[audio-pals] Re: folks, forgive me, I'm new at this.

  • From: Thomas McMahan <thomas.mcmahan@xxxxxxx>
  • To: audio-pals@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:46:57 -0600

Hey Josh, our streets are in better shape than your’s?  Whats up with that.  In 
fact that is the safer walking around here is the streets.  They don’t have 
packed snow on them.  

Yep hills and ice jut don’t mix well, it’s a whole other ball game, and 
whoever’s out in it is likely to lose.  
> On Feb 17, 2015, at 5:07 PM, Josh <lawdog911@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> Welcome Randy. I will just drop a quick line and then come back a little 
> later to give more of an update and introduce myself more Randy. However, I 
> seen this post and I have used the following to record:
> 1. Ht Professional recorder 
> 2. Drop Vox (Randy I noticed you were using Drop Box for the file I used so 
> this may be handy for you to record with. It is a Smart Phone app, I use it 
> for the iPhone and they may have it on an Android platform as well I don't 
> know.)
> 3. Victor Reader first generation.
> 4. I recently bought a full version of the Total Recorder program for 
> Windows, but not had a chance to really play around with it. I bought it with 
> a Audio Gain Control Voice Enhancement add-on.
> 
> Here are some suggestions of devices to use for recording, but I see you 
> found something. For anyone else that may want to record you may want to try 
> out one of these methods. I know my computer comes with a built in mic. As a 
> side note, Tennessee has declared a State of Emergency due to the horrendous 
> ice storm we got yesterday. I had to tell one of my northern instructors, the 
> one that does not like the police, that East Tennessee hills are tricky and 
> not to be played with. I chuckled when she sent an email to the class earlier 
> today talking about how her car got stuck at the bottom of a hill, under a 
> tree, and her car will only go in reverse right now. She cancelled class for 
> both Wednesday and Friday. I have been out of school since Monday. She held 
> class Monday morning, but I did not go due to impending bad weather and past 
> experience with my bus telling me that they could not guarantee that they 
> will be able to pick me up if the weather turns bad. Anyways I have to get 
> back to my homework, I have stayed covered up since the beginning of all this 
> winter mess. There is about an inch of solid ice on the streets right now, 
> U.T. waited till this morning to inform students that campus will be on a 
> 2-hour delay. They then sent an email informing us that the campus will be 
> closed today. Amanda and Little Man has also been out of work and school 
> since Monday. Amanda and Little Man are out tomorrow as well so I went ahead 
> and made an executive decision to also be out tomorrow *LOL* regardless of 
> the University's decision. I'll be back as soon as I can to respond to emails 
> and give an update on the rest of the semester so far.   
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: audio-pals-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:audio-pals-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas McMahan
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 3:38 PM
> To: audio-pals@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [audio-pals] Re: folks, forgive me, I'm new at this.
> 
> Okay, well I’m presuming you don’t have a digital recorder around since 
> you’ve asked this question.  But barring that, your computer or smart phone 
> is your friend.  In the case of my phone I have an app called Ht professional 
> recorder, but don’t know if you have smart phone and what OS it is.  Josh has 
> also used his i-phone to record letters, not sure what app he used though, 
> maybe HT also.  If you have android phone I don’t know what apps are 
> available to record with.  
> 
> Your computer may have a recorder with it, I know our notebook has one that 
> Windows 8.1 has in there, but have no idea how good it is, I use Total 
> recorder for that machine.  They do have a free version, it just won’t do 
> what it can do if you decide to pay for it which then expands what it can do. 
>  I haven’t messed with it to much though, but it is accessible at least.  I 
> think Liz uses Goldwave but she does other audio stuff too so perhaps she’ll 
> speak up concerning the Windows side of things, although maybe not since I 
> understand that she’s just gotten engaged, so obviously congratulations are 
> in order for Liz.  
> 
> If your computer is a Mac there is a free app called Audio Recorder and it 
> will work with either an Intel machine using Yosemite all they back to old 
> powpcs running tiger if you have an old mac.  I know because I’ve had that 
> since 2007 in our old power pc, and just booted it up in Yosemity.  Can’t 
> remember the website, but I can always copy it and put it up on SS then send 
> you the link.  
> 
> The other obvious thing then is a mike.  If you Skype or any of that stuff, 
> then no problem just use what you use for that.  A lot of computers have 
> mikes already in them especially laptops and notebooks.  If you don’t have 
> one though they can be bought fairly cheap even a USB mike nowadays is quite 
> reasonable.  
