Subscriber Gary wrote recently from New Zealand about his new Windows 7 computer: I have just setup a new computer running Windows 7. All sounds work except for the keystroke sounds, e.g. caps lock. I have the relevant activation selections in "Ease of Access > Make the Keyboard easier to use". Any solutions? I wrote [...]
What Are Codecs?
This must have been the week for codec questions. I received a question about codecs from longtime subscriber Sam Boggs and saw a similar question in two mailing lists. Sam wrote: Hey Terry: Thanks again for your great newsletter. My question: I see "Codec Packages" — free downloads, but no clear explanation. Do I need [...]
Transfering MIDI Audio Files to Audio CDs
I had a question from Frank Lindholm, who subscribes to my email newsletter, recently, and who asked: i have many songs i recorded to a floppy disc (midis) is it possible to copy those to a c/d for a c/d player? frank Unfortunately, Frank won’t be able to burn the audio CDs directly from his [...]
The Music Won’t Stop
Previously, I wrote about problems getting the music to play problems getting MIDI music files to play in the Firefox web browser. I also received an email from reader Carolyn, who wrote to ask: Terry, as soon as I open an email, that has music in it, that music will play through dozens of emails. [...]
MP3 Players and MP3 Player Synchronization Software
I had a recent experience of the unfortunate kind — it ended happily, but was touch-and-go for a while. You see, I managed to destroy my Creative Zen Xtra MP3 player. The Zen Xtra had a headphone jack problem, which seems to have been quite common based on reports I have seen, in which the [...]
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