarily what you get, as there’s so much to be discovered. Typing in a > station’s name, or a category like “Jazz” or “Alternative” will filter the > results, where you can then use the arrow keys (then the enter key) to make > your selection. Everything is incredibly fast and snappy… For station that > you’ll fall in love with, you can star it as a favorite…It’s incredibly > convenient to have a list of good stations in a single place, instead of > scrolling back through previous lists.… Radium’s features go deeper than just > your list of Radio stations though. In the preferences, you can establish a > myriad of keyboard shortcuts for just about anything, as well as being able > to open Radium at login (I suggest you do)…Lastly, I should talk about some > advanced features. If you have an XM Radio account, Radium can use your > credentials to stream XM Radio right to your desktop. Talk about awesome! For > those who have the bandwidth available, you can also have Radium play you > higher quality audio. > <end quote> > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On Aug 28, 2011, at 20:47, william lomas wrote: > >> oh ok so it only works with subscription based stations? >> >> On Aug 29, 2011, at 5:39 AM, Esther wrote: >> >>> Hi Joe, >>> >>> The preferences menu of Radium has three tabs: General, Controls, and >>> Subscriptions. If you want to access subscriptions, after bringing up the >>> preferences menu either by using Command+comma, which is the general >>> shortcut for accessing preferences in any application, or by navigating to >>> the "preferences menu" button (VO-Right arrow or Right Flick, if you >>> brought up access to the Radium menu through double tapping the Radium icon >>> in the dock with Trackpad Commander in the dock, or by using the >>> Shift-Command-E shortcut after you enabled it by checking the box in >>> Controls pane of the Preferences menu during a previous session), then on >>> the "Subscriptions" tab there is a message "To listen to a >>> subscription-only station with Radium, select the desired station and click >>> "Edit Subscription". Navigate to the table listing subscriptions and >>> interact. Then, after you have chosen the subscription service you want to >>> set up, such as Sirius XM radio, Sirius Internet Radio (Canada), >> X >>> M Radio Online (Canada), Last.fm Autoscrobbler, or one of the other >>> services, stop interacting with the table and navigate to the "Edit >>> Subscription" button. Press the button (e.g. VO-Space, or double tap if you >>> are using Trackpad Commander), then enter your E-mail and password into the >>> text fields in the dialog window, then press the "save" button to record >>> your subscription service information. >>> >>> You can explore the other Preference menu settings for options on how you >>> want to configure the app. For example, you could choose to have it >>> automatically tune in to the last-played channel, or to launch when you >>> login to your account. >>> >>> Plus, there are other buttons and shortcuts for the equalizer menu >>> (Command+E), or listening history (Command+I), as well as social networking >>> options that I haven't tried at all. You can custom add other internet >>> streams, and also request streams to be added. I've only played with the >>> trial version. I'm really intrigued by the way they managed to get around >>> the accessibility problems of using the status menu bar icon. Apparently >>> the icon is still in the status menu bar, but you don't have to try to >>> navigate to it to get the menu to show up. The keyboard shortcuts for >>> starting and stopping radium, or the double tap on the radium icon in the >>> dock if you have Trackpad Commander turned on will automatically bring >>> VoiceOver focus to the menu. >>> >>> HTH. Cheers, >>> >>> Esther >>> >>> On Aug 28, 2011, at 16:57, joe quinn wrote: >>> >>>> how do you access the xm raiod stuff? all i see upon etnering it, is a >>>> serach editbox. >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <mori...@mac.com> >>>> To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net> >>>> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 5:47 PM >>>> Subject: Re: dropbox >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> According to the Dropbox forums, the latest beta (released two days ago), >>>>> is version 1.2.28, and the Mac version can be downloaded from: >>>>> http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/Dropbox%201.2.28.dmg >>>>> I believe you have to relaunch Finder after installing a new version of >>>>> Dropbox. Either open Terminal (Command-Shift-U, then press "t e", and >>>>> Command-Down arrow to launch), and type: >>>>> killall Finder >>>>> followed by pressing return, or you should be able to do this from the >>>>> GUI with Command-Option-Escape to bring up the "Force Quit" window, and >>>>> select Finder. If you use the command line in Terminal, I believe that >>>>> "Finder" needs to be typed with a capital "F", since the unix shell is >>>>> case sensitive. >>>>> >>>>> Incidentally, on the issue of accessibility of menus from the status