It's a standard USB cable. You just need one that will fit the housing
of the cartridge. You can get these through a few vendors, but I've also
just been able to use cables that I got with other products.
On 10/19/2015 09:19 PM, Robin Frost wrote:
Hi,
there is a special cable for connecting it to your pc. NLS players
usually ship with one if I remember correctly. I believe they’re also
sold through American Printing House For The Blind.
Robin
*From:* Nicki keck <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Monday, October 19, 2015 9:35 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* RE: Trying to sync books to BARD Mobile using Itunes 12
How did you connect the cartridge to your computer? Did you need a
special cable to do this? I thought it wasn’t a standard USB, but I
don’t have one to look at right now. This would be convenient because I
might want to get courses from Hadley, and the NLS players we have
aren’t working well right now. We just haven’t called to get them
replaced or sent them back, so if there is a way to play them on the
BARD mobile app, that would be great.
Actually, yes, they were zipped. The problem ended up being a corrupted
install or something, as I got it to work beautifully after an uninstall
and reinstall of the app. But it was a good thought. I knew they had to
be zipped because even the original instructions for iTunes 11 mentioned
this.
*From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
Behalf Of *Alan Lemly
*Sent:* Monday, October 19, 2015 10:32 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: Trying to sync books to BARD Mobile using Itunes 12
As Christopher said and using the instructions Russ posted, you can
successfully transfer BARD books on your computer to your iDevice for
playing with BARD Mobile using iTunes.
I don't know what the easiest steps are to do this with iTunes 12 since
I'm still using iTunes 11. I suspect that the failure experienced by the
original poster in this thread might have been due to the book not being
in a zipped archive. The general steps she outlined sounded correct
since it sounded as if she was on the Apps tab for her device and was on
BARD mobile in the file sharing section which you must be in order to
access the add to button. After that button is executed, you get a
dialog where you can navigate to the files you want to add to the app,
BARD mobile in this case. These must be zipped files as they were when
originally downloaded from BARD.
I know this works because I have one of the braille lessons from the
hadley School which came to me on an NLS cartridge for playing on the
NLS digital player. I wanted to use my iPhone for playing the lesson so
I connected the cartridge to my computer and located the lesson files on
it and zipped them into a single file. When I transferred this file to
my iPhone using iTunes, it plays beautifully in BARD mobile.
Hopefully others will have more success if they choose to transfer
zipped BARD books this way and hopefully apple will make file transfers
again more accessible with future iTunes versions.
Alan Lemly
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 19, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Russ Kiehne <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The following info probably has been changed since it was posted to
the bardtalk list:
Loading books into the BARDmobile app
The BARDmobile app is able to play any DAISY/NISO 2005 formatted
book. To load the
books into the iOS device for playback use the following instructions.
1. If not in a ZIP archive format. You should compress the directory
holding the books
files into a ZIP file.
2. Connect the iOS device to your computer with a USB cable.
3. Open the iTunes application and select the iOS device button at
the right of the
main window.
4. select the "Apps" radio button on the main screen.
5. At the bottom of the Apps screen is a section titled "File
Sharing" with a column
list of apps. One of those will be the BARDmobile app select it.
6. Press the "Add…" button located in the bottom right of the
screen. This will give
you a dialog to select the ZIP file from step one. The book will
then be added to
the app. You may need to restart BARDmobile to see the new book.
NOTE:
At this time the BARDmobile app will only play DAISY/NISO 2005
books. Other DAISY
formats such as DAISY 2.02 and ePub 3 will simply fail to load.
*From:*Mary Otten <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:*Sunday, October 18, 2015 6:29 PM
*To:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:*Re: Trying to sync books to BARD Mobile using Itunes 12
I did not think you were supposed to be able to add books to barred
using iTunes. I thought the whole point of the BARD Mobile app was
to get books from Bart off of its website using that app. What am I
missing?
Mary
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 18, 2015, at 6:18 PM, Nicki keck <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
HI all,
I thought I’d try this with some books I had downloaded. I am
using Windows 10 and JAWS 17. I tab to BARD mobile and I click
on that with my mouse cursor, because there seems to be no other
way to select it. Then, I choose add file and choose the files
I want. Itunes says it is copying these files to my iPhone, but
when I unplug it and go into BARD Mobile, the files are not
showing up in audio books under bookshelf. I got one of them to
show up, and don’t ask me how. I’ve tried resetting the phone
multiple times, and I have closed the BARD Mobile app from the
app switcher and gone back in, but the files will not show up.
If I choose BARD mobile again from the apps, it shows me the
bard mobile documents section with all the files I have added,
but they are not showing up at all in BARD mobile when I open it
and no doorbell sound. Any ideas? What could I be missing?
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