Ok, couple items I'll mention now, (some may already be included in
katie player, not checked the manual recently, so don't know)
Since you've already mentioned the speed issue, I'll leave that one
alone.
Book marks would be nice, ability to have many of them (I know you
can move via chapter/page/whhat have you, but having your own
bookmarks would be nice too) Making the player scriptable would be
nice too. Then if I needed a particular item referrenced in a book,
I could whip up an apple script to load the player, go to a certain
bookmark/section/chapter/page/whatever, play that segment, then
exit. Would be excellent for creating short tutorials, or even
making help files talk automatically when clicking on a topic. (drop
the help via text-to-speech into an mp3 file, index each topic, then
have an applescript call whichever section is needed to cover the
topic that was clicked on)
Placing books in whatever folder I like would be nice too,currently,
they *have* to be in ~/desktop/books if I copy the cd to the hd. (at
least that's the only place I can manage to get it to work) And,
while not strictly necessary, I'd like to have the ability to use
katie player to place book marks in a non-daisy mp3 file, (chapters/
sections/pages/whatever) then have the player convert these bookmarks
into the files necessary for creating a daisy capable book. This
would be the absolutely simplest way to create a new daisy book. I
also think it would contribute to the creation of many many more
daisy books, since it would be a simple matter of bookmarking, then
hitting a button to convert bookmarks into the extended formats that
makes up the daisy format.
Obviously, some of these things aren't needed, and are only nice to
haves, but it sure would make katie player a great piece of software.
On Mar 6, 2006, at 8:23 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
Joe,
I think Mike Smith whipped these up.
On Mar 6, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Kafka's Daytime wrote:
Hi David,
I was looking for general responses anyway...thanks for posting. Do
you know offhand how the DAISY books on your hard drive were
authored i.e. where are they from?
Joe
On Mar 6, 2006, at 7:52 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
I'm not travis, but Joe, I was unable to get my daisy books on
the hard drive to play. I kept getting a no book found message.
On Mar 6, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Kafka's Daytime wrote:
Thanks Travis. From our perspective, the most critical missing
feature for a blind person using the software is audio speed up
and slow down. Second in line is having the package work
seamlessly with Mac OS 10 accessibility features like VoiceOver
(vs. self-voicing). Outside of the preceding, are there other
issues with the software which you would say would prevent the
software from being useful to a blind person?
On Mar 6, 2006, at 7:01 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
I don't know if I could claim regularity, but I do use it on
occasion. Still working my way through Red October
On Mar 6, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Kafka's Daytime wrote:
Hi folks,
Is anyone on the list besides Jane regularly using the
katieplayer software?
Joe
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