[Dtb-talk] learning ally is there a trick to it?

Dan Burke burke.dall at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 21:24:38 UTC 2012


You have to use their download manager.  You can't download it like an NLS book.

At least not with the old system.  As for the new system, it looks
more like a web-managed sort of thing when I briefly took a look at
it.  I decided to go the route of the RFBD download manager since I
don't see myself downloading much from Learning Ally now that I'm out
of higher ed.

Dan


On 3/5/12, Jim Barbour <jbar at barcore.com> wrote:
> You'll need some kind of book downloader.  The web server hands you a
> file that contains a list of files and their URLs.  Some software on
> your machine, usually the book downloader" has to take that file and
> download the pieces and concatenate them together.
>
> I've written some perl to do this on Linux machines, and I suspect it
> would also work on Macs.  Please email me if you're interested.
>
> Jim
>
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 12:23:19PM -0800, Mike Gilmore wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I'd like to download some stuff from Learning Ally's web site. When I go
>> to download something, it opens a new window and there's some book manager
>> program or something that needs to be downloaded. Is there ar eason why we
>> can't download them like we would an NLS book and then put it in the DTB
>> folder on the Stream? Is there a trick or shortcut that I'm missing?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Mike
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