Re: FLAC Files was Time To Purchase FLAC?
I've only recently myself rid the network of MP3 files, some of which have been there for years. Its easier than a lot of people think when it comes to playing FLAC files on devices and perhaps I didn't make that very clear in previous eMail. For example with an iPhone, you download or purchase a 3rd party App, more than likely the App will have some sort of Downloader built-in, put simply that means you can have your iPhone connect to Dropbox etc thus what files you put on your Dropbox from your computer or other device can then be downloaded to your iPhone for you to play at your convenience. On 7 Oct 2014, at 4:02 pm, Alexandra Grünauer al.gruena...@gmx.de wrote: Dane, you're right with all you say about flac files. I'm a fan myself, but I'll stick to mp3 for my portable players because the Plextalk Pocket doesn't support Flac and the IPhone storage space is so unbelievably expensive! An Apple policy that I'll never be able to understand. Take care, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 4:29 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: FLAC Files was Time To Purchase FLAC? You're making things terribly and unecssarely complex and complicated. Yes that's right, just replace Windows Media Player on your Windows Machine with something that plays FLAC files and the same applies to your iPhone, Mac etc. In the case of iPhone and Mac no one says you have to use iTunes at all! I don't for playing audio files. If you do need to or want to use iTunes then no, you can't play FLAC files with iTunes however you can play Lossless AAC Audio with iTunes thus you could convert your FLAC collection, Monkeys Audio Collection or whatever, even rip your CD'S to a Lossless format for playback. though that's a step that I don't think most most will want to take, its just far easier getting a Third party player and playing the FLAC or whatever the audio is on your iPhone and enjoying. On 7 Oct 2014, at 1:21 pm, Kelly Pierce kellyt...@gmail.com wrote: Dane, The difference is the tight integration of the Apple ecosystem in the company’s mobile platform. Windows is designed to be an agnostic multipurpose device. The included Windows Media Player can easily be substituted with another media player, like Winamp, that supports FLAC. By contrast, it is very difficult to load music files on the iPhone without using iTunes. Further, Apple’s headphones are integrated with the music app and the phone or tablet itself so audio input and output can be managed without touching the device. Third party apps have limited access to the controls on Apple headphones and cannot access the built-in equalizer in the music app. The equalizer on iOS allows iTunes Radio to sound so much better than Spotify, Pandora and the others, as they cannot access it. I fully support the notion that FLAC represents a significant improvement in sound quality and that increased memory and bandwidth diminish its limitations. Unfortunately, the time for universal adoption of FLAC is not now. Many have predicted for years the widespread adoption of mobile payments through sell phones using near Field Communications. The predictions never seem to materialize until now. With the iPhone 6 series, Apple finally added NFC and is rolling out a payment system. We will soon see if this technology is embraced or ignored. The quality of audio streaming is getting better without a doubt. Streaming cannot fully replace music loaded onto a mobile device though for the reasons listed earlier. Kelly On 10/6/14, Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Okay I accept that without question but you forgot to mention that a Windows nor a Mac computer can play FLAC files without third party software so what's the difference? Third Party software or Apps are available for IOS etc that will allow the playing of FLAC content as third party software is available for Windows and Mac to allow the playing of FLAC content. The point you raised is taken and a fair point indeed! this all means that MP3 and so on will be around for a great deal longer and I don't dispute that at all because its the truth. All I say is that MP3 and alike formats have their quality limitations and FLAC - along with other Lossless formats - is now a viable alternative given that storage is cheaper,, portable and mobile devices are coming with larger memory capacities and so on. Regarding streaming? Mp3 is being replaced by AAC and AAC+ which has a far better compression ratio, I have actually seen some FLAC streams and test a couple the BBC had experimented with quite some time ago, they worked well though quite a bit of band width is required but I'm sure that will come in time too just as the quality of streaming itself has improved out of sight over the last 20 years or so.
