[access-uk] Re: PLAYING AUDIBLE BOOKS
- From: "Iain Lackie" <ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:00:15 +0100
I prefer to use the Audible player.
Iain
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yusuf" <yusufaosman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:08 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: PLAYING AUDIBLE BOOKS
Wendy, I think your right that the Real alternative won't play Audible
files, but as I've never actually tried it I can't be certain of that.
Good luck
Yusuf
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wendy Sharpe" <w.sharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:20 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: PLAYING AUDIBLE BOOKS
> Yusuf
>
> Many thanks for these details. I have Real Alternative rather than
> Realplayer, and that works very well when listening to radio broadcasts.
> I
> haven't tried getting Audible to use it, and wonder whether it would
> accept
> Real Alternative.
>
> I have downloaded the version of Audible Manager which says it allows you
> to
> open files in Windows Media Player without running Audible Manager, and it
> does seem to work, but I still find WMP not altogether intuitive. I have
> a
> Zen Stone, but am thinking of buying one of the specialist portable
> players
> which are Audible ready such as Book Courier. I haven't quite decided
> which
> one to go for, as there is so much excitement about the Victor Stream, and
> then there is the new one coming up in October, so it is all a bit
> confusing
> until things settle down. I shall be very pleased to hear from anyone who
> buys these new gadgets to see how they get on with them.
>
> Anyway, thanks again for your help.
>
> Wendy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of
> Yusuf
> Sent: 15 August 2007 11:43
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: PLAYING AUDIBLE BOOKS
>
> Wendy, Which version of the Audible software are you using? I have heard
> that the most recent version was very difficult to use with a
> screenreader.
> You might be better off uninstalling and finding an older version. I think
> Audible has older versions on their web site and if not I could send you a
> setup file for the version I am using which works relatively well with WE
> version 6.
>
> I have found that sometimes shift tabbing out of the Audible software
> window
>
> and then shift tabbing back in again makes a difference particularly when
> trying to navigate dialogues. Also as far as I remember the menues aren't
> always read correctly but if you cursor down in to them the options do
> read.
>
> Do you have the real player on your computer? If so you might find that
> easier to use as your playback device. With that you can certainly rewind
> and fast forward, as well as jump by time increments. Although not by
> sections. Control Left cursor, back, control right cursor forward,
> control
> e for jumping to a particular time.
>
> Oh and finally, once you have the playback device that you want selected,
> you don't have to go into the audible software to load the book. If you go
> to the location where it is stored on your PC you can simply press enter
> on
> the file that you want to listen to which will launch either WMP, the real
> player or Audible's own player.
>
> HTH
> Yusuf
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wendy Sharpe" <w.sharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'UK access'" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:20 AM
> Subject: [access-uk] PLAYING AUDIBLE BOOKS
>
>
>> Does anyone else have the same trouble as I do trying to get books from
>> Audible to play? I use JAWS version 6.1, and have Windows Media Player
>> 11.
>> I can't seem to find my way around either Audible Manager or Window Media
>> Player. Lots of the functions of WMP such as previous, next, forward,
>> back,
>> etc, are said to be unavailable. I was listening to a book yesterday,
>> stopped it to listen to a radio programme, and when I started it up again
>> it
>> went back to the beginning, and I could make it go to a certain chapter
>> to
>> get to where I was before. When I first launch Audible Manager the books
>> list doesn't seem to be there. Cursoring up and down just gives me one
>> title with its details. Tabbing back and forth sometimes brings the list
>> up, but the titles are not read out, it just says selected, 4 of 11,
>> which
>> is no help. I have to use JAWS cursor to search the screen and left
>> click
>> on a title to start it playing, but even that doesn't always work. I
>> have
>> been using computers for about eighteen years, and am certainly well used
>> to
>> Windows and JAWS, so what on earth am I missing here? I have been
>> through
>> the help screens for both Audible Manager and WMP, and they refer to
>> menus
>> that don't appear to be there, such as the tools menu in Audible Manager.
>>
>> Wendy
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