Re: Accessible radios?
Re: Accessible radios? Hello all. I miss this topic. So it has been 3 or 4 years since my last post in this topic but ccrane is the way to go. Same with Sangean. I'll admit, I'm more into radios than your average person. LOL I have been known to drop $100 on a radio and did not think twice. My recent toy is the sangean hdr14. It is an AM/FM radio that can get HD. It is accessible enough. As long as you don't need clocks or alarms. You can tune stations and save them as presets with no problem. It also has a speaker and better reception than a pocket radio should have. So if any of you are a radio nerd like myself then this is worth a look. I saw that talking radio mentioned above. I say screw that and if you are spending that kinda money just get the CC 2e instead. I'm not sure what kind of reception that talking radio can provide but I bet it's not better than the CC 2E. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/post/389638/#p389638 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessible radios?
Re: Accessible radios? Hello all. I miss this topic. So it has been 3 or 4 years since my last post in this topic but ccrane is the way to go. Same with Sangean. I'll admit, I'm more into radios than your average person. LOL I have been known to drop $100 on a radio and did not think twice. My recent toy is the sangean hdr14. It is an AM/FM radio that can get HD. It is accessible enough. As long as you don't need clocks or alarms. You can tune stations and save them as presets with no problem. It also has a speaker and better reception than a pocket radio should have. So if any of you are a radio nerd like myself then this is worth a look. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/post/389638/#p389638 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? Thanks for the link Trenton. I find it interesting reading, and GeneWarner, I do not have a cassette recorder at this time, or at the vary least I misplace the last one I had. The recorder I have sitting on my desk records directly to a macro SD card in either wav or MP3 and does not have anyway that I know of when it comes to control it remotely like that. I used this recorder to record clases before I graduated from university. On the other hand, it does sound like a good radio though. Speaking of witch, I clearly need to put my self up a wire antenna at the vary least... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=02#p02 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? I dont recall those, but that might not mean much. Then again, I may had known one or two people that had some kind of kit. As for the wire antenna, that should be easy enough for me to put together. After all, that will mainly be a wire put in the clip on the side of the radio I have and switching the switch to external. Then again, I will have to run the wire making sure that the run is clear from any RF noise such as my PC. LOL. That should be a cheap antenna to do up. I would find it interest if I could set up a dipole in the area I am at. The one good thing about the Grundig Satellit 750 is the choice of connections. Granted it’s a choice between a BNC and a wire clip type connection for antennas on the shortwave. The FM band on it only has the BNC connection witch leave to two bnc connections and a wire clip connection. It also has a 3.5 MM jack for the AM band here in the US. The one thing I should had done was a little looking over all before buying, but this topic is interesting so far... If I can pull in the shortwave stuff alot better than I am now, I may be talk in to get another to put some where else in the household. That is if I can come up with the cash and a good reason. At this time, that is a big if. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=63#p63 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessible radios?
Re: Accessible radios? I dont recall those, but that might not mean much. Then again, I may had known one or two people that had some kind of kit. As for the wire antenna, that should be easy enough for me to put together. After all, that will mainly be a wire put in the clip on the side of the radio I have and switching the switch to external. Then again, I will have to run the wire making sure that the run is clear from any RF noise such as my PC. LOL. That should be a cheap antenna to do up. I would find it interest if I could set up a dipole in the area I am at. The one good thing about the Grundig Satellit 750 is the choice of connections. Granted it’s a choice between a BNC and a wire clip type connection for antennas on the shortwave. The FM band on it only has the BNC connection witch leave to two bnc connections and a wire clip connection. It also has a 3.5 MM jack for the AM band here in the US. The one thing I should had done was a little looking over all before buying, but this topic is interesting so far... If I can pull in the shortwave stuff alot better than I am now, I may be talk in to getting another radio of some kind to put some where else in the household at some time. That is if I can come up with the cash and a good reason. At this time, that is a big if. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=63#p63 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? Yeah, back when I was a kid, I was very dissatisfied with the local radio stations, which at that time I thought were all after the bubble gum chewing crowd.So I mostly listened to short wave stations from all over the world. To my mind, there was nothing better for good reception than a good long wire antenna.My radio back then was one I built from a Heathkit. Remeber them? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=33#p33 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? One of the features of this radio that I use a lot is the ability to record programs to cassette pretty much the same way youd program a VCR to record a TV program for watching later.All you need is a cassette recorder that has connections for a mike with a pause switch, and a cable that you can get from Cobolt or any reasonably good electronics store. You program the radio with the day, time and band and frequency of the program you want to record, put a cassette in the recorder and put it in record mode (usually press the play and record keys). At the proper time, the radio turns on tuned to the band and frequency chosen, and starts the recorder. Since its directly connected to the radio, there wont be any ambient sounds on the recording. Later you can use the recorder to play back the recorded program, or use a separate player. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=222154#p222154 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? It is true that the tunein app is a really good streaming app, but not every station is on it. I have to also use Ihart and other apps for most if not all of my streaming needs for the IOS devices. As for long wave, I havent yet found a station of any kind on the longwave frequencies on this radio I bought before may. Longwave seems to be beacons where I am at if I find anything... Sometimes I wish I brought this topic it up before I went shopping, but I already said that here before. I didnt know about that one talking radio before I bought it... Anyway, I will go take a look at that TXT file and see what I think. I suspect I might not have to many radios. LOL. Even if I dont, my desk says no more. Of course my bank account agrees. LOL. Then the CCrain ones that was brought up in this topic earlier sounds nice. I am most likely more of a short wave listener than a lot people on this topic, but I cannot prove that. When I got what I got, I was looking for a good FM set that will also meet most if not all of my short wave needs within my price range. Anyway, if I had to choose today, it might just be between a CCrain and this. Is there an audio demo anywhere? Of course it will most likely not be a really good idea on how it will sound where I might put it based on the recording made along with mike placement and the like. Of course this assumes that it is recorded via the mikes on the recorder instead of hooking the recorder in to the radio... Also, from time to time, I may not know where I will have it next, so good AM and FM reception is a must for this amount of money... Hope I am not driving people nuts or mad or whatever you call it with this topic. Now for a more complete list of what I called a good radio. Good reception for the price range, sound must match reception if not better than reception, features must match the frequencies that it receives (SSB for short wave if all possible), reasonably easy to use, Antenna connections (for those times I wish to hook a different antenna in to it), speech output (if I can get it), battery power and option to power off of the AC, and the fm and AM bands here in the US and shortwave. The shortwave might be given up if the radio shows that reception on other bands are really good for the price range. At times such radio may be used to listen to local stations why hiding out in a basement if and when bad weather hits. Grant it, part of this list is a bit grey. Some of this did cross my mind back when I bought what I bought, but still this topic is proving very helpful. Hopefully, I didn’t make this post to long. Speaking of long, isn’t this over 500 words? LOL. I am a bit on the picky side when it comes to spending a lot on a good radio... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=222137#p222137 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessible radios?