RE: Sharing audio with
There is a round about way of accomplishing this. It would require a USB mixer. The internal sound card of the Mac should be set as the default and iTunes should play though that. A line from the headphone jack to an input on the mixer should be established. Then a microphone should be attached to the mixer. The mixer should show up as a USB audio device and hopefully Skype can be configured to use it as a microphone input. If you're using Voiceover you may also want to connect another cheap USB sound card and route Voiceover through that and maybe even the Skype audio playback as well if you don't want that in the mix. Skype can be real picky about what audio devices it uses and that is why something like Audio Hijack Pro may not work. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of André van Deventer Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 5:14 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Sharing audio with Suppose the same kind of system should work for a mac using the yeti or similar microphone with a built in sound card. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Gianluca Nucci Sent: 02 October 2014 05:44 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Sharing audio with Content preview: Thanks André, keep in mind that I'm using a Mac though. I've tried everything I could think of... 2014-10-02 8:22 GMT+02:00, André van Deventer : Gianluca The only way I could find to do this was by using a rather elaborate hardware connection. I could never find a software solution that works. There are programs like for example Pretty May which was supposed to accomplish this but I never got any of them to work properly. My configuration depends on the hardware stuff I have. I have a yety USB microphone which also has a built in sound card. So I connected the headphone socket of the Yeti output to the line in socket of my sound card with a hardware cable. Then I set the mp3 player output - in my case foobar 2000 - output to use the Yeti as an output device and in skype I selected the input device as the line in. Remember that the output in skype is not stereo. Regards Andre Content analysis details: (-2.4 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -- -- -0.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low trust [209.85.223.174 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (gianlucanucci82[at]gmail.com) 0.2 FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT Envelope-from freemail username ends in digit (gianlucanucci82[at]gmail.com) -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.] -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNEDMessage has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Spam-Flag: NO X-BeenThere: pc-audio@pc-audio.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio.pc-audio.org List-Unsubscribe: http://pc-audio.org/mailman/options/pc-audio_pc-audio.org, mailto:pc-audio-requ...@pc-audio.org?subject=subscribe List-Post: mailto:pc-audio@pc-audio.org List-Help: mailto:pc-audio-requ...@pc-audio.org?subject=lp List-Subscribe: http://pc-audio.org/mailman/listinfo/pc-audio_pc-audio.org, mailto:pc-audio-requ...@pc-audio.org?subject=bscribe Reply-To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Errors-To: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org Sender: Pc-audio pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=.4 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - hwa3.ultrahost.us X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - webafrica.org.za X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - pc-audio.org X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: hwa3.ultrahost.us: acl_c_authenticated_local_user: mailman/mailman X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Filter-ID: s0sct1PQhAABKnZB5plbIaITmdNwHa44UGb72IC9O3F1RPEHXS1jZDDOOv6tkW/eb31UDyDoSnhk uWgCzlfpg/nJjOxJlNlv/1KU2q1hhll31hczrNiiJAgf//CqHHVvF0tg70RBmis52trq5TSHHAWY 1q7u6Zzd3J0a2rTTy6wyD1TOAJQQyP4P9ghlDiqo94pE1Cssu3RLQ0/o4r6NbA8zp1yYIFRkRN8y Bn+CxV1by687AYto0ABs/0JQmuKL+k10l1doVALsvlxXheLKPZz3A1ed2ITkOuMtrwds5D64 Bn+zPp6 NpGFUaE+fWC75DLVvCrJPmnnTHzVkpybMK7ZTeBRXcmf07M/TtpuhCH9B9OY/5JJebNvSaWy NpGFUaE+FUBj 9mqnxR9O1Qo5V9hPohbEBQPBw8nRmeirK1vZz9xCshxidE1b2R2SlrN+HB23Jaz8ciy9Mdgv
Re: digitizing cassette tapes question
Greetings, Presumably your casssette machine has a phono output known as line out, if it is fixed level, no problems, if it changes when you alter the volume, set this about halfway. Plug the (presumably 3.5MM) stereo plug into the line in of your sound catrcard. Set your sound card to line in. You now need some kind of program for receiving the audio, say, totalRecorder or GoldWave. Open a file of the acceptable parameters, i.e suggest .wav PCM 44,100hertz 16-bit unsigned stereo or flak, sorry don't know more about flak, because if you need to edit the file, not a good idea to use any form of compression until happy with the results. Start recording then start cassette, let it rip, turn cassette over don't stop recording, let it rip. At end of cassette, stop recording, save initial file, then save a copy on which you are going to work. Sort out file by editting joins, Etc. then save as is, or using whatever compression suits your needs. Job completed. remembere delete any work files you may have created such as the original recording. Hope these pointers are helpful.
