what about the nls format? can this be played on any software play windows
or mac or just the victor stream currently?
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From: "Greg Kearney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>; "Ricky Buchanan"
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Cc: "Iain Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: OT: DAISY players for Windows?
There are a whole bunch of DAISY playback software for Windows.
AMIS is free and not bad it is at: http://amis.sourceforge.net/
VictorReader Soft a commercial player is good:
http://www.humanware.com/en-usa/products/digital_talking_books/software/_details/id_62/victor_reader_soft.html
Humanware make a Mac version of VictorReader Soft that is sold through
RFB&D only. It is very limited, only plays DAISY 2.02 books and quite
expensive.
GHplayer which I consider one of the better commercial players can be
found at: http://www.ghbraille.com/ghplayer.html
TAB Player from the Thai Association for the Blind can be found at
http://www.daisynow.net/tabplayer/english/index.html
The Curtain Player, the Macintosh player I am working on with the
students from Curtain University in Perth will be open source and free.
Because you are in Australia and the books you would be using will likely
originate with Vision Australia you should be able to use any of the free
players such as AMIS for this. Vision Australia is not using any
encryption on their books to my understanding.
This means that you could use standard MP3 enabled CD players or other
MP3 devices for playback as the books from Vision Australia, RNIB, CNIB
and books produced with my DTBmaker program all retain the audio files in
playback order. A MP3 enable CD player will not have the navigation,
bookmarking and so on but its cost should be well under A$ 50.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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On Sep 25, 2007, at 10:02 PM, Ricky Buchanan wrote:
Sorry for the off-topic post, I don't know anywhere else to find a bunch
of people who will know this! I am some official thing and need details
of what the most commonly used software DAISY players are in Windows. Is
there one that virtually everybody uses, or is it spread between a lot
of them? Bonus brownie points if you know the website for the programs,
but I can Google them if not.
Also, this DAISY player that Greg Kearney and company are working on, is
it going to be free or commercial when it's done? If the latter, does
anybody know the costs?
The paper I'm writing is about how the library should loan software
players to members who would prefer them to the hardware players they
already offer for loan. I thought putting actual examples and costs
would point out that buying licenses for DAISY player software is
probably a lot cheaper than the AU$300 hardware players they are
lending!
r
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