00:17:27 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Welcome to all members and guests! Guests, if you want to join, see https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ Want to present at Q&A? Give us your material and we can create slides, or we have a PowerPoint template you can download and use: https://opcug.ca/downloads/Q&A-Template.potx Send in questions, shares, etc SuggestionBox@opcug.ca 00:17:40 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Audacity https://www.audacityteam.org/ 00:19:10 E O'Driscoll: So those two blue lines are the stereo tracks (there is only 2 for stereo I guess)? 00:21:36 Tom Trottier@Hogwarts: fwiw, you can use lame to encode audio in MP3 format. I have used it to compress audiobooks to 8khz VBR for minimum size. 00:21:38 Ed: There's a Linux version! 00:23:05 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Lame audio recorder - https://lame.sourceforge.io/ 00:23:20 E O'Driscoll: I happen to be using Audacity this week to move mp3 files on a usb to my laptop. It works well 00:25:25 Lynda Buske: If you are recording music from a video is it better to keep the m4a for quality? 00:29:10 Eldon Gaw: maybe it's just me Chris, but I find the volume of your voice noticibly less than the others. 00:29:15 Tom Trottier@Hogwarts: M4A is a file container, not a single codec. In practice it usually contains AAC or sometimes ALAC, and AAC generally outperforms MP3 at the same bitrate. 00:31:02 E O'Driscoll: I've been very impressed with the quality of the audio from the old 1988 phone message tapes. 00:31:04 Tom Trottier@Hogwarts: MP3 wins on compatibility because it is widely supported across players, car stereos, software, and devices. 00:31:35 Tom Trottier@Hogwarts: Often stereo, boom boxes, car audio can play MP3s 00:32:25 Carol Pearson: Did not know the calendar comes by the date and time 00:32:39 Ed: Window + C, if you''re using Mint 00:34:35 Harvey Hope: I use Start11 menu from Stardock 00:35:10 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Replying to "I use Start11 menu f..." Want to do a share on that sometime? 00:35:37 Harvey Hope: Replying to "I use Start11 menu from Stardock" Can do !! 00:36:23 Ed: Replying to "I use Start11 menu f..." Still figuring it out but it's possible sometime. 00:36:50 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Microsoft is Finally Fixing Windows 11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYUjW9uWUF8 00:37:56 Tom Trottier@Hogwarts: How do you get the Proton VPN to work? 00:40:02 Tom Trottier@Hogwarts: Vivaldi seems to install 00:42:58 Tom Trottier@Hogwarts: Seniors more desperate... 00:43:22 Tom Trottier@Hogwarts: ...and more targeted 00:44:01 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: FBI Internet Crime Report 2025 https://www.ic3.gov/AnnualReport/Reports/2025_IC3Report.pdf 00:47:52 Tom Trottier@Hogwarts: also podcasts, videocasts for free: https://twit.tv/people/paul-thurrott 00:47:58 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Hardware device basics https://www.thurrott.com/books/windows-11-field-guide/hardware-windows-11-field-guide/337720/hardware-device-basics 00:48:14 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Freeing up disk space on an Android phone https://opcug.ca/Articles/2111NEWS.pdf 6 SIMPLE Hacks To CLEAR Android Storage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLWpYw-dMuU https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cxinventor.file.explorer 00:50:51 Kal_Somo DPCUC: I find that Malwarebytes has an " easy " button for cleaning an Android cell ph. I made the plunge with a subscription since they helped with my MAC as well. 00:51:22 Tom Trottier@Hogwarts: Why do menu items never include veggie burgers.... 00:53:04 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Cx File Explorer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cxinventor.file.explorer 00:53:18 Tom Trottier@Hogwarts: On the home screen, you can long hold an app and drag it to "uninstall". [Remove just takes it from the home screen] 00:57:39 Kal_Somo DPCUC: From the Google Play Store: Files to SD card utility for file management. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.bukacek.filestosdcard&pli=1 00:59:10 Tom Trottier@Hogwarts: No problem. Just get a phone with 1TB.... 01:01:04 Tom Trottier@Hogwarts: Pricey these days..... 01:01:40 Tom Trottier@Hogwarts: Apple has stopped selling macbooks with 512GB of RAM 01:07:02 Tom Trottier@Hogwarts: Or studios... 01:10:36 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: OPCUG Google Groups "how-to" https://opcug.ca/google-groups-how-to/ 01:12:00 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: SuggestionBox@opcug.ca 01:12:25 E O'Driscoll: The exercise class instructor uses Bluetooth (I think) to run the music to the group and sometimes it is wonky. She says that the problem is due to her leaving some apps open (?). So she closes down all apps and Bluetooth seems to work. What is Bluetooth doing...searching through the running apps for music to play? 01:12:53 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Presnetations we give at the Ottawa Public Library https://booking.biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/program?text=ottawa+pc 01:13:20 Tom Trottier@Hogwarts: Usually Bluetooth plays the current player. If not, start the player you want and press play and it should switch. 01:14:09 Tom Trottier@Hogwarts: I have that problem between Podcast Addict and Libby 01:16:47 E O'Driscoll: Thank you !!!! 01:16:51 Natalie: Thanks! 01:16:52 Carol Pearson: Thank you