First impressions of hope.

[Christopher Bartlett]

For those unaware, Hope is Christopher Toth's (of Qwitter fame) front end
for http://www.pandora.com, which is a web site for music playing and
discovery that allows you to create stations by selecting seeds and then
rating how well songs it presents to you fit the sound you're going for, or
how much you like them.  Until this week, it has been functionally
inaccessible, though with a lot of fiddling, one could make it work to some
extent.  Enter HOPE, Toth's Pandora player, a $10 download from
http://www.q-continuum.net.

There is an html read-me that explains the program, but frankly it's
unnecessary, since the interface is dead simple, consisting of tabbable
controls, all of which have keyboard shortcuts that speak as you tab to the
control, allowing you to memorize them in a jiffy.

When you first enter the program, you are asked to log in, or if you don't
have a Pandora account, to register.  Both of these operations were
inaccessible with any screen reader from the web site or Pandora's own
desktop client.  If you have an account, simply enter your email address and
password.  I haven't tried the registration as I already had an account,
though I Imagine it to be quite easy.

 

Now you go to your station list, empty if you're first using Pandora.  From
here, you can play any existing station, rename or delete it, or search to
create a new station.  Searching is as simple as typing in an artist name or
song name into the search box and tabbing to the search button.  Results
appear in a list one tab away from the search button.  Find the one you want
to use and tab to the create station button.  Your station now appears in
your station list.

 

Once you've selected a station and hit the listen to station button, you're
in the player.  Here you have fields with the current song's artist, title
and album, a play, pause, previous, next and stop buttons, and volume and
song position sliders.  Again all have keyboard shortcuts and are easy to
operate.  Even the information fields have shortcut keys to quickly move to
and read the information.

 

There are two other important controls, the thumbs up and thumbs down
controls.  If you're unfamiliar with Pandora, these are the controls you use
to customize your stations.  If you want the song you're hearing to be
played more often, (and songs that Pandora thinks are like it) hit the
thumbs up button.  If you don't want the song appearing on your station, (or
again, songs like it according to Pandora) hit the thumbs down button.
Pandora immediately stops playing the song you've rejected and moves to the
next song.  You can also skip the song without rating it up or down by using
the next button.

 

Observations.  HOPE is fast and responsive, much more so than is the web
site.  I got playback within two seconds of selecting my station, and using
the thumbs down or next button stopped the song immediately and moved to the
next song in the stream nearly instantly, again beating the hell out of the
web site's performance.

 

There is an important facet of station editing missing.  On the web site, it
is possible to go to the page for a particular station and edit its
information, including adding a station description for other people to see,
and selecting artist and song seeds to add to the thumbs-up list manually.
This last makes it possible to hand-customize a station to a degree that the
regular method doesn't.  Because this functionality does exist on the web
site, and in a reasonably accessible fashion, this isn't a deal killer at
all, but would be nice if Mr. Toth could add.

 

Another nit is that search results for songs don't return the artist.  If
one searched for "Helter Skelter" one wouldn't be able to tell the
difference between the Beatles ve3rsion and the Pat Benetar version, which
might make for an incorrect station.  I'd like to see this information
provided.

 

HOPE is a great implementation of a Pandora desktop client with a lot of the
flair and intuitive ease of use of the Qwitter client.  At $10, this is
definitely software worth supporting.  Rating 4.5 stars.

 

Christopher Bartlett

 

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Re: USB Power

[Joe Paton]

Colin,

I'd go with a powered hub.  There's room for expantion their.

Joe
At 10:27 14/01/2011, you wrote:



Hi List,
I have bought an external hard drive with no power supply, ie gets power
from lap top
It came with 2 USB connnections and I now know why
My machine I am plugging it into is old and is just being used for music but
has only one USB port.
The drive will not spin up on the power for one only and hence I cannot use
for this application.
Is there any small cheap USB power source i.e battery or even mains that I
can plug second USB into to increase power.
I have tested this on my powered USB hub for my main machine and it works
but that is overkill and more expensive than I would want to solve this
issue?
Thanks as alwayss
Colin





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Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]

[Tom Kaufman]

Okay..after going around and around..I cannot get this player to work!  I 
don't know what it is I'm supposed to do here!  It's telling me that Windows 
needs to know what program to open it with (How do I know!)..so I tried your 
second link.  But the address must be wrong, for it says "sorry; page not 
found!"  Am getting rather frustrated with this whole thing!

Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - 
From: "Gianluca Apollaro" 

To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]



You can download it here

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5126017/mpc-homecinema.1.4.2550_%28x86%29_msvc2010.7z

This is just the player. If you want, you can download and install the 
combined comunity codec pac, a pacage that includes this player and all 
you need to watch video, not only dvds

You can find it here

www.*cccp*-*project*.net/

hth

Skype: gianluca8815
On 14/01/2011 21:03, Tom Kaufman wrote:

Where do I get this "media Player" thing?
Thanks,
Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - From: "Gianluca Apollaro" 


To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]


Hi Tom, use media player classic homecinema to play dvd. It is a great 
software

hth.
Skype: gianluca8815
On 14/01/2011 20:00, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Hi Christopher: Thanks; wasn't sure (since this is mostly an "audio" 
list..if "video"..would be "on Topic! (don't want to get in trouble 
with our moderator--smile!

Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Chaltain" 


To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 1:55 PM
Subject: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]



How could you possibly think this is off topic for this list? :-)

I would suggest using a better subject line though. If I'd been 
checking this from another PC, I probably would have skipped over a 
subject that doesn't say anything but "I hope this isn't off topic." 
You probably wish I had checked this from my cell phone though, since 
I can't help you. I did go ahead and change the subject line though.


--

Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com


On 1/14/2011 12:47 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Hi list: I know this is an "audio list"..but my problem concerns 
playing DVDs! Am trying to assess if the reason why my computer will 
not play DVDs is the fault of the DVD drive..or if I just need the 
right DVD playing software to play the things! Let me give you some 
background first: just before Christmas, I was given some CDs to 
record to cassette (one of them didn't work..or so I thought)..the 
long and short of it is that..what I thought was a CD was a DVD! So I 
decided to try to play it in my computer to find out for sure! I 
tried Windows Media..no soap; I also tried using Real Player (got 
video..but no sound)..I tried Power DVD (it told me I had to buy it 
(I didn't think I did..but that's what it was telling me (that my 
"trial period had run out!" So I called my tech; he put me on to this 
program called VLC Media Player! I tried a couple of DVDs in it; 
it'll play them..but not right; I don't know if I can explain what 
it's doing (by the way..this VLC Media Player isn't that 
accessible)..so maybeyou folks can also point me in the right 
direction with that too! But with VLC Media player, the DVDs will at 
least "play"..but it skips and jumps and just sounds crazy! So as you 
can probably figure out, I need to know if I need to have something 
done with my DVD drive..or do I just need the right program 
(hopefully one that is accessible)..BTW-I do have some vision, so I 
would need something that will show me the video (I've heard of DVD 
Audio Extractor..which won't work for my purposes! I'll be most 
grateful for any help or direction you can give..and my apologies if 
this is "off-topic"..since this is a PC Audio list; I just don't know 
where else to turn at the moment!

Tom Kaufman
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Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]

[Christopher Chaltain]

Ah, I see. I guess I just think of Audio and video as being 
interchangeable terms for the most part, since they have so much 
hardware and software in common. As always, I'll defer to the moderator.


--

Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com


On 1/14/2011 1:00 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Hi Christopher:  Thanks; wasn't sure (since this is mostly an "audio" 
list..if "video"..would be "on Topic! (don't want to get in trouble 
with our moderator--smile!

Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Chaltain" 


To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 1:55 PM
Subject: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]



How could you possibly think this is off topic for this list? :-)

I would suggest using a better subject line though. If I'd been 
checking this from another PC, I probably would have skipped over a 
subject that doesn't say anything but "I hope this isn't off topic." 
You probably wish I had checked this from my cell phone though, since 
I can't help you. I did go ahead and change the subject line though.


--

Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com


On 1/14/2011 12:47 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Hi list:  I know this is an "audio list"..but my problem concerns 
playing DVDs!  Am trying to assess if the reason why my computer 
will not play DVDs is the fault of the DVD drive..or if I just need 
the right DVD playing software to play the things!  Let me give you 
some background first: just before Christmas, I was given some CDs 
to record to cassette (one of them didn't work..or so I 
thought)..the long and short of it is that..what I thought was a CD 
was a DVD!  So I decided to try to play it in my computer to find 
out for sure!  I tried Windows Media..no soap; I also tried using 
Real Player (got video..but no sound)..I tried Power DVD (it told me 
I had to buy it (I didn't think I did..but that's what it was 
telling me (that my "trial period had run out!"  So I called my 
tech; he put me on to this program called VLC Media Player!  I tried 
a couple of DVDs in it; it'll play them..but not right; I don't know 
if I can explain what it's doing (by the way..this VLC Media Player 
isn't that accessible)..so maybeyou folks can also point me in the 
right direction with that too!  But with VLC Media player, the DVDs 
will at least "play"..but it skips and jumps and just sounds crazy!  
So as you can probably figure out, I need to know if I need to have 
something done with my DVD drive..or do I just need the right 
program (hopefully one that is accessible)..BTW-I do have some 
vision, so I would need something that will show me the video (I've 
heard of DVD Audio Extractor..which won't work for my purposes!  
I'll be most grateful for any help or direction you can give..and my 
apologies if this is "off-topic"..since this is a PC Audio list; I 
just don't know where else to turn at the moment!

