Hello, I don't know what kind of features you're looking for, or how much
you're willing to spend, but the RioVolt SP250 is still around as used
units. It's not being made officially anymore, but EBay and Amazon have
plenty of them. Hear my audio review on it from Main Menu at
www.ACBRadio.org
then
Hello, is there an accessible ID3 tagger out there which can do the
following:
you can select a group of files from within a folder, and tell the program
that for all of these files, you want to put this for the title, this for
the artist, this for the year, and this for the comment, so I could jus
Hello, this program is no longer made, and I never got to try it out, but
the facility that it has of placing the bitrate in the filename is one which
I need now, and a Google search produces web sites with no download links.
Has anyone got the original downloaded .zip or .exe file which they can s
Hello, I need to change the pitch of a recording, but when I go to the
process menu and hit pitch, I get shift and bend, and I want shift. I press
enter and get put right back to the main workspace with no option to change
the pitch. This also happens if I want to bring up anything like the
equaliz
Hello, I bet this question has been asked before, and I already know how to
record Real Player using the what you hear option, but I'm wondering if
there is an accessible program which will record the stream without the use
of the what you hear option, just in case my sound card makes any
interfere
Yes, but doesn't that still use the capture from the sound card itself, and
thus would record Jaws and other interference? I can mute Jaws, but every
once in a while, the sound card makes these noises, not Windows sounds
either.
Thanks a lot.
Matthew
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working unless you register.
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Hello, go to
www.ACBRadio.org
and to on demand, then Main Menu, then look down the page to my name and
find my review of how to put records onto the hard drive. Click on the show
date and use the B key to skip segments.
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Hello, try RealWavRecorder. This program will take a .ram file and play it
straight through, converting it into a .wav file. If you're file is long,
either enjoy it while it plays or run it overnight, because it plays the
entire file through. You of course have to configure it first, which isn't
to
I had to run one file at a time, listening all the way through in realtime.
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Hello, there is a program called dvd to mp3. I think that's the name of the
web site. I've bought the program for $30.
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Hello, this is fine since I have one already, but if they fail to update us
with the newest channels, then this will be a problem. If things become any
different, to where I can't enjoy the service, I will discontinue it. I will
not do this out of anger at XM, for whom I have none, but I will simpl
Hello, this is a multi-track editor, where you can add harmonies or other
instruments on top of what you've already got. I did a review of it on Main
Menu a while back.
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Hello, are these units accessible pretty much? Can you skip folders by the
use of button presses, and can they skim files, and have resume on them
where it starts at the exact place you stopped? Also, they just came out
with one gig usb flash drives. Do they happen to make these mp3 players in
that
Hello, when you get to the part where you hit enter on shift, hit preview
either before or after you get to the semitones slider. Preview is alt P.
This will play the file from the start, or will play a selection if you've
marked it. Play with the semitones slider until it sounds right, and if it's
Hello, you have to hit alt P after you've selected the pitch shift option.
This will start the playing of the file, upon which you can then move the
sliders for your desired result.
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Hello, cd quality sound is 16 bit, and 44100 samples. If you're recording in
24 bit at 96 khz, the higher end audio will not be accepted by the lower
cd-quality. Therefore, in order to retain the 24/96 parameters, you may have
to use DVD audio. I'm not exactly sure about this, but there are detaile
Hello, here's a new product from the company who brought you the Griffin
Power Mate. I don't know if this is accessible as far as the software
though. I thought you'd want to check it out.
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/imic/
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below this line.
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Hello, I downloaded the software from the web site, and it's not accessible,
which is too bad, or I would have ordered one of these.
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Hello, I don't know the answer to this question, as I have a regular Sony
Minidisc machine, but try
www.MiniDisc.org
and follow that to the minidisc mailing list, and they should have the
answer there.
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Hello, but as I said in an earlier post, I tried the software which was
available from the web site, and it was not accessible with screen readers.
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Hello, you should let Dave Williams know at ACBRadio.org and see if he will
include this in a Main Menu program as an ongoing series. E-mail
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Since you've already split it up into sections, he may be able to run a
segment a week or something like that.