2015-06-30
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AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Trenton Goldshark via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessible radios? For finding shortwave stations, you may wish to have a look at:http://swling.com/ URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=222164#p222164 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? if you want to record radio streams just use tapin radio, its a program which plays most of the stations available in the world and you can record with it too. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=222098#p222098 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? Running down the feature list, I see some of what I am looking for. One thing I do not see in the feature list is SSB (single side band). Allot of the two way communications that happen on shortwave uses this. I know that there is a lot of am stations on the shortwave bands too. I also dont see anything about any antenna connections on the radio. This would leave me to assume the antenna or antennas it or themselves are connected to the radio itself. When it comes to receiving far away stations, I get picky. I also get picky when a nearby station is over powering the radio if I have no option to deal with it. I dont mind using a wire antenna for AM reception if I can mostly filter out the power line hum. When it comes to local FM stations, a good clear sound is ok. I will understand if the sound isn’t beyond great. Is there an online PDF user guide? If so, it might list some of the things not listed on the maxiaids page. One other thing I do not see listed is the frequency range on shortwave. I am thankful you did bring this to my attention though and hope you don’t see this a complaining or anything like that. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=222083#p222083 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessible radios?
Re: Accessible radios? Running down the feature list, I see some of what I am looking for. One thing I do not see in the feature list is SSB (single side band). Allot of the two way communications that happen on shortwave uses this. I know that there is a lot of am stations on the shortwave bands too. I also dont see anything about any antenna connections on the radio. This would leave me to assume the antenna or antennas it or themselves are connected to the radio itself. When it comes to receiving far away stations, I get picky. I also get picky when a nearby station is over powering the radio if I have no option to deal with it. I dont mind using a wire antenna for AM reception if I can mostly filter out the power line hum. When it comes to local FM stations, a good clear sound is ok. I will understand if the sound isn’t beyond great. Is there an online PDF user guide? If so, it might list some of the things not listed on the maxiaids page. One other thing I do not see listed is the frequency range on shortwave. I am thankful you did bring this to my attention though and hope you don’t see this a complaining or anything like that. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=222084#p222084 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? @cw;Not at all, my philosophy is that the only stupid question is the one that isnt asked. So I dont see your questions as complaining, I had a lot of questions when I ran across the radio myself.Now to your points:No, it does not have SSB. I believe the radio was meant for the casual listening market and SSB would just complicate things.Although it isnt mentioned on the amazon or Amazon or Maxi Aids pages for it, it does have a connection for a wire antenna, a rather short antenna is included with the radio.Im sorry, since the short and long wave bands arent a priority for me, I dont know very much about them.There is an online manual, you can find it here: http://www.cobolt.co.uk/Cobolt/download … ctions.txtThe radio is pricey at $200 US, but for the accessibility it provides, Im happy with it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=222089#p222089 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessible radios?
Re: Accessible radios? Running down the feature list, I see some of what I am looking for. One thing I do not see in the feature list is SSB (single side band). Allot of the two way communications that happen on shortwave uses this. I know that there is a lot of am stations on the shortwave bands too. I also dont see anything about any antenna connections on the radio. This would leave me to assume the antenna or antennas it or themselves are connected to the radio itself. When it comes to receiving far away stations, I get picky. I also get picky when a nearby station is over powering the radio if I have no option to deal with it. I dont mind using a wire antenna for AM reception if I can mostly filter out the power line hum. When it comes to local FM stations, a good clear sound is ok. I will understand if the sound isn’t beyond great. Is there an online PDF user guide? If so, it might list some of the things not listed on the maxiaids page. One other thing I do not see listed is the frequency range on shortwave. I am thankful you did bring this to my attention though and hope you don’t see this a complaining or anything like that. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=222082#p222082 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? @cw;Not at all, my philosophy is that the only stupid question is the one that isnt asked. So I dont see your questions as complaining, I had a lot of questions when I ran across the radio myself.Now to your points:No, it does not have SSB. I believe the radio was meant for the casual listening market and SSB would just complicate things.Although it isnt mentioned on the amazon or Amazon or Maxi Aids pages for it, it does have a connection for a wire antenna, a rather short antenna is included with the radio.Im sorry, since the short and long wave bands arent a priority for me, I dont know very much about them.There is an online manual, you can find it here: http://www.cobolt.co.uk/Cobolt/download … ctions.txtThe radio is pricey at $200 US, but for the accessibility it provides, Im happy with it.I hope that helps you. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=222089#p222089 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? While most commercial radio stations stream their broadcasts over the Internet, I wonder how many short and long wave station do. If short and long wave radio reception is what youre looking for, I have my doubts how useful a program like Tapin Radio would be. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=222101#p222101 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? Hmmm. I looked at those links and find it sort of interesting. One question I have is how well does the radio handle distense stations and how well does it handle close and how power stations? Add to that, how well does it sound? Just wondering. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=221954#p221954 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? cw wrote:Hmmm. I looked at those links and find it sort of interesting. One question I have is how well does the radio handle distense stations and how well does it handle close and how power stations? Add to that, how well does it sound? Just wondering.Sound quality is Ok, but then Im not all that picky, as long as its clean and clear, Im happy. It seems pretty good on FM for sensitivity. Medium wave, a.k.a. as AM, is useless because the AC adaptor throws a lot of power line hum into the area, its not bad if you run on batteries. I havent used the long or short wave bands so I cant comment on those, though I do notice theres no power line hum on those bands. The included wire antenna is rather minimal, for short and long wave reception you might want to use a long wire antenna instead. My primary use of it is as a blind accessible clock radio for recieving FM station s. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=221980#p221980 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? As far as an accessible radio goes, this is what I have: http://www.maxiaids.com/products/6796/S … AM-FM.htmlIts made by Cobolt Systems Lt.: http://www.cobolt.co.uk URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=221856#p221856 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? The 2e runs about 170. I say you get a lot of radio for the buck. The audio quality the radio produces on headphones and speaker is incredible. Sidenote: The AM audio quality is brighter on the cc skywave compared to the 2e. But the 2e has better sensitivity on am but the skywave is a decent am radio. Both are awesoem on fm but again the 2e has the edge for sure. If you like radios that can get stations on adjacent channels then the 2e is the radio for you. Like if tropo is happening and you have a 10 watt station near where you live then this radio can get a frequency that is booming in on the next channel. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=218100#p218100 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? As for the 2E, I am asuming you meaning this one on amazon? I am also asuming the skywave can be found here. I am sort of wishing I brought this up last month when I was shopping. LOL. To me, any shortwave receiver must have pretty good reception at worse and great reception at best. It must have good selectivity, and single side band for those things that I wish to listen to that require it. LOL. The skywave looks like a ok radio, but I will have to see it and here it to know for sure to see if giving any of the features I wish to have in a short wave receiver is Werth giving up. As for am and fm reception good selectiving and good reception is a must. That of cource is one of the things that make the 2e look good on the specks, but then again, hearing and seeing it in action would be a good thing... Anyway, anyone know how best get a good recording of what my current radio is receiving? Right now, I run a cable from the ear phone jack of the radio to the line in jack on my computer and use audacity to record, but seeing that I have the radio setting right next to my PC, that isnt always the best of options. I do have a zoom h1 recorder setting here on my desk, but I am not to sure how much it can take via the audio input jack. The the Grundig Satellit 750 does have a line out jack on the back, but it is split up in to a left and a right channel jack in stead of one 3.5 MM jack like what you would see on the back of a PC. As a side note, I wish I new where that little bit of a background hum is coming from when I listen to it over my headset.That is one thing that is for sure against the Satellit 750 radio here. another thing werth noting is that this radio clearly could use a bit more work done to all of the am reception stuff. Yes, there is a reason for the mix reviews. a good external antenna may help with some of the stuff, but... I have heard that that is what is needed to make it sing per say. Really wish I asked here before I bought anything. LOL. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=218112#p218112 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessible radios?
