Re: Plextalk Recording Software produced CD that cannot be read as DAISY format on Victor reader

[Marilyn & Larry Dorn]

Sounds like you created a disk with the MP3 files but without the Daisy 
formatting that tells the player in what order to play them as well as your 
levels, pages, headings, etc.  Check carefully the settings you are using 
to create the disk.  I haven't used PRS to actually burn the disk yet, so 
don't know what to have you look for.  I don't know whether or not this is 
true, but it might also be that the files were too big for the disk.  It 
wouldn't surprise me if the CD burner in PRS would not tell you if the book 
was too big.  We know of no way to put part of it onto one disk and 
continue onto another either.  If it just wrote the disk with the files 
that fit, it would appear that it would include the sound files but not the 
.SMYL (smile) files.  They would come last if the files are burned in 
alphabetical order.

If you look in a folder where you are storing the Daisy book files, the 
MP3's are numbered according to how they were made and not the order in 
which the Daisy player plays them, and also not including the editing.  The 
Daisy files or smile files tell the player how to skip around or over 
edited material.  The deleted material is not actually removed from the MP3 
files.  If you want to actually arrange the files in the Daisy order and 
without deleted material, so that you could just play the MP3 files for 
instance, you need to do an audio export with PRS.  At least that's what 
I've read here.  I haven't done that myself either.

Sorry I don't have the solution for you.  I hope that someone else has more 
to add.

TTFN,
Marilyn
At 05:28 PM 5/28/2004 -0600, you wrote:
Greetings, this is Bruno, and I have found a problem with my second CD 
that I created with DAISY formatting using only the PRS software. My first 
CD was a relatively short one, and it worked perfectly. The second one was 
14 hours long, and it seemed to do everything well, the Build book and the 
CD Write options ran just fine. When I put my new CD into the PTR-1 
recorder/player, it worked, and I can use all the level features and 
everything. But, when I put the same CD into either one of two Victor 
reader machines, it reads the disk by track instead of by level. No 
levels, pages, or any other DAISY formats can be accessed by either of the 
victor readers. Also, the first track is the very first recording that I 
made on that DAISY title, and it continues sequentially right down to the 
last track, which has the latest inserted sound that I added to the title. 
I ran the CD Write a second time for the larger DAISY title, but the 
resulting CD was identical to the first one.

Can someone help me to understand what may have happened, and why, and how 
I can correct this problem? Any experiences like mine may help me to find 
a solution. I'm using the same computer and the same installed PRS program 
for both the good and the bad CD. Thanks.

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