[icon-discuss] OT Leo Laporte (was Re: accidental echo with rss)
- From: Terrence van Ettinger AKA Angus MacLaren <terrence@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:54:14 -0800
Leo has a podcast? I used to listen to him oon Screensavers about 8 or so
years ago. i was kind of bummed when they took him off that. What's his feed
UURL?
Terrence
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:19:09 -0600, Richard Ehrler wrote:
>
>I have a Braille Plus running software version 1.10 build 37.
>Last night I was listening to podcasts in the rss program. As I
>navigated to the next podcast I wanted to play and was starting
>to press on the select button to launch the audio player, my
>finger twitched and I pressed the select twice in less than a
>second by accident. I waited to see what would happen. A few
>seconds later Leo Laporte started playing but about a second
>after that the same podcast started playing again as an echo.
>This weird echo effect continued for a while until I pressed
>select to pause playing the podcast. The pause only effected one
>copy of the podcast. That is to say, Leo kept talking but the
>echo was gone because one was paused while the other kept
>playing. I wasn't sure if I had somehow managed to launch two
>copies of the audio player or what! Thinking I might have screwed
>something up, I then pressed cancel and exited all the way out of
>the rss program, made sure all other programs were closed, and
>then did a restart with the star-number-program1 combination.
>After restart completed and I set my clock back to correct time,
>I went back into the rss program and successfully played several
>podcasts with no further obvious problem.
>Suggestion to the developers: You might consider doing some kind
>of keystroke supression by turning off keyboard interrupts
>briefly in situations where key bounce could cause problems like
>I ran into. I didn't try to duplicate the above situation so
>can't say how easy it will be to reproduce. Maybe I just hit a
>sweet spot in timing that would rarely if ever happen again or
>maybe anyone can do it by hitting the select button twice
>quickly.
>Richard Ehrler
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