[Dtb-talk] issues with using victor stream

Wed Nov 5 17:11:20 UTC 2008

The Stream Companion software has been greatly improved since its initial version.  It can be of a lot of assistance with unzipping books and moving them to the Stream.  You will need to know where your downloaded books go on your PC, and set up the software to look in that place.  You will also need to tell it where your stream or SD card  are.  However, these are one-time setup steps, and once done, use is pretty simple.

Dave

David Andrews
Chief Technology Officer
Minnesota State Services for the Blind
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>>> "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at comcast.net> 11/4/2008 12:40 PM >>>

Hello,

No, there has not been any improvement.  You are right, it is complicated,
around 50 steps, as i wrote them out for a friend who I was trying to teach.
I think this process needs more automation.  

The Victor Stream is quite a nice device, though the Book Port was much
easier to use.  I love the downloaded books.  There are a number of people
who will never be able to use the download site with Victor Reader as they
are presently configured to work.  Fortunately, the Library system is very
simple, even simpler than cassettes.

Good luck.

Warm Regards,

Fred

-----Original Message-----
From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of cheryl echevarria
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 12:58 PM
To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books
Subject: [Dtb-talk] issues with using victor stream

Hi all, I had used my victor stream in the beginning, but have stopped for a

few months.  Only because I had such a hard time downloading and unzipping 
files, it was very complicated.  Has this since been easier to do. I use the

stream for other things, but to download books was a big headache even when 
I contacted humanware, it was still rediculous.

Cheryl Echevarria
Treasurer
National Federation of the Blind
Greater Long Island Chapter

----- Original Message ----- 
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To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] New version of Olearia

> Greg,
> Will you let us know when we can get the program when it is out of beta?
>
>
> On Nov 4, 2008, at 6:22 AM, Greg Kearney wrote:
>
> > We continue to make new beta versions of Olearia. The latest ada
> > preference option to open the last book played when you start
> > Olearia. It also fixes a few bugs as well.
> >
> > I will be working on some method of installing my launch script
> > unless someone at Apple can tell be a better way to do launching of
> > applications on disk insert.
> >
> > Olearia is a free, open source  DAISY digital talking book player
> > for Macintosh computers running MacOS X 10.5 or better. it can be
> > found at:
> >
> > http://www.cucat.org/projects/olearia 
> >
> > as well as MacUpdates and Google Code which also has the source code
> > for download.
> >
> > Greg Kearney
> > Curtin University Centre for Accessible Technology
> > www.cucat.org 
> >
> >
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