There is no problem with copying daisy books across to the player on the Mac. Just put your daisy CD in the drive. Providing you have preferences set in Finder to show all drives then your Daisy CD will show up on the desktop. If it is an RNIB book it will be a long number beginning with 0. Just press command c on the drive on the desktop and copy it to the Daisy Player of your choice. It is likely that your Dictaphone will also show up as a drive, or if uses an SD card, ditto. Any mp3 player will also play the mp3 content of the Daisy book though not necessarily in the correct chapter order, depending on how the book is structured. Of course you could rename the mp3 files to ensure they are played in correct order but this is a little time consuming. Most RNIB books nowadays will play fine in a standard mp3 player as they appear to have stopped the practice of scrambling the order of chapters. The only other thing to note it that the RNIB daisy books are now intolerant of me renaming the books from this long number to something more familiar. I have only experienced this as a problem in the last year. The way I resolve this is to create a folder on the Mac in Finder with a more familiar book name and simply copy the CD across into that folder. David Griffith.
. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lovette Yewchan Sent: 26 July 2012 04:41 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: mac and daisy? HI there. I am wondering if you can insert a daisy cd into the mac and copy the files to a digital recorder or do you need a daisy player on the mac for this to work? THanks. Lovette On 2012-07-25, at 6:41 AM, Gordon Smith wrote: > There are a couple of players currently that I know of, one is free and one isn't. Obviously you gets what you pays for, and personally I find Olearia a bit restrictive in as much as it doesn't support libraries of books, and there are quite a few other things it won't do. But it's free and you can find it here: > > <http://code.google.com/p/olearia/> > > The other one is called "ReadHear" and is available from > > <http://www.gh-accessibility.com/software/readhear-mac-instant-download> > > It's a bit on the pricy side, and hasn't been updated in a million years. That said, it does work, and very well. > > The one area they don't cover is DAISY creation. That can't really be done on OS X unless you're prepared to accept a half-baked solution. There is an OpenOffice plugin but I personally found it to be more trouble than it's worth. > > Gordon > > On 24 Jul 2012, at 22:20, josh gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, is there a way that mac can play daisy books, like from BARD? Thanks! > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