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Hello, I'm interested in mp3 Trim, because I heard that it can trim the
beginning and end of a file, and possibly the middle parts, as well as
normalize the file, without reencoding. If I have the features of this
program correctly, will it normalize a batch of files all at once?
Thanks a lot.
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Hello, you could also use the Sony format of .w64 files. This is what I use
for recordings which start out long, but that I trim down later.
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Hello, my hard disc is formatted with ntfs, and I still can't save .wav
files over a certain length. I think it's about 4 gigs. I think it's a
limitation of the .wav file format.
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Hello, it's a limit of .wav files only, and DVD's are not .wav files, but
even if they were, they put them into chapters anyhow so it would be
separate tracks.
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Hello, please respond on list, as I believe others will want the answer as
well. When you're going through the file putting markers in, you can hit alt
shift m if you're using the Snowman's scripts to delete a marker. Sometimes
this doesn't work, so you'll have to undo that, but sometimes the undo
Hello, now can anyone describe how to do the opposite. I've perhaps
forgotten to put in a track marker somewhere in a file, and I'd like to
update the list to reflect the new set of markers.
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Hello, I'd like to get some music from ITunes, since they seem to sometimes
offer exclusive tracks. Is the program accessible with Windows XP and Jaws
7? I don't have an IPod or anything like that, and would only want to burn
the downloaded tracks onto an audio cd, since that seems pretty
straight-
Hello, does anyone know which mp3 encoder Sound Forge uses for their mp3
plug-in? I find it better at lower bitrates than the Lame encoder. Can I get
WinLame to use the one that Sound Forge uses? I use WinLame because you can
select multiple files, whereas when using Sound Forge, I have to do a sav
And it appears that the arrows and page up and down keys work correctly now.
I'm able to load files and skim around in them with build D. I do get script
errors with Jim's scripts though. They keep referring to Hot Spot Clicker.
Do I need to install that then? Also, the current time function doesn'
Hello, does anyone know how to get rid of the plug-in chainer that gets in
the way when you move around with the cursor keys in the data window? It's
slowing me down, because whenever I press a key, the plug-in chainer comes
up, and I have to close it with control f4. If I minimize the plug-in
chai
Hello, I haven't used the latest version either, being happy with my
registered version from several years ago. I've just never needed anything
else. Unless he has added the ability in there somewhere to perform mute and
trimming operations in there, I just record what I need and mute breaths or
ot
That's the same question I had wondered. If you install the Amazon
downloader, which is a fairly transparent application, then thereafter, when
you click on buy track, it pulls up a window called Amazon downloader. The
song then downloads without any further action. You can keep clicking on buy
tra
Actually I've found that this space bar pausing only works when you have
Jaws loaded. If you unload Jaws, only the C key pauses, and the space bar
does nothing.
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Well I don't know about a playlist, but if you just hit control A within a
folder, it will play the whole thing. Make sure not to select any documents
or other files besides mp3s, because that will lock up the program. If you
hit alt E when using Jaws within Winamp, the playlist editor will open up
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
Hello, I'm considering the purchase of a Surface Pro 2 as my next machine.
Has anyone run Sound Forge and other audio tools on one of these? Can it
keep up with all the processing needs? I assume it might be really snappy
with the solid state hard drive in there, but I thought I'd ask.
Thanks a
Will the program put itself as an option in the context menu? I've come in
late to this thread, so where is this program obtained from?
Thanks a lot.
Matthew
Hello, you can install multiple versions of Sound Forge, just like you can
of Jaws. I remember one pc I had for a long time where I had versions 6 7
and 8 installed, just because I never got around to uninstalling them. I
don't know if you have used Jim's scripts for SF, but he built some for
v
When I had a similar problem with the turntable rumbling back into the
nearby speakers, I had to put a piece of foam on each of the four feet of
the turntable. The foam was the same type that you find in a foam matress.
The pieces were at least an inch thick and not solid foam, but spongy foam.
The best program for this is MP3 Tag Studio, made by Magnus Brading. It's very
powerful, and there is a bit of a learning curve.
