Christmas Presents
Hi everyone and I sincerely hope you're all having a very good Christmas, - friends in the states wouldn't have touched their turkey yet but I reckon the time for present opening is well upon you right? - Anyhow Christmas in the land of Oz is well and truly over and for those who were cashed up for Christmas then now is the time to order those presents you deserve, I'm no exception to that rule having just ordered the CC 2/E radio from CCrane which I've written about on list and linked to various reviews. I think one of the members here talked about his Wife giving him this excellent radio for Christmas, did the member get that wonderful gift and - if so - what did or does member think? I can tell you that the quality control of these radios is absolutely first class and here's the example. I know someone who ordered one of these radio sets quite some time ago, he has one for his study and he ordered a second last week for his kitchen, the order came on Christmas Eve and - although the colours of the radio units are different - that's the only difference between the 2 radios, both are identical in performance and quality, that's a great trait for a product to have. ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 Fax +61397437954
Help with Winamp Crossfader please.
Hi to all. Recently I have reinstalled Winamp and also the SQ crossfader plug in. I used this a couple of years ago or more and with reformating etc I never got around to reinstalling it but now I have. Thing is, I forgot what configuration I had on the crossfader plug in. Someone on this list kindly helped out but unfortunately the instructions he sent got lost a long time ago in a motherboard crash. I've done a little playing around but as I don't really know what I'm doing I don't know what is the best settings. I have found there is no save or OK button when I've adjusted the configuration of the plug in, only a close button. I thought when pressed this would save the new settings but it seems not because when I went back they were as they were when the plug in was installed. Anyhow if any of you use the crossfader and have any suggestions as to which is the optimum settings or the settings you use I would appreciate your input. Out of interest, I like a gentle, smooth transition between tracks. If any one can help then I thank you. Walter.
Is the NCH audio software accessible?
Hi list, Merry Christmas. Would anyone here know about the accessibility of the software from NCH? Specifically, I want to look into their Express Burn CD burning software, if it works on Windows 7 64 bit machines. If anyone's had experience using this, would you please give me some pointers for getting the best use from it? Windows Media Player seems a bit tricky for setting up a playlist to burn to a CD; I use System Access for a screen reader but something's wrong with the Media Library in that it won't let me burn something to CD; Support can't help much in this case. I have tried Digital Jukebox from Marvelsoft; in that case yes, I can make the playlist and then go to the Project menu and tell the program to burn the tracks to CD; a blank CD is in the drive, but when I hit the okay button after I'm given the total playing time for the tracks to burn the CD, the speech just goes silent and a message pops up that the dj.exe has stopped working and should be closed; I haven't heard back from their tech support yet, maybe tomorrow after Christmas. Meanwhile I'm wanting to find out more about Express Burn by NCH Software to find out if it's accessible with screen readers before I plunk down money for it. Thanks in advance for any info you can give me on this; also if anyone has experience with Digital Jukebox by Marvelsoft I'm interested in learning about experiences people had using it. thanks again and Merry Christmas. Peter Russillo
Re: Is the NCH audio software accessible?
It is very accessible. I have that program and probably about 12 others from that company. Andrea On 26/12/2013 10:34 AM, Peter Russillo wrote: Hi list, Merry Christmas. Would anyone here know about the accessibility of the software from NCH? Specifically, I want to look into their Express Burn CD burning software, if it works on Windows 7 64 bit machines. If anyone's had experience using this, would you please give me some pointers for getting the best use from it? Windows Media Player seems a bit tricky for setting up a playlist to burn to a CD; I use System Access for a screen reader but something's wrong with the Media Library in that it won't let me burn something to CD; Support can't help much in this case. I have tried Digital Jukebox from Marvelsoft; in that case yes, I can make the playlist and then go to the Project menu and tell the program to burn the tracks to CD; a blank CD is in the drive, but when I hit the okay button after I'm given the total playing time for the tracks to burn the CD, the speech just goes silent and a message pops up that the dj.exe has stopped working and should be closed; I haven't heard back from their tech support yet, maybe tomorrow after Christmas. Meanwhile I'm wanting to find out more about Express Burn by NCH Software to find out if it's accessible with screen readers before I plunk down money for it. Thanks in advance for any info you can give me on this; also if anyone has experience with Digital Jukebox by Marvelsoft I'm interested in learning about experiences people had using it. thanks again and Merry Christmas. Peter Russillo -- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Carl Brad
RE: Is the NCH audio software accessible?
