Re: radium was Re: dropbox
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
Re: radium was Re: dropbox
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
radium was Re: dropbox
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 pressing 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 directl 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
Re: radium was Re: dropbox
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 pressing 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
