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

[Rasmussen, Lloyd]

An encrypted book or magazine issue that is to be played by the BARD Mobile app needs to have an authorization object specific to that BARD account.  It can only obtain this by connecting to BARD and downloading it, which it usually does very quickly.  Books and magazine issues distributed directly by network libraries, APH or other agencies are encrypted, and include an authorization object which allows them to be decrypted by any type of player which NLS has authorized.  But that general authorization process does not include BARD Mobile.  Since this issue has been brought to our attention, there will be internal discussions at NLS regarding how to handle this situation.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress   202-707-0535
http://www.loc.gov/nls
The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress, NLS.



-----Original Message-----
From: Dtb-talk [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike Freeman
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 11:28 AM
To: 'Discussion of Digital Talking Books'
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Using BARD Mobile to Play APH Magazines

All I know (and this has been confirmed by Danielle Miller of the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library (WTBBL), the regional library for Washington State, is that WTBBL-produced books which *do* play on NLS cartridges will *not* play with the iPhone app.

Lloyd Rasmussen: please clear this up so we don't argue for weeks!

Mike Freeman


-----Original Message-----
From: Dtb-talk [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Greg Kearney
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 9:21 PM
To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Using BARD Mobile to Play APH Magazines

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
>>> 
>>>>> _______________________________________________