Howdy daveoily, Have you checked with the individuals who developed that material? I don't mean to be a moralist, but those resources were undoubtedly painstakingly collected and developed, requiring thousands of hours of unpaid work. As a student myself, I can understand the real difficulties that come with lacking funds, but I would encourage you to at least check with the creators prior to undertaking such a project. If you explain your situation you may find they are more interested in providing you discounted access than having you rip off all of their hard work. Alternatively, if the material was under CC prior to their transition from freeware to software, you might even find an empathic ear at the other end & the might supply you with the content in a format that would be easier to manipulate.
Either way, good luck with your Japanese studies! All the best, Rax. On Oct 12, 2:53 pm, daveoily <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, I'm studying Japanese, if you are too, you might have heard of > smartfm, they were brilliant, but then decided to make people pay for > it, it's fair enough I suppose, but I haven't the money. So I spent a > few hours in the days before it went to being a paysite downloading > all the stuff I could, example sentences and the pages with > information about the translations and pronunciation. > > It occurs to me that I could make mnemosyne cards from this bunch of > information, but doing it manually would take me an age, eating into > precious study time. I'm currently working on a whole stack of other > cards to be uploaded upon completion anyway. > > The way I see it, is if I can strip the pertinent information from the > html and put it into the right format for a mnemosyne xml file, I > could automate the process to such an extent that it would take > seconds to create the cards, IF and it is a big if, I knew how to do > it! > > I've had a brush with AWK before, and I think it might be the right > tool for such a job, but I'm no expert to put it mildly, and would > really appreciate some help with this one if some knowledgeable soul > could see how to do it. > > There's hundreds, perhaps thousands of example sentences in mp3 > format, they're the files named JS******.mp3, and also words (I'm not > sure if I got them all, but they may well be there named JW******.mp3 > > All the files I have bundled up and put on wildfire in a file called > sfm.rar > > http://www.mediafire.com/?xdbiu55a71ucjb2 > > If anyone has any pointers, I'd love to hear. Otherwise, I might be > quite some time turning what could be a great learning resource into > something usable. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
