Re: Newbie with questions
- From: Bruce Toews <coke_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:47:40 -0500 (CDT)
The only thing I'd add to this, Chris, is that even if one doesn't have
JFW 4.50 or later, the Winamp scripts are available free of charge.
Bruce
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On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Chris Skarstad wrote:
> Hi. Let me answer your questions one at a time. BTW be on the lookout for
> the Winamp for the blind FAQ file which I'll send to the list in a bit
> here, we're late for our monthly posting of it, sorry about that.
>
>
>> 1. I have WinAmp 2.80, as I tried version 3 some time ago and found it to
>> not be speech friendly at all. Does WinAmp 5 work well with Jaws and do I
>> need to purchase scripts or are there good ones out there at no cost?
>> JAWS 4.51 and 5.00 come with scripts as part of the install. It works
>> fine with Winamp 2.80 and 5.0 but not version 3 as you found out, nobody
>> really liked version 3 to be honest.
>
> So basically, if you have JAWS 4.51 or 5.0 you are all set. Winamp 5.0 and
> all subsequent versions in the 5.x series works just fine, as long as when
> you install it, do not choose for the modern skin to be installed, just
> stay with the classic skin. When you install Winamp 5 you will find that
> you have choices for full install, custom install or minimal. if you
> choose full, all the items in the tree view of components are checked by
> default, meaning that by default, everything in the list will be
> installed. The items you want to uncheck with your space bar are modern
> skin support, Winamp agent this is optional and vvisualizations this is
> also optional. The main thing is to read the dialogue boxes very carefully
> during the install and it'll all make sense.
>
>
>
>> 2. I listened to ACB Interactive, then decided to listen to the Cafe, but
>> when I clicked on the Cafe link, it started to stream in the current
>> interactive show. Is this a WinAmp issue not recognizing something properly
>> or a website issue?
>> Ok, are you saying that after you chose the cafe, the interactive stream
>> kept playing instead of the cafe? aif this is the case you may have the
>> enqueue as default action check box checked in the preferences. It's been
>> ages since I saw the preferences for 2.80 but it should be in the setup
>> part of the preferences tree view.
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>> 3. Can WinAmp 5.0 play *.asx* files?
>> It's supposed to be able to, but I've never gottten it to work and I don't
>> think anyone else on the list has either, maybe I'm wrong? it will play
>> Windows Media WMA files but not streaming .asx files unfortunately, at
>> least not to my knowledge.
>
>
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>> 4. When I click on an MP3 file on Windows Explorer for instance, WinAmp
>> will pop up, but not play it as Real Player did. How can I get this to occur?
>> Hmm, not sure about that one, because Winamp is supposed to play the file
>> automatically. Shaking my head on that one.
>
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