Tom Kaufman
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I got the audio level showing now: was RE: How do I tell the audio level in Gold Wave?

[Kevin Minor]

Hi again.

I don't know what I did, but the audio level is being displayed.  Looks like
I have things set right.

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Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]

[Tom Kaufman]

Okay..I have it..but it's telling me that Windows cannot open the file! 
What am I missing here?

Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - 
From: "Tom Kaufman" 

To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]



Oops..jumped too quick!  Tried again..and should have it!
Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - 
From: "Gianluca Apollaro" 

To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]



You can download it here

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5126017/mpc-homecinema.1.4.2550_%28x86%29_msvc2010.7z

This is just the player. If you want, you can download and install the 
combined comunity codec pac, a pacage that includes this player and all 
you need to watch video, not only dvds

You can find it here

www.*cccp*-*project*.net/

hth

Skype: gianluca8815
On 14/01/2011 21:03, Tom Kaufman wrote:

Where do I get this "media Player" thing?
Thanks,
Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - From: "Gianluca Apollaro" 


To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]


Hi Tom, use media player classic homecinema to play dvd. It is a great 
software

hth.
Skype: gianluca8815
On 14/01/2011 20:00, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Hi Christopher: Thanks; wasn't sure (since this is mostly an "audio" 
list..if "video"..would be "on Topic! (don't want to get in trouble 
with our moderator--smile!

Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Chaltain" 


To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 1:55 PM
Subject: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]



How could you possibly think this is off topic for this list? :-)

I would suggest using a better subject line though. If I'd been 
checking this from another PC, I probably would have skipped over a 
subject that doesn't say anything but "I hope this isn't off topic." 
You probably wish I had checked this from my cell phone though, since 
I can't help you. I did go ahead and change the subject line though.


--

Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com


On 1/14/2011 12:47 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Hi list: I know this is an "audio list"..but my problem concerns 
playing DVDs! Am trying to assess if the reason why my computer will 
not play DVDs is the fault of the DVD drive..or if I just need the 
right DVD playing software to play the things! Let me give you some 
background first: just before Christmas, I was given some CDs to 
record to cassette (one of them didn't work..or so I thought)..the 
long and short of it is that..what I thought was a CD was a DVD! So 
I decided to try to play it in my computer to find out for sure! I 
tried Windows Media..no soap; I also tried using Real Player (got 
video..but no sound)..I tried Power DVD (it told me I had to buy it 
(I didn't think I did..but that's what it was telling me (that my 
"trial period had run out!" So I called my tech; he put me on to 
this program called VLC Media Player! I tried a couple of DVDs in 
it; it'll play them..but not right; I don't know if I can explain 
what it's doing (by the way..this VLC Media Player isn't that 
accessible)..so maybeyou folks can also point me in the right 
direction with that too! But with VLC Media player, the DVDs will at 
least "play"..but it skips and jumps and just sounds crazy! So as 
you can probably figure out, I need to know if I need to have 
something done with my DVD drive..or do I just need the right 
program (hopefully one that is accessible)..BTW-I do have some 
vision, so I would need something that will show me the video (I've 
heard of DVD Audio Extractor..which won't work for my purposes! I'll 
be most grateful for any help or direction you can give..and my 
apologies if this is "off-topic"..since this is a PC Audio list; I 
just don't know where else to turn at the moment!

Tom Kaufman
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Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]

[Tom Kaufman]

Oops..jumped too quick!  Tried again..and should have it!
Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - 
From: "Gianluca Apollaro" 

To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]



You can download it here

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5126017/mpc-homecinema.1.4.2550_%28x86%29_msvc2010.7z

This is just the player. If you want, you can download and install the 
combined comunity codec pac, a pacage that includes this player and all 
you need to watch video, not only dvds

You can find it here

www.*cccp*-*project*.net/

hth

Skype: gianluca8815
On 14/01/2011 21:03, Tom Kaufman wrote:

Where do I get this "media Player" thing?
Thanks,
Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - From: "Gianluca Apollaro" 


To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]


Hi Tom, use media player classic homecinema to play dvd. It is a great 
software

hth.
Skype: gianluca8815
On 14/01/2011 20:00, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Hi Christopher: Thanks; wasn't sure (since this is mostly an "audio" 
list..if "video"..would be "on Topic! (don't want to get in trouble 
with our moderator--smile!

Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Chaltain" 


To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 1:55 PM
Subject: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]



How could you possibly think this is off topic for this list? :-)

I would suggest using a better subject line though. If I'd been 
checking this from another PC, I probably would have skipped over a 
subject that doesn't say anything but "I hope this isn't off topic." 
You probably wish I had checked this from my cell phone though, since 
I can't help you. I did go ahead and change the subject line though.


--

Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com


On 1/14/2011 12:47 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Hi list: I know this is an "audio list"..but my problem concerns 
playing DVDs! Am trying to assess if the reason why my computer will 
not play DVDs is the fault of the DVD drive..or if I just need the 
right DVD playing software to play the things! Let me give you some 
background first: just before Christmas, I was given some CDs to 
record to cassette (one of them didn't work..or so I thought)..the 
long and short of it is that..what I thought was a CD was a DVD! So I 
decided to try to play it in my computer to find out for sure! I 
tried Windows Media..no soap; I also tried using Real Player (got 
video..but no sound)..I tried Power DVD (it told me I had to buy it 
(I didn't think I did..but that's what it was telling me (that my 
"trial period had run out!" So I called my tech; he put me on to this 
program called VLC Media Player! I tried a couple of DVDs in it; 
it'll play them..but not right; I don't know if I can explain what 
it's doing (by the way..this VLC Media Player isn't that 
accessible)..so maybeyou folks can also point me in the right 
direction with that too! But with VLC Media player, the DVDs will at 
least "play"..but it skips and jumps and just sounds crazy! So as you 
can probably figure out, I need to know if I need to have something 
done with my DVD drive..or do I just need the right program 
(hopefully one that is accessible)..BTW-I do have some vision, so I 
would need something that will show me the video (I've heard of DVD 
Audio Extractor..which won't work for my purposes! I'll be most 
grateful for any help or direction you can give..and my apologies if 
this is "off-topic"..since this is a PC Audio list; I just don't know 
where else to turn at the moment!

Tom Kaufman
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Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]

[Tom Kaufman]

No soap..all I'm getting is a "sorry; page not found" message!
Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - 
From: "Gianluca Apollaro" 

To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]



You can download it here

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5126017/mpc-homecinema.1.4.2550_%28x86%29_msvc2010.7z

This is just the player. If you want, you can download and install the 
combined comunity codec pac, a pacage that includes this player and all 
you need to watch video, not only dvds

You can find it here

www.*cccp*-*project*.net/

hth

Skype: gianluca8815
On 14/01/2011 21:03, Tom Kaufman wrote:

Where do I get this "media Player" thing?
Thanks,
Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - From: "Gianluca Apollaro" 


To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]


Hi Tom, use media player classic homecinema to play dvd. It is a great 
software

hth.
Skype: gianluca8815
On 14/01/2011 20:00, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Hi Christopher: Thanks; wasn't sure (since this is mostly an "audio" 
list..if "video"..would be "on Topic! (don't want to get in trouble 
with our moderator--smile!

Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Chaltain" 


To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 1:55 PM
Subject: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]



How could you possibly think this is off topic for this list? :-)

I would suggest using a better subject line though. If I'd been 
checking this from another PC, I probably would have skipped over a 
subject that doesn't say anything but "I hope this isn't off topic." 
You probably wish I had checked this from my cell phone though, since 
I can't help you. I did go ahead and change the subject line though.


--

Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com


On 1/14/2011 12:47 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Hi list: I know this is an "audio list"..but my problem concerns 
playing DVDs! Am trying to assess if the reason why my computer will 
not play DVDs is the fault of the DVD drive..or if I just need the 
right DVD playing software to play the things! Let me give you some 
background first: just before Christmas, I was given some CDs to 
record to cassette (one of them didn't work..or so I thought)..the 
long and short of it is that..what I thought was a CD was a DVD! So I 
decided to try to play it in my computer to find out for sure! I 
tried Windows Media..no soap; I also tried using Real Player (got 
video..but no sound)..I tried Power DVD (it told me I had to buy it 
(I didn't think I did..but that's what it was telling me (that my 
"trial period had run out!" So I called my tech; he put me on to this 
program called VLC Media Player! I tried a couple of DVDs in it; 
it'll play them..but not right; I don't know if I can explain what 
it's doing (by the way..this VLC Media Player isn't that 
accessible)..so maybeyou folks can also point me in the right 
direction with that too! But with VLC Media player, the DVDs will at 
least "play"..but it skips and jumps and just sounds crazy! So as you 
can probably figure out, I need to know if I need to have something 
done with my DVD drive..or do I just need the right program 
(hopefully one that is accessible)..BTW-I do have some vision, so I 
would need something that will show me the video (I've heard of DVD 
Audio Extractor..which won't work for my purposes! I'll be most 
grateful for any help or direction you can give..and my apologies if 
this is "off-topic"..since this is a PC Audio list; I just don't know 
where else to turn at the moment!

