Re: Voicedream Reader and Audible
I think audible books are encrypted in some way, aren't they? So wouldn't you need more than just access to the file for a 3rd party app such as voice dream? Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: Voicedream Reader and Audible
Hi Mary, I don't think encrypted is the right term, they are protected, but as I said, a VictorReader Stream can play them as long as you first download them using the Audible Manager on the PC and then copy them to the Stream. Anyhow, I have suggested this to the developer, but have not yet received a reply as to whether this might be possible in the future when iOS 8 extensibility becomes a reality in the fall. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 10:10 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Voicedream Reader and Audible I think audible books are encrypted in some way, aren't they? So wouldn't you need more than just access to the file for a 3rd party app such as voice dream? Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Voicedream Reader and Audible
From the victor reader faq: A. Yes. You must first be a member of the Audible service and use the Audible Manager program to authorize your Stream to play the protected Audible books. On 7/1/2014 7:39 AM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: Hi Mary, I don't think encrypted is the right term, they are protected, but as I said, a VictorReader Stream can play them as long as you first download them using the Audible Manager on the PC and then copy them to the Stream. Anyhow, I have suggested this to the developer, but have not yet received a reply as to whether this might be possible in the future when iOS 8 extensibility becomes a reality in the fall. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 10:10 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Voicedream Reader and Audible I think audible books are encrypted in some way, aren't they? So wouldn't you need more than just access to the file for a 3rd party app such as voice dream? Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Voicedream Reader and Audible
Hi Sighard, You're welcome to suggest it, but Voice Dream Reader plays no protected content, so I would be really surprised if there was any way it could play books from Audible. Best, Anna On Jun 28, 2014, at 11:12 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hello, Just as Richard I agree that Voicedream Reader is a very impressive app although I use it mostly to listen to MP3 audio books. I was thinking the other day that it would be pretty cool if you could listen to Audible books with Voicedream reader as well and I'll suggest it to the developer. The Audible app is super accessible, but I wonder why they labelled the previous and next chapter buttons so strangely in their last update. I also still think that the way Voicedream handles navigation when you are playing a book is brilliant although I also will suggest that the developer ads a 5 minute interval to the Navigation control. The Voicedream sleep timer also is nicely done, once again, it would be even better if there were an option to reset the timer to whichever time interval you chose within 30 seconds or so before it runs out. I used to have a little Sleep Timer app which worked for anything playing in the Music app and in this app you could specify a timer interval (10 seconds, 30 seconds and I think 1 minute) and also select a tone to notify you. Then the tone you selected would play for the time interval you specified before the timer ran out and simply pressing the volume up or down buttons would reset your timer. The available tones were very quiet and designed not to wake you up if you actually had fallen asleep. Maybe the Audible option is not possible right now, but with the new extensibility concept Apple announced for iOS 8 it may very well be possible. You might still need the Audible app to download your book, but then whatever is downloaded to your device might be accessible from other apps. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email toviphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: Voicedream Reader and Audible
Hi Anna, I will definitely suggest it and I don't think it would be that hard to do since Audible is pretty keen on giving access to their content. There are a lot of devices out there which can play Audible books. A Victorreader Stream, for example, can do so because you would use the Audible Manager for the PC to download the books and authenticate that you are allowed to play them and then transfer them to your Stream. In a similar way Voicedream Reader could be allowed to play Audible books if the book was downloaded into the Audible app and Voicedream Reader could access content that is in Audible. It would basically just be an alternative player for the books and if the Audible app is required anyways I don't think Audible would care too much about that. Of course this would or could mean as well that maybe one day one could use Voicedream Reader to listen to Kindl books if the book is downloaded into the Kindl app and Voicedream Reader could get access to that content. Once again, this is just a bit of guesswork on my part based on the fact that Apple is starting to open things up a bit more and I bet that if enough people ask the developers for things like that then they are motivated to make it work. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Woody Anna Dresner Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 8:38 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Voicedream Reader and Audible Hi Sighard, You're welcome to suggest it, but Voice Dream Reader plays no protected content, so I would be really surprised if there was any way it could play books from Audible. Best, Anna On Jun 28, 2014, at 11:12 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hello, Just as Richard I agree that Voicedream Reader is a very impressive app although I use it mostly to listen to MP3 audio books. I was thinking the other day that it would be pretty cool if you could listen to Audible books with Voicedream reader as well and I'll suggest it to the developer. The Audible app is super accessible, but I wonder why they labelled the previous and next chapter buttons so strangely in their last update. I also still think that the way Voicedream handles navigation when you are playing a book is brilliant although I also will suggest that the developer ads a 5 minute interval to the Navigation control. The Voicedream sleep timer also is nicely done, once again, it would be even better if there were an option to reset the timer to whichever time interval you chose within 30 seconds or so before it runs out. I used to have a little Sleep Timer app which worked for anything playing in the Music app and in this app you could specify a timer interval (10 seconds, 30 seconds and I think 1 minute) and also select a tone to notify you. Then the tone you selected would play for the time interval you specified before the timer ran out and simply pressing the volume up or down buttons would reset your timer. The available tones were very quiet and designed not to wake you up if you actually had fallen asleep. Maybe the Audible option is not possible right now, but with the new extensibility concept Apple announced for iOS 8 it may very well be possible. You might still need the Audible app to download your book, but then whatever is downloaded to your device might be accessible from other apps. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email toviphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email