bar >>>>> icon, I was really surprised to find that the "Radium" program seems to >>>>> have come up with a solution. Radium is an internet radio listening >>>>> program for the Mac that was inaccessible up until the latest version. >>>>> But the version they released in mid-July announced full support for >>>>> Universal Access and VoiceOver in the "What's New" description for >>>>> version 2.8.1. And the way they set it up, you can either turn on >>>>> TrackPad Commander and double tap on the Radium icon in the Dock, or if >>>>> you prefer to use keyboard shortcuts, you can press Command+Comma to >>>>> bring up the preferences menu when the app is running, and then go to the >>>>> "Controls" tab, and check boxes in the table for any of the shortcut keys >>>>> for controlling the program. For example, if you check the box for >>>>> "Open/Close Radium", and accept the default shortcut of Shift-Command-E >>>>> (as in "echo"), you can afterwards access the control menu by pressin >> g >>> S >>>>> hift-Command-E instead of double tapping the Radium icon in the dock with >>>>> Trackpad Commander turned on. Basically, either of these methods gives >>>>> you access to the menu that you would otherwise require navigating to the >>>>> icon in the status menu bar, that VoiceOver doesn't "see", and clicking >>>>> with mouse or trackpad. There are a whole slew of shortcuts to control >>>>> playback, copy information, or links, and you can additionally use the >>>>> media function keys (F7, F8, and F9 to reverse, play/pause, and fast >>>>> forward), or use an Apple Remote, if you check the boxes for these >>>>> functions. And if you want to change the shortcuts for any of these to >>>>> something more to your own liking, just VO-Space on the shortcut you've >>>>> checked in the table, and type in your new shortcut key combination. >>>>> >>>>> This is really rather slick. I'm still wondering how they implemented >>>>> this fix, and whether the method can be used by other applications. If >>>>> you want to try Radium, there's a free trial download you can access at >>>>> the macupdate site that is Lion compatible: >>>>> http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/30468/radium >>>>> It's also available from the Mac App store for $25, but no trial download >>>>> through that route. When you launch the app don't be worried if >>>>> VoiceOver says there are no windows. Either bring up the app's >>>>> preferences with Command+Comma, then enable the shortcuts in the >>>>> "Control" tab so you can access the menu with Shift-Command-E (or your >>>>> own preferred shortcut), or else, you can double tap on the Radium icon >>>>> in the dock with Trackpad Commander turned on, which will also open the >>>>> menu window and switch VoiceOver focus there. You're placed in a text >>>>> field for searching for radio stations. You can mark these as favorites, >>>>> control output speaker volume in other locations (if you use an Airport >>>>> Express), access equalizer settings, etc. Most of the options will be >>>>> found on a preferences menu button that also lets you access the >>>>> Preferences menu. (This is how I actually found the preferences menu with >>>>> the shortcut options -- then I realized that I could have brought this up >>>>> dire >> c >>> tl >>>>> y without any recourse to Trackpad Commander just by pressing >>>>> Command+Comma.) >>>>> >>>>> For those of you in the U.S. or Canada, radium will also support playing >>>>> your Sirius XM and other such subscriptions. It also supports last.fm >>>>> "scrobbling" (another one of those music listening services that I never >>>>> tried before the iOS devices made them accessible -- this suggests other >>>>> listening and music based on the music collections of other listeners >>>>> with your tastes, but is only available in the U.S., U.K., and Germany, >>>>> and has a web site with accessibility issues). >>>>> >>>>> I'm mainly curious about how they put this solution into effect! >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> >>>>> Esther >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Aug 28, 2011, at 10:58, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Is the current beta on their site? >>>>>> >>>>>> Lynne >>>>>> >>>>>> On 28 Aug 2011, at 20:38, Sarah Alawami wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> It won't be. Apple has currently taken away the access to the status bar >>>>>> icons. I just ran the app and it worked this time when I installed the >>>>>> new beta of dropbox. I really dunno how i did it but it just worked. lol! >>>>>> >>>>>> Take care and that's no what you wanted to hear I know but until someone >>>>>> comes up with a fix? >>>>>> >>>>>> Take care all. >>>>>> On Aug 28, 2011, at 10:49 AM, joe quinn wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> when i start the machine, the dropbox thing comes up, but whenever i >>>>>>> try to interact with it to set it up, it's not in the vo shift f1 apps >>>>>>> list... help? >>>>>>> >>> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. 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