2015-05-26
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AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Trenton Goldshark via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessible radios? For those who are wanting FM radio, and have a compatible phone for it, best to have a look at Next Radio , as most newer phones these days may have the FM chip disabled intentionally so you are forced! to stream your music.As for other accessible radios out there, one that has not been mentioned, is the Iris Web Radio , which I see has grown there stations quite a bit now. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217749#p217749 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? For voice dream reader, you can look here and here for more info. HTH. I will give those sites a quick look at least. I had short wave sets before, and I got tired of crappy reception. So when I picked up this set, I was looking for an antenna connection. I know that isn’t the end all, but it helps. I was also looks for SSB reception on the HF bands. Speaking of old receivers, I read a book on the history of the portable receivers. I don’t remember the exact name, but I think it was called “the portable radio in American life”. Trust me, from some of the descriptions, there was pretty nice sounding radios towards the end of the book. LOL. Reading about them made me want one or two of them to collect. LOL. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217756#p217756 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? Apple isnt really known for good and well done cloud type stuff. I really dont know why apple forces people to use a music program or ICloud to back things up. Of course there is google drive and dropbox for stuff if you can get your apps to aloud you to move the data in to dropbox or google drive. LOL. I have everything in folders on my system. I havent yet import all my audiobooks in to ITunes do to the design of ITunes. LOL. I have a misc. folder set aside for those things that I cant put or doesnt make sense anywhere else. I have found that dumping a lot of my audio books in to the voice dream reader app, and or on my stream. Game sound tracks is one thing that ITunes does not get. I have come across recordings that I dont even dare put into ITunes. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217666#p217666 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? Its not just about misc stuff, its things like when I have a series of audiobooks I always name and number the folders in reading order, or in ways that are sensible to me. For example I have a main audio folder which has the names of authors or sometimes productions or settings such as Doctor who or Starwars. Within my audio folder I have one for Cs lewis. this has folders for the audiobooks of the Narnia series and his Space trilogy, plus some stand alone audio books like the Screwtape letters. I then have a folder called narnia audio dramas which has separate subfolders for the Bbc and Focus on the family versions. Within my music folder, I have separate folders for orchestral music and film and game soundtracks, plus I have a lot of stuff that is really not of any definable genre anywway.While I am not obsessive about it, I do like having stuff where I can find it, and given that I have a fairly amount of audiobooks, music and audio dramas, it does make sense for me to try and keep things organized in a way that I can always find stuff, which is why even when I was using Itunes I refused to play Apples silly artist/album game, (heck half the stuff I have doesnt come in albums anyway).Icloud wouldnt be my favourite choice of backing up my Iphone, but I view it as the lesser of two evils when set against Itunes, I just hope when I do decide to upgrade my Iphone (possibly when the Iphone 7 series comes out), the Icloud backup will work as planned and I can restore all my contacts, aps etc onto the new device, same goes of course if anything nasty happens to my Iphone in the mean time. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217667#p217667 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? After your explanation, the reasons you gave do make sense. With me, I do have enough audio books on my computer that I have to make sure that it gets over to the devices that I want them on and that it showed up just right. I finally gave up on that and just dumped them in to the voice dream reader app or on my stream. LOL. Yes, the voice dream reader does pretty good for that. I just haven’t tried it with dramatized stuff yet. It will not be good for this if it will not handle stereo stuff. Granted, I still have to use ITunes, but at least I can drop them in the voice dream reader app itself and not have to worry about ITunes getting it messed up. Let’s see, I have a music folder for all the music I can arrange by artist or by just about any other means that I find that I needed. If you look in to my music folder, you would find that the music itself is arrange sort of like how you might would find it in ITunes. There is some difference though. The first thing that is different is that once the music folder is open, each folder that you are faced with at first is a letter and a various artists folder for those albums that don’t fit anywhere else. I have an audio folder set aside for everything else. In this audio folder, I have an “audio books” folder, a “dramatized audio” folder, an “old time radio” folder, A “TV and Movie audio” folder, and an “audio misc.”. folder. In my audio books folder, I have my audio books arranged by title seeing that I haven’t really bought enough of them on CD to really get more precise than that. Needless to say, only the music folder is in my ITunes library or at least, ITunes only knows about the music folder. LOL. I just don’t feel like trying to get my whole audio folder in to ITunes correctly. If I download something off the net and I am not too sure where I am going to put that peace of audio, I put it in the audio misc. folder until I decide. I have the MP3 to audio book converter thing for my PC to convert somethings into M4B files at times. One difference between what you do and what I do may be due to when I listen to my music on my IOS device, I mainly want to shuffle through all of my music while out and about and don’t really care all that much how messy it is until I want to find that song on the PC. LOL. Isn’t it kind of strange how this topic was about radios, and now it is bash ITunes. LOL. Speaking of radios, I wonder if I could find me one of the receivers that can receive the communications of the fire and police departments here in the uSA... I don’t expect to get that info here on this form based on what some people use those receivers for. Another thing, know where all the good sources for old time radio is? The internet archive is one good source, but... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217719#p217719 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? Well otrcat.com is a site I have just brought some old radio stuff from.The price is as much for the cds to be shipped and thats all.so 5 bucks for 1 cd 20 for 4 cds.I spent 80 bucks mainly as birthday presents and I think I had a 4 a 3 and then several 1 and 2 disk sets.otrr old time radio reserchers is another one they have a distribution library and some of there completed stuff is found on the internet archive.I have not touched c crane though at one point in the past before it basically died locally when I got an old receiver, shortwave basically died here and before I was looking for a good receiver.For me this is probably not going to happen as such, as my grandpa has an old 1930s set he got back in the day.Its not been used for ages but has good sound.The unit is in a leather case and apart from a busted switch, its still working its quite clunky though.However its destined to be mine after he dies since I did ask him if I could have it when that happens.On the radio side though, there is tune in which I have not tried, global tune which apparently accesses physical radios you can tune anywhere in the world, and that sort of thing.Here we have all our radio stations going through I heart which I have not tried.A lot of the media companies especially for the government and other stations do band together though which basically means I can get whatever I want.Once you have the station name though if you can get it its possible to pick up a live stream via their website.The government controlled stations I do listen to have am fm, net, mobile app and are on I heart they also have facebook, twitter and email service.To be honest Id probably listen to more net streams if bandwidth was not so f**cking expensive here in new Zealand.What I pay covers the youtube part of it, podcasts and system updates and a few other shares.However the streams th at others including myself on youtube does push it over and its almost 100 bucks as it is well over 70 anyway.If I ever moved out Id probably have to get a cheaper previder or go to dialup which sadly has never gone much over 10 dollars.That will cut out basically every audio stream, game etc anything that is not text can all go to hell.The only reason I can even afford the net now is because I live at home with my family.So streaming on the net just for the heck of it doesnt happen.A few tv stations are similcasted with radio stations and some have digital stations accessed over our free to air digital tv nets but thats about it.Though of late the only time I listen to radio its from a programmed set painfully done manually by listening to stations after the batterys are changed, and then that is only in the car.News is done via the local government national broadcast station which does not carry adds bar for itself and no bs and sensationalised crap that all the other stations not funded by the government get.The news is quite good as is weather.The programs are for what I listen to are mostly ok and not much changes from day to day.Its fair to say though I spend more time at this laptop than I spend on any other device though.Especially since I am in reality software, I need to devote a few hours a day to gaming and such and while I do posess because of preasure from friends facebook and twitter its only for viewing and not writing anything. