[Dtb-talk] Using BARD Mobile to Play APH Magazines

[Greg Kearney]

This doesn’t make any sense to me.

To start with both APH magazines and local library materials produced by the regional libraries have the same DRM encryption that the books do. I know that NLS management makes a really big deal about this being the case. The APH website says that the magazines require an authorized player to use.

Second is the fact that it is perfectly possible to build a DAISY book without DRM and install it into the BARD app and it will play. You can do this by finding a DAISY/NISO 2005 standard book and installing it through dropbox or iTunes for example.

While unprotected DAISY/NISO 2005 book are rare, most world talking book libraries are using DAISY 2.02 format, it is possible to find them. The Commonwealth Braille and Talking Book Cooperative (www.cbtbc.org) has the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in that format at www.cbtbc.org/tools/examples/ which I was able to install and play on the BARD app. This is an unprotected DAISY/NISO 2005 book so the idea that the BARD app can only play protected titles is not correct.

I hope this clears up a few things here.


Commonwealth Braille & Talking Book Cooperative
Greg Kearney, General Manager
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On Mar 9, 2014, at 4:40 PM, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:

> MMM .. dunno whether Voice Dream handles AMRW+ (.3gp) files. I'll have to
> try it as I have a DAISY book from my local regional library. I kind of
> doubt it, though, since all I've heard of was MP3 play capability -- at
> which it is superb.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dtb-talk [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jim Barbour
> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 3:35 PM
> To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books
> Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Using BARD Mobile to Play APH Magazines
> 
> Will dream reader read these magazines?  I'm assuming the magazines aren't
> DRM protected.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 01:54:12PM -0700, Mike Freeman wrote:
>> Milton:
>> 
>> Magazines other than those carried on the BARD site won't play using 
>> BARD Mobile because the BARD Mobile app requires your NLS account to 
>> decrypt the material you're trying to play and is not equipped to play 
>> DAISY books from sites other than BARD.
>> 
>> You'll find this same thing occurs when you try to play a digital 
>> talking book from your local regional library that isn't listed on BARD.
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dtb-talk [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
>> Milton Ota
>> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 1:35 PM
>> To: dtb-talk at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [Dtb-talk] Using BARD Mobile to Play APH Magazines
>> 
>> Has anyone been able to get the BARD Mobile app for the iPhone to play. 
>> Running iOS 7.06 on a iPhone 5.
>> 
>> Using itunes I'm able to transfer the book and see it come up in the 
>> BARD Mobile but it tells me in an 8-second message that it is unable 
>> to authorize to play this book.
>> 
>> Any help or suggestion will be much appreciated or tell me whether you 
>> got it to work and how you did it.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance. (Newsweek and Readers digest) using the
>> 
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