Hello, Yes, Express Burn is very accessible. If you use Jaws there's one point in the burning process where you have to select whether you are coing to burn file by file or load up all the files in a given folder. Here you have to use the Jaws Cursor to reach the selection, but that's about as hard as it gets. NCH Express Rip is also accessible and is my personal favourite CD ripping tool. So I'd say, get the trial version and give the NCH Express Burn a go. Cheers, Clive -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Peter Russillo Sent: 25 December 2013 23:35 To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Is the NCH audio software accessible? Hi list, Merry Christmas. Would anyone here know about the accessibility of the software from NCH? Specifically, I want to look into their Express Burn CD burning software, if it works on Windows 7 64 bit machines. If anyone's had experience using this, would you please give me some pointers for getting the best use from it? Windows Media Player seems a bit tricky for setting up a playlist to burn to a CD; I use System Access for a screen reader but something's wrong with the Media Library in that it won't let me burn something to CD; Support can't help much in this case. I have tried Digital Jukebox from Marvelsoft; in that case yes, I can make the playlist and then go to the Project menu and tell the program to burn the tracks to CD; a blank CD is in the drive, but when I hit the okay button after I'm given the total playing time for the tracks to burn the CD, the speech just goes silent and a message pops up that the dj.exe has stopped working and should be closed; I haven't heard back from their tech support yet, maybe tomorrow after Christmas. Meanwhile I'm wanting to find out more about Express Burn by NCH Software to find out if it's accessible with screen readers before I plunk down money for it. Thanks in advance for any info you can give me on this; also if anyone has experience with Digital Jukebox by Marvelsoft I'm interested in learning about experiences people had using it. thanks again and Merry Christmas. Peter Russillo
Re: Is the NCH audio software accessible?
Another accessible option is iTunes. - Original Message - From: Clive Lever clive.le...@btinternet.com To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 6:59 PM Subject: RE: Is the NCH audio software accessible? Hello, Yes, Express Burn is very accessible. If you use Jaws there's one point in the burning process where you have to select whether you are coing to burn file by file or load up all the files in a given folder. Here you have to use the Jaws Cursor to reach the selection, but that's about as hard as it gets. NCH Express Rip is also accessible and is my personal favourite CD ripping tool. So I'd say, get the trial version and give the NCH Express Burn a go. Cheers, Clive -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Peter Russillo Sent: 25 December 2013 23:35 To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Is the NCH audio software accessible? Hi list, Merry Christmas. Would anyone here know about the accessibility of the software from NCH? Specifically, I want to look into their Express Burn CD burning software, if it works on Windows 7 64 bit machines. If anyone's had experience using this, would you please give me some pointers for getting the best use from it? Windows Media Player seems a bit tricky for setting up a playlist to burn to a CD; I use System Access for a screen reader but something's wrong with the Media Library in that it won't let me burn something to CD; Support can't help much in this case. I have tried Digital Jukebox from Marvelsoft; in that case yes, I can make the playlist and then go to the Project menu and tell the program to burn the tracks to CD; a blank CD is in the drive, but when I hit the okay button after I'm given the total playing time for the tracks to burn the CD, the speech just goes silent and a message pops up that the dj.exe has stopped working and should be closed; I haven't heard back from their tech support yet, maybe tomorrow after Christmas. Meanwhile I'm wanting to find out more about Express Burn by NCH Software to find out if it's accessible with screen readers before I plunk down money for it. Thanks in advance for any info you can give me on this; also if anyone has experience with Digital Jukebox by Marvelsoft I'm interested in learning about experiences people had using it. thanks again and Merry Christmas. Peter Russillo
Re: Is the NCH audio software accessible?
