[Dtb-talk] Batch Unpacking NLS Books

[Lynn Evans]

Eric:

HumanWare has a free softwre probram called the companion. It unzippes the 
NLS books and transfers them to the removable media.  Just Google for 
HumanWare companion

English
.HumanWare Companion Software English Version 3.4
.HumanWare Companion 3.4 Release Notes (doc)
.Audio/Video on How to Install and Use HumanWare Companion
.Stream 3.3 Release Notes (doc)
.Stream 3.3 Release Notes (html)
.Stream SoftPak Release Notes
.English North America Version 3.3 TTS English U.S. Voices Samantha and Tom
.English North America Version 3.3 TTS U.S Samantha and Spanish Monica
.English U.K. Version 3.3 TTS English U.K. Daniel and U.S. Samantha



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory D. Rosenberg" <gregg at ricis.com>
To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Batch Unpacking NLS Books


> Eric,
>
> This is a great feature. We should suggest this to the Amazon's, and
> other book purveyors of the world. Maybe we could get all of the folks
> that make the archiving / uncompression software to use meta data so
> that when they expand a book, music, or other compressed media file it
> would assume a proper name and directory structure.
>
> Today It is certainly possible to embed scripts to cause the target
> folders or files from a book to expand and be renamed with a proper book
> name, I have not seen very many publishers use this approach. One
> potential issue with this approach is that many anti-viurs /.
> anti-malware programs might block such a script unless the zipfile were
> password protected, in which case the AV/AM programs would simple assume
> it is safe and pass it through.
>
> On 9/16/2011 5:02 PM, Eric SS wrote:
>> I have been using WinRAR to unzip multiple books. It unpacks them into 
>> their
>> own folder with the name of the download. However, it seems to do some 
>> other
>> things that I don't like
>>
>> Are there suggestions what product to use to unzip books or method. I do
>> like keeping each book in its own folder so I have the option of deleting
>> books off the card, rather than using the player for cleanup. I also want 
>> to
>> unzip a batch of books at once.
>>
>> I use Windows XP and JAWS 10 and either a BookSense or Victor Stream for
>> playback.
>>
>> Thanks for ideas.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
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