Re: digitizing cassette tapes question
First and foremost, you need to listen to those tapes and see if they're worth it. Probably, if they're commercial tapes, there's so much print-through that you might as well find something else to do. If they're not replaceable, you have everything you need if you have a tape deck which has RCA jacks at the back. Sony used to make one. They do have some which use USB cords, but I've never bought one. Next thing you need is software, either SoundForge or something like it. Make sure when you make the tapes that you don't go into the red, btw. Have something that will either have a meter and tell you, or listen damned carefully to make sure you're not clipping. You might not mind now, but over the years, clipping will drive you nuts. Good luck. - Original Message - From: Michael Amaro mikeam...@earthlink.net To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 10:13 PM Subject: digitizing cassette tapes question Hello Listers, What do I need to digitize cassette tapes? I already have a stereo patch cord. How ever, it's the kind that you plug in the back of your cable box. It comes with 2 headphone plugs at one end and a single headphone like plug at the other that you plug in to your computer. Thanks Michael email/messenger mikeam...@earthlink.net Skype ID mikeameli JFK What kind of peace do I mean and what kind of a peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war, not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living and the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and build a better life for their children not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women not merely peace in our time but peace in all time.
dialing numbers when ujsing skype-out on a windows pc
I'm using the latest version of skype under windows 7 with both jaws and window-eyes. I have skype-out but am unable to enter characters such as the pound sign or star during calls. I was able to dial a call by typing in the numbers but once connected was unable to enter any other characters. I tried using the shift plus the numbers on the numbers row but this did not work. Does anyone have any suggestions for this problem?
Re: digitizing cassette tapes question
On 07/10/2014 03:13, Michael Amaro wrote: Hello Listers, What do I need to digitize cassette tapes? I already have a stereo patch cord. How ever, it's the kind that you plug in the back of your cable box. It comes with 2 headphone plugs at one end and a single headphone like plug at the other that you plug in to your computer. I assume when you say headphone plugs you mean RCA/phono plugs? In which case, they will go straight into your cassette player, with the other end going to the PC. If that's not what you mean, you'll need a new lead - your local audio shop will have them. -- rgds LAurence
Re: Wireless speaker info needed
As an aside, does anyone know the transmission format these things use? As in, separate cariers, pilot tone, or whatever? Technical infomation seems impossible to come by. -- rgds LAurence
Re: digitizing cassette tapes question
I have the old nLS cassette player and a boombox with a headphone jack -- From: Colin Howard co...@pobox.com Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 2:12 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Re: digitizing cassette tapes question Greetings, Presumably your casssette machine has a phono output known as line out, if it is fixed level, no problems, if it changes when you alter the volume, set this about halfway. Plug the (presumably 3.5MM) stereo plug into the line in of your sound catrcard. Set your sound card to line in. You now need some kind of program for receiving the audio, say, totalRecorder or GoldWave. Open a file of the acceptable parameters, i.e suggest .wav PCM 44,100hertz 16-bit unsigned stereo or flak, sorry don't know more about flak, because if you need to edit the file, not a good idea to use any form of compression until happy with the results. Start recording then start cassette, let it rip, turn cassette over don't stop recording, let it rip. At end of cassette, stop recording, save initial file, then save a copy on which you are going to work. Sort out file by editting joins, Etc. then save as is, or using whatever compression suits your needs. Job completed. remembere delete any work files you may have created such as the original recording. Hope these pointers are helpful.