Matthew
I've used MP3 Tag Studio for years, built by Magnus Brading. I forgot now how
much the full version costs, but if you learn the interface and set it up
correctly, it saves you hours of tagging. You'll want to do some experimenting
on a folder of files that are not that important. I'd suggest usi
So a few things here: You can Google for the accessible alternative to Youtube.
There are also keyboard shortcuts built into Youtube. If you turn off the
virtual cursor, meaning you can't then use first letter navigation keys, you
can then use the letters j k and l to rewind, play/pause, and fas
I don't remember the model that I bought at the Guitar Center, but it's a
Stanton. I needed to be sure that it would play 78s if I spent the extra money
to get the parts for a 78 stylus, so I asked that question at the store. We
tested this, and on the model I found, you press the 33 and 45 butt
I bought this about a year and a half ago. I'm very happy with the quality
overall.
Matthew
Hello Josh. I had considered that unit briefly, until I found out that there
weren't inputs for what I needed. I've never been satisfied with the mono
sound of instrument inputs. I therefore use a pedal and spread out the sound
with dual outputs. This unit wouldn't help me in that regard. I therefo
But is it the IMic original or the IMic2? Griffin had the IMic2 available on
their site, but the original IMic seemed not to be available. The IMic2
seems to be a larger mixing board sort of thing. If you know the difference
between these products, please let me know. I bought my IMic off of EBa
There's a program called mp3Gain which works pretty well. It claims that it
can normalize mp3 files without reencoding them, though I don't know how it
does that. You'll have to Google the program, because I don't know where I
got my copy.
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OK, this depends on what you actually want to do. If you just want to store
the dvd data on the hard drive, in order to make exact copies of the dvds
later, then you need only to create folders with meaningful names for each
dvd, and copy the video_ts and other folders from the dvd itself into t
Yes, it's I for in, or the starting marker, and O for out, for the ending
marker. Also remember that if you use control shift K, you'll hear upto the
cursor position, so that it plays a bit before you've stopped, so you can
hear exactly where you are, and where you're about to mark in or out.. I
Hello, if you're dealing with concerts on your hard drive, especially with
lossless cd trading, this is a problem that recievers of your discs will
thank you for correcting. Depending on how the resultant .wav files are cut,
the editing program may not respect the cd track boundaries, as far as
OK, getting really fine and technical here. If you splice files together in
Sound Forge, and you hear a click, or you otherwise notice the point at
which you've joined the files, then there is something wrong with the .wav
files before you've even joined them. You'll need to use a program called
Hello, if you use Sound Forge to extract audio from a cd, and you want the
existing track marks to be included within the file, you just check the box
in the extraction wizzard that comes up. I don't think it matters whether
you choose markers or regions. If you have .wav file data on your hard
Sound Forge is on version 9, though I use eight for my main tasks. Version 9
isn't as responsive, though I have yet to try it on my computer which is in
the process of being built.
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Hello, I believe you might be confusing bitrate with kbps. 32kbps is a
pretty average encoding bitrate for mp3s, especially for voice. Most files
are created as 16-bit files, unless you have changed something. I think
you'll find after creating one of these mp3 files that if you look at its
pro
I've done this many times using Sound Forge. It loads up the files just
fine. I believe, though I have no sight to test it, that if you trim or
otherwise edit the audio, the video should keep right up, so that you could
cut out bits you didn't want. Then all you'd have to do is save in your
pre
While I haven't bought a USB turntable, since my existing equipment does the
job, you should be aware that these units don't come with a separate stylus
to play 78s, unless they've corrected this oversight. While you can play 78s
with the same stylus that plays 33s, it won't sound as good, becau
Hi Tim. Might some of the cds I gave you a few years ago be among those for
conversion? If you have Sound Forge, the batch converter within the program
works quite well for what you want to do. They do have a stand-alone
download of the batch converter, but I don't think it's the same thing, or
Hello, I'm using Sound Forge 9 right now. It's been about nine years since I
used the voice over options, specifically the one where the music lowers in
response to the voice on another file. Where do I find this option again,
and how do I go about it? I need a refresher course. Also, is it poss
Hello, not being a Window Eyes user, I can't help with Sound Forge's
interaction with that screen reader, but what sort of problems are you
having navigating the screen? There are scripts for Jaws made by Jim
Snowbarger, and there may be scripts to add equal functionallity with Window
Eyes, tho
Oh yes. You have the option of voice over useage in Sound Forge. Jonathan
used it in his tutorial of version 4.5.
