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Re: Foobar 2000 (was RE: [nvda] What do we like for a media playerbesides Winamp?)

JM Casey <crystallogic@...>
 

Hey Tony.

 

Yeah, I read that tutorial. Unfortunately it only covers the most basic use of the programme. I think what some of us want to do is a bit more complex, and this is where we are having issues. Have you played around much with preferences, effects, equalizer, or playlists?

 

I must say that I’m really happy to have been able to save my equaliser settings for movie viewing. That’s mostly what I use VLC for, and settings that sound great for music don’t necessarily work so well for films. I’m surprised VLC doesn’t make it easier to do this. Even my sighted girlfriend couldn’t figure it out. They just have a few presets and you’re just expected to play with those. The way to actually save your own eq setting is so non-intuitive, I’m surprised they haven’t changed it yet.

 

From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Tony Ballou
Sent: January 9, 2018 3:41 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: Foobar 2000 (was RE: [nvda] What do we like for a media playerbesides Winamp?)

 

Hi,

 

I'm also a VLC media player dude, and have been using it to play DVD's for eons. I think I've been using it since the days of windows XP.There's a tutorial on using it with NVDA on the accessibilitycentral.net website.    


Tony

On 1/5/2018 6:22 PM, David Moore wrote:

I love VLC media player!

It is also a music editor, you can play DVD’s, or just play your music. There are many key commands for VLC.

Press spacebar to play and pause,

Shift+right arrow to fast forward and rewind a little bit, and press alt+arrow keys and CTRL+arrow keys to do the same by larger amounts. You can access a lot from the menus. VLC has been my favorite media player for two years now!

David Moore

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

 

From: John Isige
Sent: Friday, January 5, 2018 5:38 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: Foobar 2000 (was RE: [nvda] What do we like for a media playerbesides Winamp?)

 

Me too, or if anybody wants to gives tips on VLC for audio playback, I

can try that too. Gom Audio is gone, I loaded albums into it, it started

playing, and then pretty much locked up my machine, or at least the

keyboard. Nothing would work, not its context menu, Windows key-x, I

couldn't switch windows, you name it. So I hit the power button to shut

down, rebooted, and uninstalled it. I'm fine setting things up and

customizing, but my patience is like zero right now. If it can't even do

the basic thing it's supposed to, it's gone.

 

 

On 1/5/2018 16:34, JM Casey wrote:

> 

> So the thread here reminded me I wanted to try this out. I’m really

> interested in getting this one going. Not sure if it’ll replace winamp

> exactly as I’m quite happy with it, but it’ll be nice to have another

> audio player that actually works and does everything I want it to.

> That stuff from Microsoft just will never cut it, and I never did get

> really used to or happy with using VLC for audio playback (still the

> only video player for me).

> 

> Looking at their site, I notice there are **loads** of extensions  and

> plug-ins available. So I ask you foobar users – what are those

> essential add-ons that you use or can recommend?

> 

> Also if I remember right from playing with it in my XP days, you

> assign the keyboard commands by editing ini files. I assume all of you

> have customised the programme quite extensively. Tell me about this,

> just so I have a starting point here. What is your setup?

> 

>

 

 

 

 

 
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