[Electronics-talk] setting radios

[Tracy Carcione]

I bought a little, reasonably priced amplifier from Amazon, and a patch 
cord, or whatever it's called, that hooks into any earphone jack on one end 
and into the amp on the other, so I can send anything from my MP3 player or 
netbook through my stereo speakers.  It works great.
Tracy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Chaltain" <chaltain at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] setting radios


> I've definitely gotten music from Amazon. I haven't gotten any music from 
> iTunes Radio yet, and I'm not sure if I ever got any music from Pandora.
>
> I know you're not looking for a PC based solution, but you can put your 
> music onto a portable media player, like an iPod or an MP3 player running 
> Rockbox, and take your music collection with you where ever you go, and 
> you won't need an INTERNET connection to listen to it. More and more home 
> theater systems, car stereos and the like, also now include a audio input 
> jack, so you can pump your music through them from your MP3 player.
>
> On 11/26/2013 08:57 PM, Ashley Bramlett wrote:
>> Christopher,
>> Well, that's what I'm doing. I use the buttons to find stations; thing
>> is, though, that stations are so similar, its not always easy to
>> identify it. Guess I'll keep doing what I'm doing.
>> The radio can have preprogrammed stations. I'll get some assistance to
>> program them; maybe it will be easier then.
>>
>> You say you get music from other sources for your pc player and ipod.
>> Where do you get them?
>> Probably amazon.
>>
>> I'd like to use music services but they are not real accessible.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Ashley
>> -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Chaltain
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 6:19 PM
>> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] setting radios
>>
>> To find a station, I just press the up or down buttons, either scanning
>> or just moving by a small specific increment and then listen to the
>> station until I identify it. If it's one I want to keep, I add it to my
>> preprogrammed buttons and then I can just get to it in the future with
>> one press of a button. This is what I use on my night stand radio and my
>> car radios.
>>
>> I find the easiest way to listen to music is with an MP3 player, either
>> a portable unit like a iPod or a player running Rockbox, or a media
>> management application on my PC like Winamp, Windows Media Player or
>> FooBar in Windows or RhythmBox in Linux. Either way, I can rip my CD's
>> or add music from other sources. With the right MP3 tags, I can just
>> select the music I want to listen to, either by artist, song, album or
>> genre. I don't have to worry about labeling and keeping track of CD's.
>>
>> On 11/26/2013 01:31 PM, Ashley Bramlett wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> Setting up the radio station you want is with buttons on most radios;
>>> in the past, you had a tuner knob to set stations and no digital way
>>> to program in stations.
>>>
>>> Its important to see the station to know where you are.
>>> Are there talking radios? I know the ipods read you the station
>>> frequency you’re at, but other than that, I can’t think of anything
>>> accessible.
>>>
>>> How do you find the stations you want? Just listen? Ocasionally with
>>> good light, I can see the number. Otherwise, I have to listen and
>>> guess what station I’m at based on the music played and number of
>>> times I’ve pressed a button. For instance if I’m at 99.5 and wish to
>>> go to 98.7, I know I don’t have to press the buttons much to get
>>> there, but if I wanted to tune to 88.5, I have a long way to go.
>>>
>>> For music, I love cds! I find them most accessible as you simply put
>>> in your cd and press buttons to go to the track you desire or play it
>>> on the pc with something like windows media player, and still select
>>> your track or listen straight through.
>>> Old fashioned, but I find its most accessible except for the ipod
>>> route. Most music services such as rhapsody are not very accessible.
>>> Oh, nor is the hd radio real accessible either. So cds, IMO, are one
>>> of the best options.
>>>
>>> Ashley
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