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Hello, I never actually used this method of marking. What I've always done
is to put the cursor at the start point of the desired audio, then press the
letter I. Then I'd page down or control page down to the point at which I
wished to stop and hit the letter O. This section would then be marked
Hello, now I didn't know that Winamp now ships with a flac plug-in. I used
the flac plug-in for Winamp that I had to download. Everything dealing with
flac files, including how to decode them to .wav and how to encode .wav
files to flac is contained at
http://flac.sourceforge.net
Since I'm not
Oh yes. At one time, on one PC, I had versions 7 8 and 9 on. For some reason
with that computer, version 8 didn't record well, as it kept stuttering, and
so I'd use version 7 for recording, and then version 8 for all other tasks.
I didn't do much with version 9, because it didn't seem to work we
Perhaps you could get the $35 version of Sound Forge to put the records onto
the hard disc in .wav file format, and then try out Depopper from
www.depopper.com
for 30 days. If you like the results of Depopper as I do, you could buy that
for just under $20. I've enjoyed Depopper for eight years n
Hello, while my copy of Sound Forge is just fine here at home, when I went
into the talking book library to help them with their book editing, I found
out that although I could delete from the cursor to the end of the file, or
from the cursor to the beginning, I couldn't use the i and o keys to
N-Track is probably the one.
www.NTrack.com
If you go to
www.ACBRadio.org
then go to on demand, then Main Menu, then search down the page, you will
find my review of the software from about seven years ago. The software is
reasonably priced at less than a hundred dollars U.S. The maker is Italia
I like the keychain speaker from
www.thinkgeek.com
Choose keychain speaker amp, and not the earbud one. The keychain speaker
amp is ten dollars, but you'll no doubt find other things from Think Geek
that you'll want.
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I quite like the IMic from Griffin Technology. For a while it wasn't available
on their site, but I see that it's back for addition to their shopping cart at
$30. It just plugs into the USB port, and has an input and an output jack, with
a switch to go from line in to microphone settings. It doe
Hello, can it really be this hard? I'm used to the Windows XP way of doing
things, where the volume control has check boxes to select whether the line
in or the microphone port is used. If I now work in Windows 7, I have to
click on speakers in the system tray and go down a list of several
nond
Yeah, that is a bit tricky to get to. Start out with
www.acbradio.org
then go to on demand, then main menu, then the link that says visit the new
Main Menu site. Even after that, you then have to click on shows, and then
you'll be presented with the archives. If you're looking for something from
t
OK, so the Plextalk Pocket and the new Bookport Plus feel the same when held
in the hand? Is that what they mean about the same hardware, or do they mean
the same pressable keys? I don't quite understand.
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This program will indeed do what you want. You have to read the instructions
carefully to get what you want, since you have to tell it how to treat the
files the way you want. Once you get it the way you like it, you can just
change the info in the fields each time something changes, or you can
The sound will not differ, and the resulting .wav file when converted will
not lose out. It's just a matter of file size and time taken to compress it.
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I should mention that manipulating the NLS content so that it can be played
on a device not authorized for it, especially getting it into mp3 format, is
a violation of your agreement with NLS. You need to be careful not to do
that, and also not to give out ways and means to others. It will hurt
Hello, may I humbly suggest my going over of this topic in the old Main Menu
archives at
www.acbradio.org
You have what you need, except you either don't have, or forgot to mention
the leads that connect everything up.
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Hello, your one-stop place is
www.BagsUnlimited.com
They have various sleeves for 78s, with various thicknesses of paper, center
hole or not, and even cardboard or just paper. They also have inner static
sleeves for 33s, as well as the mylar sleeves that fit over the record
jacket, so th
Hello, since I can't figure out the layout or configuration of the
options in Windows 7, and since my sound card supports the what you hear
option in XP but apparently not in Windows 7, I'm wondering if Total
Recorder or Replay AV will take care of the what you hear option for me?
