Re: Not All XM Channels Are Gone from AOL

  • From: "Ron Canazzi" <aa2vm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 15:00:29 -0400

Hi Jim,

Well the virtual buffer works somewhat on my system--better than earlier 
versions back to 7.0 but not that well.  How much accessibility are you getting 
with the Winamp Library and the Shoutcast and AOL/XM radio interface?

Did you change anything in the JAWS settings to get better accessibility?

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jim grimsby Jr. 
  To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 2:22 PM
  Subject: RE: Not All XM Channels Are Gone from AOL


  Hi if using the latest version of jaws nine the virtual buffer does work.  

   

  From: winamp4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:winamp4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ron Canazzi
  Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:15 PM
  To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: Re: Not All XM Channels Are Gone from AOL

   

  Hi Evan and List,

   

  If you bear the lion and make your way through the almost impossible to 
navigate Winamp Library, you can find new links to the various XM/AOL Radio 
Stations.  I have been doing that for the last few hours and I have actually 
reclaimed the following:

   

  1940's Big Band and classics 

  1950's Rock and Roll

  1960's Rock And Roll

  1970's Rock And Roll

  British Invasion

  Elvis Tribute

  Doo Wop Paradise.

   

  To find this information, you can go to the Winamp Library and highlight the 
AOL Radio and then use your JAWS cursor or Window-Eyes Mouse Pointer to grope 
around (quite literally) for the names of the various genres and then 
double-left click on them.  After a few minutes, the list of result sunder the 
genre you have selected will appear--down near the bottom of the semi-virtual 
window.

   

  You must then grope around for the station name and then double-left click on 
it.  It will then launch and you can save it to bookmark.  

   

  Now I will attempt to copy and paste these items into this message--the ones 
I have mentioned above.  They are very long, so if you try copying them, then 
be aware that they will wrap and you must avoid spaces.  (note: the address is 
above the name of the stream.  I have changed the stream name from the 
currently playing song at the time of bookmark to something more general.)

   

   

  
uvox://firehose-bbnm.stream.aol.com/stream/22250?authToken=r%3D3567088%26sid%3D21750%26expires%3D1209707201117%26csum%3D4ae3945832030afed4ae0b88625fc30b&uid=WA-AC4A982CEB244BDCBDF0351ACA4167D4&sessid=407100B0CBEB44579025FEDDDD80EDEE
  1940's AOL Radio

  
uvox://firehose-bbnm.stream.aol.com/stream/22317?authToken=r%3D6388761%26sid%3D21817%26expires%3D1209704692319%26csum%3D85dd62325afbc58c2bc15303026c9992&uid=WA-AC4A982CEB244BDCBDF0351ACA4167D4&sessid=B2307A2A01DE441B879DB689F1D9B8FC
  1950's AOL Radio

  
uvox://firehose-bbnm.stream.aol.com/stream/22002?authToken=r%3D9010155%26sid%3D21502%26expires%3D1209707498658%26csum%3D8a0d5d9caf9ce13ba792cc7c28d64e0f&uid=WA-AC4A982CEB244BDCBDF0351ACA4167D4&sessid=407100B0CBEB44579025FEDDDD80EDEE
  1960's AOL Radio

  
uvox://firehose-bbnm.stream.aol.com/stream/22111?authToken=r%3D2842646%26sid%3D21611%26expires%3D1209707539963%26csum%3De553e116bd06d10350e7e28ddafb3bb6&uid=WA-AC4A982CEB244BDCBDF0351ACA4167D4&sessid=407100B0CBEB44579025FEDDDD80EDEE
  British Inbvasion AOL Radio

  
uvox://firehose-bbnm.stream.aol.com/stream/22315?authToken=r%3D6775570%26sid%3D21815%26expires%3D1209707613212%26csum%3Dbbf2cc112a6530a2bd33b5275f927bc8&uid=WA-AC4A982CEB244BDCBDF0351ACA4167D4&sessid=407100B0CBEB44579025FEDDDD80EDEE
  1970's AOL Radio

  
uvox://firehose-bbnm.stream.aol.com/stream/22011?authToken=r%3D248569%26sid%3D21511%26expires%3D1209707910908%26csum%3D1ef0b4638438cbe11d212005672bdf96&uid=WA-AC4A982CEB244BDCBDF0351ACA4167D4&sessid=407100B0CBEB44579025FEDDDD80EDEE
  Doo Wop AOL Radio

  
uvox://firehose-bbnm.stream.aol.com/stream/22043?authToken=r%3D4661066%26sid%3D21543%26expires%3D1209708101519%26csum%3D88bad75a526b909f3ac69f1f2d5e26ec&uid=WA-AC4A982CEB244BDCBDF0351ACA4167D4&sessid=407100B0CBEB44579025FEDDDD80EDEE
  Elvis Tribute AOL Radio

    ----- Original Message ----- 

    From: EVAN REESE 

    To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

    Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 12:01 AM

    Subject: Not All XM Channels Are Gone from AOL

     

    Just wanted to mention here that not all of the XM channels are gone from 
AOL; so if you have bookmarks for them, you may not want to simply delete them 
without checking first to see if they still work.

     

    The channels I know of that are definitely gone that I did have bookmarks 
for are Sixties on 6, Seventies on 7, Eighties on 8, Top Tracks and Deep Tracks.

     

    However, the bookmarks I have for Seventies Black Music, Eighties 
Alternative, Psychedelic and Progressive are still working. There may well be 
other channels that are working that I don't know about.

     

    I don't know whether these channels will keep on working, or whether they 
will drop out at any time. But I thought that I would mention to people that 
they should check their bookmarks before deleting them, and to not just assume 
that all of their XM bookmarks will no longer work.

     

    I have signed up for the free trial of XM, and I can tell you that Winamp 
bookmarks are by far the most convenient method for playing stations, so if you 
have any XM bookmarks that still work, you will certainly want to use the 
Winamp bookmark method to play them for as long as you can.

     

    Evan

     

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