I agree there might be some work to do at some future point when
we're trying to import mixed-media works into Wikisource, but I'm
afraid for now the sole purpose of ia-upload is to convert IA scans
of books into DjVus. MP3s or any other non-text work cannot be
converted with this tool.
Have you tried using it? Did you notice any problems?

— Sam.


On Sun, 3 Dec 2017, at 06:03 AM, mathieu stumpf guntz wrote:
> Le 29/11/2017 à 08:47, Sam Wilson a écrit :
>> * Attempts to use the tool on items that don't have DjVu, PDF, or JP2
>>   Zip files will now fail. I'm not sure what people who were
>>   attempting to make DjVus of MP3s were thinking, but they'll get a
>>   nicer error message now.> Apart from the file format, which was under some 
>> patent issues until
> last year and should be soon be available to Commons (if not yet),
> what would be the problem with uploading the file to Commons? All the
> more, some books might have sound component. My daughter have a whole
> library of that kind. She also have plenty of book with tactile data
> which often make me wonder how we would integrate such a book in
> Wikisource, as I'm not aware of any technology to render that kind of
> data linked to the material texture. Defining a file format to store
> that kind of data would be surely the easy part, all the more when
> "digital texture" is a topic already extensively covered in the
> literature for 3D rendering purpose.> 
>  Just sharing some thoughts…
>
>> I dare say I'm broken something along the way, so do keep an eye out
>> for weirdnesses and let me know.  Thanks, sam.
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