Re: attacked by Winamp Update notice
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:55:36 -0700
Dean,
Your first suggestion I understand. I'll create a hotkey to bypass this mess
if that's what I want to do.
but a universal Winamp key? In the options? You mean in some menu of Winamp
Properties or whatever it calls its settings menu? Let me look and see if I
can find that. I'm not sure what it's supposed to be.
Well, I did create a shortcut key, which is fine. But then I tried to get
into properties and find whatever that setting is, and I could not do
anything but start, stop or pause play. Pressing the alt key didn't get me
into any menus, and tabbing didn't land me on anything that spoke.
So I can't find out by exploration what your second suggestion means.
While we're at it, how come every time Winamp launches lately, it announces
itself as Winamp video? I think I used it to play a YouTube file not long
ago, but I didn't think that would make it start announcing itself as a
video player every time it launched.
Thanks.
From: "Dean Martineau" <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
There are two ways to solve this problem. First, I have a hot key set up to
run Winamp. I simply hit that key, thereby putting focus in the Winamp
window, then, I'm in control. The second approach, which I've never used,
but which I believe works, is to utilize the Winamp global hot keys,
available in the Options dialogue.
I hope that helps.
Dean
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Yardbird
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 9:14 PM
To: JFW List
Subject: attacked by Winamp Update notice
I'm using what until yesterday was the most current version of Winamp, I
think. Then today I clicked on an .mp3 file to listen to it. Winamp launched
and its window appeared onscreen (I'm partial and could see that). But what
Jaws announced wasn't the title of the track I was playing, but the words
Winamp Update. And although I was sure the Jaws focus was on the Winamp
function, I couldn't use any keyboard commands to pause or stop the play.
Now, I have a pretty logical suspicion that the way this is supposed to work
is that it wouldn't get in the way of someone with normal vision using a
mouse. They could ignore it if they wanted, or they could click on some
control to accept the download and installation of the upgrade. Easy as pie.
but I can't find any controls or links or anything, even scouting around
with the Jaws cursor.
Now, I think there are a lot of Winamp fans and users on this list, and I
have to guess that everyone has been through this kind of thing and knows
how to either just stop these events or, if so inclined, to take up the
invitation and permit the upgrade to be done right from there. Or maybe not,
but still by a simple operation.
Can anyone explain what to do? Thanks.
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