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217726#p217726 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? The only site I know for old time radio shows is Radiolovers which is here which has some nice stuff either for vague interest (while the series is way too cheasy for me,it was interesting hearing the first ever episode of buck rogers), or some actually quite interesting things, there is a rather amusing old 60s bbc radio comedy called the Clithero kid which I found quite funny, I also like some of the old dramatizations of books like 1984 or John Wyndhams sf.I wouldnt say were just! bashing Itunes in this topic (besides Itunes deserves a good bashing), I also find the discussion of music organization and playback quite illuminating. I have an audio and music folder as well, but my audios are mostly in author folders and then subfolders for series or for audio dramas. Im particularly pleased with my dr. Who folder which has one folder for all the big finish stuff, with subfolders for their variou s series and spinoffs, then individual folders for each encarnation of the doctor with subfolders for tv novelizations, original novels, tv soundtracks with audio description etc. In my music folder not everything is organized by artist or categorization, and some stuff like my blackmores night folder even has albums, albeit other stuff doesnt. One advantage however of organizing as I do means that I can drop individual files into folders with subfolders, which is really handy if I get something from youtube. For example, I heard a gorgious prelude by Rachmaninoff which i found a nice version of on Youtube. Sinse its just a file and I dont have a main folder for it I just drop it into my orchestral music folder with all the various sub folders for different pieces and such. Actually, one advantage of having my stuff organized as I do is I can choose what I want shuffled. For example if I want a full eclectic mix I can put my entire music folder on shu ffle, where as if I just say want a mix of all of Enyas stuff I just put my Enya folder on shuffle.That is the one thing you cannot do with the victor stream, sinse the way it shuffles its music category it shuffles all music and if you want something smaller you have to create playlist files and copy them across, but sinse I always like to chop and change what music I have on my Victor at any given time so I dont get board, I havent particularly bothered with looking into thiss. Then again Ive never been that interested in playlists, sinse generally if I want somethingg specific to play Ill just play it, whether that is a single piece or a hole soundtrack. I mangled with playlists on Itunes, but it was the only way to say get all the files in an audiobook to play properlly in order, much less one or two audiobooks in series.Btw, what exactly does this voice dream thing do? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217722#p217722 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? I will look in to those apps. I really wish I brought this topic up before I bought the radio. LOL. What can I say. I will give the CC2E radio a look. How much radio do you get for the price? I guess that can be found out by going and looking it up. Main question should be is how well does it work for the price? I enjoy bringing in the far off stations until they start boring me. LOL. As a side note, I guess if I want to get the best use of what I got, I better put some kind of an antenna up outdoors. Hope a receiving antenna doesn’t require all that much when it comes to making sure it is matched to what I received. Not that I don’t mind matching the antenna to the correct wave length, but I kind of want to get the full HF freq range on my radio. Somehow I think I would get a few comments if I put up a few antennas, or at least had a little bit of help. LOL. How well does the KNFB app work on a IPad? I do not have an IPhone just yet. You had a lot of different brands didn’t you? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217552#p217552 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? @Cw, your slightly off on the bbc and Uk licensing. Firstly, the Bbc is most definitely and certainly not! biased towards the government at all, indeed a regular topic of scandle in the Uk is how far the bbc jernalists go in terms of making the government not exactly look great, (particularly as earlier this month during a general election). For example, a recent tv series that the bbc commissioned was called inside the commons which was pretty much what you got, indeed how much it showed of the government mired in traditions and party rivalries even down to silly things like mps being called to vote on issues they hadnt been present for the debate for was actually quite depressing in an illuminating way. Im not saying the Bbc are perfect, but certainly they do mostly try! to be impartial, and theyre far from being a tool of the state, indeed from what little I understand of these things American news seems often to be much more biased o ne way or the other.As to licensing, in the Uk you need a license to watch live broadcasts, and its the license fees that pay for the bbc, although with a tv youll get access to other channels and inddependent networks, indeed for a long time in the Uk all tvs had four channels, bbc 1 and 2, the independently funded Itv and then channel 4, with channel 5 (another network), being started in I believe 1999. Now of course the independent networks have far more channels than just the initial, and even without access to sky youll get lots of other tv channels as well with different themes and biases, although the live broadcast license thing is still in effect and is the reason I dont myself have access to tv sinse I just wasnt using the thing.As to radio, all radio is free and requires no license you just need to own a radio. Like the tv channels, bbc radio stations dont have adds sinse they get the main grant from the bbc themselv es. This counts all the fm stations, bbc radio 1 (mostly pop music, sensationalist news and sport updates particularly football), Bbc 2, (aimed at a slightly older/more artistic audience with more dated music and less tabloid news plus the odd question time or talk show), bbc radio 3 a rather elitest classical music station, Bbc radio 4 which is pretty much uniquely devoted to informational programs, political discussions and radio dramas, and radio 5, which is %100 sport. There is also a local Bbc radio station for each county in the Uk. In addition to the Bbc there are various legitimate independent radio stations that do run adds such as Classic fm (far more fun and less snobby than radio 3), who I listen to, Jam fm, Hearts fm, smooth radio etc. Am is generally left up to independents and smaller operations from what I understand. Im not sure on the long wave ban in the Uk, sinse thats not something Ive heard of but I admit Im not a radio nut I just like listening to certain things occasionally. On a completely different subject I finally got around to adding the wrireless network info to my victor stream so i can use it for internet radio and podcasts, which sis cool! I particularly like how it can play various sorts of podcast feeds from a given url. It actually makes quite a nice podcatcher really, its the first time Ive bothered with the humanware companion software for the thing (sinse I need it to transfer podcast urls), but sinse its just a copy and paste one press thing its really not an issue. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217564#p217564 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? Hmmm. Interesting. I am learning a lot on this topic, or at least it would appear so. Here I am used to the news being one sided at times and the TV receiver not requiring a license. LOL. As for the whole long wave thing, what I read may be totally or at least in part wrong. An here is a quick thing I found on Wikipedia. So take it for what it is Werth. That does sound like a nice feature of the new stream. I just really haven’t bothered upgrading from my current one to the new one. I have found the copy and pasting stuff in the correct directory to be faster than ITunes, but I also found that overcast makes a pretty good podcatching app. Add to that, the voice dream reader app and the bard app you can see why I haven’t upgraded yet. I wonder how each country is different in this regard... