Category: Geeks r Us
Hellow,
I've just got Winamp on my laptop and think it's quite good, but I was trying to play music on it last night and couldn't work out how to skip between tracks. Does anyone know how to do this? I do know that pressing the left or right arrows makes it move it backwards or forwards through the particular song or whatever you're listening to, though.
Harmony.
Z=Back one track. X=Play. C=pause. V=Stop and B=Forward one track. Space bar also works as play/pause. Left arrow=Back 5 seconds. Right arrow=Forward 5 seconds. Up and down arrows will also increase or decrease the volume accordingly. ctrl+shift+M=Mute volume. ctrl+shift+,=Volume at 33% of maximum. ctrl+shift+.=Volume at 66% of maximum and ctrl+shift+/=Volume at 100%.
That's a few starters to be getting on with.
Dan.
Thank you. Someone's also told me that if you go into the tracklisting or whatever it's called where you have the list of tracks, you can go up and down using the arrow keys and press enter on the track you want.
hi. Yep, that's right. what you're talking about there is called the playlist editor. Note the commands Dan gave work for JAWS only for now, but watch out for Window-eyes 7.0 which will have a lot of new functionality for Winamp users which I think should've been in there all along, but the set files wouldn't let that happen. but the new scripts will allow Winamp to really sing. It'll be awesome!
the playlist edetor comes in handy when you broadcast with winamp.
Thank you, I think I've worked it out now. I've been pressing control and tab until I get to the playlist editor and going up and down with the arrow keys until I hear the name of the song I want. I've also heard you can listen to online radio stations through winamp too. Is that true too?
Actually not all those functions are jaws specific. I don't remember which ones are and aren't but some of those will work without jaws.
Also, the space bar doesn't always work as a pause/play. I don't know why it only works in some cases, but for most of the computers I've seen with winamp it brings up a list of the tracks in your current play list and lets you jump to a song. (You type in the first few letters of the song, enough that it knows what you're trying to get to, then you press enter once you've found it.) Hope that helps a bit.
ctrl alt comma, period, and slash
those are all scripted for jaws.
The others like z, x, c, v, b, are all winamp.
Yes, you can listen to online radio.
My fave thing to do is queue entries onto a playlist and save it for later listening; great for streaming radio stations.
Winamp with the right know-how really does whip the llama's ass!
Oh, btw, if you turn on the number lock and press 1 or 3 on the number pad, you will either go 10 songs back or 10 songs forward.
How do we listen to online radio through winamp?
Here are some more shortcuts for you:
m=add time marker
alt+shift+m=go to time marker
ctrl+shift+m=select a time marker to remove
ctrl+j=jump to time
j=jump to file
l=open file
ctrl+l=open surver for a stream
ctrl+shift+l=open folder
ctrl+p=winamp preferences
ctrl+tab=cycle through winamp's open windows
Hope these help!
i use shift l to open a folder, i just load all my tracks in to one folder and load it then it stays in memory after i close winamp i used to listen to stuff in the library but the new interface its just really strange and i never got used to it.