Tutorial:Common media operations:
You can get up-to-date context sensitive information about the media you are playing using the following keys:
'Info' [F2] (full stop)
Context related information available in the Player
# 'Info' [Shift + F2] (full stop long)
Media context related information available in the Player
* 'Info' [Ctrl + F2] (0 + full stop)
Media timing or length context information available in the Player
*# 'Info' [Ctrl + Shift + F2] (0 + full stop)
Media format context information available in the Player
These keys are relevant to all media. The information provided by these keys depends on the media you are playing and one, two or all of these keys may be used.
If audio media is played, the volume is either muted or reduced to an ambient level to enable you to listen to the information.
The role of each one of these keystrokes is indicated clearly in the Information sub-menu of the Main menu when the focus is on the Player so you don't have to remember these - quick experimentation with these shortcuts is probably the easiest way to learn.
Below are example of these keys' usage in different media types:
DAISY books:
'Info' - Book name;
* 'Info' - Time elapsed, remaining and total time for the book;
*# 'Info' - Audio format details.
Music Files:
(Information derived where relevant from file tags)
'Info' - Artist, Album, Year and Track name;
* 'Info' - Time elapsed, time remaining and total time for the track;
*# 'Info' - Audio format details.
Radio Time:
'Info' - Information about the current station and current show if available;
# 'Info' - Today's schedule for the playing station or station in focus if available;
* 'Info' - Timing and length information, current position in a streamed podcast or BBC listen again if played.
*# 'Info' - Format information about the current stream.
Last FM:
'Info' - Artist, Album and name of playing track;
* 'Info' - Station name;
*# 'Info' - Audio stream format details.
TNAUK eText publications:
'Info' - Publication name and date;
# 'Info' - Current article name.
*# 'Info' - Format information
TNAUK audio publications:
'Info' - Publication name and date;
# 'Info' - Current article name;
*# 'Info' - Audio format information.
The Seeing Ear library:
'Info' - Book name and author;
* 'Info' - Reading position information;
*# 'Info' - Book format.
Note: Not all media types have been included in the examples above; use the Information sub-menu of the Main menu to find out what information is available for each media type.
Copying messages to the clipboard
SpeakOn always keeps internally the details of messages generated by either the Info key in all its variants or controls such as the Library, lists etc. To copy the latest message to the clipboard press:
Ctrl + Shift + c
For example, if you are interested in looking in detail at an Info message, say a Radio Station, first press F2 and once you hear the message, press Ctrl + Shift + c. Then drop the copied message with Ctrl + v in another Windows program.