Re: Burning a CD Accessibly with Easy CD-Da Extractor
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 13:16:30 -0700
Hi again, Chris,
I just tried the directions below, and although I'm sure you know what
you're doing when you do this, it's not as clear as you may want to explain
it. For instance, if you simply press alt a, you open the Actions menu,
which isn't what you meant. You need to open the Edit menu, and then the
letter a will initiate the Add Files procedure. Also, I realized that once
I'd gotten that started, I had to tab around and back and forth before I
understood which were the two places to select the drive, the folder and
then the files for this purpose. Then, I didn't realize that the command
Open means "to put these files into the list you're adding files to." Open?
How does that mean that? But since you said to click on it, I did. I mean,
press the space bar. Anyway, out of curiosity and appreciation for your
suggestion, I persisted with this a little confusedly until I finally got
all the pieces in place and started the file conversion at the right time.
So, I see your method. But I really have to say it is a *whole* lot simpler
just to go to where the files are on your hard drive, select them, put up
the context menu, find the option to do whatever you want to do to them with
the program, be taken automatically to the program, and then just hit the
control button or F8 to begin the conversion or whatever you're doing.
after trying that just twice, I can do it a heck of a lot faster than the
time it took me to describe the sequence here.
So, maybe you might like to check out that method, too? In any case, thanks
again for your suggestion, which helped me to understand what's actually
being done when I do it in an automated way from the context menu.
Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: Burning a CD Accessibly with Easy CD-Da Extractor
hi Dan
Here's where you're getting tripped up. You do not, in any way at
all, need to use the JAWS cursor in either Easy CDDA Extractor, or
the file converter.
Keep your pc cursor turned on the entire time.
When you start the program, hit alt plus a, and you will be presented
with the add audio files dialogue box, in which you can, oddly
enough, add an audio file to be converted to another format, or the
same audio format but a different bitrate possibly. Once you've
chosen your file/files, press the open button with your space bar.
Keep tabbing until you hear,
list box not selected, followed by the file name you chose. tab once
more and you'll see a combo box of available formats. Choose the one
you want the file converted to by using your up and down arrows. when
you find the one you want, press alt plus c to start the conversion
process. If you chose an entire folder of files this will take a
while. Either way you will hear an alert sound when the conversion
process is completed successfully.
Does that make more sense to you now?
Hope so!
At 07:22 PM 4/1/2006, you wrote:
>Please, Bruce, if you have to go outside the program to get files and
>insert
>them where a sighted person would just drag and drop, because the screen
>elements involved aren't labeled or anything, I'm entitled to warn people
>against it. You go ahead and advertise and praise it. That just means we
>differ on this. There is no need to denigrate me for being in a minority
>who find it impossible except for a couple of simple tasks that don't
>require copying and pasting files . Please just accept that my experience
>is different from yours, and please don't snap at me. I responded to your
>helpful post respectfully. If you, in turn, would be equally respectful,
>I
>would appreciate it very much. There's no need for you to stand in
>judgment
>about what's normal and what's not normal. There are, I dare say, a lot of
>things I knowthat might be beyond your ken, and a lot of things I can
>dothat
>would be beyond your ability, and I wouldn't think the less of you if I saw
>that catalogue of things. . I wouldn't consider them "failings," or take
>exception to your saying you had trouble accomplishing some things. I'd
>just help if I could, by teaching what I was able. And that would *not*
>include lecturing you about attitude. This is the preacher side of you
>that
>I don't appreciate when it starts in on me. Take off that white collar and
>pop a bottle of spring water and sit back. Thank you.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bruce Toews" <DogRiver@xxxxxxxx>
>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 2:54 PM
>Subject: Re: Burning a CD Accessibly with Easy CD-Da Extractor
>
>
>You're the only one having trouble, or one of the very few. Just because
>you can't get around what is simplicity itself to so many, don't decree
>it inaccessible. It's one of the most accessible, versatile, and
>economical file conversion, CD ripping and CD burning tools anywhere,
>whether you can catch on to it or not.
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>
>Bruce
>
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>On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Yardbird wrote:
>
> > Bruce,
> > first, thanks for taking the time to write this instruction. But, may
> > I
> > say in all modesty, I could hardly have just intuited the above as a
> > workaround for burning a CD from files on my hard drive. I lack the
> > habits
> > of mind that would enable me to think of anything beyond trying again
> > and
> > again to tab around the program's own interface and, figuring out that I
> > just can't access the functions I know are there where you have a
> > Windows
> > Explorer-like tree view of your hard drive, then select a folder, select
> > files from within it, and then somehow copy them into a list box that
> > becomes the list of files to be burned.. you know what I mean.. I just
> > give
> > up. I doubt I'm the only one who would. Pride makes me say that.
> >
> > I never would have thought of simply dodging around the program as you
> > suggest. I hope you see that you've been of considerable help to
> > someone
> > who can't think outside the regular end user box of either being able to
> > figure out a program's interface with Jaws or not being able to. Even
> > now,
> > I can't imagine how it occurred to you that you could accomplish the
> > task
> > the way you describe.
> >
> > I intend to try this out this weekend, and will report if I'm
> > successful,
> > or
> > ask more questions if I need to. Meantime, may I ask one thing more? I
> > would like to be able to use the file conversion function of the
> > program,
> > and once, by fooling around with the jaws cursor and taking nearly an
> > hour
> > before I succeeded, and even then not knowing how I managed to get it
> > together, I converted a couple of .mp3 files to .wma's just to save
> > space
> > on
> > my modest-sized little flash memory player (A Sandisk Sansa M230).
> > could
> > I
> > insert files into the interface the same way as above, and then use the
> > conversion tools on what I'd imported into that box? I know how to use
> > the
> > menus and button commands, etc.; it's getting the files into the right
> > place
> > that has frustrated me, and it sounds as if this procedure could work
> > for
> > that purpose, too, as well as for burning. Am I right?.
> >
> > Thanks very much.
> > .maOne questionhavefold34rselet box into which you'rees in hibit
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bruce Toews" <DogRiver@xxxxxxxx>
> > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 8:30 AM
> > Subject: Burning a CD Accessibly with Easy CD-Da Extractor
> >
> >
> > Here are the steps necessary to burning an audio CD with Easy CD-DA
> > Extractor.
> >
> > 1. Go into Windows Explorer.
> >
> > 2. Highlight the first song you want to burn, or a group of songs you
> > want
> > to burn.
> >
> > 3. Hit your applications key.
> >
> > 4. Choose "burn to CD with Easy CD-Da Extractor.
> >
> > 5. You'll be placed in the Easy CD-Da Extractor window. If you are
> > finished adding songs, go to step 5, otherwase alt-tab back into Windows
> > finished adding songs, go to step 6, otherwise alt-tab back into Windows
> > Explorer and repeat steps 2 through 5.
> >
> > 6. Hit F8.
> >
> > 7. When the Cd ejects, you're done.
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> >
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