Re: winamp volume and software speech
- From: "Tracey Kier" <tracey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 01:13:15 +0100
Hi Rob. OK, have carried out the steps you outlined below exactly as
instructed, but it is not having any effect, either on the overall volume or
on the volume of Winamp. However I'm wondering if I am somehow having a
focus issue. To explain further, after carrying out your instructions, I
went to the desktop, and opened the ACB radio tuner and selected the
interactive stream, just to test if the settings had worked. So I then had
three active applications, Winamp, The ACB radio tuner, and Outlook Express,
which was open before I started this procedure. I alt tabbed through the
open applications until the Winamp window information was spoken, to ensure,
as I thought, that I had the correct window in focus. Now, if I am right,
the volume should be changed in Winamp by using the alt key in combination
with the slash, period, comma and the letter m on the keyboard. Pressing the
first three of these keys had no effect whatsoever, and when pressing alt m
I ended up in one of the menus in Outlook express. I then alt tabbed back to
the Winamp window and tried again with the same result. So, I then closed
down every other active window, so that Winamp was the only application
window open. I tried again, still with no luck. However, on pressing alt f4
to close the Winamp window, I was given the Windows shutdown menu instead.
I'm not at all sure what's going on here, but when alt tabbing through open
applications the Winamp window appears to come into focus in the normal way.
However, the other thing I've noticed, and I'm not sure if this is usual
behaviour or not, but when I alt tab to the Winamp window, when listening to
the ACBRI stream there is a lot of information about the song currently
playing, etc. However, when checking the title bar with insert t, Jaws just
says "title is" and does not even identify the winamp window, let alone give
any other information. I would describe myself as an intermediate Windows
user, but am not at all experienced with Winamp, so any help you or anyone
else on the list can give me would be much appreciated. Again, I'm using
Winamp 5.05, JFW 5.0, and a SoundBlaster Live Platinum sound card, and I am
not experiencing any focus issues with any other program on my system.
Thanks for your help so far. Tracey.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Robinson" <robert.trj@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: winamp volume and software speech
> ok, here you go Tracy. Follow the steps below, and it should work just
fine
> for you.
> 1. open winamp, and do a ctrl P for preferences.
> 2. down arrow to the pluggins section, and find the output pluggins
branch.
> 3. Tab into the list view, and make sure the wave out pluggin is
> selected(down arrow, and then up arrow to make sure it is selected
> properly!) Tab to the configure button, and tap your space bar.
> 4. Tab through this dialogue box, and you will come to some volume control
> check boxes. The alt setting mode check box is the one you want to make
sure
> is checked. Don't change any other settings, just the alt setting mode.
> 5. tab to the ok button, tap your space bar, and then shift tab to the
close
> button, and then tap the space bar again. Start a song, and then try
> adjusting your volume. It should, by all rights, adjust just the winamp
> volume, and leave the system volume completely alone! Good luck!
>
> Sincerely,
> Robert Robinson
> robert.trj@xxxxxxxxx
> MSN Screen Name:
> robert.trj@xxxxxxxxx
> Canadian Amateur Station
> va3trj
> va3trj@xxxxxx
> Club Web Site:
> http://www.va3kvd.ca/vhara
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tracey Kier" <tracey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 7:25 PM
> Subject: winamp volume and software speech
>
>
> > Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me out. I've read the Winamp FAQ and
have
> > followed the instructions in it, but for the life of me I can't find a
way
> > to get independent control of the volume of winamp and the volume of my
> > software speech. I'm using Winamp 5.05 with a SoundBlaster Live sound
> > card, and JFW 5.0 with eloquence. I know this might be a basic question,
> but
> > in my own defence I have read the FAQ, I've acted on the advice there,
and
> > so hopefully no one's going to give me a verbal thrashing for posting
an
> > inappropriate message to the list. Sorry guys, but I've been trying to
> sort
> > this out on my own for a day or two now and am getting pretty frustrated
> by
> > it. Tracey.
> >
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