Hi Andrea and list. I got the Express Burn CD burner. Now when burning a CD, when picking the files/songs to put on a CD, the help area talks about dragging and dropping. What's the best way to do this just on the keyboard? Any tips and tricks for using this program would be appreciated; thank you. Peter
Further Exploration Of My Tivoli Audio DAB Radio
Hi and I trust you've all had a pleasant Christmas Day though our friends in the States are probably still making the most of the day itself. Its Boxing Day here which means plenty of cricket to follow and plenty of time to catch up on those things that need to be caught up on including the scanning of operating instructions and owners manuals so time to look at the supplied manual for the Tivoli DAB Radio. The radio itself is called the Tivoli Pal Plus so my error, I thought it was called the Tivoli Pal Dab. The radio has a built-in digital clock with 2 alarms that can be set, the procedure for setting these alarms seems straight forward enough according to the manual so - once I get some help with the Remote Control layout - I'll have a play and see just how successful I am, can't see any real problems here. The choices in the menu are a delight I should think to any lover of a good radio as so much can be customised here, there's a loudness facility, Bass and Treble controls, EQ presets and more. The display is customisable, just how customisable I can't say given I can't seen it but there are plenty of lighting options and options to adjust the font size, an auto brightness is also part of the display adjustment settings. If listening to the radio through a headset is something you'll be doing a lot of then note the adjustments particular to this mode of listening such as balance, mono or stereo headphones listening, Bass, Treble and EQ, separate volume adjustment etc. By default the backlight remains on all the time when running the radio on battery and this is interesting, the Pal Plus is the only radio I've used where the backlight remains lit, the opposite is usually the default, I'll make a note to change this setting in order to get a longer battery life though their may well be a disadvantage in doing this as I didn't notice separate backlight settings for power and battery operations. I'm very glad to say that the sleep timer is very accessible on this radio through the sleep button on the remote control, pressing once enables the time and each subsequent press changes the sleep timer, I'll have to get some help to find out the exact cycle. Having access to the sleep timer in this way is such a welcome change in a modern day radio, so many radios available today use the power button to enable the sleep timer and make changes to it so a person with no way of reading the display would find this method extremely difficult and frustrating to deal with. I had a play around with the FM band, on the remote controller the user presses the source button until the FM band is selected - the white noise from the FM band is recognisable anywhere -. From here I was able to engage manual tuning by pressing the jog-dial once and then turning the dial, every click of the dial changed the frequency in 50KHZ steps though I would imagine this could be changed somewhere in the settings if required. I didn't try the radio under my usual test conditions but it certainly had no problems in receiving a station I regularly listen to 80 miles from here which is 400KHZ above a stronger station nearby. I'll publish more notes as I keep exploring this wonderful radio. ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 Fax +61397437954
Re: Is the NCH audio software accessible?
Well once you open the program and choose the type of cdrom you wish to create and press OK, then you will be presented with a screen with menu bar at top. press alt which will get you to file menu. (Alt-f will not work.) Arrow down this menu. You will find selections like select file(s), select folder which will overcome this useless drag and drop nuisance and take it from there. HTH Andrea On 26/12/2013 2:07 PM, Peter Russillo wrote: Hi Andrea and list. I got the Express Burn CD burner. Now when burning a CD, when picking the files/songs to put on a CD, the help area talks about dragging and dropping. What's the best way to do this just on the keyboard? Any tips and tricks for using this program would be appreciated; thank you. Peter -- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Carl Brad
soundforge query, converting mono to stereo?
Hi all, I convert tapes etc. to mp3 for people. Someone has asked me if a tape from a FM radio station was recorded in mono if it can be converted to stereo? I know there is the option in sound forge to convert from mono to stereo but wasn't sure if it was just for if the sound is coming from one speaker or if it will do what I am looking for? -- Adam Morris Phone: +61 2 888 93939 email: a...@damorris.com
Re: soundforge query, converting mono to stereo?
Hello, if a signal is mono, you really don't want to make what's called pseudo-stereo. I've come across some old-time radio shows where the signal is mono, and the person, trying to make it sound better, has applied the pseudo-stereo effect. This kind of gives it an echo effect, and it doesn't sound natural. Matthew
