Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
2017-12-03
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AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Trenton Goldshark via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC The only "official" way to play BARD books on a laptop/desktop PC, is it "must" be a "Chrome OS" device with "Google Play" support. Don't forget to download the "BARD" app from the store once you have it installed.You can find the official list over at:https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/ch … droid-appsNB. Keep a watch on that one!PS. I do not know of any other way it can b done. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340995#p340995 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
2017-12-03
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AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : Trenton Goldshark via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC The only way to play BARD books on a laptop/desktop PC, is it "must" be a "Chrome OS" device with "Google Play" support. Don't forget to download the "BARD" app from the store once you have it installed.You can find the official list over at:https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/ch … droid-appsNB. Keep a watch on that one! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340995#p340995 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC Speech Central is the only actively developed Daisy reader I know of for macOS. Unsurprisingly, it doesn't support NLS. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340978#p340978 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC They don't do this not because they don't want to, but because they can't get permission from the publishers. They would like to do it, I've asked, they just have issues with copyright and such. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340952#p340952 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC Yeah, BARD is fairly tight with their content, you can search book share's library all you want without logging in, but with BARD, you have to log in before you can do anything at all, other wise all you'll get is instructions how to get verified to use it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340943#p340943 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC I can't help you with Bard on desktop, but I can tell you this much: When I used Learning Ally for textbooks in school, the daisy books were literally unencrypted mp3 files with other files designating the structure of the book so the player could interpret them. I found this sort of amusing. Seems with Bard books this is not the case, IIRC they are .3gp files using the AMR wb+ codec, and I don't konw of anything that supports that format, let alone being able to actually play the files as they might be encrypted hence the authorization key.For now, I just listen to the books on my IPhone, but I'm not sure what options are available to you if you don't have an IOS device. I really have tried to stay away from getting specialized hardware like a book reader that is meant for the blind, I instead want to integrate as much of my needs into the mainstream world as possible. I know if I didn't have an IPhone, listening to Bard books would be a whole lot more annoying. This saddens me a fair bit. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340922#p340922 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC I can't help you with Bard on desktop, but I can tell you this much: When I used Learning Ally for textbooks in school, the daisy books were literally unencrypted mp3 files with other files designating the structure of the book so the player could interpret them. I found this sort of amusing. Seems with Bard books this is not the case, IIRC they are .3gp files using the AMR wb+ codec, and I have to find something that can play those. TGhey may also be encrypted hence the authorization key. For now, I just listen to the books on my IPhone, but I'm not sure what options are available to you if you don't have an IOS device. I really have tried to stay away from getting specialized hardware like a book reader that is meant for the blind, I instead want to integrate as much of my needs into the mainstream world as possible, so I know if I didn't have an IPhone, listening to Bard books would be a whole lot more annoying. This saddens me a fair bit. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340922#p340922 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC Okay as has been said the Dazy vormat is generally to do with navigation and can applied to either audio or text, indeed a lot of dazy audio (such as those from the Rnib in England), are plane old mp3 files, so you can play them in most anything so long as you don't want the specialised navigation features, and to have those there are several dazy playing programs kicking around, eg, Dolphin used to have a free one called easy reader.Bard however have additional layers of incription aside from the dazy formatting, and it's that incription that means they can only be played on authorised systems, and to get something authorised you need to first have a Bard account, second contact Nls themselves with your name and details and system cerial number of the player, and third, either download or install a specifically generated authorisation key for that system. I have a nasty feeling that the reason all this occurs only specialist players is so that Nls can keep the publisher's happy and be sure nobody unauthorised is listening to the books, which is why I suspect, unless they had someone write a specific application like audibles, they won't have a bard application for mac or pc.Btw, if your wondering how I know all this being English, it's because I helped Mrs. Dark sort her player out. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340920#p340920 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC Ah, OK, I guess I can blame book share for the confusion because when you go to download a book from them, you can either choose Daisy text or MP3 audio, so I thought Daisy was a text only format. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340905#p340905 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC Orko, the books are in DAISY format. DAISY is versatile because producers can have full text, full audio or both. DAISY allows for much greater navigation than Audible. If publishers invest the time, it is possible for them to allow extremely detailed levels of navigation which go far beyond the navigation offered by audio books in linear format. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340885#p340885 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC @tjtBARD books are not in Daisy text format, they are closer to books from audible.com in that they are audio recordings of someone reading the book. My understanding is that they are encrypted MP3 files with additional files that provide the ability to skip to major parts of the book, such as to the beginning of each chapter.---You would think that there would be a player for desktop PCs or Macs because on the individual book pages there is what looks to be system requirements for playing the book. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340870#p340870 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC @tjtBARD book are not in Daisy text format, they are closer to books from audible.com in that they are audio records of someone reading the book.---You would think that there would be a player for desktop PCs or Macs because on the individual book pages there is what looks to be system requirements for playing the book. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340870#p340870 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC But are there DAISY reading applications for the Mac? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340860#p340860 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC NLS only offers authorization keys for specialized players. I'm not sure why they're so unwilling to let users listen on desktop operating systems like Windows and Mac. You can try contacting them and telling them you want support for Bard on Windows. I'd personally also love it on macOS as well. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340853#p340853 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC I don't live in the US and am not a US citizen, so I can't access BARD. However, from what I know, to get an authorization key for your product, you have to contact NLS. They will confirm your elligiblity and give you a key that you install into your product. Can you read books with BARD Express? If you're a JAWS user, you can also use FSReader. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340851#p340851 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