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217601#p217601 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? And I can clearly see why you would lean more towards the stream. It isnt all that hard to put your favorite media on it and it is easier to have it where you want too. I am thinking about getting the newer one, but just haven’t got around to it yet, or at least that is part of the reason. Part of why I lean toward the IOS devices is the apps. It is nice having some of your music and books on it along with some games, but there is also a plus to having the books and music on another device. Add to that, ITunes is a pig. Yes I said a pig. Don’t know why apple had to go get rid of that side bar just to make it look like IOS. Add to that, is everything apple thinks you want to do with it from play music and movies and buying stuff from the ITunes and app store. Is it any wonder why ITunes is a challenge? Speaking in which, I need to go see how much ram ITunes really takes up. It has been running pretty good sense my last upgrade seeing that I went from 1 GB of ram on a XP machine to 16 GB of ram on a windows seven machine. Yes there has been times where the ITunes library would get all messed up, but that is usually fixed from me just reaching in to the windows backup thing and just replacing a few files each time it happens. Speaking of the computer, does anyone know about any computer controlled radios on the market? It might be interesting to see. I would like to, at some point, listen to some stuff in my local area over the internet and may find it easier to tune up and down the dial instead of finding out how exactly how to stream that station I want to listen to. Granted, a lot of stations are streamed over the net. Some requires the I Hart app, others require the tune in app. Sometimes, I might have to find the app for the network I wish to listen to. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217616#p217616 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? Well Cw, attempting to report the truth without bias is actually in the Bbc charter, though of course how well they succeed at this can vary between different jernalists and situations. Generally in the Uk though its the tabloid papers that have the huge reputation for bias and describing someone as like a tabloid reporter means that theyre basically just out for sensationalism or to push their own feelings, Rita Skeeter in the Harry Potter series was very much based on the idea of some tabloid newspaper jernalists in the way she behaves and the way she always writes according to her own personal agenda and what will provoke most reaction rather than any concern for Obviously we dont get bard or nls and such over here so thats less a concern. I probably wouldve looked for a podcatching ap if I was still bothered about media playback on my Iphone, but as Im already using my Victor stream for books and such I might as well have podcasts on there too, though I can definitely sympathize with not bothering upgrading if you have n earlier model. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217610#p217610 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? I do use some of the artist/album/genre info when organizing my music, but the thing that really drives me crazy is when I give ITunes the correct info, it only makes that change to its own data base. I wish it would add the info to the files in question too. I basically have music set up where I can choose a letter of the alphabet and get a list of artists (last name first) that has that letter as the first letter of their last name. then when I open that folder, I see all the albums by them. This is sort of how I got my folder structure set up. I also have a folder set aside for those albums that have multiple artists on it. In this case, I often arrange it by genre if I can. Of course things are not helped by me not having my ID3 tags right in the MP3s. I really hate how ITunes handles audiobooks at times. Things get worse when I wish to move my music around a little bit to make a bit more sense at times. As for ICloud, I really don’t trust all that much. I prefer to back my data up to other places. Yes, I have a folder set aside for audiobook on the hard drive. I even have a folder set aside for dramatized things and any described video things that I might get from the BlindMice movie vault. LOL. The only thing that keeps me hooked on ITunes is the fact I have an IPad air with 40 GB of my music on it. I doubt the stream can take a card bigger than a 32 GB. Ok ok ok, here I am just coming up with reasons. As for entertainment over all, I use my IOS devices to stream things as much as I can. over all, Now for the streams, You might want to look here to see what the differences are. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217624#p217624 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? I still do very much like my Iphone for the aps and games and what not, and will use it for those things, (I was playing audio defense just this afternoon), but Itunes I hate. For me who has a very specific folder structure for books and music, Apple imposing their stupid organization with all that artist/album/genre rubbish and taking no notice of all my organized folders and subfolders just got up my nose.I did manage to brute force a way around with playlists for a while, but it was very much the case of me having to screw the huge bloated mess of a program to do what I wanted rather than letting it dictate to me, then when the side bar labels went by by that was the last straw sinse I just thought why the hell am I going through all this rubbish when I could just copy all my existing folders by usb? Its just been so much easier sinse I got the stream I really wonder why I ever bothered with cruddy itunes at all? Ive now removed the stupid thing from my pc and my over baring feeling is good riddence! Heck, i dont even need it for backing up my contacts, purchiced aps and games and what not sinse I can do that bia Icloud anyway. In fairness this is exactly what I thought when I bought my Iphone back in 2012, the one area I wasnt certain of was media playback, I said at the time that I might need to buy an mp3 player and that was how things worked out. As for carrying two devices, well one consequence of having a guide dog is that I usually carry a shoulder bag (what my parents disconcertingly refer to as my man bag), with me at all times with biscuites, Reevers permission cards, a spare fold up boal in case she needs a drink as well as other useful items such as my bank card, bus and rail passes, folding umbrella, packet of extra strong mints, pocket comb and pitch pipe (yes, I carry a pitch pipe around with me). Not to mention my sanheisa earbudso adding a s econd device which is roughly the same size as the Iphone 5 into that really isnt a big deal, and its remarkable how often carrying something to read pays off, sinse its really nice to be able to go to my very nice local sandwich place and while I cant just pick up newspapers off the table like all the sighted people do, I can pull out a book and start reading while I drink my morning coffee.As to upgrading the stream, Im not exactly sure which functions the newer model has over the previous one so I cant judge whether the upgrade would or would not be worth it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217619#p217619 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? You can use a 64 gb sd card with at least the modern stream, but Ive not bothered sinse I basically found 32 gb more than enough for on the go. I personally just hate all that artist/genre/album rubbish myself sinse Ive got far too many things like game soundtracks and audiobooks that just dont classify that way. It also annoys me that apple say oh its your fault for not having propper Id3 tags when actually the Id3 tags for some things just dont exist and its far easier to just add files to a folder any how than go through and rename every single track, again its apples do it our way or else thinking, indeed I sometimes wonder if Apples system is actually deliberately restricted in hopes youll have to rebuy all your stuff with Itunes from them directly rather than use your own. As to the cloud backups, Id rather trust the cloud than Itunes, (and why you should be us ing a music program for data backup anyway I dont know), although Id be much happier if I could backup as I do on windows by just copying everything onto my backup external drive. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217643#p217643 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? Hello. I have the cc 2e radio and love it. I also own the cc skywave radio. The skywave has shortwave and the 2e does not. The skywave is very straight forward. Plus ccrane has a blind guy record descriptions of the radio. As of now, ccrane is my go to radio brand. I have had sangeans, grundigs/etons Tecsuns and a few other brands. I have found ccrane to be the easiest to operate. One idea for you. You can hold your phone near the screen and have taptapsee or knfb try to read to freqs to you. Im a hardcore dxer myself so I love radios that work good as well. