[all-audio] VLC 3 keeps saying it crashed

2018-08-30 Thread Peter Russillo
Hello, I downloaded VLC the latest version on my Windows 10 Pro laptop, running System Access as my screen reader; each time I open any music file to play it, I get the message Oops, VLC Media Player has crashed; do you want to send a crash report to the developers?  When I hit the Yes button,

Re: [all-audio] There's finally a microwave you can control with Alexa, and it just got its first discount

2018-08-30 Thread Dane Trethowan
Okay well I'm not going to debate how good or bad a microwave oven is on an audio list but am happy to discuss that point with you privately or on another list. -Original Message- From: all-audio@groups.io On Behalf Of Gary Schindler Sent: Friday, 31 August 2018 2:51 AM To:

Re: [all-audio] There's finally a microwave you can control with Alexa, and it just got its first discount

2018-08-30 Thread Dane Trethowan
You've got to understand the potential for accidents and miss-haps with such a product, I read an article about this quite some time ago and that's why manufacturers up until now have been reluctant to give us voice activated appliances. -Original Message- From: all-audio@groups.io

Re: [all-audio] There's finally a microwave you can control with Alexa, and it just got its first discount

2018-08-30 Thread Gary Schindler
How did you deal with the password issue that folks talked about when setting it up? Frankly I think that's all a microwave oven is good for anyway is to reheat something. On 8/30/2018 10:56 AM, Rick Alfaro wrote: Hi. I have this oven and it's perfectly adequate for simple every day type

Re: [all-audio] There's finally a microwave you can control with Alexa, and it just got its first discount

2018-08-30 Thread Gary Schindler
The reviews haven't been all glowing about this microwave either. You have to enter a password that is printed on the microwave door somewhere, and the data base for frozen products seems to be limited. From what I am able to ascertain, once you get the oven on the network, you have to wake

[all-audio] Denon Introduces Heos Super Link

2018-08-30 Thread Dane Trethowan
Hi! I've been talking about the Denon Heos products for some time, I bought a Denon AVRX-3400H surround-sound receiver in May and a Denon Heos 10 HS2 for the back room not long after that. I bought a Denon Heos 1 HS2 a month ago and I'll talk about that speaker in a separate eMail. I'm going to

Re: [all-audio] A question about VLC 3?

2018-08-30 Thread Dane Trethowan
Yep most certainly! I don't use all the features of VLC but here's what I have noticed. VLC is faster than it was, loads faster and isn't sluggish at all as it sometimes was in past versions. Now VLC has a better ability to handle multiple files. I have a playlist of over 2000 songs here - my

Re: [all-audio] A question about VLC 3?

2018-08-30 Thread Brian Olesen
Hi Dane, So you're recommendation is to upgrade? Brian -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: all-audio@groups.io På vegne af Dane Trethowan Sendt: 30. august 2018 20:58 Til: all-audio@groups.io Emne: Re: [all-audio] A question about VLC 3? I don't know about the accessibility part but what I

[all-audio] A question about VLC 3?

2018-08-30 Thread Brian Olesen
Hi all, I have a question about VLC. Should we still stay with version 2, or is version 3 just as good in terms of accessibility. Brian -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1226): https://groups.io/g/all-audio/message/1226

Re: [all-audio] There's finally a microwave you can control with Alexa, and it just got its first discount

2018-08-30 Thread Dane Trethowan
Well again, its down to choice and I don’t recommend products or say anything against them regardless of my personal view, if people want this sort of thing then its available and they should be encouraged to buy it regardless of what my personal view is on the subject. No, I myself wouldn’t