Tom Kaufman
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Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]

[Gianluca Apollaro]

You can download it here

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5126017/mpc-homecinema.1.4.2550_%28x86%29_msvc2010.7z

This is just the player. If you want, you can download and install the 
combined comunity codec pac, a pacage that includes this player and all 
you need to watch video, not only dvds

You can find it here

www.*cccp*-*project*.net/

hth

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On 14/01/2011 21:03, Tom Kaufman wrote:

Where do I get this "media Player" thing?
Thanks,
Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - From: "Gianluca Apollaro" 


To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]


Hi Tom, use media player classic homecinema to play dvd. It is a 
great software

hth.
Skype: gianluca8815
On 14/01/2011 20:00, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Hi Christopher: Thanks; wasn't sure (since this is mostly an "audio" 
list..if "video"..would be "on Topic! (don't want to get in trouble 
with our moderator--smile!

Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Chaltain" 


To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 1:55 PM
Subject: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]



How could you possibly think this is off topic for this list? :-)

I would suggest using a better subject line though. If I'd been 
checking this from another PC, I probably would have skipped over a 
subject that doesn't say anything but "I hope this isn't off 
topic." You probably wish I had checked this from my cell phone 
though, since I can't help you. I did go ahead and change the 
subject line though.


--

Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com


On 1/14/2011 12:47 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Hi list: I know this is an "audio list"..but my problem concerns 
playing DVDs! Am trying to assess if the reason why my computer 
will not play DVDs is the fault of the DVD drive..or if I just 
need the right DVD playing software to play the things! Let me 
give you some background first: just before Christmas, I was given 
some CDs to record to cassette (one of them didn't work..or so I 
thought)..the long and short of it is that..what I thought was a 
CD was a DVD! So I decided to try to play it in my computer to 
find out for sure! I tried Windows Media..no soap; I also tried 
using Real Player (got video..but no sound)..I tried Power DVD (it 
told me I had to buy it (I didn't think I did..but that's what it 
was telling me (that my "trial period had run out!" So I called my 
tech; he put me on to this program called VLC Media Player! I 
tried a couple of DVDs in it; it'll play them..but not right; I 
don't know if I can explain what it's doing (by the way..this VLC 
Media Player isn't that accessible)..so maybeyou folks can also 
point me in the right direction with that too! But with VLC Media 
player, the DVDs will at least "play"..but it skips and jumps and 
just sounds crazy! So as you can probably figure out, I need to 
know if I need to have something done with my DVD drive..or do I 
just need the right program (hopefully one that is 
accessible)..BTW-I do have some vision, so I would need something 
that will show me the video (I've heard of DVD Audio 
Extractor..which won't work for my purposes! I'll be most grateful 
for any help or direction you can give..and my apologies if this 
is "off-topic"..since this is a PC Audio list; I just don't know 
where else to turn at the moment!

Tom Kaufman
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How do I tell the audio level in Gold Wave?

[Kevin Minor]

Hi.

 

Yesterday I decided to go ahead and purchase Gold Wave for recording things.
I read the manual, and it explains things pretty well.  There's one thing
I'm not understanding, and that's how you tell the audio level of what
you're recording.  I hit TAB on the screen, and there's nothing shown.  What
do I do to get this to work?  Right now I'm going by listening to what I'm
recording, and adjusting as I go along.

 

Thanks in advance for help.

 

Kevin Minor, Lexington, KY

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Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]

[Tom Kaufman]

Where do I get this "media Player" thing?
Thanks,
Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - 
From: "Gianluca Apollaro" 

To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]


Hi Tom, use media player classic homecinema to play dvd. It is a great 
software

hth.
Skype: gianluca8815
On 14/01/2011 20:00, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Hi Christopher: Thanks; wasn't sure (since this is mostly an "audio" 
list..if "video"..would be "on Topic! (don't want to get in trouble 
with our moderator--smile!

Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Chaltain" 


To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 1:55 PM
Subject: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]



How could you possibly think this is off topic for this list? :-)

I would suggest using a better subject line though. If I'd been 
checking this from another PC, I probably would have skipped over a 
subject that doesn't say anything but "I hope this isn't off topic." 
You probably wish I had checked this from my cell phone though, since 
I can't help you. I did go ahead and change the subject line though.