Sheduled recording in tapin radio
hey all. I have tapin radio pro 1.6.0.1 installed over here and i'm looking for he option to make sheduled recording with it because i herd that pro version supports this feature. However i looked all over the menus and i can't seem to find that option. Would someone explain in to me how it works or where is it. Using nvda and jaws as my screen readers. Thanks. -- Mario Percinic Accessibility consultant mario.perci...@gmail.com skype: acousticman gsm: +385922630259
Re: FLAC Files was Time To Purchase FLAC?
Hi! Vlc for Iphone supports flac if i'm not misstaken. Its also quite easy to use with voiceover. /A 7 okt 2014 kl. 04:21 skrev Kelly Pierce kellyt...@gmail.com: Dane, The difference is the tight integration of the Apple ecosystem in the company’s mobile platform. Windows is designed to be an agnostic multipurpose device. The included Windows Media Player can easily be substituted with another media player, like Winamp, that supports FLAC. By contrast, it is very difficult to load music files on the iPhone without using iTunes. Further, Apple’s headphones are integrated with the music app and the phone or tablet itself so audio input and output can be managed without touching the device. Third party apps have limited access to the controls on Apple headphones and cannot access the built-in equalizer in the music app. The equalizer on iOS allows iTunes Radio to sound so much better than Spotify, Pandora and the others, as they cannot access it. I fully support the notion that FLAC represents a significant improvement in sound quality and that increased memory and bandwidth diminish its limitations. Unfortunately, the time for universal adoption of FLAC is not now. Many have predicted for years the widespread adoption of mobile payments through sell phones using near Field Communications. The predictions never seem to materialize until now. With the iPhone 6 series, Apple finally added NFC and is rolling out a payment system. We will soon see if this technology is embraced or ignored. The quality of audio streaming is getting better without a doubt. Streaming cannot fully replace music loaded onto a mobile device though for the reasons listed earlier. Kelly On 10/6/14, Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Okay I accept that without question but you forgot to mention that a Windows nor a Mac computer can play FLAC files without third party software so what's the difference? Third Party software or Apps are available for IOS etc that will allow the playing of FLAC content as third party software is available for Windows and Mac to allow the playing of FLAC content. The point you raised is taken and a fair point indeed! this all means that MP3 and so on will be around for a great deal longer and I don't dispute that at all because its the truth. All I say is that MP3 and alike formats have their quality limitations and FLAC - along with other Lossless formats - is now a viable alternative given that storage is cheaper,, portable and mobile devices are coming with larger memory capacities and so on. Regarding streaming? Mp3 is being replaced by AAC and AAC+ which has a far better compression ratio, I have actually seen some FLAC streams and test a couple the BBC had experimented with quite some time ago, they worked well though quite a bit of band width is required but I'm sure that will come in time too just as the quality of streaming itself has improved out of sight over the last 20 years or so. Before I close, I did get one mobile device that could play FLAC right out of the box apart from those I've already mentioned and that was my Samsung Galaxy phone, the Playback of FLAC it seems is built-in to Android as it should be. On 7 Oct 2014, at 11:48 am, Kelly Pierce kellyt...@gmail.com wrote: Dane, Your analysis of the FLAC format omits the lack of support on Apple mobile devices. The iPhone and iPad and their iOS operating system stands as the most coveted and popular consumer technology in the world. Yet, FLAC files cannot be played on these devices or Apple’s media player, iTunes. With each passing year and no FLAC support, Apple incrementally loses its cool ratio. Some suggest streaming music, such as Pandora, TuneIn Radio, Slacker Radio, and iTunes Radio along with Apple’s Music Match, as alternatives to loading music files to the phone. Unfortunately, streaming music is not available on subways, planes and in big buildings as well in lightly populated areas with no cellular service. I want music on my device for the times when I want music, which includes the times with no data service. Currently, the MP3 format still represents the means to provide relatively high quality audio content for the widest range of devices, particularly mobile ones. I recently ripped all my CD’s to 256k MP3 so they could play on my iPhone. I love FLAC files and have many jazz recordings carefully ripped to FLAC for listening on a high fidelity audio system at home. Most of my album listening is away from home though so MP3 is the format of choice until Apple supports FLAC. I fear this may be a long time, as only audiophiles seem to care about it. Kelly On 10/6/14, Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Speaking of MP3, I had great pleasure in deleting 80,000+ MP3 files from my network just now, as I have everything I owned in MP3 format in FLAC - and much more besides - there was
