Gordon: If all I'm looking to do is play the books, navigate and stuff like that, will Olaria do that?
On 7/26/12, David Griffith <d.griff...@btinternet.com> wrote: > There is no problem with copying daisy books across to the player on the > Mac. > Just put your daisy CD in the drive. > Providing you have preferences set in Finder to show all drives then your > Daisy CD will show up on the desktop. > If it is an RNIB book it will be a long number beginning with 0. > Just press command c on the drive on the desktop and copy it to the Daisy > Player of your choice. It is likely that your Dictaphone will also show up > as a drive, or if uses an SD card, ditto. > Any mp3 player will also play the mp3 content of the Daisy book though not > necessarily in the correct chapter order, depending on how the book is > structured. > Of course you could rename the mp3 files to ensure they are played in > correct order but this is a little time consuming. Most RNIB books nowadays > will play fine in a standard mp3 player as they appear to have stopped the > practice of scrambling the order of chapters. > The only other thing to note it that the RNIB daisy books are now > intolerant > of me renaming the books from this long number to something more familiar. > I have only experienced this as a problem in the last year. > The way I resolve this is to create a folder on the Mac in Finder with a > more familiar book name and simply copy the CD across into that folder. > David Griffith. > > > . > -----Original Message----- > From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net > [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Lovette Yewchan > Sent: 26 July 2012 04:41 > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Subject: Re: mac and daisy? > > HI there. I am wondering if you can insert a daisy cd into the mac and copy > the files to a digital recorder or do you need a daisy player on the mac > for > this to work? > THanks. > Lovette > > On 2012-07-25, at 6:41 AM, Gordon Smith wrote: > >> There are a couple of players currently that I know of, one is free and > one isn't. Obviously you gets what you pays for, and personally I find > Olearia a bit restrictive in as much as it doesn't support libraries of > books, and there are quite a few other things it won't do. But it's free > and you can find it here: >> >> <http://code.google.com/p/olearia/> >> >> The other one is called "ReadHear" and is available from >> >> <http://www.gh-accessibility.com/software/readhear-mac-instant-download> >> >> It's a bit on the pricy side, and hasn't been updated in a million years. > That said, it does work, and very well. >> >> The one area they don't cover is DAISY creation. That can't really be > done on OS X unless you're prepared to accept a half-baked solution. There > is an OpenOffice plugin but I personally found it to be more trouble than > it's worth. >> >> Gordon >> >> On 24 Jul 2012, at 22:20, josh gregory <joshkar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, is there a way that mac can play daisy books, like from BARD? 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