Talking Music Management Software for Your MP3 Player
The following comes from MarvelSoft.
Would you like to find and play a CD by doing nothing more than pressing a few keys? How about reading the news each night, loading the latest Hockey game on your Mp3 player, or recording a few CD's with music to listen to while you travel? No problem! You're in business! You're ready to roll.
But, you say, I haven't found any music management software that can be used by blind computer users. Aha! But, we have. It's loaded with features, packed with easy hotkeys, and entirely narated with human speech. It's top of the line, and it's lightning fast. And best of all, it's cheap! Have a seat - we'll tell you all about it.
Digital Jukebox Manages Your Music, Loads Your MP3 Player and More! This powerful software package is so loaded with features, so fast and easy to use, and just so fun besides - that it's difficult to know where to begin! But in a nutshell, Digital Jukebox is an all-encompassing talking digital audio management solution put out by MarvelSoft Corp. (the makers of Talking Typing Teacher and Talking Toolbox). These self-voicing, user-friendly software programs are used around the world in homes, businesses, schools, nonprofit training centers, and government agencies by blind and visually impaired students, professionals, and computer users of all ages and abilities.
Digital Jukebox is a powerful multimedia package that gives low-vision and totally-blind people full control over their music library. All from inside this single, intuitive, fully-narrated program, you can play and organize audio CD's, copy music to and from your MP3 player, create playlists of your favorite tracks, sign up for and download podcasts - past or present, listen to Internet radio stations, and a whole lot more. Your new high-tech jukebox allows you to import music from audio CD's, a portable MP3 player, the world wide web, or even from albums you may have already stored elsewhere on your computer's hard drive. Of course, you can collect, store, organize and play a virtually unlimited number of CD's, songs, and other audio tracks. Then, sit back and listen to your favorite tunes in front of your computer, while enjoying simple controls, state-of-the-art skip and search features, and the ability to zap a song in seconds. Or take your music with you by copying it onto your MP3 player, burning it on a CD, or exporting it so it's small enough in size to Email to a friend or colleague.
Adding music to your talking jukebox is just the beginning. You have the ability to create as few or as many folders and sub-folders as you wish in order to keep your ever-growing audio library well-laid-out. With just a few keystrokes or clicks of the mouse, you can move, rename, copy, edit, delete, or manipulate one track, a whole CD, or even an entire batch of CD's. Numerous navigation hotkeys and functions are also found within your Jukebox, making it a breeze for you to skip ahead a few seconds, several minutes, or even for a designated amount of time, not to mention the handy Quickmark feature, which remembers the last file you were listening to and where exactly you were in that file. A couple other noteworthy features include the option of adjusting your music volume separately from your master volume (meaning you can have your music playing quieter than your screen reader); and a special Hide function which will cause the program ! screen to disappear (even though your music continues to play). For the more advanced computer guru, Digital Jukebox also provides plenty of technical options, such as allowing you to choose your preferred Wave, MP3, and WMA encoding format, the ability to convert files on the fly, and a whole host of other advanced options which enable you to configure the program precisely how you want.
Unlike other media players out there, Digital Jukebox isn't just somewhat or mostly accessible; it's totally and completely usable! True to MarvelSoft style, this program was built from the ground up with the needs of blind and visually impaired people in mind. Every function, from simply playing or pausing a song, to the more advanced area of creating a project and burning it to a CD, is easily accomplished with a few hotkeys or menu selections. The MarvelTalk Speech System is once again employed throughout the product, giving you that winning blend of pre-recorded, digitized human speech for all menu items and options, and clear, concise synthetic speech for varying information, like album and track names. Digital Jukebox is the first and only player of its kind - and makes the portable music revolution as fun and easy for blind folks as it is for their sighted peers!
To order a copy of MarvelSoft's Digital Jukebox software package, click this link to visit the Digital Jukebox home page or call 800-987-1231. They also have several exciting, fully-accessible MP3 players to pick from, and they won't break the bank, either!
1 comments:
I have had Marvelsoft's Digital Jukebox for a week now and quite frankly my opinion is it is not ready for prime time.
As a partial sighted user the Graphical User Interface (GUI) is extremely annoying.
The GUI is implemented with a crippled windows display. All standard window decorations have been removed. No top window bar with iconify, resize, minimize, maximize, close. Which would not be a problem except for the window clips the content and there is no way to scroll. You have to go into the applications "options" and play with text and box sizes until you get it to fit in the fixed window.
One navigates within the application primarily with the 4 directional keys which would be great except the display does not track the direction keys. If you key past the end of the window display the contents does not scroll up, you do hear what you can not see which is a help once you realize what it is doing. Also, the 4 direction arrows will not take you to some of the items on the screen. Most notable "back" is not reachable with the arrow keys, you either have to mouse over it and click or use the "backspace" key. Once you know this it is useable but why the arrow buttons dont just proceed to the "back" button as it does with "ok" and "cancel" and every thing else is not intuitive.
It appears that this product, although marketed to the blind and visually impaired, is primarily intend for the totally blind. My problems started when I was looking for the licence key. The verbal directions say the key is on a yellow card in the box. I could not find the card in the box with the key. However, I called and was able to get the key over the phone. It turns out the key is on a Braille and "raised text" card taped to the outside of the box with no visible text printing at all. I thought it was just their logo on the box. Also, there is no label at all on the product CD so the first thing I did was print a label for it so it would not get lost.
If one is totally blind perhaps this product is more useful since one might not be use to the GUI standards supplied in most applications. But any user will find the setting of "options" annoying, since one constantly has to restart from the top of the option menu for each change. That is you can not step back in the menu tree once you start down a branch.
Also one can not navigate in the standard way through "My Computer." It is to complicated to say how you have to do it, lets just say you can not select "My Computer" and then the location you want. If your music is spread across multiple drives and you want to keep it that way it will get real annoying.
When I purchased the product I was told they did not have a demo version. Turns out the product will run in demo mode but they just will not give it to you until you buy it. I STRONGLY recommend one get the demo version first or don't buy it. The demo runs for 5 minutes at a time.
I sincerely wish I could recommend this product, since there is so little good inexpensive software designed for the blind and visually impaired. Marvelsoft's Digital Jukebox has great potential but it is not there yet, maybe when version 2.0 comes some of the comments above will be addressed.
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