Re: tutorial on winamp preferences

  • From: "Sarah" <kales2@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:18:31 -0700

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>Press SHIFT ENTER: to enqueue the file with focus. I've not heard of that 
>keystroke before. where do you do that from?
SA&G

> Hi Joe, here is a list of the winamp hot keys, which should help you.
> Winamp 5 Shortcut Keystrokes
>>
>>Press F1: To be taken online to the Winamp site to view help
>>pages.
>>
>>Press ARROw up: Increases the volume.
>>
>>Press ARROW down: Decreases the volume.
>>
>>Press Left ARROW: Jumps back 5 seconds in the current playing
>>track each time you press it. If you keep it held down, it acts
>>as a continuous fast backward button.
>>
>>Press Right ARROW: Jumps forward 5 seconds in the playing track
>>or continually fast forwards if held down.
>>
>>Press Z: To jump to the Previous track. This will start playing
>>the previous track if tracks are already playing or it will cue
>>the previous track for playing if play is currently paused.
>>
>>Press X: To play/restart/unpause a track.
>>
>>Press C: To pause and unpause a track.
>>
>>Press V: to stop playing a track.
>>
>>Press B: To jump to the next track. This will start playing the
>>next track if tracks are already playing or it will cue the next
>>track for playing if play is currently paused.
>>
>>Press R: To have a track or album repeated. Pressing R again
>>turns this off.
>>
>>Press S: To have files played in shuffled (random) order.
>> Pressing S again turns this off.
>>
>>Press J: To jump to a specific file in the Playlist Editor.
>>
>>Press ALT E: To toggle the Playlist Editor window on and off.
>>
>>Press ALT G: To toggle the Graphic Equaliser window on and off.
>>
>>Press ALT T: To toggle the Mini-Browser window on and off but it
>>is recommended that you leave this off at all times if using a
>>screenreader.
>>
>>Press ALT W: To toggle the Winamp Main window on and off.
>>
>>Press ALT I: To bookmark the current item.
>>
>>Press CONTROL V: to stop playing when the present track
>>finishes.
>>
>>Press CONTROL J: To jump to a specific time point in the track
>>but ensure that you have paused the playing first. You have to
>>BACKSPACE the current time position out and then type in the one
>>you want, in the following format: 0:50 to go to 50 seconds into
>>a track, 10:00 to go to 10 minutes further into a track, etc.
>>Then TAB to "Jump" and press ENTER.
>>
>>Press CONTROL P: To enter the preferences property sheet.
>>
>>Press CONTROL D: To double the size of the Winamp window.
>>
>>Press CONTROL TAB: To cycle through the four or five possible
>>Winamp windows which can be open at once, if more than one is
>>already open. These can contain the Main Player window, the
>>Graphic Equaliser window, the Playlist Editor window, the Winamp
>>Video window and the Mini-Browser window. You will find the Main
>>player and Graphic Equaliser windows easier to use than the
>>Winamp Video window, Playlist Editor and Mini-Browser windows.
>>You may even wish to turn the latter two off for most of your
>>Winamp sessions, so that you only have two windows to CONTROL
>>TAB
>>through.
>>
>>Press CONTROL K: to select a plugin.
>>
>>Press CONTROL R: to reverse the order of the Playlist.
>>
>>Press CONTROL B: To go to the end of the Playlist when in the
>>Playlist Editor.
>>
>>Press CONTROL Z: To go to the start of the Playlist.
>>
>>Press CONTROL SHIFT R: to get tracks played in the Playlist
>>Editor in a random order.
>>
>>Press SHIFT V: To stop a track and make it fade out as it stops.
>>
>>Press SHIFT ENTER: to enqueue the file with focus.
>>
>>Note: There are a few other standard hot keys but most
>>screenreaders which use the numpad for their navigation may
>>render these unusable, e.g. pressing numpad 1 should jump back
>>10 tracks, numpad 3 should jump forward 10 songs.
> --Original Message Text---
> From: Joe
> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:04:55 -0400
> 
> This may be to much to ask fore, but is there any tutorial out there
> on winamp preferences and what all of them mean? I understand the
> player quite well but even I don't know what all those preferences
> mean. I'm sure this would help a lot of people. It would really take
> an expert to do something like this. How many of you can really say
> you understand everything in there? Thanks, Joe.     

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