--

Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com


On 1/14/2011 12:47 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Hi list: I know this is an "audio list"..but my problem concerns 
playing DVDs! Am trying to assess if the reason why my computer will 
not play DVDs is the fault of the DVD drive..or if I just need the 
right DVD playing software to play the things! Let me give you some 
background first: just before Christmas, I was given some CDs to 
record to cassette (one of them didn't work..or so I thought)..the 
long and short of it is that..what I thought was a CD was a DVD! So 
I decided to try to play it in my computer to find out for sure! I 
tried Windows Media..no soap; I also tried using Real Player (got 
video..but no sound)..I tried Power DVD (it told me I had to buy it 
(I didn't think I did..but that's what it was telling me (that my 
"trial period had run out!" So I called my tech; he put me on to 
this program called VLC Media Player! I tried a couple of DVDs in 
it; it'll play them..but not right; I don't know if I can explain 
what it's doing (by the way..this VLC Media Player isn't that 
accessible)..so maybeyou folks can also point me in the right 
direction with that too! But with VLC Media player, the DVDs will at 
least "play"..but it skips and jumps and just sounds crazy! So as 
you can probably figure out, I need to know if I need to have 
something done with my DVD drive..or do I just need the right 
program (hopefully one that is accessible)..BTW-I do have some 
vision, so I would need something that will show me the video (I've 
heard of DVD Audio Extractor..which won't work for my purposes! I'll 
be most grateful for any help or direction you can give..and my 
apologies if this is "off-topic"..since this is a PC Audio list; I 
just don't know where else to turn at the moment!

Tom Kaufman
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Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]

[Gianluca Apollaro]

Hi Tom, use media player classic homecinema to play dvd. It is a great 
software

hth.
Skype: gianluca8815
On 14/01/2011 20:00, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Hi Christopher: Thanks; wasn't sure (since this is mostly an "audio" 
list..if "video"..would be "on Topic! (don't want to get in trouble 
with our moderator--smile!

Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Chaltain" 


To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 1:55 PM
Subject: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]



How could you possibly think this is off topic for this list? :-)

I would suggest using a better subject line though. If I'd been 
checking this from another PC, I probably would have skipped over a 
subject that doesn't say anything but "I hope this isn't off topic." 
You probably wish I had checked this from my cell phone though, since 
I can't help you. I did go ahead and change the subject line though.


--

Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com


On 1/14/2011 12:47 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Hi list: I know this is an "audio list"..but my problem concerns 
playing DVDs! Am trying to assess if the reason why my computer will 
not play DVDs is the fault of the DVD drive..or if I just need the 
right DVD playing software to play the things! Let me give you some 
background first: just before Christmas, I was given some CDs to 
record to cassette (one of them didn't work..or so I thought)..the 
long and short of it is that..what I thought was a CD was a DVD! So 
I decided to try to play it in my computer to find out for sure! I 
tried Windows Media..no soap; I also tried using Real Player (got 
video..but no sound)..I tried Power DVD (it told me I had to buy it 
(I didn't think I did..but that's what it was telling me (that my 
"trial period had run out!" So I called my tech; he put me on to 
this program called VLC Media Player! I tried a couple of DVDs in 
it; it'll play them..but not right; I don't know if I can explain 
what it's doing (by the way..this VLC Media Player isn't that 
accessible)..so maybeyou folks can also point me in the right 
direction with that too! But with VLC Media player, the DVDs will at 
least "play"..but it skips and jumps and just sounds crazy! So as 
you can probably figure out, I need to know if I need to have 
something done with my DVD drive..or do I just need the right 
program (hopefully one that is accessible)..BTW-I do have some 
vision, so I would need something that will show me the video (I've 
heard of DVD Audio Extractor..which won't work for my purposes! I'll 
be most grateful for any help or direction you can give..and my 
apologies if this is "off-topic"..since this is a PC Audio list; I 
just don't know where else to turn at the moment!

Tom Kaufman
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Re: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]

[Tom Kaufman]

Hi Christopher:  Thanks; wasn't sure (since this is mostly an "audio" 
list..if "video"..would be "on Topic! (don't want to get in trouble with our 
moderator--smile!

Tom Kaufman
- Original Message - 
From: "Christopher Chaltain" 

To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 1:55 PM
Subject: Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]



How could you possibly think this is off topic for this list? :-)

I would suggest using a better subject line though. If I'd been checking 
this from another PC, I probably would have skipped over a subject that 
doesn't say anything but "I hope this isn't off topic." You probably wish 
I had checked this from my cell phone though, since I can't help you. I 
did go ahead and change the subject line though.