> 
> So you would then do your recording, then copy and paste it into the group 
> box folder in dropbox if you have the tool, or go to the website and upload 
> it via the website using your browser, although I find it a lot easier to 
> just use the tool.  Then just post a message to the group that it’s up there, 
> if you wish you should probably include the public link to the file though so 
> that non DB users can go get it too, although if it’s DB only I am going to 
> copy it too and will then post a sendspace link too so that again there is 
> another option.  Some people have trouble with DB, and some others don’t care 
> for sendspace, which I guess I wouldn’t either if I used a browser to go get 
> a file.  But most anything over the past few years I have archived up there.  
> My big problem is anything before 2010.  Haven’t been able to recover those 
> yet.  Maybe never will think the disk or disks that stuff was on went bad on 
> me and before late 2009 I didn’t have paid SS account so stuff in a free 
> account will go by by in 30 days if no download activity happens.  Or maybe 
> it’s just up there for 30 days anyway for free accounts on Sendspace.  
> 
> So susinctly putting the questions to you, it’s a matter of what you have on 
> hand.  A smart phone?  Computer which we know you have, so then do you have a 
> mike with it, or have to get one, and then an app such as total recorder.  
> The recording end to put together sometimes is the hard end verses the 
> storage of it.  
> 
> I primarily use a digital recorder and just port it over, but had the money 
> to get a couple of them and I play with those more than I do a cell phone 
> *lol*.  The digital recorder is a blind person’s camera, and I enjoy having 
> my little audio camera around *lol*.  But I don’t know if you have the budget 
> to go that way especially for an accessible one, or nearly fully accessible 
> one, although I primarily know about Olympus recorders.  Perhaps Zoom 
> Recorder has a machine that is more affordable, and there is another brand of 
> one that is fairly popular too outside of the group, just can’t think of it 
> right at the moment, and their prices are good, but their machines have some 
> limits.  Perhaps I will cover some of that in my next audio letter.  It will 
> be more information for you and Maria for example, but people like Josh and 
> Liz will probably fall asleep because they’ve heard it before *lol*.  But if 
> Liz falls asleep perhaps then we’ll be able to get rid of the cold weather 
> that we have here and send it back to Canada *lol*.  
> 
> On Feb 17, 2015, at 1:50 PM, randy tijerina <rtijerina3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> thanks...I'll have a look see....how...if I wanna record an audio thing for 
>> the group to hear...What shall I do?
>> At 01:43 PM 2/17/2015, you wrote:
>>> Hi Randy, I am about to go over and share the group box folder.  you 
>>> will then get a message from dropbox.  It will say it comes from 
>>> the.shadow483@xxxxxxxxx that is the account that I have linked to DB.  
>>> If it doesn’t show up in your mail then check your spam folder 
>>> because it may put dropbox’s mail there when it comes.  The e-mail 
>>> will have a link and you can do your sign up and it will then add 
>>> that folder automatically to the folders you would have by default in 
>>> DB.  So be on the lookout.  I am sending you the message first before 
>>> doing it so as it won’t catch you off guard, or ou won’t find 
>>> dropbox’s e-mail sitting in your spam folder and wonder, “who is 
>>> that?”
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 16, 2015, at 11:01 PM, randy tijerina <rtijerina3@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> i'd appreciate it...I'd love to make friends here.
>>>> At 10:45 PM 2/16/2015, you wrote:
>>>>> I can send you an invite, is this address okay?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Once you get the invite you would then set up your account on the web, 
>>>>> once that verify, since it would be letting you into a shared folder it 
>>>>> would automatically add the shared folder into your folders.