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217509#p217509 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? Here in the US, there is no need to have a license to receive radio or TV. The license comes in to play when you wish to transmit on said radio or TV bands. There is still music stations on the air here, but it is easy enough to find the talk show and news stations. Such news and talk stations here are easier to find on AM, but there is usually a station or two at the vary lease on the FM band here. Here There is only one AM band and one FM band. And of course, if you want to receive some of the shortwave stuff, then all it will take is the correct receiver. The down side here is the adds. Allot of the stations here have to find their own money, so needless to say that the adds seem to do the trick for them. Lets just say that I would not want to run any station here that just focuses in on music. After all, couldnt such stations be replace by pandora and the like? As for the debates, when they come around, it is extremely easy to find a station to listen to them on and they usually do not get interrupted by adds. Add to that, they are usually better to listen over TV or radio instead of the internet. The delay is usually smaller and things don’t get choppy when the net is running really slow, like it has been known to do here where I am at times. Here in the US, a talk show is basically a show that has a few people talking to each other on radio or TV giving their views on just about anything. There are talk shows where there is just one person behind the mike, but these shows have people calling in. Sometimes, it is a Man or woman telling you how to use that brand new computer and or answering your apple watch or IPhone question on the air. Right now, if anyone is wondering, I am visiting some people out in the country and it is a challenge to get internet that is Werth anything. About the best that can be gotten here is about 3 MBPS down. Sometimes That connection will drop below .5 MBPS. LOL. Anyway, the accessible problem really comes in to play when I want something that can receive and record what it receives. At this time, I have to hook my PC or zoom H1 in to my radio whenever I wish to record something that is coming over the radio. Now days, I find that the news and talk stations are Werth listening to instead of the music station most of the time. There is usually something new on those stations, but such stations are usually a bit one sided. LOL. This means that I have to question everything. If it is a news station, there is a good chance that they will cover one side of a story, and the talk shows covers the other side, or something gets left out. Here, if you wish to make sure a station airs just your side over everything else, you got to make sure that there is something in it for them. If it is a government run station here, chances are, the government would put their spend on everything that goes over that station. So if I don’t look at the BBC with favor, you can guess why. So comes down to getting money for yourself if you’re a station, or having the government comment on what is transmitted. Either way, money to some degree comes in to play. Whoever pays the bill has a say. The saying, “there is no free lunch” comes in to play here. Sometimes, it is refreshing to channel serf around the HAM radio bands where the only money spent is the money spent on the radio equipment itself. Here in the US, there are a few exceptions to the license rules. For example, the CB band. You can go get yourself a CB radio, and have forty AM type channels to chat with other people on. There are a few rules in place, but there is none requiring a license. Of course that means that those so called rules are usually not enforced. LOL. After all, why would you go and spend money finding a transmitter that is putting out just a bit more power than is leangle if such transmitter is easily moved and owner ship isn’t always known. LOL. Ham radio operators here in the US is given a call sign whenever they get a license and such call signs are usually traceable when they need to be. On the other hand ham radio operators are allowed to change their stations up anyway they like as long as the rules are followed. Here in the US, there is also a FM type band or two that people can get on and chat without a license, but those are usually short range hand held radios that only go about two miles or so. I am not too sure how to convert that to KM. As for me, I like so call playing with different gadgets and the like. I like to see what they can do. LOL. Doesn’t the UK have some kind of long wave ban or something? Thought I read something on Wikipedia and we know how well that can be trusted at times. LOL. Another thing, I find that I do prefer podcast over talk shows a lot. I can usually find a podcast that is more towards my likening. I guess it can be understandable why I want access to the readout on my radio, I do get why it is done only in a visual way which does not allow me access
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Re: Accessible radios? The discman has just stayed working because, well I havent done anything nasty to it and there is no reason it shouldnt, albeit these days its easier to carry say my victor with music digitally than to try and carry a lot of cds.For music though I do have to agree things change, albeit I dont like apples attempt to hog the market with its annoying proprietry Itunes (though that is another debate). Then again, in the Uk at least radio has slightly different functions. Bbc Radio 4 for instance is where they stream a lot of debates, informational programs as well as new audio dramas and comedy series. While of course you can usually get the comedies and such on cd or digitally, why would you want a digitization of a political debate?this is actually particularly making a point in the Uk sinse you dont need to pay a license fee for a radio and lots of people who do not particularly care for tv still do radio, (I dont have a tv lice nse myself sinse I never used the dam thing).Then of course, there is the fact that radio plays a selection of music, including being a platform for what is new, and contains news or information as well. This is why I listen to classic fm even though I have a large collection of music. Thus I do see radio staying around and possibly even in fm form given that there isnt much difference digitally as you noticed, certainly not like say the difference between an audio cassette and a tv or a vhs tape and a dvd. Btw, on an odd tangent, I really dont! see the difference with blue ray. maybe its my lack of vision, but where as I could see a clear image difference (and hear a difference in the sound qualityy), between vhs and dvd which is why I now replaced a lot of my favourite vhs films with dvds, I dont get the same thing with blue ray at all. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217412#p217412 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? That is a shame about apple being the exception instead of the rule. I can understand if the dial on this radio didn’t have a digital read out. I do listen to most of my radio station type things over the internet as it is, and I guess I was hoping for something a bit better than what I have. I spent around $260 on this radio. Granted, I had a feature set in mine. They through in a clock, the ability to hook in an outdoor antenna if I wish along with shortwave reception. Yes, that includes with SSB reception along with a narrow/wide band button on the front. I just wish they through in the speech for that price and the clock on it is useless to me. LOL. Oh well, at least the sound isn’t too bad. The dollar amount is in US money and it is the most I spent for this kind of device. I guess If I want to have better sound on it, I could get a stereo system with good speakers. Another thing that drives me crazy here, and this may not mean anything to this topic, is that someone here in the US got the idea to mix digital radio with analog radio and called it HD radio. LOL. I would mind as much except the fact that I see no reason to go in for that tech. It doesn’t sound that much better than the analog stations. Add to that, the switch between analog and digital versions as I move about is a bit odd at best. Don’t know why a different radio band wasn’t set aside for the digital radio stations in the US. At least the ham radio people seem to get it right when it comes to transmissions. The signal is either analog, or 1s and 0s. I haven’t yet heard any station yet that uses the DAB stander. Granted, this radio only receives analog signals. Off and on, I here about these radio looking things that connects to your network and streams audio over the internet. I haven’t got these devices yet do to the accessible problem thing. I find that my IPad works better for me at this time for that use. Anyway, I guess I will keep an eye open just in case something surfaces that is reasonable when it comes to the price. When I was using the IPod touch 3rd gen, I had this HD radio thing that hooked into the 30 pin connection. Needless to say I didnt search for a replacement when I update the IPod touch to the 5th gen and updated the IPad to the air 2. Granted, I got a walk man like reception, and I did expect that when I got it. LOL. I dont see why I should get a replacement seeing that the app I had to use with it hasnt been updated for the screen size and the like. At least that was around $50 for the device. LOL. How many remember the soney walk man? LOL. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217313#p217313 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? When it comes to sounds between listening to something over FM and listening to that same thing over the internet there is a really good chance that there is not really that much of a difference. I have came across a few streams that was at bit rates that made them sound worse than it did on FM. LOL. Those streams were around 48 to 50 KBPS, and and at least some of these were in WMA. LOL. Usually these streams will need to be above 160 KBPS before I would really start to notess any amount of differents to speek of for music stuff. This is for those MP3 streams and if there is not alot of silence. If there is alot of silence, you might be able to pick out the differents. If you notess, I said might. LOL. I find that I would have to turn the volume up louder than I like to see the differences at times. As for that discman of yours, How has it stayed running for that long? It seems like people over all seem to replace their devices every 2 to 4 years. Of cource TVs seem to be k ept for longer. smart phone seem to be replaced the quickest. Laptops seemed to be replaced around four to five years or so. Another thing that might be werth noting is that I dont really hear alot about people buying radios now days. Of cource that basicly every car here in the US that people buy comes with some kind of radio installed. Thinking about it, I am willing to bit that most who listen to radio are more willing to do it over the internet on their phones over their in car systems. Not everyone does this of cource. Add to that, those who just play their music that they have store on their phone. Another thing to add to that is that alot are just willing just put in a CD. Looking at all that, I am wondering if the market for radio type programming has gotten smaller to the point where it is not werth switching like what we have done with TV and VHS to DVD to blueray. Another thing, I am pretty sure that alot of people here in the US think that The HD in HD radio means the same as the HD in HD TV means. For those who really want to know what this means in turms of radio, you could check this wikipedia article for more info. This does also seem to have a little bit about other Digital broadcasting things. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217332#p217332 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? @Cw, yep, lack of decent documentation is a thing these days, as is over complicating things for no reason, my Moritz radio tuner just has 8 presets which is more than enough. As to knowing the frequency, well the same is true in the Uk as well as regards radio stations telling their frequencies, which is usually enough for me to find the ones I want, though Ive never really had much interest in getting in to that hole ham radio cb community, indeed sinse I can get the radio stations I tend to listen to digitaly anyway I wouldnt worry so much about losing access to an fm radio myself, though if youve got more of an interest I can see things being different. Regarding speech, Ill not deny speech is a really good thing and much as I curse many of Apples decisions they have done a good job with the Iphone. The problem however, is that this is still the exception not the rule, especially in an age where most electronics design has been domin ated by lcd displays (fm radios are one of the few peaces of equipment that still has! analogue style slider and knob controls rather than everything being based around on screen readouts).The problem though, is these days most of what youd get with speech would be an accessible gadget, which will add considerably to the price. For example, I recall hearing of a standard fm radio with speech that fetched a price of 500 pounds, thats 700 dollars. Even a top quality radio wouldnt set you back more than a hundred quid these days. As usual, the word access means lots more zeros on the price. Also dont forget there are! the digital radio options which can be accessed with some sort of accessible software program. I recently downloaded the I radio ap for Ios, (although Ive yet to investigate it fully), and there are lots of podcatchers and the like kicking about that can stream internet radio, indeed I
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Re: Accessible radios? Unfortunately Cw, speech really isnt a feature which sighted people include or look for in designs of pretty much anything by default, especially speak of displays, clock setting and what not sinse why would a sighted person need the speech when they can look at the screen? or at least such would be the thinking. I cant speak for all that specific radio orientated end of things such as areals etc, but one odd thing I have noticed is that becuase my Moritz tuner is very precise about frequencies and because it is plugged into my very nice Yamaha sterrio speakers, I actually get pretty much as good sound quality out of it as I would digitally anyway, indeed sometimes Ive tested this by playing classic fm or Bbc radio 2 through my analogue sterrio in my bedroom and the same streaming on my pc through my logitech speakers, and really there isnt that much of a dip in sound quality. Of cours, the Morritz tuner is an unusually good one though it ;s likely super seeded now sinse it was bought ten years ago when I bought my hole hifi stacking system, but still it does make me see why analogue radio is still around even while analogue tv and video cassettes are not. Btw, I had a walkman before Sony even existed! on my fifth christmas, my parents bought me one plus the rainbow theatre dramatizations of a couple of Roald Dahls books on cassette tape, which was awsome! I am not sure what the make of that walkman was, possibly Tandy (who also dont exist anymore), or maybe panasonic, but it was a very nice machine which I loved for several years. At least until I was 8 and my parents bought me a rather better quality small tape recorder to take to boarding school with me, which I actually have in a draw at home, I dont believe it works any longer, but it just has too many sentimental memories to throw away as it got me through some very rough times. And then of course I still have my Sony Diskman whi ch I got when I was 14 which is! still in working order. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217323#p217323 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Accessible radios? In todays world, this is not needed as much as it may had been, but does any one know of any AM FM radio on the market that is accessible to the blind? I am just wondering. I came across this on I can work this thing and did some searching on the internet. Turns out that that model was no longer made, but I had found the Grundig Satellit 750 radio. I found that this one gets the job done for the most part for me. Yes, I had found that at least some of the complaints online is pretty close to right, or at least close enough. My biggest problem is that I can not see the screen. LOL. I do like the direct keypad intry. You could look here or here for places to buy one. Here are some of the reviews that are more twoards the happy to own end of the skell. My biggest problem is knowing what freq I am on. Another problem that some may have is putting stations in to the presets, and accessing the presets. It can be a bit odd. Just in case anyone is wondering, I am not trying to sell one, but in stead I am looking to see what options are out there for those who might be looking for such things. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217241#p217241 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? I guess I need to explain a little bit more. LOL. You are pretty much right about the nobs and sliders bit. Pretty much every radio I have seen in the past was and is easy enough to operate. My biggest problem with my current one is that I dont know what is on the display. After seeing what Apple has done for the IPhone and IPad, I would think that something along the line of some kind of speech read out would be really nice. The area that this would be of most benefit is the freq read out. Here in the US, if I listen to a station for long enough, the station in question would give me some indication what freq I am listening to. On the freqs between 1.720 MHZ and 29.9 MHZ, This isnt always the case. With this freq range, there is a mix between AM broadcasting shortwave stations, and people talking to each other, like on walky talkys, if you know what those are. I am not too sure what they are called over in the UK. Here in the US, the CB radio stuff happens between 26 MHZ and 28 mHZ. Add to some of the mess, I guess, is that a lot of radio seems to be slowly moving to the internet. CCrain, I believe, makes a few so call internet radios that uses a data base of online radio stations to stream music and the like over the internet. As for most presets type things, I would agree, but the designers of this radio went and took something that should had been simple and added a visual twist. This radio has enough presets for 1000 radio stations. They divided this up to what is known as pages, and one button on the radio navigates through those pages. There are up and down buttons on the radio to navigate through the presets once you are on the correct page. Then there are the transceivers. I would like to get a kinwood or an Icom transceiver to use to do some chatting on the HF bands here in the US once or if I go in for the appropriate license. I guess this topic would cover just about anything dealing with radio type things. I would also like to get into some of the DStar stuff that is happening up on the VHF and UHF bands, but I really don’t know of any radio that does the digital stuff that is accessible enough to put my call in and the like to get it up and going. On the other hand, I can type in the freq just fine on the radio, and it has nobs for the really important stuff, such as tuning up and down the dial along with the audio controls. It, to some degree, rubes me the wrong way that I cannot make use of the built in clock and alarm at all sense that is totally base on me seeing the display. LOL. Anyway, I can clearly see all the controls on the front of the radio, but the user guide does not explain the lay out all that well. I had to get someone to name off all the buttons on the front until I could get them memorized. A lot of the buttons feel the same, but are in fact laid out in a pretty logical way. One more thing, the user guide, for the most part, is a bit on the thin side which does not help things a lot. Hope this helps. Anyway, if I had to guess, this is a page full and I might should finish up… URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217257#p217257 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? Im a tad confused on the accessible bit there cw, sinse even now there are lots of fm radios with standard knob and slider controls with an areal and there really isnt much you need for accessing those. Heck, even though the Moritz radio tuner in my sterrio is digital, its still got a dial you turn for the frequency, you just need to turn it a little and then wait for the radio to lock on to the nearest sygnal then keep going. Setting the presets is as simple as finding what you want and hitting one button, though to be honest I only really use two radio stations, classic fm and radio 4 anyway.Id actually suggest for something like this you just find a physical hifi shop, go in and have a look and a listen at what they have until you find something you want. