All of this discussion prompts the following question from me: What does "full-featured" mean to you? TO me, it means everything--page numbering, ability to either include or separate footnotes from being read within main text, section headings of course (like articles, chapters, major printed section breaks, etc.) ... simply putting mp3's in a folder and running something to convert the indexing structure doesn't seem "full-featured" by half. I suspect, I don't really know but just suspect, that the full features one would want have to be provided by the content provider more than the software provider. In other words, somebody somewhere has to know where the marks go. Without them, the whole thing is ueless. Do I care more about pages than I do about cassette sides? You bet I do. But is that marking level available? Certainly not. So then, where's it to come from? Answer: Unknown. But without a valid answer to these questions, there's no such thing as full-featured, imho.
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:54:08 -0800, you wrote: >You will not be able to do all you want to do with one package, and you will >have to do some work. For instance, if your player doesn't handle certain >formats, you'll have to convert them using some other means. > >Book Wizard Producer from American Printing House coxsts $200.00 US. > >If you're willing to read its pretty straightforward manual, some, though >not all, of what you want to do you can do free with the Daisy Book >Generator, available from > >http://jaapvanlelieveld.xs4all.nl/daisy.htm > >Basically, you put mp3 files into a folder, run this free program from the >context menu for the folder, and it converts the folder contents into a >Daisy book which you can then load onto your player. I have been turning >podcasts and mp3 audio files into Daisy books with this for my player with >great success. > >Dean > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >On Behalf Of Ray >Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 6:02 AM >To: PC Audio Discussion List >Subject: Re: dasy software packages? >Importance: High > >Hi. > >Only got general recommendations and links to offer in your persuit of of >DAISY creation software, but hope it helps. > >First off: the DAISY org site which will tell you a lot about the various >software packages and hardware options: > >http://tinyurl.com/8zgfqd > >Second, Brian Hartgen is the source of much knowledge here in the UK, > >The last mentioned software package on this page, the Book Wizzard by A P H, >is, I think, free, and seems to be highly regarded by some. >www.hartgen.org > >A final thought: the PTR2 CD/CF card recorder is a pretty easy to use >solution enabling pretty painless conversion in one box. There is a list, >on Freelists I think, the PtR1 users list for this equipment. (Don't be put >off by the name; it was started back in the days of the PTR1, but most >discussion there is/is around the PTR2 successor. > >AS for sample rate and bit rate conversion, not sure if you will find much >support for that within the DAISY creation software packages, and I would in >any case personally look to Goldwave, Sound Forge, Studio recorder for this >and the audio processing optionsfacilities you might want. > > >HTH, >Ray. > >goshawk wrote: >hello list, >I have recently got a portable daisy talking book player, and would like to >start making my own daisy book disks, from my own audio library. >please can anyone recommend a good fully featured daisy creating software >package? it needs to be fully accessible, using window-eyes. > >the package needs to be fully featured, as I would like to make the disks >fully navigable, as I will probably put several books, radio series, or >audio described film audio tracks, on to one disk, and would like to be able >to select which book or series I want, and easily navigate my way around >that book or series, by chapter or episode, or if a particular series had >several seasons of it, I would like to be able to navigate by series, >season, or episode. I hope I have explained that ok. however, just to make >things interesting, the audio books in my library, are all formatted >differently, as there are some, that have only as many files, as there were >tapes or cds in the original, there are some, that have been taken from cd, >with each track on each cd being a file, and there are some, that have just >been formatted as a single big file for the whole book. > >also, the stuff I have, has not all been encoded at the same bit rate, and I >have had problems with some mp3 disks before, that will play perfectly in >mp3 cd players, dvd players, and my computer, but when I try to play them in >my talking book machine, it says something like "audio format not supported" >even though they are mp3 files, and I would like the software package to be >able to sort this out if possible, as it is probably something simple, such >as re-encoding the mp3 files, in a bit rate that the talking book machine >will handle. > >it would also be quite useful, if the package could have some equaliser, >volume boosting, sound enhancement, and unwanted noise removal tools. as >some of the stuff I have, either because it was taken from very old >recordings, was recorded at too lower level on one or both channels, or >encoded at too lower bit rate, doesn't sound that good, which is something, >that I would really like to improve if possible, before making daisy disks >of it. > >it would also be nice, if the package could actually record directly from a >line or digital in, as I still have a lot of stuff on tape, dat, and >minidisk. and if it could also take audio from standard audio cds, which I >could use the drive in the computer to read, it would be even better. > >finally, if possible, I would like the package, to be able to work with >different audio formats, as not all the stuff in my library is in mp3 >format, some of it is in .ogg, some in .wma, some in standard uncompressed >.wav, and some in a form of compressed .wav format. I think it is going to >be a bit much, to expect the software to work with things like free lossless >audio codec, and monkeys audio files, but if the daisy software package >could also use existing audio codec's, even this could be possible. > >Simon Wilkes, >e-mail, >[email protected] >skype name, >dj-goshawk >windows live id, >goshawk-on-horseback >[email protected] >cb call, >goshawk >phone, >02082200261, +442082200261 if outside of UK, >mobile, (voice or text) >07957880038, +447957880038 if outside of UK. > > > > >Jonathan Mosen List Founder >Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >http://www.pc-audio.org >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >[email protected] > > > >Jonathan Mosen List Founder >Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >http://www.pc-audio.org >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >[email protected] Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
