Hi Travis,
Much thanks for taking the time to respond thoroughly. My responses
with some of your original text below:
Book marks would be nice, ability to have many of them
katieplayer has a bookmarking feature. Search the local katieplayer
help for "bookmark" or follow links to web version of help as follows:
inserting a bookmark:
http://www.kafkasdaytime.com/katieplayer/x_public/help/0705/7/
k_bookmark.html
Using the Bookmark List:
http://www.kafkasdaytime.com/katieplayer/x_public/help/0705/7/
k_bookmarklist.html
Number of bookmarks you can insert per book is essentially unlimited.
Making the player scriptable would be nice too.
Yes, agreed. We're debating whether we will be adding scriptability
to the current non Cocoa version. Apple sriptability is being built
into the Cocoa version from the start. Your tutorial idea is a cool one.
Placing books in whatever folder I like would be nice too
You can do this. It's not as elegant as the VO accessible open dialog
which will be included in the next version but, fortunately, you do
have an option.
Clipped from katieplayer help:
"To change the Books folder:
Press Command + P to open the simple "Books Folder Path" dialog. Edit
or reenter the path and press OK to confirm - or Cancel. The "Books
Folder Path" dialog is accessible via VoiceOver."
For more on the Books Folder, you can search the locally installed
katieplayer help or check the following web link:
http://www.kafkasdaytime.com/katieplayer/x_public/help/0705/6/
k_organizing.html
I can't remember of the Books Folder dialog can accept a UNIX style
path. I'll check and get back on that.
I'd like to have the ability to use katie player to place book
marks in a non-daisy mp3 file
Actually, we have some internal, unpolished tools we've developed to
work with audio file markers and create DAISY...allows audio file
markers to be extracted from an audio file and time offsets of
markers used to create SMIL for DAISY book. The ability to insert the
MP3 (and other audio file markers) could be included in
katieplayer...or maybe it would be a cool idea to include a separate,
easy-to-use DAISY production tool that does what you suggest. We've
also toyed with the idea of creating some front ends for Greg
Kearny's DAISY book creation scripts.
Obviously, some of these things aren't needed, and are only nice to
haves, but it sure would make katie player a great piece of software.
We're going to be stuck in a rut if we don't hear from you and the
rest of the community...so grateful for the recommendations,
criticisms, etc...particularly from folks who have actually used the
software. We're just at the start of the effort, so plenty of time
for shaping the software moving forward.
Thanks again Travis!
Joe
