You will not be able to do all you want to do with one package, and you will have to do some work. For instance, if your player doesn't handle certain formats, you'll have to convert them using some other means.
Book Wizard Producer from American Printing House coxsts $200.00 US. If you're willing to read its pretty straightforward manual, some, though not all, of what you want to do you can do free with the Daisy Book Generator, available from http://jaapvanlelieveld.xs4all.nl/daisy.htm Basically, you put mp3 files into a folder, run this free program from the context menu for the folder, and it converts the folder contents into a Daisy book which you can then load onto your player. I have been turning podcasts and mp3 audio files into Daisy books with this for my player with great success. Dean -----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Ray Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 6:02 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: dasy software packages? Importance: High Hi. Only got general recommendations and links to offer in your persuit of of DAISY creation software, but hope it helps. First off: the DAISY org site which will tell you a lot about the various software packages and hardware options: http://tinyurl.com/8zgfqd Second, Brian Hartgen is the source of much knowledge here in the UK, The last mentioned software package on this page, the Book Wizzard by A P H, is, I think, free, and seems to be highly regarded by some. www.hartgen.org A final thought: the PTR2 CD/CF card recorder is a pretty easy to use solution enabling pretty painless conversion in one box. There is a list, on Freelists I think, the PtR1 users list for this equipment. (Don't be put off by the name; it was started back in the days of the PTR1, but most discussion there is/is around the PTR2 successor. AS for sample rate and bit rate conversion, not sure if you will find much support for that within the DAISY creation software packages, and I would in any case personally look to Goldwave, Sound Forge, Studio recorder for this and the audio processing optionsfacilities you might want. HTH, Ray. goshawk wrote: hello list, I have recently got a portable daisy talking book player, and would like to start making my own daisy book disks, from my own audio library. please can anyone recommend a good fully featured daisy creating software package? it needs to be fully accessible, using window-eyes. the package needs to be fully featured, as I would like to make the disks fully navigable, as I will probably put several books, radio series, or audio described film audio tracks, on to one disk, and would like to be able to select which book or series I want, and easily navigate my way around that book or series, by chapter or episode, or if a particular series had several seasons of it, I would like to be able to navigate by series, season, or episode. I hope I have explained that ok. however, just to make things interesting, the audio books in my library, are all formatted differently, as there are some, that have only as many files, as there were tapes or cds in the original, there are some, that have been taken from cd, with each track on each cd being a file, and there are some, that have just been formatted as a single big file for the whole book. also, the stuff I have, has not all been encoded at the same bit rate, and I have had problems with some mp3 disks before, that will play perfectly in mp3 cd players, dvd players, and my computer, but when I try to play them in my talking book machine, it says something like "audio format not supported" even though they are mp3 files, and I would like the software package to be able to sort this out if possible, as it is probably something simple, such as re-encoding the mp3 files, in a bit rate that the talking book machine will handle. it would also be quite useful, if the package could have some equaliser, volume boosting, sound enhancement, and unwanted noise removal tools. as some of the stuff I have, either because it was taken from very old recordings, was recorded at too lower level on one or both channels, or encoded at too lower bit rate, doesn't sound that good, which is something, that I would really like to improve if possible, before making daisy disks of it. it would also be nice, if the package could actually record directly from a line or digital in, as I still have a lot of stuff on tape, dat, and minidisk. and if it could also take audio from standard audio cds, which I could use the drive in the computer to read, it would be even better. finally, if possible, I would like the package, to be able to work with different audio formats, as not all the stuff in my library is in mp3 format, some of it is in .ogg, some in .wma, some in standard uncompressed .wav, and some in a form of compressed .wav format. I think it is going to be a bit much, to expect the software to work with things like free lossless audio codec, and monkeys audio files, but if the daisy software package could also use existing audio codec's, even this could be possible. Simon Wilkes, e-mail, dj.gosh...@ntlworld.com skype name, dj-goshawk windows live id, goshawk-on-horseback goshawk-on-horseb...@live.co.uk cb call, goshawk phone, 02082200261, +442082200261 if outside of UK, mobile, (voice or text) 07957880038, +447957880038 if outside of UK. Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
