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

Mike Freeman k7uij at panix.com
Mon Mar 10 04:16:54 UTC 2014


All: 
It may not make sense but my own regional librarian has confirmed to me that BARD Mobile will not play DAISY books unless they've been downloaded from BARD. I acknowledge that this is not your experience, Greg, and I'm sure Lloyd will chime in tomorrow with the explanation but I tell you that the app won't play other than BARD books for us here in the U.S. 

Mike Freeman
sent from my iPhone


> On Mar 9, 2014, at 19:48, Greg Kearney <gkearney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> APH magazines are indeed protected. 
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On 9 Mar 2014, at 6:02 pm, Milton Ota <mota1252 at samobile.net> wrote:
>> 
>> The APH magazines are in the DAISY format but not sure whether it is in the 2.2 or 3.0 format. They are not DRM protected.
>> 
>> Being that I can't play them/read them with the BARD Mobile app is there an app that will play the DAISY magazine from APH American Printinghouse for the Blind that is available for the iPhone 5 running iOS 7.06?
>> 
>> Thanks for the responses thus far.
>> 
>> Original message:
>>> 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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