RE: Sheduled recording in Tapin radio
The easiest way to get to the scheduler in Tapin, using Jaws, would be to do the following: 1: with Tapin Radio open, do alt-A and hit enter 2: hit the letter S and enter; this should bring up your scheduler. HTH Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Mario Percinic Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 5:25 PM To: Pc-audio mailing list Subject: Sheduled recording in tapin radio hey all. I have tapin radio pro 1.6.0.1 installed over here and i'm looking for he option to make sheduled recording with it because i herd that pro version supports this feature. However i looked all over the menus and i can't seem to find that option. Would someone explain in to me how it works or where is it. Using nvda and jaws as my screen readers. Thanks. -- Mario Percinic Accessibility consultant mario.perci...@gmail.com skype: acousticman gsm: +385922630259
Revised Instructions For Scheduler In Tapin Radio
Hello list: I kind of put too many steps in the instructions to get to the scheduler in Tapin Radio (it actually is close to what I said) only you don't need to hit the enter key; if you do alt-A, this will bring up the menu that has favorites and other things) once this is in view, hitting the letter S will bring up the scheduler. My apologies for the screw-up; often, I do things without really thinking about how I'm doing it if it is something I do every day; I have to sort of go back and retrace my own steps, so to speak! Anyhow I hope these instructions are useful to the person who wanted to know where the scheduler in Tapin Radio is. Tom Kaufman
Re: FLAC Files was Time To Purchase FLAC?
You're not mistaken and that's just one App of at least half a dozen I can think of, I haven't played around with VLC lately so must have a look and see what improvements or changes have been made. Another of my favourite players for IOS is something called oPlayer which is available in 2 versions, the free Light and the HD purchased version. Speaking of VLC, if you're a Windows user then you're in for a real treat with this player, I use it both on Mac and Windows. On 8 Oct 2014, at 8:36 am, Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! Vlc for Iphone supports flac if i'm not misstaken. Its also quite easy to use with voiceover. /A ** Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane
Re: Sheduled recording in Tapin radio
Thanks, actually never looked into favorites menu, that's why i missed it. On 7.10.2014. 23:41, Tom Kaufman wrote: The easiest way to get to the scheduler in Tapin, using Jaws, would be to do the following: 1: with Tapin Radio open, do alt-A and hit enter 2: hit the letter S and enter; this should bring up your scheduler. HTH Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Mario Percinic Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 5:25 PM To: Pc-audio mailing list Subject: Sheduled recording in tapin radio hey all. I have tapin radio pro 1.6.0.1 installed over here and i'm looking for he option to make sheduled recording with it because i herd that pro version supports this feature. However i looked all over the menus and i can't seem to find that option. Would someone explain in to me how it works or where is it. Using nvda and jaws as my screen readers. Thanks. -- Mario Percinic Accessibility consultant mario.perci...@gmail.com skype: acousticman gsm: +385922630259
RE: Sheduled recording in Tapin radio
Yupthat's where it is! Best of luck to you and hope it'll work for ya! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Mario Percinic Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 5:52 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Sheduled recording in Tapin radio Thanks, actually never looked into favorites menu, that's why i missed it. On 7.10.2014. 23:41, Tom Kaufman wrote: The easiest way to get to the scheduler in Tapin, using Jaws, would be to do the following: 1: with Tapin Radio open, do alt-A and hit enter 2: hit the letter S and enter; this should bring up your scheduler. HTH Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Mario Percinic Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 5:25 PM To: Pc-audio mailing list Subject: Sheduled recording in tapin radio hey all. I have tapin radio pro 1.6.0.1 installed over here and i'm looking for he option to make sheduled recording with it because i herd that pro version supports this feature. However i looked all over the menus and i can't seem to find that option. Would someone explain in to me how it works or where is it. Using nvda and jaws as my screen readers. Thanks. -- Mario Percinic Accessibility consultant mario.perci...@gmail.com skype: acousticman gsm: +385922630259