--

Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com


On 1/14/2011 12:47 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Hi list:  I know this is an "audio list"..but my problem concerns playing 
DVDs!  Am trying to assess if the reason why my computer will not play 
DVDs is the fault of the DVD drive..or if I just need the right DVD 
playing software to play the things!  Let me give you some background 
first: just before Christmas, I was given some CDs to record to cassette 
(one of them didn't work..or so I thought)..the long and short of it is 
that..what I thought was a CD was a DVD!  So I decided to try to play it 
in my computer to find out for sure!  I tried Windows Media..no soap; I 
also tried using Real Player (got video..but no sound)..I tried Power DVD 
(it told me I had to buy it (I didn't think I did..but that's what it was 
telling me (that my "trial period had run out!"  So I called my tech; he 
put me on to this program called VLC Media Player!  I tried a couple of 
DVDs in it; it'll play them..but not right; I don't know if I can explain 
what it's doing (by the way..this VLC Media Player isn't that 
accessible)..so maybeyou folks can also point me in the right direction 
with that too!  But with VLC Media player, the DVDs will at least 
"play"..but it skips and jumps and just sounds crazy!  So as you can 
probably figure out, I need to know if I need to have something done with 
my DVD drive..or do I just need the right program (hopefully one that is 
accessible)..BTW-I do have some vision, so I would need something that 
will show me the video (I've heard of DVD Audio Extractor..which won't 
work for my purposes!  I'll be most grateful for any help or direction 
you can give..and my apologies if this is "off-topic"..since this is a PC 
Audio list; I just don't know where else to turn at the moment!

Tom Kaufman
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Playing DVD's [was "Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic""]

[Christopher Chaltain]

How could you possibly think this is off topic for this list? :-)

I would suggest using a better subject line though. If I'd been checking 
this from another PC, I probably would have skipped over a subject that 
doesn't say anything but "I hope this isn't off topic." You probably 
wish I had checked this from my cell phone though, since I can't help 
you. I did go ahead and change the subject line though.


--

Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com


On 1/14/2011 12:47 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

Hi list:  I know this is an "audio list"..but my problem concerns playing DVDs!  Am trying to assess if the 
reason why my computer will not play DVDs is the fault of the DVD drive..or if I just need the right DVD playing 
software to play the things!  Let me give you some background first: just before Christmas, I was given some CDs to 
record to cassette (one of them didn't work..or so I thought)..the long and short of it is that..what I thought was a 
CD was a DVD!  So I decided to try to play it in my computer to find out for sure!  I tried Windows Media..no soap; I 
also tried using Real Player (got video..but no sound)..I tried Power DVD (it told me I had to buy it (I didn't think I 
did..but that's what it was telling me (that my "trial period had run out!"  So I called my tech; he put me 
on to this program called VLC Media Player!  I tried a couple of DVDs in it; it'll play them..but not right; I don't 
know if I can explain what it's doing (by the way..this VLC Media Player isn't that accessible)..so maybeyou folks can 
also point me in the right direction with that too!  But with VLC Media player, the DVDs will at least 
"play"..but it skips and jumps and just sounds crazy!  So as you can probably figure out, I need to know if I 
need to have something done with my DVD drive..or do I just need the right program (hopefully one that is 
accessible)..BTW-I do have some vision, so I would need something that will show me the video (I've heard of DVD Audio 
Extractor..which won't work for my purposes!  I'll be most grateful for any help or direction you can give..and my 
apologies if this is "off-topic"..since this is a PC Audio list; I just don't know where else to turn at the 
moment!
Tom Kaufman
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Re: Hopefully Not "off-Topic"

[Tom Kaufman]

Forgot to mention..I'm running Windows XP Home with service pack 3..if this 
is any help!  The computer is a Dell 5100 Desk Top.

Tom Kaufman
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From: "Tom Kaufman" 

To: "PC audio discussion list. " 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 1:47 PM
Subject: Hopefully Not "off-Topic"


Hi list:  I know this is an "audio list"..but my problem concerns playing 
DVDs!  Am trying to assess if the reason why my computer will not play 
DVDs is the fault of the DVD drive..or if I just need the right DVD 
playing software to play the things!  Let me give you some background 
first: just before Christmas, I was given some CDs to record to cassette 
(one of them didn't work..or so I thought)..the long and short of it is 
that..what I thought was a CD was a DVD!  So I decided to try to play it 
in my computer to find out for sure!  I tried Windows Media..no soap; I 
also tried using Real Player (got video..but no sound)..I tried Power DVD 
(it told me I had to buy it (I didn't think I did..but that's what it was 
telling me (that my "trial period had run out!"  So I called my tech; he 
put me on to this program called VLC Media Player!  I tried a couple of 
DVDs in it; it'll play them..but not right; I don't know if I can explain 
what it's doing (by the way..this VLC Media Player isn't that 
accessible)..so maybeyou folks can also point me in the right direction 
with that too!  But with VLC Media player, the DVDs will at least 
"play"..but it skips and jumps and just sounds crazy!  So as you can 
probably figure out, I need to know if I need to have something done with 
my DVD drive..or do I just need the right program (hopefully one that is 
accessible)..BTW-I do have some vision, so I would need something that 
will show me the video (I've heard of DVD Audio Extractor..which won't 
work for my purposes!  I'll be most grateful for any help or direction you 
can give..and my apologies if this is "off-topic"..since this is a PC 
Audio list; I just don't know where else to turn at the moment!