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217251#p217251 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Accessible radios? In todays world, this is not needed as much as it may had been, but does any one know of any radio on the market that is accessible to the blind? I am just wondering. I came across this on I can work this thing and did some searching on the internet. Turns out that that model was no longer made, but I had found the Grundig Satellit 750 radio. I found that this one gets the job done for the most part for me. Yes, I had found that at least some of the complaints online is pretty close to right, or at least close enough. My biggest problem is that I can not see the screen. LOL. I do like the direct keypad intry. You could look here or here for places to buy one. Here are some of the reviews that are more twoards the happy to own end of the skell. My biggest problem is knowing what freq I am on. Another problem that some may have is putting stations in to the presets, and accessing the presets. It can be a bit odd. Just in case anyone is wondering, I am not trying to sell one, but in stead I am looking to see what options are out there for those who might be looking for such things. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217241#p217241 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? Im a tad confused on the accessible bit there cw, sinse even now there are lots of fm radios with standard knob and slider controls with an areal and there really isnt much you need for accessing those. Heck, even though the Moritz radio tuner in my sterrio is digital, its still got a dial you turn for the frequency, you just need to turn it a little and then wait for the radio to lock on to the nearest sygnal then keep going. Setting the presets is as simple as finding what you want and hitting one button, though to be honest I only really use two radio stations, classic fm and radio 4 anyway. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217251#p217251 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? I guess I need to explain a little bit more. LOL. You are pretty much right about the nobs and sliders bit. Pretty much every radio I have seen in the past was and is easy enough to operate. My biggest problem with my current one is that I dont know what is on the display. After seeing what Apple has done for the IPhone and IPad, I would think that something along the line of some kind of speech read out would be really nice. The area that this would be of most benefit is the freq read out. Here in the US, if I listen to a station for long enough, the station in question would give me some indication what freq I am listening to. On the freqs between 1.720 MHZ and 29.9 MHZ, This isnt always the case. With this freq range, there is a mix between AM broadcasting shortwave stations, and people talking to each other, like on walky talkys, if you know what those are. I am not too sure what they are called over in the UK. Here in the US, the CB radio stuff happens between 26 MHZ and 28 mHZ. Add to some of the mess, I guess, is that a lot of radio seems to be slowly moving to the internet. CCrain, I believe, makes a few so call internet radios that uses a data base of online radio stations to stream music and the like over the internet. As for most presets type things, I would agree, but the designers of this radio went and took something that should had been simple and added a visual twist. This radio has enough presets for 1000 radio stations. They divided this up to what is known as pages, and one button on the radio navigates through those pages. There are up and down buttons on the radio to navigate through the presets once you are on the correct page. Then there are the transceivers. I would like to get a kinwood or an Icom transceiver to use to do some chatting on the HF bands here in the US once or if I go in for the appropriate license. I guess this topic would cover just about anything dealing with radio type things. I would also like to get into some of the DStar stuff that is happening up on the VHF and UHF bands, but I really don’t know of any radio that does the digital stuff that is accessible enough to put my call in and the like to get it up and going. On the other hand, I can type in the freq just fine on the radio, and it has nobs for the really important stuff, such as tuning up and down the dial along with the audio controls. It, to some degree, rubs me the wrong way that I cannot make use of the built in clock and alarm at all sense that is totally base on me seeing the display. LOL. Anyway, I can clearly see all the controls on the front of the radio, but the user guide does not explain the lay out all that well. I had to get someone to name off all the buttons on the front until I could get them memorized. A lot of the buttons feel the same, but are in fact laid out in a pretty logical way. One more thing, the user guide, for the most part, is a bit on the thin side which does not help things a lot. Hope this helps. Anyway, if I had to guess, this is a page full and I might should finish up… URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217257#p217257 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? Im a tad confused on the accessible bit there cw, sinse even now there are lots of fm radios with standard knob and slider controls with an areal and there really isnt much you need for accessing those. Heck, even though the Moritz radio tuner in my sterrio is digital, its still got a dial you turn for the frequency, you just need to turn it a little and then wait for the radio to lock on to the nearest sygnal then keep going. Setting the presets is as simple as finding what you want and hitting one button, though to be honest I only really use two radio stations, classic fm and radio 4 anyway.Id actually suggest for something like this you just find a physical hifi shop, go in and have a look and a listen at what they have rather than trying to find something online just from reviews and descriptions. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217251#p217251 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Accessible radios? @Cw, yep, lack of decent documentation is a thing these days, as is over complicating things for no reason, my Moritz radio tuner just has 8 presets, bu@Cw, yep, lack of decent documentation is a thing these days, as is over complicating things for no reason, my Moritz radio tuner just has 8 presets which is more than enough. As to knowing the frequency, well the same is true in the Uk as well as regards radio stations telling their frequencies, which is usually enough for me to find the ones I want, though Ive never really had much interest in getting in to that hole ham radio cb community, indeed sinse I can get the radio stations I tend to listen to digitaly anyway I wouldnt worry so much about losing access to an fm radio myself, though if youve got more of an interest I can see things being different. Regarding speech, Ill not deny speech is a really good thing and much as I curse many of Apples decisions they have done a good job w ith the Iphone. The problem however, is that this is still the exception not the rule, especially in an age where most electronics design has been dominated by lcd displays (fm radios are one of the few peaces of equipment that still has! analogue style slider and knob controls rather than everything being based around on screen readouts).The problem though, is these days most of what youd get with speech would be an accessible gadget, which will add considerably to the price. For example, I recall hearing of a standard fm radio with speech that fetched a price of 500 pounds, thats 700 dollars. Even a top quality radio wouldnt set you back more than a hundred quid these days. As usual, the word access means lots more zeros on the price. Also dont forget there are! the digital radio options which can be accessed with some sort of accessible software program. I recently downloaded the I radio ap for Ios, ( although Ive yet to investigate it fully), and there are lots of podcatchers and the like kicking about that can stream internet radio, indeed Ive used my laptop before to stream classic fm when Ive been staying somewhere with a tv or radio I couldnt work so I get early morning news and music. Of course this wont cover any sort of ameter radio stuff you want to do, but just in terms of radio stations it might be an idea. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=217286#p217286 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