Usually wh
Hello, when I used XP, I had the same problem. The check boxes were
usable, but they didn't have labels. I used my Jaws cursor and went up a
line to see what the words across the top were. Thereafter, I just had to
memorize which check boxes were which. Unfortunately I couldn't even assign
e
Hello, since I've not heard of this piece of software before, could you
briefly describe how you edit in this software? I've been a Sound Forge user
for ten years, and would like to know how Reaper does it. The userguide was
in a pdf, and the .exe script file won't install without Reaper install
Hmm, never did use Midi at all. I heard an audio demo of Sonar, and it
just sounded way too involved to me, and the reviewer focused on the Midi
capabilities, rather than just regular audio editing. How is Reaper on that
aspect, and can it do multitrack recording?
Thanks a lot.
Matthew
T
Might I recommend a program called Skype Talking? It uses keystrokes to
do its work, rather than bringing up an interface. I open and close Skype
with this program, and you can make other changes in a quicker and more
straightforward way. The program is free from
http://code.google.com/p/sky
Wow. This sounds even better than the Olympus DM4 which has just come out. I
like the idea of dedicated buttons and no menu structure. Perhaps someone
can do a podcast on this new unit, and then maybe we'd be able to compare
the two machines.
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Hmm, but if you're plugging in a microphone of your choice, and both
machines record in .wav file format, would it matter at that point which one
you were using? I would opt for anything that makes professional recordings
like for audience taping at concerts or for making demo recordings,
Here's the Amazon link, quite a long one. The price, surprisingly, is
just $99!
http://www.amazon.com/Zoom-H1-Portable-Digital-Recorder/dp/B003QKBVYK/ref=sr_1_1?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1281326791&sr=1-1
If the link wraps for your e-mail client, then search Amazon for Zoom H1.
Matth
Although the list price for the accessory pack is about $30, the
selling price will be around fifteen in the U.S. The extra stuff is listed
as a link down the page that I posted before from Amazon. I e-mailed the
company, and they said that the manual in pdf format isn't available yet,
b
Hello, I just looked on BlindCoolTech, and Neal said with his review
that the accessibility is awful, but that the monitor mode for recording
makes it a little better. That's from the text descriptions under the
podcast title, and so you'd need to listen to his recordings to hear more
ab
Hello, just a bit more clarification. The recorder under discussion
takes micro-SD cards, which are different from mini-SD cards. The micro SD
cards used in the new Olympus DM4 and the new Zoom H1 are the smaller of the
two types. So the micro sd is the smallest, the mini sd is a bit bigg
Hello, since the H1 hasn't been released in the States yet, I have
no info other than from the Amazon product page and from the company's page.
We'll just have to wait and see.
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Hello, since Windows 7 deals with audio completely differently, and in
my opinion very convolutedly, it's not as simple as leaving the volume
control open and checking the box for either microphone or line in within
seconds. I have two sound cards. The first one is the onboard one that's in
I wrote to Neal after his review debuted, but didn't get a response. I
wonder if when you turn off the recorder, if the sampling rate always
defaults to 44/16? If you're in the record standby mode, which you are when
you press record once, then you use the arrows to increase or decrease the
It's very extensive. It's at
www.MushroomFM.com
Enjoy, and dive in.
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To convert those files into mp3 is a violation of your Audible terms.
There are many players which can play Audible files, and the computer can
use either Audible's Desktop Player or Windows Media Player, and so there
are many options.
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Were you able to find a manual online, or did you only have the printed one?
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Hello, especially if you're running SF with Jim's extra scripts for
Jaws, you'll still be enjoying great functionality. I believe that version 8
was the first one to introduce the shuttle controls, which run the audio
file at a faster speed, which is different from Jim's scrubbing function. I
The only one that sounded familiar to me was the last one. The one about
Killarney sounds like it's Dennis Day singing.
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I love this program, and I've only used it for about twelve hours now. I
hope the developer will be interviewed on a tech show like Main Menu or
Innovations, because I'd like to hear about how he accomplished this task,
and what plans he has for the future of the program, as far as features.
I'
If you'll go to
www.q-continuum.net
you will find the link for further information. You can read the
instructions on how to use this program, but in order to download, you must
pay the ten dollars using PayPal.
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