Tom Kaufman
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Re: USB Power

[Robert doc Wright]

the problem he is running into is that type of drive uses the USB for both 
power and data transfer.
- Original Message - 
From: "Christopher Chaltain" 

To: "PC Audio Discussion List" 
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 5:00 AM
Subject: Re: USB Power


If one of the USB connections is only used for power, I wonder if one of 
those cheap AC to USB power connectors would work.





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On 1/14/2011 4:27 AM, Colin Phelan wrote:

Hi List,
I have bought an external hard drive with no power supply, ie gets power
from lap top
It came with 2 USB connnections and I now know why
My machine I am plugging it into is old and is just being used for music 
but

has only one USB port.
The drive will not spin up on the power for one only and hence I cannot 
use

for this application.
Is there any small cheap USB power source i.e battery or even mains that 
I

can plug second USB into to increase power.
I have tested this on my powered USB hub for my main machine and it works
but that is overkill and more expensive than I would want to solve this
issue?
Thanks as alwayss
Colin





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Hopefully Not "off-Topic"

[Tom Kaufman]

Hi list:  I know this is an "audio list"..but my problem concerns playing DVDs! 
 Am trying to assess if the reason why my computer will not play DVDs is the 
fault of the DVD drive..or if I just need the right DVD playing software to 
play the things!  Let me give you some background first: just before Christmas, 
I was given some CDs to record to cassette (one of them didn't work..or so I 
thought)..the long and short of it is that..what I thought was a CD was a DVD!  
So I decided to try to play it in my computer to find out for sure!  I tried 
Windows Media..no soap; I also tried using Real Player (got video..but no 
sound)..I tried Power DVD (it told me I had to buy it (I didn't think I 
did..but that's what it was telling me (that my "trial period had run out!"  So 
I called my tech; he put me on to this program called VLC Media Player!  I 
tried a couple of DVDs in it; it'll play them..but not right; I don't know if I 
can explain what it's doing (by the way..this VLC Media Player isn't that 
accessible)..so maybeyou folks can also point me in the right direction with 
that too!  But with VLC Media player, the DVDs will at least "play"..but it 
skips and jumps and just sounds crazy!  So as you can probably figure out, I 
need to know if I need to have something done with my DVD drive..or do I just 
need the right program (hopefully one that is accessible)..BTW-I do have some 
vision, so I would need something that will show me the video (I've heard of 
DVD Audio Extractor..which won't work for my purposes!  I'll be most grateful 
for any help or direction you can give..and my apologies if this is 
"off-topic"..since this is a PC Audio list; I just don't know where else to 
turn at the moment!
Tom Kaufman
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Re: USB Power

[Christopher Chaltain]

If one of the USB connections is only used for power, I wonder if one of 
those cheap AC to USB power connectors would work.





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On 1/14/2011 4:27 AM, Colin Phelan wrote:

Hi List,
I have bought an external hard drive with no power supply, ie gets power
from lap top
It came with 2 USB connnections and I now know why
My machine I am plugging it into is old and is just being used for music but
has only one USB port.
The drive will not spin up on the power for one only and hence I cannot use
for this application.
Is there any small cheap USB power source i.e battery or even mains that I
can plug second USB into to increase power.
I have tested this on my powered USB hub for my main machine and it works
but that is overkill and more expensive than I would want to solve this
issue?
Thanks as alwayss
Colin





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USB Power

[Colin Phelan]

Hi List,
I have bought an external hard drive with no power supply, ie gets power
from lap top 
It came with 2 USB connnections and I now know why 
My machine I am plugging it into is old and is just being used for music but
has only one USB port.
The drive will not spin up on the power for one only and hence I cannot use
for this application.
Is there any small cheap USB power source i.e battery or even mains that I
can plug second USB into to increase power.
I have tested this on my powered USB hub for my main machine and it works
but that is overkill and more expensive than I would want to solve this
issue?
Thanks as alwayss 
Colin
 




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