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

[Milton Ota]

Original message:
> 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
> 605 Robson Street, Suite 850
> Vancouver BC V6B 5J3
> CANADA
> Email: info at cbtbc.org

> U.S. Address
> 21908 Almaden Av.
> Cupertino, CA 95014
> UNITED STATES
> Email: gkearney at gmail.com



> 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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Greg, but I still don't have an answer now as to what other 
reader/player will play/read the American Printing House magazines that 
I have mentioned. Do you think a call to American Printinghouse Is in order?

Thanks.