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

Greg Kearney gkearney at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 04:21:07 UTC 2014


I am here in the US doing this on a US based network on a device purchased in the US. You can try this yourself buy downloading the book I mentioned. 

Sent from my iPad

> On 9 Mar 2014, at 9:16 pm, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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