>>>>> 
>>>>> You can access either via the web or you can download and install the 
>>>>> dropbox tool on your computer.  If you have the tool on your computer you 
>>>>> just go to a given file then use the context key and one of the options 
>>>>> will say upload to dropbox.  It will then upload.  then if you can copy 
>>>>> paste the new file over into the group box folder if it’s something 
>>>>> for us, then the rest of us should get a notify about it being added then 
>>>>> we just copy and paste it ourselves to our machines and listen to it.  We 
>>>>> usually keep a file up there for 2 weeks because dropbox is somewhat 
>>>>> limited in space compared to sendspace and each file you have counts 
>>>>> against your space regardless of what folder you have it in.  The nice 
>>>>> thing about dropbox is that it can been used between phones and computers 
>>>>> unlike sendspace.  .  To access a file on Sendspace using a phone you 
>>>>> would have to use your browser on the phone.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I will probably be doing a letter in the next day or two, and so I can 
>>>>> explain some of this verbally too on there, and once posted you will at 
>>>>> least have more of an idea of how I do it at least.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Oh when you put the dropbox tool on your computer, after the install it 
>>>>> has a tour which isn’t overly accessible for some screen readers, it 
>>>>> will just sort of go quiet, just hit enter a few times and at the last 
>>>>> page of it it will start talking again, at that point it will give you 
>>>>> some more space since you did the tour.  Can’t remember if 
>>>>> that’s before you put in your account info or after.  Oh and dropbox 
>>>>> works with the 3 platforms, sendspace is useless in linux unless you use 
>>>>> the browser, but that’s not so great either.  But you can upload and 
>>>>> download files with a browser on either site.  Although I’ve never 
>>>>> downloaded a file from my own stuff with browser in dropbox I’m 
>>>>> pretty sure it can be done.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Now off to go have some supper finally.  Not sure why I’ve waited so 
>>>>> long today, but am now actually getting hungry *lol*.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Feb 16, 2015, at 9:42 PM, randy tijerina <rtijerina3@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> How do I even get set up with uploading a dropbox thinggy?
>>>>>> At 09:24 PM 2/16/2015, you wrote:
>>>>>>> Sounds good, I think that is what a pen-pal group is about right?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Feb 16, 2015, at 9:22 PM, randy tijerina <rtijerina3@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I'll see what i can do..to get the group familiar with me and my ways 
>>>>>>>> of life. How's that sound?
>>>>>>>> At 09:18 PM 2/16/2015, you wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi Randy, first of all, just relax.  This is an informal group and 
>>>>>>>>> usually as low stress as possible.  Many of us have a rather demented 
>>>>>>>>> sense of humor.  We use the e-mail side of the group to just 
>>>>>>>>> generally chat.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Most who do audio use file storage/sharing sites and just post links, 
>>>>>>>>> or in the case of dropbox we do have a common folder which if you are 
>>>>>>>>> a dropbox user and are interested, just give me the address you will 
>>>>>>>>> want the invite to go to.  Those seem to be the two most reliable 
>>>>>>>>> services that don’t limit users or such things.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> People have used computers, phones and recorders to record letters 
>>>>>>>>> and other stuff for members to listen to.  Most are letters, but I 
>>>>>>>>> did send up a batch of thunderstorms that I recorded one time.  They 
>>>>>>>>> were pretty good ones too.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> We’ve got people using macs, windows computer, and even 
>>>>>>>>> darling in linux here.  Might not be able to answer all things, but 
>>>>>>>>> can at least speculate pretty good.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Fortunately you signed up on the freelists.org group which tends to 
>>>>>>>>> have more mail going through it than the missives version.  That one 
>>>>>>>>> has members though who aren’t over here usually because of 
>>>>>>>>> accessibility problems.  But any audio that comes across especially 
>>>>>>>>> lately I share across anyway.  I also archive copies now up on 
>>>>>>>>> sendspace in an archive.  We don’t care what format you 
>>>>>>>>> use, but for the archive I convert them into .mp3.  That seems to be 
>>>>>>>>> the most universal, although .m4a actually compresses smaller.  Well 
>>>>>>>>> .m4 does.  But you use what you can.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Feb 16, 2015, at 8:58 PM, randy tijerina <rtijerina3@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> hello everyone, this is Randy Tijerina from San antonio Texas.....I 
>>>>>>>>>> haven't the faintest idea how to even begin to post this thing in 
>>>>>>>>>> audio!.
>>>>>>>>>> I'll begin by saying, I'm Randy Tijerina...I live in San Antonio 
>>>>>>>>>> Texas. I'm 41 years old.
>>>>>>>>>> I love music from the fifties through the eighties. I love languages.
>>>>>>>>>> i'm working on learning...trying to anyways....German, and 
>>>>>>>>>> Portuguese and some Swedish.
>>>>>>>>>> I can speak some Russian.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I'd love to make some friends from the 
>>>>>>>>>> Uk..Germany....anywhere..aussie land...anywhere!.
>>>>>>>>>> I hope...this is ok for now?
>>>>>>>>>> Geez...i'm nervous!.
>>>>>>>>>> 
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